The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-29
Notes by the Way.

bridges.
SOME people think that crops grow
somehow, they don't know how, and
don't care to know how.
OUR stock costs us too much to feed.
Horses can be kept seal fat on Hunga-
rian grass at one-half the cost of corn
and fodder.
/ In many cases it will pay to purchase
and feed bran, shipstulf and oil meal
to the growing pigs. 1t will be better
and cheaper than corn.
j. j. THOMAS, the great horticul-
turist, says the roots of tree extend
twice as far outward as the limbs do.
Spread manure accordingly.
THE small potatoes boiled and mixed
with bran make one of the very best
feeds for poultry in the fall; with corn
they make a good, cheap and fattening
food.
THE dam, much more than the sire,
transmits mental qualities to the off
spring. A breachy or kicking mare is
almost certain to transmit bad traits to
her foals.
The farmer should be rather lender
than borrower Of money. AS last
resort, however, it is better to borrow
money and pay the cash, than to buy
on credit.
THERE is no question about it, hens
running at large show greater fertility
in the eggs, and the chickens are more
vigorous in const quence of the con-
cealed nest under the bushes.
PRESS and speakers have dwelt upon
] 1.a g Il.
dairy aud in all its surroundings for the
last twenty-five years, and yet the uues-
ton is still live one for popular dis
cussion.
WHEN your heifers come in, weigh
and test their milk for whole year, so
that you can tell without any guess
work which produces the most, and
when you have any to sell, always let
the poorest go.
No less than 57,416,055 pounds of
canned beef were shipped from the
United States to England during the
eleven months ending May 81. Ship.
ments to other countries aggregate 49,
626, l51 pounds.
"STAY out of debt, don't 90 into debt
for anything that you are not necessar-
lily compelled to have, and make that
very small; debt is the greatest curse
of American manhood" says the
Southern Cultivator.
The hen is an excellent agent for
scratching and working over the
manure, and she will find many dainty
morsels therein, that would be of little
value otherwise. 1t pays to allow the
hens to scratch over the manure.
To be a successful poultry-keeper re-
quires experience, for an experienced
person can not make a success of it
with large number of fowls. The be-
gnner must start in with few, and
increase his flock with his experience.
THE worst slavery of the times is debt;
and of all trades and professions, the
farmer should be, and may be, the
freest. His occupation, his habits of
life, his relation to nature, all conspire
to make it ineXpedient to run accounts
and do credit business.
WHY are cows so fond of salt if it
does them no good? We must confess
that we give science the go-by when it
has to be decided whether cows need
salt, and we give them all they want
simply because they are fond of it )"
says the Dairy World. Science is with
you, brother
THE Mirror and Farmer says
Here, AS elsewhere, farms 90 into
market because men die and families
are broken up; because sons have not
the enterprise of their sires or prefer to
enlist in other industries or vacations
because the original selection of site
for farm was poor one, and some
times because, as is the case OCCASION
ally in other departments of industry,
the manager does not know enough, or
is 100 lazy or shiftless, to carry on any
business successfully"
FARMER NORTHERN, governor-elect
of Georgia, says: sit has been said
that manure was my politics. l am
pleased to be so highly complimented.
for political politics, well followed. is
filled with reefs, disappointments and
ruin. Not so with manure. The more
we talk of it the more We think of it;
and the more we think of it the more
interest we take in it; and the more in
terest we take in it the more we will
try to accumulate and save; and the
more we have the better crops we raise
anu Iuc oCttOl Niopo VIC laloC IhO oaolCl
better times we have"
TO set hen just where she desires
or have her resign is often provoking
necessity, but l have conquered the
difficulty. let her brood Tor at least
one day on the nest she likes most
Then when it is dark | set her on eggs
where | want her and cover her in SO
closely that she can not see during day
light. The hen does not know fol
J three or four days whether she is in hel
chosen place or not, and after this time
seldom cares. To manage her without
getting out of breath when she is on
the nest, l tie a long string to one OF
her legs and step on it when l want
her." says writer in the Homestead.
The Orange County (N. " Farme,
remarks with reason that " Sheritfs
county clerks, judges, custom-house
officers and the great swarm of federal
and state officials generally are, on the
average, largely overpaid for the labor