The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27
Notes by the Way.

breeding for breeds as breeding for
quality or individual merit" says the
Dairy World.
A MANUFACTURER can not feed
shoddy into a machine and get broad
cloth; no more can dairymen feed poor
food or swill and get good butter.
EXTREME dampness of the weather,
even if the amount of rainfall is not ex-
cessive, tends to lower the amount of
milk solids below an average stand
ard" says writer in the New Enqldnd
Farmer.
A STABLE should, above all things.
be convenient for man as well as com
Portable for beast. 1t costs no more to
have handy stable than it does to,
year after year, tolerate an awkwardlv-
constructed, unhandy one.
THoUGH the pail be new, clean and
bright, yet if water will not remain
therein we search for leak. My friend,
if you are industrious and yet can't
make farming pay, look diligently until
you find the leak, and then-stop it.
ONE serious drawback to good prices
is that farmers insist on sending poul-
try to market alive. Now, as the buy
Cie nave lllC SAINT ODltCllOll W llCkluR
and dressing fowls that the farmer has,
it will pay the farmer to pick fowls
himself.
TAKE pair of boots or shoes that
have become stiff and uncomfortable
by constant wear in the rain and apply
coat of vaselne, rubbing it in well
with cloth, and in a short time the
leather becomes as soft aud pliabe as
when new.
NORTH DAKOTA will be the first
state, as state, to make provision for
a system of manual training. Forty
thousand acres of land have been set
apart for that purpose. These are the
matters in which the new states are
getting ahead of the old ones.
AT a New York state dairy confer
ence Mr.. w. II. Gilbert said: "It is
almost impossible to churn cream from
any two diaries at the same tempera-
ture." In this he struck the keynote
to churning There is difference in
diaries as well as in individual cows.
MANY wool-growers are of the opin-
ion that forty cents per pound is the
lowest price at which clean, merchant
able wool can be placed on the market.
If this is correct any rate of duty that
will admit this grade of wool into the
country at a lower figure is not sufli-
cient
THE hog, as well as other animals,
needs good, wholesome food. The be-
lief that hog will thrive on any kind
of feed, if he has an abundance of it,
and the shiftless, reckless way of feed
ing practiced by many are the immedi-
ate and sole causes of much of the dis
ease that prevails among swine.
If COW gives 10000 pounds of milk,
ten of which will make a pound of
cheese, the yield will be 1900 pounds
of cheese A cow giving 5000 pounds
of milk 50 rich that eight pounds of it
will make a pound of cheese would fur
nsh $50 pounds; and it would be
much the best cheese if properly made.
NATURE seems to delight in va
riety; and it is by taking advantage
of her variations, when they are in the
right direction, that improvement is
secured. But so strong is the tendency
to revert to the original type that it is
only by improving and maintaining
higher conditions that we can, in
measure, establish higher type. This
! applies alike to animal and vegetable life.
FROM different quarters the reports
seem to favor the double boarded silO,
thoroughly saturated with gas-tar and
resin. The combining of these two
substances makes coat of paint, If put
on hot, that resists all moisture from
either side; and as to durability, some
incline to the belief that silo built of
lumber and saturated with this cheap
paint will be good twenty years or more.
j. S. CLARK presented before the
ways and means committee of congress,
in 1884. a statement of the cost of
keeping a sheep during one year. 1t
was the average of estimates made by
eighty practical wool-growers. The
cost of keeping was put at S2.13 and
the income derived at Sl.74, making
loss of thirty-nine cents on each sheep.
What is the cost now? Can any reader
give us the figures?
As to the theory of milking, it is said
that the udder of the COW consists of
two separate and distinct glands, which
do not communicate with each other.
Each gland has a front and back teat,
and the milk channels leading to the
teats of the same gland communicate
with each other. Hence, the teats on
the same side ought to be MIXED at the
same time; not, as is frequently the
case, the front teat one side and the
back teat on the other.
"IF the English keep on investing
money in our country in the purchase
of immense industrial establishments,
factories, breweries, iron works and the
like, they will be protectionists long be-
fore the election of 1892" says an eX-
change, and it is true. England knows
her own interest; she knew when to
protect her industries, and when it was
time to change her policy. She is not
a free-trade country for fun. Its bust
ness with her, both ways.
S. B. Pore asks in the Homestead:
"Why do farmers persist in sending
cheese to New York for from three to six
cents per pound, and then buy back from
the dealers around home what they want
to use at from twelve to sixteen cents per
pound? Why does farmer take his