The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01
Clipped and Condensf

| CV"", N oiO" ouL sure oepreClatOS
that is constantly taking place with
buildings stock and tools.
THEY who fear for the future of our
agriculture forset that the average in.
crease of our population IS greater than
mat OF our wheat production.
| WE Yankees have place in the best
dairy region of the country, and the
best stock of dairy COWS on earth, Let
US make the most we can from them.
On the Bangor 8 Aroostook railroad
there Is one stretch thirteen miles long.
without curve, said to be the longest
straight piece OF track in New England.
/" Do you quarrel with your neighbor
still about his dog coming over into
your garden?" "No; that's ali over
now.o Buried the batchetpT Ono.
buried the dog. It'd Bits.
MEN would be sent to prison for
crimes which dogs commit without
punishment, and we would have docs
take the same chances as other animals
when straying away from their owners
premises.
The only true way to get at the pro.
! mt or loss OF any business is to take an
average OF a number of years, as one
year there may be profit and the nexs
year the loss may wipe it out and leave
the balance on the wrong side of the
ledger.
Il. M. KELLOGG says: self l wanted
to formulate plan to make a man moor
for life, 1t would be-work early and
late, utilizing every moment at hard
unceasing toll with the hands. and
never stop to think or read the thoughts
of others.
A WRITER for the Indiana Farnsv
says: "On my farm are sawed white
oak posts, apparently as sound az when
new, that were set forty years ago.
That portion in the ground was thor
oughly charred, saturated with coal tar.
and then sanded"
AT Windsor Locks, Patrick Cant.
ly's crop of last years tobacco brought
him in nearly IS 900 and he will use
some OF it in building two fine barns, a
horse and a stock barn. saws the
Connecticut Farmer. Pat will do well
thus to change his business. ANY far
mer ought to be ashamed to grow to-
bacco.
The successful fruit grower of the
future will learn to profit from the ex-
perience OF others and especially of
those who have failed in the mast,
Small success can be attained in almost
any department of industry by moder.
a'e effort, but otabe results can only
follow a high degree of intelligence
coupled with large ambition.
eating missionary never made
cannlbal into a Christian. But even
dogs and wolves become kind and hu.
made when fed on grain, and so will
man. The strongest animals are vege-
tartan, not carvivorous," says a writer
in the Tribune. But we notice that
dogs and wolves prefer meat, and are
furnished with teeth to capture it.
CLYDE, Ohio, is said to be the CEN
ter of the greatest cabbage. growing
country in the world While the crop
last year was not up 10 the average, the
amount shipped was 1914 cars, or 2, 108
tons. The kraut factory consumed
about 900 tons, making total of 3 00S
tons. This amount would probably
represent over 1000 600 heads of cab.
bage.
"WE had just as we'll sit down upon
stone in the middle of ten-acre lot
and wait for the old brindle COW to
come up 10 be MIXED as to wait for the
good times to be brought to us by
those outside of our own profession.
We may sit and wait and wait till
doomsday with nothing accomplished"
says writer in the Stockman and
Farmer.
TO- -,
shop to improve his time these cold
"inter days. A shop fourteen by six
teen feet won't cost very much, and il
should contain work. bench, shaving
horse, hewing block, anvil, a pair OF
treslles, hand axe, two or three good
planes, draw-knife, a square, a brace
and bits, different sized augers, screw
driver, hammer, etc.
THE Tribune tells US that an old gen.
tleman of Los Gatos, Cal, eats nothing
but raw wheat, consuming about three
quarters of pound day. He eats
only when he feels hungry, and appears
to thrive. At forty, he says, he was an
old man; whereas now, though sixty, he
feels young. ~ can get along" he
adds, "on one or two cents day, and
do good days work"
A WRITER in the StOckman says:
Ny cattle are nearly as quiet as sheep.
1t is cruel to feed horned cattle in
small yard, and l never felt more like
a Christian while stall-feeding dozen
or twenty steers and carrying water to
them, than when watching weak
minded steer eat and drink without
thought of fear, and knowing that the
bully in the next stall, for the first
time in his life, had to keep his horns
to himself, and eat only what was set
before him."
WE have often been asked, "How
much ought a COW to be fed?" and
reply, "About as much as she will eat
up clean" And that is about as def
mite az we can make it. And, when YOU
come to think it over, it is impossible
to state, in pounds or quarts, just how
much COW ought to be fed, for there
are hardly two cows that eat exactly
alike. We have seen many published
rations that were scientifically COM
pounded and directions given to feed
so many pounds day; that is all right,