The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-10-04
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

The advantage of being ones own enI-
ployer is worth much. No one can fully |
appreciate this until he has been the |
subject to the call of bell or whistle,
The HuSbdHdmdR says pasturing
meadows i'm the fall not only lessons the
fertility of the soil but leaves the roots |
and causes TIE ground 10
heave more easily in winter,
Why farmers will still persist in try |
ing TO make grass crop of corn, by
sowing it SO thick that it cannot develop
A healthy stalk, exceeds our compre-
hension.-T, d. Curtis,
Journal of agriculture On many
farms it may not be the best plan to soil
altogether, hut at the same time there
are many conditions that will make par
tial soiling and partial pasturing very
desirable.
1t is not strange, that when every far
mer in the land, who has even one eye
in his head, can see that intelligence
pays the biggest kind for every penny
that is invested in il, there are so few
who will try to be well posted on their
own business.
DIR. Billings in his recent work on
swine plague, says that lazy farmers will
never prevent hog cholera. Men too in
dOlent to observe the fact that their pens
are the chief source of danger, when the
fact has been before their eyes for years,
will never prevent it-unless the State
makes them.
1t is often said that the best cattle Of
Holland or the Netherlands are not black
and white but red and white. However
this may be, now that the Hols.ein herd
books will only register the black and
whites, as we take it, bulls that will get
or cows that will drop calves with red
on them, are not true HulsteinS.
Farmers may affect to despise book
farmers, but the time is in the near flu
turo when the unfortunate wight who
is not book farmer will counsel with
and rely upon the advice and assistance
of his neighbOr who is, and in that way
attempt to make up for the short-com-
ing in his own education. coleman 5
Rural World.
Probably there is nothing in agricul-
turs where so much labor has been lost
as in building unnecessary fences, Our
New England farms are cut up INTO little
patches in most inCOnvenjent way and
they not only prove obstacles to ready
cultivation, but they are nesting places
for all sorts of weeds and yermin.-LOU
ell Journal.
On looking over the most successful
farmers in any community are they the
most intelligent or the most ignorant
Are they the men who kept their brain.
bright and well supplied with sounC
thoughts drawn from good agriculture
reading, or are they the men who never
take an agricultural paper, who read anc
think as little as possible !-HOdrd I
DdirymdR.
Galen Wilson. in the New York Trj
bune, shows how day laborers on lsnC
may help themselves and the rural put
tic by leasing of the farmers, for whom
they labor, one to five acres for SINAI
fruits and gardening purposes, on tim
the laboreT can pass his spare time, keel
his children proiitlbly employed, hav,
an unusual sense of Independence, anC
make two or three hundred dollars ;
year.
In my experience with meaduws,g, 0
, crops of hay can be obtained By applying
good top-dressug of about twenty o.
thirty two horse loads Of sand, grave
, or road-wash Che latter prefyrable) viii
four cords Of horse manure in August o
September. do not consider 1t best t
pillow meadows, only ~ means o
smoothing them. Only give thu
meadows plenty OF sand and horse ma
nure, and nice timothy aud rcdtop wi.
grow without seeding ~. H. tphdH
DUlley MdSS.
The teachers tell US to fill slowly, IL
ensiage heat to 1909 aud put little or II,
weight upon it, and now let pupil " h,
has dearly learned the lesson add just
few words which were omitted IN mn
book provided the folder corn is rath
er green and well tramped while filing
but if the fodder is Father dry, mOisiel
p little with a sprinkler, fill rapidly; d,
= not allow il to heat; weight heavily, 50.
; nearly ton to the square yard. Cor
respondent Of the COmHtrY Gentleman.