The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-04
Clipped and Condensed.

DON'T offer a horse for sale in poor
condition. 1t doesn't pay to keep
horse in poor condition.
AS butter partakes of the flavor of
the cream, the cream should not be al
lowed to become too sour.
KEEP the milk giving breed for the
dairy. 1t is throwing away feed to try
TO make dairy COW out of beef COW.
BREAK a colt to harness when he is
full of life and spirit. He will be more
reliable that if handled when weak and
half-fed.
THE horseman who said "there are
two quarts of oats in the curry co NIB
and four in the brush " evidently be-
lieved in grooming the horse.
THE recent fat-stock show at Bir-
mingham, England, adopted the rule
followed at Chicago of cutting out of
the list beeves over three years old.
GRASS will grow anywhere that
a good crop of weeds will thrive, and
If land is liable to be overrun with weeds,
a cropof Hungarian grass will crowd out,
the weeds and destroy them.
THE kerosene emulsion will be found
to be the best friend of the farmer
when insects appear. Do not be afraid
to use it literally. 1t is cheap, and is
also quickly and easily applied.
THE young horses develop faster if
you give them little drive every day.
A long idleness in the stalls and then
severe drive are ruinous to good
muscles and ought never to be allowed.
MUTTON sheep will not bear handling
as will the hardy Merinos, either in
large flock or on short pasture. They
are the product Of the best farming,
and must have care and attention at all
times.
Pools of water in the pasture do not
supply the cows with cool, fresh, clean
water. If no streams run through the
pasture, put up wind mill and have
water supplied to troughs with pipes.
THE weights of the corn and cobs and
that of the fodder grown at the same
time differ but little. A crop of fifty
bushels of shelled corn with the cobs)
will weigh about $500 pounds, and the
weight of the fodder will be about the
same.
The man who feels that his misfor-
tunes have come upon him by an uu-
avoidable chain of providences does not
murmur so much against the differ
ences in society and in business as
does the man, who knows that he suffers
misfortunes because of the oppression
put upon him by others.
SUGAR was once supposed to be
crop which could only be grown in the
South, but Kansas produced nearly
1000, 900 pounds last year, and the area
is being extended. Beet sugar can be
produced in this section as we'll as else
where, and the time will come when it
will be special crop every year.
ONE of the latest developments in
the way of diversified industries for the
South is the rapid growth of canning
establishment. The atlanta Constitu.
ton calls attention to at least twenty
of these factories in that state and SAYS:
1t is believed that in the course of
few years Georgia will produce an
nualy about 10000, 1000 cans of peaches"
IT would no doubt pay farmers to
test patch of sorghum this year for
fodder. There is nothing better than
corn fodder, considering its cost, but
sorghum is sweeter and serves well as
a change. 1t may be seeded down in
drills, using bushel of seed per acre
Cattle are very partial to it, and con-
sumo the whole stalk when it has been
cut before becoming too dry.
MANY an innocent farmer has seeded
down good crop of weeds when SOW
ing clover seed. Buying cheap seed is
not economical. IL requires labor to
keep the clover field clear of weeds and
to clean the seed. No one can put
clean clover seed on the market and
sell it cheap, as the cost of labor must
be secured. Farmers should examine
seed carefully before using.
FROZEN roots of trees should never
be thawed out of the ground, in con-
tact with the air. If they are the tree
will die. The proper way to thaw out
frozen nursery stock is to soak in water
until all the frost is out of the roots.
Another method equally as good is to
bury the frozen roots before thawing at
all in some cellar or place where the
frost can come out slowly and gradu-
ally.
CoLTs are generally fed too much
nay anu hOI cHOuSI VI QUIET lnluSS.
AS writer says, they eat enough, but
the feed is not of the right quality; it
fevers instead of nourishes; it stunts
them instead of giving growth. The
remedy is corn and more bran, oats,
roots, oilcake, linseed meal, enslage,
clover hay and chance at reserved
blue grass pasture or in field of green
wheat or rye.
In the large markets it makes no
difference whether eggs are brown or
white; the price is the same, but it does
make a difference whether they are
mixed promiscuously or not. For the
higher and Clancy" grade they should
be of uniform size and color-either
brown or white. It's this fancy :"
price which pays, and to secure it extra
skill in selecting and packing is called
for. Three to five cents dozen is
worth striving for when one is produc-
ing fifty dozens week.-Iroy Times.