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VERMONT WATCHMAN & STATE JOtTRNAL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1889. jfarm anb (Sarutn. Adilremi all Intiulrlei or eoiiiniHnlefttlntm ln rclntlnn tci itirrlr n It u ro to lllt. T. H. HnKKlNR, Newport. Vt. Editorinl Notinjjs. A ST7BC1UBKH intiires: " Can you, or any of your correspondenls, inform mc, through yotir paper, where I can get tcn-pound boxei to pack butter lo ? I imvo seen these peckagei and am lold that butter sells the best lo tlirin. They wcrc about twice as long as the widlh, and larger at the top, so tlio butter can be tuniod OUt casily." The makers should let their llght shinc in the advertising columna of tlie WATCH- MAN. A "TKHRIBLK Stah." Spcaking of a " new process " for making over rot ten butter, "aa good a new," thc American Dairyman says: " If all tlie poor, worthleas store butter can be made over into a genuinc ' gilt edge ' articlc, it will bc a terrible stah to the crenmery interests of this country." We would like lo havc the Dttirymcm tell the world, if thisrenovation of stale grease is goin.' to be so damaging to thc creamcries, what it thiuks will lie thc rcsult of all theworkof our Dalrymen'a Associations, expcriincnt stations, con ferenccs, and proposed dairv schnols. Their evident purpose is, and their plaiu result (if successful) will be, to soon dottble or trcble the OUtput of but ter in this COUDtry not of revampcd whcel-grcase, bttt of high-gradc dairy and creamery butter and todo tliat wlth nmch fcwer cows, wlth more cheaply produeed and better-economized feed, with a minute economyof labor, manure and all byproducta, and consequently at a grcatly rcduccd COSt. If thc one ia a " stal)," thcn is not tlie other likely to bc wholetale destruction? CoimoN 8ENSE Al'PLIED TO Farm ino. We certainly would like to sec a little more commoo aense dlsplayed in treating of this and other eoonomle subjects. We want to know if it ia rcally bclieved by nicn calling them selves rational tliat the COfflpetilion of utterly wortlilcas gooda, like " store butter" and oleo, is more dangeroua to the dairv trade thau competitlou with truly high-grade,honest goods. Ourown notion is that the practical result of the cfforta now being ruade to Improve and pcrfect the dairy indusiries of America will be auch an increaae of production, such an improvemcnt in quality and auch a reduction of coat, that pure butter of superior flavor, good nalural coloraudsound keeping quality, will be profitably aold at such low pricea that abominations like " store butter" and oleo will as eompletely diaappear as have homespun clothing and stage-coach traveling. fMUI and modify the niethods of old timea. In twcnty-five yeara wc have aecn grcat changes in dairying. These changcs will go on. Wc can not itop thcm, nor ahould we deairc to do so. Wi old nicn, pcrhaps, will not changc much; but bc assurcd that, whethcr wc do or not, the change will go on. Thc new farming is in llght Notes By the Wny. Sows ought to be at leaBt twelvc tnonths old beforc they arc served, and then never by a hoar younger thau one year. One acrvice ia aullicicnt and it is unwisc to allow more. WHAT wc r.eed most ia not larger farma, but larger farniers. Haa any man a right to more land than he knowa how to farm to prollt? Ilaa he a right to misusc and deprcciate that by which the nation must livc? Is thcre anything bctter for the little people on a farm than to have the care of the little things? To have a plcaaant work ind busincaa of their own, to go on regularly, as a part of the grcat coruprehensive whole? We are aaaurcd by a promincnt agri cultural authority (one of the candi datea for the new aecretaryahip of ag riculturc) that " it h is been proved that many cows will give raore milk if lUDg to in a low kcy whilc being milkcd." Ilere ia a cheap aubstitutc for cotton-secd mcal. IT is a Ulghty bad plati lo jttOip from one crop to anothcr. Thle oftcn has ruincd many special - crop farmcrs. Kccp stcadily at the thing you can do best. If priccs decline, try to make a biggor and bctter c op ncxt year, when the pricea will probably be up'again, and you can gct cven. "Diin't forget lo pound up lota of bones for your hcns; if tliere ia any mcat on thcm, so much the bctter," Bayi an exchange. A farmer must have but little to do if he can afford to apcnd hli time ponnding up bonei for hie hcns whcn he can buy bone-meal for less than two cents a pound. If you must pound thcm, at leaet have the sense to burn them first. " As well might a lawyer hire sonie one to prcparc and study and nianage. hie law business, or a preachcr cruplov anothcr to fill hie pulpit, aa for a farmer to habitually buy auch articles aa corn, oata, bacon, lard, butter, beef, mules and horses, etc, the very things it is the peculiar business of the farmer to grow from hie soil," says thc Southeun Cultivator. It is truc that a farmer may specialize too much, either North or South, but it ia better to do a few things well than more poorly. bbcrtiscmcnts. 8ELF-BE8PECT. The clap-trap ap peals so constantly appearing in thc presa to prohibit this and put down that this perpetual " scare politloe " applied to agricultural (jiicstions seems to us utterly unworthy of so great and powerful an industry as agri culture. The consurning public are not fools. As a claas, they know good things when they see them, and want good thinga when they can get thcm. We have a right to dcmand a thorougb inspection of all food products. Wc should court it for what we produce and demand it for what othere produce. The fraudulcntly packcd apples, the bogus " new sugar," the poor or watcrcd milk, thc ill-madc butter and cheese, the bob veal, the measly pork all call for the s&me inspection and thc aame public exposure and coudcmuation that we rightly dcmand for oleo. The hou est farmer can stand it nay, he can greatly proflt by it. Ilonesty will pros per, but it will prosper most where dis honesty is rigidly exposed and punishod. The farmers will put thcmselvcs at a great disadvantage with an intelligent public when they go ao far as to claim immuuity from the action of cqual laws. They never have yet done so, and we do not believe they can be in duced to do so. Rheumatism lt U nn rttahlMml fnrt ttmt Homl's Sar snp:irlll has prnvcn nn lnvalunlilo reniccly 1 ii inntiy Bcvcrn casca of rln.'imiatlsm, cfliTt- inR mnMksMe 'urcs y its powerfnl action In oorrrctliiR tlie arldlty ot tlie Mood, wlilcti Is llin canse of tlie cllscase, and puriryiiiK and enrlehlni tbe Tital DuMi It in vrrtalnly fair to nsnume tliat what BoOd'l Harsaparllla Ikus done for otlicrs it will do for you. Tlierefore, if you siiffcr tlin palns and achos of rheumatism, glve this potent remedy a fair MeL A Poaltlve Cure. " I was trouhlod very mucli wlth rheuma tism In my hips, anklcs, and wrlsts. I eould hardly walk, and was conflned to my bed a good deal of the time. Being rec ommeniled to try Ilood's Sarsaparllla, I took fotir buttlee rnd ain pcrfcctly well. 1 chcerfully rci'ommcnd Ilood's Sarsaparllla as ono of the hcst blood purlflers In tho world." W. F. W0OO Uloonilngton, 111. For Twenty Yeara 1 have heen affllcted with rheumatism. Beforc IR83 1 lonnd no rellef , but Rrew worse. I then bouan taklnp; Hood'a Sarsaparllla, and it dld mc more good than all the other medicinu I ever bad." H. T. Balcom, Shlrley. Mass. " I suffercd from wbat tho doetors ealled museular rheumatism. I took Ilood's Sar saparllla and am cntlrely cured." J. V. A. rnounrooT, lcttcr carrier, Clilcago, 111. We shall be glad to send, frce of eharee to all who may desire.abookcontaininKniany additional statementa of curcs by Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all driiKgists. $1 ; six for 18, Made onlybyC. LHOOD ii 00., Lowell, Mass. IOO Doscs One Dollar. bbcvtiscmcnts. Rheumatism, BKINtl clue lo the presence of uric aold In the blOOdi is inost effeotUlJly oun i by the uee f Ayer! sursapu- rlllu. Be snrr you pet Ayer's and no other) and take it Bll the poieonoiu old is thoronghly espelled from the lyitem, 'e ohtUeiige ettentloo to thie testiiiiony : "About two years ngn, nfter suffering for nenrly two years from rheumatic gmit, betng able to waik only with great (liscoinfort , and baving Iried varioiis remedleSi Includlng mineral watore, WlthoUt relief, I saw b.v nn adverlisi -men) iu a Obtoago paper that a man bad been relieved of this distrrssing COtD plklnt, afler long sulTi'iing, by takinn Ayer's SarHniaiilla. I then deotded to mnkeatriai of this medtelne, and took it regularly for elcbt moiiths, and BJB pleased to state that it bas Biteoted a complete elirc. I liave Rlnce bad DO re tiirn of tlie disense. " Mrs. K. Irving Dodge, 110 West 135th st., New York. "One yenr Bgo I was taken ill with Inflammatory rheuraatltra, being con Bned to my houee ix moiiths, I came out of the elckneee very mneh deblll tated. with no appetlte, and my lyetem dieoroered in every way. I commenced Uelng Ayer's Sursaparilhi and beejnn to Improve at onoe, gatnlng in itrenath and soon reeoerinp my iisnal bealth. I oannot say too much iu pralae of thle well-known nieilieine." Mrs. L. A. Btark, Nasliua, N. II Ayer's Sarsaparilla, PHKVAItKI) Bt Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. PrlM fl . is bOttlMi j. Worlh ti n botllc. itetns of cxpcnae arcchargcd which are clearly eRtabliahcd; but let us in like manner consider tlie cntire rccord of the oorjnty, m preeented in the"Cow Census," and thc OOOOluelOD will, I thlnk, lie irreaistiblc that, taken aa a whole, the dairy industry, cven in Jefa fcraon county, is far from profitable: Ntonhor nt hirU W Numlinr of rowi S.W7 Tuti prodnett $IHMI n Avitmk iimii,;. pr eow 51 U ArrfN In ptitlirn lli!N Arr-i In mnnrlow fi.HH Acren In fodder rorn 4M The value of feed, other than paature or nieadow, is shown by the following tablc: awcred quesliona of mine very aatia faclorily in yeara past and invited mc to coinc again. You nuotc I'rofeasor Col Her as aaying that if one half, or 770, 000, of tfie pooreat cowa in the stale of New York were killcd, the profils of the dairy intercat would bc increaaed posaibly ten-fold. Admitlcd. That ia good proteotlte tariff mcat, such ns the W.vn flMAN rcaders are suppoacd lo eat. Uainsr I'rofcaaor (.'ollier's esti mates theae 770,000 cows would con sutne thc producta of 1,051,000 acrea of meadow. and 2,082,800 eorei of paeture, for which they would rcturn 18,886. 000 worlli of dairv gooda aftcr dcduct ing 81 ,l.Vi,000 for grain fed. To what other use eould thle land bc put that would pay as well? Again, accordlng lo the EeXl theae aame cowa would pay 2,1 17,"i00in taxca. Will thc prcaent leg islature pass a licenae law high cnough to makc up thc dcllcicncy ; and if they do, will (iovcrnor Ilill sigu it? 15v the way, are cowa taxcd in New York jifr tapita as in N'ermonl? Isthe dairy iu tcrest in New York burdcncd wiih a tax of over eight anl one-balf per cenl on the average value of her cowa? Wbat fairncaa ia thcre in averaging the intercat and cxpcnses of thc cowa and then claasifying their returns? Why should a cow that would not sell for more than twenty dollars be charged the aame for intercst aa the one hun dred dollar cow? Why ahould the poorer dairies be charged thc aame for feed whcn it ia a faol tliat they do not get near thc aame value? Afler charg- inalcd. would be the eatimated IDB the cows the avcrngc value of thc ; thc industry in this county. hay on 1.37 acres of land, or 22, why ! correspnndent certainly can hardlv have doee he add sl. ." for intercat and re- ! any issue with one wliom he aays " ad- PATRONS PAINT WDRKS MANUFACTVRERB )K IngersolTs Liquid Rubber Paint. Clieap and inaestractible I'aints for Barns and Ontbnildings. Teti tbousand I'atrons of 1 IiiHbanilrv and farmers testify they ar beal and oheapest. Heautiful Simiple Color Cards and liook of Instruction l'MiKK. Write UH and Have inonev. We uarautee satisfaction. O. W. INGERSOLL, Office 243 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, New York. - UNLIKE ANY OTHER.- tlvclv Curei Dlphtberla, Cronp, Anttima, Bronchitli, Cnldi, Hhm, Ilnnklng Cnuati ih, Caterrh, Infuieiixa, Cholera M'-rinis, DlarrhoBO, RheuniatMtu, Neuralin th,UiucI Nitvuuk lli'ailuelu', Si'lulli'u, Ijuiio Uuek. aiul isurenoii In Body or IJiiiIm. AS MUCH FOR INTERNAL AS FOR EXTERNAL USE. Tiik Tkndkncv of THB Timks is toward the cheapening of every thing consumcd by mankind. The farmers can not escape this tendency. They demand cheapness in what they buy, and thoBe who buy of them naturally make the aame demand. It is inevit able. It behooves every man to under stand this truth. Only by undcrntand ing it can we prosper. I'nquestionably, if we are not growingour feed cheaply; if wc do not keep good cows, or do not keep them rightly ; if we do not know our trade thoroughlv, thcn what we produce is costing us too much. Our safcty is in lcaniiug how to produce everything from the farm as cheaply as posaible. We must not expect, eitber, that all we save by theKc niclhods we can always keep. Those who " catch on" early will make money; but in the long ruu the public will get the bcnelit of all iniprovements. Yet we have gol to go on improving, or be crushed. Ilired Men. The time for making contracts is ap proaching, aud we feel moved to say a word or two about this matter. In the flrst place, it never pays to hire a "cheap" hand. A farmer may, posai bly, sometimcs get a good man to work for him at less wages than he is worth. The farmer will make a little unhal lowed lucre by thus wronging him; but j he will probably find a better place ncxt year. The right, and in the long run the most prolitable, way is to hire good men, pay thcm well, and keep them as long as you can. No matter how good a hand is, he can not do all that bc might do for you until he gets acquainted with your land, your stock and your way of couducting thc farm. A man who swcars, is dirty in person, or in hia talk, or is a liar, no matter if he is a " tiger " to work, is not profit able to employ. There are good sijuare men who are as good workers as any. Try to get such, aud use them so they will want to stay with you. A corres pondent of the llomesteail, who sigus his name, puts it strongly, from the hired man's point of view, as follows: Who is to blame for the poor kind of beln nowadays? 1 take care of a geu- tleman'8 place iu the country, and heis one who knows how to use a man as he himself would like to be treated. We hear a great deal said about tbe dignity of labor, though mostly by men who take hold of the llght "end of the log. Well, if labor is elevatiug, how is it that the hired man gets tbe poorest quarters to live in on the farm? I have workcd on a farm where I eould count the stars through the roof of my bed room, and shovel the snow after each snow-fall out of the hole that served for a window. At another place I eould have picked from my bed enough bedbugs to make a square meal for a dozen chickens, if I had stayed long enough to do so. No wonder the bet tor class of help leave thc farm to work in factories. They may not average as much wages in the long run as on a farm, but they can hire as good a room as they want and feel like men, Is there anything refining about worklng Mxtccn hours a day, catiiiLr vour meals alone in the back kiu bcn, i rawling up after the day's work is done into tbe attlo by meani of anold ladder, gettlng baked in eummer and frocen in winter? If there is any 1 fuil to sce it. If a few of the hired men were to COntribUte their experiences lo the Hotnuttad, it would make mighly intcresting read ing. W. Ii. Cunniion,( 'ordavilU , Mats, lt is marreloga how many dlffeient onmptetnti ii win enre, n strimK jM.int lii In tln' fnet that it nc-ts uuk'kly. Jleulliuj ull cuti. Bunu and lirulsrs like Hagio. Beliovlng nil manner ot Crampn, nuu, Lainenena of MiikvIvs or stur jnints and strulna. ORICINATED BY AN OLD FAMILY PHYSICIAN. All whft Tiiiv nrirhriHrpi't frnin tH. iillil rt'ullt'St lt. Mlflll n , lvi' a OTtin-at' thftt tllt' lin'nt y itlftll be refunded If not abundantly aatlaflra. Hetall prloe ascts.: b bottltw, r.mh, Cxpn pn-i.alil tu nny lurt uf Un JuIUmI StuU'H, or C'unailu. JjValnultk' iumphLft fe'iit frt' GENERATION AFTER GENERAT1QN HAVE USEQ AND BLESSED IT. 80 ENTRIES. The judge reported to the Vermont Dairymen s Assoi'iation im htttler exhibited at the annual nicet ing. January 16-18, 1889, tlmt it was the finesl lt of butter he ever examined, of which there wcrc eiglity entries. liutter made by the Cooley Submerged Process Was awarded tlie GRAND SWEEPSTAKES, Dairy Sweepstakes, Three First Premiums Out ot' a possible FIVE. COOLEY BUTTER Also awarded the Sweepstakes at Fat Stock Show, Chicago, November, 1888, Send for Illubtratbd Pricb-list, free to all. VERMONT FARM MAGHINE COMPANY, BELLOWS FALLS, VT. Qnln Hran ii t bougbt., . KoiikIi foddar Mnlt nprnut. KlmlltiKe i Hnaf rawU, . . . I u,w; M .M oo l,4M XI I ,4 00 Wl M H oo 127 tO Total 3.1.107 Tm JM j Slx llioUHAllfl, il x liliiiilrefl llfteen hct In lncnd'iw 106,170 7't Totl f IM.9M 11 Tntal nariilMKI I74.HOS 00 fiKTHronco $ UJtH n It remains now to estimate tho fair eharee for tbe itcms already menlioned, Inclndlng 11,900 acres of pasturaee, wbicb, even at 8.1.00 per cow, would entlrely ebiorb the difference between tbe total earnin;s and above cost, and there would remaln kbeolntely nothing to nieet tbe Other ses'en items of neces sary expense attenditifr the industry. tlie airirretrate ot wiucii, tiowcver esti- (1SS to Your placcment? Why docs be not add etghl and one-hall per cenl for taxee as he doei on the cowe, or is not real cs- tate taxcd in New York? Why kill the poor cow and thcn show in another column that much of thc fault rcsts ; with the menufacturer of the products and the Improper time whcn the COW is in protil? And, linally, what reaeOO bai he for making such clainis as he does for tbe Increaee of proflte from increascd irrain feed? It is a fact that thoee who feed jrain largely arc, as a mle, those who have tbe best cows, feed the most and best hay, care most for thc COmfoti of their stock, have the best appliances for rnannfacturlng their goode, and use thc. most tkill in Bellins thcm; and what he credits to increaeed feed is, in my judment, tlie result of most or all the things combincd. The use be niakes of his flgurea and the conclusions he arrives at remlndl mc of an old Washington county man who naed to boast that " my eon .loel " eould ciphcr to the moon in sixteen minutes if let alone, and 1 should bc tcmptcd lo thlnk from his articlc on dairying that he was a dcsccndant of " my son .Tocl," were it not that he, like many of the hlgh-pedigreed and big recordcows, dicd and left us no seed. QUESTIONEB. The llairy industry. niittcd " to tbe stalcment that if the poorest one-balf , or 770,000 cows, in our state, were killcd, thc, profits to thc dairy IndUBtty would be increascd posaibly tenfola; but I confess that I can not fnlly nnderetand why he asks to what other use the land eould be put which lUpportl thesc 770,000 cows " that would pay at tceii," when the very point is that at preaentit docsnot pay anything, since certainly he will not claim as a paying business tbe production of fl8, 78o,00u worth of dairy products, at a cost of, eay thirty or forty millioni of dol lars. Wc laugh at the man who ex plalned his aoiltty to sell his goods at much bclow actual cost of production, on the ground that be did so large a business. Nor is it a lUfflcient answer to say that our dairymen know the con clusions of thc writcr and others are practleally unaound, for that is the very point. Far too many of our dnirymen do not know, and have not sullicicntly (onsidercd, whethcr they are or have been conductlngareally profitable busi ness; orlf, indced. they have felt that no RufBcient returi was tecured for their labor, they have been led lo believe that other than the true causcs brought this unhappy state of affairs about. I' have already, pcrhaps, exceeded your limita of space, and have hardly taken up tbe several points of your corres pnndent, though pcrhaps some of them find answer in what I have written. I should be glad, at any future time, to return to his lelter. rtSTEB COLLIEE, Geneva, New York. It is Not an BVIL that this is so. We do not complain because what we buy has been so grcatly cheapcned by iniprovements iu mechanics in couse (pience of great inventioiiH. lt eould not be expected that the progress of civllliatlon should never reacb thc Those Poor Cows. Mr. Kdilar: ln your articlc on un- profltable cows you Invlte oritlclim from those of mrge experlence, I make no claims to that, but, rcnicui- bering that any foo can ask queetlonc, I lake, the liberty to do it, and 1 do it with tbe better eourage, you bavlng an- I HKK KIKTH UOI.I'MN.J Hanover Crackers Daily Mr. Editor : I find upon my return, after a short abseuce, your lctter en closiug the criticisms of your anouy mous correspondcnt upon certain of the conclusions which appeared to me clearly proven by the ligures prescnted by Mr. C. .1. .lennings in his "Cow Census " of Jcfferson county in this state. This is a matter of so much vital importance to our agrieuhural industry that it should attract thc attention of every intelligent farmer, and I hope that the result of this discussion will be thc epeedy adoption of better metbods in our dairying. by which such a dcplor able condftion may bc avoided, To appear cven as attempting to depreciate the great dairy industry, as at prcsent conducted, is so ungracioue a taskhai I confess it would bring to tue more of ueasuieio nuu iuai vour cievcr cor- ,,,,,. J.n. ,;,,,,..,,..;,. i i.i rpylirnneill nnil iiiki mv ini' lleinnQ J llian ol mortilication ut nniling my tigurcs erroneoue. It must not bc for gottcn that these rcsults wc arc diecue siiiir are those of one of thc banncr countiea of this state, Jcfferson stand Ing twcnty-sixth in a lisl of thirt v-five of the dairy countics of New York as to the average value of products per cow, as shown by Dairy Commissloner llrown in his reccnt report. Wbat, tben, shall be said of tlie dry trce, if this is true of thc green'.' Before pro ceedlng to reply to the speclflc points made by your correspondcnt, let me present a few of the statislics which I take from thc records of the Cow Ccusug which Mr. Jcnnings has kindly fur- nlshed me for examlnation, I find the following: Forty-seven herdteontained (143 cows. These herds had an aggre gate of 1,560 acres of pasturage and 97!' acres of nieadow. They also con sumed 08j acres of fodder-corn, valued at fl,3&5: also grain aud bran (mainly grain) valued at 81,402.30, aud of hay hought and fed, 8"-30. The aggregate of taxes was 11,087 The value of rough fodder consumcd was 81,300. The aggregate value of products 814, 382.71, We may consider this lot of eows by themselves, siuce they include entire dairy herds, and the cost of their keeping and value of their products is clearly shown. As I have already shown in a previous paper, the average acreage value of the hay crop in New York for twentv-live. years has been 81i .o.r). It certainly can not but have averaged higher in'eo good a county as Jcfferson, and the care aud waste of feedlng the hay must add somewhat to its value whcn sold in butter; but lct us call tbe 979 acres of hay at 110.00 and we have: EDITORIAL Rkmakks. There are no more important points concerning the protits of dairy farming than the ones here di-cussed between our intel ligent Williamstown correspondcnt and tbe ernineut agricultural chemist who is at the head of thc Experiment Station of our great neighboring state. To get at the bottom facts, it is absolutelv necessary that the farmcr's view and the scientist's view of the subject should each be fully stated and mu tually understood. This is prcliminary As we see it, there is no difference be tween them as to the woeful losses oc ourrlng to our great industry in consc quence of an imperfect knoweldge of the business points counected with its managcment. Farmers are not accus tomcd to tigure out their transactions closelv, as do merchants and manufac turers. When they attempt it, they find what many of thcm consider in surmountable difHcultlea in the way, but they ought to be willing to accept help from men trained to accurate thinking and matheniatical statenients. These may not be always right, and that farmers should attempt to traverse them is eucouraging. It would be much worse if they should be so indif ferent as not to noticc them at all. Hay: (Iralu PoadM eoru Ilny l.ouKlit Kmixh fudder. . Taxu 1,448 30 I..H'. 00 '.'.10 00 !.: 00 I.U7 ntl Made at White River Junction, Vt. and Sold byall Dealers in Vt. uiJ N. H. I d. t .-...i . n,i i .,(lk. i n.,,1, i t. ,r my goodl hM t'iMiijKllfd mi ewh fr to tmUrjftt ml in- :.Mr my ftv-illtiua, ku how I liavc thf lurgftt awi nu i-inidetc Urtoiy ot tlit- kiml Ui Vttruiout. Turulug out over 05HM) MANOVKK CKACKKKW evtit) workiug tlu provta tliat Hanovnr Onoktn MTt whkVl th$ p0 !! want. ASK FOR SMITH'S CONFECTIONER Y. Tliauklun fO fur your KOilrini untruliaKo m tlif al anJ huliliin you will al nya rull for HANOVKK CKACK KR8 au.l SMITH'S PDKE 0ONPICC IU IM Klt'V. I am raapaeUuU, 66 17 Ceore;e W. Smith. White River Junction, Vt. ToUl IIM ai Total proiluetlon I4JD 71 I u.i $ 7.300 M Averune loa per cow f II ;I5 lt will be seen that in thc above thcre is made no charge for the following Itema, each of which thc rcader may eitlmete for blmielf, but thcre is no douhi their aggregate will grcatly in- I creasc the tptal loss on this lot of 04.". cows, the entire number in forty-seven h.'ds: () 1,650 acres ofpastuiing; (h) intercst on cattlc; () intercst on land and buildmgs; ((() intercst on dairv outfit; (i) repalre on buildinge, fencea, etc; (f) manufacture of producU: (;) marketlug of produote; (n)oareol cattlc, feeding, etc. Thc average value of the above fortv-sevcn I'arms is fr.'II.Oll per arrc. thc above the cnticiHins ot your C0!T6S- pondent are removed, tinoe only those Warmlntr the Water. Mr. Editor: You ask the farmers to give you their experience in warming water for stock and their views thereon. Mine are as follows: I have a stock of seventeen head of cattle, and have a water-tub that holds sixty pails of water. The first of December I put in one of Kiser's water-heaters, manu factured by J. T. Drew of Cabot. This, with a fair strcam running into the tub, will hcat the water to seveuty degrees (which 1 consider about the right heat) in tlfty minutes, at an expense of about one cenl. This will keep it warm while the Btock are all drinking. They wili not generally driuk more thau once aday . Trii cows average to take tive hundred pounds of water per day. They drink it readily and appear to cnjoy it much better than before I began to warm it. Those that have just calvcd will drink twice a day aud take about thirty-five pounds of water at a time. This is, of course, a iuestion upon which thcre are various opinions. Some of the best dairymen say they would not have thc water warmed for their stock at all, while others are stronglv in favor of it. Pormyeelf, l am fully convinoed that my stock does better. 1 can keeii them at I less expense aud make more butter than when I used OOld water, and I think thal thc water-heatcr is a good investment for any farmer. 1 hope that farmers will gi've us their experi ence freely through the columns of your paper. J, M. PltHXR, UtDOt, l eliruary W, INS'i. Dii. IIoskins will be glad to send a eony of his Beed and Nurserx Catalogue lt will be seen that in I free to any address senl hiui by postal. orotheiwise. Atldrcss 1. II. IIoskins, Newjiort, Vt.