The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-08
Notes by the Way.

beauty OF our autumnal forestl
SOME men would make anything pay.
There is a great deal in the manage
ment of a farm.
HAVING begun fruit-growing, stick
to it. 1t is not business to be picked
up one day and dropped the next
THE area of fruit culture in the
United States is five million acres, the
estimated product of which is 100000,
600.
FARMERS begin to realize that science
has good place on the farm, and that
its conclusions are at least worth a
trial
A GREAT many creameries have
added considerably to their revenues
by buying or collecting eggs from the
farmers.
THE paying for cream by gauges or
weight may be just as, or even more,
misleading than the paying for milk
by weight.
"lN a herd of cows, will they all
produce the same results on the same
food?" No; every COW has her in
dividuality.
THE greatest relief to agriculture
must come from this individual farmer
himself, and from no other source must
it be expected
If possible, get into that line of farm
ing which you like. You will be much
more likely to succeed than with one
that is distasteful to you.
So far plaster and salt have been of
very little use this year. The season
has been too wet. In a dry season both
have a beneficial influence.
DON'T strain and overhead the teams
drawing off immense boulders. If these
can not be buried where they are, place
them on skids and attack them with
runners on the snow.
IT is easier to say keep COW clean
than it is to keep her So" says The
Farmer and Breeder. True; but the
same can be said of any animal. Still it
pays to keep them clean.
REMEMBER that the rock and stump
litter never sweats. Indeed, the heat
seems to make timber its creaking
! joints, and make its working more nat
ural now than at any other season.
"SHoULD strong man who milks
very rapidly get more milk than a
weaker person who milks less rapidly
but more gently?" Yes; if he is not
rough and the cow is used to his ways.
FARMERS are too apt to object to a
direct tax to build improved roads,
while, in the wear of wagons and the
abuse of stock, they are submitting to
an enormous indirect tax to have bad
roads
"THE time will soon come when
every butter and cheese factory in New
York state will pay for the milk re-
ceived according to what there is in it,
instead of for space occupied" says the
Dairy World.
If every farmer would store a few
barrels of sand in the stable every fall
to scatter about buildings and cattle
yards in slippery times, it would prove
much cheaper than sprained joints and
broken bones.
"THE dishonest dairyman has it in
his power to work greater injustice
in raising his cream than in doctoriug
his milk; and there are tricks in every
trade, and rogues in every calling"
says the Dairy World.
THE getting rid of lice on cattle, by
busting with dry sulphur and dust, half
and half, was worth to me more than
the price of years subscription. One
application was sufficient, says a sub
scriber of the Homestead.
"WHEN farmers learn to fight their
own battles instead of employing pol
iticians to do so, they will get on far
BETTER" says b. d. Bisbee, Washing
ton county, VT, in the Homestead: but
Vermont experience has not proved it,
so far.
"LET Vermont and New Hampshire
each have a strictly agricultural insti-
tuition, and in few years the educated
farmers will be in control Of affairs, "
says f. w. Barnard in the Homestead.
That is the great objection to it, in
many minds.
No brood SOW is at her best as a
brood sow until she is two years old
or over. When fully matured they give
more milk, have greater capacity for
assimilating food and, as a consequence,
their pigs are stronger, healthier and
grow faster.
WE must insist on breeding only
from sows that have proved themselves
good mixers or are descended from
good milking strains. These milking
strains in swine are just as pronounced
as milking strains in Jerseys and Hol-
STEMS" says the Connecticut Farmer.
THE whiom popularity of June and
September butter had something sub.
stantial behind it. 1t was made from
the sweet grasses of June and the fresh
aftermath of the second growth, and
under the favoring temperature peculiar
to the early and late summer alike.
PROFESSOR WHITCHER, of the New
Hampshire experiment station, finds
that the milk from his herd costs on an
average of PA cents per quart on good
feed. The best COW produced it at g
cost of 1.59 cents, while the milk OF
the poorest COW cost APO cents. On 6
richer ration the cost from the best