The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-06-21
Clipped and Condensed.

No farmer can afford to let his cows
run down thin in flesh in the spring of
the year.
IT is claimed that one acre of ensiage
will keep as many cows as two acres in
grass. Which costs the most? is the
question that affects the farmer.
THE acreage of corn this year is far
in excess of that of last, which was es-
pecially small, while this year it is
extraordinarily large.
THE horse needs to be fed according
to the work it is performing, and il
should be given the right kind of feed
and plenty of good water at reasonably
frequent intervals.
LIFE is too short to spend it in quar-
rels or litigation, or to buy trees of I'M
unreliable dealers because they are
cheap" and then wait for them to
prove true to name only TO be dsap-
pointed.
IT is estimated that the orange trees
now planted in America will, in five
years, yield thirty million boxes, while
but eleven million boxes will be re-
quired for home consumption. - %
THE acreage of bearing vineyards in
western New York is increasing at the
rate of two thousand year. An effort
is being made to push the sale of the
product in the English markets. i s.--Sg
THE future apple-tree planter needs
to know and ought to know the ten
best varieties for his locality for fam
lily orchard, and the two varieties which
he can best plant by the acre or ten
acres.
OUT of the appropriation made for
state purposes in connection with the
Worlds Fair, the Illinois legislature
has set aside $4,000 for creditable
display of the dairy products of the
state.
To be successful with sheep one
must have liking for the business and
be competent and willing to give them
proper care. With healthy stock to
begin with the main point is to keep
them so.
THE New Hampshire experiment
farm finds that milk from the best cows
costs one and one-half cents a quart;
from their poorest, four and one-half
cents, as it costs just as much to feed
the smaller producer.
THE milk condensery at Winthrop,
Me-, started on the 18th of May. The
company is receiving more orders for
goods than it can hand e, and the out
ook for prosperous business the COM
ing season is very flattering.
IT is a pitiful sight to see tie-up full
of cows at ]his time of year, or at any
season, but more especially on the
threshold of the dairy season-pinched
and poor, dirty and scrawny, solely from
The lack of sufficient food and care
FEED the skim-milk while it is still
value every time. All changes in the
natural product toward, or to an acid
condition detracts from its value for
food just in proportion to the change.
THE cheesemaker who is in a
hurry to get through with the days
work loses enough money for his EN-.
ployer and the patrons of the factory
to pay the wages of much better man"
very truly remarks the Io,Ca Home
stead.
AN orchard tree eats just as does a
corn plant or stool of wheat. A Wig
orous orchard tree is a greedy eater.
If the ground is not manured, the sup
ply of plant food is in time so much
exhausted that the tree cannot get ma
terial for vigorous growth or for abund-
ant fruitage.
"NEw HAMPSHIRE has selected a
president for her agricultural college
from the ranks of the classically edu-
Gated clergy. No matter, if the right
stuff is in him. In such case this can
only be proved by trial. There is no
time that can well be lost in expert
ments," says the Maine Farmer.