The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-02-23
AGRICULTURAL NOTES

Many farmer and gardener suffers
in consequences of the poor seed in the
market, and it ought TO be a State pris-
on otfense for a man to sell seeds which
he knows are not true to name. But
with all our troubles, it is perhgps a
question whether we are not better off
to buy all our seeds than we should be
to raise them all.-[Charles Green
wood
If we would make a specially of rails
ing few varieties, paying particular
attention to the selection
of seed stock each year, we could
make such improvements as would am
ply pay us in dollars and cents. as well
As IN the satisfaction of having accom-
pllshed worthy object. There are to
TWO serious drawback IN the way of do.
ing this; first, the want of determine
tion to save the earliest and choicest
plants for seed producers; second, the
neglect to properly care for and use the
seeds after they are grown Charles
Greenwood
We have sue ,eeded much better with
COWS that yielded 80 pounds of milk Der
day, of moderate quality, than with
those yielding 10 pounds of much bet
LII
organization for the secretion of milk.
would yield to the influence of iudicious
steady feeding with well balanced food
for the production of rich milk. and she
will increase in quantity and quality. but
often more in quality than quantity;
while the latter, on being full fed with
the proper food. is more likely to Law on
flesh than to increase her yield of milk.
+. W. Stewart.
Gen. L. F, Ross, Iowa City, Iowa. who
was one of the first to Introduce the red
polled cattle into the dairy sections of
the West, and who has some of the Pine
Hedge farm jamestown cattle, writes
the Breeders Gazette, that he sold from
his farm during the past year 81 pure
red polls and as many no. Mess grades.
The pure breds averaged over $3.50 each,
and the grades. mostly milch COWS,
brought from $75 to $780, One of his
polled cows has had twin heifers twice
within little over a year. Three of
them are alive and doing well.
Disease comes in by hundred weight.
and goes out by ounces. That racking
cough will run rapidly into consumption,
then it will take more of Warmers Log
Cabin Cough and Consuption Remedy to
restore health, but it is the best remedy.
SOC and 81.
The so called French Mastc.' so long
known as 'Lefort's liquid grating wax
is made by melting one pound of com
mon rOsin over a gentle fire and stirring
in one ounce of beef tallOw Take from
the fire, and, when it has partially cool
ed, mix in eight ounces of alcohol. If
this cools it off too rapidly,it must again
he placed over the fire; but great eau
tion must be used to keep the alcohol
from taking fire. When well Incorpor-
ated and cool, put in TIN cans or glass
bottles and keep well covered or corked.
This was until quite recently, kept S.
rret, and the 'mastic' imported from
France.
Mr.. Joseph Barnard, of Hopkinton,N.
f., exhibited a sample of butter at the
Concord dairy meeting last week which
was remarkable for its June shade of
color, yet no artificial COlorng was used
in its manufacture. Over forty years
ago some Channel Island cattle were in
upon his farm, and have been
in breed ever since, with only two crosses
once with a Guernsey and once with a
Jersey. Mr.. Barnard keeps about ten
cows and sells choice unregistered cOlors
at prices within the reach of his neigh
bOrs of moderate means. His cows may
be classed as scrubs by breeders of reg
stered stock, but they are such cows as
would make the country richer were
in every American cowyard.
Mr.. S. E. Cook in a recent issue of the
Jersey Bulletin writes of the famous COW
Rosa f. W, 12, 226, belonging to Mr. O.
F. Fuller, of East Blackstone Mass,
whose milk was go per cent. cream.
Rosa F. w. has been fed for more than
a year on only four quarts of grain per
day, consisting of two quarts of bran
and two quarts of provende? two. thirds
corn meal and one third oats. Mr. F's
is small, so he is obliged to feed
nay twice day through the summer.
As soon as cold weather comes on, the
stock is stabbed and fed good hay in the
swale hay at noon and ensi-
age at night. She was giving three
quarts per day and about eight and one
half months after calving. She Is not
arge mixer but a very rich one. She
iropped a fine heifer calf Jan. 81, by
Victor F. w Rosa f, w, has a record
of 80 pounds - ounces of butter in seven
lays.