The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-10
Clipped and Condensed.

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fine small fruit, poultry and eggs to
supply your milk or butter customers.
OFFICIAL statistics show that there
are some 100000 to 60,000,000 sheep
in the province of Buenos Ayres, South
America.
OUR most enterprising citizens are
those who keep posted to the very hour
in all the developments that pertain to
their business.
THE year ending June 30, 1892,
stands out as red letter year in our
export trade in almost every important
line affecting the agriculturist.
IF the oats have any dust in them run
them through the tanning mill. This
can be done on rainy day. 1t may
save heavey horses in the future.
DISEASES lurk in the feed troughs
that have sour feed in them. Clean
everything out of them after each meal
if there is any danger of fermentation.
IT requires but little time and atten-
ton to manage small flock, but if it
is intended to go into poultry raising as
business it means work and plenty
of it.
IT is upon farms where permanent
pastures are kept, and upon the lower
marshy lands, that all of the internal
parasites abound and do their greatest
damage.
USE fresh lime whitewash in the
chicken coops, use it freely, and if you
have any left, apply it to pig pens,
purifier known.
DON'T market dirty eggs. 1t takes
but little time to wash those that may
have become soiled, and when clean
they look so much better and will sell
much more readily.
If farming means just so much plow-
ing, dragging, ay-pitching, threshing,
and feeding, and nothing more, then
we need not be surprised when the
boys leave the farm.
THE hoofs of your colts may have
grown to an abnormal length since you
turned them out to pasture. Better
look this matter up, and if the feet are
too long, cut them off.
THE farmer out of debt, with an as
sured income sufficient for his wants,
and able to enjoy the comforts and lux
uries the farm furnishes so abundantly,
is of all men the most to be envied.
THE tender muscles and soft bones
of the young horses cannot stand the
same amount of work that those of the
maturer horses can. Don't kill the
colts before they become profitable.
MAKE up your mind to experiment
with some new kind of feed or way of
feeding next winter. A little change
in the way of feeding may put more
change in the pocket of the feeder
IF honey is yielding plentifully, and
you see colony Stacking up in its work,
large cluster hanging out in front or
under the hive, you may begin to sus-
pect that such a colony is thinking
about swarming.
VERY few men appreciate pure
gated driving horse. This is no doubt
true because so few know what pure
gated horse is. Not many horses are
found which naturally have a good
square trot or pace.
BUT few things add more to the
value of horse when placed upon the
market than a good long tail and a
flowing name. They are evidences of
stamina and endurance and often indi-
cate good breeding.
FALL pigs are not so desirable nor
usually so profitable as spring pigs. But
if you have them provide warm quarters
and plenty to eat so that they will come
out in the spring ready to go on clover
and make the most of it.
THE use of sulphur in bleaching
dried fruit is well known. 1t is un-
doubtedly an improvement so far as
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coming understood that the product is
thereby more or less injured.
IT won't do to try to grow two crops
on the same land at the same time, es-
pecially if one of those crops is hay
and the other is apples. They will
neither do very we'll and the apples are
almost sure to be a dead failure.
WHEN long, hard journey is to be
made it is better to drive little faster
during the middle of the distance and
slow up for the latter part unless time
can be taken to cool the horses out
properly after the journey is over.
MosT species of roses, cheap enough
for hedge-planting, are unfit for the use
because of a proneness to suckering
and so getting out of line. The sweet
| Drlar uOeS not SuCker, anu IL grows
erect and to just the right height, and
is not browsed by cattle.
A LOVE for the beautiful cannot be
formed in few weeks or few months.
1t is the work of time, and should be
impressed on the minds of the young.
Prizes should be offered by agricultural
societies for the most attractive homes,
says american Gardening.
WHEN dealer buys by the head he,
of course, figures on what the stock will
weigh, and makes himself safe by reck-
oning low enough. If you have been
accustomed to selling your cattle, hogs,
sheep, etc., by the guess method, try
the fair way, and your sales will be
more satisfactory.
A BREEDING mare is not fit to work
in binder, moving machine, or road
scraper. Every farmer should have
one driving mare, or road mare. 1t
will not pay to raise colt each year to
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