The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-10-26
Clipped and Condensed.

THE farmer of the future will be a
different individual from the farmer of
the past.
breeding-ewes than for any other class
of sheep.
THE state agricultural soci ETY. of
Georgia was forty-six years old on the
9TH of August, 1892.
HAVE you stopped to consider the
effect of your complaints aud discomfort
upon the boys on the farm.
MICHIGAN turned out 5,94O 600 bar
rels of salt last year. There are lib
firms in the state engaged in the manu-
iacture of salt.
IT is simply marvellous how much is
given back again to the farmer for the
one dollar or the two dollars that he
pays for the agricultural paper.
No man is so capable of dire citing the
use of muscle to best advantage as the
one who knows how muscle may be
best utilized in his own personal expe-
rieuce.
UP to date it is claimed that the
Homestead strike has cost the mill
owners over S1,750,000, and the men
have lost in wages $3.50, 900. War is
always costly.
New ZEALAND is reported to have
207 900 mich cows, producing IS ,52l,-
600 gallons of milk annually. The milk
consumed is valued at S3,570,000, but
ter $685. 900 and cheese S5OS 900.
ROSES have enemies, but it is not
nearly so hard to succeed with them as
many flower lovers suppose More
insect pests yield to sprinklings of
hellebore in water or kerosene emul-
sion.
A VERY valuable quality in the hog
for the farmer is he will eat anything
that may be produced on the farm, and
not only this, but eat the wastes from
other stock which without him would
be lost.
"a GOOD mixer can milk from
eight to sixteen cows in an hour-all
owing to how they have been MIXED.
l have MIXED seventeen of mine in
one hour, two minutes and half" says
A. X. Hyatt, in the Dairy World.
IT must remembered that there are
oats and oats. There are many different
varieties of this grain, differing in their
nutritive qualities as well as in their
exciting properties, which latter may
be looked upon as a characteristic Pc
culiar to the species.
MOST farmers put their calves, even,
under favorable conditions for develop
ment; and yet many of them mentally
starve their boys. Shame on that lack
OF consideration which would give a
calf better chance relatively for de-
velopment than boy!
ANOTHER effort will be made in the
Kentucky legislature this fall to secure
the passage of an Interchangeable
bill. A year ago or so restrictive
measure was carried through the house
by large majority, but ii was defeated
in the senate. Always the senatel
1t is grand achievement to be able
to till farm from which ample reve-
nues are reaped, and to hand it down
to successor with the fertility rather
increased than lessened. Men who
handle farms in this way are alone de-
serving of the epithet of successful
farmers.
BUTTER-SALTING is science. The
secret of it is not understood by many
who have the working of the butter,
but be it once comprehended there will
be no further difficulty. The secret re-
ferred to is this: To leave just enough
water in the butter to convert the salt
into brine.
The Dairymen's Union of Califor-
MIA has issued an address to the dairy
men of the coast urging them to sign a
petition. to congress for the passage of
Hatch's anti oleomargarine bill, and
then to petition their own legislature to
adopt law prohibiting the sale of oleo-
margarine.
THE packing of rabbit meat in Aus
tralia is a rapidly-growing industry,
and these animals, which have been
considered pest heretofore, may be
great source of revenue yet During
the eight months ending August 81,
England imported 9,S39,000 pounds of
rabbit meat.
TIE market for choice mutton is
widening year by year. The writer
knows many people who a few years
ago would not eat mutton at all but
now prefer it to any other meat. They
had never tasted frst-cass mutton, and
were sickened by the taste of the infe-
rior article.
THE Ne,o England Farmer says en-
larged knees in cattle are due, without
doubt, to kneellng or slipping upon
hard floors. Veterinarians sometimes
treat the swellings by tapping at the
lower edge and allowing the contents
to leak out, but most of them advise
letting them alone.
A QUART of corn twice day to
twenty hens is supposed to be an allow
ance, but no estimate can be arrived at
as hens will not thrive on corn alone,
nor will all the hens in a flock eat alike
or prefer the same kind of food. When
feeding the hens give them a variety,
but never give them more than they
can eat up clean.
THE farmers of America are its great
conservative class. They are at the
same time laborers and property
ers. But, under no battle cry and by no
organization can the farmers of Amer
lea be brought TO support men who
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