The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13
Clipped and Condensed.

CLOVER hay makes richer manure
than any other hay, and for this reason
alone should never be sold off the farm.
THE pork packers of Limerick, Ire
land, import American hams, and cure,
brand and sell them as their own goods,
which have an enviabe reputation.
THOSE dairymen who have plenty of
good clover hay will find it very valu-
abe-more 50 than usual, we believe
on account of the high price of grain
feed.
The corn required to produce one
hundred pounds gain upon sheep is less
than that for cattle, because sheep more
perfectly mastlcate and digest their
food.
WE don't believe that it will pay to
grind the cob merely for the nutriment
that may be in it, but it may pay to
grind it for the purpose of diuting the
corn meal.
SUCCESS on the farm depend upon
united and energetic effort. Dissen-
sions in the family circle will under
mine the constitution and neutralize
your best efforts.
HORSES of regular habits are useful
longest. Let the feeding be regular,
the work regular and the care uni
formly good, and there will be little
trouble with the horses.
THE Maine cattle commissioners have
discovered tuberculosis in cattle lately
imported from Massachusetts, and
have voted to prohibit the importation
of cattle from that state.
IT is not often that our wheat crops
or any other crops are so great that they
cannot be taken care of, but this seems
to have been the case in a part of the
Dakotas the present year.
CLOVER sends feeling roots down
deep into the soil and brings up fertility
that has leached down, leaving il within
The reach of more surface-feeding plants,
like timothy, wheat, corn, etc.
GOOD clover hay is decidedly better
than timothy. 1t is about equal to oats
by analysis, pound for pound 1t is
grand for sheep, cows or horses. Prop
erly grown in rotation, it will bring up
your land, while timothy exhausts it.
CLOVER makes the best hay to feed
dairy cows. If fed with corn meal, it
makes about as complete ration for
the production of fine butter as can be
fed, taking into consideration the pres
ent high prices of other kinds of grain
feed
The parts of an animal hardest to
produce to perfection bring the highest
price. You cannot grow hog all ham,
but you can increase the size of the
ham in your herds. Never use " cat
hammed" animal for breeding pur-
poses.
SHEEP answer more purposes in the
economy of man than any other animals,
and corn than any other grain. The
two together, judiciously joined, are a
happy combination which produces the
best, cheapest and yet most valuable
flesh-food.
MANY dairymen find more profit in
selling cream than in churning it and
selling butter. In all cities, large and
small, there is demand for good cream
and the price is generally fair one,
not varying so much as butter, for it is
easier to make good cream than good
butter.
To listen to the boasts of national
wealth and prosperity, one would sup
pose the people had no needs. But,
the fact still remains that in the face of
the increasing wealth of the past fif-
teen years, farm property has steadily
decreased in value. This dreadful fact
cannot be denied.
A MAN who raises early lambs uses
milk COW as an assistant. There are
ALWAYS more or less lambs which would
do better if they had more milk. He
has trained cow 10 act as "wet nurse"
1t is an interesting sight to see four
lambs hanging to her mammary gland
and working for dear life.
Cows are so fond of clover hay that
they will eat it clean, stalks and all, I'M
less fed too literally; but it is one of
mix with meal, on account of the readi-
ness with which it absorbs water, and,
if the water be hot, it will make hay al
most as palatable as green clover.
IT is safe to say that no discovery
has been of greater benefit to butter
makers than that of producing butter
in granular form. 1t is the correct
way, for, if butter is allowed to gather
iu the churn, the buttermilk is locked
in, and, in attempting to work it out, the
butter may more or less injure in grain.
IT is an old saying that "lime en-
riches the father and impoverispes the
son." The scientists are opposed to its
use, but this is because people are in
danger of believing it is manure, when
it is not, but only sets the manure free
that is in the ground, and thus will
leave the land very poor, il not MANFRED
heavily.
"THERE is nothing more satisfactory
to dairy enthusiast" says the Dairy
World, "than to examine good
cheese. To the touch it will be mellow,
yet firm. Its rind will be of even hue,
elastic and free from puffs, and the
sample will reveal firm, close-grained,
mealy cheese, buttery, and of nutty
: flavor"
A MAN will work harder for five dol
lars day than for one; but when he
discovers that the five will buy no more
, than the one did, his unwonted indus
! try is apt to vanish. The profit of such
, mutations goes chiefly to spectators