The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-02-25
Notes by the WAY.

drought.
BEWARE of keeping a thoroughly
cured cheese in high temperature.
Cold storage is the place for it.
THE value of truth implanted in
the mind, so that it moves the purpose
in life, cannot be measured by dollars
and cents.
IT is cruel to keep cows in a pasture
without shade. IF trees are not pres
ent or near, open board sheds should
be provided.
No class should be so intensely polit-
ical as farmers. Differing as to meas
ures, they should, in their respective
parties, work for results.
The man who owns ten acres of good
land, with suitable buildings thereon,
is far better off and more independent
than the merchant or manufacturer.
"WHEN shall l commence the winter
care of the winter milker?" The best
way is to not commence at all. Take
good care of her the year round, and be
ready for winter long before it gets here.
THERE will never be much better
farming until there are much better
country schools. Much that is taught
by orr agricultural papers and books is
far above the comprehension of those
for whom they are printed.
WHEN one produces large guam
tity of apples it is better to build reg
ular fruit cellar. A temperature of
thirty degrees is about right. A moist
| cellar is best. There is little danger of
putting too many in one bin.
THE first year of the colts life should
be fruitful in instruction. The colt will
learn more easily when six months old
than when a year old. 1t can also be
controlled more easily. Hence, it is
wise to handle the colt early.
THE drier or more mature the corn
when cut the heavier must be the
weight to insure good keeping. In
fieldcured fodder, or extremely dry
fodder, water will probably have to be
added to secure compactness in the
sio.
WE can not breed good animals by
the laws that govern poor ones. Our
best animals are the progeny of those
which served in very imperfect man
ner the wants of civilized man; they
were made better by good comfort and
habit.
INTENSIVE farming presupposes a
disposition to economize, fair knowl-
| edge of the relations existing between
soil and plants, and good practical
mind that will know how to make the
most of every circumstance and oppor-
tunity.
N. M. SCOTT of Barton, VT, keeps
one cow, a grade Jersey and Ayrshire,
which supplies his family with milk
cream and butter. During the six
months between April and October l,
last, he churneo 269 pounds of butter
from this COW.
Is eleven bushels of wheat per acre,
or twenty-seven bushels of corn, the
limit of production in the United States?
2,100 ,S92 900 bushels of corn on rs ,019,
651 acres That is the average, accord
lug to the forrnare' own statements to
the census-takers.
WE may have proper tariff laws, tax
alton adjusted, fraud prevented, the
health of farm stock guarded, education
for the farmer encouraged, but, after
all, the farmer must rely upon himself,
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according to the old fable.
FARMERS need "hearty food.
Although the New England farmers
fare is so frequently and harshly criti-
cised, the pork and beans, doughnuts
and mince pies, corned beef and sausage
are not so poorly adapted to his active
outdoor life AS they tell us.
L" No milk yet drawn from cows with
only 11.64 per cent of total solids ever
did, or ever can, make ten pounds of
cured full cream cheese. BY no posi-
pounds of partially skim cheese" says
Governor Hoard's Dairyman.
WE have killed too many heifel
calves. 1t is better to raise them, al
the exceedingly low price of hay, than
to sell hay; for when they are matured
we can take our pick for the dairy, and
those that do not prove good cows will
bring for beef enough so there may be
no loss.
MANY farm horses are killed each
year by thoughtless owners. They dc
not take their lives as butchers would
nor do they purposely shorten theil
udOo ny CIucity' ny NdlClCSo lhdltVu
ton the work is done, and many men
are guilty of the charge of killing of
good horses.
PLANT food is essential for goot
crops, and this can be obtained in the
cheapest way by sowing clover, rye
end other similar crops, and turning
them under to fill the soil with vegeta
BILE matter. 1t is strange that our far
mers will not follow this practice. Car
any one tell why?
EVERY unnecessary step on farm
in doing the chores is just so much alb
stracted from the ability TO go over the
necessary routine. 1t is but common
wisdom, then, to plan out proper con
tiguity of stables, pens, cribs, gran
aries, water-works, and the shortes
route from one to the other.
IT is one thing to raise cattle anC
hogs, but quite another to raise horses
where bone, muscle, endurance an(
strength are needed instead of fat
Cattle and hogs may be raised on corn
b,t oo1to pao1 otbar food Whataua