The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-05
Clipped and Condensed.

If you can grow any meat at a profit,
it ID lamb 1t is universally considered
a delicacy, and brings the highest price
of all our meats.
SWEET milk is the very best food for
young pigs. 1t is worth more when
fed to them than when it is made into
butter at ten cents pound.
If an animal ent RS the winter in
thin or debilitated condition, it will
cost too much to get it in good health
again. Now is the time to feed it lib
orally.
THE man who sends the dog after the
cows never makes dairy pay. This is
not the dogs fault. He usually does
his duty to the satisfaction of his owner.
OWING to the neglect of the apple
crop in the East, California has given
apples her attention, aud begins ship
ment of them this year FOR the first time
POULTRY that is to be used on the
table, if confued and fed on corn and
clean water a few days, will be found to
have the flesh sweet, juicy and tender
THE Massachusetts experiment sta
ton found that feeding skim-milk to
calves and hogs was equivalent to sell
ing the milk for thirty-iive cents hun
dred.
FROM the Atlantic to the Pacific the
red raspberry extends across the north
portion of the country The black cap
extends few hundred miles further
south.
CATTLE should be shipped directly
from the pasture. The more rank and
rapid the grass growth, the softer the
stock. They should be fed come corn
at the last.
To make boxes, which will hold a
level bushel, stats or boards may be
used, and they will be found very con-
venient. Make each box IA IA by 16 Is
inches and - inches deep,
Do not be afraid of OVERRIDING the
poultry business, for eggs are imported
into this country every year, and nei-
Their the egg nor poultry market has
ever been known to be glutted.
IT is claimed that there are $4,000
miles of irrigating canals and their
laterals in this country, the estimated
cost being $27 100000. This is about
one-twelfth those of India.
The Ohio experiment station says
that the best of old varieties of straw
berries are Warfeld, Bubach, Crescent
and Haverland, and no variety seems to
have been found that is likely to super
sede them.
The fruit trees planted in the fall
will do better than when heeled in dur
ing the winter season, in case the
planting is we'll done. 1t will get an
early start in the spring, when most of
the farm work is hurrying.
CELERY plants will not stand drouth.
If the plat is a small one and will not
entail too much labor by so doing, use
the soapsuds from the family washing
along the rows. Soapsuds are benef-
cial to both celery and asparagus.
If there were fewer horses and more
hogs in this country just at this time
there would be more money in view for
the stock-raisers. Just now only GER
tain classes of horses are in demand at
all, while hogs are cash any day.
A GOOD start for a young animal is
important. 1t should not be compelled
to procure all of its food from the pas
ture. A ration of ground oats at night
will be found an economical way OF
keeping it growing and in good condi-
ton.
Too many flocks of hens are kept
without any regard to their utility in
any direction. Their owners do not
breed them particularly for market OF
eggs. They must keep them because
they are hens. Every owner of flock
of poultry should breed them just as
carefully as he does any other kind OF
live stock.