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

much more and much better cheese.
CHAMBERS in horses may be dis
from distemper by the
punched-out-appearing ulcers in the
mucous membrane of the nose and
which may be seen on the partition
the right from the left nos
tril by turning up the margin of either.
BARRED wire is coming into use to
repair with. Old walls make a good
fence against sheep by setting posts in
the center of the wall about fifteen
feet apart and putting three wires on
them. 1t is well TO set the posts in the
ground about one foot if the wall
is low.
VERMONT farmers get at least four
and one-half million dollars less for
their various surplus products than the
consumers annually pay for the same
goods, although mostly within three
hundred miles. And who is to blame
for it? The people rule-that is, they
think they do.
WHEN we see colts afraid of every
body and everything we know there is
something wrong in the heads of their
owners. We regard a skittish colt or
horse as much sign of poor farming
as tumble-down fences and dilapidated
buildings. All can be prevented, and
good farmers do it.
A MAN who makes his living by
washing city windows gives his method
thus: Wet a linen or cotton cloth in
cold water and wash the windows.
Then take a piece of clean cheese-cloth
and rub dry and polish them. Soap,
ammonia and warm water only add to
the trouble and labor.
IT is one thing to have cheese pure
and free from adulteration, and another
to have it made in manner that it will
contain the maximum amount of nutri-
tious compounds, Eipened and de-
veloped in the manner to be most easily
digested, healthful, and the most in
demand at living prices.
POULTRY can be kept in large num-
bers successfully, provided they are
yarded and housed in small numbers,
and in no other way. Our poultry
editors say thirty hens will do we'll in
one yard, but if divided in two yards
they will, under the same treatment,
produce ten per cent more eggs.
If one variety gives an equal yield of
grain and greater amount of stalks
and blades then, of course, it should be
preferred, for fodder and ensilage pur-
poses, to the variety that gives the less
stalk and blade; but it will be found
that, as a rule, the larger the yield of
grain the larger will be the yield of
slower.
THE Bookkeeping interest in Vermont
has advanced from the old log gum and
box hives to the most improved hives
and methods known to the fraternity.
A few years ago the man who had
thirty or sixty skeps" was considered
an extensive bee-keeper. Now there
are many who number their colonies
by the hundred.
IN fattening poultry it should be re-
membered that the quality of the
flesh depends upon the food given.
Onions, garlic, turnips and the like will
give their odor to the flesh and make it
taste unpleasantly. Boiled potatoes,
corn-meal, milk and boiled rice make
firm meat, good-colored and we'll
favored flesh.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago Canada i'm
ported $500, 900 worth of cheese from
the United States, and there was not a
cheese-factory in the Dominion. Since
then, great attention has been given to
cheese-making, and now Canada has
numerous factories, and exports to
England SIS, 100000 pounds of cheese
annually, or 50 100000 worth.
THE system of manipulating the
price of the necessaries of life is the
greatest outrage to the common welfare
that a free people ever tolerated, and it
is astonishing that it has not long since
been suppressed. There is no relation
ship whatever between the legitimate
trade of the country and the offspring
of the devil, and it should be annihi-
lated at once.
GIVE are cognizant of no antagonism
between the man who lives in town
and the man who lives in the country.
We recognize but one evil that does eX-
list to the detriment of both the pro-
Queer and the consumer, the farmer
and the city man, and that is, in some
cases, the inordinate greed of the mid
dleman,' who buys from the producer
and sells to the consumer says the
Maine Farmer.
The French, who surpass all nations
IN IallenlnS poultry, USE pleuly VI
boiled rice. The spicy flavor of wild
fowls and birds is largely due to the
aromatic buds and herbs which they
eat, and it might be well to try it with
poultry by feeding celery, sage,
summer-savory and the like. 1t would
do no harm to try it. The fattening
process, to obtain the best results, should
not occupy over two weeks.
QUITE a number of our wide-awake
farmers are managing to have their
cows drop their calves in the fall, or
early winter, when veal and butter
bring better prices than in the spring
or summer months. They begin to
realize that cows kept in clean, warm
stable, with the proper food and care,
and suitable milk-rooms, bring larger
cash returns than those who rely upon
the summer or spring months for butter
making.
PROOF of the inability of the million.
aires to form exact compilations OF
tbair Own fOrtunaS IL furnished nv the