The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02
Clipped and Condensed.

DON'T spend one dollars worth of
time in trying to cure 6fty-cent hen
that's sick.
No crop is certain, and year by year
the danger to all crops is becoming
greater and greater.
How to increase the supply of ma
uure on the farm, should engage the at
tention of every farmer at this time.
THE field for breeders of saddle
horses is a large one, and promises bet
ter than anything to-day in the stock
line.
If there is any profit in coming sill
yer, the government, which bears the
expense, ought to have it instead of
the mine owners.
"DoN'T count your chickens before
they are hatched," and don't be too
sure of your count after they are
hatched until they have grown up.
IT does not follow that because man
is reasonably successful in one line of
work he can, with the same confidence
in the outcome, attempt every other.
For general-purpose, wholesale
weed exterminator, the common smooth
ing harrow with lever attachment is
hard to beat, during the seasonable
period of its use.
PoRK-PACKING in the cities of the
West since March has reached an ag-
gregate of 4,470,000 head-a decrease
from last year of 1,625,000 head, or
about twenty-seven per cent.
EXPERIMENTERs have found that
old heaps of weeds, pond mud, scour-
ings of bitches, or any organic mat
ter, are best applied to the soil after
being mingled with lime or common
salt.
THE little weed that is so insignifi-
cant as to scarcely be noticed when the
crop is laid by, is often at digging time
monster in size, and if there be many
of this sort, they become quite draw
back.
Do not allow manure TO go to waste
about the barn buildings, because you
fear it will injure the pastures if put
out; for every blade smothered when
put out, it will produce at least ten fold
next year.
A RENNET is at its best when a
healthy calf is between three and five
days old, and has a stomach full of milk
The contents of the stomach should be
emptied, but no washing of the inside
should be allowed.
THERE are certain crops on almost
every farm that can be raised at good
profit if rightly attended to, while Ger.
tain other crops at least will yield OILY
a very small profit, and are often q
cause of downright loss.
ONES calling or business should be
for livelihood, to make money; and
wisdom would say to make the mos
possible, with the amount of time anC
labor bestowed upon it. Our duties
however, are not all in this line.
GOOD roadsters, and especially such
as are superior for the carriage, are al
ways profitable, and these are reared al
no greater expense than ordinary farm
horses, for they can earn their living OF
the farm from two years old till fit tC
sell.
BY bedding farm animals on dry
forest loan we increase the bulk, ant
by feeding rich food we make rich ma
nure. The dry mold absorbs the ricl
liquids and retains them, and thus W.
form a compound that is more effective
than if not mixed.
MosT people are happy in the doing
of their work because of the results o
their labor. The enjoyment of on
work and the willingness to do it COM
from anticipations of the enjoyment b,
ourselves, or by others dependent upol
US, of the fruits of our labor.
THE Mark Lane Cypress says: "Tur
key and Persia are playing quite an i'm
portant part in supplying grain to Lon
don, and there are authorities VIII
reckon to see great revival in grain pro
duction in the old countries between tn
Levantine and Arabian seas"
How often do we fail to use tn
means at our command to the best ad
vantage. A little neglect here and
little delay there and bunder some
where else, and the profits drop out O
what otherwise might have been one O
our most profitable undertakings.
In the pioneer days of our country
when the virgin soil was ready to pre-
duce a crop if the seed was planted an
a reasonable attention given it, whe
the mode of living was simple and farm
ers' needs were few, it was possible t
obtain a living from the soil without re
gard to manuring it.
ALTHOUGH it may be necessary t
use The whip sometimes, it should al
ways be applied judiciously, and grea
care should be taken not to arouse tn
passions nor excite the obstinacy. TIL
affectionate and better nature must b
appealed to in training horses as we
as training children.
THE Bee Journal says that carefl
estimates put the number of bee. keeper
in the United States at $50, 900; owe
10000 of this number keep more tina
500 colonies each. The value of th
honey produced by them in 1889 wa
over S100,000,000, and the value of tn
beeswaX produced for the same year el
ceeded SIT 100000.
If we would spend little more tim
figuring, and when we have had goo
. year try and see which of our numeror
operations was the most profitable, {
in the case of an unsuccessful year fin