The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-02-04

if not, he is not fit to work over vat.
LOOK out for your strainersl If not
properly cared for, they are in fear
full source of trouble. AS often as
used. the strainer ought to be carefully
washed and scalded before using again.
EVERY one of our hens that has had
a chance to sit on the ground has done
well. The higher and drier we have
made the nests the worse the failure
has BEEN" says the Rural Neoo Yorker.
LET the boys SOW their wild oatsp'
No, no, mol A thousand times mol
There is plenty of good grain right at
hand, and the crop will be none too
good; not all soil brings forth " hun
dred fold"
EARTHwoRMs in dry weather some
times work their way through the soil
to the well and fall in, thus contamn-
ating the water to a certain extent. If
possible, the curbing of all wells should
be cemented.
AT the foundation of all good educa-
ton must lie good moral principle
The educated young man without moral
principle is not valuable member of
the community, of the social or the
political body.
IT is claimed that ordinary crops
take up aud evaporate about six hun
dred tons of water per acre during the
growing season, and that the yield is
largely in proportion to the amount of
water evaporated
SAYS the LeauenWorth (Kansas) Star ::
" A resident offers to bet $4,000 to
$50, 900 that he can walk all the way to
junction City O20 mies) without tax
ing his feet off mortgaged land except
when crossing public way"
A GREAT many judges at fairs, or
fair judges, are unfair judges. They
may not wish to be so; they may try
hard to give correct decisions. But
they are incapable of good judging.
They are not fully Informed.
BARNS filed with hay and grains are
not the requisites of success in winter
dairying. We must have a cheaper
food, one more like green grasses. The
system of ensilage makes summer
foods continuous through the year.
The odor of fresh tar is offensive to
lice, but tarred paper soon loses its
strong odor and in time will be of no
use at all as protection against lice
Don't use tarred paper thinking it will
obviate all necessity of other precau-
tons.
HAVE pen partitioned off from the
mother SOW, but into which the pigs
can go, where you can feed them a little
milk and oatmeal or good wheat bran,
by themselves. They will learn to eat
and ~ ruin hn hot fO L..
weaned.
IT is estimated, after careful expert
ment, that pound of skinned milk is
worth, to feed pigs, about one-ffth as
much a pound of corn meal, but it is
safe to say that the two combined are
worth more than twice as much as
either fed alone.
"DOEs farming in Kansas pay?"
was the question recently discussed in
a western Kansas debating society. As
the speaker for the affirmative arose.
the leading disputant for the negative
opened the stove door and shoveled in
about bushel of corn.
The American poultry breeder is in
ventive or nothing. His ingenuity is
wonderful and is actively employed in
fashioning new varieties out of old ma.
terial. Some of his work will stand
the test of time, but it is not easy tc
foretell which will be lasting.
A FOREST tree grows where seed
has been deposited. When pine for
est is burned, both seed and trees are
destroyed. AS neither stumps nor
seeds can terminate, an open field is
left For ninnpprS and tho cao1S WI hi ol,
first arrive have the right of possession.
THE milk form " is all well enough
as far as it goes, says the Mirror and
Farmer. The best Jersey cow at the
Chicago fat stock show scaled fourth as
to form, and the prize Shorthorn COW
got no recognition of her form from
the judges. The test alone displayed
their dairy qualities.
SO far as possible, keep your breeding
stock by itself, away from the rest of
the flock 1t gives both the lambs and
the mothers better chance for feeding
and they are free from the jostling and
crowding which they inevitably get, tC
their annoyance, if not their injury
when they run with the flock
1.-THE main question to be thought
over is why agriculture mas ueCllneO
among our New England farmers
Thrifty foreigners are taking up the
farms vacated and prosper, while Amer.
leans about them, with better land
and greater opportunities, are losing
money" says the Homestead. But
that is no evidence that our agriculture
has declined
A FARMER who seemed to feel nc
effect of the symptoms of financial dis.
ease, when asked why he did not, re-
piled, 81 have always something to
sell; | never take an inferior article to
market; | always give good weight and
good measure, consequently | always
find ready market at paying prices
for my produce"
"THE farmer is the poorest paid
man in the United States, according to
the amount of work and hardships he
endures; besides, he has no voice in
making our laws, nothing but a lot OF
lawyers, and most all of them backed by