The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-30
Notes by the Way.

of hot ashes we should hear less about
fires.
"THIs soil would be a gold-mine of
wealth if rum and dogs could be wiped
out" writes Disguised Ohio farmer.
MAN will manage to live and be
shiftless on a farm longer than in any
other place, unless it be the almshouse.
II the farmers had the money and
the push of the silver-mine owners the
dog question would be solved instanter
IN almost any farming community
may be found at least one man who
can not seem to set himself about his
own work.
A HIGH authority has said, and it is
truth, that no department of science is
incapable of yielding instruction to the
tiller of the soil.
MILLIoNAtREs and well-to-do people
do not use oleomargarine-not even
the " Big Four" who produce that
fraudulent product.
If farmers had to buy everything
they can raise on the farm, same as
city people, or 90 without them, then
they might cry hard times.
SOw's milk is very much richer than
cows milk, and this fact should not be
overlooked when pigs are weaned, nor
even while yet living on the mothers
milk.
THE man whose farm pays doesn't
have too many irons in the fire. Deal
ing in wood and lumber extensively or
trottng horses is apt to show on the
condition of the farm
DAIRYN1EN are slow to go into winter
dairying, or all-the-year-round dairying.
They labor under the impression that
it is necessarily very expensive. In
this they are mistaken.
THE american Dairylnan has the
following "Some American cheese
maker has invented Limburger with
out the smell of the original. This is
Hamlet without the Dane"
THE farmer has really very little call
for help from the Lawmakers, if they
will only let his interests alone. But
when there is tendency to class legis-
lation he is likely to be the sufferer,
FARMERS, like other people, will al
ways differ as to the best methods of
legislation, and the farmer who looks to
this to take the place of intelligent
farm work is sure to be disappointed.
AS a weed-destroyer sheep are un-
eXcelled. They are fond of browse
and many kinds of weeds which other
stock will not touch, and as they gnaw
closely, the effect on most weeds is
fatal.
WE never expect redress for the
wrongs we have suffered, but we think
that if the farmers will combine for the
purpose we can get some relief, and if
it should come we want it in this gener-
alton.
THE sons and successors of the late
George Campbell of Westminster, VT,
great sheep husbandmen, say that they
never had their ewes give as much
milk for their lambs as by the use of
ensilage.
THE sheep eats much that nothing
else will, but it does not follow that it
should not have anything that other
animals will eat. 1t needs variety, and
should be kept right along in thrifty
condition.
FLORIDA phosphate rocks, at least
some of them, are reported to be much
softer and richer than those of South
Carolina, easily ground, and their plant
food partially available without acid
treatment.
CHEAP beef does not pay the farmer
to produce it, yet three-fourths of the
beef produced is low-grade. Legisla-
ton will not change the character of
the beef, or make the production of
poor beef profitable.
No other occupation offers greater
advantages for a practical education.
! The farmer becomes at the start a pro-
Queer, manufacturer and merchant.
His opportunities for self-culture are
equal to those of any class.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Ohio
Farmer, who claims to have tried all
lengths, has decided to cut ensilage
corn henceforth one and one-half inch
long. 1t should be cut too long to turn
end-wise in the mouth of the animal.
GAS dirty as hog" is a phrase inn
plying that the hog is a perfect sample,
an extreme example, of nastiness.
Acting on this idea, the hog is too apt