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

are dryer.
YOUR fowls should now be provided
WIN the dust bath. This is a subject
we nave often spoken about as neces-
sary 10 the health OF the fowls. How
many OF our readers have followed the
suggestion?
OATS is one of the most profitable
grain crops that the farmer produces.
This crop is attended with less EXPENSE.
all things considered from the begin.
ming to the end, than any other grain
crop on the farm.
1T is better for several reasons 10
grow all the feed at home if il can no
done We can never tell what the
prices of feed will be, but if we have
plenty of home. grown feed we are com.
paratively independent.
SOME farmers say it does not nav TO
Keep hired hand on the farm since
farm products are selling so low. Their
failing is they always employ the hand
they can get for the least money, regard
less OF his qualifications.
BARNARD manure contains only
about twenty-four pounds of plant food
per ton; but the farmer should use all
ne has OF 1t, as it is valuable source of
humus and humic acid, which is part of
the rich mould of the soil.
The secret of curing balky horses
lies In diverting the attention or in
stinct OF the horse from himself or the
matter in hand. Whipping him keeps
him liked on the situation, and usually
it does no good whatever.
THE cream obtained by centrifucal
process differs in consistency from
gravity cream, and it is doubted by but
ter makers If the cream of both kinds
can be handled together in creameries.
without special loss and trouble.
WHILE we may disagree about the
value OF the different kinds of CONNER
cial manures, the mode of application,
etc., all agree that plenty of good barn
yard manure is hard to beat. The
corn field is good place for it.
A WRITER says that in case of caked
udder or garget" he gives one.half
teaspoonful of tincture of aconite in
ground feed at night. He seldom has
TO use the third dose. Aconite is strong
medicine. Be careful about the dose.
The fact that for each acre devoted
10 any crop corresponding area of
some other is not grown shows that it
is rather a question of which is the
most profitable crop, or crop best
adapted to our soil and requirements.
OF American cattle exports last year
ga OPS went to Liverpool, LAG 900 to
the Deptford market, London, and 49,
493 to Glasgow. German ports took
less than 1000 of all the cattle exported
from American and Canadian ports last
year.
BRITISH dairymen are having as much
trouble as our own with the makers Of
oleo, the production of which increases
constantly. Occasionally a farmer is
discovered composing his fresh dairy
butter with little of it to enhance his
profits.
The extraordinary births like Black
hawk, Eclipse, Messenger and Hub
back must have been due to the superb
health and vigor of their sires at the
time OF population, and to the superior
nutritive function of the dams during
THE injury to the pasture resulting
from close cropping is a serious one
and largely reduces the annual pastur-
ing value of our lands besides shorten
ing the grazing season and keeping
animals in condition that renders
them Improbable.
HARD work, steady pay, regular saw
ings, and large families are giving to
the foreigner the industrial future of
New England. False industrial STAN
dards and social pride are fast robbing
New England boys and girls of their in
dustrial inheritance.
CLOVER is the most valuable all
round grass we have and should enter
into all mixtures. 1t is chiefly valuable
because of its nitrogen feeding and
storing properties. The clover plant is
rich in nitrogen or the protein or flesh
element in feed.
BE sure you have warm, dry quarters
for the sows that farrow early. If you
have no such quarters, set about to pro-
vide them before the rush of spring
work in the fields. Every pig saved
from drowning or chilling means dol
lars TO the farmers pocket.
BABY beef calls for an expensive ra-
ton every day of the animals exist
ence. Grass must be depended on to
a large extent. At two years old is
young enough to begin feeding. In
The old country cattle are kept quiet
and are not allowed to be disturbed.
THE lantern in the barn is always
source of danger. In the milking
stable wire should be stretched over
head, in the rear of the cows, with
sliding hook to which the lantern should
De suspended, and never set upon the
1oor, where it is liable to be overturned.
If there is one thing more than an
'ther that opens the way for disease
'mong poultry, it is the practice of al.
owing the fowls to breed in and in.
such system, or want of system, i'm
pairs the vitality and invites disease.
See to it that your fowls are rightly
mated.
CLOVER not only feeds on and stores
nitrogen in the plant itself, but inves-
igations have shown that it also liber
ties and leaves more available nitrogen
n the soil, and consequently the grass
hat grows with it is better fed and the
,orn that grows after it has a larger