The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-06-14
Clipped and Condensed.

SOLOMON was the nrSt magistrate who
proposed to split the difference.
IT is feared that the grasshopperi
will ruin the crops in parts of Texas
this season.
A FRUIT farm of thirty-one acres
three miles from Pomona, California
was recently purchased by two Iowans
the price 81 500.
SEVEN hundred tons of butter re.
Gently arrived in London in one
shipment from Australia. Its totaI
value was about $40 900.
MANY stations with fast records are
inferior on the road or even unpleasant
drivers. They might get trotters and
often do when properly mated, but
rcadsters, never.
NO class of people in America de-
serves as good living as the farmer.
says a writer in the Toledo Chronicle.
The producer of food for mankind
should not stint his own family.
WARM, sloppy food, left on the ground
to sour is one of the chief causes of
gapes, as it is of so-called chicken chol-
era. Neglect always invites her twin
sister disease to keep her company.
OUR pasture grasses furnish perfect
grazing conditions in their flushed and
luxuriant growth of June, but we have
no grass able to furnish ANYTHING like
equal grazing conditions in the heated
period of summer.
INEXPERIENCED breeders in most
instances do not grasp the fact that
there is vast difference in the breed
ing of roadsters and trotters, and con.
sequently it becomes a stumbling block
over which they fall.
A GARDENER paints all his hoes,
rakes, and other small garden tools
bright red, for the reason that if lost or
left lying on the ground they are more
easily seem A good plan for farmer,
too.
OVER 50 O0O,O 900 eggs are consumed
daily in this country, New York alone
calling for about 10000, 900 yearly.
What bonanza the man would have
who could get corner ON the egg mar
ketl
BILL NYE resignedly writes: q
have long siuce ceased to reproach the
weather. The weather is what it was
made to be. 1t means well, but very
little religious advancement has been
made by it this spring"
The day is at hand when pedigree,
unless accompanied by individual merit,
will count for but little. The lesson
which young breeders should learn is
to breed for quality and individual
merit as well as pedigree.
Now that foreign dukes and princes.
and one thing and another are coming
across to visit our great Exposition.
American fools are supremely happy,
and are vying with each other in show.
ing foreigners just how silly they can
be.
NOTWITHSTANDING the oft-repeated
assertion that the grange is not a finan-
cial organization, except incidentally.
large proportion of farmers in many
sections are looking upon it as such,
and continually asking the question,
" Does it pay?"
IT is fact that the manufacture of
oleo and its sale as butter is one of the
greatest evils dairymen have TO con-
tend against. So long as cleo is sold
frauduently, so long will the dairymen
of this country be cheated out of part
of their rlghtful profits.
HAY is now retailing in Bangor.
Me-, at the highest price it has reached
for very long time, as high as S21 a
ton being paid for it, There was a very
good crop last year, but about all of
1t has been sold, and scarcity causes the
price to reach to an advanced figure.
A NEW YORK professor has made
the calculation that, if men were really
as big as they sometimes feel, there
would be room on that island for only
two professors, three lawyers, two
doctors and reporter on paper. The
rest would be crowded into the sea and
have TO swim for it,
STRAWBERRIES should ALWAYS be
washed before they are used. but it
should be done quickly and in very cold
water, or their delicate flavor will be
injured. Either hold few in the hand
and dip quickly in water, or place
few at a time in a colander and pour
the water over them.
THE man who throws dough. or any
moist food, for his chickens or hens out
on the ground, adds fully one hundred
per cent to the cost of keeping, as one
half of such food will be trodden under
foot, soiled and wasted. There is no
place where such extravaganza is so
manifest as in the feeding of the hens.
A WRITER in the Ohio Farmer saws
he objects to women milking. We
have repeatedly noticed that the cows
do not object. In almost any dairy