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

FEED at regular hours and a regular
amount if you mean to have steady
growth.
IT is estimated that 10000 900 of our
45,000,0 900 sheep are west of the Mis-
sissippi.
WE feed the steer for beef and the
dairy COW for milk; why not feed the
horse for muscle?
FEW men can stand sudden prosper
ity. Many have been ruined by big re-
turns in speculations.
For walking, trotting, strength and
disposition it is just as necessary to
have the farm team evenly matched as
the driving team.
If you only wish to keep over a small
number of stock hogs, yet desire to be
sure of goodly number of pigs, better
put your faith in old sows.
IT is natural for sheep to be led, and
not driven. A shepherd in the old
country never drives sheep. "They
know his voice and they follow him."
THE woods pasture in the fall is a
healthy place for the hogs, and they
will pick up much food there that could
not possibly be used in any other way.
WE would caution all orchardists
against using so dangerous thing as
tarred paper for any purpose, where it
comes in contact with the bark of any
tree.
MELONS were called canteloupes
from being cultivated at Canteluppi, a
village near Rome, where they had
been introduced by missionaries from
Armenia.
THERE is no doubt that a large
share of the hysterical girls, and the
boys who have tendency to inebriety,
owe their condition to the tobacco hab-
its of their fathers.
THE most important point in hog
raising is the proper selection and
mating of the parents; healthy and per-
feet offspring cannot be expected from
imperfect parentage.
THE American Cotswold Record As
ISOLATION will give 5000 in cash prizes
for Cotswolds in the breeding and fat
stock show classes of the Worlds Co
lumbar Exposition.
WITH half the attention paid to the
development of draft and farm horses
that is paid to trotting and running
horses there would be more money in
the horse business generally.
THE scrub horse has a mission. He
is needed by men who think it neces-
sary to jerk on the lines every time
they want to turn, and kick the horse
when they want him to stand over.
Do you know that farming is the
most important occupation of man?
Do you know that it requires more
ability to properly take care of farm
than of any other kind of business?
PROFESSOR w. A. HENRY found by
experiment that it cost 1891 to pro-
duce a hundred pounds of gain with
lambs, and 5000 to secure the same
gain with pigs of about the same age.
A GOOD judge can usually tell
whether horse is intelligent and hon.
est by looking at him. Still some
horses, like some men, conceal a
treacherous disposition by an honest
face.
THE horse needs full feed just as
| often as the owner does. Professor
Sanborn's experiments " seem to show
that rather large ration of grain for
work horses is an economical one" OF
| course.
HAVE capitalists a right to seize
laborers to coerce them into contracts
dictated by capitalists? Or have labor
ers right to seize capital and coerce
capitalists into contracts dictated by
laborers?
KEEP the boar in lot by himself,
and turn the sows in to him at proper
time, instead of permitting them to run
together promiscuously, and you will
avoid the trouble of small filters and
small pigs.
IT is not work that kills, but worry.
1t is not the revolution that destroys
the machinery, but friction. Work is
good for the soul, good for the body
and good for the mind. If you want to
stand well with yourself and the world,