The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-12
Clipped and Condensed.
Exchange.

If your soil won't grow red clover
try alsike.
If you have never grown any corn
for soiling in time of drouth, try 9
patch this year.
To be successful the farmer mus,
have some business capacity, some
financial ability.
KEEP your breeding birds strong and
vigorous and your chickens will always
be healthy and vigorous.
THE hog is capital cleaner, but il
ls not necessary to starve him in order
to have good job done.
If your dairying doesn't pay, why
don't you find out the reason, then
make it pay or give it up?
ALL breeds have their respective
points of excellence. Select one, make
that special, excel in that.
IT is good plan to frequently change
chickens from one yard TO another. 1t
will often prevent disease.
Too many pastures aud meadows
have only half stand of grass strug-
Cling in a full crop of weeds.
PAsTURING with the highest results
is fine art and its secrets have not vet
been learned by our farmers.
SOUND, sweet, wholesome food for
hogs will give better results than that
which is soured or fermented.
GENERALLY there is more satisfac.
ton in handling an old SOW and her lit
ter than young SOW and hers.
DON'T neglect the good, fresh water
for your fowls every day. If the chill
is taken off, it will do no harm.
OvER-sToCKING ruins more pastures
and degenerates more stock than any
other practice pertaining to grazing.
No one can expect to make success
OF the poultry business without hard
work and liberal supply of brains.
IF your cows are not all good ones,
attend the spring sales and see if you
cannot find few that will pay you to
buy.
THERE is some risk to run in buying
poultry at shows for breeding purposes.
They have often been over.fed and lack
vitality.
AVOID crowding too much stock into
small yard. A few animals will ter
rorize whole herd, if there are all ages
mingled together.
CAREFUL tests show that steers tied
in barn required twelve bushels each
less corn to make the same gain as those
fed in an open lot.
DON'T have your farm horse shod
unless the wall is worn so short that the
sole is wearing away. Until then shoe
ing is unnecessary.
The margarine act in England seems
to be wholly powerless to effect its pur-
pose, which was to prevent the sale of
that material as butter. Same here.
A NEW ORLEANS Judge imposed a
sentence of imprisonment for three
months and fine of 500 on man
who built fire under balky horse.
AT recent guessing contest in Scot
land the estimates of eighteen farmers
on the dressed weight of bullock be-
fore them averaged sixty pounds too
low.
IT is out of the question to run
main road without it has branches: for
II you have to go several miles to get to
a good road, you may as we'll 90 all the
way.
ALWAYS bear in mind that to manage
horses you must study their tempera-
ment or natural disposition. Many
horses the more they are whipped the
more stubborn they are.
THE Breeders Gazette says that if
the wool grower would attack the dogs
h.
tariff discussion, there would few dogs
escape to tell the tale"
THE condition of winter wheat
Throughout the upper Ohio valley is not
as good as it might be. The dry weather
during seeding time last fall gave the
crop poor start generally.
IT is the common belief with farmers
that the colt should be foaled on grass.
On most farms with the winter treat.
ment that the mares have there is no
doubt but what it would be best.
POLITICAL history often turns upon
agriculture. North Europe is a land of
animals, of stock raising and pastures,
the finest in the world. The same con-
iitions prevail in the United States.
TAKE good care of the colt. The
dam should not be worked until the
colt is ten days old, then if you do work |
her do not let the colt wear itself out
following her, but keep it in the stable.
A YOUNG calf weighing 100 pounds /
needs sixteen pints of milk per day. 1t
should be fed five pints in the morning,
i've pints at noon and six pintsat night. |
The milk should be fed while fresh and |
warm.
CEMENT ON earth floor is the best for
4 poultry house. 1t can be cleaned out |