The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-16


So while I'm praying use my hoe,
An do my level best
To keep down the weeds along each row,
An the Lord, he does the rest
DO you know anything about what
your farm has paid you this year or that
il is likely to pay?
OvERFEEDING is at all times at
tend ed with danger, especially in the
tired, overworked horse.
WHY, the best writers on poultry
now allow ten square feet to a hen.
Crowding any animals is discomfort
to them and consequent waste and loss
to the owner.
TIE overworked horse is often the
subject of some of the most dangerous
attacks of collie we have to contend
with. In fact, it is one of the chief
predisposing causes.
TIE Pacific coast is making consid-
cradle progress in dairying, but il does
not begin to reach the proportions that
obtain in the Middle and Eastern states,
III ugh prices of butter are high.
To the strong, overpowering hand of
man al animals readily submit, but to
the vacillating seldom. Many unsafe
aud vicious animals are the result of
lack of firm but kind management.
THOSE who attend meetings of farm.
ers cannot but be impressed with the
fact that the greatest lack of most of
these meetings is in not having prompt,
efficient and well-posted presiding Of
| ficers.
TIE idea that the rain can be precip.
itated by cannon firing is almost as old
as gunpowder, but, while there are
many curious condolences, there is no
satisfactory evidence that rain was so
produced.
TIE measure of fall-off in the ex-
portation of live cattle as compared
with last year keeps up sufficiently to
render it certain that the total of the
years business will be very much be-
low that of 1890.
THE Overland Monthly thinks it safe
to say that dairying will never be the
leading industry in California, and as
signs as one reason that the intense
heat of the summer months burns up
the natural vegetation.
IN scalding hogs, the hair will slip,
after awhile, if the carcass is put into
water at $50 degrees; over no degrees,
it is too hot; at l60 degrees it is right;
anywhere between the extremes will be
safe, but 100 is just right.
IT is rather anomalous for farmers to
get a lawyer to make their annual ad-
dress, as so many times is done. 1t
must be on the priceless thought that a
poor agricultural address by lawyer is
better than good one by farmer.
THE preparation of food products
has as much to do with their bringing
p oft as does the marketing of them.
The method of putting up butter, eggs,
honey, maple sugar, fruit, etc., has not
received as much attention as it should
have.
DO we find our youth perusing dime
novels? Quietly slip better books into
their places. Use the principle of the
expulsive power of new affection.
We are to blame for their reading bad
books if we do not supply them with
60 d ones.
THE Maine Farmer remarks that as
a matter of fact, no standard quality for
butter has ever been set up further than
the demand of consumers. Whether
we denominate that within or cult
waited taste, that is the best butter which
best suits the consumer.
SHROPSHIRE rams for native or grade
ewes are believed by many to completely
fill the bill for mutton. This breed OF
rams possesses the requisite points Of
excellence for the early-!amb business
quick maturity, capacity for taking OF
tat young, hardness and uniform mark
ing.
LET man choose crop that is no
raised by every farmer, and, nine time;
out of ten, he will realize money from
its sale. The man who looks about hin
in the market and finds what is lacking
and supplies the deficiency is the maj
who has the market all to himself anC
makes money.
MANY farmers wives and daughter
have mistaken idea that their socia
standing depends in some way upol
1 their living as nearly as possible lik
their city sisters. They lose sight o
/ the fact that they are entitled to dis
tinct individuality in their countr
homes.
"GooD butter can be made from swee
- cream. More than that, it has bee
demonstrated that such butter will kee
COOL as long as that made from sou
cream, popular conviction to the cor
trary Notwithstanding. 1t is claimed
= slight degree of acid in the cream i'm
proves the flavor of the BUTTER" say
q. the Dairy World.
AS far as feeding poultry is concerned
the most common trouble is a lack {
variety in diet. Itshould always be IT
membered that fowls are omnivorous
their habits; their natural food con
= prses the whole three kingdoms int
which matter is divided, viz, the an
- NAL, vegetable and mineral.
IN THE StOckmdn and Farmer says
lie eve have known persons to go int
as dairyiDg because they fortunately got
NJ uDOd cow for family use and her Viel