The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-04
Notes by the Way.

allow 512 cubic feet for ton after it
has we'll settled.
To insure good constitutions de-
mands as much care of calves as in the
selection of parentage.
WE do not spend time enough in
preparing our soil for the seed, the
main idea being to get the seed into
the ground.
IT is possible for us in this cool,
moist climate to cut at least five tons of
hay to the acre, and in many instances
more, in single season.
If the farmer understands the true
principles of cultivation he will find
full occupation for all the teams, ma
chimes and men he is able to afford.
WE need not increase our acreage in
order that our business may assume
greater magnitude. More intelligence
in managing what we already have will
give the desired result.
FARMERS miss it by not having de-
cision. Know what you are about
every time, and don't hesitate when
you make a move, for there, many
times, is where the loss in farming
comes.
MORE attention should be paid to
health than to any one thing. We
have too many delicate animals in our
herds. Diseased animals may trans
nit their disorders through dairy prod
ucts to the human family.
HAVE no more land than you can
cultivate. If five acres are all you can
do justice to, confine yourself to that;
if you can care for one hundred acres,
then own that much, but don't have a
quantity of land lying idle.
OLD hens should never be sold when
they are laying more eggs than enough
to pay expenses. Every hen also that
mouths early, if good layer, should be
retained, as she will be ready to lay
again before cold weather sets in.
THERE are altogether too many
fences on our farms. Every fence
wastes a strip of land nearly half rod
wide. Besides, so much turning of the
team in blowing and cultivating, in the
small square lots wastes valuable time.
NEITHER Kentucky blue grass nor
orchard grass throws up seed stalks,
except in the first crop, the later cut
tings being all leaf growth. They are
both very valuable grasses if rightly
treated, but otherwise not worth cul-
tivating.
"WHERE two crops of such forage
as rye, oats, millet or barley are grown
in season and the tops fed out and
the manure made, together with the
stubble, turned in, there is little danger
of the soil being deficient in humus,"
says Brother Cheever.
A FENCE sufficient to keep the COWS
in the pasture away from your own
and your neighbors' crops is enough.
The law assumes that man must keep
his own cattle at home, not his neigh
bors' cattle off his own land. Road
side fences are unnecessary.
IT appears to be the theory of many
that our agriculture is on the decline
because very large area of the land
once cultivated is being allowed to re-
vert to its original condition. This
does not follow at all. We must Judge
by the total product per acre and per
man.
IN barreling apples great pains should
be taken. One of the great sources of
depression in the apple market last
, year was the poor quality of apples put
up. A man or woman who would stuff
barrel of apples on the inside with in
, ferior fruit is guilty of most con-
temptible practice.
The average farmer does not care
for blooded stock. He wants a strong
| grade COW, well up in milk and butter
lhdu liz Cih luil III low NCdlo dilt
7 then turn off for beef These he can
get by breeding choice grades to q
7 thorough sire that has inherited
. the desirable qualities.
AN exchange says that "Theodore
Wheeler of Wing Station, n Y, has
just received an imported lot of swine
direct from Berkshire, England. II
comprises two sows with litters and 6
: boar. Mr.. Wheeler recently lost {
, boar that cost him sos. He believes
d. that few feeds equal wheat bran as {
perfect food for swine" If he be
u lieves that, it is no wonder he los
L his boar.
THE Tribune thinks that as the silo'
are gradually coming up out of. the