The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10

lmbued as TO enable him to universally
transmit them to his progeny.
BLANKETS for horses are unnatur.l
and unhealthy, although thew have In
be used to certain extent in tbis cold
c,lna.e' LOO warm and ill-ventilated
Staples ana TOO many and too heavy
olankets nave been foreruuners of colds
and much pneumonia.
LIE man expects young. unedu.
Gated COW to stand quietly while he
pulls her teats; the COW, Just calyed.
anxious about her calf her udder in.
named, herself feversh, naturally re.
sents such unusual attention on the
part of the man and kicks.
WHILE nothing is added to the valpo
OF the corn by storing it in the silo. II
mas appeared up 10 this time to be The
only way in which all the elements
could be properly preserved and saved
from the time of harvesting until util-
lied in the feed.trough.
The Odebolt, Iowa, Chronicle tells
OF farmer who hauled load of prod
uce 10 that town recently, which he
sold Tor S6l0.50. 1t was not hogs he
sold, as might be supposed, but clover
seed. lie had nearly eighty bushels.
which brought $3.50 per bushel.
GRASS seed is seldom sown deem
enough. Of clover seed sown on the
surface and at depths of one, two and
three inches, at the experiment station
In the spring of 1872, the three-inch seed
Ing Wlthstood the autumn drouth and
went into the winter in best condition.
WHEN you see a dollars worth of
goods advertised for twenty-five cents
or dime, set it down as fraud.
Manufacturers can't make gold dollars
and sell them at twenty-five cents
each. Bear in mind, as rule these
concerns are looking out for them
selves.
To put a horse in high condition
by feeding cut hay, ground feed, bran.
carrots, and skim milk with light work
to receive the full benefit of the feed.
and then put the horse Immediately at
hard labor on the paved streets of
city, with diet of dry grain and hay, is
highly injurious.
A VERY few favor the clipping of
dogs and horses. 1t is very cruel
practice. A neighbor had a fine horse.
With this for his excuse, " it sweats too
easily" he clipped it. The horse would
shiver at nightfall as though it was
cold day. He kept running down and
in less than year died of spasms.
A DISPATCH from Champaign, ILL.,,
says it is the almost universal opinion
among the farmers in that county that
forty per cent of the wheat will have
to be plowed under as valueless, and
the ground devoted to other crops, and
that the remaining sixty per cent will
not yield more than good average half
crop.
Too much Importance cannot be at
tached to cooperation in the home.
The farmer who does not fully cooper
ate in all his transactions with his wife,
aud with his children as soon as they
are old enough to take an interest in all
matters pertaining to the business
features of the farm, makes q great
mistake.
FIRST feast and then famine"
does not work well with stock, and es-
pecially with cows. Arrange the pas
lures that when one is eater down they
can be put in fresh one, and the other
allowed to grow up. If you cannot do
this, sow plenty of fodder corn and peas
and oats to tide over any possible short
age in the pastures.
On few subjects is there more real
downright nonsense written than on
breaking colts. 1t seems to be impos-
sible for some men to give up the old
fashioned idea that every colt is pos
sessed OF an almost uncomfortable
spirit of stubbornness that must be
broken before he can be trusted to
perform the duties required of him.
DURING the winter packing season
just passed the farmers of the United
States marketed 1888, 520 hogs, and
received therefor at the rate of S644
per hundred pounds. During the like
packing season of the previous year the
same farmers marketed 7,76l ,2l6 hogs
and received therefor at the rate of
SO 81 per hundred pounds.
HERE'S a cooler for woodchucks:
Take cookies that are about two inches
in diameter and smear them over on
one side with molasses, sprinkle on
good coating of arsenic, and putting two
together, arsenic sides in, drop into their
holes, one of these pairs in each, being
sure to get them down beyond the reach
of dogs or cats, etc., and you will never
see that woodchuck more unless you
take the trouble to dig its dead body
out.
THERE are those doubling Thomases
in every community who think the old
methods the best; and while they look
about and see the wonderful advances
made along commercial lines, cheapen-
ing the production of every manufac-
tured article, and while admiring the
wonders and usefulness of the tele-
graph, the telephone, and other marvels
of the age, are unable to see any reason
why the farmers should undertake to
lift themselves from the old conditions.
GYPSUM, otherwise called sulphate
of lime, plaster of paris, etc., has been
used as fertilizer with success from
time immemorial. The Greeks and
Romans used it for that purpose. A
story which went the rounds of the
press some years ago states that Ben
jamin Franklin sowed some gypsum in
a clover field so as to read "This has