The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-22
Notes by the Way.

AN empty wood-shed is the sign of
poor dinner.
DON'T expect all the good qualities
in one animal.
THERE may be as much fertility in
whey as in the best commercial fertil-
izer.
FAILURES as well as successes teach
lessons. He is wise who learns from
both.
THE best stock-raisers are now try
ing to grow meat instead of to accumu-
late fat
THE older the tree the more difficult
to transplant and the more uncertain
the success.
IT is against the dignity of the COW
and the profit of her owner to 90 faster
than a walk.
Two dozen fowls well cared for will
prove more valuable than fifty that are
mismanaged.
THERE can be no check to growth
without injury to the plant. The same
is true of the animal.
Docs are a frightful source of para
sites among sheep. They are the har-
Dor for four kinds of tape worm.
THERE never was time when so
much was being done in the interest
OF intelligent agriculture as now.
THE size of fruit is not of as much
consideration as its quality. 1t appears
to be difficult to combine the two.
ECONOMY is wealth; but it is a
kind of wealth that the rich man finds it
hard to transfer to his son." says Puck.
PRUDENCE, diligence, thrift and
steady hard work count for as much
east as west; without them no farmer
can succeed.
THE farm is the farmers kingdom,
over which he reigns supreme. Its
beauty increases his love and gives him
contentment.
LABOR is scarce and hard to obtain,
even at present high rates. Land is
cheap, and very few opportunities to
sell at any price.
If agriculture calls for a broader and
more liberal education than other in
dustries, then all the more we want i,
in the common schools.
THE London Mark Lane Express re-
ports several recent instances of sheep
farmers sadly victimized by the ever
present murderous dog.
ONE drake with five ducks is about
| the proper proportion, and twenty fe-
males in one flock is as many as can be
comfortably kept together
PROFESSOR HENRY says that hogs
do not do we'll on barley meal unless it
is soaked, and hogs fed on it will drink
twice as much water as when fed on corn.
THE place where an article of food
is prepared should be above reproach
in the matter of cleanliness. The sur
roundings should be neat as well as all
utensils.
CHEERFUL, active labor is blessing.
An old philosopher says: " The FREELY
only shines when on the wing; so it is
with the mind, when once we rest, we
darken."
THE farmer who misses the benefit
of buckwheat because of the foolish
prejudice against it, due to the ease
and cheapness of its growth, misses a
good thing.
HAS any one ever calculated the cost
of the work done in keeping cows for
the supply of milk to customers and
compared it with the keeping OF hens
to supply eggs?
WHERE there is grievance, the
remedy is discussion. Whenever you
get men to discussing the remedy of
their grievances, you have begun to get
the day of better things.
A BRUTAL man with stout milking
| Nfnol o,,1
neutralize the effect of the best bal
anced ration, the greenest pasture and
most choice breed of cows.
"IF nine-tenths of the dogs tails
were cut off up to the ears, the country
would be better off a thousandfod, -
says an exchange. And the other tenth
knocked on the head, say we.
THE effects of feeding cotton seed,
cotton-seed meal and cotton hulls to
mich cows, appears to be to add more
hard fat to the butter and to cores
pondingly raise the melting point.
HENS hatch certainly twenty-five per
cent more chicks than do the reason
ably good incubators, and ten times as
many as the poor ones, and the chicks
are, as rule, stronger when Matched.
CLOVER, while it is very generous
crop-producer, is also credited with
being great soil-feeder by means OF
Its roots. 1t, so to speak, divides the
profits between the land and its owner
SET out your trees either early in the
spring or early in the fall. In the early
spring, they will begin to root before
the hot, dry weather comes on, and il
the early fall before the frost strikes
them.
Two dogs, vicious brutes, which hat
repeatedly attacked passers-by on The
road, and lately killed sheep, were or
dered shot by Sheriff Glover of Newton
Conn. May his tribe increase, prays
the Tribune.
BALES of hay pressed in the same
machine and of the same size, out Of
the same quality of hay, vary as muct
as ten per cent in weight. Is it not t
dubious business to guess at the weigh
of hay in mOWs and stacks?