The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-20
Clipped and Condensed.

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in the butter, and faint good thing
in either.
OATS are far superior to corn as a
food for brood sows, both before and
after breeding.
FACToRYMEN ought to be posted on
the causes of poor milk and give their
patrons help when needed.
To be able to milk the hard ones
with patience and skill is the qualifica-
ton that should and must be attained
by successful dairyman.
"IHAs noticed" said Uncle Nose,
"dat de man wot don't do muffin 'less'n
he's paid fer it will do anythin', no
matter haw mean it am, pervidin he do
git paid for it,"
No article for human consumption is
more delicious than honey and none is
more beneficial to the human system.
Honey is food in one of its most con-
centrated forms.
A HEN of average ambition lays $50
eggs per year. If the Thanksgiving
price lasted all the year round, it would
make those eggs worth their weight in
cash; but it doesn't.
THE successful manufacture of beet
sugar in Nebraska and California is at
tracing the attention of eastern cap
italsts, with the view of engaging in
that industry on a large scale.
If we were, as people, to be judged
by the comparison of our drink and
gambling bills with our bills for schools
and churches, how hopeless our M
tional character must appear
WHAT is wasted upon drink and lost
in speculation and other forms of gam
| bling would vastly more than double
the salaries of all the teachers and
preachers in the United States.
JUDGE NELSON of the United States
court has granted an injunction re-
straining the dairy commissioner of
Minnesota from enforcing the law re-
quiring cleo manufacturers to color
their product pink.
IN Germany, when the vote of the
jury stands six against six, the prisoner
is acquitted. A vote of seven against
five leaves the decision to the court,
and in vote of eight against four the
prisoner is convicted.
THERE is a great deal said and writ
ten over the amount of stock " fed to
the acre" This is not the problem at
all. Stock food at the least cost is what
should concern the farmer, says the
Maine Farmer and that is so.
CONCORD grapes this year netted the
growers in the lake counties of New
York little less than pennya pound.
Catawbas little more. Maine is not
| nv r,rnUiYc, in.
stead," chuckles the Name Farmer.
HONEY is a vegetable product not
made, but gathered from the nectar of
flowers where it is secreted, according
to the rules of natures laboratory.
Each flower yields honey of its own pc
culiar flavor, which is generally easily
recognized.
DEER are getting plenty, even so far
down as Connecticut. The Connecticut
Farmer says: 1.-THE first deer seen in
the locality in years was seen between
Winsted and New Hartford in the town
of Barkhamstead, Wednesday morning,
November 30"
EMBROIDERY should always be
ironed on the wrong side, on soft sur
face, such as heavy flannel or telling,
with clean white cloth over it, and
should be ironed until thoroughly dry.
In this way the design will be beauti-
fully brought out.
FARMERS Boy" Father, kin l go
to the minstrels tonight with Hiram
Homespun?" Farmer" Nav. 'Tain't
more'n a month since yer went t the
top o. the hill to see the eclipse of the
moon. Pears TO me yew wanter be on
the go the hull time"
S. f. MORTON of Ohio says that
while hogs are the most neglected
of all our domestic animals, yet they
are expected to keep the family, pay
the taxes and take care of the debts
and am quite sure they are equal tC
the emergency if they have at least /
half chance"