The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25

days OF usefulness are often heightened
by constant use. A day off does not
do any animal any good unless rest is
absolutely necessary.
a WRITER says: 81 know a man
that, when he goes into his cattle yard,
the cattle will bung" out their eyes
and perhaps start for the gate, acting as
If they were almost afraid of their
lives. He has great deal of bother
with them" Quite likely.
THE Rural NeD Yorker SAYS it has
always believed that if most of the re-
ports of injury caused by feeding cot
tonseed or linseed meal were investi-
gated, it would be found that the
trouble came from constipation, caused
by too much dry food.
WHEN the mercury is down to fifteen
degrees, the cows require more feed
than when it is at forty degrees, and
lhey VIII not give any more milk on
the big ration fed in fifteen-degree
temperature than they will on the small
ration fed in forty-degree temperature.
IT is an easy matter to overload
horses. The incentive to get through
quickly and make as few trips as pos
sible often prompts drivers to load too
heavily. The danger in this is in ruin
ing the constitution of ambitious
horses, or, more yet, making them
balky.
OLD age is not to be dreaded when
weakness of the body has its COM
pensation in strength of the affections
and in vigor of mind. But the old age
which comes like the gloom of night,
aft er life in which the daylight has all
been spent in struggle for money, is
inexpressibly sad.
THE Philadelphia Press says Five
millions of dollars is not large sum to
spend in year on the roads of large
state like Pennsylvania, but it is an
enormous sum to be wasted as it gen.
orally is now" 1t is about the same
everywhere else in America. A good
road is rare sight.
AN extraordinary case of fecundity
in sheep is stated to have occurred in
the MerinO district of Victoria, Aus
tralia, and is supported by the indie
pendent testimony Of several people.
This sheep, a cross bred eve belonging
TO Mr.. John King, gave birth to no
fewer than SIX lambs.
| JOSl Illuh Vi III one man carries
milk to the creamery for which he gets
Sill per hundred pounds, while an
other only gets sixty-five cents, diff
ference of forty-six cents per hundred,
or, if each of the men carried 1000
pounds of milk per day, one would get
"a 60 more than the other.
WITH few exceptions, it will be found
that cows that give great yield Of
good milk pay the greatest profit. 1t
takes just so many gallons of milk or
pounds Of butter to pay for the keep of
the cow, and the balance over that is
profit, less cost of making the butter
and selling it or selling the milk.
If the fetal placenta or calf sac is not
discharged in eight to twelve hours after
the calf is born, it is nearly always bet
ter to secure the services of COM
petent man, and have it removed. In
sorting the hand and detaching the
membrane from the cotyledons to
which it is attached will in no way in
jure the COW.
THE most pitiable object on earth is
an aged and WORKOUT man or woman
whose whole pleasure in life has been
to dig and delve, and who has gone
down into the declining years of life
without growth in his intellectual fac
ulties, and with no development on that
side of his nature which goes to make
refined home.