The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

butter globules will be larger and the
butter more solid. That illustrates the
value Of cold setting.
THE falling down behind in hens ia
in consequence of the hens being too
fat, or it may arise from tumor in the
egg passage. A reduction of fat is the
first thing to be attended to.
ONE advantage the dairyman has
over the ordinary farmer is that he has
money coming in every week. The
man with cash buys for cash and buys
cheaper than if he bought on credit
No greater menace to the public
veal has come from any source in the
past few years than from the general
disposition Of large producing concerns
TO form trusts and combinations.
THE comb of the fowl is its health
barometer. When the comb is bright
red, and filled with blood, the fowl is
well. When it becomes pale and looks
whitish, the fowl is out of condition.
THE genelal-purpose COW is rapidly
giving way to the specific dairy COW,
and it is the solids that are in a hun
dred pounds OF milk instead of the
quarts that give it the most va,ue in
the dairy.
II is good idea TO encourage the
| young people in our homes to collect a
library. The delight of ownership is
strong in the young, and the feeling of
possession will make such books of
more value to them.
If it is true that ga man weL-red is
already half saved" surely, the farmer
is that man. With his fruit fresh from
vine and tree, his vegetables crisp, his
meat free from faint, his own "milk
and honey" who can live more roy
ally?
" IT beats all what a great comfort
and help music is to family. If wife
or mother can get chance at the or
gan and play few aud lang syne "
pieces, what a glad thrill it gives the
whole household, especially "a farmers
home.
WE believe that the demand for a
machine that will quickly and perfectly
milk cows will soon be met, as there
are several kinds of machines now
being experimental with, aud the in
ventors are conf tent that they will be
found practical.
IT is a dangerous thing to expert
ment with drugs and medicines when a
horse gets out of condition from work.
The best plan is TO give rest and time
for recuperation. If this cannot be
done, dieting and caution in feeding is
the next best thing.
NOT every Partet who intimates her
desire TO be intrusted with the high
mission OF warming into AMI mated puff
| halle odd hpr Of Snle ot Cd &c
fit for the office. There are mothers
and mothers among the feathered peo-
pies as among human.
THE proper time to cut timothy is
when the nutritive qualities are at their
maximum. Now, as matter of fact,
this all-important period is reached
about six to ten days after the bloom
has passed. Hay cut at this special
time will prove entirely satisfactory TO
the owner.
THE Glove of commerce is the dried,
unexpanded flower of beautiful, arc
matte green tree, supposed to have been
originally produced exclusively on the
MOluccas or Glove Islands, but now
largely cultivated on all the neighboring
islands, also in Penang, Zanzibar and
the West Indies.
TURNIPs and beets should not be
Peas shelled when first picked are
hundred per cent better than when
kept long in pod. Corn should be
husked as soon as plucked from the
stalk, as the husk quickly absorbs all
the sweetness from the kernels.
THE common frog gets his final
shape in the first season, but the bull
frog goes under the mud for the winter
while still tadpole; and it takes at
least another summer, and sometimes
more, before he has full right to be
called frog. He is some four years
from the egg in getting full growth.
WE'LL" said the scrub cow, g.
haven't got my pedigree, l don't give
much milk and what l do give is rather
poor, and l don't give any milk at all
for two or three months before | calve,
but l have just as good feed as you
. stuck-ups, so l don't see that you have
any thing to brag about"
A DISEASE resembling diphtheria is
ravaging the stables and barns in West
chester county, New York, and some
parts of Manhattan Island. Reports
nave Detu TtCelN6u ludl scores Oh
horses have died from the disease.
Heretofore it has been believed that
horses were not subject to diphtheria.
WE formerly cut burdocks several
times during the season, sometimes cut
ting under the surface of the 9 ound.
But in spite of our watchfulness some
would go to seed close to the ground.
Now we wait until the plant has grown
seed, but not ripe enough to shell out;
then we can easily pull it up root and
all, and burn it, says the Connecticut
Farmer.
WHEN you see man go into the
yard, open the stable doors, and the
cows go quietly in and take their places,
you may know that kindness is his
motto; but when you see them run
from one corner Of the yard to the
other, and seem to be afraid they are
to be attacked by some ferocious ami
NAL and are trying to escape, you may
know those cows are daily being
abused. Abuse, as we'll as neglect and