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

feeding.
SOME of the greatest minds of to-day
are turning their attention toward
agriculture.
FARMERS must take more active
part in political affairs if desired re-
forms are brought about.
HORSE manure makes very good
absorbent in the constable. The mix
ture improves both manures.
MANY think that the day for farm
ers' making a decent living is past.
But the best times are yet to come.
THE most valuable food is the most
valuable as a fertilizer, and when fed
produces the most valuable manure.
SECRETARY WOODWARD of New
York says: Washing sheep is an
old within, and as barbarous as tits old"
IF you want your clover at its best
for hay do not forget to cut it as soon
as any of the heads begin to turn
brown.
THE pig is generally considered a
dirty animal. But if the owner is dirty,
and gives the pig no chance to be clean,
is the pig to blame?
LDiBURGER cheese without the
smell is one of the novelties of the day,
according to London Dairy. Cheese
tasters pronounce it excellent.
CULTIVATE home markets for every
thing. Send nothing to the general
market until you have satisfied all the
demands of those living near by.
RAPIDITY in milking is a good thing
on the part of the mixer, but there is
more in not hurting the COW and in
making the operation agreeable to her.
ACCORDING to DR.. Collier, growing
animals takes only six per cent of the
manurial value out of their food, and
milch cows nine and one-fourth per
cent.
OUR income from our farms will
serve but poor advantage if the part
necessary is not given to the intellectual
culture and improvement of our chill
dren.
WHAT is the practical sense of dis
cussing the signs of a good milker?'
The fact, if it is one, is easier to get at
and understand than the signs" says
Brother Curtis.
SOMETIMES when the calf is born it
can not pass the fecal matter that is in
its bowels at time of birth; an injection
of warm soapsuds with a little lard in it
will remedy this.
WE are each year more favorably i'm
pressed with the Black Mexican sweet
corn. 1t is one of the sweetest varieties
for the table, makes medium sized
stalk with large amount of ears.
WHEN the farmer goes to the village
to trade he does not think that he has
not been at home at work, nor does he
think that he has had a good team to
drive that he does not pay cash for the
use Of
THE farmer needs to take a more
active part in legislation, because there
has been altogether too much ignoring
of his interests in the past, and is likely
to be in the future" says the Connecti-
cut Farmer.
THE dwelling for the family, the
dairy rooms and the constable are
often under the same roof in Holland
and the testimony as to the neatness
with which these rooms are kept is
unanimous.
SOUTH CAROLINA has twenty cotton
seed oil mills, with an aggregate ca
pacity of $50 tons per day. They are
paying their owners, and the people of
the counties in which they are located,
handsomely.
THE teaching of non-exercise and
close confinement of mich cows we are
convinced is all wrong, as it must
lead to gradual but sure undermining
of the constitution of both the COW and
her offspring.
THE feeding value of hay which
was grown during wet and cloudy
seasons is very low. This is why it
does not "spend well, and why it
needs to be more literally supple
mented with grain.
AN Aroostook exchange says " "A
striking popularity of the soil of this
region is the readiness with which ii
dries out after heavy rains. This sea-
son, which has been remarkable for
rainy weather, has illustrated this fact. y
No matter how carefully board floor
may be cleaned, there will be an odor
in the poultry-house unless some kind
of an absorbent, such as dry earth or
plaster, is used, which should be
sprinkJed on the floor after it is cleaned.
A SMOOTH hard surface in front of a
hive is desideratum. Many overloaded
bees get tired and fall short of the en-
trance to the hive, and have to make
their way up by crawling. This is diff
ficult to do through grass or over rough
surface.
ONE of the poorest, most unsatis-
factory practices imaginable is the con-
slant changing from one stallion to
another. If the colt by the side the
mare is good and promising, what call
is there to go elsewhere? 1t is simply
folly.
THE successful farmer of to-day
must be well-informed, alive to the di-
versity of interests that affect his for
tunes and industrious in observation as
well as in daily toll. When corn and
cattle do not pay for his labor, he must
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