The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-04-26
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

The Rural New Yorker after four
years experience advises all whose pota.
toes are usually scabby, to sift sulphur
four over the seed pieces.
Joseph Harris says it is TO him mat
ter of surprise how few avail themselves
OF the discoveries Of science in the use
of fertilizers for their crops.
M farmer can afford to let his cows
run down in the spring of the year. This
they are likely to do when coming into
milk, if not given extra care and feed
Mirror and Farmer,
Farmers who keep sheep can hang up
a lamb at their pleasure, in their ice
houses during the summer, and not have
to eat salt pork, or depend on the butch.
er for fresh meats.
The London, Ontario, Free Press
| thinks it is a great pity that the provin-
cial government should spend $30.000 TO
$40, 900 year to teach model farming
and entirely omit to touch the poultry
interests.
Professor Fjord,o of the Danish agricul
tural society, finds one pound of the
sweet skim equal to two pounds of the
buttermilk. He also finds that six
pounds Of sweet fkm are equal to one
pound of rye or barley.
At the institute of the Plymouth
County Agricultural Society, DIR. l.. w,
Puffeer of Brockton illustrated the
growing attention given to the culture
Of flowers, by saying that % years ago
mis- greenhouse was the only one in North
Bridgewater.
w. G.. Brown of West Pembroke, Me-.
brought about $50 acres in its wild state
IN 1868. Since then he has cleared it of
trees, bushes and all other incumbrance,
and in 1875 had it all cleared and good
buildings. Since that time he has got
the farm under very good cultivation.
Get something to be proud of, then
give it extra care. 1t will improve the
stock. Improve the stock, and the stock
will improve you; in satisfaction of
mind, in good temper, in hopefulness,
and your bank account Rev. E. l..
Briggs at Iowa Stock Breeders Assocla-
tion,
One of the little leaks is the neglect of
the poultry droppings. A farmer will
spend day in cartIng some fertilizer
for which he has to pay good price,
when for the same time spent he might
have had something just as valuable by
carefully collecting the droppings from
under the roOsting fowls.
Cows that are soiled with cut grass
and those which are fed in wellfenced
pastures from which all noxious and ill.
favored weeds have been extirpated, ARE
more kelly to yield a uniformly good
and sweet quality of milk than those
which are suffered to roam the woods
and commons Prof Bell, Canada.
The Lewiston Journal of recent date
quoted a real estate dealer of that city
as having oyer 300 Maine farms on his
selling list. He thinks that Maine farm
ers are doing well, but that the old folks
are dying off and that the young people
are going to the cities or to the West,
rather than stay as home.
The Maine Farmer calls attention to
the fact that there are dangers of TOO
mnch chemistry and too little farming
IN The Hatch experiment stations. 1t
says: The colleges were prepared to pur
sue and carry on chemical work; by the
law the law the stations are added to
these institutions as as a department OF
experimentation
John H. Baker of Cayuga Co., n. Y,
writes to the Country Gentleman that
the farmers who complain that their
business does not pay are either the
shittless ones who expect good crops
from little labor and poor attention TO
stock, those who are trying to make one
occupation support two, or else those
who are following the same routine as
their fathers and grandfathers did before
them,
Rome began to die when she gave over
her agriculture to slaves or to foreign
conquered tribes, and her manufacturers
to ignorant men, or even to slaves. and
sent her best blood into the army or into
commerce, politics and the clerical en-
! ployments. Our country should take
warning. We cannot afford to let our
native born young men drift away in
body from the productive industries,
agriculture, manufactures and the trade.
I-[W. |. Chamberlain, President Iowa
Agriculture College.
The past season of 1887 was the poor
est apple year ever known in Northern
Vermont, at least for long time. The
trees were weakened by the great crop
of 1886 and the almost unexampled cold
of the succeeding winter destroyed near.
ly all the root grated Fameuse, and
greatly weakened the Wealthy. Scott's
Winter was unharmed in tree and bore
a very fail crop considering the large
one of the year before. But the Bethel
trees everywhere came out entirely un
harmed and bore heavy crops of very
perfect fruit. There is likely now to be
a Bethel boom in this vicinity DR..
Hoskins in Rural New Yorker