The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-25
Clipped and Condensed.

A PERSON is justified by the laws
of Iowa in shooting at sight sheep
killing dog.
1T does not pay to sell fat steer and
use all the money buying a hind quar-
ter OF Chicago beef from your town
butcher.
DAIRY1NG is trying to get out Of the
rus of the centuries. 1t has been able
to increase its profits hundred per cent
by doing So
IT seems to be the universal verdict
that hogs will be clean if they have half
chance. Now will yon not all give
them chance?
If each person in the United States
should eat third of pound of NUT
ton every day, in three months there
would not be sheep remaining.
UNLESS horse has brains he is not
t. achable. A horse that has breadth
and fullness between the ears and eyes
will not act mean or hurt any one.
THE Fairfield county Comm peach
crop of last season was 10000 baskets;
of the whole state, 81, 200 baskets.
New Jersey must look out for her
laurels.
GIVE the colts some training during
the winter days. 1t seems the earlier
a colt is taught anything the more read.
lily he learns-bad teaching not ex.
copied
IT is the attention to the so called
little things, and paying attention to
the little comforts of the animal, that
marks the difference between profit
and loss.
" PLENTY trottee de hoss-dats ~
way to boom re agaculte papaire tor re
mems; plenty love storie for re womans,'
says an old Cdnuck neighbor. He
knowsl
If we want to feel real good aud
happy in our political partisanship, we
must always judge our own party by its
best men, and the other one by its
worst. See?
A TEACHERS institute at Greenburg,
Penn, proved comparative failure
because the sleighng was so good that
pretty school marms preferred the cut
ter to the lecture.
The Massachusetts State Board of
Agriculture last year sold fifty one
abandoned farms, representing a total
of 1922 acres, for $74 $50, an average
of SIG 40 per acre.
THOUSANDS of ewes lose their lambs
II not their lives, yearly by being com
pellt d to crowd through narrow or half
open gates and doors, or by being com
PEELED 10 jump over bars.
"PRoF. w. w. COOKE says Vermont
has no poor land" remarks an ex-
change. We rather doubt his saying
l.; he lives almost in sight of the sand.
blows of Colchester and Milton.
A PNEUMATIC saddle, which can be
filled with air or water, is one of the
latest French inventions. For riding
long distances on horseback such a sad
die should prove an excellent de,i;e.
THE hired man hates to work for an
employer who does not know when a
good days work has been done. AL
most every man likes to be patted on
the back and called good fellow once
in while.
The hog is more regular about the
time OF feeding than any other domestic
animal Run over the meal hour few
minutes and you will hear from it, To
get best results from feeding, every
meal should be on time.
CRIBBING, otherwise wiod-sucking or
swallowing air, says the London Live
Stock Journal is vice peculiar to The
horse alone. 1t is vice which may be
checked by mechanical appliances, but
is rarely entirely eradicated.
THE number of horses now employed
to draw street cars is the merest frac-
ton of what it was ten years ago.
Horse growers must understand that
no calculation leading to a market for
stock for this purpose can be relied on.
THE American Polled Durham breed
of cattle has received a distinct clas-
sitication by the Columbian EXPOSE
ton, and also classified as a dis inct
breed by the agricultural societies of
the several states where they are bred.
THERE are few ways In which a
farmer can make money more rapidly
than by steadily grading up his stock.
In very few years the producing
capacity OF an ordinary dairy herd may
be doubled without any great expense.
The horse has good hearing and is
easily reached by soft kind words, which
please him better than harsh ones.
Soft words do not excite and scare him.
Yelling at team does not help TO pull
the load; it binders, nine cases out of
ten.
How did you succeed or why did YOU
fail in some farm undertaking? You
may help or get help by telling show
it happened" through this department.
Experience is worth more than mere
advice here, though alvice is often
very valuable.
THE professional roundsman at the
fall fairs may indeed carry off most of
the money; but what lot of trash he
Jugs around to palm off on the unini-
taled public aud on the unsophisti-
Gated judges that usually officiate on
such occasions.
THE driver that makes little noise is
the one that drives the team that pulls
square, holds on like grim death, goes
slow and wiggles out. The driver that
yells drives the team that seesaws,
struggles, flies back and leaves the