The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-16
Clipped and Condensed.

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DON'T complain of your wife's ex-
travagance with a cigar in your mouth.
THE demand for stock and feeding
cattle is extremely light in both eastern
and western markets.
THE best way to give milk to young
chicks is to get it boiling hot, and then
scald the ground grain with it.
THE grange is practically the only
farmers organization Of any real stand
ing in the New England states.
BEANS, white, sixty pounds, except
sixty.two pounds in Maine, Vermont
and New Hampshire. Why so?
DO not give the chicks sloppy food.
Let it be just wet enough to be crum-
bly,. Sloppy food will give diarrhea.
THE rape plant seems destined to
play an important part as forage plant
in the L nited States in the near future.
II is said to be so dry in some parts
of the country that farmers have to
soak their pigs in the river before they
will hold slop.
A FARMERS club in a neighborhood
is capable of doing immense good, and
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in every state.
IN 1892 New York city paid for its
school bill, "a 100000: for its amuse-
ment bill, S7,000,0 900, and for its drink
bill, $50 100000.
RED pepper shonld never be given
in large quantities to poultry. The
practice of putting red pepper in all
the soft food should be discarded.
A FEW acres devoted to the cultiva-
ton of berries and fruits will often
yield a greater cash income than
goo1-sized farm the way it is usually
run.
ONE of the points which all agricul-
tural education tends to impress on the
mind of the student is the need of
thoroughness in all the operations of
soil cultivation.
THERE is economy in giving our
children good education. We know
too little of the why's and wherefores of
our calling on the farm. We work too
much in the dark.
THE receipts of Texas cattle at Chi.
cago during June were the greatest
ever recorded, with single exception.
A heavy decrease in the receipts is
looked for during the rest of the sea.
son.
LEGHoRN pullets require only five
months from the day they are Matched
until they lay. But all pulets for win.
ter layers must be mature in November
at the latest, or they will not lay until
spring.
THE art of milking must be learned,
and should be learned young. To the
beginner it is hard work, as it calls into
exercise set of muscles that no other
work does.
THE detail of any business is where
profit originates. What one man may
waste, careful earnings of another
makes him rich. The opportunities for
each are the same.
GEORGE WASHINGTON TREAT of
Durham, Conn, has a barn which he
has painted in various colors so that he
might suit the various tastes of his
neighbors in respect TO color.
Mr.. A. w. CHEEvER prints in the
Ne,o England Farmer the statement
that by smearing the inside of horses
hoofs with soap the trouble of balling
with snow is almost entirely removed.
ONE of the most important duties on
the farm is to see after the farm imple-
ments, whether they are all in good re-
pair, and, above all, keep in the dry
when not in use. Many farmers are
very neglectful in this particular.
WATCH the boy that drives your
cows to and from the pasture. 1t is a
miserably bad practice to run mich
COW. or all animals, she more than
another, needs to be slowly driven and
kindly treated.
FROM present indications, the first
part of the live stock exhibit at the
Worlds Fair, which includes horses
and cattle, will be great in every re-
spect. This department of the show
opens August p and closes September 8.
SINCE the millionaire era the cost of
living has been quadrupled. The
mlllionaires are responsible to a great
extent for this burden laid upon people
possessing moderate incomes. They
have initiated eXtravagant expenditure
in everything.
SUCCESS in raising pigs proftably
depends upon feeding literally during
the first three months. If they are
started well, 1t is easy to keep them
growing. In summer their quarters
should be roomy, dry, well ventilated,
and kept clean.
SOME people have a notion that
southern Texas is no climate for apples,
but farmer near Melasco set out some
yearling trees about three years ago
and is now gathering fine apples, the
boughs being so loaded that they have
to be propped up.