The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-23
considered good crop, says the Maine

HAPPINESS complete, ca wife we'll
willed, little farm we'll titled" time
for proper cultivation of crops, social,
mental and moral improvement, with
home pleasant and unincumbered by
mortgage-enjoyment in this life and
future happiness.
In choosing schoolmaster, we often
take up with the cheapest man we can
find, for the sake of few dollars per
month. We only swinde our children
out of an education, but as they will
never know enough to find it out, il
don't matter so much.
A YOUNG woman in the northern
part of CRANKY, Conn, has killed twenty
foxes thus far this winter. Every
morning she takes her dog and goes
around to her traps, which are but a
short distance from the house. She is
only nineteen years old.
ALWAYS let the pigs have the range
of a considerable lot, clean nest to
sleep in, and feed their corn on a clean
floor. The ordinary hog-pen is an
abomination of filth, and disease breed
ing, stenchful atmosphere.
STRIKE the word breaking " out of
your vocabulary, and substitute educa-
ting, because the whole meaning of the
first is to break down, while in the use
of the other there comes the thought of
improvement. Educate the colts, and
also the children-don't break either.
THE spring bran for sale at present
is worth as much as winter, for feeding
purposes, according to recent analyses
made at the Massachusetts Experiment
Station. Samples Of both kinds were
sent TO the station from two different
places, and both gave the same results.
COARSE foods of every sort, such as
straw and corn-fodder, should have an
important place in the economical man
agement of every livestock farm.
They will make the basis of feed ra-
ton for much larger quantity of
stock than could be kept without their
aid.
THERE are nearly 100000 horses
in the United States at the present
time. Of this number there are about
5 100000 that there is no market for.
The market has declined, if we take an
average of all classes except the trotter,
about thirty per cent in the last four or
five years.
A HORSE has forty teeth, mare only
thirty-six, wanting the tusks or So
called wolfteeth. The OK and sheep
tribes have only thirty-two, wanting the
eight incisors in the upper jaw. The
pig has forty. four teeth, the dog has
forty-two teeth, and mankind only
thirty two.
A WRITER for the Stocknan and
Farmer thinks corn silage specially
adapted to the feeding of sheep. Some
have condemned it-probably because
theirs was inferior, or evil results were
wrongly attributed to it. He declares
it is just as good for sheep as for any
other stock.
A CUBIC FOOT of ensilage weighs
about fifty pounds, and fifty pounds is
days ration, so cow will consume a
cubic foot daily, or 365 cubic feet year,
which is equal to 20 by Is one foot long.
Now it is very easy matter to calcu-
late how large silo must be with these
facts before one.
In nearly every town there are men
who have, by intelligence and appllca-
ton, lifted the average production far
above the cost line; yet others, and
sometimes it seems like the great
maj ,rity, stand and declare, ~ know
it isn't so, -" 1t can't be done," That's
all humbug," etc.
"HAvE we lessened the vitality of
our hogs and increased their liability to
disease? IL there in many cases les
sened productiveness? Have we gone
bayond the demand for fat meat and
raised a protest from the consumers,
| hn do of Oh.
writer in Rural Life.
THE mold-board of the pillow must be
curved in order to invert the furrow-
slice. If the mold-board is short its
curvature must be abrupt; if long, the
curvature may be gentle and yet be
enough to invert the furrow-slice.
Now, while the same weight must be
lifted, and lifted the same height in
either case, the long, gently-curved
mold-board makes the less draft.
THERE is no one crop on the farm so
much relied upon by the Western
farmer as the hog crop. 1t is through
this that his corn is marketed, and
without its assistance cattle-feeding
would be losing business nine times
out of ten. For who among our West
ern farmers thinks of feeding cattle
these days without herd of hogs to
follow them?
SAID agentleman at farmers meeting
in Plouehman Hall, sit would seem as
if the average young man would rather
come to Boston and live on a crust and
sleep on the common than stay at home
on the farm and earn an honest living"
And it was because of the truth of this
statement that the expression of all
who heard it was so serious, and not
one smiled as if it could be taken as a
jest.
IT cannot be possible that each and
every kind of apple is equally well
adapted to hill and valley, rocky pas
lure and mellow plain, sandy loan and
heavy clay; and yet there is great
tendency to try all kinds in all sorts of
places. The sooner we break from this,
the better for all concerned Those
who are realizing most follow the OPP
posite, and hold closely to few tested