The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-13
Clipped and Condensed.

WHEN farmer is satisfied with
present success he has reached the ton
round.
THE Marylund statute forbidding
the importation of oleomargarine has
been declared invalid.
Fowls which are expected to lay dur.
ing the winter months must be amply
fed with good, nutritious food.
OUT of the annual production of a.
100000 pounds of butter in Ohio, only
100000 pounds are made at cream
cries.
1.-THE great trouble with dairymen is
that they do not leok to see if they are
making anything or not" says the
Dairy World.
SIZE has less to do with performance
than most persons give it credit for.
The great records have not been made
by the largest cows.
WE believe the silo has come to stay,
but we do not believe it has come to
stay on every farm-even where dairy
ing is carried on as business.
THE government figures on oats in
dictate crop of Cos 900 900 bushels
against S3S, 1864, 900 bushels last year,
and 5l3, 62l 900 bushels in 1890.
STATIsTICIANs say that there are over
400 fertilizer factories in the United
States, which produce more than 500
900, 900 worth of fertilizers annually.
Hoes and corn go together. You
can make no success in pork without
corn, and where corn can be success
fully raised hogs can be raised at a
profit.
Il. F. WYMAN of Sycamore, before
the Illinois State Dairymen's Associa-
ton, said that more than one.half of
the cows in Illinois were being kept at
loss.
DON'T live in hope with your arms
folded. Providence smiles on those
who roll up their sleeves and put shout
ders TO the wheel that propels them to
wealth and happiness.
WHEN man boasts that he has
made lot of hogs weigh 275 pounds or
over at six months old, just set it down
that he has made miscount of time of
from one to two months.
IT cost in 1871 twenty-five cents per
bushel to convey wheat from Chicago
to New York by lake and rail. The
cost of the same service in 1890 was
eight and one-half cents.
BUTTER is about eighty-five per cent
pure fat and the remainder is nearly all
water. The fertility which leaves the
farm in selling 100 wagon loads of but
ter is practically nothing whatever.
A GOOD horse can no more stand on
bad feet than a good house can stand
on bad foundation. 1t matters not
how beautiful the head and neck, how
strong the back or how clean the limbs.
THE fat of beef and the fat of pork
and the fat of nation do not take any
fertility from the farm when sold, but
accompanying this fat is great deal of
muscle and bone substance, and these
substances do contain soil elements.
ROTATION of crops seems as essen
tial in the garden as in the field. 1t
may be little hard to do this when the
area is limited, but the difference of
even a few feet often represents the
difference between good and poor crops.
THE cultivation of dandelions is
| profitable and several of the large mar
ket gardeners near New York and Bos.
ton are growing them extensively.
When cultivated the dandelion loses
enough of that intensely bitter taste to
make them sought for as early greens.
They are tender, Juicy and delicious.
GOVERNOR MCKINLEY of Ohio saws,
Farmers cannot expect any legislative
body to pay any more attention to the
needs of agriculture and the rights of
farmers than they themselves give.'i
In other words, if farmers want any.
thing from our legislative bodies they
must ask for it. Yes, and keep asking
WITHIN fifty years the prices Of
farm labor in the United States have
almost doubled. This, however, is moi
peculiar to farming. In fact in nearly
everything else wages have more thar
doubled in the same time, and farm
wages have simply yielded in less de
gree to influences which have tended
to make labor more remunerative.
THE improvement of the highways
naturally calls for improved horses, JUS
as an improved roadbed of a railway
calls for improved engines in order tC
utilize to the fullest extent the outlay
1t is poor economy to use dilapidated
and weak engines as motive force
and it is just as poor economy, ever
though not quite as apparent at first, tC
use weak horse.