The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25
Clipped and Condensed.

points and their sales will double.
DON'T think you have reached the top
OF the ladder, no matter how good your
stock or crops may be.
COPPER rivets are almost as handy
as woman about the farm, and use
for them will be found as often.
FALSE PRIDE and self-indulgence are
the sins that mar or ruin millions of
lives. Their victims are always under
the lash.
VERY few horses are naturally balky.
They generally acquire this aggravating
habit through the fault of those hand
ling them.
If it is pleasing to stranger to be
addressed in polite way, what do you
think it must be to a member of your
own family?
A POINT in which great many peo-
pie utterly fail as sellers is in trying TO
work off inferior with superior live
stock or produce.
The first use anybody who has felt
the gallings of poverty should make of
prosperous year is TO free himself
from the stings of debt.
MODES of travel and rapid transit
have changed the modes of farming,
and made the farmer a specialist, in
many portions of the country.
THE main object is to reduce the cost
of milk to the lowest point, and this
can sometimes be done best by increas-
ing the feed to the highest point.
THERE is no money in feeding hogs
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best results are obtained when the pigs
are sold at as early an age as possible.
TIE choice apples out of an Or
chard, if sold by themselves, will fire.
quently bring as much as or more than
the good and bad together would have
brought.
OF the whole sixty-eight breeds of
chickens, the numb er of breeds that are
really recognized as being useful or
hardy may be counted on the fingers of
Le's hand.
MIDDLEMEN are often important and
render valuable services, but not all
farmers need twenty or thirty on every
corner and town lot to help them trans
act business.
KEEPING the teams on the farm busy
is one of the secrets of success, moi
only in farming for profit, but as well
as for the benefit of the horses required
TO operate the farm.
The root crop of Great Britain COW
ers, so it is estimated, nearly 5000, 900
acres annually, which necessitates the
growth of nearly 100000 pounds of
seed to SOW the land once.
IT would make an interesting item if
our census-takers could have ascer-
tanned how many farmers there are in
this great country of ours who do not
take an agricultural paper.
HORSES are lower than they were.
but there is still good profit in the
best, and the best cannot be grown, no
matter what the parentage, without
generous feed the first winter.
Nor over one good rooster should be
kept on every farm, and that one cooped
and mated with not to exceed ten hens,
and the eggs from those hens should be
sold or kept expressly for Matching.
THE man who selects his fruits, and
establishes reputation for doing so,
will always do much better than those
who unfortunately pack everything
together, hoping to make the good sell
the bad.
SOME idea of the remarkable increase
in number among trotters may be
gathered from the fact that the entries
10 the 2: 30 list this year already ex-
coed 1000, and will be still further
increased.
A COW giving only 1876 pounds of but
ter year will not pay her way unless
her feed is exceedingly cheap. Suppose
she just balances accounts, then if we
can get her to double her yield we will
have a good profit.
JOHN GOULD says it is a mistake 10
think thick covering of saw-dust on
top of ice, after the house is filled, con-
duces to its preservation. Rather, the
contrary is true; and depth of six or
seven inches is enough.
BE sure the hens have room enough
on the ground or floor. Don't crowd
them in the pens. They must have
room enough in which to work, and
work they must if they are to be
healthy and productive.
THE farmer better than almost any
one else can control the associates OF
his children. They are less likely than
town children TO get into the habit OF
wasting their evenings, and more likely
to form the reading habit.
HUMAN nature is the same in all
and we may rest assured that if we al.
low the capitalist to make our laws
the interests of capital will be pro-
tected, even if the poor mans wife and
children go supperless to bed.
"RoBBING bees can be stopped
even when thoroughly under way, by
wet straw or hay at entrance. Pile it q
foot thick all about the entrance, and
then pour on water till everything is
flooded" says the Tribune.
DAIRYING brings the most cash from
the food consumed. One pound of but.
ter, perhaps, costs as much in feed as
two pounds of beef, but it brings five
times as much in market. Dairyine
means more work, but it is surer work.
WE are learning much from expert
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