The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-13
Notes by the Way.

Cows are selling in the dairy districts
in New York for an average of about 500
DON'T waste grass seed on the oat
ground by leaving it uncovered. Use
the roller.
A PIG fed for pork should never be
kept day without being made to do
its level best in making pounds weight
in meat.
A GOOD clover sod, as the seed bed,
plays as important part in the prepa-
ration for a remunerative crop as it
always has for wheat
THE acre of ground around the coun-
try school-house should be paradise of
trees, shrubs and flowers, a beautiful
experimental garden.
SLOWLY it is breaking in upon the
comprehension of the minds of average
dairy farmers that there is a mighty
wide difference in cows.
IT is only common justice that man
should be paid for what he delivers,
and that if he delivers poor milk he
should be paid accordingly.
A HOME is what we make it, and no.
where can more of comfort, pleasure
and prosperity be secured than here
among our New England people.
PLUCK, gumption, lots of manure
and perseverance make a good quar-
tette, and when they work in harmony
are able to accomplish marked results.
IT is not good plan to keep cows
too long. Rather sell them off and
purchase younger animals; or, better
STILL raise good heifers TO take their
places.
If you have ensilage left to feed you
may turn your cows to grass earlier than
grass do not suit well together for COWS
in milk.
IT is an absolute fact that there are
plenty of men who hate other men be-
cause the latter are successful. There
are even those who hate a man who
wears clean clothes.
MEN would say, 81 could not drive
my horse without binders" That may
be true, but it proves nothing in favor
of the binder. The horse has been
brought up wrongly.
TALKING about commencing to fat
ten pigs" is all wrong. The fattening
should begin with the first feeding, and
should be kept along with the growing
till the time of slaughter
A PORTION of the farmers time
should be occupied lin reading and
study, that he may the better be able
to carry on his business in more profit
able and intelligent manner.
"THE Duchess apple is now at its
best in North Aroostook. The Wealthy
is not yet ripe," said the Maine
Farmer in January. North Aroostook
is further north than Quebec.
THE first silks of corn to appear are
those from the butt of the cob, and
then follow others in succession, as the
cob develops, until the top is reached
silk for every kernel of corn.
BY constant association with other
minds the farmers mental vision is en-
larged, his views are broadened, his
thoughts take wider range, he be-
comes larger, fuller and freer man.
FARMERS should be cautious about
buying thin, sickly-looking cows, hoping
to fatten them up by good feeding.
A suspicious cow should not be intro
duced into healthy herd at any price.
THE patrons of the rural school
should unite in demanding the best
teacher. Let the grange, the press and
parents demand an improvement in the
district schools, and it will surely come.
THAT the agricultural papers of TO-
day are a great improvement upon those
of few years ago must be apparent to
every one. A complete revolution has
been made in almost every department.
DON'T worry your horse by grooming
him while he is eating his feed. Let
him enjoy his meal in peace. How
would you like having your head hetch-
eled with a fine-tooth comb while you
were eating?
FROM experiments made with blue
grass by the Iowa Experiment Station
it appears that this grass is richer in al
buminods and crude protein than tim
othy, red-top, orchard grass or low
meadow hay.
You can not make hard pork out of
hog that has been fed on acorns with
out you allow him to get poor before
you feed grain. The reason Of this is
that any fat that is put on by acorns will
be always soft.
lT does not pay to ship poor cheese
any great distance, and so the people
at home have to consume it. This is
pretty rough on the home consumer,
but ignorance is costly, and some one
must suffer for it.
MANY New Jersey farmers are re-
ported as mortgaging their own farms
at five or six per cent and investing
the money in western farm mortgages
at ten per cent This is foolish and
risky experiment.
THE Breeders Gazette, published in
Chicago, complains that no really choice
mutton chop can be found in the market.
What choice mutton there is finds q
ready sale to the small clubs, which have
monopoly of the best.
RIP out your unnecessary fences and
pile up the posts and rails or boards
neatly, aud protect them from the
weather until you have use for them.
Every fence that is not absolutely
needed is a costly nuisance,