The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-03-21
Clipped and Condensed.

WHERE dairying is the most profit
able, steers play no part whatever.
Don't breed for steers in dairy. 1t
means loss.
If convicts don't support themselves,
the taxpayers support them, and labor
at last pays the bill.
THE person who attends strictly to
his own business is always considered
selfish by people who do not.
THE farmer makes a grievous mis-
take who discusses his cares and his
troubles in complaining spirit in the
presence of his boys, as he puts their
young minds on search for brighter
surroundings and more pleasant pros
poets.
1T is bad thing to wet the fingers
for the purpose of getting a better hold
on the teats. This is injurious to the
hands, roughens them, and it tends to
crack the teats and make them sore,
There Is no need for it, and it is a filthy
practice.
WHEN milk is taken from the cows,
udders 1t is at temperature of 80 de-
grees or so; and as the air is but sell
dom at that temperature, even inside a
cow-shed in the heat of summer the
milk will take but little harm until its
temperature has fallen to that of the
air. That this is so, is very fortunate,
for otherwise milk would be commonly
tainted during the process of milking.
THERE is nothing that increases the
price of farm lands so much as good
farming, and in neighborhood where
the barns are large, the houses nicely
painted, the roads good and the people
contented, there is where land is worth
from $50 to $40 per acre; and one poor,
shiftless, weed-grown farm hurts that
neighborhood more than all the trust
and combines of which so much is said,
A CORNWALL man was the owner of
a fine flock of hens, also of pair of
choice fox-terrier dogs. During a high
wind recently the fence was blown
down and the dogs got into the enclos-
ure where the fowls were kept and
succeeded in killing twenty-five of them
before they were discovered. Having
evinced such fondness for fowls they
were not separated they buried the
dogs with them.
j. M. RUsK, late secretary of agricul-
ture, says: . say understandingly that
the young of our country who will bring
to agriculture the education and intel
ligence, the industry and perseverance
essential to success in every other ca
reer, whether mercantile, industrial or
professional will, in the course of the
next twenty years, attain far greater
degree of material well being, on the
average, than awaits them in any other
calling"
ENGLISH dairymen have come to the
conclusion that a grass farm is not the
best for their business. On an arabic
farm they can get a succession of crops
which are the best dairy food, and can
procure fifty per cent more food suited
to dairy COWS than by keeping the same
area in grass. This, and the English
methods of feeding, by which root
crops and soiling are made to play a
prominent part, are worth consider
alton by our own dairymen. Still, our
climate is quite different, our labor
dearer and poorer.
PROFESSOR HENRY of Wisconsin
says: Our results show that for pig
weighing one hundred pounds one
pound and half of grain is required
for the mere maintenance of the ami
NAL body. If, therefore, we bring to
our acknowledgement pig each day
one and one.half pounds Of grain mix
ture, the animal merely holds its own
weight and makes no progress, so at
the close of the day one pound and a
half of food has disappeared, our pig is
one day older, but no heavier in weight,
and we have nothing to show for the
food supplied.
THE demand for an agricultural prod
uct almost anywhere in the world can
be supplied from almost any other part
of the world where this product is pro-
duced, because of the marvellous devel-
opment of transportation facilities in
recent years. This keener competition
means narrower margin for profits as
rule. This is no more true in agri-
culture than in merchandise or manu-
featuring or other lines of work, but it
is as true for the farmer as for other
business men. The farmer can do
more, as a rule, by decreasing the cost
of his products than by attempting to
increase the selling price in the mar
kets of the world. Economical produce
ton is to-day the pressing question for