The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-16
Clipped and. Condensed.

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YES, it will pay any farmer to read
about his business, for, no matter how
experienced he may be, there are many
things he will never learn from his own
experience. To the farmer engaged in
dairying reading is especially BEN fetal.
THE pulling qualities of horse may
be materially developed. The reason
that one horse can pull much heavier
load than another of the same size and
weight is simply because be knows
how. This "know how" is what YOU
want to teach him.
THREE hundred bushels from ten
acres is far better than three hundred
from thirty acres. There is sound
philosophy and business sense as we'll
in the maxim of the "little farm well
titled" for the general class of farmers
whose capital is not large.
How frequently are we asked to vote for
corporation attorney for a legi, lative
office! How many of US have been fools
enough in the past to have voted for
theml An out and out corporation
agent or attorney is no fit representa-.
tive of anything but the corporations.
NOTICE the nonsense of farmers
bringing their clips to market with
filth attached that the sheep shears
should have removed, and of putting
an almost endless piece of Irvine on
each fleece, with the supposition that
barnyard manure and iute would pass
for wool.
To make the production of pork
profitable the stock must be kept grow
ing steadily from infancy until ready
for market. From three to four weeks
old is the most critic period, and it
often taxes the skill of the feeder to
tide over this period without unfavor-
able results.
THE facts show that the records of
great production have been followed by
years of continued large yields, and that
the cows which most distinguished
themselves in the dairy are the very
ones that have produced the famous
butter cows and bulls of succeeding
generations.
DON'T take off wire to save time
and let your sheep run through, and
then expect they will pay attention to
1t when you tack it on again. Don't
for an instant imagine that a sheep has
any brains. If you haven't enough to
go around for yourself and your flock,
don't keep sheep.
IT is not an exaggeration to say that
if all the butter made in the state were
made according to the methods taught
i'll our dairy school, it would increase
the market value many hundred thous-
and OF dollars every year. 1t would
double the profit of butter-making to
one-half the farmers.
NOTHING can be worse folly than to
whip a horse when he is frightened.
He doesn't get frightened because he
wants to. 1t is only because he has
seen or heard something that he is not
familiar with. After he once gets thor
oughly acquainted with the object of
his uDeasiness, it will never frighten
him again.
EVERY day that a sound, able-bodied
horse is not worked he is adding the
cost of his keep to the expenses of his
owner. 1t not only pays to keep horses
busy, but it adds to their value as well.
No work-horse of mature age is bene-
fitted by lay off of two or three days
out of the week if he is not used too
hard when he is at work.
hEIE dlC uulutIOuS ways VI LUZ
proving horse, or developing him, if
the matter is studied intelligently. 1t
will pay in dollars and cents to improve
any horse that is worth keeping. AS
this can be done while the ordinary
work required of the animal is being
performed, it need not take any of the
time of the trainer or the horse.
A WRITER cautions darymen to keep
| mushrooms out of the pasture. Now
if there is any place where mushrooms
grow more plentifully than in a COW
pasture we have never found it, and to
expect dairyman to go over forty
acre lot every morning before the cows
are turned out and pick up the mush-
rooms that have grown the previous
night is asking too much.
GEORGE Q. Dow thus writes to the
Poultry Yard: To show how little some
people know about poultry, a man
wrote me last week from the West ask
ing my price for trio of capons. Said
h. wanted two pullets, instead of hens,
and as fine capon rooster as had.
This man keeps large poultry estab-
lishment, with all kinds of fowls, and
yet doesn't know what a capon is.
AT the Iowa station the experiment
was made of feeding both oil meal and
| II ,xseed meal to cows to prove the
relative value of the two meals, and
also their effect upon cows in calf. The
feeding began with five pounds, and
this quantity was increased up to eight
pounds, which was all the cows would
eat. The results showed that the meals
were not injurious, even when fed lib
orally, and had no tendency to cause
abortion, the cows carrying their calves
the full time.