The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-11-26

Jne HgnJ OF PRACTICAL demonstration
THE craze for trotters is driving
many man off his feet, and hundreds
of promising colts are being ruined by
overwork.
Do not give the hen too many eggs
The fixed number of thirteen eggs for
all kinds and all sizes of hens will not
answer for winter.
ALL that beast yields comes from
food, and all that plant contains comes
from what the soil has received from
you or from nature.
THE cotton crop is so large this year
that the South is liable to be embar-
raised by its good fortune. Labor is
very scarce and high.
WHEN the hens seem inclined to Law
in some place other than the regular
nests do not modest them, but aid them
by giving them a better nest
SHEEP and lambs are higher in
Waldo county than for few years past,
but wool has not been as high as last
year." says the Maine Farmer.
THE last season has been very bad
one for bees; too wet and too cold; but
very little honey stored. Unless well
fed and cared for many colonies must
die before spring.
DORSET sheep are to be doomed for
The South; it Is said they are well suited
Tor the southern climate. 1t is also
claimed that they are courageous enough
10 light with dogs.
FARMERS are very fooishly food
ing many of the markets with hay, at
cheap price, instead of holding on to it
for rise, which is sure to come" SAYS
the Maine Farmer.
THE island mutton Of Maine has
long been famous among epicures for
its superior flavor and quality. They
nibble the sea-weed among the rocks
when the tide is out.
IT becomes more and more evident
that the farmer in the future will be
more or less an Independent factor in
| politics. He has learned in a measure
| TO do his own thinking.
GEEEN and succulent food does not
produce thin milk or milk containing
small per cent of solids, according to
results of work done at tue New Hump
shire experiment station.
ALL farmers who are studying their
| business as the merchant. the LAWYER,
the doctor and the banks study theirs
will learn something from the agricul-
tural experiment stations.
GOOD, rOomy cows" in England
are worth from 500 to S130 apiece"
says the Montreal Journal of Agricul-
| tire. Beef breeds, we suppose, but
England buys fully half her butter
AN excellent mess for hens on
cold morning is to put pan of milk
on the stove, and while it is warming
add corn meal until the mess becomes
thick, when it should be fed warm.
WILL butter made from sweet
cream keep? Yes. Churn it at fifty
| degrees. 1t will keep as well as anv
! butter, and better than much of that
made from sour cream" says the Dairy
! WOrld.
THE wastefu extravaganza and greed
shown at our experiment station should
oe looked into by the proper authori-
les. It's officials seem to believe there
is no judge i'll Israel-and may be they
ire right. We shall see.
How well the chicks will look for a
while when they are young. That is
because they are small, and can get
under the hen, but as they grow you
viii find it does not pay to have too
many chicks with one hen.
On very cold days, just before they
20 on the rOOst at night, give the hens
a good feed of corn. The object is to
protect them from the cold by supply
ing them that which provides a large
/ urouortiOn of animal heat
HUNDREDS yes, thousands, are hold
ing their colts for future development,
in hopes they may prove fast, not
counting the expense of keeping and
training, or the risk attending all this.
There is no certainty of great speed.
:" BE shy of bringing in a COW with
great flow of milk. Be content 10
get her to her flush three weeks after
calving. Let her be rather thin when
he calves and come to her grain
slowly" says the Ne,C England Farmer.
{" IT is a strong temptation to many,
when putting green stuff into the silo,
10 put III also layers of dry straw or
other dry material, but this is all
wrong" says the Mirror and Farmer.
Straw is hollow and introduces air where
ii is inju ious.
A HEN is often a creature of educa-
ton. She will run after you for food
every time she sees you because you
have thus taught her so 10 do, but
when she finds she must work she
will soon learn that without effort she
must 90 hungry.
THE peanut crop is reported so enor-
nous that there has been almost
panic in the peanut market. The yield
in Virginia alone is set at 5000, 900
bushels, and equally enormous returns
are coming i'll from other regions
where the nut is grown.
" If the stable is not clean, the COW
is not clean; if the COW is not clean,
he milk is not clean if the milk is not
clean, the product is not clean. Filth
in the beginning means nastiness to
the end" says the sensible editor of
he Mirror and Farmer
THERE are about "a 900 registered
Hnlstein- Friesian cattle in the