The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-06-14

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IHE Robertson Combination - for
ensilage is composed of Indian corn
ana English horse-beans, toy ether with
the heads of the Mammoth Russian
suntlower. 1t is designed to be a nor.
fecty balanced ration, the beans and
sunfloWer seeds furnishing the albu-
mlnoids, or iesh-forming parts :, lack.
ing in the corn. "o"
HAY loses much of its nutritive value
by being harvested too late. Timothy
is not usually cut before the seed il
ripe, and clover is frequently left stand.
ing until the blossoms are brown. For
sheep, and indeed for any stock tho
grass should be cut in June: timotbv
before the heads appear, and clover "a
soon as the bloom is red.
A FARMER writes: 81 carefullv
weighed out and stored in tight bin
lOo bushels of wheat, nailed the garner
smut, and left it for one year, when the
wheat was t ken out and weighed again.
and there were just ninety bushels,
Inc conditions of the test were at least
equal to ii not more favorable than
those OF the average farmer who holds
his wheat.n
IHE town of Atlantic, Iowa. has
within Its limits trust that probably
has no equal in this or any other coun-
try. The seven to fourteen-vear-old
boys who have been driving the bovines
to and from the pasture have raised
the price from fifty to eighty cents per
month for each COW. 1t is said the
organization is 80 complete that not a
boy in it will drive cows to pasture at
the old price.
AT the Vermont Dairymen's meet
ing last winter, it was claimed by ex-
perienced dairymen that gluten meal
fed to COWS had a tendency to make
soft butter, and that for this reason it
was not well ID feed it in summer.
Daiymen will do we'll to look out for
the quality of their product. Gluten
meal is an economic food, but If it has
the effect claimed it should be laid by
for winter USE
In all communities where the roads
are worked with the road machine the
pathmasters would find that they could
make smoother road by going out and
plowlng in the spring on the roadsides.
They can turn the sod down and it will
rot against road making, but if it is left
for the machine it will roll it up in the
center of the road and it Is impossible
to get it leveled down.
II has been said that the scheme of
the world is to get something for moth
ing, but those of us who have branched
out in the dairy business early discov-
cred that this principle would not apply
to the dairy business. We can, how
ever, by careful study, do much in the
way of cheaper production, and by i'm
proving our methods of dairy manage
ment increase the flow and quality of
milk.
WHILE it would be the natural con-
clusion that SOW supporting litter of
pigs should be fed literally, yet in prac-
tlce 1t proves a dangerous policy.
Strong, hearty pigs are the immediate
result, but this condition is of short
duration, fever supervenes, appetite is
lost and death soon follows. 1t is far
preferable to limit to some extent the
food of the sow for several weeks after
narrowing.
THE Connecticut Farmer says: at
is wise thing to submit to chemical
analysis any new and untried butter
color before using it. But we see no
in the coloring of butter as
it is done by all our cooperative cream
cries and most farm diaries in the win
ter season, while we do see downright
rascality in coloring oleomargarine in
order to lead consumers to buy it as
butter"
How often do we hear people say:
: Where in the world do all the flies
come from?' Il is simple enough. The
-oper makes the blue-bottle fly, the
stern father makes the CAD fly, the cy.
clone makes the house fly, the black
smith makes the fire fly, the carpenter
makes the saw fly, the driver makes
The horse fly, the grocer makes the
sand fly and the boarder makes the
butter fly.
IN northern Illinois nearly all cattle
are dishorned, and those who keep
arge numbers of cows and have done
so for years say that the cows are much
better off since they practiced dehorn-
ing. They think it a kindness to the
animals aud pecuniary advantage to
heir owners. Among them are many
good, kind-hearted men, and men that
seem to have very good sense as to
other things. Having tried herds with
and without horns, it seems as though
heir judgment in the matter should be
worth something.