The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-10-25
Clipped and Condensed.

Clipped and Condensed.
AN egg in the winter is worth three
in the summer.
THERE is always demand for the
best of everything.
SOIL and location will change the
appearance OF fruit.
WHEN you try TO be good, try to be
good for something.
IT pays better not to do a wrong than
to do it and then repent.
LAZGNEss is said to begin in cob
W, BE-, and en- in chains.
AN honest horse, like an honest man,
is -omething to stand by.
THE better the start to grow when
young, the better the tree.
HORSES well-fed and well-curried do
not get sick unless abused.
A DRAUGHT horse should have large
chest and square shoulders.
THE mare makes the most profitable
draught animal on the farm.
The draught horse is one that settles
down to his work aud hangs.
In watering trees, enough should be
used to wet the soil thoroughly.
If you breed from a two-year- old
mare, give her a rest next year.
A GOOD Ceiling is much more to be
/ desired than a second rate stallion.
THE best armor against temptation
is to keep on. of the range of its guns.
HAPHAzARD breeding has resulted
in no improvement in the animal king
! dom.
WITH all kinds of fruit trees ii is
b tier to have one strong limb or branch
than several weak ones.
OUR experience is that the best rat
and mouse traps are four or five good
! cats on the farm all the time.
CULTIVATION of all young trees, at
least for some years after planting, is
essential to their vigorous growth.
GREAT injustice is often done towards
the young in keeping them back from
the pursuits to which they are best
9dlpted.
Now is good time TO recall the say
ilg, that the time to stick to busi-
ness is when everybody is trying to get
out of it,"
GRASS and water are all that are nee
essary to make a full flow of rich milk !;
if the grass and water are good and
they go into good cows.
GROUND oyster-shells, ground crack
Inns, ground bones-these three do not
cost much and they are great helps
towards egg production.
WE like to see farmer who begins
| oh To ot,lx, hio hno
ness, for it is sure sign thai he wishes
ID improve and is likely 10 do so.
A GOOD work can be done in keeping
down the lice in the poultry house if
care is taken to whitewash the inside
regularly every month or ak weeks.
IT costs little to make start with
grapes. They come into bearing early
and are productive and easily managed.
The Green Mountain is the best for
Vermont.
THE farm should be one continuous
station. A large measure of the sue
cess reached by any farmer is due to
the knowledge gained from his expert
menta ion.
THE Wisconsin agricultural station
has dairy school, and already fifty ap-
plcants have been entered. The me-
cessity for such schools is now gener.
ally admitted.
WHERE COW is very hard to milk,
owing to her teats having small open
ings, one way recommended is very
vigorous milking by good mixer with
strong hands.
IT don't pay to buy am thing that sells
for more than it is worth. To do so
makes the purchaser poorer, the seller
richer. The use of money sells for
more than it is worth.
If an acre of green corn put into a
silo will feed cow for year, then an
&C of corn, cut green, will feed 1865
cows one day, or ten, fifteen or twenty
cows during a long dry spell.
MOST farmers are very particular to
catch on to the saving question. Save
clothes, save tools, save wagons, har-
ness, time, money, this is all right.
But how is it about saving wife?
IT is the ignorance of the legislators
that often accounts for their plumbers
and shortcomings. What else is to be
expected of legislatures made up in the
ratio of ten lawyers to one farmer?
1T takes a good deal more courage to
propose to a girl than it does to tell her
a year after marriage that henceforward
she will have to bring in the kitchen
wood herself-but it ought not to be so,
A RAILWAY train travelling night
and day at the rate OF fifty miles an
hour would reach the moon in six
months, the sun in 200 years, and
Alpha Centauri, the nearest fixed stars,
in AZ 100000 years.
THERE is little danger of the ram
getting too fat while in the pasture. He
will look plump and very fat when, in
truth, there is but little tallow inside of
him. 1t is not the field ram that gets
too fat, but the stabbed one, usually.
BOYS are men in miniature, and, like
men, don't like to be disappointed. 1t
is therefore radically wrong to promise