The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29
Clipped and Condensed.


be injured by cleanliness.
WHEN you talk to man about his
sins, don't stand over him with club.
KEEP better stock and keep it better,
is the "stock" theme now. Not bad
one.
Few men have the knack to handle
more than a hundred fowls and care
for them properly.
MANKIND will be most prosperous
and happy as each individual applies
himself TO that for which he is best
fitted.
IT has been said that what the short
horn is to cattle, the Dorking is to poul-
try. 1t is essentially the meat-produc-
ing fowl.
BREED goes in at the mouth" for
to feed, as the principal factor, must
the major part of all stock improvement
be ascrlbed.
AS a rule, a setting hen is nearly
always fat, and to prevent her from
setting simply keeps her in a condition
unfavorable to laying.
THE greater part of injuries received
from bulls are done by the so-caled
gentle kind; just as it is that the gun
not loaded is the one that kills.
THE New York oleomargarine law
has had an amendment made to it
that prohibits any family furnishing
their domestics oleomargarine for cook
ing or eating purposes.
THE draft of farm machine is in
creased by allowing the parts that work
ugon each other TO rust. The man
that shelters his farm machinery saves
his horses as well as his machines.
DON'T imagine ten-acre pasture
will support innumerable cattle. The
result of overstocking pastures is death
to the pastures and starvation to the
COWS, and those are dead losses to you.
ALTHOUGH the Merino wool will not
supply the place of coarser materials
for the manufacture of some fabrics,
yet it will come nearer than any other
one grade in supplying the wants of
man.
COMMON horses will become more
and more drug on the market as fast
as the cities begin to use electricity and
cables instead of horse traction for
street cars. This they are doing rap
idly.
T. B. TERRY has much to say about
always being on time. If a man plans
right, he will always be on time. Work
done when it should be done and done
as it should be done, always gives good
results.
In several breeds the butter produc-
ing capacity has been so generally de-
veloped that exceptional results might
in any case be attained by exceptional
skill and knowledge on the part of the
feeder.
Mr.. THAYER of Wisconsin who
grows berries commercially, said:
"The secret of laying down black
berry or raspberry plantation is to bend
below the dirt line and not above. You
must do the bending in the root"
THE best way to salt horses is to
have little compartment in one corner
of the feed box, in which keep lump
of rock salt. Neither cattle nor sheep,
and not even hogs, will eat too much salt
if it is kept always within their reach.
SOME bright road improvement fell
low went into print with the urgent adj
vice to get the roads photographed
while they were bad and show them to
farmers after they become good, so
they will not forget. Very good idea,
that.
THE farmer should realize that farm
ing has not yet reached perfection; that
improvements are possible in thous-
and things; and his constant study and
careful observation should be to dis
cover the better plan, says the Anaert-
can Homestead.
IN Stratford, Conn, from March l,
1891, to the same date in 1892, the yield
of George Bentley's herd was: Pounds
of milk, $50; money value, S556.51;
average price per cwt., 20; average
per month, sixteen cows, 1888; aver
age per year, one COW, "a so.
THE milk supply of New York for
the month of April was 5,SS3,070 gall
Ions of fresh milk, of which 305, 197 was
bottled. In addition there was used
$4,000 gallons of unsweetened con-
densed milk, and 141, 1913 gallons of
cream. The price to the farmers was
two and one-half cents per quart.
THE needs which pigs have for salt
and ashes are we'll known, but not gen.
orally practiced. While pigs are roam
ing in the fields and woods they do not
need the ashes, but when confined to
their winter quarters, and fed concen-
trated food, weekly supply of wood
ashes will be of inestimable value to
them.
ACCORDING to the Denver Great Di-
vide, flowers can be preserved in their
natural form and color by inserting
their stems in water in which twenty
five grains of ammonium chloride (sal
ammoniac) have been dissolved. They
can be preserved in this way for fifteen
to thirty days. To preserve them per-
manently for several months, dip them,
bloom and all, into perfectly limpid
gum water, and then allow them to
drain. The gum forms complete
coating on the stems and petals, and
preserves their shape and color long
after they have become dry.