The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-10-07
Clipped and Condensed.

are very plenty, but great number of
them are not good road horses.
AT the Minnesota state fair there was
pile of !, 200 bushels of potatoes taken
from one acre of ground in Rice county.
READER, is there man here and
there in your acquaintance who is do
ing much better In farming than you
are doing?
IHE French government, in order to
encourage horse-breeding, buys the best
stations and charges lee of perhaps
S3 for their service.
The fall foal comes to hand strong
from dam that has had steady work
all summer-a good thing TO influence
his entire life and disposition.
WHATEVER tends to enighten and
to educate the people, and especially
the children, will produce the elevatinp
fruits in national honor and progress.
MANY a creamery has been started
that was bowling success. The pat
rons did the bowling and the fellow
who furnished the outfit scored the
success.
The business of shipping dressed
has grown marvelously in the last few
years, and is still in its infancy as re-
CARDS meeting the demand.
WHEN mare is supporting a colt
she has struggle, if working hard, to
supply milk and muscle too, in good
quantity, and often suffers as conse-
quence or the colt does poorly.
FULLY fifty per cent of the male
population of the United States, includ-
ing boys of fifteen and upwards, do not
properly know the departments of our
government, and their relations with
each other.
CLEAN up the farm, and it will not
only look better, but you will have grass
and corn where weeds and briars once
grew. In looking over farms one can
always tell the good and thrifty farmer
by the way the farm is kept.
THE chemist analyses a fertilizer
and finds it contains so much of the
elements of plant food. But when the
farmer applies this fertilizer to his soil
many of his crops will fail to get this
estimated value from the fertilizer.
CLOVER is the only crop which at
the same time fertilizes the soil and
produces food. 1t comes nearer a per-
feet ration within itself than any other
crop. 1t can be most cheaply produced.
IL is both summer and winter food.
AFTER being nourished on such con-
centrated food as milk, the stomach and
intestines of young animals are natur-
ally small and undeveloped, and a sud-
den change to " all rough and bulky
feed " overcrowds and impairs these
organs.
CLOVER contains in excess those
elements that are deficient in the straw
of cereal grains. No more than three
per cent of albuminoids or flesh
formers is contained in the straw of
wheat, oats and barley, while there is
eight per cent in the best clover hay.
A TON of clover hay mixed with a
ton OF straw will form combination
with more than ten per cent of the
flesh forming matter, which will make
1t equal to timothy hay. That is, ton
of clover properly mixed with ton of
straw, is equal in feeding value to two
tons of timothy.
WE are all justly proud of our great
republic, of its great material progress
and of its rapid advancement in all that
conduces to produce wise, strong and
independent people; but we often lose
sight of the fact that the solid founda-
ton upon which most of its greatness
is built, is the public school,
THE foundations of education are
laid at home. This goes without sue
cesstul contradiction, for this founda-
ton is laid in the first seven years of
the life of every human being. This
education goes on whether it be at
tended to or not-he will educate him
self, and self-cultnre is ever the best
culture, if it be rightly directed.
THERE are thousands of native born
voters in the United States, both young
and old, who do not comprehend the
| difference between state and national
legislation. Being thus deficient in
knowledge of governmental legislation
and administrations, they become the
property of the politician, to be used
whenever selfish motives may require it.
WHAT a blessing to her family and
the community at large is the clear
headed, sensible woman who knows
just what she wants and buys accord
ingly; fights shy of the bargain counter
and auction room; does not consider
anything cheap which she does not
need, and scorns to struggle with a
hurly-burly mob of people for the pur-
pose of securing an article for two cents
less than the regular price.
WHEN horse is cast, he gets over
on his side or back and cannot put his
feet under him to get up. A good
method to get one up is as follows:
Take blanket and throw it over his
hind legs. Have plank or joist ten
or twelve feet long, lay one end on his
hind legs and feet where the blanket is
and stand on the plank three or four
feet from the other end. This will
push his feet down to the side of the
stall and when he tries to raise he can
get his feet under him and get up.
Catarrh Can't be Cured
with local applications, as they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh
is blood or constitutional disease, and