The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-19
Clipped and Condensed.

sJanu great deal of standing, but
they cannot stand il to stand eter-
nally.
SWEET corn is one of our richest va
rieties, being especially high in fat and
protein, good combination for feeding
purposes.
REsERvING every pedigree animal
Tor breeders has been an outrage upon
buyers and disgrace to breeds and
breeders.
The safest bank in the world for the
farmer to place his wealth in is found
within his line fences. 1t will always
honor Legitimate drafts.
No, my young dairyman friend, do
not allow any one to make you believe
that those excellent legs of your cows
were only made just to stand upon.
FARMERS institutes are successful in
point of numbers and interest in pro.
portion to the thoroughness of the
preliminary preparation for the meet
iDgs.
THE average yield of corn in Mime
sofa is very nearly twenty-seven BUSH
els per acre, which is the average of
the entire United States for the year
1891.
To increase the butter fat in milk,
feed for it while the cow is dry. In
other words, put fat on the COW first
and then you may milk it off of her
afterward.
IT is doubtful whether soiling COWS
will ever become popular, but there is
no doubt as to its being good policy to
provide soiling crop to feed in case of
short pasture
The Jersey COW, like all other ami
mails of high milk-giving quality, has
the powers of fecundity highly devel-
oped. Fecundity and milk-giving are
always closely related.
THERE are more old doctrines
knocked out than defended by investi
CATION and study. The position taken
that many dairy COWS are bred too
young is not theory.
On no condition allow your cows to
go out TO suffer with heat, cold, flies,
wind, or storms, but do not forget that
undiuted air and sunshine can only be
had outside of boards and walls.
THE annual report of the interior
department shows that SO 900 immi-
grants were landed in Canada last year
and that 313 American citizens bought
land and became citizens of Canada.
If the farmers continue to sell their
brood sows and shoats in order to take
advantage of the present high prices,
the visible supply on January /, 1894,
will probably be less than on January
l, 1898.
ACCnDnrNTr IN OF he
States has seventy-One sheep to every
100 population, but with all our re-
sources for raising sheep the con-
sumptive demand far surpasses the
supply.
No one can fully realize just how
difficult it is to report crop prospects of
even limited district correctly until he
has tried it and personally encountered
the difficulties standing in the way of
such work.
ACCORDING to the Maine Farmer,
two to four application of castor oil to
I" the long pendulous warts which fire.
quently grow in more or less numbers
on cows teats," causes them to " en-
tirely disappear"
WHERE pastures are bare, clover
seed should be put 10 as soon as the
frost is out of the ground and disced or
narrowed in. By discing and harrow
ing well, clover may be made to catch
in blue grass sod.
THE advantages of we'll drained land
are becoming more apparent every
year. More tile is being placed in the
ground this spring than ever before.
Tile factories generally are unable to
keep up with their orders.
WHAT difference the light in which
thing is presented to us makes in our
appreciation or enjoyment of that thing.
We catch the sparks that fly from
another's enthusiasm, and they warm
US up, sometimes, alas to our injury.
Now while it is true that horse
buyers desire to have their horses when
offered for sale in good condition, it is
also true that no horse buyer who
understands his business would ham
die horses fattened expressly for sale.
BREEDERS often make the mistake in
selecting the bears and bulls of insist
ing on large bone and heavy frame.
In niue cases out of ten, other things
being equal, the fine boned animal is
lllc DCoI lCciCl lHC ulObI
killer.
HEIFERs that are to be used for dairy
purposes should be bred so as to come
in when about two years old; thus
they will at an early age develop the
mammary functions and make better
cows than they would if allowed to drop
their first calf at three.
Two or three wears ago farmers aban-
doned hog breeding because it did not
pay. The result is seen in the markets
this winter Many are contemplating
abandoning horse breeding now. The
result will be the same as it was in the
matter of hogs.
PERHAPS one of the most difficult
problems for the farmer of moderate
means to solve is, what do make, or
do ! make anything with my cows?
We all keep them and many of us keep
them to our sorrow, but what can we
keep that will pay us better?