The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-28
Clipped and Condensed.

SOUND seed.corn once thoroughly
dried will endure much grief with
out losing its vitality.
No agricultural subject is attracting
more attention in Wisconsin Just at
this time than sheep husbandry.
AN Irishman remarks that he can al
ways tell an American agricultural i'm
plement because it has seat to ride on.
CONSCIENCE is not an infallible
guide, but it is an excellent guide ; and
we have faith in those who follow their
own consciences.
A PROLIFIC cause of horses running
away is the custom of leaving them un-
attended after passing through gate
while the driver closes it.
THREE meals on weekdays and two
on Sundays, with long waits between,
especially for the younger members, in
terferes with digestion and frets the
mind.
THE stock cry with the oeomargarne
dealers is that the poor people want it
as a substitute for butter. If this is
true, why don't they sell it for what it
is worth
MANY people pride themselves on
being practical farmers, simply because
they cling with tenacity to old and tried
ways without any attempt to avail
themselves of new discoveries.
IT seems that the outcome of the
wheat crop, as far as threshing has been
completed, is very much mixed but,
on the whole, it looks as though the
yield would not be quite as great as was
at one time expected.
IT is no fun TO try diluting milk in
Germany. According to the Mich
Zeitung, farmers wife was given three
months and two of her servants three
days for diluting the milk to the extent
of thirty per cent
IT appears now as if we have seen
the lowest price of butter that we will
see this year. For little while butter
was in over-supply, but now prime but
ter is in demand and will be likely to
continue to be so for many months.
IF people were more systematic in
cleaning out the hen-house, and to see
that it was even attended to half as often
as the horse stable is cleaned, there
would be less than half the cholera
there now is. Filth breeds disease.
BUYING for cash not only gives one
the advantage in buying cheaper, but to
become known as cash buyer leads to
the conclusion that the selling must of
necessity be for cash also; hence the
man who always pays cash is seldom
asked to sell on credit.
THERE is general complaint among
farmers nowadays that " farming don't
hor
neighborhood who do make it pay. If
every farmer were as good as they,
this cry would soon cease. Let us
study why and how they are success
full.
THE wheat in the Northwest that re-
NAMED in stacks throughout the winter
deteriorated so much in quality that
the farmers find it almost impossible to
get rid of it. Large quantities have
been shipped to Montreal, but sold at
so low rate that it would not bring the
freight charges.
WOODEN goods have almost entirely
displaced jeans and other cotton wraps,
ana in this way the use of wool has
greatly increased. The following shows
the consumption per CAPITA 1910, 4.49
pounds; 1850, 5.5S pounds; 1860, 6.S4
pounds; 1870, 1893 pounds; 1880, SOB;
pounds, 1890, 9,07 pounds.
MAIZE is the most valuable cereal
crop in this country, 1t not only fur
nishes the principal food for the horses,
mules and work oxen of the whole
country, but it is the prime article for
fattening pork, beef and feeding mich
COWS and other kinds of stock II also
furnishes large part of our popula-
ton with bread.
FEEDING horse principally on grain
and driving it five hours without water
is like giving man salt mackerel for
dinner and not allowing him to drink
before supper time-very unsatisfac-
tory for the man. If you know any,
thing about the care of horses and have
any sympathy for them, water them as
often as they want to drink.
DRINK nothing without seeing it;
sign nothing without reading it, and
make sure it means no more than it
says. Don't go to law unless you are
forced to and have nothing to lose.
In any business, do not wade where
you cannot see the bottom. Put no de-
pendence on the label on dog, and
count money before you receive it.
ONE of the best permanent labels we
ever used is a common tree label, or a
piece of pine, with a thin coating of
white lead paint on which the name is
written with lead pencil. The paint
should be so scant as not TO clog the
pencil, in which case the white lead and
the graphite Casually called black lead)
form combination that bids defiance
to the weather for years.
WE hear much of the agricultural de-
preston of England, and it must be
very marked indeed. With no protec-
ton on any products, wool, beef, NUT
ton and pork flow to that island from
distant parts OF the world in continu.
GUS stream. While wheat-growing has
degenerated and cattle production
proved scarcely profitable, the number
of sheep on the island of Great Britain
has steadily increased Of all aoricul-