The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-06-07
Clipped and Condensed.

ONLY the best soap should be used in
bathing.
SLOPPY food does not agree with
poultry, either young or old
DON'T think the pillow mare will raise
you boulevard queen, no matter what
you breed her to.
SHALLOw-running corn cultivators
have produced higher average Yields
than those which deeply stir the soil.
THE first few milkings of the heifer
should not be trusted to the careless
boy or hired man, for, unlike the poet,
the kicking COW is made, not born.
MODERATE applications of stable
manure to corn have produced almost
as good yields of corn the first year as
heavy dressings. But the ground is
left poor.
THINK of an ear of corn weighing g.
pounds-eleven ears making bushel
of corn. Iowa is to have such an ear
on exhibition at the Worlds Fair. 1t
is Page county production.
USE all reasonable pains to keep the
poultry tame. 1t will be quite advan-
tageous when it begins to be necessary
to handle them, as it will be when the
hens begin to set and hatch out.
CORN where only eighty to eighty
five per cent terminates means re-
duced vitality for that which does
terminate, and ought not to be planted
if better can possibly be obtained.
ANY man of sense and observation
knows that poor butter is never fraud.
1t always advertises its own character.
Its quality is the most easily detected
and understood of all other forms of
food.
Two-YEAR. OLD turkeys are better
than yearlings for breeding purposes,
and the hen turkey that will lay sixty
or more eggs is better, other things be-
ing equal, than one that lays forty eggs.
Any hen that does not lay that number
in her second year should be discarded.
THE moss is growing on the old
worm fence our fathers built tits going
and-as such-will soon be gone. Its
defects were many and apparent, but
there were some things in its favor. 1t
was cheap, easily put up, easily moved.
1t required but little digging.
IT is a singular fact that almost
every project of improvement within
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peaceful and benefcent, has met with
opposition, and no great advance in the
political and social relations has been
made without bloodshed.
A HORSE which was in the habit of
eating his bedding was found dead in
his stall in the morning. A post-mortem
examination showed all the organs of
the stomach and bowels in good condi-
ton. The examination was extended
to the throat, and wheat boards were
found in great quantities sticking
through the windpipe.
If proper care were always used in
selecting shoes and stockings, corns
would be unknown. A shoe too loose
is often as dangerous as the too tight
one, and stocking that either wrinkles
or binds, whose seams come in the
wrong place, or whose feet are so long
that they double over in Jumps, will
produce the same trouble.
THE first agricultural exhibition ever
, made in this country was probably that
of the Columbian Agricultural Society
, for the Promotion of Rural and Domes-
, tic Economy, held in Georgetown, d.
c., November, 1909. In the following
October an exhibition of three Merino
sheep was made under great elm tree
in Pittsfeld, Mass, by Elkanah Watson.
The successful calf feeder will al
ways use more tact than force in teach
ing calf to drink and never allow a
: foolish calf to betray him into passion
or display of brute force. DO not allow
! the calf to suck the whole hand, or a
! single finger; but placing the palm of
either hand over its nose, give it the
! tips of two fingers to try to suck. In
this position you can gently force the
nose into the milk held in a convenient
! sized pail in the other hand. By sepa-
t rating the fingers, you hold back the
sides of the tongue, and insure the
8 entrance of milk when the calf draws.
9 If the milk is warm there will be less