The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-10-28
Clipped and Condensed.


OVER PRODUCTION of inferior prod
ucts lessons the profits and explains
why farming is not more profitable.
C1vILITY is very desirable trait of
character, and sensible people should
make point of keeping it on hand:
civility is one of the Christian graces.
ONE of the largest dairy farms in In
diana is carried on by Mrs. Laura ID.
Worley of Elletsville. Last year she
sent 10000 pounds of butter to market.
WHETHER white fowls are more deli
cate than those of any other color, is a
question which has long been discussed,
but upon which no definite conclusion
has been reached.
The thinking man is, more than any
other, the successful man, and is sue
cessful according as he gives his bust
ness the benefit of a practical test of
the ideas which his brain evolves.
REMEMBER that oats are the best
oone-producer for colts. Corn is too
strong diet for young stock. Good
hay is one of the necessary Ingredients
in the makeup of the diet for growing
horses.
LATE springs and dry summers are
the results of the scarcity of timber,
and the inundating of our lands by
rivers and creeks OVERLOOKING their
banks is from denuding the hills of
their forest growth.
The migratory butter schools, being
conducted in England, appear to be &C,
complishing a great deal of good. They
are largely attended by students, and a
great interest is manifested. Practical
lessons are given both in butter and
cheese making.
The colt that is tied with small or
weak rope, may, if little frightened,
break away from its fastening. When
1t has once learned this way of getting
loose, 1t Is not particular about the
time or place in which TO show its
knowledge and skill.
A LARGE Australian fockmaster has
entered on an experiment with the
view of testing whether it is possible
10 breed flock of black sheep. He
intends to put only black rams to black
ewes, and remove all his black sheep
to range by themselves.
AN exchange, speaking of the value
of ashes, says: Eighteen Years ago
the straw from small setting of wheat
was spread over the ground and burned.
Ever since that time the crop growing
on that spot has been, to all appearances,
double that on ground adjoining"
IT has been asserted that pasturing
land tends to increased fertility; which
is true to a certain extent. But unless
the pasture gets all the weddings of
stock kept there, reinforced by album
dant rainfall, that land so treated will
not hold its own, but deteriorate under
less conservative treatment.
"1F oleomargarine is all that is claimed
for 1t, and its manufacturers wish to es-
tablish it as an unobjectionable indus
try, let them put it on its own feet
everywhere. Did you ever see show
card in a grocer's window reading
. eomargarine, better than butter,
sold here?' Why not?" asks the Dairy
World.
No one who keeps his wits about
him can have failed to notice how
much value sometimes attaches itself
to single idea. Many a man has
found success practical impossibility
until single happy thought in connec-
ton with single branch of his bust
ness has converted it all into rousing
success.
If you are considering at bedtime
whether it will do to kill hogs in the
morning, look at your thermometer at
nine O'Clock p. NJ. If the weather is
stationary it will fall seven degrees by
daylight next morning; if turning still
colder, it will fall more than seven de-
yrees; if" moderating," less than seven
degrees.
EGGS, eggs, eggsl That's what's
wanted to-day, and will be for the next
thee months. Are you getting them?
If not, why not? Here's good prob
lem to be working over. What change
can be made in the ration or method of
administering, or what can be done to
keep the flocks husier during these
short days?
SOME persons have very peculiar
memories; they will forget the sermon,
text and everything the minister ut
tered; they will even forget the time
of meeting, and when anything is said
they will complain of their defective
memories. An old grudge, however, is
easily remembered; or, if some one is
owing them, they don't forget that.
AT the new st. Adams creamery the
average of butter fat is less than four
per cent, but the extremes are 8. 25 and
475. The milk is not brought to the
creamery, but is received at forty-four
stations located at various points, within
tweniy-six miles of st. Adams, and
there the cream is separated and shipped
in special cars.
No man can live, in business sense
and place his butter in competition with
tallow and cottonseed oil so manipulated
that it takes an expert chemist TO de-
tect the difference between the com.
pound and dairy butter. 1t is not clear
that we should prohibit the manufac-
ture of any mixtuae that is not injurious
to health, but we should strip oeo of
its power, and make it look like itself,