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

DOUBLE cropping requires double
manuring. But where it can be done,
it is pretty sure way to increase the
earnings of the land.
If one has common fowls, get pure
bred males and cross them. This will
result in giving more eggs and better
fowls in the next generation.
GROCERY butter and grocery prices
should never prove satisfactory to any
farmer. It is no harder to make first
class article that will bring at least one
third more in price.
THE sheep is the best-paying animal
on the farm, and this has been demon
strated even by leaving out the value of
the wool. Mutton breeds have never
failed to give satisfaction.
For the white grub that is so de.
structive to young cabbage, some one
says: mix one pound flour sulphur
thoroughly with bushel of hardwood
ashes, and give three spoonfus to each
plant"
For every pound of water that is put
into milk sold in our cities, says the
american Farmer, the buyer is cheated
a cent on the dollar. From our expe-
rience a good many dollars are paid
for water.
WATER costs nothing, yet there is
more water sold off the farm than any
thing else. By inducing larger growth
with the use of fertilizers, the plants
contain more water and draw less upon
the soil proportionately.
A HOG pasture without shade is al
most as bad as a barn without roof.
1t is not in the interest of the farmer to
compel the hogs to endure the heat of
the sun. They prefer the shade at
times, and thrive better when they can
get it.
THE better condition in which the
farm tools are kept, the less effort is
required on the part of teams, and on
the part of the workmen also; yet farm
ers will use their implements a whole
year without sharpening them. No
other mechanic would.
II is a great mistake to work butter
too much, and half the country butter
that finds its way to our commission
houses has been worked until it is
only grease. Butter should be worked
as little as possible and have the milk
worked out of it.-Amertcan Farmer.
GRASS cylinders five and one-half
inches long and an inch in diameter,
known as grating tubes, are in use at
the Swedish agricultural college for
gratis and for starting slips and cut
tings, and the use of grating wax has
been entirely abandoned in their favor.
JERSEY breeders need not 60 to the
islands now for the finest specimens of
that breed of cattle, for here in the
United States may be found the very
best that can be found anywhere.
American breeders, by their skill, have
accomplished the work of centuries in
side of thirty years.
THE many grape vines loaded with
small punches to be seen in the fall tell
the tale of overloaded vines. What a
mistake it is to have half dozen canes
where one only should be. The one
cane should give fine, large berries and
punches, which would weigh just as
much as the fruit on the half dozen
canes of the other vine.
CROPS differ in their preferences for
plant food, just as may be noticed with
from the soil the same substances as
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not feed upon the same kind of food.
When these facts are better under.
stood there will be greater yields from
the soil and at less expense.
LARD hogs and pork hogs are differ
emit, but it pays to raise fine, fresh pork
that is quickly grown, handsomely
marbled. Pork of this kind is in de-
mand at good prices and it pays to raise
this meat, because such pork requires
so little fattening, being largely made
up of growth, and growth can be ac-
cOmmodated on cheap material.
PICS to be profitable must be well
started and never allowed to stop
growth. Be careful not to cloy the APP
petite of the young animals, as this is
frequently a detriment to the fattening
process. The digestive apparatus,
once gorged and damaged, is rarely re-
covered during the short period of
time devoted to profitable pork making
in these days