The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-27
thorough digestion and assm ilation of
the other food.

perimenters are often much too prone
to accept crude or half-tried expert
ment, or single experience, as es-
tablishing beyond doubt the correct
ness of new principle or the great
value of new method.
A POUND of rice contains SO 90 per
cent of nutritive matter. Lean beef
contains but 1888 per cent. Fat beef
contains 46.O3 per cent; potatoes, 1924
per cent; Indian corn, 20 81 per cent;
oats, 7402 per cent; rye, 82.79 per
cent, aud wheat, 50 "a per cent.
A POTATO field should have been so
thoroughly cultivated and cleaned from
weeds before the blossoms appear thai
no deep stirring will then be needed.
Deep cultivation and pulling of large
weeds from the hills late in the season
is unfavorable to large yield.
EVERY farmer should keep an ac-
count of his receipts and expenses.
Without so doing be is not in posi-
ton to know where he stands. No
business man would think of running
his affairs without keeping strict &C
count of 1t, and the farmer should do
! the same.
NE uOue0WHc VI luC ueAJ C6uluTJ
will not have any tin or iron cooking
utensils. She will use aluminium cook
ing dishes, which are light, easily
cleaned and practically ind structibe.
A few of these dishes are now made,
and experiments have shown that they
are far superior to any now in use.
A CORRESPONDENT of The Stockman
says: " From experience have learned
that the best way to do with new
cleared land is to Immediately SOW to
grass and pasture it until the stumps
are mostly rotted out. New land will
grow an abundance of excellent pas
ture and the stumps will not sprout 80
much as when farmed."
A TwENTY-YEAR.oLD HORSE was
not doing well. Upon examination his
front teeth were found to be so long
that his grinders were kept from COM
ing together, and he could not masti-
cate his food. His teeth were filed off ,
and the sharp points evened with a
float, and he is now doing as well as
any of the younger horses.
THERE is considerable guessing as to
supplies of hogs for the coming winter
packing season. A Chicago paper
states that replies to $500 letters of in.
quiry sent out by leading operators
there indicate that the 1898 crop of
young pigs as compared with last year
is lightweight per cent, or twelve per
cent below the short crop of 1892.
THE now so we'll known Professor
Bailey was born in South Haven, Mich,
on March 10, 1858. He was brought
up in the fruit business and some gen.
eral farming, was graduated from Michi-
gan Agricultural College in 1882, was
for one winter reporter in The Legisla-
ture of Illinois, and in 1883 and 1884
was assistant to Asa Gray at Harvard.
A CHEERFUL atmosphere is important
to happy home life. 1t is very hard
for children to be good when they are
exposed to an incessant hail-storm of
fault-fnding from their parents. 1t lie
very difficult for wife to maintain a
calm and charmingly sweet demeanor
when her husband is critical, or sullen,
and takes all her tender efforts with in
different appreciation.
WHEN hogs are high in the Chicago
market, everybody raises hogs until
there are more hogs in the country than
the pork.eaters of the world want and
prices decline; then production wanes
Tor time and prices advance. Those
who 90 with the tide without STUDYING
conditions are usually overstocked when
prices are down and have nothing to
sell when prices are up.
IT is no cruelty to the dog to give
him useful occupation, and in fact, the
testimony is that he really likes it. If
dogs could generally be make so health
lily tired by useful work all the day that
they would sleep soundly at night, the
innovation would be hailed with Joy by
hundreds of thousands Of people all
over the country whose peace is dis
turbed by their nocturnal yelping and
bowling.
In England farming is considered a
business that must be learned, as well
as anything else. A man without ex-
perience would have difficulty in rent
ing or leasing a good farm there, no
matter how much capital he might
have; and again, no matter what his
experience, be could not lease unless
he could show capital enough to stock
and operate it properly. Here it is
sometimes different.
THE edge of very keen razor, when
examined under a microscope, appears
as broad as the back of thick knife,
rough, uneven and full of notches. An
exceedingly small and delicate needle
similarly scrutinized resembles rough
bar from smiths forge. The sting of
a bee, viewed through the same instru-
ment, shows a flawless polish, without
the least blemish or inequality, ending
in point too fine to be discerned.
WE doubt if there is a tool yet in
vented that will pulverize the soil as
well as plank drag, that's, when pro-
perly made and used. The drag that
works the best for us is made of two
inch plank put together like lap weather
boarding, making it six feet long and
four and one-half feet wide. BY using
any harrow or cultivator that will bring
the clods to the top.we can pulverize
the soil to perfect seed bed.
HOw's This?