The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-03-28
Clipped and Condensed.

DO not choose for a brood SOW one
that Is short, compact or deficient in
heart girth or ham, but look rather for
the exact opposite of this type.
BRAN and shorts, soaked for an hour
or two with warm water and properly
seasoned with salt, make an excellent
ration for brood sows, and ought from
now on to time of narrowing be fed at
least once a day. The allowance of
corn should be limited, Others wise bran
will not be relished.
WHAT is money, that we should wor-
ship it? What are large farms to us
when we form habits in their acquire
ment that prevent us from getting the
best of life? The young members of
the family cannot see the worth of a life
that is one continual "grind,' and then
comes unrest and longing for the at
fractions that they think are seen in
towns.
A CLASS of men seems to cater to
those who buy cheap and another class
lives TO provide for those who buy the
best and can pay for it. Looking at
things from this standpoint, one won
ders at first sight why all do not strive
to produce goods that sell at the high
prices. Closer inquiry shows that skill
is necessary to production of prime
goods.
The average man tries to do too
many things to succeed in any as he
should. For instance, he has more
stock than he can keep economically,
and plants more ground than he can
work thoroughly; he undertakes too
much and has but little in the end.
The man who succeeds best is the one
who undertakes no more than he can
do well.
The prejudice of farmers bows
against farm life will be found to exist
almost wholly upon such farms as are
given up to steady round of work,
with no attempt on the part of the
parents to afford opportunities for
pleasure or recreation to their children.
La the same circumstances, boys would
take just as violent dislike to any
other occupation.
IT is now established that flowers
and the perfumes distilled from them
have salutary influence and consti-
tute therapeutic agency of high value,
and that residence in perfumed at
mosphere forms protection from pull
monary affections and arrests phthisis.
In the town of La Grass, France, where
the making of perfumes is largely car
ried on, consumption is unknown.
FARMERsl You who have moving
machines of the.latest pattern; you who
ride your sulky pillow in triumph as
"jocund you drive your team afield %;
you who delight in the latest device in
sowing, dairying, reaping and thresh-
ing, remember, there are a thousand
and one little conveniences equally
valuable in the house which will ma
terially tighten the labors of those you
love.
AN exchange truthfully says there
are things level-headed human being
should never do. Among these is to
walk on a railroad track, to attempt to
get on moving train, to point a gun
or pistol at another, to put his name
on another mans note, to keep his saw
ings in an old stocking under his bed,
to play a game of chance with a pre-.
possessing stranger, to run for Office |
when he has a paying position in pri-
vate life or call bigger man than him
self liar.
IT is stated that the cattle in Switzer-
land for milking, draft and fattening
are not kept and treated separately
with single object in view, as in most
other countries. On the contrary. the
Swiss cow is expected to unite all these
qualities at one time within herself.
The Swiss peasants believe that a COW
is positively benefited by being put to
the plow, especially if the work be done
in the morning. A few bullocks, but
many cows, are frequently seen serving
various draft purposes, not with the
yoke, but with harness like that used
for the horse.
SOME one once gave the advice that
when men travelled they should always
take woman along. On being asked
why, he replied, "To ask questions"
his theory being, evidently, that most
men would be ashamed to ask cues.
tiOns about all the things they saw, but
woman wouldn't, but when she saw
anything she didn't understand she
would ask for information, and keep on
asking till she got it, and the men would
be benefited accordingly without too
freely exposing their ignorance. And
there was good deal of truth in it, as
most men will acknowledge.
PROFESSOR l. p. ROBERTS of Ithaca,
N. T., after careful study of different
methods of handling manure, says
Gathering together the results of
many experiments we found that horse
manure in loose piles exposed for five
months showed loss of forty-two per
cent. In 1890, under similar condi-
tons, manure in piles not compacted |
and not very deep showed a loss of
sixty-two per cent. Cow manure in
loose piles gave an average loss of
thirty per cent. Mixed manure thor
oughly compacted, exposed during the
summer, nine per cent. Water leached |
from an open yard made to fulfill the
conditions of the ordinary farm yard so