The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08
recommends fall blowing as means of
deet rnction of ;ne.n,s


destruction OF insects.
GIVE US more horses and less speed.
or rather let the racing interests be
looked after by the racing men and lot
the farmers attend to their business
and grow horses.
WE underestimate the resources of
this great world and oyerestimate it's
difficulties. Far better enjoy what the
Almighty has given us and trust him to
take care OF pOsterity.
IF there is any one thing connected
with the management of horses which
should be abolished, it is the continued
dosing for imaginary diseases, aud that.
too, without regard TO the effect pro-
duced, or the possible need.
WHY cannot we trust the hand that
makes the weather to make it right
when time proves that year after year
1t is fitted to our needs? Truly, the
troubles that never come are the ones
we waste the most worry upon.
IT seems to be common error among
farmers TO kill everything that belongs
10 either the hawk or owl family, aud
sometimes they are killing their friends.
The screech owl is great DESTROYER of
| HA'SNt eoN NOSo NV OOtlOl DOullIJs
EGGS come from the muscular and
bony parts of the hen, aud not from tat.
Fat is hlndrance to egg building, yet
the great majority will keep their hens
from now uutl My on corn, whole or
ground, simply because of the con-
venience in handling.
THE improved coach stations crossed
upon our best trotting. bred mares bro
duce fine coachers and high. class mill
itary horses that all the world is eager
to buy at good prices. Army officers
ook through our horse breeding states
in vain for good horses and find but
few.
THE cow is the king of beasts. The
American Gag e flies high, especially on
the Fourth OF July, but VINO ever heard
OF his giving mix or to RAISE any thing
besides his own offspring? The cow
cannot lily as high as the American
eagle, but the work she does Is forty
per cent The best.
The experiment station of Cornell
University has conducted three expert
ments, carried through as many sea-
sons, for the pun pose of determining
whether 1t is profitable TO feed gram 10
cows when on good pasture. 1t de-
ponds upon circumstances. What is
your experience, reader?
The Homestead has been gathering
some valuable statistics lndlca lug the
ownership of farms and village lots.
That three-tourths of the farms OF New
England arc tree of mortgage indebt-
tdness Is a fact not realized, and surely
not appreciated. Compared with other
sections, the lesson is most suggestive.
THE president of packing company
OF Chicago says of the hog situation: L
think we are a great deal more likely
TO get seven cents for hogs this winter
than five and one-half cents. The high
prices last summer kept the country
marketing up close. The pres ent arriv-
ais and their quality do not indicate
big supply back"
BE careful what kind of lantern you
use. la nearly every paper We see
notices OF barns burned by the over
turning of lantern. The burner Of a
lantern should be fastened as securely
as on house lamp, but many of them
have simply loose burner, which will
tumble off as soon as the lantern is
overturned, the oil pours out, and there
is conf CATION.
ALL the mountain sheep in Colorado
are owned by the state and carefully
protected. The penalty for Staying
mountain sheep in Colorado is ten " airs
in the penitentiary. This is PROBABLY
the severest game law on the statute
books of any state, but it is occasionally
violated. We presume the average
sneep-killing dog of The eastern states
has not yet found its way to Colorado.
A wELL.INFoRMED writer, in de-
scribing the sort of horse that is lust
now finding a most ready market, says:
Horses that stand over sixteen hands
high, and weigh over 200 pounds, is
the sort that is wanted. They must be
very high-headed, with arched necks,
round bodies, short couplings, round,
full quar- ers, high knee action and Pc
cuiar stiff movement"
WHAT is the future of the average
but er-maker?' alt is hard to say"
replies the Western Rural, but The
average workman of any kind can only
look forward with the hope OF obtain
ing fair living, and quile often this
hope does not matelialIze III the way
he expected. The average butter
maker in Iowa is being gradually
crowde out and his place taken by one
who is above the average"
SLOWER and straw are two feeding
stutfs that are usually abunda 1t, and
whose full value is not recognized by
many of us. According to Prof ssor
Armsby ton OF slower, or corn fodder,
contains seventeen pounds of nitrogen,
ten and one-half pounds phosphoric
acid, and over nineteen pounds at pot
ash, all of which is worth S439 AS a
fertilizer, WHEN estimated on The same
basis as that used for commercial fer
lilizers.
THE smallest specimen of horseaesh
ever born in New York is owned 10y g.
B. Bassett. 1t was born at the Spring
Hill horse farm, near Walton, which is
owned by Mr.. Bassett. Tne animal
weighs thirty-three pounds and l. only
two feet in height Huckleberry FINN