The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-30
Notes BY the Way.


growing pig that brings money return
every ten months or so.
THE largest hog is not the best one
for market. The snug built, thrifty hog
that will dress $50 to 300 pounds best
fills the bills.
Do every thing in the dairy at the
right time and in the right way. This
will require the least labor and the least
care and vexation. The best way is the
easiest way.
CLOVER and common sense bring
soils up to the production of from thirty
to forty bushels of wheat per acre. On
good land the cost of making wheat and
clover is small.
A RIGID economy is demanded in
| Bookkeeping, as it is in most occupa-
lions. Nothing must be allowed to 90
to waste. Indeed, the profits often are
limited by the savings.
CHEMISTS declare that feeding cotton
seed meal to dairy cows produces a
butter that will stand temperature
ten or twelve degrees higher than but
ter from any other food.
| PACKING butter directly from the
churn is becoming common practice.
1t saves work, avoids injuring the grain
of the butter, and lessons exposure to
the air and consequent loss of flavor.
IT is admitted by all that when the
Leghorn is used for improving the
flock the number of eggs laid by the
next generation is larger. The half
breed Leghorn is nearly equal to the
full-breed.
THE ignorant farmer does not read
much of anything, and ridicules what
he calls " book-farming. He does not
seem to be aware that pretty much all
the useful knowledge in this world is
already put into print.
THE one who studies all advance
ments, keeps step with all the best
methods, devotes his best efforts in one
direction, to the production of one class
of product, and plans wisely, is farm
ing to purpose, and succeeds.
NOT every food that stimulates the
flow of milk will correspondingly in
crease the quality. 1t is too frequently
the reverse, and the increase in flow is
too often due to larger proportion of
water without any increase in the
amount of solids.
LEAVES fall from the trees and protect
their seed and form food for another
crop. Old grass falls over and pro-
tects its seed from the winters blast,
and acts as a mulch to protect its
young from the excessive heat of sum-
mer. So Nature provides for her off
spring.
A CORRESPONDENT says: " If we are
to have good highways, we must have
the tax collected in money. l have
never been able to find neighborhood
that collected its road tax in labor and
had good roads. The two do not go
together" = which is "as true as
pre- aching"
For centuries the government of
Lombardy has derived a revenue by
selling river water for irrigation. The
same practice has long prevailed in
Egypt Irrigation is on the increase in
all parts of the civilized world, water
being the cheapest and most reliable
fertilizer known.
THERE is no class so deficient in good
business knowledge as farmers. All
the other knowledge that can be slowed
away in a Students head will be of
small account to him in conducting a
farm in the future for profit, without a
fair understanding of business princi-
Piles and methods.
THE young people of this generation
have not walked up to the fact that
agriculture is entirely different from
what it was some years ago, and that
consequently the intelligent farmer of
to-day is the peer of any man in any
calling or profession, and in some
things excels them all.
THE food she eats, the water she
drinks and the air she breathes contain
must elaborate her milk The mere
any one that milch cow should have
good food, clean water and pure air,
wherever she may be.
ONE great fact looms up in the near
future. Not only the best brain, but
the best educated brain, must find its
place on the farm. There is no dodg-
ing it. "To this complexion must we
come at last" The day has gone by
when merely initiative and routine
farming can be successful.
THERE is a good deal of human ma
ture in animals, and they read human
character. They respond to kind treat
ment and they resent violent treatment.
They like good master and hate bad
one. There is such thing as being
firm without being brutal, and being
master while retaining the confidence
of the animal.
THE chemistry of cows stomach
does not always agree with the chem
istry OF the laboratory. The young
and tender grass of June contains more
water to the ton than silage, yet every
dairyman knows that it will produce
more milk and make better butter than
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