The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-30
Clipped and Condensed.

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But it amt no use to pray.
"Your corn looks just twice as nice as mine,
Though you don't pretend to be
A shinin' light in the church to shine,
An tell salvation's free.
i've prayed to the Lord thousand times
For to make that ere corn grow;
An why yourn beats it so, an climbs,
I'd gin deal to know"
Said Farmer Gray to his neighbor Jones,
In his easy, quiet way;
When prayers get mixed with lazy bones, |
They don't make farmin' pay"
within reach seldom suffers seriously
from cold.
KEROSENE emulsion kills lice and is
easily applied with brush. A lousy
colt is disgrace to any farmer.
HORSES to be sold during the win
ter, or in spring, should be put in good
condition. 1t is fat which sellsl
MosT any one can make money out
of fowls in small way, while there are
few that can make it pay in large num-
bers.
WHEN narrowing time comes the bed
of the SOW should be as soft as in the
management of the owner it can be
made.
The farmers family ought to be the
best led people on earth, and yet, many
of us do not gather up all the good
things we may have.
HORSES are, individually, the most
costly of our farm animals and, there
fore, from pecuniary point of view,
get or should receive proportionately
greater care.
The Mason City, Iowa, Gazette pre-
diets: "There is not an acre of good,
average Iowa land that will not be
worth 800 within ten years" l.
might be made 80 in Vermont.
If you have learned the usiness of
dairying aud find that it does not pay,
don't give up and try something else
until you are sure the fault is not in
you instead of in the business.
THERE is more good work in horse
above ten or twelve years old, year for
year of his life, than in any year under
that age, always provided that he has
not been ruined or broken down.
FROM the results shown in tabulated
statements it is shown that an actual
average of twenty tons of beets can be
raised to an acre, which would yield an
average of 5000 pounds of sugar.
Two HUNDRED THIRTY dollars for
chickens and eggs sold. That will rep.
resent the selling of 800 chickens at
twenty-five cents each and | 600 dozens
of eggs at fifteen cents per dozen.
THE reports from Great Britain show
large apple shipments from the United
States and Canada, but good prices
maintained for choice fruit, and no APP
parent danger of a glutted market.
YET no one wants to buy horse
over eight years old. That is because
their teeth will tell their age up to their
eighth year, but not beyond. A horses
ninth year is like widows fortieth.
AFTER all, the important thing to do
is to raise our children in such way
that they become honest men and
women, as on them hangs the destiny
of this government-not on the money.
WHEN the intelligence of man &c
rises to full sympathy with the deli
cate organization of the COW, he will
then have learned that his profit lies
in the direction of absolute comfort for
her.
WORK horses should be put in fair
flesh and kept so. To keep a working
horse on innutritious food through the
winter and then "shove the grain into
them" is not likely to prove satisfac
tory.
AS the winter evenings now are Sc
long, let us improve and turn the time
to profit by organizing a reading club
There should be no such thing as stanC
still when there is time for improve
ment.
If growing stock must be brough
through the winter and come out in thu
spring weighing less than in the fall, il
is a saving of money to sell it now
even at present prices and buy back il
the spring.
BUTTER allowed to get too cox
(almost frozen) after being printed o
made into rolls will show crystals o
salt on the outside, which spoils its APP
pearance; it can be dipped in water t.
improve it.
MANY folk make grand mistake
persisting in using cold seepingrooms
They foolishly fancy cold air puier thai
tepid. None of our houses are so tigh
that loose easements do not ventilat
| the rooms enough.
THE use of box stalls for horse
;, should be more generally considered
A horse, naturally, is moving animal
and to condemn him to the misery o
being chained to manger is in the lin
of cruelty to animals-especially in col
\ weather.
| "THE Shropshire does not come i
contact with either cold. or wet tina
chills him through, that causes him t
sicken and die, when kept in propc
condition. No snow storm will afftC
him, neither does the falling rain," say