The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22
Notes by the Way.

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much milk for their own good, have the
dog assist in driving them.
THE feeding of stock is the most i'm
portant part of our agriculture. 1t NAV
well receive a large share of our study.
WE read many arguments in the
papers showing why farming does not
pay. but who can prove that farming
really does not pay2
GOOD care is half feeding. Comfort
induces repose, and repose saves feed;
so 1t is just as important TO invest in
comfort as in feed.
IT is mistaken notion that ducks
and geese must have water to paddle
and swim in. All they require is plenty
OF pure water to drink-but more won't
hurt them.
GOOD cheese is what the people
want, and bad article is sure sooner
or later to react on the manufacturer.
no matter if they eventually reform
their practice.
The best way to renovate pasture
that has by neglect become foul with
weeds and bushes is to stock it up
heavily and feed it close from the early
part of the season through.
IT is sign the COW gives poor milk
if, when MIXED out, the udder COL
lapses and feels like a wet dishrag
The greatest butter-producers do not
show this tendency to any great degree.
THE hopeful outlook must be confined
to good butter and cheese. The poorer
quality has gone to the wall, and will
stay there. The taste for good butter
has been cultivated, and this taste must
be supplied.
"Now and then cattle-breeder re-
ports success in breeding to sex by pc
culiarities of treatment. Then some
body else tries this plan and fails con-
spicuously-the rules are no good,'"
says the Dairy World.
1T is a noticeable fact that every
time that cows are left out in the cold
they decrease in quality of milk and
butter fat more than in quantity of milk.
After cows have fallen off in milk it is
impossible to regain the flow.
THERE are many thousands of acres
in Vermont that might be utilized
for sheep, that now are worthless to
the farmer, bringing him nothing but
care and taxes. Many farmers would
engage in sheep raising were it not for
the dogs.
THE rich soil and the unusual facili-
ties for production on large scale has
trained the present generation of our
western citizens to a sovereign but
wssteful contempt for the little details,
from which eastern farmers are recov-
ering-slowly.
IT isn't very often that we meet with
joke in the Maine Farmer, but the
following is not bad. "We have seen
mixers propelled by foot po,oer, but we
were not aware the principle could be
successfully applied in general way
to the work of milking"
In spite of all that has been said and
written on the subject of ripeung
cream, no agreement has been reached.
. Precisely what constitutes ripening no
two agree. Is it really necessary to
r ripen cream at all? Ia it not ripe
/ enough when it is all up2
THE Connecticut Farmer tasks: Is
. there any necessity for set of wild ami
! mails being allowed by Connecticut to
run loose and devour the focks7 What
would we think of those that would al
low their horses, cattle or hogs to run
wild, destroying life and property"
AN exchange says: "The time has
i, gone by when farmers need be ashamed
of their occupation. If they are not
making it respectable, it is their own
fault. The intelligent, progressive
. farmer can hold his hand up with the
best people in the land" Was there
ever such time?
THE Maine Farmer says: "we have
. had fully lis days of continuous sled
ding, with over two feet of snow. Stock
of all kinds is wintering finely. No
disease among cattle outside of few
Over-heated, badly-ventilated stables,
where exciting, stimulating food is
given with no exercise for the ami
NAL, and continually breathing impure
odors."
THE craze for city life has estranged
the minds of our farmer boys, and thou
sands have left good homes and rushed
into this whirlpool of chance to make
money without work. Some have
made their pile, some have landed in
limbo, others play prodigal and come
home physical and financial wrecks,
objects of charity to be fed and clothed
by the working bees of the parental
hive.
"THE trouble with our state colleges
of agriculture and mechanic arts as
related to farming, has been that the
course of study and all attendant infu
ences have been shaped with view to
making professors of agriculture, di-
rectors of stations, or chemists to in
situations carrying on a similar course
of educational training, and not to the
education of farmers" says the Maine
Farmer. But this hasn't been the
worst fault of some of them, which en-
tirelV misaDnrOnriated the money
COMMENTING on the remark of Presi-
dent Buckham of the University of Yer
mont in the Farmer and Homes that
A" the low-grade agricultural school may
be useful institution in its way, but it
will never contribute anything to agri-
cultural science and progress the
Maine Farmer SAYS: swell, what if it
does not? We want some time or some