The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-09-03
Notes by the Way.


dom break your line.
GOOD unleached wood ashes have a
fertilizing value of from 80 to S15 per
ton.
THE daily consumption of eggs in
the United States is estimated at
45,0O0,000
IT takes plenty of sunlight to color
apples well, and high-colored apples
sell best always.
b. F. JONES of Blaine, Aroostook
county, Me-, has cut 800 tons of hay on
his farm this season.
WE want more business farming,
and farmers can get it only by educat-
ing themselves for it.
IT is always the horny-handed farmer
in the legislature that wants to abolish
the Board of Agriculture.
TIMBER should always be cut while
In dormant state, both for wood and
for manufacturing purposes.
THE hay crop in New York is re-
ported much above the average, and
secured in the best condition.
GOOD pigs fattened ready for marke
will shrink twenty TO twenty-five pc
cent from live weight in dressing.
MAKE the profession of agricultural
what it should be, and in the very ma
ture of things farmers will take the
lead.
FARMERS are coming more and more
to realize that if matters agriculturally
have gone wrong it is very largely their
own fault
PERSONAL property is every year
slipping out of the reach of taX-gath-
erers, and the real estate owners pay
most of the taxes.
ALTHOUGH farmers and their fam
lilies are living well and enjoying many
privileges, yet their incomes are gen.
orally meeting the expenses.
PASTURES are still fresh and green,
grass plenty and stock growing and
fattening nicely. Abundance of grass
is fine thing for the farmer.
MosT practical farmers are now
agreed that level culture, at least dur.
ing the latter part of the season, is
much the best for the corn crop.
THOSE who have the most constant
occupation and fill up all their waking
hours with useful service will secure
the largest measure of enjoyment.
CONDITION powders may be good;
but clean quarters, good food, and a
variety of it, with a continuous supply
of fresh clean water, are much better.
"THE hay is in the barn-a big crop,
and first-class in quality. The next
thing is to get some money out of it.
How is this to be done?" asks the Maine
Farmer.
THE secret of all successful feeding
is to keep the carbohydrates and albu-
minoids properly balanced, but the bulk
and condition of the food is to be also
considered.
THERE are but few farmers who
know how much it costs to live, or
even have any idea. how much they
spend yearly. 1t will pay any family
to keep an account of all they spend.
THE common cow gives 5000 pounds
of milk per annum; the uncommon one
$4,000 pounds, or six times as much.
The first is not profitable; the last dies
young and ends the line of " improve
ment.'
"WHILE we are learning a good deal
about milk we are discovering nothing
that calls for any essential practical va
ration in the methods of butter or
cheese-making," remarks the Mirror
and Farmer.
The garden must be near the house,
where the owner will see it many times
a day, and often improve the waiting
moments. 1t must be enclosed, at any
rate a part of it. 1t must be well ma
nured every year.
THE state cattle commissioners are
confident that Maine cattle are prac-
tically free from tuberculosis, as the
greatest care has been taken to drive
out the disease by killing all of the cattle
which have been affected by it,
If every one of our 10000 900 fami-
lies ate one small cheese year, or thirty
pounds, it would amount to 800 900 900
pounds, or $40, 100000 pounds more
than are made in the United States.
And they would, if the cheese was good.
EDUCATION is to-day a topic of en-
crossing interest to all classes. The
best methods for promoting and eX-
tending it occupy the minds of law
givers and educators throughout the
land. Let the farmers lead in this
good work.
A ONE-MAN farm, having a pair of
horses to do the work and hired man
a few months during the busy season
of the year, will give farmer a good
living if he will get out of the ruts and
attend carefully to few things, not try
ing to do too much.
THE Church Record of England
thinks that it is not desirable to pray for
fair weather, except when the bad
weather is so very bad as to make it
evident that it is visitation for ma
tional sins. Otherwise it will be use
less to pray for fair weather.
IT appears that the germs of hog
cholera are hard to kill, and hence the
determination of the disease is difficult.
writer for the Breeders Gazette
says: " The germs of the swine disease
will remain active and infect the ground
for three years-possibly longer"