The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-02
Notes by the Way.

moral and material growth. Make rural
homes attractive and abiding.
THE COW that produces the most but
ter from the same amount of feed and
equal conditions is the one we want.
IT may be easier to say keep out of
debt than to do so; but keeping the
farm account is one of the surest means
to that end.
IT takes nerve to pull out the stalks
from crowded hill of corn, but doing
it secures better growth, larger ears,
and more bushels of good shelled corn.
AN acre which will produce fifty
bushels of corn will yield about two
tons of cornstalks, twenty-five pounds
per day of which will maintain a 900
pound steer in ordinary condition.
THE slip-shod farmer slips. along in
an easy, haphazard sort of way year
after year, never knowing how much
he owns or how much he owes till the
officers of the law figure it out-nothing.
IT becomes more and more apparent
to a thoughtful person that one great
reason for the disastrous result of many
farmers calculations is that he keeps
no account of his daily receipts and
expenses.
EARLY spring pigs will make fat and
large hogs by Christmas, but unless
there are excellent accommodations for
the early pigs they will not be as large
at the end of the year as those farrowed
in April or May.
NovICEs in the poultry business
should understand that unceasing vigil
ance is requisite to success, and that
ninety per cent of diseases to which
poultry are subject are the result of
negligence and dirt.
DUCKS eggs require greater amount
of moisture during incubation than
eggs of other birds. In the natural
state, the mother bird frequently leaves
the eggs and takes to the water, return
ing with the breast feathers wet.
THE total exports of butter from
Canada last year only amounted to
100000. The cause was due to the
fact that such small proportion of
butter made there was fit to export.
GA PATCH of ground which would not
pasture a colt during the first summer
of his life would produce potatoes
enough in a single season to buy first
class horse, fully developed and ready
for business" says a writer. That de-
ponds
IN Connecticut, analyses made by the
state station have so reduced the price
of the commercial fertilizers that the
saving to farmers in the cost of single
ingredient of these fertilizers has been
greater than the entire cost of main
tanning the station.
THE chicks from eggs produced by
hens are nearly always stronger and
more vigorous than those from pullets,
and the hen lays larger egg than the
pullet. The claim that the hen will
not lay as many eggs the second and
third years as the first is not true.
"THAT man." said the grocer, desig-
mating a customer just driving away
from the store, I" has scales at home,
and he will weigh everything he has
bought, from the bags of meal to the
pound of tea" 1t is needless to add
that that man never got small weight
or short measure.
"IF men were so constituted that
they would tell of their mistakes as
quickly and with as much gusto as they
brag of their successes, it would be
money in the pockets of lots of us who
will be following up in the future some
perhaps already exploded projects"
observes HOard'S Ddiryman.
CONGRESSMAN EDWARD BURNETT,
of Deerfoot farm, Southboro, Mass,
has been establishing 100000 cream
cry for syndicate of wealthy men in
Pittsburg, Penn. He was offered a
very large salary to remain and manage
the same. 1t would be well if congress
men were always engaged in matters so
closely identified with public welfare as
this" remarks the Maine Farmer.
"THE cry has been during the past
seasons that the farms were worn out
and would not produce anything, but
New England certainly looks like any
thing but WORKOUT country now.
Such luXuriance in vegetation is rarely
seen in any country in the temperate
zone as these hills show this year. New
England farms don't want to be thrown
away yet" says a sensible Homestead
correspondent.
THE Homestead says that the fertil-
izer trade has been in very bad shape
for few years past. 1t is now going
through a gradual transition. The
long prices and longer credits of the
past are making way for more eco
nomical system of doing business, with
direct sales for cash. The most intel
ligent farmers are also beginning to buy
the crude or prepared chemicals and
mix their own fertilizers.
THE Tribune says the experience of
an Ohio sheep-feeder, to the effect that
he could not succeed where the ami
mails were liable to alarms from the
passing of railroad trains, affords
new illustration of an old truth that
comfort and quietude are necessary for
the cheap ard speedy fattening of ami
mails generally, Undoubtedly; yet if
such is the effect of trains on sheep,
how much worse are dogs about farm.
"THE Houdan, La Fleche and the
Creve-C our are their standard breeds,
and are good enough for the forty
. | millions of Frenchmen while we have