The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10
Clipped and Condensed.


SORT your eggs as to color if you
want them to look well and sell well.
THE contented grunt of the hog
should be sweet music to the feeders
ear.
WE see a great many wind-puffed
and weak-ankled trotters from too much
bandage.
THE wastes of the farm, through want
of knowledge how to save, are hea vier
than all taxes.
EVERY sheep-owner should have
some work that treats upon their dis
eases and general management.
THERE is as much importance at
tached to the keeping up Of proper Or
CARNATIONS as there is in the cultivation
of crops.
APPLES taken from the north south
ward become poorer keepers, softer in
texture, lower in color and poorer in
quality.
The habit of viewing things cheer
fully, and of thinking about life hope
fully, may be made to grow up in us
like any other habit.
"CLEAN," when applied to hen
houses, means that they are free from
bad odors, have dry floors with dry
litter on them, and are free from lice.
THE man or woman who never
reads farm or daily papers, or goes to
dairy meetings, will never make the
best butter. 1t is out of the question.
NEVER breed from a scrub animal of
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any respect, for defects in parents are
nearly all magnitied in their offspring.
WE, as farmers, ought not to keep
any stock to which we do not give our
best attention; better sell it for what it
will bring, keepI only what we do give
attention to.
WE sell S9,000,000 worth of oil meal
to foreign countries annually. The
foreigner buys it in preference to all
other meals, because it makes him most
valuable manure.
The burden of testimony seems to be
that the flavor, firmness and keeping
quality of apples are at their best in the
highest latitude in which any given va
riety can be grown.
NEVER lose the flesh put on by the
mothers milk, for if you do the bones
will lose their strength and the skin
never again have that mellow touch
essential to thrifty animal.
No farm animal is so worthless as a
little runty, lousy, scabby pig. A
properly bred pig, and cared for as he
should be, is profitable, giving quick
returns for the amount of food con-
sumed.
Hoes are hogs, because nature made
them so. Some men are hogs because
they want to be hogs. The four-footed
animals deserve sympathy for being
classed with some of the two-footed
brutes.
IT is better for the seller, better for
the buyer, better for the horse, to feed
such food before selling as the horse
has been accustomed to and which he
is likely to be fed again after chang
ing owners.
AN exchange says that drinking
heartily OF ice.cold water is one of the
chle1 causes of abortion among North
ern Grood mares. Also that mares in
foal should never be used for horse
back riding.
Corn fodder will take the place OF
hay. When an acre of we'll cured stover
Is worth as much as an acre of timothy
1t is poor economy to let the stover go 10
waste and keep high-priced land for
growing timothy.
IT has not been many years since the
idea prevailed that when boy was
not fit for anything else he would make
a good farmer. Quite change has
taken place in the minds of most peo-
pie in regard to this.
THE barn of Charles Reed, Nashville,
Tenn, owner of the 100000 stallion
st. Blaise, was struck by lightning re-
Gently, and twenty-five choice thorough
bred brood mares instantly killed.
Total Joss is estimated at 100000.
THE value of good grazing does not
seem to be fully appreciated. Care
fully conducted experiments have pretty
conclusively shown that good pastures
cannot be improved upon to any great
extent even by the addition of the best
grain ration.
THE tide has turned for the cattle
men-following the wake of sheep and
hogs on the up grade. The great sur
plus of scrubs is at last marketed and
cattle will be cattle hereafter, and the
breeders should now breed up to the
improved breeds.
THE apples grown in England are
much inferior in quality to those grown
on the continent of Europe, or in
America. Those grown in Mexico and
California, though larger, are much
lower in quality than the apples of
northern United States.
DON'T breed to a horse because the
service fee is low, nor because it is high,
but if you have in your neighborhood
stallion that has been bred in certain