The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-27
Notes by the Way.

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CHEESE is the most nutritious of all
foods. One pound is worth more than
two of flesh meat.
THE coarse woods are not rustlers -
like Merinos and cannot withstand so
much inclement weather.
MANURING may be overdone with
young trees, but when tree comes
into bearing it needs much food.
VAsELINE is excellent for removing
warts from cows teats. 1t must be APP
piled several times during week.
UNsCRUPULoUs middlemen is as
signed as great drawback to successful
private dairying in Massachusetts.
THE most economical and profitable
disposal of the skinned milk and butter
milk is no trivial matter in the dairy.
IN any enterprise it pays to get an
early start. We never regret, as time
passes, having done our work in season.
THE British imports of butter last
year were 6,918, 304 pounds, of which
less than six per cent went from this
country.
THE manurial value of crops does not
belong to our pockets. Every ton of
hay farmer sells carries off Sc from
his farm.
AS to the winter diaries, the most
successful ones were those in which the
COWS came in in November" says Gov
ernor Hoard.
A CHILD without mouth has been
born in Mississippi If he lives to
grow up, he will make good men,
Der of congress.
AMATEURS are liable to feed too much
fat-producing food, thinking they are
caring for their fowls in the best pos
sible manner, but it stops laying.
Mr.. PHILBRICK of the New Hamp-
shire board of agriculture says: "There
is no occupation where there is such
liability to waste as in farming"
UNLESS the young calf comes under
the care of some one interested in its
welfare, when taken away from the
cow, it is sure to have sorry time of it..
EVEN as it is, our eastern farmers
make more money than their western
brethren, besides having all the social
and educational advantages of this sec
! ton.
NEARLY every horticulturist has OPP
portunities to make large profits on
comparatively shall areas. Some of
the most profitable crops, however, are
hard to sell.
SEVERAL frst-prize S25 birds at a
New York poultry show sported scaly
legs, such as the busiest or most care
less farmer ought to be ashamed to have
in his yards.
ALL Europe uses less than twice as
much butter as the United States, with
more than five times as much popula-
ton. But they use several times as
much cheese.
AT the meeting of the Allegan
County Pathological Society, Mich, it
was stated that grapes at two cents a
pound were more profitable than wheat
at dollar bushel.
ENGLAND, Scotland and Wales have
445,005 gardens of less than an acre
being nearly double the number of the
same size seventeen years ago. Britain
is land of gardens.
NINETEEN named varieties of cocoa
nuts have been introduced from the
Philippine Islands by the bureau of po-
mology. They have been planted al
Lake Worth, Florida.
If a man watch not closely his in
vestments of labor and capital, he may
serve himself as poorly as the spend
thrift of accumulated wealth or as he
who spends as he goes.
ABOUT forty-iive pounds per cubic
foot is fair average to depend upon
for ensilage from well-grown corn, cut
to inch length or less, when pitted, and
not weighted much on top.
IT is the price of good butter that adj
vances, but the price of bad butter
does not get any lower. Because 1t is
as low as it can get. 1t onl y pays to
make good dairy products.
EVERY Strengthening farmer should
select, at starting out, suitable plot
tor a dog burying ground. Plant deer
whenever you have spare time, anc
don't be afraid of overseeing.
How can you expect even the cur
rant row to feed you if it is not fedi
In thousands of gardens the currant i:
seldom treated to fertilizers. Yet it is
one of our most useful culinary fruits.
THE foreign trade in cheese takes
about one pound to four of our produc
ton. and one year nearly half was eX
ported. For ten years it has averaged
more than ten million dollars per an
mum.
WHEN the health is fairly good, anC
there is no special strain to be put upor
the system, the normal appetite may b'
trusted to indicate the kind and guam
tity of food necessary to maintain tina
condition.
ACCORDING to the Commissioner o
Agriculture, the poultry products o.
the United States last year had farm
value of at least 100000, 900, and M
less than 16 100000 dozen eggs were
imported.
GOOD maple syrup weighs clever
: pounds to the gallon; anything heavier
is apt to grain in the can, anything les
/. is fraud on the buyer, for if desired
! thinner, little water and heating will
reduce its consistency.