The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-02
Clipped and Condensed.

IT'S better to be tried by fire than to
be fred after being tried.
He who would advance in any de-
partment of knowledge must know
what others have done before him.
AS a rule, two horses perfectly
matched will sell for as much as three
horses equally as good but that have to
be sold separately.
A PROMINENT reason given for 80
many of the wellto-do farmers leaving
the farm is the difficulty of securing
satisfactory farm help.
WARTS and sores on cows teats are
mainly caused by the filthy practice of
wetting the teats with milk when milk
ing to make the hands stick
THE American people are road-rid.
ing people. There is probably no pas.
time so universally INDUCED in in this
country by all classes of people as
pleasure riding.
THE conclusions of successful men
in any branch of farm work will always
prove profitable reading to other farm
ers, providing they are progressive in
mind and practice.
WE are satisfied that many cases of
milk fever and caked bag might be
avoided If more attention was given to
COW before coming in and some milk
ing done If her condition demanded it.
WHEN a COW calves and everything
goes all right, her milk will be fit for
use in three or four days. If she has
garget or any other disease the milk
should not be used till the disease has
disappeared.
AMERICANS are lovers of good form.
AS a people, we insist on beauty and
grace. Dickens, the eminent English
novelist, said, and repeated upon his
visit to this country, that the American
women were the handsomest on earth.
IT is said that the profits from
twenty-five heps equal the profits from
one COW. 1t may be suggested that
the truth of this statement depends
upon the hens, but with equal truth it
may be asserted that it also depends
upon the COW.
IN selling wool, agree if you can on
the price per pound, and then make it
straight through. If you are satisfied
Qntelligently) that you are not getting
fair price from your local buyer. do
not hesitate to ship your wool to Bos-
ton and have it sold on its merits.
A TELEGRAPH message would 90
seven times around the earth in sec
ond, and if a telegraphic message
could be sent to the moon it would
reach its destination in little more
than a second. 1t would take some
20 oh y,1iy
the sun.
The exports of wheat from the
United States are something like 3 300
900 bushels per week and should be
much greater than that in order to cut
down the surplus before another crop is
harvested. The 100000 bushels old
wheat in the visible supply is the larg-
est on record for so late in the year.
WE venture to say that no man with
brains enough to run farm would ever
attempt to work horse without feed
ing him, but how many there are who
pay out hard-earned money for fruit
trees, and plant them in old worn .out
land and actually expect choice fruit,
without ever giving them bit of food
THERE is general denunciation of
trusts by everybody except those inter-
ested or drawing dividends made pos
sible by them. There is a general law
against such combinations, but there is
only an occasional action brought
against them, and we do not remember
of single one being compelled to
wind up by process of law.
THE whole country is aroused as
never before over the subject of better
roads. The necessity for such i'm
provements is everywhere admitted.
No one says nay. Public sentiment
having become settled on this point the
agitation of the question may now be
directed to some feasible plan for OBJ
tanning money to make good roads,
THE standard ration adopted for
mich cows on the Cornell University
farm is daily feed of eight pounds of |
concentrated grain, consisting of a
mixture of two pounds of cotton seed |
meal, tbran two pounds, oats four
pounds, fed with all the hay or cut corn
fodder the cows will eat up clean. If !
the cows are small and light, and |
haven't capacity to assimilate this ra-
ton, they get less.