The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09
Clipped and Condensed.

No butter-maker should let it be said
of his product that it il inferior to but
terine.
SULPHUR should always be kept in
handy reach of the sheep-house. 1t is
preventive of many ills.
EXCLUSIVE corn feeding tends to
dwarf the growing pig. He needs
shorts, bran, skimmilk, ETC., to build
up strong, muscular body. Corn is
fattening food.
HALTER-BREAK every calf. Do not
let the time for early control be wasted.
Put an openwork rack full of fine
sweet hay where every calf may early
learn to help himself.
"A CREAMERY man at a farm institute
said that to hasten the ripening of
cream starter must be used, and that
he had found the best method was to
use skimmilk for this purpose.
In growing calves, faxseed jelly is
the cheapest and best thing to add to
skimmilk, and frequently faxseed is
most effective medicine for all kinds of
stock at this season of the year.
CABBAGE should never be fed to
mich COWS in large quantities, and de-
cayed parts should be carefully dis
carded. The best time to feed to avoid
tainting the milk is directly after milk
ing.
THE high-grade butter COW will not
only give more and better butter than
she will convert more of given
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beef
CULLING the stock, by always selling
from the most improbable and breed
ing only from the best, will surely lead
to Improvement; but the true method
of Improvement is to use pure-bred
sires always.
BUILD up the frame of the young
animal 80 as to secure size before at
tempting to fatten it. Fat is an in
cumbrance to growing animals. When
they reach maturity, it is the time to
fatten them.
A HoRsEMAN says that horses over
twelve years old often suffer from
toothache, which prevents mastication
and causes poor condition. Every
horse should be examined annually by
veterinary dentist.
If securing occurs in young lambs
that are being fed, boil the milk for a
time. If this should not correct the
evil, administer teaspoonful of castor
oil For constipation, add little
white sugar or molasses to the milk.
THE harrow will be found of great
benefit to wheat as soon as it can be
used. All crops that are narrowed
well before the plants are too large
will also be benefited. The smoothing
harrow will not pull up wheat or young
corn.
THE most careful observers of the
livestock situation argue that the low
prices prevailing for cattle for the past
five years will not rule from now on
The hard times have glutted the market
with stock that had to be sold to gain
ready money.
TEN fowls, representing a flock OF
fifty, with statement for one year, were
entered by Mrs. j. II. Perkins at the
Essex county (Mass.) agricultural fair
September, 1898. The flock averaged
1743 eggs per hen. The cost of keep
ing was $l.0S per hen.
IT is safe to say that only about thirty
per cent of seeds can be relied upon to
terminate, but this largely depends
upon circumstances. The age OF the
seed, its condition the tineness of the
soil and the depth at which the seed is
covered affect the termination.
THERE is nothing saved by overfeed-
ing; that is, keeping food where the
animals can always have access to it,
as such feeding leads to indigestion.
Have regular hours for feeding, and
give each animal all that it requires,
but no more than it will eat up clean.
THE mule is a much better animal
than the horse for some purposes. The
feet of the mule do not become so
easily injured as those of the horse, and
mules are less liable to disease, will eat
greater variety of coarse food and can
be worked in closer rows than horses.