The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

TAKE a trip. Take your wife, too.
And when you get back, let the boys
and girls take one.
You can not afford to entrust the
feeding of hardworked horses to man
who is careless or ignorant.
IN Wisconsin they have got law
compelling cheese-makers to brand
their cheese for just what it is.
ALLOW nothing to prevent horses
from enjoying their meals in perfectly
quiet manner. Excitement of any kind
prevents entire mastication.
THE exhibition of genuine agricul-
tural student from one of the Immigrant
colleges-if one can be found-is talked
of for the Columbian Fair.
AGREAT mistake in sheep-husbandry,
often met, is that the owners expect
their llocks to go through the summer
season without any attention.
THE cheapest hog food we can pro-
duce is clover, but the best single food
is corn. In the combination of these
two foods lie the best results.
If you expect to keep sheep for many
years, it will notpay in dollars and cents
to cheat the wool-buyer, or YOU may
have the reputation of needing to be
watched.
WHEN we breed to scrub bull, when
we use milk breed for butter-making,
when we let our grass get too ripe before
cutting, when we get mad and abuse
our cows, we cheat ourselves,
HORSES are awkward and " lubberly"
often because nature made them so.
Sometimes it is the fault of the man
who trains them. An awkward man
generally has awkward horses.
THE Supreme Court of Nebraska has
decided that when husband is physic-
ally unable to support his family, and
his wife earns the money to pay the
bills, she is the legal head of the family.
OF course the condition of grass at
this opening season of the growing
year is not the measure of the abund-
ance OF the pasturage or of the amount
of the hay crop. Yet it has much to do
with it.
No mind is educated that has been
merely crammed with extraneous
things, 1t is not so much what or how
much one learns as how he learns it
and what power is developed by the
knowledge.
If one hen will pay net profit of at
least one dollar and half, thousand
should do as well. This is good logic,
but, like many other problems in life,
there are conditions attached which are
overlooked.
II is unfortunate that so large apart of
farm work must be crowded into three
months of the year. From the first of
May until the last of July the farmer
finds scarcely breathing spell except
when rainy day comes.
A. G. UPPER, dairy commissioner of
Iowa, says: Not more than one-third
of the creamery butter is up to the
standard when tested. The reason for
this Is, that creamerymen mix together
good and poor milk or cream"
IF you want knowledge you must toll
for it; if food, you must toll for it; and
if pleasure, you must toll for it. Pleas
ure comes through toll, and not by self
indulgence or Incidence. When man
gets to love his work life is a happy one.
A HORSE is not deaf, his hearing is
more acute than mans, and yelling at
him only tends to make him harder to
manage. You can lay it down as a GER
tain rule that the louder a man shouts
at horse, the less he knows about
horses.
For quick dispatch in killing the
goose that lays the golden egg, the peo-
pie of Kansas easily beat the record.
haun oil 70 H.,
repudiate their Indebtedness, and CAPT
tai has taken unto itself wings and fled
the state.
WHY do we say hay-seed? Hay does
not grow, and of course does not bear
seed. Grass grows, and the different
kinds of grasses, as timothy, clover,
blue grass, ETC., each bears its own
seed. The older dictionaries do not
give the word.
IT requires no prophetic eye to see
that if the breeding of everything in
the horse line goes on undated, breed
ers of common stock will soon be
loaded to the waters edge with stock
they do not want to keep but cannot
sell or even give away.
The whole West is overrun with
wolves, which are constant menace
to the sheep-growing industry. In some
localities these animals are actually on
the increase. Their depredations and
the extra cost of keeping guard largely
increase the cost of wool.
NEVER since the world began would
days labor on the farm or in the factory
or shop buy so many comforts or luxu-
ries as to-day; and in no country in the
world to-day will an average days labor
buy three-quarters as many comforts or
luXuries as in this country.
ONE advantage, and a great one, that
dairying has over general farming is
that there is steady income from it all
the year. 1t may be daily, weekly or
monthly, but the cash is always coming
in, and it enables the dairyman to meet
the little bills as they are made.
The health of woman stands for
more than the health of any living
creature under the sun. God made
choice of woman as the most careful,
attentive, faithful and reliable custodian
of the human race, at a period when