The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28
Clipped and Condensed.

PLACE a box of ashes and one of
charcoal in the pig-pen. Experiments
show that pigs are more thrifty when
they have these substances than when
deprived of them.
ENCOURAGE the boys and girls in
fruit growing. 1t has refining infu-
ence, and if the boy once gets interested
in horticulture he is, to an extent, for
titled against vice.
PROFESSOR Cook of the Michigan
experiment station says nothing is bet
ter for Kidding poultry of lice than the
use of kerosene and sulphur. 1t should
be rubbed under the wings of the fowls
after they go to roost.
BY careful treatment of the COW be-
fore calving, the udder can be consid-
erably increased. If the udder of
heifer is rubbed ten minutes daily for
three months before calving, the glands
will be materially enlarged.
The corn crop this year promises to
be very large, and corn may fall in
price. Those who have kept their live
stock will not regret it. The best mode
of disposing of cheap grain is to con-
vert it into meat, milk and butter.
1T is claimed that the same amount
of food that is required to produce a
pound of beef will produce pound of
butter, with the whey and but'ermilk
as extras, which demonstrates that the
COW is more profitable than the steer.
AN excess of moisture packs the soil
and excludes the air, and if drouth
follows the crops suffer more than upon
land where the rise of moisture from
beneath maintains chemical action,
and it does not suffer 80 much in dry
time.
Roof crops help through the winter
and assist in atfording variety for the
stock. Even when there is plentiful
supply of ensilage an occasional change
to cooked turnips or beets will promote
the appetite, and thus enable the ami
mails to keep in good condition.
WHEN one garden crop comes off let
another 60 in. Delay means more
weeds, less profit and less satisfaction.
The closely-calculating gardener crops
closely. Idle land breeds mischief
always, and it must breed something;
therefore keep it busy at good work.
IT is said that charcoal will absorb
ninety per cent of its bulk in ammonia
cal gas; hence, if used freely over
compost-heaps, it not only prevents I'M
pleasant odors, but renders the COM
post more valuable. by retaining the
ammonia which would otherwise pass
off.
AN increase in the yield of potatoes
is markedly influenced by an applica-
ton of potash. 1t is found that the
ash of potatoes contains over fifty per
cent of potash, and that increase in
yield follows very closely the per cent
of potash in the fertilizer applied to the
soil.
BLACK CAP raspberries are produced
from tips, but the red variety comes up
from the roots. Bend the tips of the
black caps and stick them in the ground,
placing clod on each to hold it in po-
sition. After they are rooted they can
be separated from the parent cane with
knife.
WHEN fertilizers or manure are APP
piled in the spring, and the cultivated
crop has been cut short by drouth,
summer forage crop may be sown, or
fall barley, rye, oats or wheat, so as to
utilize the soluble plant food that other
wise might be washed down into the
subsoil by the heavy rains.
MANY, after taking all the care
necessary to make good article of
butter, fail to secure the success they
expect, and really deserve, simply be-
cause they do not take suffi cient time
to market to the best advantage. With
butter the marketing is an important
item in making the most out of it,
No breed can be said to be exempt
from disease, but some breeds are hard
Ter than others, and, therefore, less
liable to diseases In-breeding does
much to destroy stock, farmers often
in-breeding knowingly. The value of
a pedigree is great when it serves as a
guide to prevent the evil of in-breeding,
and every farmer should know how
every animal on his farm is bred.