The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-13

IHE prOntS OF dalrylng are maze up
of the small daily savings of the differ
ence between the cost of production
and value of the milk or butter. A saw
ing of ten cents per day in herd of fifty
COWS amounts to So; in month, to $3.50.
To break young horses from chewing
harness or anything that happens to be
near them, soak some old straps with a
strong tea made of Cayenne pepper
and hang them within easy reach of
the youngsters. This is generally eff
fective.
KEEP the pillow bright and especially
the harrow, and manure as well as
possible. But if you lack for manure
use the pillow and harrow more. We
must get our bread and butter by farm
ing, and let us make our mind up to
that fact and go for it.
PUT the wood ashes under cover and
do not add them to the manure heap.
Save them carefully and keep them dry,
so as to apply them broadcast in the
orchard early in the spring. They are
excellent for strawberries and all small
fruits, as well as fruit trees.
A WISCONSIN dairyman at farmers
institute said recently: The dairy
product of the state is about 40, 1000, 900
pounds a year, and only one-fourth of it
is of the best quality. Over SO 900 900
year is lost to the farmers of the state
by not making first-class butter.
WHEN a horse will not thrive on or
binary food it shows it has poor di-
gestion, or it may be fed too much.
Give such horse wheat bran, linseed
meal, ground barley and oats, with cut
hay. 1t should have carrots once a day.
First see if its teeth are all right.
A TEA-sPOONFUL of guano added to
two gallons of water, and the mixture
used for sprinkling potted plants, will
keep them in good condition during
the winter. The pots should have
good drainage below and should be
placed where the frost can not iniure
the plants.
DUTCH-BELTED cattle are above the
average COW in size, ranging from eight
to twelve hundred weight, the bulls
sometimes touching ton. For beef
they rank with the best and they have
vigorous constitutions. AS large and
persistent mixers, they are remarkable,
but the milk is not extra.
THE Mapping, Conn, creamery has
100 patrons, furnishing the milk from
900 cows. The average net price paid
to patrons for 1884 was 275 cents per
pound for butter; for 1885, 1851 cents
per pound; for 1886, 1888 cents per
pound; for 1887, 1888 cents per pound ,
flr 1888, $3.50 cents per pound.
THE price of hax-meal is regulated
by the foreign demand for it. There
is not enough home demand to con-
sumo it, although the home demand is
growing. 1t is bought by British
farmers to finish their cattle with, feed
young calves and the like. We really
should not permit them to get a pound
of it.
To make winter dairying profitable,
cows must have good warm quarters
to keep them comfortable in cold
weather and be kept out of the storms.
The old way of having them run out in
the barn-yard with no shelter but an
open shed, which only few of the
master cows would 90 under, will not
answer.
THE pigs should never be raised in a
small, close pen-they may be started
there in the spring and finished off
during the last six weeks of their life
in comfortable pens, but the summer
months should be spent in the open
fields, amongth clover and the grasses.
Skim-milk and bran are much better
foods than corn.
"Cows have to be wintered whether
they give milk or not, and when they
receive meal ration twice a day thev
will not eat more than half ration
of hay or fodder, and consequently
they must not be charged with the full
cost of the meal, unless they receive
credit for the lessened consumption of
fodder" says the sensible Ne,C England
Farmer.
BoNE-MEAL and potash in som {
form, especially in muriate or kainit,
are staple fertilizers for all the small
fruits. The muriate can be applied in
the fall with advantage, and bone-meal
also, if somewhat coarse. The appli-
cation of a very fine bone-tlour had bet
ter be put off until early spring. Ashes
are better than kainit for this use
where they can be had.
If neighbors would agree upon q
combination for each one to use and
mark the chickens, turkeys and water
fowl unpleasant disputes as to owner
ship might often be avoided. Chang.
ing the marks each year would also aid
in wedding out the old fowls at the close
of the season. 1t would also be an aid
in detecting chicken thieves to have
the poultry thus marked.
LAST year was not the first in which
the frost caught the corn early. A cor.
respondent of the Maine Farmer says
My father in 1917 went to Ohio or
horseback. He saw the corn in the
Mohawk valley killed with frost early
in September, while the corn in Maine
was made good crop, so he concluded
to stick to Kennebec, and he never
failed of crop of corn.
AT the recent meeting of the Massa
chusetts Board of Agriculture Score
. tary Batchelder of the New Hampshire
, State Board of Agriculture attempted
to show that butter could be made at a
profit of twenty-five and one-half cents
pound. He gave the cost of keeping
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