The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-24
Clipped and Condensed.


the farmer in the destruction of iniuri-
Gus insects In most substantial way.
INTELLIGENCE from the other side
of the Atlantic shows very fair aver
age prospect for the crops of the coming
season.
EACH person in the United States
and Canada eats only forty pounds of
mutton annually. There is great
difference in mutton.
ACCORDING to the government crop
report for April, the condition of winter
wheat is now nearly four points below
the same time last year.
YOUNG chicks cannot digest corn
meal mixed with cold water. This is
common loss. Try stale bread crumbs
mixed with warm, sweet milk.
WE have no patience with the set
bills of fare that are often given for
every day of chickens life-such
plan of feeding is full of needless work.
OVER two hundred million dollars
worth of farm products are DESTROYED
by insects annually in the United
States. This means great loss to the
farmer.
No fixed rules can be laid down for
handling and training colts. The best
method in one case fails in another, so
much depends on the disposition and
temperament of the colt.
EVERY farm may as we'll have its
pure breed of chickens. With a little
study and proper pains some one about
the place might become proficient as
breeder and find it very profitable.
WHAT can man afford to pay per
head per month for pasture for year
ling cattle and have a profit? If they
are good stock and on good pasture,
what ought they to gain per month?
IF butter maker is able TO tell
when the cream is just ripe enough to
churn and when the butter is worked
just enough, he has learned two of the
hardest lessons connected with butter.
making.
PUBLISHING false pedigree has
been made a crime by the legislature of
Pennsylvania, punishable by fine not
exceeding $1,000 and imprisonment in
the county Jail not less than one month
nor more than one year,
JOHN CHRIsTERsON, farm hand in
the employ of Samuel A shwel of
Rocky Hill, Conn, recently left for
other fields. AT the same time a gold
watch and $25 in cash disappeared.
Names are no good to go by in hiring
help.
1T is not generally known that hogs
Will hibernate, but an instance is on
record OF hog that has just come out
sleek and fat from under a straw pile
where 1t lay buried for four months and
five days undisturbed by the rigors of
the past winter.
THE brutality of the students of the
Ohio Wesleyan University in hazng
has caused the Ohio legislature to pass
a law making that "sport" INSIDE
meanor, punishable by fine of from
500 to $500, and Imprisonment from
SIX months to two years.
The best safeguard we can have is
proper training and careful watching.
BY all means teach a horse to stop at
the word; have your brides, lines aud
harness in good trim, and with careful
handling, there would not be one run
away where there is thousand.
j. M. CAMPBELL, the most extensive
sheep man in West Texas, has lost. ac-
cording to the Chicago Tribune, % per
cent OF his flock during the past twelve
months. They were all killed by
wolves These were wild wolves. The
same work is done elsewhere by the
tame sort.
THERE is no doubt about the fact
that pullets, if Matched in the right
season, will give the most profitable
eggs-proftable as they lay them during
the fall, winter and early spring, at the
time of the year when the prices are
the best. Next TO the pullets are the
wo-year-old hens.
SEVERAL Western agricultural 40.
cieties have set apart liberal sums as
premiums for the best exhibits at the
fairs by farmers boys. This is step
in the right direction, and worthy of
general imitation by fair associations.
Put the racing purses into this, and
you will draw a bigger and better
crowd.
The Indiana Farmer SAYS that to
prevent danger and to keep growing
pigs and hogs healthy in the summer
and fall seasons, succulent food along
with dry corn feeding is essential
Whenever corn is given to fattening
hogs it should be given in certain pro-
portions of other food, best of ali if
succulent
In the manufacture of knives the
division of labor has been carried to
such an extent that one knife is
handled by seventy different artisans
from the moment the blade is forged
until the instrument is finished and
smoothly wrapped up for market. And
this same idea has been or is being
rapidly extended to every mechanical
business.
TIMOTHY MCDONALD, a big Wyo-
ming sheep man, makes an interesting
comparison between the business in
Wyoming and Australia. In the colo
MES, he says, one man at S175 year
will run 10 900 900 sheep as against one
man at $3.50 and 5000 in Wyoming.
Shearers there receive three and four
cents as against eight and twelve in
| this country.