The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-28
Notes by the Way.

CAN we produce English mutton
without feeding turnips2
A FACToRYMAN had better lose all
his patrons than accept anything but
good milk.
THE public's taste is the farmers
taste, and what farmer would eat curd
for cheese?
SHORT courses in agriculture are be-
coming quite popular in the West.
| Wisconsin leads.
FERTILIZERS cannot be economically
needs of the soil.
WE ought to average thirty bushels
of wheat per acre in this country in
stead of thirteen.
THE liberal grain feeding pays the
best. This in practice holds true up to
the limit of safety.
Z" WORN OUT" soils often need the
application of only single element to
render them fertile.
FEED your fruit trees if you want
them to feed you with good fruit. Try
manuring on an old orchard.
No two farms are alike, and no farm
is the same in all its parts. Hence
every farm is study by itself.
ALL young animals should be brought
under the process of education from
the very beginning of their lives.
WHEN the udder is inhamed, milk
frequently and apply cold water. If it
is very bad case, apply lnseed meal
poultice.
CALIFORNIA reports an output of
5000 boxes of raisns this year. 1t
takes three pounds of grapes to make
one of raisins.
THE farmer who combines with his
own experience that of others will out
strip the farmer who relies exclusively
on his own experience.
J. NJ. STAHL says that for teaming
work mules are more economical than
horses, and, under the same treatment,
just as trusty and good-natured.
ASIDE from abundance of good food,
nothing contributes so much to in
creased quantity of milk as rapid and
clean milking. But learn to combine
gcntleness herewith.
The large breeds of horses can be
safely bred to smaller mares. The
mare controls the size of the fetus, and
rarely will the coming offspring be be-
yond the capacity of the mother.
WHEN the mare is put to work the
colt should be confined in a large box
stall, and for a few weeks the mare
should be returned to let it suck at least
once between the regular feeding hours.
THAT cows may be trained for butter
making is quite as true as that horses
may be trained to trot, but it is Just
as true that some cows are " born
butter makers" as that some horses
are " born trotters."
MANY beginners wonder why their
chickens, which seem to be lively
when few days old, begin to droop
and drop off, one by one. Look on
top of the head and under their throats,
and you will discover the cause-lice.
THE best remedy for gapes is pre-
vention. Protect the chicks from the
rain and dew, give them dry quarters
at night, and see that all their sur
roundings are clean and wholesome.
Keep them so busy growing that they
will have no time to get sick.
The farmers in the alliance, grange
aud other organizations, are insisting
that the manufacture of binder-twint
from flax shall be carried on by the in
mates of the state prison. The =" bag
ging - and " binder-twine trust mus
90, say the farmers north and south.
THE sio makes the clover-growel
: independent of rain. Expensive cut
tiers and powers, and the labor of cut
ting, are not needed for clover. Clover
ensilage, with grain and meal, is al
excellent winter feed. Glover for en-
silage should not be cut until it il
mature.
So long the farmers of New England
have stood aloof from active participa
ton in all preliminary steps in politi
cal affairs, that they have come to be {
mere cipher in importance-countiug
nothing when standing alone and be
coming useful only as they are placed
in position and given regulation bal
lot to be counted.
The Connecticut Farmer says tina
recently two dogs came into the BARI
lot, opposite the house of Lucius d
Coburn of Stafford and killed one o
his fat sheep, nearly severing its head
from its body. Mr.. Colburn took his gul
and fired at both of the dogs, woundin!
one of them. That's right
UNTIL two weeks old, chicks should
be fed four times day, and after tina
three times is sufficient. Have regula
times for feeding them, and encourag
each old hen to take off her brood be
tween times and scratch for them. l
is what they find for themselves tina
makes farm poultry so healthy.
- AT the Ohio Station this year, OF
land where by thorough drainage ant
tillage thirty bushels of wheat to thu
acre were produced without the use o
any kind of fertilizer, no combination
of commercial fertilizers produced suf
ficient increase of crop to pay cost o
the fertilizer, while barnyard manur
paid more than three times the cost o
its application.
$50 long as the common course o
events runs its way, there is every pros
pect that this country for many year