The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-02-16
Farm Notes.


sects is more imperative than ever be-
fore.
There is hope for the farmer, as we'll
as others, who does not know at all and
is anxious to learn.
A good milking strain securely es-
tablished through generations of ances-
tors does not easily run out.
Indications are that the prices of live |
stock have reached low water mark and |
that the trend is upwards.
Dairying requires close attention
to details; any neglect Of the COWS or
of the milk, cream or butter will result
in loss.
A good summer woodpile OF seasoned
wood will enable the farmers wife to
be more prompt with the family meals.
Unless the cows are managed so as
to yield the largest amount of milk pos
sible and of the best quality better not
not undertake dairying.
Many farmer has been kept poor by
buying more implements than his crops
will warrant. Do not buy this years
mower until you see the crop.
Short whifletrees, one foot long, are
uoClul III plOWlhR dluOhS w A0b
them horse can walk close to the tree
without danger of bruising it.
Don't be in too much of hurry to
get the COWS on the grass. If they are
turned out too soon they eat the grass
down so close that it seems 10 get dis
couraged.
The farmers are every year becoming
more and more of reading class, and
the more they read the more produc-
tive is the farm. The more knowledge,
the less muscle will be required.
See that the young pigs get plenty of
exercise in the sunshine and that they
have dry place to sleep. Wet bed
ding and damp sleeping quarters are a
fruitful source of diarrh9a in young
pigs.
AS rule large seeds require deeper
covering than small ones, and late
planting requires deeper planting than
early, as the greater warmth of the adj
vanced season reaches more deeply in
to the earth.
A dairy COW is machine for convert
ing the farmers raw material of grain
and fodder into milk, and che should
have the constitution and capacity for
the consumption snd assimilation of a
large amount of food.
Raising early lambs is profitable
business for those who understand it..
The supply has never exceeded the de-
mand and is not likely to for years to
come, according to G. A. Rogers in the
Ne,O England Farmer.
A. w. Cheever says in the Neto Eng
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warm, light room not more than two
or three weeks before planting time
and let the vital forces wake up, but
without making roots to be torn off by
transplanting.
Do not run closer than six inches to
the newly planted strawberries or
raspberries with the cultivator, for the
newly formed roots will surely be dis
turbed. Be content to do the rest of
the cultivation with the hoe, and let it
be quite superficial.
To have an object in view in every
animal and every crop is really the plan
of every manager. So that he selects
when young the animal for breeding
purposes and feeds with object in view +,
and the one for the butcher is given a
different treatment.
1t costs something to keep property
insured, but it is the only safe course
to be pursued by the farmer. He can
not afford to allow his policy to lapse.
The loss of his buildings and contents
in these times would be a calamity
which would mean ruin usually.
American farmers do not understand
the management of small pieces of
ground as they might, as they are used
to cheap lands and large farms. We
might learn some very profitable les
sons from the immigrants who come to
us, for they grow rich where an Ameri-
can would slowly starve.
With right management SOW should
produce two filters of pigs each year,
and Two or three sows will usually sup
ply all that the average farmer will
care to feed and fatten. With care in
breeding and in fostering these can be
so distributed that some will be pre-
pairing for the market at all seasons.
The most profitable sheep in the
herd 80 long as they continue strong
and hearty are the old ewes. They pro-
duce stronger lambs, with better vital
ity and rear them better than young
ewes can do. So long as the lamb crop
has much importance it will pay to
keep the old ewes. Note those that
are the best and watch for indications
that the season of their usefulness is