The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-04
Notes by the Way.

can be an adept at producing fancy
butter.
THE poultry sent to market should be
assorted-the old birds sent together,
and the late chicks in a manner to have
them as uniform as possible
THERE is as much in saving as in
earning. The economical hired hand
often has more net cash at the end of
the year than the farmer that he works
! for.
"IF our system of education leads the
young from the farm, to the detriment
of both people and land, then let us dis
cover the fault and correct it," SAYS A.
| w. Cheever.
/ You do not need in your apple
orchard all the varieties that grow. Be
content with the leading varieties, and
few early ones to give you the range
of the season.
"THE big farm well skinned will no
longer meet the requirements of the
day. Intensive David continues to get
the better of the extensive Goliath,n
says Farm, Stock and Home.
BECAUSE ople hear of an occa-
siona instance of prosperity among
/ merchants, maChinists, mechanics or
manufacturers it is assumed that nearly
all succeed, but this is not so.
THE ho alth of the cows as well as
flow Of milk is to be considered in feed
ing. The fact that COW may relish a
certain thing is not conclusive evidence
that it is the best for her health.
NATURES original supply of plant
food elements has served us in the
comparative infancy OF farming, but is
gradually giving out and leaving US to
learn how to supply them for ourselves.
MORE pains should be taken to make
the land produce as much as possible;
to have no idle capital; to make the
greatest possible amount OF manure and
fodder and buy the least amount pos
sible.
TIE production of butter but very
slightly txhausts the soil, while the
cows are constantly adding to the rich
ness of it. This is why darying is so
effective in recuperating WORKOUT
farms.
EVERY chill that a COW gets shrinks
her mess of milk and takes fat out of it.
This is u season of the year when the
COW is apt to get chilled. If you do not
want to stand the consequent loss see
that the chill is avoided.
MOISTURE is essential to plant
growth, aud a finely comminuted soil
will retain that moisture and furnish
it to the plant long after coarse,
cloddy soil has parted with all its
moisture by evaporation.
"MILK, like any other animal product,
may be kept indefinitely by freezing,
but when thawed it must soon be used
or it will spoil" says an exchange.
We doubt about its spelling any quicker
because it has been frozen.
"WHEN he has completed his talking
clock let Edison perfect a machine to
hatch chickens by electricity that will
not be constitutionally predisposed to
lay down their lives in chickenhood,"
says "a dissatisf fed chickenist.
THE difference in price between a
live fowl and one that is dry-picked
and dressed is five cents per pound,
which is equivalent to twenty-five cents
for five-pound fowl. Will it not pay
the farmer to dress fowl for twenty
five cents?
A WRITER for the St0ckmdn and
Farmer declares: /" 1t is as plain as
the rising sun in clear sky that the
man who says that ensilage is the best
food that can be procured for a COW is
the man who cares for the comfort of
his cows no further than to get great
quantity of poor quality of milk"
A MAN must have warm love for
himself and his rights in order to make
his love to his neighbor worth rush.
In fact, any easy-going person who can
sit quietly by and see his own rights
and convictions kicked about like foot
balls has so little of the real man in
him that he is not of much account any
where.
ONE hundred pounds cotton-seed
meal will yield: Ammonia, 500 pounds;
phosphoric acid, 2,75 pounds; potash,
80 pounds. So that it is by itself
complete fertilizer, though not well
balanced one. BY adding to each ton
ton of ground bone and a ton of
ashes, mixing the whole well and
evenly together, "A mixture is made
that would suit most all crops
IT pays to well cultivate pastures
where it is possible, making the soil
clean and free from weeds when seeded.
A good catch and thick turf are great
aids in keeping out weeds. These
spring up and flourish best where there
is the least grass. 1t is better to seed
with a variety of grasses, as it is easier
to get good turf with variety and
the feed is much more nutritious and
valuable.
WHILE it is true that teamwork gives
a greater variety of exercise than most
other occupations, it becomes monoto-
nous to boy who sees nothing ahead
but short night and another long day
A boy or farm must wait months, if
not years, for the results of his labors,
and however interested he may be at
the start, he must have some amuse-
ment in the meantime and some intel
ligent, comprehensive instruction to
keep up his interest. When this is
provided and a generation of boys
has grown up with their rights prop
erly recognized and their needs pro-
yided. there will be less farm work done