The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-30

NOT every one can make success
of farming; it requires ability, push
and business judgment.
THE watering trough is apt to be
neglected and become more or less foul
during the hot weather. See that 1t is
clean and the water pure.
THIS trying to make the farmers
son a farmer simply because he was
born upon the farm, and considering
him sinner if he leaves, is all wrong.
THE vast sum of 81, 700 100000 is de-
posted in the various savings banks
throughout the United States to the
credit of the laboring men and women.
MORE than one-half of all the oil of
peppermint and tansy used in the world
is said to be produced and distilled in
Michigan. The center of the industry
is st. Joseph county.
IT is worse than folly for a young
man to make farming his life business
if untitled for it. 1t would be waste
of his life, burying of his talents, it he
has talent in another direction.
A RACE of black horses supplies the
hearse animals for the London market
These animals are pure jet black, and
80 firmly has this color been fixed that
no foals of any other color are dropped.
IN buying new fruit trees it will be
just as well to omit the Kieffer pear
Opinions differ about it, but the Rural
New Yorker puts the case fairly when
it says that for most localities it is "close
to worthless as raw fruit"
THE proper way of increasing the
yield of butter is to secure breed Of
cows giving milk with high content
Of butterfat, giving the animals proper
nourishment, and keeping them in a
clean and healthy condition.
A wELL-To DO farmer, who has by
slow degrees learned the lesson Of
how TO make the farm pay" says:
1--WE never really prospered until we
learned to live out of the garden and
cellar instead of the grocery store"
THERE is no profit in an average
crop. If you cannot get more corn or
wheat or potatoes from an acre than
the average yield reported to the de.
partment of agriculture, then you had
better reform your land and your prac.
tees.
THE value of the rotation of crops
is that it enables one to keep up and
increase the fertility of the soil. Prac-
tically there is no such thing as wearing
out the soil, but it may be reduced so
that cultivation will no longer be prof
table.
IT yet pays to raise good horses, and
it pays to break them well while on the
farm, fatten them and finish them for
market. 1t is as much mistake to
send untitled horses to market as any
other farm product in an unmarketable
condition.
MIXED farming and specially farm
ing are not antagonistic, as some would
believe. Among the most successful
men of our acquaintance are some who
follow mixed farming-making spe-
cialty of every branch. This is the
right way.
You can tell how much hard work
your team can stand in hot weather
better if you are doing hard work your
self. To sit on machine or vehicle
and drive gives you an advantage that
should be taken into consideration in
this matter.
THERE is growing desire in all ed
ucation for brevity, consequently depth
is sacrificed to breadth, and, instead of
giving the necessary time required to
master subject, only the simple rudi-
ments are acquired, and when at length
the time comes to apply the principles,
failure inevitably results.
ONE prominent judge of race-horses
who has been very successful in select
ing untried yearlings, an unusually
large proportion of his purchases having
proven remarkable winners, has in.
variably relied very largely upon the
walking action, selecting only such as
met his requirements in this particular.
THERE are as many ways of hand
ling colts at weaving time as there are
men engaged in the business of raising
| them. Some of these methods are
good and some are bad, but one that is
most common, and at the same time
the worst of all, is to remove it to some
back pasture, where it can run with
| other stock
OBSERVING men are aware that the
modern hog is too much confined and
fed too much on concentrated fat
forming feeds for primitive hardness
and immunity from disease. The hog
is more of an herbivorous animal than
is generally supposed, and should sub
sist more largely on grass during the
summer months.
WHEN your horse balks, don't say "a
word to him. Get off your wagon, I'M
hitch your horses, tie up the lines and
hitch the other horse to the wagon
now take the balky one by the bride
or halter, and make him go around you
in circle for fifteen or twenty min.
utes, or until he gels tired and dizzy.
headed. Then hitch up your horses as
though nothing unusual had happened,
get on your wagon and say go, and they
will go and don't you forget it. If af-
ter while he tries it again, repeat the
dose and this will last him one year, at
least.
SPECIMEN CASES.. H. Clifford,
New Cassel, Wis, was troubled with
neuralgia and rheumatism, his stomach
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