The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-13
Clipped and Condensed.


milk by the want of little attention to
the cows; very often this is from
ignorance.
A COW, horse, or any other animal,
does not obey any better because the
command is given in cross tone at the
top of the voice.
THE feed for pigs should be quite
different from that for hogs. Pigs
want muscle and bone-producing foo Is,
while hogs want that which will put on
flesh.
COME honey is better than the ex-
tracted from the start, and keeps better
for the two reasons that it is thicker
(has less water in iO and is sealed up
alright.
A PROMINENT real estate dealer is
authority for the statement that inqui-
ries for farm property are more plenti-
full now than at any time in the past
five years.
DON'T use the iron kettle for a water
ing trough for stock. If you do, one of
these cold mornings you will get up and
find that the ice has cracked it from
top to bottom.
A HORSE of intelligence and good
breeding will take advantage of load
and save himself much better than one
of sluggish, stolid habits, one that is a
SLOUGH in all things.
IT pays to stable the cows just so
soon as the nights get cold; even while
they are still on pasture, it is better to
make sure that they are warm, dry and
comfortable at night.
Don't keep man on the farm who
abuses the cows, or any other stock;
and it is abusing the cows to be yelling
at them every time you drive them to
the pasture or into the stable.
In casting an eye over this busy
world of ours, how many persons can
we see who are daily making mistakes.
In every vocation we find people max
ing mistakes. Study your work well.
YOUNG pigs are most profitably fed
on sweet skim-nilk in small quantities
given frequently. Half pint at time
is quite enough for a two-weeks-old
pig, and it may be given four times a
day.
THERE is scarcely a flock or hero
which does not contain some inferior
members. 1t is well to consider whether
it will pay to winter these culls. They
require the same amount of food anC
attention as the others.
THE present winter promises to be
marked by great distress among the
poorer classes in our cities. Thousand;
of men whose families are dependent
upon their daily labor for bread are idle
in almost every great city of our land
KEEPING an animal in condition, a;
we understand it, means keeping hin
in a state in which the body and limbs
are in their most healthy condition, the
muscular system being such as to Fl
him for the particular kind of work fol
which he is intended.
The best cattle in central Ohio are
in the main, bought for export. Thu
export steer must be smooth, a well-bre(
and finished animal. Such steers are
sold at from thirty to thirty-six months
old, and make an average weight O
from 400 to 1850 pounds.
THE president issueth his proclama
ton that we should give thanks; eacl
governor issueth his proclamation tina
we should give thanks, but some of III
complain that the cow hath kicked owe
the bucket of milk and we have nothing
to be thankful for. We forget that W,
still have the COW.
THE farmer ought not to be neglect
full of his personal comfort in eXposin!
hi off 10 thn Vt of an6 apl.
in caring for the stock. This is a par
ticular failing of young farmers. Sucl
persons are almost sure to become
chronic sufferers from rheumatism o
neuralgia later in life.
SPEAKING of one of the old-tim
farmer ministers, the Brattlebort
: Ph9nir says: " Parson Tufts lived OF
the south side of the common, and ha
farm which he carried on, as mos
; clergymen had then, aud his farm
shows the effects of his good cultivation
to this day. Parson Tufts was tn
postmaster, which Office he hel,
twenty-nine years, and that was th
only post-of1ice for Stratton and SomeI
? set as well as for Wardsboro."
SOME writers object to having tn
hens eat the maggots to be found in tn
dung, on the ground that such food wi
faint their eggs, as eating turnips wi
flavor the milk of the COW; but there
no analogy between the two cases
: as there is no analogy between tn
) stomach of the cow and the hen. Wit
equal reason, they might say that ca
ing turnips would flavor the flesh of tn
unborn calf, and faint the veal, as tha
the food of the hen will flavor the eggs
THREE college students, out for
mornings walk, thought to have som
a fun with an old farmer they saw memo
j.. ing fence beside the street. So tn
first one said to him, " Good mornins
Father Abraham" The second sale
Good morning, Father Isaac" Tn
third said, "Good morning, Fathe
Jacob" The farmer looked up, yer