The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-15

Do not depend on luck, but roll up
your sleeves and go at it.
lT would be nothing strange to hear
OF great losses among beekeepers this
spring.
1T is much the best policy to grow
the cows needed to replace those getting
too old for profit.
PERHAPS the most forlorn objects
seen in the country are old, neglected
and decayed orchards.
ONE of the hardest times to love an
enemy is when he seems to be proser-
ing like green bay tree.
The manure and calves are part of
our profits, but we must make clear
profit without counting these.
To pillow steadily for a day with a
team that has not had the harness on
for three months is well nigh inhuman.
KEEP the hogs away from the ma
nure pile at night. If given a chance,
they will nest in it and become over.
heated.
COMMERCIAL fertilizers alone will
not keep the soil in good condition,
neither will manure if clover is not in
rotation.
THE better-bred hogs you have on
your farm, the more care you will give
your stock, the more profit you will find
in handling them.
KEEP the lice off hogs, and increase
their thrift and comfort. A kerosene
emulsion which contains five per cent
of kerosene will do it.
IT was not an agricultural editor who
wrote: pumpkins are said to be fat
tening for hogs, but we have never
tried them ourselves"
THE standard of butter production
should not be less than 300 pounds per
cow per year, and the price not less
than twenty-five cents per pound.
How long shall we milk our COWS?
There is no rule as regards age; it all
depends upon how long the cow will
pay profit on her cost of keep.
SUCCESSFUL dairying consists in
changing feed into such quantity of
milk that we get paid for the feed and
labor and have fair profit besides.
AVOID constipation at all times, at
narrowing time especially. If your
SOW has been in the habit of eating her
offspring, this will be your safeguard.
" Hit doan do" said Uncle Eben,
"ter take too much count OBJ de fac
dat err man looks good-natured. De
crocodile hab de broades' grin on
record"
IF there has ever been a year in
which people everywhere ought to be
able to revel in the luxury of an album
dance OF ice at low cost, it should be the
year 1898.
MANS inhumanity to man is not so
despicable as his inhumanity to dumb
animals, for, at least, man may defend
himself against ill-treatment, but the
beast cannot.
If you want to feed the brood sows
well without making them too fat, give
a liberal supply of oats. This is good
grain for fall pigs also. 1t produces
bone and muscle.
!" Is there any money in farming?"
"Yes," replied the amateur farmer,
confidently. 81 know there is, be-
cause put some in once, and Pm sure
l haven't taken any out yet"
The color craze in Jerseys has about
died out, but while it lasted it worked
great injury to the breed. At one time
if Jersey was not solid color with full
black points, she was not salable.
AFTER so solid, old-fashioned win
ter as we have just passed through, an
opportunity to again stir the soil and
prepare the land for another crop will
be appreciated by every industrious
farmer. No time should be lost now in
putting the business campaign of 1898
under full Roadway.
DOES it pay to fool or play with
colts? Colts, as well as children,
should be taught to obey-in sensi-
BILE manner, of course; no swearing,
yelling or kicking. If you kick your
horse, you may expect kick in return.
Just the same with your child-harsh
treatment, hard hearts.
OUR idea of improving our schools is
books published by state and dis
tributed at actual cost, compulsory at
tendance, and better graded salaries to
teachers; for cheap youthful teachers
employed to perform such sacred trusts
is like buying shoddy clothes--they
are the dearest in the end
IT goes "against the grain" with a
good many farmers to put their hands
down in their pockets to the tune of
$50 or $50 for clover seed enough to
set their wheat fields. When it takes
fifteen bushels of wheat to pay for one
of clover seed, it looks as if prices of
farm products were out of proportion.
A GREAT deal is written about the
loss from the REPRESENTATION of foods.
A good digestion is desirable quality
in the farm stock as well as in their