The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-06
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is sure to come is at most doubtful
blessing.
REST makes fat. Exercise makes
muscle. What we want in the horse is
muscle.
You cannot bring piece of poor
land up to its full productiveness in less
than three years.
HIGH priced feed must be accom-
panied by high priced skill in order to
make butter making pay.
IT is the comparatively young stock
going to the block these days which is
making money for the feeder.
THERE is no farm so we'll or i'll con-
Quoted but that one can gain knowledge
of something either to copy or-avoid.
TEACH the boys in practical way
that the farm Is the foundation of their
success in life, and they will not fee to
the city.
a PARLoR is all right if it is used for
the pleasure and comfort of the family.
The original meaning of the word is,
room for conversation.
To be told that farming can be made
great paying business without know
ing how it is done, is like seeing some
one else eat good dinner.
THE difference between making good
butter and bad is the difference be-
tween knowledge and ignorance; be-
tween carefulness and carelessness.
No fine stockman in the world has
been more successful than the American
swine-breeder in developing and i'm
proving upon the makeup of his herds.
BUTTER set away for the second
working should not be allowed to get
too hard. Better have but one work
ing and do that as soon as the butter is
made.
In dairying we must credit the bust
ness with the manure and the home
market for the feed the cows use. 1t
costs something to market hay, corn
and oats.
WHAT is the use in paying twelve to
twenty dollars service fee for colt
from a good horse and then making a
scrub of it by roughing it through the
first winter?
the COWS suffer with the cold in yard
and stable. A COW shivering with cold
will shrink in her milk and she should
be made comfortable at all times.
Their is no reason why the expert
ment stations should not demonstrate
the value of intensive farming to the
people, except laziness or incompe-
tence on the part of the men paid to
run them.
THE mares with foal have double
duty to perform. They must eat enough
to keep their own bodies well nourished
and then enough more to keep the
fGtus growing. See that they get
what they want.
FEED is proportioned to the bulk of
the animal, and wool to the surface,
other things being equal. A small
sheep, having more surface in proper
ton to its bulk, must also have wool in
the same proportion.
NINETY NINE times out of one hun
dred, when the farmer goes out to buy
cows, he is disappointed, as they are
not found to be such as were recon-
mended. Usually dairymen offer only
their poorest stock for sale.
AS far as practicable it is best to pay
as you go. Not only do you save the
time and trouble of keeping an account,
but you can save money by paying cash.
1t is better to do without some things
than to go in debt for them.
I" A MEDIUM sized herd of Jerseys
and flock of good sheep is what am
after. The first have, and the second
is coming. tell you the sheep help
out the farmer" So said an intelli.
gent, observing young farmer
SOME of the English papers are now
advocating the imposition of duties on
foreign grains. The Mark Lane EG'
press in particular seems to think that
Euglishmen owe it to themselves tC
place this tax upon the American pro-
duct.
THE successful farmer is not the
man that can hoard money while his
farm is being depleted of its fertility
but the one that can live we'll and re-
store to his farm the fertility that the
mismanagement of former occupant
has wasted.
IF overproduction means more thar
the world needs to meet the actual de-
mands, then there has never been
an overproduction. If overproductior
means more than the world is able to
buy, then we have an overproduction
pretty often.
RAPE is plant resembling a Swede
turnip in its habits of growth, with
the difference that the former has not
Dubious root like the latter. The
food which it produces, therefore, is al
obtained above ground, and is best fed
off by sheep.
THERE is no need of having de-
serted farms in this region which con-
tains as many advantages as any farm
ing section of the country. What We
need is educated men who will use
their brains in tilling the soil as wei
as their hands.
No single farmer, and no combina
ton of farmers, can force the butter
market up or down. But any man car
raise himself from being ten-cents. "a
pound dairyman, by making and market
ing the quality of butter for which peo
pie will pay twenty-five cents pound.
THE bulk of the milk of the country