The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-21
Clipped and Condensed.
Do not breed from animals having
inherited tendencies TO disease.

n STABLE snOulu De dry, well llghted
and ventilated without causing currents
of air.
LOTS of men think it is all feed. 1t
is feed, too; but first 1t is breed, then it
is feed.
The first step to take, in preventing
the killing of sheep by worthless dogs,
is to kill the dogs.
THE closer the stable has to be kept
on account of the cold weather the
cleaner it should be.
LICE, damp quarters, crowding, ex-
posture to hot sun, ana impure water,
are all good agents for destroying the
profit in poultry.
HAVE soft good-dtting harness. Be
firm but kind in your treatment and
the horse will become attached TO you
and do good service.
A MAN with full share of gentle-
ness and milking rapidly will have the
same effect on the COW, in milk yield,
as tillage does on land
ONE of the cheering signs of the
times is the fact That this year the
South will probably grow the biggest
corn crop it ever grew.
PIGS in clover " is something more
than sentiment. 1t means clean,
wholesome pork, produced at the least
possible expense to tie grover.
LOOK around you aud ten to one you
will see that the farmer who keeps
little ahead is the one that takes the
largest advantage of good machinery
and good stock.
The British medical and horticul-
tural papers are renewing their attacks
upon American and Canadian apples,
because of an alleged use of arsenic in
transatlantic orchards.
IT is not so much the increased de-
mand that enables breeders to dispose
of their young stock; it is rather the
lowering of prices on the part of breed
ers which catches customers.
NEVER allow wagon to be used un-
til it is so dry that it creaks, as the We
hicle then needs increased power to
move it, and there is damage to the
axle and hub in the rapid wear.
USE only clean barrels and sort the
apples well, packing each grade sepa-
rately and marking it accordingly. Let
no good fruit go to waste. Dry what
cannot be marketed otherwise.
SMALL eggs are often the result of
overlooking, especially with corn and
other starcny food, when the fowls are
not laying. If the birds are over-fat
give no more food of a starchy nature.
IL the horse must stand in a draught
of air, he is better off out of doors. If
he must face the sun, better be out un-
der its rays. If he must fight the flies,
better be loose and have tair chance.
BE sure the hens have room enough
on the ground floor. Don't crowd
them. They must have room enough
in which to work, and work they must
if they are to be healthy and produc-
tive.
NEARLY everybody seems to favor
kindness and gentleness in handling
horses. Those who practice the oppO-
site are in the minority, but they are
hard to convert from the error of their
ways.
REAR the animal that natures young
and sells at less outlay. A well-fatted
lamb at six weeks Of age sells for as
much money as does a four-year-old
wether, and a well-fatted six-weeks
veal lOI do LluCA DO NOCo q NohlAh5'
THE man who feeds properly may get
twice or three times as much labor
out of horse as a man who " stuffs y
his stock or feeds in haphazard way
1t is not so much in the amount that is
fed as it is in the manner in which il
is given.
AFTER going along quietly and not
too rapidly for few miles, and the
horse becomes warmed up, his muscles
distended and he is relieved of the hay
eaten the night before, then push along
briskly and do the heaviest work of the
day. Don't hurry up the long hills.
In his report on education before the
national grange, Alpha Messer said
Every intelligent and observing mind
recognizes the fact that we are living
in progressive and intensely practica
age, and that old methods OF instruc
ton and hallowed traditions OF knowl
edge have much less influence upor
the thoughtful mind at the present
time than in former periods The in
tense activity and keen perceptions o.
the mass of distinctly American PEG
pie have resulted in spirit OF investi
cation and inquiry which seriously
threatens to break some Oh the luols o.
the past, and to set up in their place
some thing that is real and tangible
something that is practical as well a
theoretical. In years gone by 1t ha
been thought that all the knowledge
worth attaining has been locked up il
the classics and in the sciences, anC
that he who would unlock these store
houses of knowledge must spend tn
\ best years of his life in solving abstrus
4 problems and in porting over classica
Il literature, but such is not the case to
4 day. A very large class of men, an,
a women also, do not accept the dehnl
3 ton of education as a mere disciplininI
4 of the mind. They feel constrained
q to give it deeper and broader an'
a higher significance, and would have
q apply not merely to the intellectualit,
Il OF the individual, but to his capability
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