The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-02-22
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lOr Jne Iecu Lney eat.
A QUIET disposition Is produced by
proper handling from one generation
to another by a sensible breeder.
SHORTS and bran are good materials
to feed the sOws to produce a good dow
of milk, and feed of this kind benefits
the pigs also.
THE gentle COW at is gentled bv
pettlng is better piece of property
than the cow that never knows what
petting means.
THE young man OF brains can better
serve bis country by becoming a good
business man and useful citizen than
by entering its direct employ.
MANY horses burn to death for the
want OF an arrangement to loose them
quickly from the outside of the stable.
There are many ways to do this.
Cows that are gently treated are not
apt to be quarrelsome among them
selves. The cross man has cross cows;
and his horses are not to be trusted.
THE st. Adams butter factory, the
largest establishment of the kind in the
world, made 2,557 900 pounds of butter
IN the last twelve months, and was
burned up and rebuilt 10 the time.
THE best care of the milk, cream and
butter will not avail much if the COWS
do not yield enough; it is the good
yield of the cows and the skill of the
dairyman that makes the business Q
success.
A LARGE share of agricultural educa-
ton should consist in teaching how the
fellows who neither pillow, sow, reap
nor NOW may be kept from getting
more than their share of the fruits OF
agricultural labor.
LOOK we'll after the comfort of the
COWS this cold weather. Butter is high,
and it will pay to give the cows all the
attention needed. They should not be
allowed to find out that zero weather ia
abroad in the land.
The dairy farmer is something more
than the dairyman, in that while he
needs must do and know all that the
dairyman knows and does, he has need
to do and know much more; he must
be farmer as we'll
AS TO how high you shall make your
poultry fences depends on the breed.
Six feet is high enough for Brahmas,
Plymouth Rocks, Cochins and Lang
shans, but for Leghorns seven or eight
feet would be better.
CAPONIzING, when practiced upon
cockerels of about four months of age,
is most profitable thing to do. A set
of instruments and book of instruction
can be purchased for SO, and it will
be money well invested.
CHICKS chat have diarrhpa can be
fed liberal feed of milk into which
enough rye flour has been stirred to
make mess; it will check the trouble
in few hours. Boiled milk is also
good, but 1t is unnecessary work.
THERE was once a road leading out
os London on which more horses died
than any other, and inquiry revealed
the fact that it was perfectly level.
Consequently The animals in travelling
over it used only one set Of muscles.
SMALL flocks Of good laying hens,
properly fed and cared for, are profit
able, and will pay a fair percentage on
the Investment; neglected and unpro.
vided with food and shelter during cold
weather, there is no profit in their keep
ing,
MILK that contains thirteen per cent
of solids is called rich milk, hut if O
very large part of those solids comes
from the outside of the COW, or from
the stable floor, we should call it g too
rich for our blood " and take thinner
article.
FROM census figures it appears that
there are $4,000 farming families in
; New Jersey. OF these 80 in 100 hire
their farms; 80 in every 100 occupy
mortgaged farm; while the remaining
80 own their own farms without in
cumbrance.
NOTHING has proved so great pre-
sentative as pure castor oil. At the
same time it keeps the leather soft and
supple. This is because the oil does
not soak into the leather nor permit
water to do 80, and thus conserves its
natural condition.
> THOSE who are clearing timber land
should make it point when they burn
the brush and logs to save the ashes,
which will be valuable as fertilizer.
If ground is sown to wheat with ashes
left on, the wheat may lodge where
heaps were burnt.
HENRY FERGUSON of Fort Be nd Tex,
VWho AVOV aNANo VI lsAhNA Az OuAAANdLlOu,
He is rich and raises large crops, in.
Guiding all his home supplies. she
realizes more money on his cotton than
any farmer in that section" Henry is
a negro and ex.slave.
THE Holstein breeders have given
up the contest before it ever COM
menced. They decide not to put their
cows on trial for six months against
other breeds at the Columbian EXPOSE
ton. This is acknowledging defeat,
running up the white flag before gun
is fired,
The New Hampshire state grange
proposes to look after its agricultural
college, and at its annual meeting res
Olution was passed providing that a
committee of three be raised TO visit
the college and experiment station, and
make report on the same at the next
session.
VIENNA is the great wheat and -four
center of the old world, and figures is-
sued from that source are very widely
regarded as authoritative. Recent