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

from single issue of Rural Life, a
weekly farm paper printed at Waterloo,
Iowa, at 81 year. All its departments
are ably and carefully edited, and any
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to it.
THE hides of Galloway cattle are now
used to take the place of buffalo robes.
They are thick and woody.
IT is freely stated that of all the
creamery butter sent to market, only
one-half ranks as choice or better.
THE man who keeps sheep is not de-
pendent on the butcher. He can kill
lamb and have delicious mutton from
his own flock.
THE relative rank of the three kinds
of butter at the Iowa Dairy Meeting
was, separator butter first, dairy butter
second, and gathered cream butter third.
THE cost of pound of milk is one
of the things that a dairyman should
know; that is, the cost to him, not to
somebody else working under different
conditions.
THERE is no class of stock that oan
be improved so rapidly by proper Sc
lection and careful breeding, or that
will degenerate so rapidly with neglect,
as the hog
ILLINOIS feels her oats. She had in
1891 the largest acreage of any state in
the union-3, 100000. But Iowa is feel
ing quite happy with 1885, 900 acres
and 102 500, 900 bushels.
IT is reliably reported that in north
western Minnesota and Nsrth Dakota
no less than 30, 900 900 bushels of wheat
are still in stack, and much of it will
probably never be marketed.
THE feeder looks first to increased
weight. This is right. But nature has
wisely provided that the ration which
will give the best quality of meat will
also produce the largest gain.
THE steam power of the world is
placed at 40 900 900 horse power. This
is equivalent to the working capacity of
100000, 900 men, which is more than
double the total working population.
Six thousand pounds of milk obtained
from COW in six months will not make
as much butter as six thousand pounds
of milk from COW which dis ributes
her work through period OF ten months.
WILL milking machines prove sue
cess? Things apparently impossible
have been done Very much harder
things have been mastered so far as in
tricacies and nieeties of operation count.
MORE food is required to produce six
, thousand pounds OF milk in six months
, and maintain the COW a year than to
produce six thousand pounds in ten
months of nearly uniform yield and
maintain the cow year.
, SUMMER butter could be packed in
t one hundred-pound tirkins and sold in
the fall for twenty-five to twenty-eight
r cents pound at home, but this cannot
t be done now. The farmer cannot sell
e summer butter at winter prices.
e IT is undeniable that creameries are
e directly to blame when the product is
t Inferior 1t is true that dirty, sinking
: milk cannot be made into good butter,
t but the creameryman is under no OBJ
: legation to take that kind of milk.
. IT is the easiest thing in the world,
on farm, for a man to become care
less about his dress, and there is hardly
= anything which will so degrade him
E, or sink his manhood, as slovenliness
q about dress or personal appearance.
You find marked performer in
= the cattle family and you will not need
), to seek long to find that back of her is a
= man of marked and especial qualifica-
= tions that makes him a man of quite
= different caliber from the ordinary kind.
f The boy or girl whose mother re-
;. tains their confidence will never go far
7 astray; and the mother can only do this
e by entering into their joys, and sorrows,
. too, always ready with her sympathy
+ and interest in whatever concerns them.
q CATTLE fed on oil meal alone will
a grow flesh too soft and habby, while
r that produced by corn alone is likely to
e be lacking in juiciness and flavor.
8 Bran, barley, oats, rye and clover hay
y added to corn ration will make better
e beef than corn alone.
o IT would make a defender of the
e special. purpose animal weary to see the
3 effect of a corn-crib cross on steers
4 whose color proclaimed their ancestry
II to that breed which is said to have the
: prepotency of thousand years of de-
n termined effort to produce strictly
dairy COW.
u DIR. GALEN WILSON says the flesh of
g the sheep offers greater immunity from
. disease and filth than that of any other
!, animal. They do not thrive in the
e. mire, nor wallow in the trough they
y feed from. They consume neither gar
:, bage, vermin, decaying meats, nor rot
" ting vegetables.
The market reports show that good
# cattle are selling for So per hundred
n weight and common cattle are selling
!. for SO per hundred. This is owing to
k the difference in quality. The latter
!, lack finish that comes from proper and
> successful feeding. The market is
4 always over-stocked with beef of this
N kind.
Is CITIES are whirlpools, swallowing up
!; the surplus productions of the world
y grain, meat, men, everything. We
g furnish the beef, the bread, the butter,
e the boys for city consumption, and
~ without than tho citv would dpcav and