The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18
Notes by the Way.

WORK to have your dairy the best
paying one in the neighborhood
MANY a farmer bought his land at
war prices, and the peace mortgage is
eating it up.
KANSAS stands to-day in dairying
about where Iowa, Illinois and Wis
consin stood ten years ago.
SOUR milk is excellent food for fowls,
and hens, which are kept for their eggs,
will do one-third better with it than
without it.
BE easy with your teams in beginning
your springs work. Begin as early as
you can and gradually inure them to
their task.
GOOD hocks well kept may be sources
of revenue, but poor flocks poorly kept
are pretty sure to be sources of loss to
their owners.
WHEN the time comes for grazing,
the colt can be weaned. 1t should be
fed in fly-time, and all winter it should
be fed in plenty.
THE idea of " starter " and setting
cream to " ripen," as you would bread
to rise, appears to have been taken
from the Danes.
Do not allow a single apple-tree cater
pillar to live on your trees. "The way
to destroy caterpilars is to kill 'em,,"
says the Maine Farmer.
You gothrough your barn-yard gate
twice day, carrying milk. What kind
of fastening have you on that gate?"
asks the Connecticut Farmer.
IT is only just beginning to dawn
upon the minds of pig-grOwers that
there is a wide difference between
growing pig and fattening it.
BY being careful to not let young
calves gorge themselves, you will sell
dom be troubled by their having the
scours, if their food is all right.
GOVERNOR HOARD has a theory that
cows with highly nervous temper
ament are the best mixers. What is
your observation or experience?
"POTAToEs are best stored in slated
bins to hold few bushels each The
ventilation is good for them" says an
exchange. We don't agree with it.
EDUCATE your horse to drive on a
full rein, to travel at its speed without
the support of the check or overdraw,
and to place complete confidence in its
driver.
DON'T hold colts after fair offer has
been made for them. In a series of
years it will pay to sell early, and be
assured good profit. There are risks
in holding.
CULTIVATE your land, raise your
crops, convert them into animal life,
and sell, and by your sales realize the
income of your farms and the price of
your labor.
STATISTICS show that seven to nine
acres are needed commonly for the
support of one COW in the East But
some eastern farmers have kept one
cow to the acre.
BROOD sows should be kept separate.
Even two together in the same pen are
liable to injure each other by crowding
for coveted places, or one lying on or
against the other.
THE mammoth clover had nearly
twice as much crude protein (he meat
producing or heterogeneous part of the
food) as timothy hay The medium
red clover came next.
; If New England ever does much in
the sheep business the dog business
will have to 90 to the wall, or be con.
Quoted on some other principle than
,, that which now prevails.
A FAIR yield per acre is fifty bushels
Of shelled corn. This takes from the
acre sixty-four pounds of nitrogen
seventy-seven of potash and thirty
pounds of phosphoric acid.
WITH his wonderful appetite and
immense digestive powers, it is the
height of folly to keep the hog on part
rations. 1t is the satisfied, quiet hog
that brings money to the owner.
TIE experiment station is designed
to do those things for the crop-growers
that from lack of resources, time, APP
paratus, scientific training, etc., they
are not able to do for themselves.
IN place of roots, silase is now quite
freely fed to horses and colts. They
seem to relish it, and it is declared by
those who have tried it to be whole.
some food for the horse. Why not?
MAINE is, next to being a pig state
great producing state. The
money received by farmers for the
apple crop of the past year has been
according to the best estimates, $3.50,
600.
The drift of general dairy though
during the last year has been in the
direction of economic production. TC
make first-class pound of butter and
cheese at the least cost has been tn,
problem.
IT is not the great wealth of a coun
try, which may all be in the hands of {
few, that makes people prosperous
and happy, but the just distribution O.
it among the people, so that none are
really poor.
THE fact that western butter find;
ready sale in New England markets il
no evidence that the same class of but
ter can be made cheaper on western
farm than on the hills of New Hamp
shire or Vermont.
THERE is money in farming still anC
the profit will come when we do on
best, and our goods can be relied on
When people go elsewhere to buy, it il