The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-11
Clipped and Condensed.


meats is in the neighborhood of 1926
1000 annually.
GIVE the hogs warm, dry place to
scep in; if they are uncomfortable at
night they won't thrive well.
A MAN is more fitted for the society
f good people if he is accustomed to
handling good stock of any kind.
THE difference between failure of
the crops and year of bounty to com.
munity of farmers can hardly be est-
mated.
IT is important to have strong, we'll
ed teams, able to do a days work.
There is no good farming possible with
poor horses.
Big husking bees are reported from
very section of the state, this year.
There has been nothing like it for ten
years, at least.
THOSE who winter breeding ewes
may calculate on loss of two per cent
IF the number by the time the Landing
season is over.
WE need immigrants, but we need
auch men as have the capital, or the
Drawn, muscle and will to improve and
cultivate our SOIL.
THE highest compliment which
breeder of live stock ever receives is
when old customers invariably turn to
him for replenishing their stock.
IT is getting crazy over a business
With which we are not acquainted, and
investing all we have in it, expecting
to make fortune, which ruins many.
"STUDY your own profession, take
pride in your calling; you'll feel less
depression, though the prices keep fall
ing" sings the Rural Ne,c Workers.
poet.
HORSES that are isolated from their
kind, and brought into close compan-
lonship with man, as on solitary Jour-
ueys, become almost human in their
sympathy
IT is very good thing for the man
owning a cow, with a well defined
and perfectly shaped escutcheon, if he
meets buyer who believes that it in
dicates value.
AN old hockmaster of Connecticut
avs if he was a young man again and
Knew what he does now, he would start
with sheep on the cheap lands of
New England.
THERE was time, not so long ago,
when corn meal seemed to be too little
considered in making up ration to
feed to butter cows, but now the tide
seems to be turning.
STATISTICS show that more money is
spent in the United States for eggs
than for flour. Farmers want to look
| hot hx
getting the best stock.
If an analysis of the situation shows
that other men are better posted than
yourself, the remedy is plain. No one
should be willing to allow such con-
dition of things to continue.
THE cereal yield in the United States
this year is placed by competent au-
thorites at little less than $500, 000,.
600 bushels. This is about $50 100000
bushels more than last year.
Do you notice some of the chicks
trailing their wings? Look out for lice
Examine beneath the wings, on top Of
the head and about the vent. Look
closely and you will find the cause.
IT is said that 1000 sheep will fairly
enrich an acre of ground in twenty-foul
hours. Estimating that each animal
would drop eight pounds of manure
solid and liquid, there would be foul
tons.
To rid the home of red ants or any
other insects wherever they appear, as
in curboards and pantries, sprinkle
black pepper on the shelves. 1t is &
sure preventive as long as the pepper
remains.
IT is now settled fact that glander:
and farcy are but different forms of the
same disease. Inoculations from gland
ers may produce either CHAMBERS OF
farcy, and farcy often develops into
CHAMBERS.
If sick hogs are to be doctored il
must be done in systematic way, care
full calculations made as to what is re
quired, and then worked through il
order. Haphazard treatment is worse
than none.
II is estimated that 1000 zoo, 0O(
are invested in the dairy business o.
this country. 1t requires $1,000 ,OO(
cows to supply the milk, and 5000, 600,
600 worth of dairy and other agricul
tural machinery.
PROFIT is what we are all working
for; the question we always ask is
Will it pay? Sometimes we don't ask
this question soon enough; for instance
il the spring, after we have fed lot O
poor cows all winter.
THE scarcity of apples last year ha
been the cause of the stock of eide
vinegar running quite low, conse
quently there is an immense demand
for and scarcity of barrels in which t,
put cider and vinegar.
STRAIGHT burrows are not all mer,
fancy. Better work can be done will
the furrow true, even and straight
Then the burrows will lay even ant
alike throughout their length. Straigh
burrows mean good blowing.
GA MEDIUM-sIzED herd of Jerseys
and flock of good sheep is what an
after. The first have, and the secont
is coming / tell you the sheep hell
out the farmer" So said an intelli
gent, observing young farmer.