The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-05-25
Clipped and Condensed.

Dlhli hOloCo CdTcltBb,
slovenly man.
IT isn't always the best man who
gets the biggest gravestone.
THE worst troubles that anybody has
are those that never happen.
GOOD driving horses are as valuable
to farmers as to any other class of bust
ness men.
THE more comfortable you make
your horses the more work will they be
able TO stand.
CLEAR the window of the soul of
cobwebs spider-weaved by prejudice
and unbelief.
AT no time is it desirable to feed |
poultry an exclusive grain diet; they
need more bulky food.
THERE were at the beginning of last
year S,097 artesian wells in the West
ern states and territories.
WHERE water at seventy degrees is |
added to fresh cream, the after ripen-
ing is much more thorough.
THE question of good roads is at
tracing attention throughout the United
States. 1t is vital question.
NOTHING new in corn growing was
brought out by any of the "corn spec
ials " of our exchanges this spring.
PREPARATIONS are being made in t.
cane acreage during the present year.
REDUCING the cost of production
rather than increasing the price of the
| product is the surest and shortest road
to profits.
WHEN man begins to think that
farm work is drudgery, it is time to
think of the poor-house; that is all he /
is good for.
TWICE the profit can be made when
the hog lies dry all the while; and be- |
sides that, the health of the hogs Isl
much better.
FLOCK masters should provide a sup
ply of salt for the lambs as we'll as the
older sheep, and thereby add to their
present thrift.
If hog does not relish his food he
is not doing his owner any good. Hell
will have an Indifferent appetite if the|
food is ever before him.
THIS spring villas every preceding
one has-witness the going to pastureI
of thousands of cows that have not paid|
for their winters keep.
Too many people fail in poultry
breeding because they shut up their
fowls in damp yards or houses, and fail
to appreciate the value of sunshine andI
dryness.
FEED makes eggs. Ground oats andI
corn, equal parts, their weight of bran,
and the mass mostened with skim milk,
makes a solid diet for the production of
eggs of high quality.
THE uniform daily ration of the|
French cavalry horse consists of sevenI
pounds of hay, four of straw and nine|
to eleven pounds of oats. They are|
not very large animals.
The breeder who can first show al
record of 500 pounds of butter as an av-
erage of herd of twenty cows will
have done more for the dairy breeds
than any one who has preceded him.
LOOK around you and see the hosts
who have incurred debt unwittingly, !
sunk helplessly in that veritable slough
of despond, the mire of credit, only|
another name for farming shipwreck.
Hoes fed on clean food should gain
at least one pound for every four and a
half pounds of grain used; man CAM
tell whether it is paying to keep them
or put his labor to other sources of
profit.
WELL informed English agriculture
lists attribute the prosperity of English
agriculture to the fact that British
farmers have their customers, the Britt
ish manufacturers, almost at their very
doors.
1T has been we'll said that she who|
never makes mistake never makes
anything" Yet it is only as far as we'
are taught how to shun misfortune that
the considering of past errors will BID
useful.
PROFESSOR ROBERTSON of the Oh
tawa, Quebec, Experiment Station
found that cow in high flow of milk
required about four ounces of salt daily
and that withholding the salt told very
decidedly on the yield.
EXPERIMENTS have established thd
identity between erysipelas and the re! I
suits of sumac poison. A simple rem1
edy for either is to coat the affected
part with a lather of strong common
potash soap-soft soap.
eyes, these here colleges are great
institutions" remarked Uncle Silas, re !
fecting. "What with their base bal |
and football, and rowin' of boats and
their studies, tell you college course
nowadays is es goods lib'ral eddica-
ton"
If we were to bring our lands BY
means of fertilization and cultivation
up to the standard of the wheat lands
in England, or even those of Belgium
we would double our average annual
wheat crop without increasing the
wheat area single acre.
. THE Rural NeW Yorker asks: " Why
not parcel post as enjoyed by other
nations? Why cannot Uncle Sam carry
our packages as we'll as our letters and
papers, etc., at first cost2' Surely, why
moi? Only the influence of the express|
company ring stands in the way.
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