The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06

in spring than in winter.
HAND-PowER separators are becom.
ing popular in the private dairy, and
their work is said to be satisfactory.
BEAN straw and chaff has feeding
value as great as good hay, and is es-
peclally good for sheep, but is eaten
with avidity also by cattle.
GUEss-woRK, the "rule Of thumbn
in testing temperature of cream, to-
gether with general purpose cow in
dairying, have had their day.
THERE is one thing certain, that
whatever method of taxation is en-
ployed except on incomes, the farmer
has got to take the heavy end of it.
CLOVER hay of the medium red or
Alsike varieties is the best sheep hay.
Early-cut timothy does fairly well when
fed in connection with bran aud oats.
DIR. BABCoCK of the Wisconsin sta
ton says: " Unless some plan can be
devised which shall do Justice to all.
believe that the days of the factory sys-
tenn are numbered.
ONE of the chief sources of profit in
keeping stock is the manure with
which the fertility of the soil is to be
maintained. Never let this truth be
driven out of your mind.
AFTER calving give the COWS warm
mess made by taking two quarts of
wheat bran and a pint of oil meal,
with pinch of salt, and pour over
sufficient hot water 10 scald we'll.
The census Office has recently issued
a bulletin on truck farming. The re-
turns show that 800, 200, 000is invested
in this business, and that 534 ,440 acres
of land devoted to it realize annually
over 100000
A COMPANY is said to be organizing
in Boston, Mass, to build factories in
Maine for the purpose of collecting and
condensing milk. Condensed milk is
becoming very popular and it's produc-
ton is profitable.
HAPHAzARD work in making butter
will bring butter that is drug in the
market at eight to twelve cents pound.
Science in the dairy will bring butter
that sells readily for twenty to twenty
eight and thirty cents.
SWEDEN is becoming great dairy.
Butter and cheese of fine quality are
produced in great quantities. Most of
the product is shipped to England at
good price. Last year over 10000, 900
pounds OF butter were exported.
If the average farmer could have it
impressed upon his mind that he might
as well give away three or four good
cows every year as to permit manure
to go to waste as now, he would prob
ably adopt some means to husband it.
EVERY owner of swamp should
realize the fact that a ton of the air.
dried muck may be worth from SO to
S. for its fertilzing value, as estimated
for its nitrogen alone and as compared
with the same element in artificial fer
tilizers.
GOOD butter is selling at thirty cents
per pound, and there are hundreds and
hundreds of pounds in the city, says
the Manitowoc (Wis.) Tribune, that can
be bought at five cents per pound. The
question is, who has lost that twenty
five cents per pound?
EDUCATE the farmers boy if nobody
else is educated. Build for him the
best schoolhouse, hire for him the best
teacher, furnish him the most efficient
apparatus, and buy for him the most
expensive text books. Let his school
be the pride of the state.
A DISTURBANCE of any kind, hard
treatment, excitement, sickness, etc.
will leave its mark on the number and
size of globules, and hence influence
the Dreaming qualities of the milk and
the rapidity and completeness with
which the churn will do its work.
owe do not remember to have ever
seen stockmen more hopeful of the i'm
mediate future than are feeders and
dealers of all kinds respecting stock to
be sold two or three months hence.
Beef-makers seem positive of high
prices in May and June" says the
StOckman and Farmer.
THE rivalry among individuals to
demonstrate the richness of their re-
spective herds and families was never
80 great, and is productive of great
good. AS it goes on, it demonstrates
to the world the true worth of the breed,
and stimulates each breeder to closer
scrutiny of blood lines and rich quail
ties.
THERE is constant bringing toward
the surface of plant-food from the great
storehouse below. In the plowed field
much of what is brought up goes off in
the sultry sunshine. Under an out
house or pile of brush, it stops in the
surface soil, and the spot is rich.
MoraJ-Keep the ground covered with
a crop.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Indian
Farmer says it is common experience
in his apd adjacent counties of that
state to go out in the morning and find
five or six sheep of a flock killed and
torn by dogs, many more " mutilated
till they present a horrible spectacle,
and the rest so scared they do nothing
but run from one corner to another of
the field"
IT has been found that the number
of globules is smallest when the cows
come in fresh, and that the size is the
largest at that time; from this period
and on, the number of globules is con-
stantly increasing, while the size is de-
creasing, until toward the time when