The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-05-28
Notes by the Way.

strengthens it.
To reach the highest success the
farmer must love the soil, love to delve
in it, learn to know it thoroughly.
TT is too often the case that select
man boasts of how many miles of road
he has been over in one day rather than
how good rod he has made.
VIGILANCE as to quality and purity
of the cream is the first and an essential
step toward success aud profit. Care
lessness there makes failure and loss
certain.
IF rennet is prepared at home, great
care should be taken in selecting the
| wells, to be sure that they are not dis
eased or have not become tainted in
keeping.
OATS and peas are recommended as
soiling crop, cut when the peas are
well filled and before the oats ripen.
This is richer food than fodder-corn,
and is ready to cut earlier.
THERE is no novelty in the idea of
| making butter from unripened cream,
as that practice has long been in vogue
to a large extent in Denmark and to
limited extent in this country.
A FOWL is not ready for market until
all the pin feathers are removed. Many
| persons fail to receive the highest prices
simply because they omit the small de-
tails of the operation of picking.
CATS and young chicks do not thrive
in the same yard The feline nature
gets the better of the best pussy. and
your chickens will disappear. Keep
the cats away from the temptation.
IT is said that New York produces
one-half the beans grown in this coun-
try. They have cheap transportation
to all markets. New England raises
few beans, for the opposite reason.
OK many farms there is an enormous
waste of labor by putting it where it
! does little or no good, and sometimes it
/ is a positive injury-as in summer
/ following a light and rather mucky soil.
ONO has at last passed an anti-oleo-
margarine law, which demands that all
| imitation butter shall be sold as such,
the purchaser being made aware of the
| true character of the article which he
/ buys.
/ ANALYSIS of four samples of sour
cream buttermilk showed the average
presence of go per cent of fat, while
the same test showed the presence of
only SO per cent in the sweet-cream
buttermik.
THERE is no place on earth where
there is so much Of downright. indie
/ pendent comfort and genuine pleasure
/ for a family as on the farm. But they
must know where it lies and how to
get hold of it.
IN proportion to her population,
! France appropriates more than forty
| times as much as the United States,
and in proportion to her area more than
one hundred times as much, for agri-
cultural education.
/ Do not grow raspberries along the
| fences, as it is difficult to keep the
| ground clear from noXious weeds. 1t
is better to leave space for the cultiva-
/ ton of a hoe crop between the berry
bushes aud the fence.
THE interests of the creamery and its
/ patrons are identical. No creamery
/ can succeed unless it adopts and insists
upon such regulations as experience
has demonstrated to be reasonable and
| productive of the best results.
IN feeding your pigs, do not forget
the oft-repeated injunction not to give
/ them all one kind of feed-not all car
bonaceous nor all heterogeneous, OBJ
/ serve due proportion also between
the bulky and condensed feeds.
VERMONT is cut off from a farm in
, dustry, for which large part of her ter
/ ritory is especially suited, simply be-
cause of dogs. Without an effective
| dog law. no amount of tariff will make
sheep husbandry pay in our state.
A HOT stable is not wanted 1t is
not difficult to build a stable that will
keep temperature of forty-fve to
| siXtv-fve degrees, which is found the
most agreeable and wholesome for cat
tie. But it must be well ventilated.
WHAT are cattle kept for? Certainly
| it is not, in the abstract, to breed thor
ough- breds. The ultimate object is the
product. But herd books are simply
record of breeding, and have no bind
ing relation to merit or performance.
THE question is not How long can
cows be confined in the stable and still
make good butterr, but Is their health
as good as it would have been had they
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what will be the value of their calves?
IT is the digestible dry matter in a
| food that determines its value. Science
has given practice no safer or more use
full conclusion than this: " Cattle foods
have nutritive value in proportion to
the digestibe dry matter they contain"
INSTEAD of aiming to grow crops
only when prices are high, it will be
found safer and better in the long run
to learn how to grow crops success
fully every season, and then have a
nearly uniform amount for sale every
year.
RATS will not only kill young chicks
and ducklings, but they will completely
destroy all in one night. A single rat
in brooder house will not only kill
every one of the small chicks but will
also carry them away to some hiding
place
MOULDY ensilape and rotten ensilage