The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-06-28
Clipped and Condensed.

muSJ ueCreaSe JDe wages OF Industry,
for it is only by industry that wages can
come.
PROFESSOR w. w. COOKE says there
is nothing you can do to fodder crop
that will increase its digestibility. This
is absolutely true.
To extinguish kerosene flames, if no
cloth is at hand, throw flour on the
flames; flour rapidly absorbs the fluid
and deadens the flames.
EVERYTHING can be remedied ex-
cept discomfort, aud the only cure for
this is to cure it before it gets a lusty
growth in your disposition.
THERE is no business which will
give better yield on a small capital
than farming. This is no new fact,
but it should be stated and restated.
THE popular soaps that float " owe
seed oil is their basis. The bulk of the
cheap "olive oils " are now made of
cotton seed.
In $780," said the Medical Times,
"there was one criminal in $500 of our
population, but in 1890 there was one
in 1885," terrific increase in forty
years.
A GOOD deal is said about the drudg-
cry and hard work of the farmers wife.
1t isn't all true. A contented and
willing spirit makes light work and
cheerful home anywhere.
If you are not satisfied with things
as they are," find out why. Discon-
tent is of little value unless it leads to
effort to better conditions, aud effort,
to be effective, must be intelligent.
AT Chase's farm in Moro, Me-, the
other night there came into the pasture
with the cows young caribou. AT
last accounts it was doing we'll subsist-
ing on cows milk, says the Farmer.
THE royal Agricultural Society of
England has been in existence since
1888 and has proved of incalculable
value to English farmers. 1t knows
much of horses, but has no "agricul-
tural boss trots."
81 NEVER could understand, Mr..
Widehat, why it is they call your part
of the country the woolly Vest "It
wouldn't be any mystery, my dear Miss
Harlembridge, if you knew the number
of eastern lam bs slaughtered out there"
In the markets of the large Eastern
cities matched pairs of coach and road
horses are always in demand, and yet it
is very seldom that the farmer-b breeder
is found Offering such pair on the
market.
KICK from the road that cobble stone
and save perhapsa broken bone. Don't
scare the horse which it may meet by
dropping paper in the street. If in the
road you see hole, just stick therein a
warning pole.
TAXES are shifted by adding them to
the price of the article taxed. This re-
reduces consumption, as the world can
not use so much at high price as it
can at low price; and this eventually
checks production.
THOUSANDS of acres formerly de-
voted to rice cultivation in Georgia are
now abandoned, owing to the fact that
rice cannot be profitably grown with
paid labor, to compete with the product
of the cheap labor of India.
THE wheat prospects are still un.
settled. From all we can gather there
has been large increase in the acreage
of spring wheat, quite enough to make
up for any loss on account of damage
done to winter wheat by unfavorable
weather, etc.
SPRING calves will do better kept in
the barn through their first summer
than if turned TO pasture. We have
proved this many times. Dry hay
seems better suited TO 60 with theil
feed of milk than does the watery grass
according to the Maine Farmer.
M. WILD, director of the physical OBJ.
servatory at St. Petersburg, says the
coolest spot on earth inhabited by
man is the village of Verchnoiansk, in
Siberia. Observations show that the
mean temperature for the year in this
place is thirteen degrees above zero.
AFTER careful examination of the
figures, Edward Atkinson, the distin.
whole indebtedness of the western
farmers to eastern capitalists is less than
one-half of one per cent of the true
value of the farm lands in the western
states.
WE know Of no single invention or
discov cry of recent years that has done
80 much to remove the lions out of the
path of the dairyman and creamery
man as the discovery of the Babcock
test or method perfected by Professor
Babcock of determining the per cent OF
butter fat in milk.
A sTREAKY condition of the butter
sometimes results from an imperfect
mixture of the salt with the butter
working after the salt is dissolved
will correct that. Fine-grained sal,
only should be used. The presence OF
salt should be perceptible to the taste
but not to the sense of touch.
MAHOMET's injunction against the
use of ardent spirits is 80 we'll obeyed
even at this late day, that it is an ex
tremely rare sight to see a drunken
Mussulman. A lady who has beer
making tour of Egypt says that dur
ing long stay in Cairo none of he
party saw an intoxicated man,
THERE is certainly encouragement
! for the farmer in the fact, now settled
beyolid doubt, that the population o
this country is increasing in create
nronortiop than the Agricultural pro