The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-27
Clipped and Condensed.

AFTER agriculture, the iron and steel
Industry is the most important in the
United States.
Cows that give large quantity of
yellow milk are not always the best
cows for butter.
PICK up the old roofing, pickets,
boards or anything that contains old
nails. They are dangerous.
HORSES require daily exercise in the
open air, and can no more be expected
10 exist without it than their owners.
IT is hard to break up old habits but
it is often very necessary. Many of us
have inherited dairy habits that have
caused big losses every year.
BY wise provision of nature a
healthy appetite Graves certain foods at
certain seasons, and climate, food and
appetite are adapted to each other.
RIGID laws and strict attention to
enforce them have done much toward
stamping out contagious diseases of
live stock in this and other countries.
JUST how much to work the butter is
disputed question. One, two and
even three different workings have
each their advocates among butter
makers.
If good colts, calves and pigs are
worth more than inferior ones, then we
must raise them. If stock will keep
better with shelter than without, then
shelter pays.
THERE are markets in Belgium where
dogs are bought and sold for draft pur-
poses as horses are. 1t is not unusual
| for compactly built and we'll broken
dog to bring 500 to S25.
ADvICEs from the Michigan bean
country report good area and prob
ably good quality, but that yield will
| be small, in many cases no more than
ONE advantage in keeping hogs is
that they may at any time be turned
into money. Whether they be fat
enough or not buyers always stand
ready to purchase them for their full
value.
A JERSEY calf skin, if perfectly re-
moved, is the most valuable of any of
the breeds at the present time, owing
| to the use 10 which they are put The
| largest prices are obtained for calf skins
in Vermont.
WHAT thing it is to be cheerful,
| and have cheerful people about one!
Life, except during the pressure of its
most terrible calamties, always has a
bright side, and those who look at that
side are far the wisest.
A SAC county man recently shipped
| car of clover seed to Chicago, con-
| tanning something over CSC bushels,
which brought him S. ,6S3. go, being the
most valuable car of grain ever shipped
to the Chicago market.
AN exchange says: "The New Eng
land fair would not seem genuine with
out Daniel Needham's annual address,
which is about all that the New Eng
| land agricultural society has to do with
the lively Worcester fair"
BREED to improve the dairy quail
ties, that is what we want in dairy
cows. When we breed dairy cows for
size we are breeding for larger meal
bins and also less profit per bushel on
the meal fed out of the bins.
CoLEMAN's Rural World says it is
cheaper to raise five hogs that will
two of 500 pounds each. And the pork
! from the smaller hog is greatly to be
preferred in almost any market.
If you will keep account of the cost
of cultivation and the value of the crop
in each field, you will find it an incen-
tive to bring one up to the highest pos
sible standard. Treat your fields indi-
vidually, as well as your dairy cows.
WHILE dairyipg is not 80 profitable as
it should be, we see no reason why dairy
men should be disheartened; nor do we
know of any kind of farming that they
could change to that would pay them as
well as the one they are engaged in.
The chemists assert that three and
one half pounds of bran contain the
same quantity of digestible heterogeneous
matter as eleven and One.half pounds
of milk, aud very near the same
amount of digestible heterogeneous
matter.
TAKE bowl or round dish, turn it
upside down on plate, take thimble,
fill it with cheese, place it under the
edge of the dish with the cheese inside
so the mice will have to go under to eat
out of it, when it will knock down the
dish and cage the mice.
THE regular feeding of a certain
amount of salt to milk cows increases
the milk production, not because it is
a milk producing food, or even because
it creates thirst that causes the taking
in of more water, but because it slim
ulates the digestive organs to more