The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-17
Notes by the Way.

If nothing succeeds like success,
nothing fails so quickly as trickery.
THE truth is, there is no such thing
as horse being first-class in several
lines.
NEVER expect horse to interpret
two or more meanings from a single
command.
THE opinion, almost universally
entertained, that bots frequently cause
colicky pains is erroneous.
WHEN we buy dairy COW let us
judge her on dairy basis; we want
one that is bred for dairy work.
TWELVE thousand dollars is the
measure of one of our Maine farmers
recent loss on his western securities.
IT takes " line upon line and precept
upon precept" to educate all of us to
the exercise of what little good sense
we have.
FEAR of weak constitutions is the
reason given for letting the colts warm
themselves on manure-piles and live
on straw.
If a dog learns to eat eggs and
several good thrashings won't cure him,
try him with an egg loaded with cay
enne pepper.
THE limit of production on an acre
of land has not been arrived at, and
can only be determined by the enlight-
ened farmer.
A BREED is a family, or species, in
which, no matter what they start from
or go back to, the type has become es-
tablished by heredity.
THERE can be no doubt that the
country is entering upon a period of
higher prices for agricultural products
than have ruled for years.
THE past winter has taught some of
us that poor cows, h-priced feed
and ordinary prices for milk and butter
means big loss all the time.
OF all the fruits which bounteous
nature has provided for the use of man,
none contains more charms, more
profit and comfort than the strawberry.
YOUNG turkeys do not need to be
fed for the first twenty-four hours after
they are Matched. The first meal
should consist of cheese-curd, if it can
be obtained.
" CoTToNsEED meal is being aduter-
ated with the refuse of rice. The devil
is not yet dead" says the Farm Journal.
! The Connecticut Station says this kind
of meal is four dollars ton poorer.
BEES will store just as much honey
in a nail-keg as they will in the most
improved hive. But the trouble with
the nail-keg is, you cannot get the
honey without destroying the bees.
THE opinion frequently expressed at
postmortem examinations, when the
stomach is found to be ruptured, that
the bots have eaten through the
stomach" is a mistake. Bots never
do this. They can not.
IT is safe to say that no other coun-
try in the world with like opportunities
for securing good yields per acre gets
as low average returns, for reasons
obvious to every one who takes the
matter into consideration.
THE greatest success in the manage
ment of stallion during the breeding
season lies in keeping him strong and
vigorous. For this purpose no drugs
or medicines are needed, but exercise
is absolutely indispensable.
"MR. ALANsoN ROSE of Greene, Me-,
makes a specially of new cheese for
the early market. He has a COW that
has been making him five pounds
strong of cheese per day, cured ready
for Market" says the Maine Farmer.
THE horse, like all other animals,
does not need its old coats when warm
weather comes. The horse, above all
other animals, wants the pores of its
skin open. Get the old coat off and
make it more comfortable by grooming.
"GTRLs, try raising turkeys for 'pin
money it is preferable to school
teaching" says an exchange. 1t is GER
tainly better than trying to keep school
without knowing how. But it takes
some "know how" to raise turkeys,
too.
IN the year 1881 we exported of pork
products total of ! ,129 100000 pounds.
The exports of 1888 were not much
more than half this, and of 1889 about
three fourths, while last year the
figures reached the very satisfactory
total of about l ,2l1 100000 pounds.
WHEN one takes the trouble to get
good trees and to plant them out well
it is best to take little more trouble to
insure their growing. This muching
will do, provided the roots are not too
badly mutilated in taking them up and
they are in good condition otherwise.
To show the position of our export
cattle trade, as compared with its
earlier history, it is only necessary to
say that the average expectation for
every working day in the ten years
preceding 1890 was about $50 head.
Last year the same average was about
| 300 head.
WHAT fertile county is Aroostook
The total shipments of potatoes of the
crop of 1890 are about 2,450 carloads.
The average number of bushels for car
being about $50, the amount in bushels
will be found to be very large. There
were shipped 347 carloads of starch
made from the crop of 1890, the
average being about 40 casks to the
car.
SOME take the ground that all prun-
ing is wrong, because /" unnatural"