Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-04
FARM BREvETIES.

Bank up your house now and you
will feel like shaking hands with your
; self all winter.
A stitch in time saves nine but a
stitch in the back makes a man groan
to bed time.
/ Pretty cold weather for the young
cattle and the colts that are still roam
ing in the back pasture. Better see
to getting them back to the shelter Of
the barn as soon as possible.
Some deer were shot and some were
not, during the open season in Yer
mont. We have heard of more men
being shot while hunting deer than
deer were shot.
We have noticed more corn fields
this fall that were not harvested than
usual. This. no doubt. is due to the
early frost that killed the corn before
the farmer had time to cut it. The
weather in September and October is
an uncertain quantity and the corn
crop should be one of the first things
looked after.
Do your hens lay eggs enough to pay
for their board during the winter? If
not | would suggest That you don't let
the hens know that it is winter. y
warm house with large south windows.
a dust box to roll in. a cabbage head
hanging by the heels within easy reach
and plenty Of good palatablc food. will
make hen forget all about the Win
ter on the outside and she will lay in
spite of all your efforts to prevent her
even if you take all the nests away.
The county fair session is past and
what of it? Did you 90 with all your
family and have real good. old-faSh-
toned outing with friends? Did YOU
rub up against other farmers who had
brought in better exhibit of farm
| products than you had? Did you
| bring home some of that mammoth
seed corn to plant next spring, or did
you 90 home disguised with a lot of
fake gamblers who were running the
whole shooting match? There were
fairs and fairs.
How about your chimney: Every
winter we read of houses burning.
caused by defective llues rusty stove
pipes running through a dark garnet,
or from other preventable causes.
Don't give us an opportunity of re-
cordlng the loss OF your property t
through any such carelesSness.
There is some disease reported |
among the hogs in certain sections of |
Vermont. 1t seems to be the old !.
style cholera. One farmer in South !
Burlington, who raises from one hun
dred to two hundred hogs annually. |
has been losing ShOatS at the rate OF
three or four day. Cholera is a con-
tagiOus disease that is sometimes car
ried in western pork that is sold in our
markets. Where cholera is noticed in
a herd the healthy ones should be at
once isolated from the sick ones and
removed to pens at a distance if posi-
bic and put upon an entire change Of
feed.
The recent rise in prices of dressed
meats in our markets is due primarily
to a growing demand at home ana
abroad for more meat. Better times
all over the states has given rise to
better fare for the labUring man.
During times Of strikes and lay-otS,
and low prices for manufactured
wares, the labOrcr asked his butcher
for a soup bone or piece OF liver, nov
he asks for roast or Il steak.
Give the boys and girls a chance to
60 to school this winter. They will
never be children but once and now is
the time to teach them to live useful
lives. Because your father or grand
father succeeded in life without any .
education is no guarantee that youl
can do the same thing. The
world moves. Your grandfather did
not run up against the sharp competl
ton that your boy has got to face
when he starts out to do for himself.
Give this matter Il second thought.
What is the matter with the old Y
meeting house at the cross roads: 1T
S old and rusty, the blinds are oil or
by one hinge, The chimneys
Ire topping over, the bell doesn d
ing, the door doesn't open. Why i
lot? Because the door never did open 7
If its own accord, but years ago there (
vas someone to open 1t, someone to z
ing the bell, someone that came at q
he sound of the bell. This old church d
nay not be in your town, but it stands 4
Is landmark in many of the back d
owns of the state where the popula- (
ion has largely decreased within a
quarter OF century. In some towns :
he Christian DpODle have all united J