The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-12-24

time, rights and privileges of citizen
ship.
"OUR first president was farmer.
Was there ever a better one? Hadn't
we better have another of the same sort
for next time2" asks the Farm Journal.
We want the right man, without regard
to his trade.
AMERICANS, as a rule, are not NUT
ton-eaters. The only rational explana-
ton that we can give for this is the fact
that the American people have not had
their appetites tempted by mutton of
good quality.
MANY wealthy city capitalists have
two or more places of residence. That
enables them to avoid paying personal
taxes-and the burdens of government
fall upon the honest middle classes, in
Guiding farmers.
IT may be good for the garden to APP
point one of the boys superintendent
of it. Give him good tools and pay him
a salary, or let him have the profit he
can get out of the surplus at the village
store, or market.
FARMERS do not run wild. They are
the great conservative element among
lbC pCOplt, lCN6llDg lllc tAlIdNdHdDCe
of the fanatic, and balancing all things
for the greatest good of all. History
proves their reliance.
WHEN the breeding farms of the
country are fully stocked, and this is
only a question of time, trotting horses
will depreciate, unless there is some
thing besides the demand for breeding
stock to keep them up.
WHEN artificial heat is used to warm
house for grown fowls, only Just
enough should be employed to take off
the raw edge" of the cold. A range
of temperature between forty and sixty
degrees is high enough.
WE would certainly agree that the
man was crazy who persisted in making
only enough steam to run the engine,
while all the machinery of the manu-
factory stood still. Yet this is lust
what many farmer does during the
winter, feeding his animals just enough
for them to hold their own.
IN the midst of the general depres-
sion in all cattle markets, the JERSEYS
have continued at the top in prices,
and they are the first to respond to
the returning spirit of improvement.
The reason for this is very simple.
The Jersey pays more for the food she
consumes than any other COW.
NOTICE closely the combs and wattes
of your flock all during moulting time,
and if any appear pale and colorless,
look to the sanitary arrangements at
once. Have all their surroundings
thoroughly cleansed, whitewash the
house with lime and crude carbolic
acid or petroleum, and sprinkle fresh
lime all about the yard.
THE senate of the United States re-
fused to pass the original-package oleo-
margarine bill which was adopted by
the house of representatives.. This was
bill to enable the different states to
enforce their laws regarding the sale of
cleo. Our house of lords, state and ma
tional, is getting very Independent of
the people. The corporations elect
them, generally, and they in return sup
port the corporations.
WHY is it that farmers feeding bran
differ so widely in their experience as
to its feeding value? In fact, most of
the bran that is fed here is brought in
from other markets; consequently it is
of various kinds of wheat, which may
partly explain why farmers differ in
opinion as to its value. 1t is said that
bran varies exceedingly in its character
and composition, and is very rarely the
same in any two cases." says Hodrd's
Ddtrymdn.
BROTHER CHEEYER, of the NelU Eng
land Farmer says: Vermont young
men, as | see them gather at agri-
cultural fairs and on railroad trains, are
freer from drinking habits and rowdy-
ism than any similar class of young
men it has been my fortune to meet.
They nearly all like horses, and, on oc-
casions, a good carriage; but they don't
seem to feel that team and rum-bot-
! tie are indissolubly connected, or that
to have "good time means to get
drunk. The most orderly fairs of their
size L have ever attended have been in
Vermont-and that, too, where the pro-
portion of young men was noticeably
! large.
"' No human pursuit affords such an
endless field for study as farming, and
yet not one is pursued with so little
thought We quote the above from
leading New England agricultural pa
per. We don't admit the correctness of
| lne statement. instead, we believe the
facts will warrant the claim that there
is no other line of business pursued
among us on which there is centered so
much brain power as is now directed to
solving the problems of the farm. The
fact is, people have become so accus-
toned to speaking in that sighting way
of the farmer and his work that they
actually believe such charges are true.
We have something besides a set of
brainless, aimless ignoramuses con-
nected with farming" says the Maine
Farmer.
IN 1880 l was serving my fourth year
as chairman of the assessors of our
town. We were, by our official oath,
obliged to increase the money valuation
of one of our taxpayers, because we
knew to whom he had loaned every dol