The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-01

1t is omnivorous, very active, and soon
becomes Overwhelmingly numerous.
THE ram is one half the flock. No
matter how nice flock Of ewes you
have, and you breed them to a poor
ram, you can not accomplish an i'm
provement. On the other hand, if you
have only fair flock of ewes and you
head them with as good ram as yon
can secure you are sure of good re-
suit.
THE man who can and will run a
private dairy properly can make better
butter than a creamery, because he has
control of the milk in all its stages. and
of the COW before the milk is drawn.
but there are so many who can not or
will not run private dairy properly
that there is plenty of room for the
creamery
COTTON lint plays an important
part in in the commerce of the world.
The oil expressed from the seed is a
healthy food and a superb lubrcator.
The meal made from the seed is
food for cattle and a No. fertil-
izer. Even the hull is valuable both as
a food for cattle and for making paper,
while the stalks are made into bagging.
THE former industries of our farm
ers-raising wheat, corn, oats and beef
have been swallowed up by our far
away rivals, and are no longer remu-
nerative to us, and this will continue the
same so long as so-called poor New
England continues to furnish capital
for the western squatters to glut our
market at prices not only ruinous to us
but to them also.
HAVING bred a colt of good parts
aud pedigree, feed and educate him.
Don't destroy the hope of everything
by neglecting to secure the most.
Whatever is done to-day successfully
must be well done. There is no room
for work half done, for many we'll
bred colts may be seen which have been
stunted from birth, and can never be
what they should become.
THE testimony of W. II. b. Totten
& Co. of New York in regard to ex-
tractor butter, after severe exposure,
is as follows: "The curiosity, also adj
miration, that it excites mostly in our
minds is the apparent delicacy and
texture of the butter when first made,
and at the same time the tenacity it
DOSSGSSto anu lllt ht6Dlu2
qualities it apparently develops"
IT is significant fact that the en-
terprising man who begins to farm,
with a knowledge of other pursuits, is
willing to learn and experiment. He
starts outside of the rut of the past;
chances are even, at least, that he will
! light on the turnpike of progress. On
the other hand, the purely practical,
simon pure farmer knows it all, "
remarks the wide-awake Southern Cul-
TRAITOR.
A WRITER for the Hartford Times
says: In Japan two acres make the
average farm. There are no fences.
Four-fifths of the people are farmers.
An acre in Japan produces more than
| five acres in America. The japanese
are scientific farmers, and their richest
lands have been producing two crops
year for more than ten centuries. This
is the result of careful irrigation and
fertilization. Nightsoil is the main
fertilizer. Not a particle of the sewer
age of the cities is wasted in Japan"
A BREED is introduced either by i'm
portation or evolution, and, if it takes
the popular fancy, maintains its season
of popularity and high prices until a
newer one appears, and the former
takes a permanent place among the
standard breeds. These changes are
not caprcious, save in some fancies re-
garding color; they are the marks of
progressive steps toward something
better than the old types. No breed
of any class of live stock has ever at
tanned popularity unless it possessed
genuine merit.