The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-12-17
Notes BY the Way.

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monthly, which will be sent by Mr. At
for thirty cents.
A DEAD dog planted near the roots
of grapevine will make it climb
INSTEAD of buying more land, run
the Old farm for /" all it is worth"
WHEN we learn to save clover hay
for our hogs we will be wiser than we
are now.
THE smart hog man will cut clover,
hay and mix corn aid bran with it for
his hogs.
THE next smartest man will give his
hogs ensilage and bran, with some lin
seed meal mixed in.
THESE men will have very few sick
hogs if they give them warm and dry
beds, and do not have too many in one
nest.
WHY should the pigs and the cows
be coddled and stuffed with the fat of
the farm and the poultry be left to shift
for themselves?
If the old SOW is gentle and kind
mother and good breeder, then winter
her; but if she is rattle-headed, and lies
on her pigs, fatten her and try a young
one.
If the young folks have taste for
poultry, encourage them. Give them
entire charge of the business, and let
them have a generous share of the pro-
ceeds.
A MARE, if properly handled, can be
worked up to the time she drops her
! colt, but she ought 30 rest for about
two weeks after; then moderate work
Will do her no harm.
ARE you crowding too many chickens
into one roOsting place? Are you per-
hitting chickens under four months to
roost otherthan on floor or coop2" II so,
correct these mistakes
THE best pigs we ever have had are
those which can run out of doors when
they like to, and come in when they
want 20, and 60 to bed in nice clean
nest, and eat out of clean trough a
variety of food.
DR.. CALDWELL of Cornell University
says oat straw contains seventy-seven
and wheat straw seventy per cent as
much nutriment as meadow hay. When
sheep pick the straw over they get
larger per cent of nutriment.
WHEN the heifer comes into milk,
and begins the actual work of making
butter, the highest skill of the feeder is
requisite to promote to the utmost her
Unborn tendency and capacity, without
impairing either her health or her ap-
| petite.
WE say to every private dairyman,
provide yourself with appropriate APP
paratus. Ii you have it not already fol.
low the best method in all the details
of dairying, and fear no rival" says
Brother Curtis of the Mirror and
Farmer.
THE farmers movement is growing
rapidly, perhaps TOO rapidly to make
good solid timber. Better slow and
sure. Watch out for designing men
within aud without. Ask what is right
and fair, and then stand ogether, and
stand fast, and you will get 1t.
"THERE is too much of a tendency
among a class of western farmers to en-
courage an autigonlsm to the East,
based apparently on no better cause
than the fact that the wealth of the
country is largely concentrated in the
naighborhood of NV England" says
the Connecticut Farmer.
AMONG the mDurners from the re-
cent election is democratic congress
sional nominee in Minnesota who
wished TO decrease his republican OPP
pCnent's vote. and besou sht q friend to
run on a Farmers Alliance ticket,
promising to pay all election expenses.
The Alliance man was elected.
Tim, 70 aro
raise sheep at profit? was discussed
at recent meeting of the Hudson,
Mass. Farmers League. All present
thought they could make mDuey 1t it if
something could be done with the dogs.
The town has appraised the sheep
killed so low that farmers have suffered
greatly.
THERE are over three thousand
named varieties of apples on the lists
besides the unnamed yet valuable seed
ings. Singular that with all the efforts
of the highest intelligence among us
directed to originating new varieties,
there has been nothing better brought
ont than some of the old Sorts" says
the Maine Farmer.
SHEEP can be well wintered on straw
without hay. Feed all the straw they
will eat, not requiring them to eat the
butts, IA I'd give feeding twice day
of "A half gill of bran and linseed meal.
Sheep will do better on this food than
to give them all the hay they will eat
without the grain. In place of the lin
seed mel oats may be fed, and tor old
sheep, corn.
lT is better to put the shotes into
warm quarters and feed them for mid
winter or early spring pork than to
keep them for fattening next season.
The why of this is the secret of sue
cess in the swine business. Listen,
the same amount of food given to pig
when under six months of age will make
twice the pork it will when nearly q
year old; and so on in the same ratio.
THE school needs to be in every way
more clearly preparation for manhood
and womanho0d, with all their privi-
leges and responsibilities, and that they
NAV be so men and women must tax "a