The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-03
Clipped and Condensed.

EXCESSIVELY fat hogs are drug in
the market, are disliked by consumers
and are not profitable to the producers.
AN old goose will hatch more Cos
iings and raise more of them than
young goose. As the old geese are not
salable it is better to sell off those not
intended to be used as breeders.
DON'T let the cows have access to the
horse-manure they will eat enough of
it to make the butter bitter. They
don't eat it on account of the salt in it,
for when they have all the salt they
want they will still eat the horse
manure.
WE must have an object in view
when we feed cows, and should keep
that object steadily in view. If we
make butter, our choice of feed should
include those kinds best adapted to that
purpose; if for milk, then we should
feed those feeding stuffs that produce
the greatest yield of milk.
A CARELESS or incompetent black
smith will, in sharpening a plow, so
bend and warp it as to increase its draft
while destroying its ability to do good
work. This is oftenest done by bend
ing the point sidewise or up and down.
A straight line drawn along the land
side or sole of a pillow should touch at
every point from heel to point.
THE deep cracks that come in the
fingers of us farmers when doing rough
work are very troublesome and hard to
get rid Of. find that with fine
needle and silk thread they can be
drawn together so as to give relief and
allow them to heal. Run the needle
through the thick skin, across the crack
little angling, then start back near the
place where the needle came out, and
so on, being careful not to 60 into the
quick.
THE business man in town, who
earns say 81 800 year, is no better off,
and is really not making any more
money, than the farmer who apparently
earns half as much. The chances of
failure in almost every other line are
greater than in agriculture, as the far
mer usually can, in even the worst sea-
son, make enough for his support with
out cutting into his capital, but with the
merchant bad season means an in
road upon his capital for the means of
subsistence.
IN commenting on the fact that
the Investigations of the dairy COM
missioner of New York have dis
closed that the average yield of the
cows of that state does not exceed
5000 pounds of milk, or 1875 pounds of
butter, the Indiana Farmer expresses
great surprise, and says "there is a
screw loose somewhere" and that
there is no business on the face of the
earth conducted in the haphazard, UNI
certain, trust-to-luck fashion that dairy
ing is on the average dairy farm" and
until the farmer wakes up to his own
deficiencies, he need not expect any
profit in the business.
SIR j. B. LAwEs has been growing
wheat continuously on the same land,
without manure or rotation, for forty
seven years, at Rothamstead sta
ton. His forty-seventh crop, last
year, yielded on one acre nineteen and
three eighths bushels and on another
twenty and three-eighths. He says that
there has not been year in the whole
forty-seven when his wheat yield from
this land was not greater than the aver
age of the world. When twenty BUSH
els can be grown at the end of forty
seven years of such treatment, by tillage
alone, in an old country like england,
it is certainly well for us to revise some
of our American ideas.