The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-24
Clipped and Condensed.


GREAT BRITAIN grows every year
10000, 900 bushels of turnips, which are
mostly devoured by the British sheep.
OVER 100000 pineappes were last
year shipped from Florida to New
York, not to mention those sent else
where.
CALIFORNIA puts the rest of the
country under obligations by supplying
US with 33,O00000 pounds of raisins
every year.
A MAN cannot set on wash bench,
but he could set the basin on it, and
neither the basin nor the grammarians
would object,
THERE was time when, if person
advertised butter for sale, he did not
have to specify that he was handling
"cow butter"
BREAST shields made from old blank
cts or any kind of heavy cloth are a
great protection to horses that have to
be driven against the wind.
II is one thing to produce a COM
modify, and quite another to get rea-
sonable remuneration for the labor and
expense to produce that product.
LAST year the people of the United
States drank the preparation made from
90,000,000 pounds of tea, and still won
der why they have the dyspepsia.
THE Kentucky Dairymen's Exchange
of Louisville, KY, is buying cream
from farmers and paying thirty cents
per pound for the butter it contains.
EXPERIENCE and observation lead to
the conclusion that the object of farm
ers' institutes should be to instruct
rather than amuse. Still, little fun
does no harm.
THE beginner at farming needs the
help of wife who will be thoroughly
interested in farm affairs-in fact, the
whole family must pull at the rope in
order to make farming pay.
THE people of Chicago last year
washed down their food with 1884 $50
barrels of beer, while the city of St.
Louis managed to quench its thirst
with ], S49,282 barrels, and New York
required 4,573,O19.
"JUsT so long as dairymen turn out
an inferior grade of butter, just so long
it will not make particle of difference
to him who rules at Washington or
whether there is a Sherman or no
Sherman law" says the Dairy World.
THE agricultural department is max
ing an exhaustive inquiry into road i'm
provements, and it is expected an at
tempt will be made at the present ses-
sion of congress to secure legislation
looking to a general improvement of
roads.
THE Babcock test tells accurately
100 ST. H.
COW has made; the churn test tells how
much butter fat the dairyman secured.
The Babcock test shows the value of
the COW; the churn test shows the skill
of the butter-maker.
In all branches there must be atten-
ton to the little things. A great draw
back is carelessness with farm machin-
cry. A well-constructed machine ought
to last lifetime, but in order to do
this it must be handled in careful man
ner and protected from the weather.
THE total amount of milk used in the
cleo " factory of the G. G. Hammond
Company, at Hammond, Ind, during
the month of October was but 10000
pounds, while the make of butterine
figures 1,125,000 pounds. This means
about forty pounds of the fraud to one
pound of milk.
MAKE up your mind which you pre-
fer to feed, hens or lice, and then 90 to
work to develop your fancy. If it is
hens, clear out the pens and look
sharply after the vermin. Wash off
the roosts with kerosene. Sweep out
the corners, and for once clean house in
thorough manner.
AGRICULTURE, in its widest scope,
comprehends vast range of subjects.
1t includes something from nearly
every departm ent of human learning.
The natural sciences of geology, me-
teorology, mechanics, chemistry, bot
any, zoology and physiology ale most
intimately related to it.
AT the sheep-breeders' banquet
gentleman told of an importer who
bought a Scotch collie from a canny
Scotchman for which he had to pay
$25. He asked the Scotchman why he
did not raise more dogs and less sheep?
He replied: because we Gamma al
ways find the fools to buy 'em."
AN English method of testing butter
to determine its purity is to smear
clean piece of white paper with the sus-
pected article, roll it up and set it on
fire. If the butter is good, the paper
will emit decidedly pleasant odor; but
if there is any animal fat in the product,
the smell will be Enthusiastically tallowy.
"THE two packages of butter from
identically the same lot being entered
as if from two separate creameries, and
being scored so widely different, is a
good illustration of the justice of many
of the faults found with the committee
by exhibiting buttermakers. No Won
der dissatisfaction existed" says the
Dairy World.
THE Vermont experiment station re-
ports that there is much value in the
apples pomace. About six tons were
taken from cider mill and placed in
silo. When it was opened it was found
to be perfectly preserved. 1t was fed to
the cows, who would take it in prefer
ence to any other fodder 1t was found
that the cows thrived well, and would
eat about ton during the winter, and
there is no doubt that it would be