The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10
Notes by the Way.

opinion as now exists as to what the
country really needs to insure pros
perity?
DON'T overlook the fact that the
better the product the less the compe-
tition, and when one can produce the
best, the whole field is his to enjoy.
MANY wool-growers permit their
sheep to feed from mows or stacks.
drawing the feed on their backs. This
renders the wool unfit for many pur-
poses.
THE idea which some farmers have
that blood is only good for speed is
altogether wrong. 1t gives courage,
will, strength and hardness when it
exists in the ancestral line.
a KICKING COW is a nuisance, but
such COWS are sometimes kept because
they are "good THAT is, give a large
mess of milk. But they are mighty
uncertain things to handle, do what
you will.
M. A. IVES of Mechanicsville, VT.
says, in the Mirror and Farmer, that
he made this year 900 pounds of sugar
from APO trees by his own labor alone;
but adds that farming does not pay him
any profit.
IT is estimated by the London Econ
omiSt that foreign nations owe to Eng
land over $4,000, 100000. Since 1887
the English have invested S2,250,-
600, 900 in new undertakings in all
parts of the world.
MANY cases might be given where
the happy combination of good judy
ment on the part of the owner and rare
qualities in particular animal have
resulted in profit TO the owner and
much good to the public.
SPEAKING about the disaffection
among the western farmers, the Aroos-
took Times invitingly says. "Why
would it not be good plan for these
people to emigrate to Aroostook, where
peace and plenty abound2"
IN this country the great mass of
farmers must be common farmers, pro-
ducing the staple necessaries of life,
and each adopting some one line of
produce from which he expects to
make the great bulk of his money.
FARMERS with large, brown eggs to
sell reaped small fortune the past
winter. One poultryman near Boston,
who makes especially of Brahma hens,
realized forty-three cents dozen for all
the eggs he could bring to market of
that variety.
AMERICAN farmers for the last forty
years have been at great cost and pains
to " destroy the milking properties " of
their cows by use of pedigreed bulls
brought up by q" wet nurse because
their mothers didn't give milk enough
to feed them.
The Maine Farmer says "For the
three years last past we have had in
this state, in each year in succession,
the largest crops of hay ever harvested
in the state. The crop of last year
crowned off this bounty with the great
est crop of ALL"
NEW ENGLAND can not compete
with the West in raising sheep for the
wool, but she can for the meat, for
there are thousands of unoccupied
acres adapted to the purpose with the
best of markets at hand for its con-
sumption at good prices.
THERE is much to be said against
working butter with the hands and
nothing to be said in its favor. In the
first place it is dirty practice because,
even though the hands be clearly
washed, the perspiration will leave
them and remain in the butter.
MANY farmers use sisal or cheap
Irvine that slivers, and they use much
more than necessary, whereas in Aus
tralian fleeces no twine is used, or a
small Irvine with one cross-tie only.
The silver is very damaging to goods,
and wool-buyers have to allow for this
in the price.
THE farmers of Maine recently made
an appeal to their State Industrial Col
lege for some changes in the agricul-
tural course, and the Maine Farmer
says that the trustees of the college
granted the requests made at the hear
ing referred to in full, thus giving
schooling in agriculture the prominence
its Importance demands.
THE National StOckmdn thinks that
women ought to pay more attention to
young stock on the farm, because they
are better adapted to it and have more
patiencel To this the HuSbandman re-
plies: "Just So" In the same line
allow us to suggest that men are much
better adapted to carrying in wood and
water, to carrying out ashes and slops,
than the women are.
THE first thing the farmer wants
after rising in the morning is some
thing to eat, and he would do but little
through the day without food. Just
so with your soil; it must be fed before
it should be expected to perform its
labors of supporting a crop. The
farmer forces his land to grow crops
year after year without food, and then
complains that it does not produce
enough to pay for the cultivation.
"THE dairy cow is a machine"
How often we hear It'll Would it were
so! We would then stuff her to the
utmost and make her hum. But alasl
there is an animal existence to take
care of, a constitution to encounter,
and unless high intelligence pervades
and governs the whole operation the
thing will go to pieces. A regulator is
attached to an engine to steady and
control its speed. The regulator to