The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-08-22
Clipped and Condensed.

poorest and keep the best.
BREEDING stock of all kinds need
muscle rather than fat, as the latter
means the loss of energy and vigor.
ALL admit that COW needs shelter
in winter, but it is equally necessary to
furnish her protection from flies and
the scorching rays Of the sun of sum-
mer.
NEVER waste wood ashes. Save every
pound, and use them on the orchard
land. Corn cobs are very rich in pot
ash, and the ashes of such should be
saved carefully.
WHEN the new crop of corn is har-
vested, do not begin to feed it out until
the whole of the old supply has been
consumed. There is quite difference
III new and old corn.
So far as possible, the crops on the
farm should be grown to suit the mar
ket, and the crops that bring the high
est prices in proportion to the cost of
production should be grown.
MEAT is said to be shipped into Salt
Lake City more than thousand miles
west of its point of slaughter and in
the heart of the range country, and
where sheep are at their cheapest.
ABSOLUTE cleanliness is essential
about the dairy, and any departure from
this is detrimental to the product.
Nothing else takes account of filthiness
and holds to it like milk and butter.
IT will pay to give that field of corn
another cultivating after it has reached
the roasting-ear stage, if you have not
had time to do it before. This will not
only help the corn, but will kill off late
weeds.
A CALIFORNIA note of interest to
fruit-growers is that orchards exposed
to the sea breeze are more regular bear
ers than those inland, and that the best
fruit is on the side exposed to the sea
breeze.
THE superintendent of the Wiscon-
sin Experiment Station says that oats
cut when the grain is in the milk and
cured like hay is rich in protein, and
valuable.
You can fatten for pork or lard as
you wish. The present market de-
mands the former. There is differ
ence between good pork hog and
good lard hog. Do not shut your eyes
to such things.
IF there are dogs about, put wide
awake COW or two in the pen with the
sheep at night. If the cow has young
calf, she will do especially faithful SER
vice. A billy goat would do the bust
ness pretty well.
THE best way to checkmate low
prices for feed stuffs, says a writer, is
to keep good stock to eat them. 1t is
work and let the commercial feeder
make all the profit.
A FIRsT-CLAss animal is sure to
bring a good price, but he who has all
first-class stock usually obtains /" the
top OF the market" When they all
seem to be of one mold, and that good
one, there are dealers ready to take
them as lot, and at your price.
THE SOW must be in thrifty condition
to produce thrifty pigs. Feed her on
succulent food. Cooked or steamed
clover, turnips, potatoes, beets and
variety OF food, with due proportion
of grain, will keep her in the best con-
dition for producing thrifty pigs.
If the drouth has injured the pasture,
the grass will be very short, and in
some sections it may be dead. In such
cases, it will be better to feed the stock
at the barn, as the animals will do more
harm trampling the grass than may be
desired. Give the pasture an oppor-
tunity to renew itself for spring.
WEED seeds can be burned and their
vitality destroyed by burying them in
the manure heap, but it will take two or
three years time. This seems hardly
worth while when by leaving the weeds
for little time in the sun to dry they
can be burned at once, and the ashes
be worth all the "humus would have
been.
A HOUSE for tools and farm imple-
ments should be provided. tits paying
heavy interest on capital when valuable
implements are exposed to the weather.
The iron parts become rusty, and the
wood warps, the result being that the
implement will never again give salts.
faction. Keep all implements clean
and well oiled.
| G. GOODRICH, Wisconsin dairyman,
said: "The best mixer | ever had was
very musical fellow. He used to
sing, bat he had a different tune for
every COW. Now, if he should have
changed his tune and sung Old Hun
bred to the Yankee Doodle cow you
see the motion of his hand would have
been different, the cow would not have
been pleased at all, would not have
given 80 much milk and it would not
have been as good"