The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20
Clipped and Condensed.

HORSES often get sick on accoun OF
too little exercise, high feeding, and
standing idle in warm stables.
PROFITS come from thorough work,
AMI man must not spread too much if
he means to do this kind of work
ABOUT the only expensive luxury
American farmers indulge in is bad
roads," says Farm Stock and Home.
ALL food goes to speed in the
horse that is bred for speed" SO also
all food is turned into butter i'll the
specia ly.b bred butter COW.
The absolute digeslibilily Of the corn
fodder is not as well settled as that of
hay-it requiring more careful feeder
to use the cornstalks than hay, with as
good result.
THE hog is considered the most per-
feet uliIiztr of food among animals,
aud after they are grown to about 100
pound shotes they will fatten very well
upon corn alone.
MANY horse is sacrificed simply be.
cause some unsUundness has scared his
owner into parting with him egardless
of cost. A horse technically unsound
may be very useful beast for many
years.
THE old idea of resting" land is be-
ing relinquished as fallacy. Land
does not need resting-but restoring.
Indeed, if left alone, it will not rest,
but brings forth crop of weeds, then
briars.
The farmers as a class are power
Laos, haI hai ro1;,;a,1lx h.
cause they 90 outside their own ranks
for leaders. They distrust the most
| capable and honest men among them
| selves.
HORSES should not be watered for
one hour after eating grain, as the
water washes the grain out of the
stomach into the large intestines, and
the grain will not be digested but pass
away whole.
THE narrow-minded man only looks
| 10 the interests that Immediately con-
Germ his own welfare. The broad
gagged, wholesouled and high-minded
man has warm regard for the welfare
Of his fellow men.
THE apple-tree never asks the
beech how he shall grow, nor the lion
| VIC lOlSC uOW nC Sldll ldht Ills prey.
The man who would do his own pc
culiar work in the world must think out
his own methods for doing that work.
THE money lost in making grease
butter alone is equal to One-fitth of the
whole product, and this is worth at
least S250000,000 Here is clear saw
ing to be made of $50 100000 yearly III
this one product by more skilIful work.
AUSTRALIA is sending not only APP
pies, but also butter to England No
less than l0l tons of butter arrived
from that continent in London on the
18th OF November. This butter was
produced in Victoria, and is spoken of
as choice article.
A WRITER says: 81 am fully con-
WINGED that much of the degeneration
of hogs, in the hands of many farmers,
is the result of carelessness in the mat
ter of selecting breeders not akin.
Never inbred closer than four genera
tons; better not inbred at ALL"
"DON'T overwork, don't overeat,
don't overdrink, don't overindulge
yourself in any way. Don't fret, and
don't get mad .; the men who live
The longest are those who keep an even,
sunny temper, no matter what happens,
Don't waste your vital forces," says the
Tribune.
"A GREAT many read the figures
showing products Unsuccessful orchards
, and fail to realize that such are not in
herent in the business as such, but
rather in the man and his methods OF
doing business" says the Pacific Rural
Press. Orcharding is business in
= California.
9 JUDGMENT is necessary in making
' up ration for horse, as there is great
, difference in requirements and powers
of assimilation. Those with large
bones and loose-looking joints, gener
= ally require more food in proportion tC
{ their weight than short, closely-knit
f snug-looking horses.
- A WOMAN who is at the head of
household has vast power and respon
Z bility placed in her hands. 1t rests
e with her TO make the home place
= where there shall be gained rest aul
!. strength for the battle of life; plac,
ineXpressivey dear to each membe
= of the family, where all shall feel tina
" there is perfect freedom, yet wher,
y there is also perfect order.
' The Hartford Comm Times says
= :" ln Indiana farmers cow strayed oil
y. the railroad and was killed. He sueC
the company for the cows value, ant
e the company sued him for damages t
3 the locomotive. The farmer recovered
r nothing, but had to pay damages to tn,
# company. One queer thing about Law
i is that ID requires Il man to keep al
;. animals under restraint, except dogs.