The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-10-21
sire for the possession and culture of
the beautiful gifts of nature.

THE more fat you can get on breed
ing ewes the better. They will get
thin in flesh by the time the lambs are
old enough to sell. Corn and clover
hay make the best quality of mutton
superior to any other food. The fat or
tallow is white, and that indicates NUT
ton of good quality.
If good thing strikes you do not
dismiss it at once simply because it at
the time seems to be impracticable.
Nurse the idea and follow it up at
leisure, even if years are required to
bring around the proper opportunity
Tor its being tested. 1t is in this way
that the most pronounced successes are
achieved.
NOT only the churning quality of the
milk of different cows varies, but the
Dreaming quality also. At the Cornell
Experiment Station, it was found that
if the milk of five cows, long in milk,
was set separately, but little over half
the fat in the milk was recovered
when the milk was diluted it was less
than half.
THE whip is valuable factor in edu-
eating the colt, and should always be
used as an educator, and not as an agent
of vindictiveness. If we try to chas-
tise with the whip we arouse the worst
passions, frequently doing much harm
and seldom any good. Seek to instil
into the mind Of the hose respect for,
not fear of, the whip.
IT is said that ninety per cent of the
men who engage in other business than
farming fail, and that ten per cent sue
coed. In farming it has been stated
that ii is reversed; that is, ten per cent
fail and ninety per cent succeed. But
too many of these succeed much less
fully than they might if they studied
their business more carefully.
In the dairy the dog is permanent
and an abiding nuisance. He carries
gnats and fieas wherever he goes. He
is constant source of anxiety to the
cows, and especially to those with
young calves. 1t may be that he is old
and dull and stupid, but the cow can
not reason about this. Her nature tells
her that the dog is her natural enemy.
In no part of the country has there
been greater improvement made in the
soil for wheat than through eastern
Ohio. Aud there is no one thing that
is more carefully looked after than the
preparing of firm, thoroughly-pulver-
lied seed-bed, and the result is that
from yield of eight to fifteen bushels
per acre, it has increased from twenty
to thirty.
THE Maine Farmer says: "The
Swedish colony at New Sweden, in
Aroostook county, continues to prosper.
The people are getting well-to do, and
are able to pay attention TO education
and kindred matters. One young man
of the colony, John Hedman, has fitted
for college, and has entered Colby this
fall. He is the first college student
from his people,"
THE merits of dehorning speak for
themselves, and opposition to it is
rapidly dying out as the practice spreads
over the country. There may be a
tinge of temporary cruelty in it, and
we should learn lesson from natures
methods and spare all the pain possible;
but at the worst the cruelty is more APP
parent than real In the end the
suffering saved is far more than the
suffering caused.
THE best judges consider as the
standard of perfection hog that will
make the most ham with the least waste
of fat, the longest and deepest sides,
with the most lean meat; it should have
bone and sinew enough TO enable it to
stand up and help itself to food, thus
giving evidence of health and natural
development in all its parts. Hogs
which are reared in open pastures are
most likely to be thus developed.
THE Ne,U England Farmer says:
"a large corporation which manu-
features canned soups heads lis adver-
tisement in big type: Honest coiLpe-
lition is all right, but to introduc an
inferior article on some one t as
reputation is piracy This is wha ae
farmers have been claiming for ears
in regard to oleomargarine, and they
have been accused by some people of
working for class legislation; but we
notice that farmers are only contending
for broad principle, the truth of which
every one recognizes when their inter-
ests happen to be injured by the unfair
competition of spurious imitation.