The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-30
Clipped and Condensed.


Who robs his land and wastes manure
Who blindly wrestles with the thought
OF getting something out of naught.
A CARELESS man is particularly use
less on farm.
COLD pigs cannot be expected to do
much growing.
Cows appear to thrive without exer-
else, but horses never do.
HAY in the manger all the time re-
suits in serious disorders.
GENTLE COWS are worth more than
nervous, wild or excitable ones.
THE dog question is ably stated as
being $4,000 dog owners versus $500
sheep owners.
NEARLY all cows can be made gentle,
but it is cheaper to buy the gentleness
already in them.
IT is impossible to estimate the dam
age and loss that may be sustained by
one bad cross in breeding.
In buying cows don't Judge them
altogether by the amount of milk they
give; quality counts as well.
Pres that are kept through the win
ter need some kind of bulky food, and
for this purpose clover is about the best.
ONE bushel of corn is worth two bush
els of oats for fat; one bushel of oats
is worth two of corn for bone and
muscle.
A STREAK of lean and layer of fat,
the latter not too thick, is what the
consumer demands. Can you meet his
requirements?
A NERvY span of horses will draw
their load just as easily and travel
third farther, one day with another,
than the heavy, sluggish team.
THE workingmen of America have
all power in their hands, and all they
have done with it, so far, is to entrust
it to politicians who sell it to the high
est bidder.
If colts are worth raising at all they
are worth raising well. Better take
them out and shoot them now, rather
than staive them through the winter
and stunt them for life.
Do you know any farmers that have
spring pigs weighing seventy. five
pounds each, when they should weigh
at least LIS pounds? Do they say that
pig growing don't pay?
Do we want our abandoned New
England farms reoccupied after ALP
They are not half as numerous as has
been claimed. Many of these farms
really ought to be allowed to grow up to
wood.
The state of Washington is won
derful state in more ways than one. 1t
produces wheat, hops, lumber, fruit,
.fn and of No oil
he has COW which gives beer instead
of milk.
The extensive breeding of trotters
from almost anything that has record
will give rise to multitude of horses
that are neither trotters, roadsters,
general-purpose animals or anything
else of any value.
WHEN farmer undertakes to cart
his farm products to market team that
will draw say 5000 pounds is only half
as expensive as the one that draws but
| 1000 pounds, the cost of drivers, feed
and all things considered.
So long as we have the scrub"
| farmer, just so long will our stock yards
descriptions which he invariably throws
! vi lu0 llhI hcl dL !OsS W nlluSell anu
! probably 10 the consumer.
So large part of farm work is now
! done by horse labor that the efficiency
of farm help is necessarily measured by
that of the teams they use. 1t does
not pay to employ tirst-class men to fol-
low second-class teams.
DYNAMITE has been superseded in
Sweden for blasting purposes. Electric
wires are introduced in the rock and
then heated. The sudden heating of
the rock rends it in pieces, quietly and
effectively, without peril to human life.
BY the application of brains to the
problem OF creating betterco through
breeding, feeding and care, the Danes
are producing nearly three times the
butter they were few years ago, and
that, too, with about the same number
Of cows.
THE Rural World forcibly remarks
The only reason why the sheep indus
try does not extend itself is because of
| the unclaimed, unchecked, night prowl-
Ing, woltish hound; the most worthless
thing that walks the earth and the most
contemplate.
Nv ObS ACOu ~ W y W Ou-
! gage in fruit raising with the idea that
he can take life easy A lazy man has
no success in that line. 10 keep a
trult farm in a healthy and money
making condition requires hard and
constant work, and plenty of it.
If YOU were going to grind 100000
pounds of flour you would not run a
steam engine eighteen months if you
could grind the same amount in twelve
months. Why? Because you could
save the fuel for six. You do not want
TO run the hogs system for eighteen
months to get 400 pounds of pork if
you can get that amount in twelve
months.
THE adaptation of DIR. Bulls Cough
! SyruD to the cure of all diseases of the