The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-26

Farmers do not need to work solely for
money. A bright-faced child with a
cultured mind is far more attractive
than a good large bank account made
by farmer whose children sit around
him as stupid dolts.
ONE kind of plant can never change
to another any more than you can
make man out of pig. Some folks
do say that man was gradually evolved
from monkey. But even they do not
think this came all of sudden. be-
cause the winter happened to be hard
on the monkey, or he got caught out in
the rain.
If enough hens are kept to use the
scraps only, every egg is profit, after
deducting expense pro rata for use of
buildings. The labor also costs nothing,
in fact, for it, too, is simply a saving,
for any member Of the family can at
tend to few hens. Hence, the smaller
the flock the greater the profit proper
tionately
THERE is such a variety of work con-
nected with general farming that if the
farmer looks after and keeps up every
end he will find that he must spend the
most of his time either in hand or head
work. His presence, or even the
thought that he might appear at anv
time, will make men more careful and
do their work better
THE welfare, the health, the tempera-
ment, to say nothing of the happiness of
the horse, are largely dependent on
surroundings. To be sure, the horse
needs no bric-a-brac to amuse or enter
tain him. Doubtless he cares nothing
for harmonious tints of artistic orna-
mentation. But he does appreciate
comfort, and comfort does him good
THERE is no class of horses so scarce
in all markets everywhere as a really
superior saddle-horse. Horseback rid
ing has become very popular of late
years, both with ladies' and gentlemen,
and one obstacle to the fascinating
| pleasure being more general, is the
difficulty of obtaining horses of suitable
gait to render them desirable under the
saddle.
THE farmers in Tennessee county
have started an order known as the
Farmers Reliance. The following
unique plank in its platform shows
that there is no nonsense in
this new combine: "Work hard ten
hours in the day, three hundred-sixty-
five days in the year, never come to
town without bringing something to
sell, and never buy anything without
paying for it." But is that rather over
doing the thing in the way Of work?
THE American Cultirator wisely says
that the best general-purpose horses are
the rather short-legged, stoutly-built
horses with plenty of action, such as
the typical Morgan and the French
Canadians of years ago. These horses
were no more afraid of deep snow than
a duck of deep water. AS they lifted
their feet high and were short steppers,
their feet were always well under them
and Were picked up and put down with
little or none of the dragging motion
through the snow exhibited by low,
long gated horse.
THERE is no doubt that the bleak,
barren islands in the North Sea, with
their long, cold winters and scanty
forage, have stunted and dwarfed the
progeny of the large horses once taken
there until they have become the d.
minutive Shetland ponies; while from
the same original stock, the mild eli
mate of the continent of Europe zoe
miles farther south, with abundant sub
sistence and excellent care, has given
us the immense draft holses of Nor
mandy and Flanders" says the Stock
man and Farmer.