The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-27

better to put them in drills than to SOW
broadcast.
PLEASE bear in mind, reader, that
you have a standing invitation to ac-
quaint your fellows with anything you
may have learned in your experience
which may throw light upon the matter
of making profit out of any line of
farm production.
ATEAM of geldings can do more work
than like team of mares if the latter
must suckle colts, but if they can be re-
lieved Of this strain on the system by
taking the colts from them and feeding
by hand, the mares will do fully as
much work as the geldings.
THE consumption of butter in Eng
land, per unit of population, is thirteen
pounds per annum, as compared with
eight pounds in Germany, six pounds
in Holland, four pounds in France and
one pound in Italy. In Italy olive oil
replaces butter for many uses.
ALWAYS bear in mind that the food
given the dam acts directly on the lit
ter. L it is laxative and wholesome the
pigs will have good digestion and free
action of the bowels, while if heating
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the same condition will appear in the
litter.
IT is both unwise and cruel to burden
team with the great heavy harness
met with on the average farm. Much
of the wagon harness is entirely super
fuous for the plow, and dispensing
with these extras adds greatly to the
comfort of the horse, especially in
warm weather.
In feeding mich cows on cake or oil
meal, an experienced authority says,
you must begin gradually with one-half
corn meal and increase to two parts of
the former to one of the latter. The
amount fed must be regulated by OBJ
servation of results. Buy the steam
cooked linseed meal if possible.
THE calves, the calves, the witching
calvesl When you take your undigni-
fled straddle over the neck of one and
try to stick its mouth down into the
pail of milk and he curves his neck the
other way and blows his nose in your
face, then you shut your eyes, and open
your mouth, and you make remarks.
SOME writers advocate breaking up
bits of glass and crockery as grinding
materials for fowls, but experience tells
us to let glass and crockery alone.
Oyster shells and fine gravel answer
the purpose much better and can't
harm the stomach of the fowl. Glass
will injure and often kill bird that
eats it.
AFTER a dairy cow arrives at GER
tain age her habits become fixed, and it
is waste of feed to try to turn her
functions from the direction of con-
verting feed into milk into that of beef.
She has been used as milk machine
all the best years of her life, and she
cannot be used as beef machine at
the close of it.
WHEN an animal has attained her
maximum point in milk and butter pro-
duction, it would seem that full feeding
on a digestible diet in comfortable
quarters will enable her to maintain
her record, although the said diet be
not strictly orthodox from a chemical
point of view. The cows stomach is
wonderful laboratory.
THE dairy circles have not yet re-
covered their equanimity since the Ma
tional Association meeting. The COM
petition for premiums was from Ver-
mont to west of the Missouri river, but
over half of all entries were from the
famous "Elgn district" That was
proper. But not even the tiniest prize
went to the Elgin district.
ERAsTUs LERMoND of Thomaston,
Me, an ex-member of the State Board
of Agriculture, says he has, after sew
eral failures, learned how to grow
apple trees on clay soil. They should
be set on the surface and the roots COW
cred by mounding up around the tree.
A hole dug in clay soil, he says, will
hold water as we'll as a tub, and tree
set in there with its roots standing in
that water large part of the year, will
sicken and finally die. Set as recon-
mended, the water drains away and the
tree will thrive.
ALL vegetation is more or less So
ciable. Two crops combined yield more
than if planted singly. Thus oats and
peas, grown together; wheat and oats,
sown in spring; barley and tares; corn
and beans, or pumpkins, are common
mixed crops. But one of the most
valuable, the peas and oats, which have
yielded often sixty to seventy bushels
per acre of the mixed grain, when
coarsely ground is one of the best grain
foods for all kinds of livestock. Wheat
and rye grown together are largely used
in Europe as a bread crop, and the
mixed flour makes an excellent and
nourishing food.