The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-26
Clipped and Condensed.

uhuuiO w SiNo tucIr pigs u buUlCleuJ
quantity of milk. Be careful about
this.
Pics that were Uttered this Ispring
and which will make three hundred
pounds by December ! can hardly fail
to give profitable return.
SOUR slop does not make good feed.
In warm weather it is difficult to keep
it from souring more than twelve hours.
Clean out the barrel frequently.
THE boar should not be used for SER
vice until at least seven months old,
but you had better separate him from
the sows a considerable time before
reaching that age.
WITH all the improved methods of
farming, and with the fertilizers at our
command at reasonable prices, the pros
poets are brighter for the future than
they were during the past.
THERE lie no use in paying out money
for fertilizer, help and the wear and
tear Of the farm just for fun. There
are plenty of people in this world work
ing for fun, and the farmer is no excep-
ton.
KEEP an eye to business and see if
we cannot improve upon our method of
planting and cultivation, for the right
way is the best way, and the best way
is the right way to succeed in any bust
ness.
THERE is never time when the
market 10 not overstocked" with but
ter. There is always also constant
tendency to overproduction. But
overstocking and overproduction are all
of one kind-low grade, inferior stuff.
FROM many careful experiments it
has been determined that the force nee
esssry to draw a given load on a level
on a good broken stone road is less
than one third Of that required to draw
the same load on comman earth road.
THE legislature of Oregon has re-
pealed the law providing for the taxa
ton of mortgages, and the peculiar
thing about the act is that it was done
to satisfy the farmers, who discovered
that the tax oppressed the borrower
and not the lender.
WE need not fear overproduction of
any firstclass vegetable. The cheap
rates of transportation that we now
have bring our markets right to our
| uOOi anu lhClO diC hOt ihohJ FOSO-
tables but what we can ship to other
markets, even as far as New York and
Boston.
WE cannot rob the soil and expect
great revenues year after year. The
successful gardener is the one who has
the best goods for the best market, and
we realize this more and more every
year. The coarse, rough, unstable
vegetable is thing of the past, not of
the future.
IN general terms it may be said that
the domestic animals of Iowa are made
by the grass they eat. Even in this
land of corn, grass is the most potent
factor in making beef, butter, mutton
and horses. Milk and grass are natures
fundamental rations and man has never
been able to improve upon them.
COLONEL r. M. LITTLER stated at
the Dubuque convention that of the
$50 100000 pounds of butter annually
sent to Chicago only about one sixth
was high grade. Two years ago, if he
was reported correctly, he said that
only one-third of the amount received
al Chicago reached that standard.
AN ear of corn twenty seven inches
long, twelve inches in circumference
having twenty-four rows of 157 grains
each, making a total of 5,76S grains
on each cob, is exhibited at Shenan-
doah, Kan, as a specimen of that re.
gion's agricultural capabilities. 1t was
raised last season, and eleven such ears
would make bushel of corn.
THE pear is not success in any
country on low dark-co.ored drift soils
1t is an upland tree and reaches its
highest development on sites where il
can have soil and air drainage. We
now have varieties as hardy as the
Duchess apple, which means that on
suitable sites we will grow pears profit
ably in all the northern states, and in
Canada.
A WRITER in Hoard'S Dairyman says
that " fat cannot be fed into milk, that
cow that is fully developed, giving say
thirty pounds of five per cent milk, viii
put five per cent fat in her milk so Ions
as she gives thirty pounds OF milk pei
day, and do not care what you feeC
her. There may be slight variations
from day to day, but they are from othel
causes"
uhASS SScllS w Do Ming VI I'LL Oul
crops, says the Scottish Farmer, which
means that the country is passing more
from grain into farm stock. In thu
British Islands there are about two an(
a third millions more cattle than ther,
were in 1868. There are also abou
, 10000 more horses, but sheep are nov
fewer by about two millions than they
were in 1868.
IF we are riding over the countr,
and happen to come in sight of farm
where everything is kept trim, how
very much we admire it and what
great desire we have to go into the hous,
and have talk with the inmates. w,
invariably find such people refined, ant
in the house there is plenty of goot
I reading that tends to make people wh'
= read it better.
THE value of agricultural land il
East Yorkshire, England, estimated a
S187 100000 in 1878 has depreciate,
$75 900 900 since that date. The CAPT
tai of the tenant farmers, which wa