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

in value and crops.
A GREAT loss of young turkeys oc-
ours at the time of what is called
shooting the red face" which usually
begins when they are about ten or
twelve weeks old. AS it is natural
process, the only precaution to be taken
is to watch for lice.
TIE British restrict the importation
of American cattle in the interest of
British farmers. What difference does
it make in results whether they do it
by means of a protective duty or pre-
tended inspection regulation? 1t is
protection, all the same.
Forty lambs belonging to p. A.
Booth of Milton, VT, were killed by
dogs in one day recently. What row
there would be if somebody killed forty
dogs in Milton in one day God bless
the patient shepherd He needs more
patience-or more sand.
IT has become necessary to become
a specialist in certain lines. A farmer
should not undertake to do everything.
Some will not take advantage of the
results of the experience of others, and
consequently are driven to the wall in
the struggle for existence.
SCANDINAvIANs aud Irish people
live cheaply, save money and buy New
Enr,lonI fnhntr 1.-Two
than the Yankees of fifty years ago.
Our fathers were pretty healthy
mothers, also. Perhaps we are living
better than we can afford.
PROFESSOR HAYS of the Minnesota
Experiment Station, in consequence of
experiments and observations made by
him, urges the necessity of selecting
and breeding types of Indian corn,
just as we have of late years begun Sc
lecting and breeding live stock.
UNDERCoOKED soft cheese, with an
excess of rennet in it, has destroyed
the reputation of American cheese in
our best market-EnGland. Cheese
that ripens in ten days, goes off flavor
in fifteen or twenty and is rotten in
sixty days from the hoops, is not what
is wanted.
TAX all persons and all property at
equal rates, and in exact accordance
with ability to pay. Those who refuse
to stand on this platform are no better
than any other class of thieves. The
fact that the stealing is according to
law does not in the least change the
moral quality Of the act
THE largest sale of wool ever made
by one person in Waitsfeld, Vt, was
made by Cassius Joslin recently-about
| 1000 pounds, at twenty-nine cents. The
wool has been accommodating ever since
war time, when wool was was worth S4
pound, which Mr.. Joslin had been
offered for some of the lot.
IN cheese-making slow cooking, as
it is called, produces the best re suits.
What is required is an even heat
throughout the mass, even to the
smallest particle, from the beginning
to the end of the process. If possible,
rapid cooling of the curd should be
avoided as much as rapid heating.
WRENTHANf, MASS, boasts one sheep
in the town, and four dogs to the
square mile. The sheep was imported
from another town. Its owner, Mr..
l.. f. Cook, wants the dog-owners to
report profits on dogs, that he may COM
pare them with those on his sheep and
see whether it will pay to go into the
dog business.
SAYS a New York produce dealer:
"The supply of butter, in these days
of uniform and excellent quality, is so
liberal that line of butter made from
too long held cream, or colored like a
barber-pole, containing two or three
Cummings, no two of which are alike
of such butter the buyer simply says,
don't want it, )"
" AS the berries have been produced
in larger size and greater quantities,
the fragrance and flavor have disap-
peared, and the strawberry which we
have to-day is nothing more than
magnifed phantom of the ambrosial
berry that existed before the gardeners
took it in hand for Improvement" OBJ
serves the Boston Post Nobody but
the buyers are to blame for this. The
grower is controlled by the buyers
ideas of what he wants. a variety
that wont sell will not be grown.
A WRITER in the Homestead says;
4" Where | was raised COW was a cow,
whether she had four teats or one, and
whether she gave four or ten quarts of
milk a day, and she lived until age
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