The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
Notes by the Way.

D.
600 ,000,0 since the war.
NEW YORK horsemen find canary
seed cheaper horse-feed just now than
oats.
THERE is no profit in poorly-kept
stock; neither is there much in poor
stock well kept.
IT is admitted by most farmers that
wheat yields the most -four to the
bushel when cut in the dough.
Nor only does industry lay the foun-
dation of wealth, ease and comfort,
but it makes victuals taste good.
THE principal cheese producing Sec
tions of the United States are in New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wiscon-
sin.
WHAT does an inch of rainfall mean?
1t is simply this: A gallon for every
two square feet, or one hundred tons
per acre.
CARE and fertilizers make the farm,
and care and feed make the stock. In
each case the one is dependent upon
the other.
THE farmer is apt TO overestimate
| physical labor and underestimate men,
tai labor. The hand should wait on
the brain.
TINE is so valuable and precious
that but one second is given us at a
time, and this is invariably taken away
before another is given.
PLUToCRACY has enslaved wage
labor. 1t proposes to enslave, and will
enslave our Independent farm labor,
unless our farmers are aroused.
BLOOD amounts to nothing when
left to go alone. The young man who
would succeed with stock has first to
learn how to take care of what he has.
If the producer and the consumer
could divide the profits that the middle
men make off of them, they would each
be fifteen to twenty per cent better off.
PERFECT seed is the farmers sheet
anchor. AS soon after harvest as
possible, select the best and save it;
select five times as much as you will
need.
You may read all the books and
papers published on the subject, and
failure will surely follow if you attempt
to keep fowls by the hundreds without
experience.
In these times of injustice at the
hands of the favored few and against
the toiling millions, the farmer will
have to double his energy or live upon
half allowance.
THE successful poultry men of to-day
are those who made small beginning
There are things TO be learned thai
must be learned by experience, and il
no other way.
THE loss to the farmer from the
effects of distillery-fed cattle was est
mated to be $4,000, 900 in the four
markets of Chicago, st. Louis, Kansas
City and Omaha.
THE farmer should raise a hors,
that, while being fitted for market, cal
pay his way by doing the work on thu
farm, going to market and taking thu
family to church.
THE wide difference In foods an,
the wider variations in cows, the lattel
being much greater than is commonl,
imagined, must be constantly consid
cred in the dairy.
RECENT experiments seem to demon
strate the fact that the large breeds o
fowls consume one-third more food an,
give only about two-thirds as man,
eggs as the lighter kinds.
THOUSANDS of farmers all over tn
country are raising horses every yea
which they know will not sell 70
enough to pay for the feed they con
sumo before they arrive at a serviceabl
age
A GOOD milk colors red litmus-pape
weak blue, and blue a weak red. /
strong red coloring of litmus-pape
shows sour milk, and such mil
should not be mixed with that which
normal.
CASH is powerful, as "Truth
mighty" and will prevail. Credit,
abused, means debt, and debt mean
slavery in large majority of cases
We want education, cooperation an
a cash basis.
THERE has not been year for twent
years when collections have not bee
taken up or state governments impor
tuned to aid farmers who could nc
make living on the lands which the
had given them free.
ne SlShlSot PlOliV POI "" 10 LhOotA
made in small diaries. Some larg
diaries report nearly as large average
of milk and butter as the best sma
ones, but we believe the net profit pc
= cow is never so large.
THE capacity TO produce is develope
in cow by care and feed. With thes
neglected she cannot produce. So on
cannot have good COW without stri,
and intelligent attention on the part {
him who handles her.
SOME of us are anxious to do a bi
business, to "spread " ourselves, an
we are apt to think that our capacity
equal to our desire. Many of us max
the big mistake of undertaking MOI
than we can carry through successfully
GOOD feeding is the best preventiv
of lice on farm stock, says an exchange
These never attack animals that hay
plenty of fat, the oil eXuding from tn
skin destroying the vermin by hllin
their breathing apparatus and thr
suffocating them.