The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-24
Notes by the Way.

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Fowls relish all food palatable to
man-pepper, salt and other condiments
included. Salt in limited quantity is
needful to insure health.
MORE chickens are killed annually
with excessive care than by neglect.
Chicks left TO the hen can fight the bat
tie of life with wonderful vigor.
II you lose one hour in the morning
you may chase it all day and never catch
| it. Don't take two steps when one
will answer, or try to do two days work
in one.
IN setting milk it is wise to keep to-
gether that of cows that are about the
same length of time in milk. 1t is well
to add warm water to the milk of those
cows nearly going dry.
YOUNG turkeys die from lack of vigor
due to inbreeding and from lice. If
the breeding be looked after and the
young turkeys kept free from lice the
loss will be small compared with that
on most farms.
:" IT has been well said that man is
parasite of the COW. Her flesh and her
milk enter into our diet, and on her
health hinges our own sanative condi-
ton. Little do we realize how much
the minor disorders of mich animal
contribute to human ill-health," OBJ
serves the Tribune.
EVERY unnecessary movement eX-
ponds some of the products of food, and
especially carbon, of which butter
largely consists. so that if a cow is forced
to walk several hours over a thin pas
ture to pick up bellyful of food,
large part of the food is spent in the
muscular exercise.
WE occupy lands which can produce
more dollars to the acre than any other
in the United States; we have the best
and most comfortable buildings. best
roads, best society and best climate;
and yet we are deserving these bless
ings to be disappointed by the so-called
wonders of the West.
A BOY should be made the COM
panion of his father and helped along.
Many animals are better trained for
life than boys. Boys at the age of
twelve or fourteen years should be
given something for themselves calf,
colt, or piece of land to cultivate, the
proceeds in every case to belong to the
boy. Boys will not then want to leave
the farm.
, "WHAT is usually termed chicken
, cholera is caused by fowls partaking of
impure food or Enthusiastically the
: former. A fowl that dies from acct
: dent or other cause and is thrown into
, the weeds or bushes is sure forerun-
, ner of cholera. The flock is sure to
, find the remains, and by pecking and
J scratching about it become contain
mated and develop cholera" So says
} the Southern Cultirator.
"THE magnificent sum of sos ,000,-
600, which represents the value at the
mines of the coal produced in the United
States in 1888, exceeds the gold yield
of the entire country for the last six
! years and nearly equals the combined
gold and silver output of our mines for
two years and a half" says an eX-
change. And yet coal is very dear and
coal miners are very poorly paid. 1t is
better TO be a farmer than TO get ones
living underground.
THE production of milk is vital pro-
cess, largely influenced by the emo.
: tional condition of the animal, and the
iiShloi NOhulliph3 ~ w oPtoh, iieto WI '
, much to do not only with the quality
! but quantity, of milk produced. The
= most favorable condition for milk pro.
: duction is that the animal be nourished
with plenty of good food and that she
= be treated with great gentleness and
= kindness. Anything which irritates
y worries or frightens the COW not only
J lessons the quantity but impoverishes
:, the quality
q AT farmers meeting in New Yorl
v Mr.. Woodward spoke of care in har
i Messing the team, and gave rules as fol
" lows: Lines first, neck-yoke or hold
q backs next and tugs or traces last. Ii
q embarrassing reverse. Always have tn,
i lines where you can reach them. Mr.
# Woodward illustrated by showing how
o he might have saved his father $l5t
e when he was a boy if he had used car
II in this matter. Always place you
% pitchfork with handle towards the rear,
At said Mr.. Woodward, and he told how tn
+ fork, if placed the other way, may caus
m loss of time, money and pain.
At FAR too large proportion of farmers
ly diet in SUMMER salt pork. Those VIII
i work out of doors can stand such diet
e. ing without injury, but it is hard OIL
ly women and children kept indoors. Ii
De the country there should of course b
Up plenty of fruit and vegetables at an
~ time during summer and fall. Wit
he these to aid digestion, salt pork be
d. comes less injurious. But with tn
ne best of vegetables and fruits Their
We should be more fresh meat than sal
i'll To secure this keep poultry. If chicke
is meat is not hearty enough for men VIII
n work in the harvest field, give thel
it eggs and oatmeal or graham gems, a
RS richer in strengthening nutrimeI
If than fat pork, which is mostly carbon,
W ceous matter.-American CultirdtOr.