The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-29

lamb weighed before and after sucking
and the difference in weights taken to
be the amount of milk given by the
eve. One side of the udder was MIXED
by hand and the milk analysed. The
milk from all the ewes fell considerably
below the average percentage of fat on
the first day of the test. This is &C
counted for by the fact that the ewes
were all frightened to a certain degree.
The average daily milk varied from
Psi pounds to 1896 pounds. In milk
ing one side of the udder while the
lamb was sucking the other, it was found
that the lamb in every instance OBJ
tanned the most milk, and in some cases
double the amount of milk secured by
milking was obtained by the lamb. In
comparison of the amount Of feed re-
quired to produce one hundred pounds
of milk by cows and ewes it was found
that there was considerable difference
in favor of the cows, but, owing to ewes
milk being richer, there was not so
much difference in comparison of the
total solids in milk. What difference
there was, however, was in favor Of
the cows. The gain in weight of lambs
per pound of milk consumed was 80 va
ried as not to indicate whether the per-
centage of fat affected the gain or not.
The indications given are: O That
there is much difference in the quantity
and quality of milk given by ewes. (2)
That the gain in weight of lambs dur
ing the first month of their lives is con-
trolled largely by the quantity of milk
given by the eve. (3) That ewes pro-
duce milk with higher percentage of
fat than the average cow. CAY That
ewes do not produce as large quantity
of milk for the feed consumed as do
cows. (5) That much might be accom-
plished in growing lambs by carefully
selecting good mixers for breeding.
HERE is what the well-known writer,
Fred Grundy, says about "Farmers who
get Fooled" This, of course is only
in the "Wild and Woody West"; but
there may be an idea or two in the ex-
tract that will interest Yankee agri-
culturist: "I always stick 'em when ]
get chance Not one in twenty reads
anything, except it may be little story
paper of some sort, and you can stuff
'em just about as you please" So said
sharp merchant one day after selling
an honest hayseed big bill of goods al
a profit of about sixty per cent. ''What
did you tell him?" 1 asked. "Told
him the tariff was so high on all classes
of unadulterated goods-the only kind
1 keep, of course,-that couldn't sell
them any cheaper and live. He said he
knew that it was the tariff that made
coffee so high, because he heard a law.
yer say so in a speech down at S., and
he knew that he was posted man!
Whenever they begin to growl about
the price of anything we always lay il
to the tariff, and that settles it at once.
They don't know little bit, more than
half of 'em; but that makes it all the
better for us. 1 stopped in at P.'s yes
terday just as he was selling an old
way.back an overcoat. The coat was
really worth about seven or eight dol
lars, but p. sold it to him for fourteen
He told the old fellow that he bought
it just before they jumped the tariff on
it, or else he couldn't afford to sell il
for a cent less than twenty dollars.
And the old corn blossom believed
him!" When 1 was a boy l used to
read great many novels and stories
and l noticed that whenever the writer
introduced farmer as one of the char.
acters he was described as a kind
hearted, ignorant, gullible old codger
with gunny-bag clothing and unkempt
hair, who lived on cabbage and pump.
kin pie, and said waal," and "dunno,' p
and "sart'nly." All the heroes were
lawyers, doctors, merchants or coupon
cutters, while all the clowns were farm.
ers of the way-back type. That used
to make me mad, because all the farm.
ers / then knew were nice, intelligent
people who read good papers and mag.
azines, and seemed to know about as
much as anybody. I couldn't imagine
where the authors found their clumsy
old clodhoppers. But when began to
move about in the world found them
myself, whole armies of them. l now
see them every day, and one would
hardly believe how densely ignorant
many of them are. Only a few days
ago l overheard one, who pretends to
be much better informed than the aver
age, assert positively that the govern
ment-that great, big something that
none of them can defne-is spending
1920 900 900 year on Warships. lust to