The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-01
Notes by the Way.

READING by the million and printing
are steadily evolving a new agriculture
and new people.
A HOG consumes twice the weight of
food that a steer does, and grows more
than twice as fast
THE farm now requires men of
brains, and in future the dull BOYS will
have to seek other fields for an occu-
patton.
HAVE some good hogs, good cattle
and good sheep. Invest money in the
best of all kinds of stock. Even at
present prices it will pay.
APPLE-TREEs should be made to pro-
duce good fruit or be destroyed The
farm should not remain incumbered
with unsightly and worthless trees.
IT is always best to save, but to save
yourself, in the long run, will be the
most economical. To know whether
the cream is just right demands the
use of thermometer.
In the production of butter the cheap
est food is not necessarily the best
Butter is a product in which quality be-
comes a ready commercial factor and as
in no other farm product.
WELL-MADE fertilizers do not mate
rally deteriorate in quality if kept in
bags and not allowed to get wet. ANY
of the standard superphosphates may be
spread broadcast and narrowed in for
turnips.
ripening cream is the addition of
small quantity of ghtly-soured
skinned milk; this introduces the
germs of ferment and hastens the ripen-
ing, especially when cream is not
stirred.
WHETHER man or boy will sue
coed on farm depends very much on
whether he has real love of the coun-
try and farm work. If he has, he will
succeed in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred. If he has not, chances are
even against him.
THE present rapid increase of popu-
lation in this country indicates that
soon we will need twice as many cows
as we now have to supply the demand
| for good butter, or we must keep a
COW that will produce twice as much as
does the present dairy COW.
ENsILAGE is good crop for Ameri-
can farmers, because maize grows SO
perfectly and is so easy crop on its
native continent, and because the fail
ure of continuous efforts for forty years
on the part OF agricultural writers has
shown that American farmers can not
be induced, in any considerable mum.
Der, to grow roots on large scale for
feeding.
"No doubt" says Henry Stewart
"the reason why so many pigs suffe
from apopleXy and nervous diseases
arising from indigestion while fattening
is that they have not sufficient liquid
food. Linseed meal or other oil-meal is
not desirable food for pigs at any time
nor is cob-meal desirable, for the rea.
son that the pigs stomach is small
and naturally adapted TO concentrated
food"
ACCORDING to the German values OF
the albuminoids, fats and carbohydrates
in stock foods, the digestible parts of &
ton of oat straw have nearly seventy
per cent, and of ton of wheat straw
nearly ffty-siX per cent, of the value Of
the digestible portions of ton of aver.
age meadow hay. But this is only
when these straws are rightly fed will
other things. Fed alone, their value il
much less.
A GREAT deal of small talk is made
over run down farms and the decline
of the fertility of the soil. This is only
evidence of how much easier it is t
whine than TO brag and how mucl
more people like to do it. In the face
of such claims it is fact that lands il
the hands of good farmers are actually
more productive at the present time
and under present management than il
the days of virgin fertility, and this il
the case not only in individual casei
but with many of the farms as we fine
them through a town. Intelligent
handling more than makes up the draf
upon the supply stored up by nature.