The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-10-24
Clipped and Condensed.

THE sui flower deserves to be called |
the national flower, since it has grown
80 luxuriantly his season.
Experiments have shown that pota-
toes make p ur butter. They make
white butter, d, fcient III grain.
CHURN promptly when the cream is
ready for churnir g. Every moment it
stands after that Is detriment.
The. salaries of public officeholders
and the rate of interest are two things
that are Lot affected by drouth aud
panic.
In dressing capons for market, leave
the feathers on the head, tail and first
joint OF the wing, in order to show what
they are.
THE COW is not an object to be wor-
SHIPPED. She will be better satisfied
with plenty of food and kindly treat
ment.
If the faithful old horse has outlived
bis usefulness, and has not earned his
right to live at your expense, kill him;
don't sell him.
AS the pastures fail in the fall, care
must be taken that the sheep do not
fall off in condition. Supplement the
pastures with something.
THE man who has calves to carry
through the winter should have bran
and ground or crushed oats on which to
ft Ell them.
PICS should always have a place
where they can get away from the
mother and other swine to feed by
themselves.
THE sheep that can be sent to mar
ket young is what the farmer now
wants. Either the Shropshire or Lin
coin will fill the bill
THE sheep breeders make loud COM
plants against the dog, and have rea-
son to do so. If we must have deg,
keep thoroughbred and give it good
care. A thoroughbred dog, well fed
aud cared for, is not likely to kill sheep.
AN exchange says that if COW gets
choked with an apple or potato, hold
ing up its head and breaking an egg in
it's mouth may prove cure. The
same remedy is recommended for
horses under similar circumstances.
KEEP the horse bedding dry and
clean. Much injury is done horses by
compelliI 6 them to lie on old bedding.
Never fork the bedding under the man.
ger either, where it will give off its
poisonous ammonia.
THE drainage of public roads should
be looked after in the fall of the year.
Such work cannot be done when the
frost is going out in the spring, and it
is then that road with imperfect
drainage becomes impossible.
The fall of the year often brings an
epidemic of fever and malaria TO country
and village residents. The cause is
usually using water at low stage out
of old wells. Boiling all water used
for drinking is the best preventive of
such diseases.
A DAIRY farmer with plenty of corn
fodder for feed will have milk, butter
aid cash, while his neighbor equally
well situated may have nothing tor his
years. work. There is seven days
work each week on the dairy farm, but
it has its compensations.
WHEN bulky fo Oh is fed to stock it is
condens, d in the forms of beef, butter
meat and wool, and can be shipped at
'ess cost and with a greater profit. The
farm is factory, and should be con-
Quoted on business methods. Condense
all foods into something better.
Loss of appetite is sometimes due to
close confinement. When the win'e Ell
sets in and stock must be kept up, there
should be large yard for exercise. II
there is field adjoining the yard, into
which the animals can go on clear,
warm days, so much the better.
WE can't build shelters for our dairy
stock and young cattle when the tenn
perature out doors is down TO the zero
mark, and we shall hardly be excusable
if we are as lacking in foresight as the
fabulous citizen of Arkansas, who
didn't need roof in dry weather and
couldn't make one when it ralned.
WHILE whitewash on the walls OF
the hen house inside gives light and
renders the house cheerful, it is cheap
enough to use on the outside as well
To those who do not care to use paint
we will state that if they will use white
wash on the outside they will be sur
prised at the neat appearance it will
impart to the hen house and fence. II
may be washed off some by the rains
but that should be no obstacle to its
use, as it is easily and quickly applied.