The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
Clipped and Condensed.

TIMBER tnat mas reached that stage
of growth where it begins to decay may
be said to be "ripe."
THE bull is only half the herd when
he is pure.bred; a grade bull may not
be an eighth of the herd.
THE man who milks good cows is apt
to take better care of COWS and milk
than he who milks poor cows.
The only two crops which can be
grown on one piece of land at the same
time are patience and perseverance.
JUST how far the kind and quality of
feed animals consume influences the
taste and other qualities of their flesh,
no one knows; but ii is known that in
some cases it has very much to do with
it.
TURNIPs and mangels are not very
nutritious diet, but they aid much in
the digestion of other food, and keep
the digestive organs in healthy con-
dition.
WE cut our corn fodder and find by
so doing that it makes an excellent
ration for dairy cows. We cure in the
fed. When dry it should be carefully
housed.
AN exchange sarcastically observes
that stock will warm a good stable per-
ceptbly, but stock out of doors will not
perceptibly increase the temperature
IN is locality.
THERE are many good reasons why
we should have good blood in the dairy
herd and no good reasons why common
stock should be kept any longer than is
NJ cessary to grade up.
SHEEP more than any of our domes-
tic animals crave variety, and this is
not fancied but natural craving.
They are so constituted that their sys-
TEN seems to require it.
THE best way to find out how many
COWS we should keep is to keep an ac-
count with our herd and increase the
number few at time until we find
we have reached our limit.
EVERY farmer should have a shop in
which to work on rainy days, where he
can repair his wagon beds, plows,
harrows, cultivators, shovel plows,
forks, rakes, hoes, mattocks, etc.
IF a wellfed, mature eve goes
through the winter without becoming
pregnant she is an unsafe one to retain
for breeding purposes subsequently,
and had better be sold to the butcher.
ONE of the biggest losses made in
dairying is in keeping cows untitled for
their work, and until dairymen under
plain of the unprofi tableness of their
business.
AFTER two years of age the produc-
ton of eggs by hens decreases, conse-
quently they become less profitable,
and one should not hesitate to discard
them, for the object is to gain as much
as possible.
DOES the American farmer realize
the debt he owes the agricultural press?
There is no trade, profession or bust
ness that has as much expert" ex-
perience collected for it at so little cost
as has farming
THOSE who have been so situated that
they could observe the degree of favor
with which American dressed beef is
received abroad, say that as factor in
the foreign market its Importance is
constantly increasing.
SHEEP are the most helpless animals
in deep snow that exist. At every con-
siderable snowfall or drifting, the snow
should be shoveled out of their accus-
toned walks and resting places, or be
trampled down solid.
IN dairying, two profits are lost if We
use common cows: First, we don't get
such good yield as we would from
good cows; and, second, we cannot sell
our surplus cows at such good prices as
If tbay Of GOOD otncly
MANURE is anything that fertiizes
land. The clover that we leave on the
land and pillow under, and the straw
spread on the wheat, are as truly ma
nures as though they had been fed to
animals and the excrement returned to
the soil.
If roots are fed in the morning when
the sheep are hungry and the stomach
nearly empty, there is danger of pro-
ducing scours or so chilling the diges-
tive organs as to produce collie or
stretches. Abortion can also be pro-
duced in this way.
THE day of cheap lands is passing
away. There is very little unoccupied
government land left which is worth
anything, and the day has come when
the price of cereals must rise and the
people must pay the farmers what their
products are worth.
1T is the donothing policy in win
ter that is running thousands of far
mers," says the american Cultivator,
aud there is deal of truth in the utter
ance. If one consumes in winter all he
produces in summer he will not get on
in the world very fast.
BUTTER is spoiled before it is made;
il is spoiled in the making; it is spoiled
after it is made. We mean the butter
maker has these three chances of spoil
lug it, and before it reaches him and
alter it leaves him, every fellow that
touches it has the opportunity to get in
his bad work.
AN apple, to meet with ready sale,
must be large and handsome; it ought
also to be of fine quality to bring a
good price. The tree must also be
sure and a good bearer. The apple
ould be good keeper, one that will