The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-15
Clipped and Condensed.

you think.
A POOR stock farmer cannot make a
succ sstul stock fam, no matter what
he has to work with.
THE prices current for hogs confirm
estimates made early in the year that
| hogs were scarce and must be dear.
WHICH is the easier, to keep sapiug
straight when young, or to straighten
he crookedness of the full-grown tree?
THE man who works with his eyes on
the clock to make sure that he will not
work over time will never attain sue
| cess.
AN irritable, rough-handed man al
ways communicates the same sort of
feeling and condition of mind to the
| horse he drives.
A MISTAKE made in setting poor
trees Can never be corrected. Get trees
as near home as possible, but be sure 10
get good ones.
IT is not the breed alone, nor even
the breed and feed, that make the stock
farm successful. The man himself has
something TO do with it.
THERE is great deal of bad ensilage
fed, aud much defective butter m ide
from it in consequence. Well pre-
served ensilage makes good butter.
WHAT is money, that we should wor-
ship 1t? What are large farms to us,
when we folm habi in their acquire
nent that prevent US from getting the
best of life?
| LARGEST amount of potatoes re ceived
in the starch factory at Sprague's Mills,
Maine, 10 one day, $50 barrels !;
largest amount of starch made in one
day, twelve tons.
ALL work and no play makes dull.
lard of more persons than Jack, and it
is the neglecting of these opportunities
that causes many bright boy and girl
10 leave the farm.
chemical composition, being little
poorer in protein. 1t may be regardt d,
however, a having about the same
value for the feeding.
w. S. VAN NATTA, noted Hereford
breeder of Fowler, Ind, re Gently sent
lhirly-one Hereford yearling steers to
Chicago market that average 1904
pounds each IN weight.
AMERICAN corn has conquered one
more market now that it is to be used
as part of the rations for the horses of
the German army. The order is that it
is to be mixed with oats.
A LONG trough for the hogs is es-
senlia, or else the strong ones will
cheat weaker brothers and sisters out
of full meals. "Might makes right {"
for hogs as well as kings.
Cows will generally respond to a
more liberal feeding than they receive.
There may be 500 a year for you in
this fact. But no two COWS are alike.
Test each one separately.
A sCHoOL-BOY at Abilene, Kan, has
four years lease on farm. He ex-
poets to get through high school and
make money enough off the land by
1897 to take him through college.
The monopolistic evil has fastened its
fangs upon our Amerlc an butter prod
uct in the shape of poor mans shoddy
butter. This butter is claimed to be
m .de for The especial love of the poor
man.
FROSTED grass is not a good thing for
colts, nor is there much virtue in it for
any stock. If the cattle remain on
pasture after hard frosts come, see that
they have something beside the grass
TO eat.
A NEIGHBoR should never be given
chance to say that your stock comes out
spring poor. Neither should you be
compelled to buy grain or hay in the
spring. 1t comes high and draws hard
from town.
MORE and more are foreign nations
coming TO the conclusion that, while
we are a magnificent people, we have
incomprehensible laws and customs,
which render it unsafe to NEEDLE with
us in financial way.
THE pig is not usually thought very
intelligent animal, but ne has The fac
ulty OF finding his way to his home af-
ter being removed from it, though car
ried in boxes where he could not posi-
bly, retrace his tracks.
If Darwin's theory is correct, man
and horse must have descended from
the same hairy animal-there appears
to be a strong afli lity there somehow.
Perhaps the fable of the Grecian satyr
has foundation 10 fact.
SHEEP must now be grown with a
different standard in view. While a
good fleece is not TO be sacrificed, yet
The fl ,ckmaster must set to work to
| producing the best carcass of mutton
that improved skill can attain.
DEBT is sometimes a necessary thing
for The farmer, and Que of the means
by which he may achieve more quickly
an ultimate success. But debt, and
particularly mortgage, should always
be entered into with the utmost caution.
TIE New Hampshire experiment
station fluids that gluten meal tends to
produce a much softer quality of butter