The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-16
Clipped and Condensed.

capture four-legged rabbit.
DID any of the fanciers ever try
feeding boiled Irish potato tops to their
poultry?
NEVER be afraid to give a colt
horses ration if you make him do
horses work.
TURN and rub your cheeses daily and
keep them looking bright and free from
mould. 1t pays.
MAKING the home comfortable will
keep many boy and girl from being
ashamed of the farm.
DON'T expect the hens to attend to
the business of egg.laying, unless you
attend to the business of feeding them.
THE real labor with flock of fifty
hens, where no chickens are raised, is
very little; the "bother p" is a great
deal.
CLOVER hay and ensilage that has
plenty of grain in it ought to make
about as good and cheap ration as a
dairyman could wish for.
EVERY illiterate man in a commu-
nifty is shame upon that community.
1t is, therefore, the duty of that COM
munity to educate the illiterate.
MANY farmers would like TO raise
ducks, but are deferred by the mistaken
notion that they cannot successfully do
80 without pond or stream of water.
HENS will eat silage. That fact is
well known to those who have used it
for their poultry. If they will eat corn
silage they will also eat that made from
grass.
IT makes no difference whether the
potatoes are early or late ones, they
should be dug as soon as they are ripe !;
and this is when the vines are all dead
and dry.
THE Victoria (Australia) govern
ment gives six cents bonus for all
butter bringing twenty-four cents in
the London markets, to encourage the
dairy industry.
In the anxiety to get extreme speed,
many mares and stations have been
used for breeding simply because they
were fast, although they may have been
bad and unintelligent.
To insure that the farm hen shall at
tain to her highest possibilities, some
ones labors must be added to hers to
raise her chicks, and the labor must be
both interested and cheap.
"WHAT shall it profit me?" ex-
claimed the Shah of Persia, when
urged to attend the Derby. at is al
ready known TO me that one horse can
run faster than another!"
Not more than one third of the
creamery butter is up to the standard
when tested. The reason for this is
that the creamerymen mix together
good and poor milk or cream.
EXPERIENCE proves that when the
cheese has arrived at its proper stage
of maturity before shipment, it suffers
no injury from the journey, but will
improve instead of deteriorating.
ONE very important step in the i'm
provement of a breed of horses is the
getting rid of the foolish ones. Horse
breeders, as a class, do not appreciate
the importance of breeding for brains
EGGs of promiscuous size and color
will always fail to bring the top prices
A little care in aiming to add to the at.
Effectiveness of an article is always re.
paid, and eggs are no exception to the
rule.
AN Iowa farmer woman writes: "The
creamery has been the longest step GU
of the old into the new. 1t has taught us
TO skim the milk before it is spoiled
and to have sense enough to stol
churning before we spoiled the butter.
IT is only the trained man who sue
ceeds on the farm, and it is equally the
7 trained man who does other things
with a certainty of favorable out
come. Men forget that success is re
sultant of knowledge and experience
( OUTRANKED only as table fowls b,
the Plymouth Rocks and similar breeds
but leading them and all others a
layers, is that other staple and yer,
popular breed-the Leghorns. Thi
variety we consider the most valuable
of all.
IT has been shown over and owe
again that few shrewd men hav,
been able to change the markets of tn
country to an almost fabulous eXten
in few hours, and to take from an
add to the value of commodities a
! their pleasure.
Z. "THE unjust taxation of farm realty
> in consequence of the systematic dode
ing of the burdens of state by opulen
tax-dodgers, is fast becoming scan
dal," says an exchange. Rather it ha
: long been scandal; but what are yo
going to do about ii?
AN important point should never b
overlooked viz: that of keeping tn
cows bowels in good condition. A COY
that is constipated is a cow thatis in grea
4 danger, and if the constipation occur
at calying time the danger is seriou
4 and the result often fatal.
\ THE man who points out your fault
4 is not your enemy. The enemy cor
4 ceals them from you, rejoices in then
4 and uses them to your detriment. II
q is your friend who speaks to you abor
h them, tells you how TO avoid them an
q seeks to improve your condition.
The amount of cheese imported b
3 the combined countries Of Europe
4 about $4,000, 600 pounds, and of tn
\ England takes over 100000, 900 pound
\ or nearly seventy per cent of the who'll
4 France imports 63, 10000 pounds, an
Germany imnOrls about 40 600 O(