The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07
Clipped and Condensed.

WHEN grain leaves the farm, the farm
suffers loss, no matter where the grain
goes.
IN no place about the farm is there
such wasteful extravaganza as in caring
for the poultry.
GROUND feed is best for colts, as thew
will take it better and get more nour-
ishment from it.
THE time to look after the growth of
young stock is all of the time until
maturity is reached.
If proper care is taken at the start
there is no necessity for stock on the
farm getting breachy.
A TEMPORARY dminution in the
gross crops means better prices. Bet
ter prices will stimulate better farming.
WE have discovered that lambs are
fond of salt before they care to eat hay
or grain. Why this is so we can't say.
SHOULD the horse become costive,
give few feeds of boiled barley. Ex-
perience with the above teaches its
beneficial results.
A WOMAN in Ohio has a churn which
has been in her possession fifty-five
years and which has made over SIC, 900
worth of butter.
To make cheese instead of butter is
not improving the farm. No fertility
caves the farm in butter-tub, but it
does in cheese cloth.
WHEN the power which is really
vested in them is considered, it must
be admitted that farmers are the most
forbearing of all producers.
WE have already reached the limit Of
production by careless planting, but the
field for good farming is enlarging, aud
will continue to enlarge.
SCIENCE with practice is what is
wanted, and the higher the knowledge
of the operator in both directions the
more successful will be his work.
Neither can go it alone in farming.
CHARLES ROBINSON & Son. Barre
Plains, Mass, well known throughout
New England as largely engaged in the
breeding of Holstein cattle, have filed
4 voluntary petition in insolvency.
THE growing of mutton sheep will
afford profitable employment for every
acre of good grazing land in the coun-
Try. There is no use letting it remain
idle, and it would not be, but for dogs.
THOSE who have never tried it have
no tull realiz ition of the convenience
of printed letter-heads. They belong
to the class of little things which are
great convenience, and they are cheap,
too.
THEY complain of a dearth of dairy
men at the recent dairymen's meeting
in Iowa. Let them persevere; it was
so for several years here in Vermont,
at first. Now our largest halls are
crowded.
PRICES for common and inferior
horses are continually going lower. A
few years more and their value will be
pretty near nothing. Farmers who
are wise will avoid breeding any but
good stock.
A SUFFOLK eve was shown at the
Royal show in London, the past sea-
son, which had five living lambs at her
side, twelve weeks old, all her own,
and having had no other nourishment
than that supplied by the dam.
MANY farmers have discontinued
using the drill in seeding oats. The
ground is not so thoroughly covered as
in broadcasting and consequently the
weeds are afforded better chance to
grow. In stony ground the drill does
very poor work.
HORSE dealers say that no class of
horses is so scarce as the really good
saddle animals. Horseback riding is
constantly becoming more popular in
the cities, and among the people who
can afford to pay we'll in order to secure
first-class animal.