The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-14

of cotton-seed meal for the dairy: ut
is an exceedingly valuable fOodsluff, but
needs to be fed with discretionary
about three parts discretion to one part
cotton-seed meal; bran, corn.mea and
oats may be substituted for discretion.n
WHEN you know exactly where your
profits come from and your losses orig
mate you can drop those branches
which do not increase your income and
turn the time and attention given to
them to increasing the production of
the paying crops. Therefore keep
farm accounts.
THERE are few families in our
cities to whom money is of little or no
consideration; those are willing TO pay
almost any price if they can he supplied
with uniform article of fine butter
every day in the year. The trick APP
pears to be to find such customers and
to fill the bill
IT'S very certain the farmers paw
seven-lenths of the taxes and take care
of themselves and everybody else in all
that susiains life, and if all the millions
that are hid and perjured statements
sworn to, to keep from the Textbook,
were paying their share, it would be
simply just and fair play.
AN exchange says: "The Island of
Jersey, containing about $4,000 square
miles, keeps $4,000 cattle and manages
to make one acre feed a COW, while
England devotes ten acres to cow"
The only thing necessary to make this
statement fairly correct is to drop the
three cphers from the area given.
J. G. BERsTwICK of Greene county,
n. Y. says, lnthe Homestead "Thers
is work for the farmers leagues to Sc
cure in some way better protection from
dogs to sheep-owners. Put the dog tax
higher, and enforce its collection, caus-
ing every dog to bite the dust who en-
tiers any mans premises unaccompanied
by his keeper"
IT is easy to control the shape of
tree if the pruning is attended to regu-
larly for few years after planting.
Some observation, little showing from
those neighbors who know how, and
some study of books on fruit culture,
or of the teachings of good agricultural
papers, will soon make most young men
fair experts at the work.
"IF plenty of gravel is supplied, the
fowls can reduce the hardest of grains
to the finest condition, and any labor
expended in grinding the food for them
is so much time thrown away. Food
should never be wet or sloppy, and no
moisture should be used more than to
adhere the food, as the crumbly, nearly
dry condition is the BEST" says the
Homestead.
Now the main question is, how can
| raise fodder for ten more cows? The
fodder is what | want, because the
skinl-milk from twenty-five cows will
make enough pork to buy the bran or
oi-meal they ought to have. have
read that fodder-corn will produce fif-
can raise twelve tons. Many dairyme
say cow will eat fifty pounds Of green
fodder or ensilage daily. This would
makG one acre of corn, if it yielded
only nine tons, winter two cows.
! will get sack of seed-corn and plant
ten acres with it," How many of our
readers are having these thoughts about
now?
TIE Orange Judd Farmer saws.
" a Jersey thoroughbred bull coupled
with thoroughbred Holstein.Frie-
sian COW will produce a choice dairy
animal for both milk and butter.
Bv this blending of the butter and
milk breeds you get the rich butter
qualities Of the Jersey and the large
milk flow of the HOlstein-a happy COM
bination; and you get beef size not
found in the jersey" To which the
practical dairyman who edits the Maine
Farmer responds: THAT is what we
term breeding stock on paper. 1t is q
pretty theory written out, but unfortu-
uately doesn't always work that way in
practice. Experience shows that crosses
in breeding do not always balance half
and-half. This proves particularly true
where the two breeds coupled are so
widely different as are Jerseys and
Holstens.'