The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-02-11
Notes by the Way.


agricultural progress.
Poor hay feed needs strong grain
feed as supplement.
THE ma iority of farmers work too
hard and do not think enough.
BOYS learn more than adults at the
fair. See that they learn nothing but
what is useful.
THE rowen must be watched and cut
when just right. The same is true of
crops like Hungarian.
IT has been shown that dry fodder is
as digestible as green, and therefore as
valuable for stock food.
The education that does not rccog-
nize the dignity of the homeliest house
hold duty and the sanctity of home life
is worse than illiteracy.
THERE is ore sure way of increasing
egg production, and that is to breed
from the best layers, and to use only
males from the best layers.
"THIs world would be much better
off if it bad less cowardly courage and
more courageous cowardice," observes
the Western Rural. True
/. GOOD Judges estimate that Aroostook
farmers will receive 81 200 900 for tn eir
potato crop for $780, and they claim
that tie estimate is "a low one.
WHOLE corn is best fed at night just
| before the fowls 90 to roost. This will
be the best plan at all times, but espe-
cially during the fall and winter.
| The farmers are beginning to de-
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eminent that has heretofore been he
slowed upon the moneyed classes.
The dog law for the protection of
sheep is not wholly for farmers but for
agriculture, and 50 for the benefit of the
whole community. The tax upon dogs
should be so high as to make the keep
ing of them luxury, except farm dogs
| kept to restrain vermin that destroy
lambs, poultry and crops and protect
the farmer against tramps.
II is the billy lands that need muck,
and it is among these that the muck is
found in greatest quantities. There is
hardly farm in a billy country lLat
does not contain one or more of these
muck beds. The muck in these beds
is usually readily accessible to the
farmer. 1t is bank that he should
draw from regularly. 1t will pay and
pay well.
"THE greatest obstacle in the way of
lettering the condition of the agri-
cultural classes is the terrible tax im-
posed upon farm products by those
who stand between producer aud con-
sumer," says the Tribune. This is
what we have been insisting on for
twenty-five years. Vermont agricul-
ture suffers more from this cause than
any other.
THE copious mixer is the COW most
subject to sickness and disease. She is
! to considerable eXtent-just how great
it would be difficult to determine-in an
abnormal condition, which makes her
extremely sensitive to outside inllu
ences and liable to attacks of fevers,
tuberculosis and the general run of
bovine diseases. And for these reasons
we must not go too far in this direction.
Two hundred fifty to three hundred
pounds of butter a year is enough.
AS a rule, the unsuccessful farmer is
himself responsible for the situation of
which he complains. \ farmer, TO
make his business pay, must not only be
industrious and economical, but must
have well-studied, well-deflned and
systematic plans. And these plans
should not be for the present only, but
for series of years; and he must have
ambition and force of character to
carry them through-must be prompt
and thorough in all details of his bust
ness.
BROTHER CHEEvER says, in the
Nelo England Farmer: 81 do not APP
prove of trying to grow grass continu-
ally on the same land, except on lawns,
by the use of commercial manures.
Grass can be grown at greater profit in
farm rotation with stable manure or
commercial fertilizer applied to cult
waited crops, to be followed by few
years of grass. 1t is possible by This
course to get the grass at clear profit on
the previous outlay for manure and
cultivation. A hoed crop ought to pay
for the manure used, then the grass
following it will cost only the cutting
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