The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-08-27

methods. Let them go to town and
sell and buy. If they lose little for
few times they will have less to inherit,
but they will be richer in experience.
IN the rush and turmoil of the COM
petition it is the little savings that
count and often make business a sue
cess when it would otherwise prove a
failure. The manufacturer knows to
the fraction of cent what it costs him To
make yard of cloth.
IT does not follow that bow sbould
be made farmer simply because he
was born and reared on farm. Nor.
on the contrary, that young man
should become mercant or banker be-
cause he was reared or trained in a
store or in the office of bank.
ONE of the great and most frequent
mistakes made by gardeners is to de-
lay the thinning out of plants too long
Instead of leaving this work until the
plants have made a second or third pair
of leaves, the thinning out should be
done as soon as the plants are nicely up
THE damp, warm weather is very
favorable to roup, and it is difficult to
prevent 1t at times, even under the best
of conditions. A box of air-slacked lime
should be kept convenient for use, and
the poultry-house floors, as well as the
outside yards, should be well busted
with it,
THE boys of this generation are to
make the men of the future. What
will they be and what will they do?
Every good citizen is interested in
answering these questions, as the
character and business success of those
who come after us must make the des-
tiny of the government.
BUTTER-DIAKING on the farm, if con-
Quoted in a business-like way, will GER
tainly pay as well, at past or present
prices, as selling milk to cheese factories
at sixty cents or siXty-fve cents per hun
dred. it being contracted for that price
the present season, if skim-milk is worth
twenty cents per hundred.
The early promises of the season for
the hay crop have been more than full
filled. In point of fact, contrary to the
usual rule, farmers who were little
delayed about their haying and did not
get at it till toward the middle of July,
found, in many cases, that the quantity
had almost doubled in two weeks time.
SCIENCE brings about economy, and
in these days of varied manufactures,
and perfect facilities for carrying them
on, there is very little waste material
in any branch of trade. The SUNDAY
Call, in describing the slaughter of
cattle at Newark, N. j., says that no
part of steer is lost save its dying
breath.
THE honest butter producers in Con-
necticut are determined to continue
their fight against the oleo combine.
The old bill has been very materially
strengthened, and they propose to
elect a governor this fall who will not
veto it. The Dairymen's Association
of that state are taking the initiative in
the matter.
THE ordinary disagreeable odor from
stable manure is of no more manurial
value than the fragrance of flowers.
The valuable gaseous element in ma
nure is ammonia, which is set free only
when the manure is in condition to be
decomposed by fermentation. Manure
spread upon the surface does not fer
ment, consequently there can be no
loss of ammonia.
THE fall calf has as much potential
profitableness as the spring calf but
to make it actual, more and better care
is required. The most critical part of
the animals life is the first six months
During this period, the spring calf has
pasture and favoring weather, but the
fall calf has neither, and must therefore
have the better care.
CREAM HILL stock farm, Shoreham,
VT, had 60,S4l pounds of milk in June
and made 2,20S pounds of butter which
netted S353.2S. The milk was from
ninety cows; twenty-five of them came
in last September and are due to calve
again in September of this year; thirty
six are registered Holsteins, the rest
native and grade Jerseys.
ONE thing, especially in the winter,
often causes much greater expendi-
ture of labor in churning, and that is
slowness of cream in coming. This
can almost always be helped by adding
quart of water at siXty-four degrees,
in which teaspoonful of salt has been
dissolved, to each four quarts of cream,
when ready to start the churn.
THE possibilities of milk are by no
means yet exhausted. The curd of
milk has been mixed with some min
eral matter and compressed into an ex-
celent substitute for ivory, with its
hardness, elasticity and fine grain.
Made into billiard balls, knife-handles
and door-knobs, and such useful mat
tiers, it has met with general satisfac-
| ton.
STUDY the boys; learn well their in
clinations, their talent and their phys
ical and mental capacity; watch them
in their leisure hours when they seek
the things they love best, without re-
straint or suggestion from others. Help
them to direct their talent into the
channel God intended it to 90 and
then you will have discharged your
duty to your child and your obligation
to your state.
THE present census is the first that
has given special attention to the inn
portant items in agricultural products
of poultry and eggs. In the census of
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