The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-13
With twenty-five head of stock to save

300 year.
NOW that thinly-planted, fully-de-
veloped and mature corn is recognized
as the KIND OF material necessary to fill
a silo with to insure good slage," says
John Gould in the Mirror and Farmer,
oplne that no fresh discoveries OF
great Importance Will be made in silaqe.n
PROFESSOR CALDWELL estimates
that for feeding purposes bright wheat
straw is worth seventy per cent and
oat straw seventy-seven per cent as
much as meadow hay. If this be so.
from long observation / would say that
barley straw is worth eighty-three per
cent.
The Dairy World tells its readers
that in a creamery handling 10000
pounds OF milk per day it is easy for
careless or poor manager to lose 81 500
a year on the quality of the butter,
5000 year on the quantity, and $3.50
on the consumption of coal and $40 on
that of oil.
The manufacture of oleomargarine
makes richer a few millionaire beef
and pork-packers and makes poorer
5,OOO,000 dairy farmers. Such is the
power of wealth and concentration.
But the farmers are fast learning that
they hold the balance of power at the
voting places.
THE time has come for our eastern
farmers to thoroughly disabuse their
minds of the alleged advantages of the
West. The discomfort and positive
suffering that exist among farmers on
the great prairies and table lands this
eide # tIo
its own lesson.
BEWARE of the wonderful stories
and glittering advertisements of patent
nostrums. Give your hens proper care
and you will find no cause for anything
of the kind, and no benefit would fol-
low its use. These drugs may stimu-
late, but only at the cost of future
health and production.
AN exchange tells of a Texas man
who has 500 mustang mares on his
ranch which he has bred to thorough
bred stations. The FLIES from this
union he will breed to standard trotting
stations, with the intention of thus
securing model saddle horses, for which
there is now great demand.
THE Hatch station, Mass, finds that
IiS VI UnC Idll 10 VIC LDOob
potent factor in determining the
time of fasting before slaughter, it
growing stronger up to eighteen hours.
The rennet appears the strongest dur
ing the first week of the calf's life.
AT present in most creameries the
milk is paid for according to its weight.
No one has ever claimed that this is a
correct method of paying for milk, be-
cause all agree that milk is variable in
its character. But few realize how wide
the variations are and how much injury
is done when all milk is treated alike.
IN many dairy districts given up to
the making of butter a field is open to
the manufacture of cheese by one
farmer to supply his neighbors and sur
rounding communities. A maker of
uniformly fine cheese will soon gain
toners to the farmhouse for all he can
supply.
GOOD silage weighs forty to forty-fve
pounds per cubic foot. In estimating
the size of silo when building it is
safe to allow fifty pounds to every
cubic foot. Thus silo ten feet wide,
sixteen feet long and sixteen feet
deep would contain 10x16=160x16=
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS pounds. This di-
vided by 1000 equals 60 tons.
THE Dairy World says: Nearly
one-fourth of the dairy cows are kept
at loss, while one-third are kept with
out profit. This makes one-third of
the money invested dead capital. In
winter, with the best cows and good
feeding, about wothirds of the food is
consumed in supporting life. The
profit comes from the other third"
KEEP an eye on the markets. Don't
pay more than market rates for what
you have to buy. Get the full value
for what you have to sell. A farmer
has right to be as much a business
man as merchant or manufacturer.
After earning money by raising a good
thing don't lose it by lack of knowing
what its value is and then not getting it.
The Orange Judd Farmer says a
catch of clover is often secured on
sandy soil by using dressing of 800
pounds of plaster and 100 pounds of
salt in each acre. "Then," it says,
"put the clover seed in a barrel and
pour on water, allowing it to soak two
days, after which take a bushel of plas-
ter to a bushel of soaked seed and
thoroughly mix both so that each seed
is completely covered with an envelope
of plaster. Sow the seed early in the
spring and you will be pleased with the
result"
A FARMER at Mechanicsville, VT,
sent, some time ago, to the Manchester
Mirror and Farmer this account of the
results of his labors for the past six
years; " keep farm account, and give
my farm credit for what sell off or
use in any way, and charge it for what
l pay out. In 1885 / lost S5l.37; 1886,
/ gained S17l.45; 1887, gained $5536;
1888, gained $34. "a; 1889, lost $500
and in 1890, by selling off $lS5 worth of
cows, l gained S203.64 Here is 1916 60
gain for six years, or, leaving out the
sale of cows, S19l. SO for the interest on
81 900, which l have tied up in stock
and tools, with hard, steady work six