The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-15
Notes by the Way.


A GOOD COW that yields big profit
consumes but little more than poor
COW that yields no profit.
IN too many instances the men who
are paid for repairing roads should, in
justice, be fined for obstructing them.
LET it be remembered that all the
advantages are nowhere; but many of
the advantages are nearly everywhere,
disadvantages ditto.
IT is well to pse plaster with all alb.
sorbents; it holds the gases and absorbs
the ammonia; it is also one of the
cheapest of manures.
THE farmer for three or four years.
care and labor gets 81 TO SO per hum
dred pounds; the butcher for twenty
four hours work gets So to 81.
A RICH farmer years ago would own
a large farm, while to-day he would
have small farm carefully cultivated
and everything well looked after.
THE subject of agricultural educa-
ton is live one, and the farmers of to-
day carry burden of responsibility
they can not shirk even if they would.
HORSES that are well cared for and
carefully used will keep in good condi-
ton on ration that if neglected would
fall far short of supplying the needs of
the system.
A WELL-KNOwN sheer declares that
the bad habit of interfering is wholly
caused by improper shoeing, yet mo-
ments reflection will satisfy that this
must be correct.
WHETHER it is possible to produce a
pound of dry matter in beets as Geo.
nomically as it can be done in corn is
not yet definitely settled, but the proba-
bilities are against it.
SOME farmers are complaining. and
at the same time farming Just as their
fathers did forty years ago. Others
have taken into consideration that we
live in different times.
BRAN and oats with clover make one
of the best rations for the brood mares
especially, when they are heavy in foal,
sufhcient should be supplied to keep
them in good, thrifty condition.
CROPS that can be produced and sold
by almost any one rarely give large
gains. This applies to nearly all prod
ucts that can be grown with little men
tai labor. 1t costs an effort to do extra
ordinary work.
DAIRY COMMISSIONER UPPER. of
Iowa, says he has known four inches
of bad cream knock out four and one
half cents pound from $50 pounds of
butter. This is the great art of CO.
operative dairying.
WITH increasing knowledge there
seems to be no reason why the farm
ers of these United States should not,
within few years, take that place in
the politics of the country to which, as
prop.ietors of the soil, they are Justly
entitled.
MILK is moderated by many as food
for chicks and hens. 1t contains the
elements of bone and muscle. We mix
corn meal and middlings with it, and
allow it to swell before feeding. Hens
will soon drink up pan of milk if set
out where they can get it.
The great problem to solve at the
present time is cheap food for the
dairy. Sweet ensilage corn is, without
question, when put into the silo, the best
milk food that can be raised by the
farmer. 1t is costly to purchase the
different mill feeds now sold in the
| market.
Mr., l.. p. BAILEY says, in the Rural
Neto Yorker, that butter from the same
batch will keep much longer when
well washed in the granular state than
that which is not washed. Mr.. Bailey
is correct, practically and theoretically.
The secret is that in washing the case
GUS matter is removed" says Hoard's
Ddiryman.
WHEN farm products increase so
tremendously in value after they leave
the producers hands, can any one
blame the farmers or their sons for fol-
lowing them up and trying to pick up
some of the profits?" asks The Tribune.
But would it not be better to stay by
the farm and put our voting strength
where it will do the most good? If our
farmers would do this, in two years we
could have freight express that would
place us all in close contact with the
consumer, to our common advantage.
WHAT is meant in our American
markets by the term coach, or carriage
horse, is horse not less than sixteen
hands in height, in weight | 200 pounds,
good length of body, deep, hut not wide,
through the shoulders, rather long and
slightly arched neck, clean cut, well
finished head (not the heavy, cumber-
some affair of many of the so-called
imported coach horses ~, a round,
well turned barrel, good, heavy tail,
well carried, clean, bony (not beefy)
legs, set on a good firm, horny hoof,
of medium size, and bold, clear, dash
ing gait.