The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-17
Notes by the Way.

A CHEESE should be left in the hoop
at least eighteen hours, as it will re-
tain its shape better and be more solid
than when pressed shorter time.
MAKE choice butter, then put it up
in an attractive form, and you are sure
of good price for all you can make, or
all the whole county or state can make.
A KANSAS newspaper very peril
nently remarks that the best way for a
farmer to lift mortgage from his farm
is to go into partnership with his cows,
his chickens and his pigs.
SOME insects may be trapped by
placing slices of raw potato or some
sweetened substances on the soil around
the plants. When collected on these
they can be taken up and dipped in hot
water.
Ara meeting of the ersey Cattle Club
one of the members clinched his argu-
ment for superiority of the Jerseys by
asking who had ever seen Holstein
milk" painted on the outside of milk
wagons.
OATS, if scalded at night and allowed
to remain until morning, make an
agreeable change of food for the hens.
Bran should always be scalded before
being fed to the flock, as it is not rel
ished otherwise.
IT is duty we owe to ourselves, as
well as the dictates of gentle and hui
name nature, so to provide for the com
fort of hired help that we will encour-
age them not only to do their best for
us, but to be their best toward us.
LET the hens have plenty of room to
forage and enough to eat and they will
take the best of care of their eggs, on
which to sit and rear their young. 1t
is Just as unnatural for hen to destroy
her eggs as her brood of young chicks.
A HOE requires as much care as
scythe that is used for cutting grass. 1t
should be sharp enough to cut off the
roots of all kinds of weeds and should
have so good polish that it can be
moved through the soil without much
exhibition of strength.
ONE of the greatest difficulties en-
countered by the medical man is the
obstinacy with which patients adhere
to injurious habits of eating and drink
ing. A most intelligent old physician
once dropped the remark that "most
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If your old hens are good layers and
give satisfactory results, do not sell
them off in order to retain the pullets.
A hen will lay well until she is six
years old, and the eggs from her will
hatch better and produce stronger
chicks than can be secured from pullets.
PEOPLE who have long been en-
gagged in the culture of the soil can
judge pretty correctly of its quality by
its appearance, texture, subsoil and the
character of the rocks and stones that
underlie and prevail in it. This is a
knowledge which every farmer should
acquire.
THE manner of feeding is worth con-
sidering, as to whether it is best for a
cow to be all day eating or to eat and
be filled up and then rest and ruminate,
Physiologically considered it should be
better to fill up the COW by full feeding,
and that she should then rest and
digest it.
SAYS the Tribune: "There is no
surer path to long life and enjoyment
of the inestimabe privilege of indie
pendence than the one you are on.
although it leads through sweat and
dust, and stretches far, from small pres
ent savings up to the ownership of a
well-understood and well-tilled farm.
The value of a COW for dairy work is
determined by her ability to produce
the largest quantity and highest quality
of product at the least cost of food
Public COW competitions should be Sc
conducted as to demonstrate these
qualities and to indicate the kind of
animal or breed capable of making the
greatest profit for her owner.
J A GOOD way to make mare adopt 8
colt is before she has seen the orphan
to place her in boX-stall, place a sacl
over her head, covering the eyes; put OF
halter and hitch so far over the manager
5 that she can not touch the colt with
, her nose; after one day take off the
binder; after two days give the mare
her head, and she will not know one
colt from the other.
THE Dairy World SAYS that the rul
ing price for ordinary butter at Blunt
! Dakota, is about eight cents per pound
, A young lady in that place recently be
>, came interested in reading the Ddirl
World, and, as result, began making
putt0i VII iihPloNcu pans. w ucn Ne
7 product was taken to market she OBJ
? tanned, to her surprise, twelve cents
+ pound. Let's all 60 to Dakota!
AN exchange says: I" 1t is constantly
preached that farmers should be edu
.. Gated, should read, should profit BY
others experience, etc., yet it is quit,
j generally conceded that the most dis
NAL failure of a farmer is he wht
! "knows it ALL" But the readin!
= farmer reads because he does no
know it all" The know-it-alls hav,
t no occasion to seek information.
: THE Tribune says that bee-keepe
e was once puzzled to know why all hi
8 swarms deserted, as they were put int
\ clean, new hives. On investigating
= he ascertained that his new hives haC
e the odor of kerosene. They had beef
d manufactured during winter and storeC
b in the back room adjoining his grocery
- where were stored barrels of kerosen