The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-01
Notes by the Way.


consequence than breed.
WOOD ashes are an excellent top
dressing for fruit trees of all kinds.
1t is also equally good for the small
fruits.
If you have but small farm. put
your energies and cash into that and
make it produce as much as most large
! farms.
AN underground stable is not
bealthful place in which to keep stock.
The air in it is liable to be damp, foul
and funky.
IF poultry houses were plastered, the
hens would be warm in winter and the
work of cleaning out the lice in sum-
mer made easier.
THE Egyptian women knew better
how to churn centuries ago than we
did forty years ago, for they knew that
the temperature must be right.
SOME dairymen ought to dc a little
more thinking and figuring. Too many
of them are satisfied with a COW that
makes one hundred fifty pounds of but
ter year.
BUTTER kept but a short time in
cold storage soon spoils after exposing
milk, cream and butter away from
severe cold and frost.
OUR most available wild lands are
already taken up. We can extend our
farming area but little more. The
problem of higher agriculture will
soon be forced upon us.
AGRICULTURE has not shared as it
ought in the rapid growth of the coun-
try's wealth. The foundation of that
wealth, il has not kept pace as it should
with associate industries.
TRAVEL all over New England and
you will be surprised at the large per
cent of inferior horses of every type.
/. At the same time thousands of colts
are being bred, got by well-bred sires.
What is the trouble?
. THERE are three points that should be
kept in mind during calf's first winter.
: 1t should have dry. clean, and warm
quarters to sleep in. 1t should not
) have to drink large quantities of ice
; cold water. 1t should have an abund-
ance of such food as will promote the
: growth of bone and muscle.
RECENT experiments with the milk
aerator show that the process cooled
l the milk about twenty degrees; conse-
: quently less perfect Dreaming and
slightly decreased butter product. Ex-
perienced judges could not detect any
marked difference in the flavor of the
+ butter from the unaerated and aerated
milk.
= The carbohydrates, or carbonace-
I GUS elements in feed, being much
! Cheaper than proteine, if they can be
! used effectively in much larger proper
ton than the German standards admit
4 | and With no i'll effect except the in
Z crease of fat. it is worth while to know
it, The change will greatly re1aace the
cost of feeding.
n A WIRE, twisted tightly around a
V blooming branch, will increase the size
of its fruit, but it will be apt to kill
the branch The best way to accomp-
fish the result of increasing fruitful
ness is by cutting out ring of bark
one-quarter of an inch wide in June OF
early July. This will heal over and
not seriously injure the branch,
THE deposit under old farm build
ings from the urine of stock has all the
. elements Of fertility, but is over-rich in
nitrates, and needs to have a plain
phosphate used along with it, to gel
the best results. Fine bone is the best
for this purpose. A little ashes helps.
So improved, it will go over twice the
land, with twice as much benefit.
WHAT may seem merely dry earth
with no smell of manure about it, is
really richer and better than the rank.
est manure made from fresh excrement
1t is not safe to judge of manure by its
smell. A little piece of decaying horse
flesh in commercial phosphate will 60 6
, great way in satisfying many farmers
as to its fertilizing value, but dom
- fool yourself that way.
How strange it is that dairymen
will put so much stress on the waste OF
fat in the cheese vat, which no eye
can see-and quacks go to the extreme
of advising the skimming off of all fat
above a certain per cent!-and then
put the screws down on the curd III the
hoops when it is put to press, and see
the fat run of in streams" says
Brother Curtis of the Mirror and
Farmer.
"Who ever sard of the farmer that
made millionaire of himself by farm
ing? Yet his is the primary Occupa-
ton of man, which can never be dis
pensed with, and on which the useful
ness of all other occupations rests.
Then why should not the farmer be-
come the millionaire, if men engaged
in any honest occupation ever become
such?" asks Brother Curtis. Sure
enough
SCRATCHING keeps the blood in cir
culation, and increases the heat of the
body, not only protecting against cold
- but it also assists in warding off disease
"a promoting digestion, and allowing of a
% more profitable condition, and induces
laying as well as giving the hens an
appetite for any kind of food that you
may wish to give them. Therefore
give them grain among their straw, and
let them scratch.
J. A CORRESPONDENT of the Mirror