The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-31

10 raise good horses and keep them
looking well and in good life, we must
not work the life out of them, espe-
cially not load them too heavy. That
is what makes old horses out of too
many colts.
No one has ever accomplished sue
cess in any branch of lfe's work with
out close application and unremitting
toll The defoition of genius some one
has given is willingness to take in
definite pains.
SOME men will sell their best COWS
II they can get few dollars more for
them than the poorer ones are worth
this is equal to pulling up the big stalks
of corn so that the little ones will have
a chance to grow.
THERE is no place where brains are
more needed Than on the farm, and the
farmer is the most important man in all
the relations of life. He is the man
who whitens Old ocean with the COM
MERGE of the world.
For curing pork new, clean barrels
are best. If barrel is used the Sec
ond time cleanse thoroughly, for if a
suspicion of faint is about It the meat
will be spoiled. Molasses barrels well
washed may be safely used.
THERE are some farmers and writer's
for farm papers who have declared that
it was a mistake for farmers to allow
the manufacture of milk into butter
and cheese to leave the farm. Time
may show that they were right
HAVE you good COWS? Do they pay
you we'll for the feed you give them
and the time spent caring for them? If
not, why not begin to investigate the
subject with a view to finding out
which cows are good ones and which
poor?
OVER one-half of the nursery stock
planted is generally lost by neglect, and
it is probable that fully half the crop of
fruit is lost from the same cause. Young
trees should be we'll cultivated and sum-
mer fruit picked in season and disposed
of at once.
BORROWING often makes hard feel
ings among neighbors and even some
times estranges friends. We all know
families that borrow everything from a
cup of flour to your sewing machine;
and it is proverbial of many borrowers
that they return nothing that they bor-
row.
GOLD POP CORN" will be on hand
at the Columbian Exposition. The sum
of S250,000 in solid cash has been de-
posted by twenty-five separate bidders,
each placing certified check for S10,-
600 as an earnest of his good faith and
intention to pop good corn faithfully.
The committee has had an offer of
$4,000, spot cash, for the popcorn
privilege.
OVER 943 100000 pounds of wool
were sold in the four great wool markets
of the world last year. London, which
is the largest market in the world, sold
100000 pounds, Melbourne Ill.,
100000 pounds, Boston 153,000,000
pounds, and Liverpool over 100,O00,0O0
pounds.
AT farmers institute in Wisconsin,
last winter, the wall was decorated with
flag on which was nicely lettered
"The Horse is King and the Cow is
Queen" Theo. Louis, upon taking
the platform at once remarked: "That
is al true, but where is the hog? He
is the banker
EVEN on good pasture some cows
will pay for lot of meal if fed to them
right; fed in the morning they 90 to
the field rather Indifferent as TO the
grass, eat little and lie down, but fed
at night they 60 to the field with good
appetites and fill up with grass before
they lie down.
WHEN the weather gets hot the cows
suffer more or less, and the effect on
the milk yield is apparent. While we
can't keep the cows entirely comfortable
in very hot weather, we can do much
to make such weather more bearable.
A night pasture, when it can be pro-
vided, is great help.
IN rich ground, such as good garden
soil, the weeds start readily and grow
their own will, they not only rob the
growing crop, but become more diff
cult to get rid of. The right time to
take them is when they are just peep
ing through the surface.
WHOEVER is loyal, honest and true,
and is affable and humane, whoever is
honorable, in himself, and in his iudg-
ment of others, requiring no law but his
word TO make him fulfill an engage
ment, such a man is a gentleman, and
scores of such individuals are found
among " tillers of the SOIL"
THOSE especially interested in en-
ploying farm labor, and close observers
of the labor problem the country over,
know that it is much of the time the
case that really desirable farm labor is
scarce. From current statements it
seems that other agricultural countries
are in somewhat the same fix.
SOUTHERN hard pine is credited with
the highest fuel value per cord among
large number of woods chemically ana
lyzed, and pitch pine (p. rigida) the
highest by weight. Equal weights of
hard and soft woods afford about equal
amounts of heat, but resinous woods
yield more than the non-resinous.
A HEN-HoUsE, whether or not in
tested with lice, should be annually
white-washed inside with the following
solution: To each gallon of whitewash
add six ounces of crude carbolic acid,
and then whitewash the entire inside