The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-18
Notes by the Way.
HEE manure is no better than Other
kinds if the urine is saved.


money out of their pockets for stuff
that they can save themselves.
SAND blows can be effectively checked
by planting young evergreens quite
thickly in front of them for several
rods.
NEITHER heavy grain feeding nor
inbreeding will cause tuberculosis, but
anything that reduces the vigor of All
animal will make it more susceptible to
the attacks of disease.
The time has gone by, if it ever ex-
listed, when there is nothing to do but
set trees and then gather the fruit
There is work and constant watching
all the way along from beginning to
end.
1.-TWO years ago the Vermont far
mers paid out S150,000 for artificial
manures, and to-day there is $500 900
of it wasted here in Vermont" says an
exchange. Two million dollars would
be nearer the truth.
Do not fail to try the experiment of
grooming the cows a little. Carding
makes them look better and feel better,
and we believe there is money in it
not big money, perhaps, but a net
profit worth making.
If we want the rights of agriculture
respected, it is first our duty to ask for
it. When these rights have been over
looked it will generally be found that
those directly concerned have been
neglectful of their duty.
IT is not necessarily the largest ra-
ton that gives the best return in dairy
products, but the largest amount that is
digested, assimilated and elaborated
into milk contents. On the contrary,
overlooking lessons the product.
ely you believe in farming, and are
going to carry it on, then go at it, and
carry it on right up to what ought to be
done, or go out of the business" is
what Brother Cheever told the farmers
Of Maine in recent address.
WITH a soft cloth or sponge (the last
in preference) apply the slightest coat
ing possible of whale oil to the animal,
from head to tail, two or three times
week through fly time, and you will not
| he troubled with MARBLES the ensuing
winter and spring.
| No matter how wholesome food
may be, when fed in due amount and
due proportion to other foods, if it is
given in excess it is not properly di-
gested, and any disturbance of the d.
! gestive organs brings on a fever that is
sure to shrink the mess.
IT must be borne in mind that last
year was an exceptional one in the pro-
duction of butter. AS writer in a
New York paper says, "instead of
there being only one June, there was
June all through the months of June,
July, August and September.
In opening new road to market
town, it is worth while to make every
effort to have the grades as perfect as
possible. A road opened in Vermont
some ten years ago has probably saved
the farmers along its ten-mile length
forty per cent on the cost of hauling all
their freight.
WITH good variety of food and
enough of it, not given too often, our
cows need to be kept clean and warm
and everything comfortable. The bet
ter your cows feel, the better you will
feel, when you strike the balance
between the expenditure and receipts
of your dairy account.
DAILY work-regular, responsible
and CONSTANTS blessing to any life.
1t is the anchorage of safety. Z" The
details and the dreariness make one
doubt sometimes" said a thoughtful
woman, "but 1 believe in dry, hard
work as a foundation for the higher
life of love, and poetry-and God"
CANADA, which is conceded to lead
the states in the quality of her cheese,
is just beginning to talk about the es-
Enlistment of dairy schools. The
dairymen of Ontario have resolved TO
petition the government for two such
schools-one in the western and one in
the eastern portion of the province.
FARMERS, in looking for improve
ment through seed, should consider that
no seed can hold itself above the level
of the conditions of their farming"
says our leve-headed brother Fust, of
the Montreal Journal OF agriculture.
There is nothing truer or more often
forgotten by the average farmer.
" an intelligent animal were as slow
to learn the lessons set him by his
trainer as men and communities are to
heed the simplest lessons of practical
experience, his education wonld have
to be given up in disgust. For stu
pidity and obstinacy there are few ami
mails which do not find their match in
man.
THE use of the harrow is very imper-
fectly understood by American farmers.
New land is naturally light and open,
but as our farms get older the land
must be worked fine. The harrow
makes the land both fine and compact
both essential conditions for the best
growth of all grain and grass crops, and
the best for any crop.
MUCH is said about abandoned farms
in New England, but we must go great
ways to get beyond abandoned farms !;
it is the presence of the people on the
farms that gives value to the land.
Professor Brewer gives case of a man
who bought farm and paid $40 per
acre for it. Some years after he was
offered $500 per acre, and refused it (;
after his death it was sold for $3.50.
The man who bought it sold it for 800