The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-07-26
NUMBER 27.
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Farmers should write for their agri.
cultural paper.
Green manure is the cheapest method
Of enriching land.
Brains and good sense will make
farming or any other busineFs pay.
Farming which pays best is that
which is performed in neat and thor
ough manner Country Gentleman,
j. w. Stahl recommends putting hay
away with two thirds OF the curing Il
commonly gets and packing it solid.
Now is the time to apply a little nj.
trate of soda to the lawn for beauty or
to the pasture to help out the summer
feed.
Prof. Sargent says the strongest wood
in the United States is the nutmeg hick
ory OF Arizona; the weakest is the West
India beech.
II meadow hay was cut early instead
of being regarded as worthless and left
until it is hard and tough, its quality
would be greatly improved.
1t is good plan for the farmer to
take little recreation in the shape of
picnic or fishing excursion or something
of that kind after the haying is fin
ished.
The Orange County Farmer says that
without intending to disparage agricul-
tural colleges, it believes that the best
place to study farming is on the farm.
The finger is good thing for testing
the temperature of the cream, if you
are fond of hard work and don't care
how long the butter is in coming.-[ Ex-
change.
Nothing adds more to beauty than the
graceful foliage of vines filling up al
sharp angle, floating around a corner or
over a porch, or festoonlng veranda.-I
TGarden and Forest,
Investigation of the cost of milk dis
tribution in this and in other countries
shows that the rates of railway trans
portation are much lower in this coun-
try, both for long and short hauls.
The wise dairyman, according to the
American Dairyman, keeps a piece of
cloth or paper of the desired shade of
yellow, tackled up in his milk room, with
which he can compare each mess as it
comes from the churn, 80 as to keep it
uniform.
Competition among nurserymen has
alogues. The nurserymen's conven-
tion at Detroit proposed to remedy this
evil by complete cooperative catalogues
of fruit and fruit plants.
Mr.. Francis Barnes, discussing the
coloring of dairy goods, says: lam
using coloring every day in my cheese
because buyers request it. 1t is nothing
that savors of dishonesty and nothing
which, under the circumstances, it
would be advisable to give up"
II you want to realize how utterly un.
reasonable your own grumbling is,
hearken with candid mind and patient
soul to the grumbling of your neighbor
and see how much we are all alike, and
how.irrational are many Of "the devices
and desires of our own hearts. y DR..
Hoskins.
Many farmers complain that large
farms do not pay the expense of their
cultivation, and to manure them up IS
too expensive. The earth is therefore
lazily scratched up and the seeds are
thrown away on it. No wonder such
farmers have but little grain to sell
aud not much money in these hard
times.
j. II. Hale says that in spite of the
complaint that market gardening and
fruit growing are being overdone, the
truth of the old saying "plenty of room
at the top still holds good, 5000 miles
of travel in 13 states during the past
months have shown him that inferior
methods of cultivation are the rule rath.
er than the exception.
Some of our correspondents have al
luded to an unusual quantity of potato
bugs this spring The Lewiston Jour.
nal SAYS that there are no more bugs
than usual because with wet, cold
spring, great many never hatch at all,
but the lateness of the potatoes has
made them come along about the same
time that the crop of bugs is ready.
The Medical Record gives an account
of an instrument devised by DR.. Sozhlet
of Munich to prevent milk from becom-
ing impregnated with germs of fermen-
tatiOn. The process in brief is prolong-.
ed boiling under pressure, In trials of
milk sterelized in this apparatus It
remained good from four to eighteen
days. The Record says. however, that
as between strictly fresh milk and stere.
lized milk, no one will hesitate to pre-
fer the former.