The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-20
Notes by the Way.


and breeding.
SEE that the food given your cows is
of the best quality and in the best con-
dition for digestion. This is very inn
portant.
IT pays far better to feed cows grain
the year round. Grass increases the
flow of milk and grain increases the
amount of cream.
BUCKwHEAT is a crop quite easily
grown, requires comparatively little fer
tilizing and is an excellent crop for pre-
pairing the soil for other crops
For large, uniform-sized globules of
fat in Der milk the little jersey bears
off the palm; yet small globules, if
plenty, are best in milk for cheese
making and for market.
The sharks who send out travelling
agents to talk up the business and or
ganze creamery companies are study
ing their own pecuniary interests, and
not those of the darymen.
IN no event does it pay to starve an
imals into eating food which they do
not want, because they do not relish it
and probably do not need it, but will
eat it if their hunger is craving enough.
IN all the pure bred geese the males
and females are exactly alike in color,
while the common geese show white
ganders and parti-colored females. The
resemblance of sexes has been a great
obstacle.
If the number of good cows in the
country is kept up somebody must rear
the heifer calves 1t is the duty of every
dairyman who has frst-cass cows to
use the best dairy blood he can get in his
herd and rear the heifer calves from
them.
A MACHINE has been invented for
COMPRISING bran into cakes, for con-
venience of transportation and feeding.
Its nutritious quality is not injured by
the process, and i'm time bran cakes
may become staple articles of COM
merCe.
WHILE the carbonaceous and nitro
genOus elements are contained in both
classes of foods, the proportions vary
widely from about equal parts of the
carbonaceous and nitrogenOus to fifty
parts of carbonaceous to one of nitro
genous.
SET to the task of making a home
any young couple who have mutual,
intelligent, well-developed and we'll
trained love for the beautiful, for order
and for generally refined living, and
they will readily find means for making
their home attractive.
THE Michigan Farmer says: Buy
ers have paid as high as SLIGO per bar
rel for good winter apples in the coun-
try the past week, and some owners of
good orchards are holding for S1.75.
The demand for choice fruit for ship
ment abroad is excellent"
THERE is, so far, no sign that the
world will ever produce textile that
can compare with wool in its adapta-
bility to the service of man in every
latitude. When properly treated it be-
comes, next to food, air and water, the
most valuable gift ever bestowed upon
him by a bountiful Creator.
PROFESSOR JOHNSON of the Michi-
gan Agricultural College reaches the
conclusion that the early-maturing
breeds are the most profitable, and that
there is not much difference between the
recognized breeds in the cost per pound
of producing beef. This is not new,
but confirmation is always desirable.
ALL food elements may be divided
into two classes, the muscle and milk
producing, called the heterogeneous, and
the fat and heat-producng, called car
bonaceOus, and when foods are prop
erly balanced between these two ele-
ments all the other elements are
usually present in sufficient quantity.
THE third factory in this country for
the manufacture of lactine, or milk
sugar, is to be established at Mddetown,
n. Y. 1t is comparatively new in
dustry to this country, which promises
to attain Importance in the near future.
Heretofore the manufacture of milk
sugar has been confined to Switzerland
and Bavaria
WHAT a different taste fine, nicely
and quickly fatted fowl has, when
served on the table, compared with one
which has been forced to scratch for all
its living. Farmers realize the impor-
lance of fattening quickly when feed
ing beeves for the butcher, yet many
do not seem to realize the fact that
what holds good with that kind of meat
is equally true when applied to fowls.
THE Neto England Farmer well says
that " while many dairyman is saying
that there is no money in the business
at present prices, we know that there is,
when the best of modern methods are
applied. We have no sympathy with
that man who is plodding along in the
ways of his forefathers; who does not
take the papers and does not attend
farmers meetings. Why should we
pity him who thinks he knows it ALP"
THE Mirror and Farmer says: "Let
the lady who presides over small dairy
be not discouraged by the TRADES
against private dairy butter that appear
in papers whose editors are uniformed
on the subject and do not stop to re-
fleet that there is bad private dairy
butter and also bad creamery butter
found in the market. In comparison
with the amount made probably the
larger per cent of bad butter is turned
out by the creameries."
THE percentage of cream, as meas
ured by cream gauge, may be very
materially increased by rapid cooling of