The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11

the hens and fail to answer the pur-
poses intended.
AUTHORITIES on the subject say that
within the past ten years the exports of
butter from Denmark have more than
doubled, while the quality has steadily
improved.
THE plan of winter dairying means
more than cows giving milk in winter.
1t means warm stables, water handy
by, and cows kept in the stables and
made warm.
WE must grow more of those products
which require skill, those which are
more highly organized and which min
lister to the immediate wants and to the
cultivated appetites and tastes.
JOHN GOULD says in the Western
Rural that he sold STA worth of milk
from one acre of ensilage and $50
worth of bran and clover hay. The
milk brought S1.40 per 100 pounds.
WHAT is it but the worst kind of
management to pay several dollars for
good farm tools, and allow them, for
want of proper shelter, to become use
less year or so sooner than they
should?
IT is proposed by the government of
Victoria, Australia, to establish several
model dairy farms and to fit them up
with the most approved appliances.
Pupils will be received at the farms
and instructed in scientific dairying.
EMANCIPATION wrought great indus
trial changes South. 1t freed the negro
instantaneously. Slowly, but none the
less certainly, it is freeing the South
from the bondage of one industry-and
that one agricultural product-cotton.
THE millionaire evidently thinks the
days of small things have gone away,
because he makes fortune every year;
but the toiling farmer is drawn upon so
heavily by monopolies that his accumu-
lation of wealth is proverbially slow,
and his pile is sized with a short row of
figures.
DID you ever notice that good farm
ers complain less than anybody else
concerning bad seasons? Of course
the good farmer desires a propitious
season just as earnestly as anybody
else; but his failure to get it does not
necessarily bring with it failure of his
seasons work.
MANY farmers, if they would for one
year keep an accurate account of the
expense of each crop they were grow
ing, would be surprised to find the
profit of one crop was consumed in de-
fraying the expenses of another, al
though they may make considerable
profit on their entire farms.
SIT has been demonstrated that horses
can be fed on enslage with advantage,
and that where they are not required
to do service, as in winter, an allow
ance of thirty pounds of ensilage per
day will keep horses in good condition."
says the Mirror and Farmer. May we
ask who " demonstrated " all this?
g IT is all right to advise people to aim
high, but when they are chained down,
as most farmers are, by conditions
which they can not control, if they at
tempt to jump higher than the chains
will reach they are liable to get hurt"
Still, it is not well to adopt low aims,
for we rarely strike higher than we aim.
"To point out an evil is the first step
preparatory to its removal, and persist
emily calling attention to it the only
means of developing a sentiment that
will seek a remedy. When the will is
aroused, the way by which the end can
be reached is pretty sure to OPEN"
SAYS an exchange. But it is hard task
to evoke the united will of American
farmers, as against corporate contempt
of their rights.
THE mania for millions in minute
is subverting our morals and retarding
our material growth. The craze and
curse of the day is the spirit of specu-
lation which is so rife in the land, This
spirit contemns slow accretion. 1t sup
plants living day by day with the habit
of discounting the future. 1t substi-
tutes wit for work, speculation for
sweat and saving; it lowers moral tone
and destroys permanent prosperity.
THERE is usually more waste of val
liable stock food in the corn fields than
anywhere else, all over the country,
and farmers have followed the old slip
shod, careless system of harvesting corn
so long that many of them are not aware
of the value of the fodder. This is par
ticularly true of the West, but is true
also of the East on many farms. Prop
erly handled, good corn fodder can be
made to take the place of an equal
weight of hay.