The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-01-10
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

AGnlODLAUHlAL NOIES.
Cows cannot make much milk with.
out plenty of suitable food TO make i
out of, any more than the Israeli,es il
Egypt could make bricks without straw
More pounds of pork can be produced
from the same food than beef. The pil
utilities a larger percentage OF food thar
the beef animal, or than sheep.-E. w
iStetrdrt. - 20 ~ '. Fa.
Do not worry because you have nj
blooded stock till you improve what you
have. Breed only from thoroughbred
sires and soon you will be able to go W
higher,
The propagation of game should be
taken up seriously, says Forest ana
Stream, and become branch to be fos
tered and encouraged in the same man,
ner as the methods OF The fishculturists
1t amounts to grave neglect, not to
plant trees about the home grounds
roadside, cemetery and school ground.
First after healthful site has been Sc
lected tor the home, the very next con-
sideration should be the identifying and
embelishDent of the grounds by the
planting of trees.
The Orange County Farmer is becom-
ing more and more satisfied OF the econ
omy and usefulness Of the road ma
chimes. Wherever used, a notable i'm
provement in the highways is at once
seen. There is nothing in the old meth
DDS of working the highways to com
mend them to sensible persons,
To make winter dairying prof able,
cows must have good warm quarters to
keep them comfortable in cold weather
and be kept out of the storms, The old
way of having them run out in the barn
yard with no shelter but an open shed
which only few of the master cows
will go under, will not answer.
Cows have to be wintered whether
they give milk or not, and when tn y
receive a meal ration twice day thu y
will not eat more than half ration Of
hay or fodder, and consequently they
must not be charged with the flu cost
OF the meal, unless they receive cred
for the lessened consumption of fodder
Sheep look full after eating frozen
grass, but few weeks of such feed re-
ducts them IN flesh and shows plainly
that small allowance Of grain is neces-
sary TO keep them in condition TO winter
prufitably. Always put the sheep under
cover during the cold and stormy wealth
err, it will save hay and grain n xt win
ter.
HOdrd'S Ddirynldn can easily see that
a COW can be starvad towards a relative
increase of caspine to fat in the mil she
actually gives but the volume Of milk
will decrease at the same time. To feed
4 COW towards relative increase q case
inc, in its judgment, is to partly starve
her, and waste food in the keeping her
at all.
We know of no better way to preserve
cabbages through the winter than to sci
them in rows as they grow-that is. with
the roots down-fill in with soil pretty
freely, then allowing for pitch TO carry
off the water cover with corn fodder OF
,traw or boards. In using through the
winter avoid as much as possible the
1unside and close up again.-Germdn-
to,on Telegraph,
While the fields are bare of snow,
sheep prefer to grub the sere fields to be-
ing fed at the barn. and will take to the
fields and remain thereof not driven urS
Every farmer ought to have some sheep
but unless he can give them good atten-
ton he is better vi'hout them. And al
this season they need special care, SO
that they are kept healthy and started
in winter in good condition.
A Pennsylvania correspondent writes
to the Country Gentleman that his win
ter grain ration for mich cows IS of one
half meal, made by grinding corn, rye
and oats together in equal parts, and
give each COW about four quarts of the
mixture both morning and night, fed
dry. For succulent food he feeds pump
klns, storing twenty or thirty loads in
HE barn basement.
Fruit growing pays in combination
with general farming. Fruit brings
money easier and the pleasure of its cul.
ture is much greater. | find well grown
fruit always salable and yielding profit
ties, grow what the public demands
You can not form and control the public
taste. Gluts sometimes occur, and we
must expect them and bear the conse
quences but on the whole there is
money in fruit growing.-A. j. Warner
The pigs should never be raised in g
small, close pen-they may be started
there in the spring and finished off dur
ing the last six weeks of their life ir
comfortable pens, hut the SUNNI ]
months should be spent in the open fields
among the clover and the grasses Skim
milk and bran are much better foods
Than corn. The aim should be to make
the pig grow rapidly, but he should moi
be made what is called fat until near the
close of his life.-PrOf, Roberts in RurdI
NelC Yorker.
Some farmers ask the question, "1n
what condition should the cows be to 20
into winter quarters p We never could
see the importance of this question, says
the american Dairymdn. IF the dairy
man fed his cows with the sole purpose
of carrying them through the winter,
then. like the bear that hibernates, the
fatter the better but if he is a winter
dairyman, as he should be, then his cows
should be in the fall as they should be IN
the spring, winter and summe. that Is,
in good working order"
1.-THE pigs should have large infus-
ion of Sus-scrofa blood-that is, they
should trace back in many of their lines
to the wild boar of Europe. If too
much of their blood is of the Sus Indicus
type Tor Chinese hog they will have too
large a proportion of soft, oily meat and
too small proportion of lean meat" So
says AN eminent professor of agricul-
ture, and the highly practical suggestion
will commend itself to all ordinary far.
mers, especially those who have sup
posed that the game cocks scrofa blood
exhausted the possibilities in this line"