The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-15
Clipped and Condensed.

and let 1t lie IN the hot sun.
THE patient researches of arch@oo-
gists show that sheep were among the
first animals domesticated by man.
MOST people despise miser, because
they can't get what he has. But this
does not make the miser any better.
"THE different subordinate oranges
are discussing taxation and the listing
bill. Will they do anything about it2'
asks the Maine Farmer.
WHEN man begins to advocate the
merits OF any particular breed, he is
not called upon to prove that those that
keep other breeds are fools.
THERE is much truth in the remark
of one who observed, "The worst thing
about the grip is that you are sick with
it so long after you get we'll"
WHERE is the profit in keeping the
animal that takes two years to come to
the same development that well-bred
animal will attain in one year?
THE only sort of progress which in
contestably takes place is in our knowl-
edge of nature and our command over
it as means to the realization of our
desires.
THE person who considers that a tree
is living organism, and not a post,
will have little to say about "luck" in
planting; he knows it is skill and care
instead of luck"
IT is one of the grossest commercial
outrages of the times that while far
mers are getting so little out of cattle
city consumers are paying so near war
prices for their beef.
DON'T put too many eggs in one bas-
ket. Don't venture upon paying ex-
orbitant prices for help. Don't go into
speculative enterprises which depend
upon the booms for success.
SHEEP have been paying better than
other farm animals for several wears.
There is good demand for mutton.
Medium wool has been selling we'll, and
medium wool grows upon the mutton
sheep.
THE hill lands of New England may
not be so inviting from the farmers
standpoint as the dead levels of the
great West, but there is this comforting
conclusion in regard to the situation
we are above water.
IT costs the farmers of Massachusetts,
| t'O,OOO q y cal W lnC DOIdlO
In small district of the state, north of
Boston, nearly an equal aggregate was
expended in 1891 to defend the trees
against the gypsy moth.
NEVER 90 away and leave the team
without tying them. When stopping
to load wagon always keep the lines
within reach. Have your mind upon
your work, use judgment at all times,
and you will avoid trouble.
CARE of pigs begins with intelligent
attention to the sow, whose health de-
termines largely the success of the
forthcoming litter. Several months be-
fore the sows farrow they should be
given clean, warm quarters.
IN turning horse out to pasture,
never Brighten him and make him run
away from you by striking him with the
halter or bride and yelling at him.
This is a mean, heartless habit and is
sure to make horse hard to catch.
A SHIPMENT of 21,00O sheep has
been made from Ell Paso, Texas, to
Freeport, ILL.,, there to be fed for three
months on grain and then sent to Chi
cago. The lot is largely made up of
wethers, only few ewes in the band.
SCIENTISTS have done great deal of
good by leading people to think for
themselves, but it is question whether
we would not be better off without
them than by accepting all their state
ments as true without carefully prov
ing them.
SUPPOSE this year gives us but half
crop of corn. The dairyman can con-
vert it into fve-sixths of a crop, and
that is not very bad. There is the half
crop of corn, and the fodder is another
third. Save both, and you have five
sixths of crop.
THE insane rushes that men and
women are making to get possession of
the reserved lands of the United States
now opened occasionally to settlement,
show what fierce question that of the
possession of land will be in the United
States in the course of a few centuries.
THE people of northern Illinois are
getting money much faster than the
people of southern Illinois because in
the northern portion of the state they
are paying more attention to dairying,
while in the southern part, where little
dairying is done, the land is growing
poorer all the time.
NINETY.NINE times out of one hun
dred if the pig is treated decently he
will not require any doctoring. If
some men were as careful to give the
best of treatment, as they are to doctor
on the appearance of anything wrong,
they would succeed better with their
hogs.
THE commissioner appointed by the
French government to investigate
American labor says in his report: The
American laboring classes are far better
paid, better fed, better clothed, bet
ter taught and happier than those of
France, and still more, than those of
other countries of Europe.
THE butter fat left in skim-milk is
usually referred to by dairy speakers
and writer's as "lost." This is not
quite correct, however, where the skim
milk is utilized. Even the small amount
of butter fat ordinarily remaining in