The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-27
Clipped and Condensed.

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DON'T try to make big days work
blowing until the teams get hardened.
IT would be too bad to get your bees
safely through the winter and then let
them starve.
THE better the condition of the cows
in spring the sooner they will respond
to green feed
FRANCE has 419 beet sugar factories,
which in 1890 turned out 1,092,661 ,155
pounds of sugar
ENsILAGE will make more milk than
clover hay but will not make any more
butter fat--if as much.
GET acquainted with your horses,
and you will find they have more sense
than you have been giving them credit
for.
Poor cows in spring have to pick up
in flesh before their owners notice
much difference in the quantity of the
milk.
In laying plans for rough food, for
summer or winter use, do not forget
the popular, proved and well-nigh per-
feet plant-common corn.
AN old dairy COW, which has ceased
to be profitable as mixer, is usually
worth more for leather and for fertil-
izer than for any other purpose.
The ease and absolute certainty of
growing asparagus, its earliness and
great value, should impel every land
owner to have plentiful supply.
BY observing, you will soon discover
considerable difference in the appe-
tites of your cows as we'll as in the re-
turns they make for what they eat
BECAUSE a man can feed a steer, q
horse or pig, is not positive proof that
he can feed dairy COW, but is proof
that he may become an expert cow
feeder.
IT is a well-known fact that our ma
tive-bred cattle, as we term them, will
stand exposure and give better returns
than will the pure-bred ones under like
conditions.
If man is shiftless and improvident,
be he farmer, mechanic or professional
man, no power under the sun can
make him prosperous or contented, or
keep him so.
A COW only requires food for the
body, but a man for both body and
mind. Here is one reason why many
dairymen would test low; they feed
only the body.
KANSAS never does things by halves.
The first idea of the average Kansan, if
he undertakes to patronize creamery,
is to milk 200 or 300 cows. He wants
to get rich in hurry.
THE March report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture gives III 100000
bushels as the quantity of wheat re-
naming in farmers hands-twenty-
eight per cent of the crop.
IT is bad practice to draw team
until entirely out of wind for fear they
cannot start the load if stopped. This
is frequent cause of wind broken or
balky and worthless horses.
THE Mirror and Farmer takes the
ground, with us, that ian agricultural
college should turn out farmers" If
not, then where is agriculture to get its
share of advantages from these institu-
tons?
MILKING and feeding at irregular
hours materially reduces the income
and often increases the cost of keeping
our cows. Success or failure in dairy
ing is determined by the care we give
our cows.
AT this season when the horses are
put to work after the winters rest, eX
ira care should be observed to avoid &C,
cidents, especially where hired hands
begin work with teams they never
handled before.
GOVERNOR HOARD says that the pea.
meal is the best feed for butter or milk
or to build up the muscles of the calves
and pigs. 1t is estimated that one
pound of pea-meal is worth six pounds
of bran as butter ration.
ARRANGEMENTS have been perfected
for sending large consignments of ap'
piles to London from Tasmania, where
the seasons being reversed from ours
the fruit is now ready for export. The
first lot is now on the way.
GIVE horse plenty of air and light
plenty of exercise, plenty of the right
kind of food, and plenty of clean loan
to eat, and he will always be in good
condition. That is the secret of the
success of Kentucky-bred horses.
A SHIP arrived at Boston lately from
Australia carrying $40 bales of wool
considered to be the largest cargo ever
landed at that port on sailing vessel
Another ship now on the way to Bos
ton from Australia has $3.50 bales or
board.
CANADA leads us by one-half to
three-fourths cents per pound for the
highest grade of cheese, of which ovel
1000 carloads were sold and shipped tC
Europe last year. If we expect to OBJ
tain Canada prices, we must make tha
brand.
SOME drivers will take more out of {
horse in going five miles over country
road than many others will in going
twenty miles. If hard drive of twenty
or thirty miles is before horse, star
out moderately. Do not whip or worry
or fret him.
MEN are born to work with mind al
we'll as body, but many of them feet
the body alone. The mind not receiv
ing proper food is dwarfed. Mind fooC
ia chaanar than cow feed vet thousand