The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11
Clipped and Condensed.

HAVE you cut out all the cases of
black knot in the plum trees and cherry
trees? This is trouble that means
determination if neglected.
THE garden is the index of the farm
er's power to care for the details of his
business. A neglected garden gives
away the habits of order in his business.
THE growth of limb, trunk, vine or
bush is the abstraction of more potash
from the soil than of any other import
ant mineral. Add this material to the
fruit garden.
WHEN sheep are seen running with
head close to the ground and stamping,
the fly which produces the grub in the
head is near. Put some pine tar on
the sleeps nose.
THE butter-maker who fails to put
his butter on the market in neat,
clean and attractive form has yet TO
learn one of the most important lessons
in successful dairying.
To drive away squash bugs and other
small, delicate insect pests, wet small
piece of cloth with kerosene or use the
cloth used to wipe the lamps by laying
about the infested plants.
PHOSPHATE OF LIME is now prod.
uct of iron. The phosphorc acid is
set free from the iron and combined
with lime, being in fine powder when
shipped for use on the farm.
Do not neglect the chores, even if
other work seems to demand your whole
attention. Study to save both steps
and time in doing chores, and do them
in the same order every day.
THE Massachusetts experiment sta
ton made an experiment in feeding
skim-milk to calves and pigs. The re-
suit showed that it was equivalent to
selling milk at thirty-6ve cents a
| hundred
Hoes will eat the spoiled corn, wheat,
oats or potatoes. Nothing else will.
Herein is the hog the best of farm ami.
mails. When feeding inferior grain or
vegetables, be sure to feed plenty and
some sound food at the same time.
MAKE up list of the bolts, nuts,
screws and small tools you are in con-
slant need of, and buy them in one lot,
and put each in a well-arranged series
of pigeon holes and keep them there.
The saving will pay greater interest
than the savings bank account.
IT is not too late to amend the mis-
taken policy of withholding manure
from the garden to enrich the farm.
On the former the most labor is put
and the most manure needed. Try
chemicals in the garden; they act
| unickly and do not add weeds to the lot.
SHEEP and hogs are good in orch
ards-hogs preferable to sheep, because
they root the ground over and prepare
it for an application of fertilizer.
Neither class of stock is sufficient for
the full amelioration of the soil to
bring the orchard to its best productive
capacity.
ADVANCED practices in cattle feed
ing are making it possible to turn of
stock thoroughly finished at much
earlier age than was once the case. If
you have not caught up with the
methods that will enable you to work
along this line, better begin to study
them at once.
MOST farmers have learned the value
of persistent labor; many more have
yet to grasp the Importance of system
attic work These latter often wonder
why the city man who takes TO farming
frequently makes financial success
backed by no practical experience
Usually it is because his school, college
or business training has taught hin
discipline of mind.