The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-07-15

flatterer than self.
THERE are still II ,228, 5S4 acres of
unoccupied, untitled land in Nebraska.
THERE is no patent on anything in
the shape of beehive that farmer
needs.
CROPS grow just as we'll in straight
rows, and they look far more work.
man-like.
DID you ever notice how many farm
houses have empty bee-hives lying
around them?
urA NEAT garden is almost invariably
good garden, and the manager of
such one is sure to be successful.
GALL the overfed cows in America
could be accommodated in a moderate
sized stable," remarks the Jersey Bulle-
tin.
If you wish to hasten the cream
raising, add some cold water to the
milk as soon as it is strained into the
cans,
1T is no use to try to grow pigs with
out an abundance of the right kind of
food and knowledge of how it should
be used.
IT makes considerable difference with
colony of bees whether they get
water close to the apiary or go half a
mile for it.
IN feeding stock, of all kinds the
farmer who takes pains to make the
food palatable will usually have the
best success
IN view of the adulteration of the
mill feed and its high price, see if you
can't get along next winter without
buying any of it,
THAT farming may be profitable, we
must make the consumption of
cheap food produce thing that will
sell for high price.
STUDY up the feed problem and find
out whether you have been giving your
cows enough feed or of the right kind
to suit your dairying.
IvANHoE, the oldest horse in the
United States, is owned at Louisville,
KY, and his age is shown, beyond ques-
tion, to be over forty-seven years.
FREQUENT stirring of the soil Is one
of the essential points in successful
gardening. In this way the weeds are
got rid of before they can do any
harm.
GOD will measure our progress to-
ward him not by what we have
suffered, but by how much we have
desired to diminish the sufferings of
others.
WHEN you hear of dairyman who
says he is making. LOO pounds of butter
per cow more than you are, you should
not say you don't believe it, but should
investigate.
Cow-DOCToRING is a very uncertain
thing, even when it is done by an ex-
pert; but when the layman tries his
hand at it, he generally succeeds in
laying out the COW.
DON'T sit around and wait for better
times, but get to work and better the
times; and when better times come you
will find yourself far ahead of your
grumbling neighbor.
THE farmer should consider manure
valuable product of his farm, con-
tanning large amount of plant-food,
as he considers his hay valuable for the
animal food furnished.
SOME one has estimated, and doubt
less may be near the truth, that three
fourths of the butter made in the
United States is by persons who keep
from one to three cows.
FARMING, is a business demanding
the keen thought and skillful direction
imputed to business men. A farm is a
business enterprise demanding skillful
investment of capital and labor.
do apples pay? No, as the masses
treat their orchards; yes, abundantly,
when given anything like the intelli-
gent care that makes any other farm
crop pay" says Popular Gardening.
THE man who owns land and does
not have plenty of good fruit is not
fulfilling his mission here, and is de-
priving himself and his family of COM
forts that they are justly entitled to.
WE are frequently asked which is the
better for practical use-manure OF
commercial fertilizers? Each of these
possesses desirable qualities, and most
of our well-informed farmers make use
of both.
To have religion enough to do good
! llOutSl WOIh 10 SOlllclLlL0 WOIlu nav
ing. Every man should show his
religion in his ordinary vocation. Ii
will not harm any farmer to bear this
in mind.
A CAKE of good butter, wrapped in
fresh parchment paper, with a bright
trademark and the owners name upon
! it, will bring five cents more for the
half pound or the pound than chunk
of the same make cut out of a tub.
4" IT is not extravagant to say that
more pounds of pork can be made from
one acre of clover than from the same
area of corn" says Stephen Faville OF
Wisconsin, in Farm and Home. But
others say pig will barely hold his own
on clover.
IAN old sheep-breeder once advised
the writer if he had wrinkly, dirty and
greasy fine-wool sheep, he would lei
the buyer have it unwashed at one
third reduction: but wash your coarse
! woods and grades" saws the StOckmdH