The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-31
Clipped and Condensed.

AUSTRALIAN lemons have recently
been sold in San Francisco.
ALWAYS cater to the taste of your
customers when you can; it pays.
THE British house of commons re-
Gently defeated bill prohibiting the
sale of oleomargarine.
j. S. FUNK, Singers Glen, Va,
recently sheared from four of his Cots
void sheep 81 pounds of wool.
TWENTY black walnut trees, standing
near Goshen, Ind, were sold to lum-
Der syndicate recently for "a 900.
NEVER make quick or radical changes
in the feeding of hogs. 1t will be very
apt to interfere with their digestion.
THE police courts of England are
busy every day with suits brought
against dealers for selling oleo for butter.
SKIMMILK for feeding to stock is
worth about twenty cents a hundred
pounds; for household use it is worth
much more. ,,t.,,
BEHIND every dangerous adultera-
ton of the day, you can find chemist
selling his skill and ability III the inter-
est of fraud.
OLEo is cheat. And the business
of making it aud selling it reeks with
misrepresentation and fraud from be-
ginning to end.
CANADA's dairy exhibit will include
several hundred cheese, varying from
the size of an ordinary thread spool to
the great 2 ,200-pound cheese.
TIM, g, 90 H.
should not be trusted to the careless
boy or hired man, for, unlike the poet,
the kicking COW is made, not born.
THERE is a better export trade in
flour than earlier in the year, the big
Northwestern mills in the spring wheat
district sending abroad vast quantities.
IT is quite an item to be able to tell
your customers that no hand has ever
touched the butter; this fact alone may
enable you to retain some of your best
customers.
FALL pigs are not usually considered
very profitable, because of the expense
of winter feeding. But bear in mind
that there is usually very good sum
mer market
EVERY louise on the hens, or in the
hen-house lives out of the grain bin, and
gives no return. These pests multiply
rapidly, and they must be kept out or
they will devour all profit.
OLEO manufacturers are rich and
few in number. They can combine and
pay big fees. Certain chemists and
journalists are in the market for what
there is in it for themselves.
NEW YORK and New England apple
dealers report that the European market
has proven very unsatisfactory on the
crop of 1892. The greatest profits have
been made from apples shipped west.
SOME dogs raided flock of forty-four
sheep and lambs belonging to Mr.. Hor-
ton in the western part of the town of
Charlemont, Mass, recently, and de-
stroyed nearly the entire flock. No
trace of the dogs has been found.
Hoes that are well fed are never
difficult to control. But a hungry hog
is a harder animal to keep within
bounds than breachy bull, and, I'M
less they have plenty of water, you
can hardly build fence that is hog
proof.
THERE is not much doing in wool in
the country so far as we can hear. Lo-
cal dealers seem to be afraid to set a
price, and when they do make it 80 low
that farmers will not accept their offers,
with the result that little wool is chang
ing hands.
THE big cheese being madeIat Rich
land City, Wis, for the fair will weigh
$4,000 pounds, or 5000 more than the
Canadian cheese now on exhibition at
Chicago. The st. Paul company is now
running a spur track to Richland City
and will furnish car upon which the
cheese will be formed.
A PROMINENT hardware house in st.
Louis, having l22 travelling agents all
over the country, instructed them to
examine into the conditions of the wheat
in the territory through which they
went. From their inquiries and reports
a summary has been prepared which
states that the outlook from Pennsyl-
vania to Texas is the worst in the last
ten years.
A FEW years ago there were "a large
number of oranges organized in central
New York. A good many came into
the organization for the purpose of
getting their insurance at a lower rate
or for making their purchases at dis
count. Many have become dissatisfied
and do not attend the meetings, and
some oranges are giving up their char
tiers.
IT takes but few minutes for fine
salt to dissolve in lot of wet grains
of butter; the plan of setting away the
butter for five or six hours and then
giving it second working is time and
labor lost The butter making can be
carried on from start to finish without
any delay If you manage it right; but,
ter is not like bread, that you have to