The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-08-13
Notes by the Way.


farms.
MAKE map of your orchard and on
it name all the varieties of fruit as the
trees stand.
SILAGE in the barn may faint the
milk, but silage in the COW does no
harm, is the opinion of Professor Cooke.
" WHICH is the better, to expend your
money in making good roads or TO lose
it in worn out horse-flesh snd wagons?n
asks the Mirror and Farmer.
A VIOLENT change of food will upset
the system of any animal, and nothing
could be more violent than a complete
change from silage to dry hay.
MANY meadows are ruined by the
grass getting overripe and then being
cut close, leaving the exhausted roots
exposed to the burning rays of the sun.
If the cows are allowed to fall off in
their butter yield in summer, for the
want of any element in their feed, it is
almost impossible to get them up again
in winter
IT is not likely that silage will ever
completely supersede roots as succu-
lent feed for stock. Many who have
tried both continue to grow the annual
supply of roots. 1t is mainly matter
of taste and convenience.
SOME of the homeopathic remedies
for diseases of poultry are recon-
mended as very eflicacious by those
who have tried them. Stick to that,
and your hens will thank you in eggs
if your other management is right.
Tr-a oc
can be said to hold a leading place on
Maine farms, the Jersey probably
comes as near to it as any. What are
termed the Maine Observation-Disclosures
in the state herd book-are gradually
growing in favor.
"THERE is strong reason to suspect
that the man who begrudges his cows
little exercise and fresh air, lest
they reduce the flow of milk, would adj
vocate any other cruel practice, if his
setishness suggested that he could
thereby put an extra cent into his
pocket" says the Mirror and Farmer.
THERE has been a vast amount of
humbug mixed up with the creamery,
and some of the western people have
been terribly swindled by agents who
have gone through the country per-
suading dairymen TO put up creameries
at a cost of $4,000 to $4,000, where
81 900 to 50, 500 was all that the bust
ness would warrant.
WHEN business fails to come up to
this paying standard here and there will
be found man who will resolutely set
himself to seek for causes, and per-
haps to experiment in new methods
and materials, but the great majority
will begin to look about for some other
kind of calling that holds out brighter
promise, with less thought and labor.
Docs made sad havoc with sheep in
the pastures of Lorenzo Currier, Allie
Gordon and E. A. Kenyon Tuesday
night, and the three 1ocks were nearly
extirminated," says the Canaan, n. H.,
Reporter. "Those that were not killed
outright were so badly bitten and
manned that they had to be killed. Mr..
Currier was the largest sufferer, losing
about twenty-five"
A FEW years ago rather green corn
fodder was packed in alternate layers
with straw. The fodder kept we'll and
impaired a portion of its aroma TO the
much avidity as the former. Similar
recent experiments in California in
preserving green alfalfa Qucern) were
abundantly successful, and cattle rel
ished both equally well.
A POINT worthy of consideration is
presented by the Springfield Republican
when it asks whether it is better to de-
vote money to making a road good, or
to eXpend it on perishable horses that
require to be fed for use on roads so
bad as to neutralize their strength. 1t
is often and truly observed that the
best measure of the culture and ability
of ii people is the condition of their
highways.
A WRITER in the Dairy World says:
"Try some grain feed this summer.
Last summer the grass was so abund-
ant (and butter also, but the price
wasn'D that / thought it wouldn't pay
to feed any grain to the cows, and there
is where | missed it, because they did
not do so well all winter, owing, / be-
lieve, partly to their not having stored
up in summer reserve fund to be used
in winter to declare butter dividends"
"THE farmers sons seldom, and the
farmers daughters almost never have
money of their own, nor is the need of
it recognized by any plans by which
little cash can be earned. When the
need thereof is Enthusiastically apparent,
the purchase is either made for them
or money given for it. And this giving
is always potent for evil to the recipi-
ent, begetting an uncomfortable sense
of inferiority and dependence, pre-
Guiding the knowledge of values OBJ
tanned only by those who earn what they
spend and denying the joy of real own
ership," says writer in the Maine
Farmer.
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