The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-10
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done, especially out of the dairy COW.
NoTwITHsTANDINe the fact that the
country always abounds with poor
horses, we now have many men who
are horse poor.
SPIRITS of turpentine kills worms.
Two ounces make dose for full
grown horse--colts in proportion. Di-
Lutte before giving it.
The continued fertility of plowed
land depends in great measure upon
the conscientiousness of the farmer who
manipulates the soil.
AS Joseph Harris says, sheep can
stand dry, cold weather, but damp,
close, warm cellars, or wet barnyards or
sheds, are death to them.
BREEDING sows should never be
kept with fatteniDg stock; their food ia
unsuited, and great numbers together
always invite disease and accidents.
AN animal, of whatever kind, re-
quires a diversity Of food, and, wanting
something of this kind, it is not properly
nourshed, and then becomes diseased.
THE peddlers who have been using
conservative to prevent souring of
milk were lately arrested in Boston,
and some of them fined as high 800
each.
WE want a set of ifferently-quali6ed
common-school teachers. The French
government requires of the primary
teachers certificate of ability to teach
agriculture.
THE pig has the reputation of being
a filthy animal inclined to disease.
Neither of these two charges is truthful
when the pig is permitted to indulge its
own nature.
YOUR rigid disciplnarians are apt to
commit sad mistakes, especially as re-
CARDS children. They insist on making
boys and girls what heaven never in
tended them to be.
THE American Wool Reporter, speak
ing of the rough farms of New England
which are being abandoned and left to
grow up to brush, proposes that they
be stocked with sheep.
MARES in foal are apt to deceive their
attendants as to their real condition as
to flesh. A sort of dropsical obesity is
often present during the pregnant stage
which later on surprises and disappoints
the owner.
THE experience of farmers in all
countries proves that barnyard manure,
from animals fed on such rations as will
best develop them in order to produce
food tor mankind, is the most satisfac-
tory means of farm fertilization.
WHEN cream is sold or dividends are
made on the base of the amount of fat
in the milk as shown by the test, no
allo wance is made for mechanical waste,
nor for the amount of fat left in the but
ter-milk. The question of justice in
associated dairying is not yet solved.
MEEHAN's MONTHLY says that in
the Old World, where frst-class celery
is desired, instead of burying up the
plant in the earth they simply tie up the
leaves and then wrap them in coarse
brown paper. 1t is said that much bet
ter celery can be obtained this way than
by any other method of blanching.
VARYING creamability" seems to
follow loosely a general law that the
richer the milk the less fat there is left
in the skim milk. That is, with milk
averaging four per cent fat, there will
be probably three times as much fat
left in the skim milk as there will be
from five and one-half per cent milk.
SCIENCE has not left US entirely in
the dark as to the origin and character
of the poison in cheese. DR.. Vaughn
OF Michigan, by careful and persever-
ing analytical research, found the poison
to consist of sharp, needle-like crystals,
which he named tyrotoxicon. It's due
to ferment generated by uncleanness
AS stewards of the land in our hands
we owe it to our successors to sur
render the charge with the ordinary
wear only as the portion to which we
are entitled. Nothing short of that
selfshness inculcated by the hackneyed
maxim: "The devil take the hind
most" can do otherwise than concede
the justice Of this.
PROFESSOR HENRY states that count
ing the value of the corn plant as 100,
then sixty-three parts represent the ear
and thirty seven parts of the whole are
found in the stalk, leaves and husk.
The proportion of value between solid
and liquid manure is not quite the
same, but pretty near-forty-tive rep
resents the value of solid and fifty-fve
the liquid
the morning and the pungent odor
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think of preventing it. Some horses
are so saturated with this smell from
urine dried in their skin as TO be
smelled from quite distance on the
road Men carefully protect their car
riage from this odor, lest the varnish
should be spoiled, but never think how
much more sensitive are the nostrils },
eyes and lungs of the horse.
THE farm is at rest, nowadays, and
there is little to do except caring for
the stock, and some will dawdle and
putter over the work all day, instead of
going at the job as if getting ready to
go to town. Try the plan some day,
holding the watch over yourself, and
see how much time is actually needed
to attend to every detail toeU. There
will nenerally be surnlus of time which