The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-03
Clipped and Condensed,

Noii VI YOUR morse Tor
MuGn because the sleighing is goo
moderate work is best.
A GERMAN sculptor will make modey
or the Morgan winners at the World
Fair for his government.
a CANADIAN paper says that caro
OF frozen mutton is to be BROUGHT
New York from Australia.
The man who takes pride in beaut
Tying his stables and making them cor
Portable, deserves much credit.
CHEESE made through November
hardly ever soured enough, as mo
souring would improve its quality.
THE people of the United States ar
the greatest meat eaters, consumin
over $50 worth per annum to each in
habitant. -
IHE main difference between tn
successful and the unsuccessful farne
is not so much one of methods as
management Y
No matter how much money a m
makes out of the land, if it ord
poorer day by day be is not worthy \
name of farmer.
AGRICULTURAL reports for MAJ
years have shown that the destructioDN
of sheep by dogs has been much preatar
than from all wild animals.
IN feeding hogs, the man who feeds
them well will succeed with tben,
You must remember that the hoo bos %
preference for being clean.
SALT properly exists in butter onlv
as dissolved in the water REMAINING ~
butter; if found in the butter I'm an r.
dissolved state, objection isl made bv
any good judge of butter.
EXPERIMENTS, so far, dol not prove
conclusively whether fat cam or cannot
be fed into the milk, One point has
been settled and that is THAT rich feed
makes richer milk than poor feed.
WHEN the old COW heard how much
feed the Chicago testees got per diem,
she looked at the bundle Of moldy fod-
der thrown down before her, and the
few nubbins in an old II pail-and
dried up
If you give cows more space, they
| will turn themselves around on the
floor aud their droppillgs will fall on
the floor where the Others will lie down
to be dirtied. If COW has more space
than she needs, she is apt to trample
on the next COW.
DAIRYMEN will in the future pur-
chase cows with a purpose. If they
want butter, they will get cows that
will give the best results in that line:
and the same will be the case with milk,
cheese and buttermilk. They will not
get COW that is unpr@ftable.
WE have found that the profit of
product depends Largely upon the price
one gets for the article. When one sells
a commodity to be handled around
though many hands, 10 be sold back
where that commodity was raised, he is
the loser of the eXpene, when he could 1
have kept it himself.
CANADA has every eason to be proud
of her cheese produfs:: she took tb
cake, bakery and 81 al the Worldy
Fair and the United States was not
in it." Canada jus swept everything
by the boards and ,ent forth with col
ors flying. The judii.s were two Amer
leans and one Canaian.
GFNrvA +ests cnfrmod by ell milk
analvses ohtainablti rim this country and
Fnr0ne go ~ low that for every }
pound Of casein ((ieese) put into milk |
by No cow she q, the same time con-
tributes from otto 80 pounds Of fat,
and breed showsNo little variation from
it that it may be accepted as an estab-
liahed rule.
THERE are nIw 403 registered CO.
operative cream lies in Germany. But
these figures not in any way repre-
sent the total lumber of creameries
worked on cooperative principles, since Z
in Schleswig- Hi stein alone there are
46S establishments of this kind, of !
which number only ninety-three are
registered.
GENTLENEsS in COW is worth
money; it counts up in dollars every
year; it saves milk, it keeps the rich
ness of the milk from being wasted,
for irritable COWS are apt to begel II,
ritation in those who milk them, ana
this, in turn, breeds ill-treatment OF
the cows, which causes loss of butter
fat in the milk.
WHEN you have churned, work your
butter but once and that when you have
just taken it from the churn. Dash
little water over it; work it little to
'OAh ONS lut lllliO LIilh
the butter; then salt, working it well,
that there may be 40 white or pa,e
streaks through it, 1t is got mirk 'thsE
makes unevenness of color, but uneven
ness of sailing.
The champion Jersey COW at the
Worlds Fair, Ida Marigold, No. 32,615,
is the property of Charles A. Sweet of
Buffalo. Her record as buttermaker
is fifty pounds in fourteen consecutive
days. She is valued at $4,000. En-
tered in the cheese contest at Chicago,
she took the first premium for Jerseys
and the sweepstakes premium over all
Jerseys, Guernseys and Shorthorns.
ONE of the papers read in the
Woman's building at the Worlds Fair
was by Mrs. Charles Henrotin on
Women as Investors" which brought
before the public the fact that women
own l,703,759 shares of stock in the
national banks (not all of which are re-
ported). The par value of these shares