The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-07

on all the farms of the state had their
heads cut off.
THERE is no way to hold COWS up to
their milk well but to milk in the barn
the year round.
FARMING may not be rapid money
making business, but is usually sure
and always honorable.
WHEN fair price is offered for per-
ishable property it is generally best to
sell rather than to hold.
IT should be remembered that with
fall pigs it is very important to have
warm quarters to winter in.
INFERIOR grades of sheep and lambs
are in much too plentiful supply at Chi
cago, and consequently are selling very
poorly.
at is already known to me-" said
the Shah of Persia, when he was invited
to the Derby, "that one horse goes
faster than another
THE man that curries we'll one day
and gives lick and promise the next
will not find that his care in this direc-
ton counts for much.
MEN who are working by the day,
and are willing to leave the hoe in mid
air when the whistle blows never rise
above degrading position.
THE work of the farm is done on a
walk. The difference between a fast
gait and slow gait makes a great diff
terence in the work accomplished.
OUR experience in fall blowing for
lessening the cut-worm nuisance leads
us TO believe that their larve will not
endure repeated freezing and thawing.
THE total acreage of Scotland is 49,
946,6S4. Of this comparatively small
landed area, one nobleman owns 1885,
900 acres and his wife 1859 acres
more.
THE Northeastern Miller estimates
the wheat crop of Minnesota and the
Dakotas at 10000 bushels less than last
year, which would be about 106,000,000
bushels.
WHATEVER may be the value of oats
and pease sown together as a general
forage and grain crop, they are cer-
tainly unrivalled for green feed in the
midsummer months.
IN blowing, this fall, keep the matter
of surface drainage always in mind
Land, water-soaked cannot produce
crops Flowing round and round a
piece spoils the drainage.
IT is a fact that well-bred animals
are kept in good condition most easily,
fatten more rapidly, and hence are the
most economically fed. These are the
points that make them of value.
EXPORTERS of fat cattle to the Brit
ish markets now refuse to buy natives
unless they come from Illinois, Iowa or
Nebraska or northern states. Missouri
and Kansas cattle are excluded.
A CALIFORNIAN reports a clip of
10000 pounds of mohair this season
from his Angora goats. He says it is
in great demand by Eastern factories
for pushes, yarns, ladies' dress goods,
etc.
EVERY wool-producing country but
this is said to produce more than it
uses, and exports part of its clip
every year, but the United States pro-
duces less than one-half enough for its
own consumption.
SCIENCE in agriculture, under the
fostering care of Armour, Swift q Co.,
the big three of the Chicago stock yards,
has elevated the Texas steer TO an
equal footing with the Jersey COW for
the production of " creamery butter"
PROFESSOR SANBoRN, after careful
experiments in feeding green and dry
timothy to steers, says there seems to
be no appreciate difference in the d.
gestibility of timothy when fed green
and when fed after being properly
cured.
THE government of Russia is plan
ming great works to prevent the recur-
renee of such condition as now exists.
A fund of S10,000,000 has been set
aside to build elevators and places for
the storage of grain in all of the varions
districts.
AS a general rule large COWS require
more food for support than small ones,
but not in proportion to size. Indeed
there is no principle in the matter of
universal application. 1t depends some
what on the breed and more on the in
dividual animal.
A MAN who is deeply in earnest acts
upon the motto of the pickaX on the
old seal, "Either l will find a way or l
will make one" In self-culture as in
everything else, to think we are able is
almost 10 DC SO, 10 resOINe 10 dlJdIu is
often attainment.
THE Rockford, Iowa, Register lately
told of farmer there who cuts his hay
with self binder, claiming for that
method that the hay was more easily
secured, easier to cure by shocking, and
more compact to handle and put in
stack, and handler to feed in winter
THE browning mistake most farmers
make is in dividing their best thought and
effort. Because the farm does not al
ways yield them ready money, they run
off after the strange gods of an agency
for this, that, or the other thing, or odd
jobs of some kind. 1t is an easy mat
ter to discover who does these things,
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