The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-26
Clipped and Condensed.
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or pasture.
ONE trouble about unpleasant people
is that it generally seems impossible for
them to get out of the way.
DON'T allow burrs to ripen in the
horse pasture to make mats of the names
and tails of the horses and colts.
SORE teeth will sometim make
a horse carry its tongue out of its
mouth. A harsh bit will do the same
thing.
WE buy a COW that is a good average
one; we could buy first-class one for
S15 more. What does it cost us to save
that $l5?
DID it ever occur to you, that farmers
who grow paying crops in bad or off
year are in the minority rather than
in the majority?
ALL the large breeds have been
formed under the influence of mild
climate, breeding from the best, and a
plentiful supply of food"
EASTERN OREGON and Washington
this year report yield of thirty million
bushels of wheat-a large increase in
the production of this crop.
IT lbdudOGu III CdEtl6S = SllD-SuOu
manner, there is neither money nor
pleasure in gardening. But there is
none in any business carried on in this
manner.
SELL the horse you don't need if YOU
can get reasonable price for him be-
fore winter. 1t does not pay to keen
surplus horses unless they are growing
into money.
THERE is vast amount of waste of
purpose simply because it is not given
enough force to secure its proper com
petiOn. The reader can follow out this
idea to good advantage.
MONEY does not always make en-
that is, the simple posse ssion of it.
The best success is not in the bare ac-
emulation of money, but in its intelli-
gent and advantageous use.
THE popular notion is that every
flower secretes nectar, whereas the
number that really do secrete honey in
sufficient quantity TO be available for
the bees is comparatively few.
For crossing on large Brahma or
Cochin hens there is nothing superior
TO the Leghorn, and the pullets from
such cross should be mated with Ply
mouth Rock or Wyandotte males.
NEARLY level ground is preferable
for an apiary. If it slopes gently to the
south or east, so much the better. 1t
should never be in such location that
water will stand upon the ground.
MAKE it rule never to speak I'M
kindly of the absent. Tell your friend,
when alone with him, his fault, if it can
be bettered. Never speak of it if it is
something which cannot be altered.
THAT is true agriculture where the
land becomes richer every year it is cul-
tivated. and the farmer grows at home
all that is needed to supply man and
beast engaged in cultivating its soil.
THE best success is such as keeps the
home and the farm in good shape; the
stock in thrifty, healthy condition, and
furnishes The children the best advau-
tages for school training and for society.
A SPEAKER at dairy institute, as re-
ported in the Farmers Rerie,C, said
that the best results he ever got were
from the following ration: fifty pounds
ensilage, ten pounds clover hay, five
pounds bran.
IF you cannot have box stalls, al
least let your stalls be wide enough tC
allow the horses to lie down comfort
ably. 1t is well TO have the partitions
high enough to prevent the horse;
reaching each other.
WE need fast walking horses, and the
colt should be trained to this end; but
we are usually in such hurry that the
colt is forced to trot, and soon becom
ing leg weary, it gets into way o.
walking very slow to rest.
SCOOP butter speaks for itself an(
others speak for it. With all the com
petition of the times, there are plenty
of people in every town who are willing
to pay fair premium for excellence, >
says Hodrd'S D0iryman.
OF all the flies that ever tortured
brutes, the one that tickles the hors,
under the chin is the most annoy
ing to the equine race. Don't think O
working horse in the fly season with
Out a jaw-cloth on his bride
WOULD that man be considered Judi
cious, who digs ditch with an cutie
for a thousand gallons per hour, wheI
the stream never reaches one hun
economy used on many farms.
WHILE it is true that we should ueve
buy thing because it is cheap, or be
cause our neighbors have it, still if W
must have it, really need it, we shoulO
avail ourselves of the most Favorable
opportunity to get it for little money.
MANY of us have too much land
Taxes and labor are high. Money il
scarce and profits short. Many of u
would do better with less land and GU
of debt. We should farm less, but OF
a better plan; and would reap mor'
abundant harvest.
A DOCTOR when asked how to attain
good health, said: "Well, the bes
thing is to select grandfather an,
grandmother of good, healthy stock
The moral of which is that we have tn,
physical welfare of our posterity great,
in our own control.
THE ponderous English cart horse
fleet courser and the diminutiye Shet