The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
Clipped and Condensed.

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" not needing things?"
The reports from the Dakotas saw
that nearly three times as much grain
has been sown there as ever before.
HANDLE the young colts carefully.
The sooner you demonstrate to them
that you are their best friend the better.
CHEERFULNEss can become a habit,
AMI habits sometimes help us over hard
places. A cheerful heart seeth cheer
full things.
LAVIsHNEss is not comfort. PEOPLE
who live for the sake Of show and ex-
pend with that sole aim, had better
join circus.
To say that any tool is as 6 dull as a
hoe " is to say that it cannot be duler,
but the saying does not apply to the
hoe we use.
WITH care, in few years we can
change all of our stock from scrubs "
TO thoroughbreds and high grades and
realize increased profits.
HORSES are not made of iron, and
they should receive gentle treatment
on all occasions, particularly when they
are being given medicine.
DON'T try the plan of increasing the
size of your farm to swell your income.
1t can't be did," except by wiser men
than most of us are to day.
FARMING is business, and the man
who would make real success of it
nowadays must be good business man.
He must be an all-around good bust
ness manager.
THAT point of lf-education which
consists in teaching the mind 10 resist
its desires and inclinations until they
are proved to be right is the most i'm
portant of all.
ONE of the greatest mistakes of farm
ers of the present day is their attempt
TO cultivate more land than they can
properly fertilize or prepare thoroughly
for the crop intended.
IT is a sign of the times that chloro-
form is coming into use in operations
on the lower animals. In the practice
of gelding it has been freely adopted,
and with great success.
ONE who pretends to know says:
The idea prevails that gum chewing
helps the digestion. A little of it NAV,
but constant gum chewing Injuries the
teeth and impairs the stomach"
No public man who accomplishes
much in this world need hope to es-
cape vilifcation and abuse. "The path
of glory leads but to the grave" and it
lies through brambles and brers.
A MAN can no more be Christian
without facing evil and conquering it
than he can be soldier without going
to battle, facing the lannon's mouth
and meeting the enemy in the field.
A GOOD hay crop depends on series
of conditions extending throughout the
year; but, after all, the quality of hay,
and to large extent its value, depend
more on the manner of making than
all other conditions combined.
WHAT some social writers demand is
that the laborious work of a green,
crude hand shall command a market
price. This it never can do, nor can
it be made to do so, either by legisla-
ton or by any means that is not rob-
berry.
THERE is an old saying that "lazy
people take the most trouble" 1t is
not that they object to work, for they
actually labor hard in avoiding work,
but they strenuously object to working
in any useful manner by prescribed
methods.
b. +. BURRELL writes COln0n's
Rural World; "a writer in a recent
issue of your paper says he had sixteen
ewes from which he raised twenty-six
lambs. Mr.. j. r. Hitler of this county
has flock of eighteen ewes from which
he has this season raised thirty. five
lambs.
II hogs are fed properly and kept
healthy, disease seldom comes around.
The stomach is the great master wheel
of the system both of the human and
lower animals and must have attention.
To derange it, deranges the whole sys-
tenn. Give it proper food and you Sc
cure the right results.
One cause of farm depression is that
farmers have been educating and push
ing their brightest boys into the pro-
LESSONS. Tney should have educated
their blockheads and made lawyers and
doctors out of them. 1t requires more
brains at the present to be a successful
farmer than to be lawyer or doctor.
THE habit often formed by young
horses of lolling the tongue out of the
mouth when driving is nearly always
caused by sharp teeth. The inside
edges of the molars are rough and sharp,
and continually rasp the tongue, caus-
ing him to drop his tongue, spelling
the looks and oftentimes the sale of the
horse.
THE Otsego On. " Farmer says:
ga Stamford farmer told his son to
milk his cows, feed the horses, slop the
pigs, hunt the eggs, feed the calves,
catch the colt and put him in the stable,
cut plenty of wood, split the kindlings,
stir the milk, put fresh water in the
creamery after supper, and to be sure
and study his lessons before he went
to bed. Then he hurried off to the
county convention to take leading
part in the question, How TO keep
the boys on the farm"
THERE is more catarrh is this section
of the country than all other diseases