The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-02-15
every available piece of ground, lea
none for pasture.

stock. This no doubt is the cause
80 much difference of opinion.
LEVI p. MoRToN's buttermaker d
clares he churns sweet cream at
temperature of thirty.six degrees. No y
one Use seems to have done this.
IT is claimed that tablespoonful of
saltpeter dissolved in pailiul of water
and sprayed upon striped squash. bugs
will kill them. 1t may be worth a trial.
MANY farmers seem 10 think there
is waste in unthl eshed oats. Expert, nee
goes to prove that there is the least
possible waste if a proper place for
feeding is provided.
CALVES will eat hay when they are
very young; tie bunch Of nice clover
hay within reach of the calf when it is
a week old, and 80 soon as that bunch
is eaten give it another.
IT cannot be said that good beef hss
at any time in the past five years been
cheap in centers of population, while
for much of that time it has been pro-
duced by the feeder at loss.
THE feeces Of the strains of English
sheep imp )rted into Australia are said
TO be growing decidedly lighter, owing
w ihO luCb ludb but utdNH llcGCG 10 uOb
necessary under a warmer sky.
THE time is coming, and coming
quickly, when all animals in the show
ring will be passed upon by experts
men who know what to do and then do
it without fear or favor, looking only to
JOHN GOULD, in recent Note and
Comment states a square truth when
he saws that Dairy education must 90
ahead of dairy establishment, if there
is to be a success from the start and
lasting"
If grandmother uses "is " for ''are,"
it is to be borne in mind that it is much
more d fficult for her to change the
habit of half century than for young
man to abandon his daily quota of
cigarettes.
DON'T be alarmed about livestock
ing the egg market. We are compelled
to import about $4,000, 600 worth of
eggs annually. You can depend on it
that eggs will always be in demand and
at fair prices.
BEAR in mind that an animal is
benefited by what it eats and not by
what it wastes; therefore feed just
enough and no more, or you will soon
be prepared to condemn the feed, what
ever it may be.
WE enjoy seeing a good horse and
buggy in good hands. But where we
see young man spending his money
for this luxury when he needs to culti
vate his brains, in other words when he
had better put his money into his head,
we conclude the horse and buggy en-
joyment is carried to excess.
If you are going to get good price
for butter when you have got good
market, you will find it will pay you to
be thoroughly honest and careful.
When you put brand on a package of
butter it is just the same as saying,
"That is just such butter as l have
| been sending you right along" and if
you are telling them lie you will soon
get paid for it.
UNCLE JERRY RUsK will 90 out of
the cabinet and return to his Wisconsin
farm with the satisfaction of having
, made as creditable a record as any
other member of President Harrison's
! official family. He has not been the
, man TO wait for hints and suggestions
about the right thing to do. He has
, been original enough to make a policy
/, and e. as far with it as the administra-
, ton and congress would allow.
/ WE have spent and are spending
enough money to more than make good
? highways. What we want more than
{ anything else is a system and manage
/ ment. Heretofore every road district
, has been a law unto itself and there
has been nothing planned for the per-
' manent betterment of the roadbed.
! With little engineering, with sys-
tenn of draining, and some definite plan,
/ we ought to get pretty good roads with
[ out materially increasing the present
! expenditures.
/ A. S. FULLER says that for pure,
: unadulterated insecticide for cabbage
e worms he prefers pure salt to anything
s else, for it will not only kill every worm
5 it touches, but the rains will wash il
= away, leaving neither odor nor stain
A tablespoonful scattered over each
head will be sufficient, but the dose
must be repeated as often as new
crop of worms appear; and as the white
butterflies are usually flying about from
;. early spring until freezing weather, any
nsecticide, to be of much value, must
j be applied often.
Il PROFESSOR CHEEsMAN has been
testing thermometers and finds that
t they differ widely. Less than twenty
: per cent of those he tried were strictly
accurate. They vari, d from two to
D six degrees from the truth. These
/. re- ults correspond with the expert
ence of all who have tried the same
a experiments under proper conditions.
As the thermometer has come to be an
indispensable instrument in the dairy
is manifest that the importance OF
: having them accurate cannot be eXag'
4 gerated. Standard tested thermome.
ters are now so widely distributed
among the weather bureau stations,
e colleges and other places, that it is not
!, much trouble 10 secure test, there
Il fore it is not unreasonable for pur-
chasers to demand guarantee of accu-
v racy with every instrument. Guaran-
/ tetd thermometers may cost little
f more, but they are cheaper in the end.