The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
Clipped and Condensed.

1arm II all the buildings were protected
by an evergreen windbreak.
TRUE farming is an industry requir-
ing intelligent management, good econ
omy and lots of energy and push.
If good. sized sheep are desired, it
is important that the greater portion
of the size be gained the first year.
p. JANsoN of Janson, Neb.. is said
to have cleared 100000 last year feed
ing sheep. What did he feed them on2
ESTIMATING 60,112,9 31 pounds of
butter at twenty cents per pound gives
1872 ,029 1920 as the value of the but
ter industry of Iowa.
IT takes pretty fine wool with which
to spin some of the theories in the
sheep business, but it requires real
coarse fiber to spin practical facts.
The better educated boy is, the
better farmer he will make and the
more contented. He should have some
return for himself for the labor he does.
THE best results in dairyingcom from
the best breeding and the best feeding.
These usually go together. A careful
breeder is pretty sure to be careful
feeder.
BREEDERS of mutton sheep have
been watching English methods very
closely, and, as far as practicable, grow
ing turnips, mangels and other roots
and rape.
If you wish to note the bindrances
to farming, just drive over to Mr..
Slowcome's, back on the other road,
and across the way is his neighbor,
Mr.. Dolittle.
IT seems safe prediction that pork
will bring good prices for another year
at least; for, not only is the hog crop
short, but new markets have been
opened for the product.
ANY inexperienced grower who is in
tending to plant strawberries, even for
family use, should visit some successful
grower of his own locality and take his
advice as to what to plant.
A HORSE will live thirty years and
work constantly if properly cared for,
and cases have occurred in which a
horse of this age has never had one
days illness or been unable to work.
THERE are two things which the
hockmaster should not do. The first
is, he should not expose his sheep to
inclement weather, and second, he
should not crowd too many sheep in
small enclosure.
The aim of the agricultural fair
should always be 10 educate and slim
uate the farmer toward higher stand
ard. AS it is now, too much money is
wasted on matters which do not con-
tribute at all toward this end.
Cows will live and breed and milk
] than oh
have been known to produce lambs and
be shorn for thirteen years; pigs will
live ten years, and mule under good
care has lived and worked until fifty
years old.
o, HE'S clean discouraged and don't
have no luck nehew. He goes to town
mostly and talks politics, and blames
government and SEE Their men what
buys pork and sells him things is al
ways cheatin' him, and farmin' don't
pay nohow.
QUEEN VICTORIA is having the COM
mon experience of amateur farmers.
She has had the finest herd of Jerseys in
her dominions. This herd was put up
at auction the other day and the cattle
buyers in attendance pronounced them
very sorry lot.
THERE are but two kinds of horses
for farmers and small breeders to profit
ably raise now, and these are the high.
est type of the light harness horse and
the heaviest draft horse that can be
produced, with quality, high finish, &C.
ton and good bone.
How is it that so many farmers say
farming don't pay, and yet stick to it
like sin to a sinner? If they find it
don't pay, why don't they quit it and
90 at something else that pays betterp
Every one should be in the business
where he can do the best.
A HORSES brain averages in weight
from sixteen to nineteen ounces. The
heart of the horse beats forty times
minute and sends six ounces of blood
through the veins and arteries at each
beat; 900 pounds pass through the
heart in an hour, 10 As tons in twenty
four hours.
IN the sixties the first step in the ap-.
plication of science to dairying was|
made by the introduction of the Their
mometer, that simple little instrument
which is now absolutely indispensable
to successful dairying, and which has
wrought change hardly conceivable to
the imagination.
WE have been taking agricultural
papers for thirty-fve years or more,
but never saw so much about farming
not paying as in the last year. What
good does it do these grumblers, any
how, to be continually trying to lower
our calling in the estimation of all
men? Does it make matters any better?
THE figures representing work done
at the Iowa experiment station, pre-:
sented at the Iowa dairy convention,
show conclusively that flavor is de-
cidedly influenced by feed. Both the
best and the poorest samples of butter
made in the experiment seemed to be
the direct result of feed, as all other
conditions were the same.