The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-26
Clipped and Condensed.


the horses, use them. Do not kill one
hall your. stock in trying TO raise a crop
to keep the other half.
IT is not good economy to turn thirty
or forty head Of cows into thirty acre
pasture to roam about all day and not
get more than enough feed to make up
for the muscular exertion.
BUTTER will come much quicker
sometimes than others, due generally
to difference in temperature. Every
one who has cows should have Their
mometer for testing the temperature OF
milk.
WE live in an age in which organiza-
ton marks the onward progress of
great industries. We find the control
of nearly every manufactured fabric in
The hands of trusts or trade organiza-
tons.
FEEDING turnips and other strong
favored roots to cows and their effect
upon the milk is disputed point, but
dairymen feed them Immediately after
milking without producing a turnipy
flavor in butter.
IT is poor economy to keep a COW on
short ratons or to starve her at one sea-
son of the year with the idea that her
loss will he made up at future time.
y loss of flesh or milk for lack of food
had better be counted on as a perma-
nent loss.
THE dog that is out nights and away
from home hunting up mischief is al
ways sure to find willing companion,
and they two will corrupt others, until
horde of them can smell mutton and
pork, if any is TO be had, no matter how
dark the night.
THE whip is the parent of stubborn
ness in q high-spirited animal, while
gentleness will obtain obedience and at
the same time attach the animal to US.
1t is the easiest thing imaginable to
win the affection of animals, and espe-
cially of horses.
THE great mass of American farms
are owned in fee simple by those who
occupy them as personal working farm
ers, combining in some degree the
functions of the British landlord, land
tenant and farm laborer. The farms,
as a rule, are of comparatively small
size.
THE rural population is making its
power felt nowadays. 1t does not fol-
low that everything originating in the
country is right and everything origina-
ting elsewhere is wrong. 1t does show,
! however, that the country is force
entitled to due consideration and that
it means to have il.
To replenish the earth can mean
nothing more than its fertility shall be
preserved and that the soil shall not be
wasted; that by every exercise of in
dustry and skill the productiveness of
the soil should be kept up, that the rest
of mankind may derive the benefit
from it that Injured from the very be.
ginning of our whole race.
A WELL ToDo farmer, who has by
slow degrees learned the lesson of
chow to make the farm pay" says
I'VE never really prospered until we
learned to live out of the garden and
cellar instead of the grocery store"
Good food in abundance and of great
variety, grown on the farm, should be
the first object of every farmer.
"THERE are some people who think
a horse would stop if they did not keep
up constant jerking on the reins, and
others who think farmers would not
know when to pillow or what to plant if
they failed to remind them of their
duties" observes our friend of the Mir
rOr and Farmer. Still, an occasional
jog to the memory may do good.
THE Jersey is singularly docile and
we'll bred animal. She came from an
island where girls were her keepers,
and where no other horned cattle were
allowed, Her graceful figure, slender
limbs, fine head-in short, her beauty,
combined with her docility, have al
ways made her one of the most es.
teemed of the domestic animals.
To make vinegar in small quantities
and in short time for family use, the
following is said to be good way: Mo-
lasses one quart, yeast one pint, warm
water three gallons. Put into Jug or
cask, tie gauze over the opening for
air. In summer set in the sun and in
winter by the stove, and in three weeks
you can draw cut of it good vinegar.
THIS robbing Peter in the future &c
pay Paul in the present never did pay
although many dairyman has brought
his herd through the winter so they
came out spring poor, imagining that il
he kept the breath Of life in them
through the winter it would be Just as
we'll as if they came through sleek aud
smooth. He did not know or did moi
reflect.
II one should raise himself into the
air by Juggling at his boot-straps, he
would quickly have crowd of aston
ished spectators, but if one stand;
firmly on the ground, in obedience tC
the law of gravitation, no one wonders
In fact, the latter is as ineXplicable a;
the former would be. We do know
that matter attracts matter, but no one
knows why or how it does so.
A VEAL calf escaped from slaughte
barn in Walpole and led the butchers
pretty lively race, visiting Westminster
VT, and other suburban localities to,
numerous to mention. 1t swan tn,
Connecticut river four times, and wa
only secured late in the evening OF
Dwinell's island. The charms of TO,
hunting were totally eclipsed, accord