The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-24
Clipped and Condensed.

SHEEP Will De more vigorous II given
good range and frequent change of
pasture.
IT will pay to keep good young brood
mares to breed. Horses will not al
ways be as low as now.
LICE will destroy the young chickens
and turkeys If the quarters are not kept
clean. Drench the poultry-house thor
oughly with kerosene emulsion once a
week.
THE success of many man in the
poultry business is due to women, who
power behind the throne many time
when men heve realized the honors.
BLACK KNOT on plums cannot be
cured by the application of any rem
edies. The diseased branches must be
cut away and burned. If the trees are
badly infected it will be economical TO
grub them up and consign them to the
flames.
WITH regard to the relationship be-
tween the different constituents of milk,
it would seem that there is a clear rela-
tionship between the fat and the solids
not fat. Thus, it will be generally
found that milk rich in fat is also rich
in solids not fat, and vice versa.
HOWEVER rich chemically the soil
may be, if the mechanical conditions
are not right it will not produce a pay
ing crop. Nothing is truer than that
the soil, and the atmosphere acts freely
upon and through it, and liberates the
store of plant food.
MANY a man who is making dairying
q side issue, and much neglected one
at that, by keeping few ill-cared-for
COWS on a good. sized farm, is astonished
at the man who can keep goodly num-
| Der on few acres. The whole secret
is in the man and his intensified farm
ing. No item necessary to success is
lost sight of.
NERVOUSNESS and viciousness are
engendered in the ill-treated COW, and
are transmitted to her offspring. The
more docile the COW the more are her
energies likely to be devoted to the
dairyman's interests. We cannot be
too watchful over irresponsible help,
who hesitate not to beat, hurry or
brighten the cows.
THE best way of getting rid of "purs-
ley" or purslaine, is to feed it to the
pigs. 1t is difficult to destroy and re-
sists heat and dry air for a while, even
when the roots are turned up. When
used as food for pigs, and some one en-
ployed to provide it, the crop of purs-
laine soon begins to run short, like any
other desirable food.
BECAUSE viewed from different
points, many differ on the feed question
for dairy cattle, and experiment stations
burden us with innumerable tables,
formulas and rations. 1t cannot be an
exact science, because purposes, prices
and locations differ. AS much as pos
sible we should feed that which we can
produce .-Exchange.
MILK, as food for the young ami
NAL, is largely a producer of heat.
Sugar of milk is found nowhere else in
nature, and its feeding value is like that
of fat Casein and albumen of milk are
heterogeneous and flesh-formers, and the
materials out of which come the animal
tissues, also the fats. The water OBJ.
viates the dangers from concentrated
food.
WIDE tires are not only lighter in
draft than narrow ones under nearly
all conditions, but cut up roads very
little; in fact, six-inch wide tires tend
to make the roadbed better continually.
They could be gradually substituted for
the present narrow ones, and better
roads be the result, especially on the
farm and on turnpikes largely in use by
farmers.
THE Nebraska Farmer very aptly says
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stop-offs on the route travelled by the
pig from the farrowing-nest to the
packing-house, and that regular de-
velopment must occur for the highest
profit. Feeding the dam is said to be
feeding the pigs, and the food of the
mother should be prepared in view of
this fact.
THERE is cheap netting which is
extensively used in Europe for covering
valuable fruits as defense against the
birds. This netting is made of stout
flax threads and soaked in strong
astringent liquid to add to its durability.
1t is sold for one cent square yard
where it is made. 1t is something of
mystery why it has not come into more
common use in this country.
AUSTRIA gives an object lesson in
dealing with waste lands. Prizes are
given to farmers to encourage them to
recover waste lands, and lay them down
as pasturage, and also to erect shelters
or stables for cows in high attitudes.
The Importance of this may be seen
from the statement that one-quarter of
the total fodder required for cattle and
horses in the empire is derived from AL
pine districts.
ABOUT the most profit secured from
sheep is by the service they perform in
consuming plants that are of no value.
Some weeds are luxuries to sheep, and
are nipped off as soon as they appear
above ground. Many of the poisonous
weeds are harmless when young, espe-
cially to hogs and sheep, and as sheep