The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-07
Notes by the Way.


BEDDING should never be allowed to
get so wet as TO moisten the hoofs of
the animals.
LAND is worth nothing without Ia
Dor, and labor effects little unless guided
by good sense.
AGAIN it must be said to you, think
over your mistakes of the year and don't
commit them again.
WHEN one roost is higher than the
others all the hens will endeavOr to get
upon that high roost.
Good butter must not contain more
than ten to eleven per cent of water
and five per cent of casein.
POTATOES or strawberries MANFRED
with ashes stand drouth that would be
ruinous to crops fortified with any ma
nure we have ever tried.
THE main, and perhaps the sole
reason, why farming doesn't pay is be-
cause of the guess work which is so
largely practiced by farmers.
IN building sio intended mainly
for corn ensilage allow forty-five cubic
feet for every ton of silage which it is
desired to store after settling.
THE Jersey cow was fast going out
OF sight when judged for color, but the
color now is of but little consequence
compared with the butter record.
WHOEVER controls the school books
of nation controls the future thoughts
of lis people," The earlier impressions
upon youthful minds can never be eff
faced.
THE man that breeds and feeds farm
animals nearly always makes money.
1t is when the animals breed or feed
themselves, or both, that they are I'M
profitable.
IT is well known that linseed meal
will often improve the coat of horse.
1t will also brighten the plumage of
birds, as well as correct indigestion and
promote laying.
AN intelligent writer thinks that
scholars in our schools should know as
much about fruits and flowers as about
arithmetic. 1t is an accomplishment
entirely disregarded."
FULLY ninety per cent of our three
year-old apple, pear, cherry and plum
trees are on their own roots if they have
been grated with a long cion on a
short root and set deeply.
LET personal property bear its share
equally with real estate in carrying the
public burdens and from one-third to
one-half the taxes now paid by real
property will be taken off.
THE value of the farmers trade is
recognized by every merchant and
manufacturer. Honest goods, honestly
advertised, will bring him, and honor
able dealing will hold him.
WHAT this country needs is for its
farmers to understand that winter
dairying pays best; that winter-rnade
butter costs less than summer-made
and sells for one third more.
If you want to sa water for YOU
stock, put your trough on level with
your spring. Then there will be nc
waste, as the water will run into thu
trough only as fast as it is taken out.
ALL birds prefer grains and seeds il
preference to wet or soft food, an(
fowls are no exception. No soft foot
should be fed poultry more than once
day, and then only in order to give
variety
IT costs the people of the United
States an immense sum of money t.
support a congress in which the princi
pal business done is the endeavOr o
each political party to get the best o
the other.
BE fair with the asparagus. Man,
people continue to cut far too long, anC
in this, as in all other cases, covetous
ness meets its reward. The beds mus
be very strong that will bear cutting
after June.
THE temptation to change calings i
very alluring. 1t ruins more youthful
careers than anything else except mora
rot. The hope of an easier place is
lie. The same humdrum period is il
every calling.
ALL that is needed to double the in
come from the dairy is care in selectn,
and breeding, task which is now lief
almost entirely to professional breeders
but which might be just as well per
formed by every dairyman in the land.
THANKS to the pure politics laugh
in the grange (politics that are no
PARTISAN, the American farmer is ris
ing above the narrow spirit of partisan
prejudice, and his patriotism consist
not in loyalty to party but of love TO
home and country.
THERE can not be a doubt that a few
years of iudicious selection and breed
ing would double the annual dairy
product in the state without increasing
the number of COWS or the expense o
their keep, The same is true of tn,
herds of every other state.
mot less than so, 900 turkeys are sol,
from our farms each year. The sale
, from hens eggs aggregate $50 90
, dozen. The amount of all poultry sol,
annually is over $500, 000 pounds, eX
ceeding the states product of wool il
pounds" says the Ph9niT.
AGRICULTURAL papers frequent.
contain directions for controlling kick
ing cows. The strap around the body
just in front of the hips is good, but tn
only proper rule as regards cow prone
to use her legs or horns is to fatten ant
kill her as soon as possible.
THE only parties now engaged in th'
. | huhach industrv are the RuhaCh FRO