The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-07-22
Clipped and Condensed.

MACHINERY needs oil; oil is q mus
cle-saver--in the machine.
To select the best COWS requires test
ing them for quantity and quality.
ALL of our domestic animals should
be treated with gentleness. 1t pays in
every sense of that word.
A "HANDY MAN" to have around
the house is he who is always contriv-
ing some labor-saving device for the
comfort of " the women folks"
THE gentle COW that is never afraid
of receiving a blow or a harsh word
from her owner, will pay him for the
exemption every time he milks her.
If farmers would rise early and get
more work done while it is cool, and
rest more in the heat of the day, their
horses would do better and feel better.
SECRETARY MOHLER of Kansas es-
Inmates the wheat crop of that state at
100000 bushels. The winter wheat
acreage is 2,900,O and spring 10000.
WILLFUL horses can usually be con-
quered by kindness, but there are a
few so depraved, or spoilt by their
owners, that the whip is the only and
sure cure.
THERE are many cows now being
MIXED that are losing money for their
owner all the time, and it would be
profitable to kill and bury them rather
than to go on milking them.
IT is evident from recent develop
ments that unless some great unfore-
seen disaster should suddenly occur, the
wheat crop of 1891 will be the lar est
ever harvested in the United States.
GOVERNMENT figures show that only
one of all the cereals gave returns for
the ten years ending with 1889 averag-
ing as much as $40 per acre. The one
grain which exceeded this figure was
barley, which reached an average value
of S12.76.
SOME men make money in dairying,
and use only common stock; but if they
had improved stock, the same applica-
ton of skill would produce vastly
better results. Why not use, in buy
ing cows, the same business sense
used in buying mower?
IT is sometimes no easy job to thin
down an overfat ram. Better by far
prevent his getting in that condition.
All stock rams should be allowed to
run in the pasture during the summer,
with shed to run under during the
heat of the day and in time of storm.
WHEN breeding is pursued without
a definite object in view, the chances
are that the result will be unsatisfac-
tory. The successful breeder is one
who fixes in his mind standard of ex-
cellence which in all his efforts towards
improving his stock he aims to realize.
THE New Nation says "What is
wanted in this country now is not more
money for the higher education, but for
the lower education; not greater facili
ties for a small class of already highly
favored youths, but more and better
education for the masses of poor mems
children"
BEWARE of wonderful stories and
glittering advertisements of patent
nostrums for hens. Give proper care
and they will not need drugs that stimu-
late only at expense of future strength.
A dollar spent to make the quarters
comfortable will pay better than in food
as fuel to keep hens warm.
THERE is not man or woman, boy
or girl, that has been raised on a farm
who does not know how to set a hen
{ in their own estimation). If you will
let the hen alone she will set herself;
and if you are not sure you know more
about the business than the hen does,
you had better trust to her judgment.
THE Maryland Farmer specifies ag-
riculture-theoretical and applied-as
superior to any amount of Greek and
Latin, both as mental help and prepa-
ration for an effective future, saying:
"We spent years in studies of the
classics, and are confident that Just as
good discipline for the mind, and far
better discipline for heart and life,
could have been given by other and
useful and practical studies
THE excellent Stockman and Farmer
says: "The average yield of shelled
corn per acre isn't over fifty bushels,
and twelve pounds of pork per bushei
of corn is good production. This
would make six cwt. of pork per acre.
One acre of fair clover will pasture
eight hogs from the time of starting in
the spring until the fall. A hog weigh
ing one cwt. when turned out will
double his weight by fall with no other
food. This means eight cwt. of pork
against the six cwt. made by the acre
| of corn ;,