The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-23
Clipped and Condensed.

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Corn and clover are specially good
feed for hogs.
SEE that the good housewife has
plenty of dry wood
THERE are fourteen cheese factories
in operation in Kansas.
THOROUGH pulverization Of the soil
is one mode of fertilization.
IT is said that some Christians give
according TO their means and others
according to their meanness.-M Morning
Star.
IT is commendable in the farmer, as
well as in any other man, to wish to go
ahead and make success of his occu-
patton.
THE comic side of farming appears
when those complaining of hard times
leave their costly implements out TO
take the weather.
To succeed at winter feeding the
work must be regularly and systemati-
cally done. Breaks are dead losses.
and hard to repair.
UNDER the American idea, labor is
not only respectable, but honorable,
and the man who bears censure with
us is not the man of work, but the man
without work.
IN nearly all cases an excessively fat
animal is fed at loss during the latter
part of its feeding, and in majority of
cases the better plan is to market as
soon as it is ready.
A VERY convenient way to poison
rats and mice is to mix arsenic with
melted tallow, and cool it into a cake.
Have the tallow nearly melted, not hot
when the arsenic is put in.
The mares in f0al should have good
nutri ious food and g God care during
the winter months. Give them chance
to exercise as regularly as possible, and
avoid damaged hay or grain.
WHEN old sheep are kept, disappoint-
ment is sure to occur. Any animal that
is past its prime of life costs more to
keep than young one. No sheep older
than four years should be kept.
WHERE a COW persistently refuses to
let down her milk, laxative food should
be given, or, as it has been suggested,
pound of EPSON salts in warm water
may produce the desired change.
INTO our free institutions there has
crept that foreign idea that makes a
man a gentleman because of his money
and his place, and not because OF his
personal worth and his enterprise.
The French society for the encourage
ment of the dairy industry has offered
prizes for a series of monographs upon
milk, the manufacture of butter and
the manufacture of each variety of
cheese.
IT costs more to keep a horse poor
than it does to keep him fat. 1t is
cheaper to feed up and get horses fat
before spring work commences, and
then they can do more work on less
feed, and great deal easier.
IF cow aborts, it is mistake to not
have the placenta removed Immediately
If delayed for eight or ten hours, the
chances ar, that the uterine openings
will contract, and then the operation is
performed with great difficulty.
THE plums all over the Atlantic
slope are badly affected with the knot,
and only the most watchful care and
the most persistent looping off and
burning of every diseased branch will
save them-and the cherries as well.
IT is very easy to make a crop on
paper, but the farmer who makes the
experiment of reducing his acreage,
varying his productions and doubling
his manure for five years, will new er
wish to return to the old scattering
method.
THE merchant who is able to pay his
bills and add to his stock in trade and
deposit in the bank is doing a salts
factory business. Why. then, is not
the farmer doing as well when his herds
and fiocks are increasing, and his fields
growing richer?
QUICK growth and early maturity,
secured by good feed and care, are tax
ing the place of the plan of letting the
stock take care of themselves, and will
give better returns; for, while consider
able improvement has been made, there
is yet plenty of room for more.
THE season is at hand when the
blankets should come into play. Never
go away from home without something
to throw over the horse if you should
want to stop and should have to hitch
him out for a time. A blanket may
save the life of heated horse if used
on such an occasion.
IF, when "new ground " is first
cleared, it is made absolutely clean, it
will be far better in the end. If stumps
and roots and bushes are all removed at
the beginning, there will of necessity
be greater outlay of effort and money,
but it is my candid judgment that the
advantages will pay in the end.
Now is a good time, when the rush
of business and work has in a measure
subsidized, to mature our plans and map
out our work for next year. BY retro
spective reference we can easily as
certain which of our seasons enter
prises have paid us the best, and which,
if any, have been conducted at loss.
We should also be able to ascribe
cause.
A VERY excellent preventive of a
sow's eating her pigs is to put into one
ear of the SOW mixture of three
drachms of spirit of camphor and forty
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