The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-17


In her sees Natures sweetest charm.
Fam, Journal
A GOOD way to manage a neighbor
who keeps sheep-killing dogs, is to give
his child lamb or two.
New YORK state now has 767 subor-
dinate oranges, and has aimed Aha
members within year.
TAKING it one year with another.
there is as much or more money in hogs
as in any other kind of live stock.
IT costs no more to harness and hitch
your teams just right, and it may be
worth great deal to you in the end.
SUMNER BoARDER: "Why, I'm told
that silk tassels grow on cornl"
Farmer: 4" Yes, miss, regular gros-
grain silk it is, too"
FROM 100 barrels of apples, as ordin-
arily sold, seventy-fve barrels could be
selected that would sell for more money
than the whole hundred.
WE don't value good pasturage as
we should do. 1t takes the place of
hay and grain, makes good milk, and
readily fattens dry stock and steers.
EARLY development is all right if it
does not mean early destruction. There
is vast difference between the two.
To develop does not mean to destroy.
WHY can't we give the president
one term of six years instead of this
present arrangement? Once in four
years is too often to turn things upside
down.
THE Jersey Bulletin reminds its read
ers that the best preservative known is
cleanliness and the next best is cold
ness. Mix the two and you get as
near perfection as possible.
DON'T forget mother when picnics
and good times are in order. Don't let
her do all the hard work. And, boys,
treat her to some fresh air every day
behind that newly-broken colt.
THE surest way to make leaky
purse is to turn the cows day after day
into failing pasture, causing steady
shrinkage of milk which cannot be re-
covered before the next calving.
WHAT is wanted is a better crop of
some kind on that rundown grass field.
An improved farming-successfu farm
ing-calls for less light grass and more
of other crops of some kind in its
place.
GAIN the confidence of your horse
and you will usually be safe in any
emergency. You can only do this by
self-control. The man who cannot
control himself can never control his
horse.
For years we have been prding our
selves on our choice breeding, and the
increase of good stock, but the fact still
stares one in the face that the per cent
of really good horses is still altogether
too small.
HORSES from the Western ranges
have not cut as much OF figure in the
Eastern horse markets as some feared
they would few years ago. Not many
desirable horses have been brought out
from that source.
THE road question is now promi-
nently before all the farmers organiza-
tions of the country. The members of
the oranges of Pennsylvania have
agreed to secure equal taxation first,
and good roads afterwards.
IFyou will try as hard to win your
boys love as you at one time did TO
win his mothers, you will attain to
position of influence in his heart which
will enable you to direct the current of
his entire life into proper channels.
WIRE-NETTGNG over the windows
and wire doors in the large houses, and
the same over the fronts of coops will
keep out marauders of all sorts, and let
in an abundance of fresh air, two inn
portant considerations for the season.
THE dairymen who supply milk to
Philadelphia are organized and have
brought the city milkmen to terms
The farmer now sets the price, and not
the dealer. And the price is fair one
to the producer and just to everybody.
PAsTURAGE is not good unless it con-
tains variety of grasses with fertility
enough to force luxurious growth.
Then a thick mat of feed will result
from spring to fall, grasses that mature
early being replaced by those coming on
later.
NOT one out of ten horses is hitched
up just right. Look around at the
teams on the streets or in the fields,
and you will find this statement true.
A good horseman could make sugges-
tons to advantage on the hitching of
nearly every team ne sees.
II is not necessary to double the herd
to double the profit. Three hundred
pounds of butter per COW will not cost
great sum more than two hundred
or one hundred fifty, and yet the yield
will return much more money and far
larger percentage of profit.
Z" How savagely that COW looks at
me-" said young woman--a summer
boarder-to a farmer. Its your red
parasol, ma'am," he answered. "Dear
mel" she exclaimed: g l knew it was
little out of fashion, but did not sup
pose country COW would notice it,"
WHEN will the farmers see the need
of combining aud sticking together as
well as all other classes? Not till they
do it can they expect anything but to
have their noses held on TO the grind
stone while the millionaire turns the
wheel and the political dude gets the
office.
lT will pay to look after the pastures.
By supplying needed grass seed. one