The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-22
Clipped and Condensed.

| IdinS O,zoz lnSects.
| MODERATE manuring, and often, is
| better than an extravagant dressing on
restricted area.
KEEP your sow's bed as we'll as her
body well sprinkled with dry wood ashes
and che will be clean of all vermin.
| THOSE who have seed potatoes 10 buy
had better secure them now. Glover
seed Will also probably go higher.
LIKE the beautiful flower full of
color but without scent are the fine.
but fruitless, words of him who does
not act accordingly.
The horses hoofs are analogous to
our finger and toe nails and can be as
easily grown in any direction or as sue
cessfully as we shape our trees. An
ill-shaped hoof means neg ,ected hoof.
THE swill barrel is one of the worst
enemies that the hog has to contend
with. Some men seem to think it
wholly useless ever to clean it, and it
becomes so foul as to be fairly poison
Gus.
AS the ground becomes thawy, it is
in good condition for driving fence
posts. Medium posts can be set quite
rapidly in this way while the ground is
soft. The fencing should not be put
on till the ground dries.
FORMERLY it was supposed that to
grow onions successfully certain soils,
special training and much experience
were required. To-day we claim onions
can be grown on any good corn land,
and by any good farmer.
THE greatest mistake that breeder
of pure-bred hogs can make is to send
out inferior stock. He NAV get big
price for few fat hogs in this way, but
the loss of trade will be greater than what
he gains by such transactions.
THERE is no denying the fact that
considerable more horse power is re-
quired to use the loader, though good
team of draft horses will handle ton
of hay and the machine on most mead
ows. If the ground is wet, it will take
more power.
IT is said that only four out of one
hundred who undertake the breeding
OF pure-bred hogs for profit succeeds.
This may be too small an estimate, but
there are many men who give the mat
ter of breeding too little thought and
study to make success of it..
THE New Hampshire friends of their
new agricultural college, the buildings
of which are now being completed at
Durham, are bringing forward their
present secretary of their board of
agriculture for president of that insti-
tuition. The move is sound one and
would give an unmistakable agricul-
tural tip to the institution from the
start.
WE realize this winter someth ing as
to what cold costs US in the way of
feed. Do we realize it sufficiently to
make the stables, pens and shelters of
all kinds thoroughly wind, snow and
rain proof? Perhaps some of us do;
the rest of US will require another Sc
we're lesson, perhaps two or three more
, in fact, there are some who never
will learn.
THE greatest problem before the
Ohio legislature is to devise some plan
whereby the inevitable deficit of 81 $780,
600 in the states revenues for The en-
suing year shall be made up without
exciting the indignation of the voters.
Governor Mckinley in his inaugural
address warned the legislators from fur.
ther increasing the taxation burdens of
the farmers.
The butter extractor, for which so
much was claimed few years ago, has
not been mentioned at any of the New
England dairymen's meetings held the
past winter, nor have we seen it
noticed in any of the reports of similar
meetings elsewhere. Evidently this
machine has not yet been so perfected
as to bring forth product satisfactory
to the operators.
THEY turn out some big sawlogs up
in the northwest. A raft of logs was
brought down the Skagit river and sold
at Tacoma, WASH, recently, which
scaled an average of twenty-nine thou
sand feet of lumber to each log. 1t is
said by lumbermen to be doubtful if
larger logs were ever put into Puget
Sound. The same dealer sold raft
last July which averaged $4,000 feet in
each log.
IN handling stallion do not be al
ways fighting him or abusing him.
Treat him kindly, yet strictly. Do not
allow him to do wrong act unless you
let him know he did wrong. Correct
him at once, but don't expect him TO
act as mare or geldng. Consider
what he is and bear with his uneasiness.
If stations were handled more quietly
and corrected mildly, you would find
fewer of them ugly.
WOLFTEETH have no effect upon
eyes directly or indirectly, nor do they
cause the engagements of bones of the
nose attributed to them. DIR. Horne,
who formerly believed that these teeth
caused blindness, was induced to ex-
anime the mouths of a large number Of
horses to satisfy himself of their in
hn Of
tons, to say nothing of the almost
unanimous opinion OF the veterinary
profession, founded on many years Of
experience, should convince any in
telligent man.