The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-03
Notes by the Way.


THE question is asked. =" Should a
farmer marry?" If not, who should?
and the more babies the better.
A KANSAS man thinks he has the
largest four-footed hog in the United
States. Its weight is $50 pounds.
IT is as useless TO attempt to get milk
from COW without food as it is to try
to get heat from stove without fuel.
ONE advantage with poultry farming
is that with good management the
harvest will come in almost every day.
To the industrious, skillful and in
telligent dairyman, all things are pos
sible in his line" truly remarks the
Dairy World.
AN industrious hen is nearly always
good layer, and with plenty of range
will nearly always be able to pick up
more or less of her living.
THREE breeds of sheep and their
crosses appear to stand out prominently
for mutton and wool-the Southdowns,
Merinos and Horned Dorsets.
CoTToNsEED meal increases the per
cent of hard fats and raises the churn-
ing temperature six to eight degrees or
more, according to the amount fed.
IT always pays to be neighborly, and
it is better to lose little from your
neighbours poultry or pigs than to live
at outs on account of small matter.
GOOD pasture and clear water are
requisites of perfect cheese. We
must have large proportion of butter
fats in our cheese to make it digestible.
ONIONS will grow on any soil from
muck to clay loan, but they do best in
soil that contains considerable sand
This gives the much-desired straw
color.
OKRA is southern vegetable, some
times tried in our gardens. The early
sorts produce their pods, but we have
never found them tender enough to be
eatable.
To wash or not to wash, has, for sew
eral years, been serious question
among sheep-owners. On the whole,
the practice seems to be going out OF
fashion.
FULLY-MATURED corn is not we'll
adapted for silage, certain degree of
succulence being necessary to cause
the material to settle and pack properly
in the silo.
FARMERS must sooner or later learn
what their several soils need and buy
only such material as is of use to them,
instead of buying any of the brands OF
mixed fertilizers.
THIS is no time for intolerance. The
country has no use for the man who is
not ready to listen to the opinions OF
those who do not accept his tenets
without question.
IT has long been demonstrated thai
pure water in no way Injuries the flavor
grain or keeping qualities of butter, but
that it washes out Gaseous matter and
other impurities which might injure it.
"CUT out and burn all the black knot
on the premises. There need be nc
hesitation about this business. Either
you or the knot is going to be master Of
the situation" says the Maine Farmer.
HOARD's DAIRYNIAN seems to admit
that all excess of butter fat above foul
per cent in Jersey milk may as we'll bt
taken from the milk before going into
the cheese vat as to be run off in the
whey.
THERE are some persons who are sc
naturally devoid of cOmmon-sense as tC
fail to perceive that any general rule
must be subject to varying circum
Stances. We see this fact shown or
the farm too often.
WHERE will you find in the whole
country cooperative creameries that
have been so successful, paid theii
patrons so well and are so steadily in.
increasing in patronage as those of
New England?" asks the Homestead.
"THE trustees of our state college
have a responsible duty on their hands
at the present time. DO they wish to
make it a college of agriculture as well
as of mechanic arts, ct ceterd Then
it is for them to make it So" says the
Maine Farmer.
BoTH our butter and cheese have
lost their reputation and good standing
in the English market; and yet we talk
of progressl The fact is that Canada
stands ahead of us, as the natural re-
suit of her enterprise and our own toe
great smartness."
SHALL the granger keep out OF
politics?' No; the trouble is he has
been out altogether too much, and that's
what's the matter. He should carefully
study politics and study the acts of mer
connected with public affairs" remarks
our level-headed Maine confrere of the
Farmer.
IT is said that the horses of England
haul on an average twice as much
apiece as those of America-not be-
cause the horses are better, but be-
cause the roads are. But they go very
slowly over the ground. England pos.
sesses the fastest and the slowest horses
in the world.
THE time was when among our farm
ers one room answered for kitchen,
parlor and bedroom. The time was
when one wagon took the grain to mar
ket one day, the manure to the field the
next, and the family to church on Sab
bath. Did farmers grumble as much
then as now?
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