The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-08-01
AGRICuLTnRAL NOTES


If the rose-bugs trouble your grape
vines, spray them with paris green and
water in the proportion of one ounce to
six gallons.
Mr., Waldo +. Browns farm in Butler
county, Ohio, contains ninety acres, six
ty of which are in one inclosure, with a
permanent pasture of twenty-five acres.
A SOW that is allowed a large percent
age of clover will be able to turn more
of the food TO the through development
of her pigs than if fed corn or corn meal.
j. W. Pierce.
The Farmers Home Journal of Louis.
vile says that the agricultural papers
that can't be trusted are those published
ty manufacturers, for manufacturers.
and in the interests of manufacturers.
Nearly every calling has some organ
lied method of self protection. Farmers
are getting the cobwebs rubbed out of
their eyes and see their need of doing
likewise. &C. +. Milford in Ohio Farmer.
Breed for fine shaped pigs such as may
suit your taste and your trade, but at the
same time breed for intelligence, and you
cannot but be gratitie with the ultimate
results from so doing.-GeOrge O. Doac,
North Epping, NJ II,
During the present year two success
full experiments of keeping apples and
potatoes in silos are reported. The pota.
toes were cut and mixed with chaff, the
apples poured in while the slo was be-
ing filled with cut corn.
The free use of paris green in spraying
orchards early in the season is leading to
great injury where bees are kept, owing
10 careless performance of the operation
while the trees are in blossom, instead of
waiting until the fruit is set.
A subscriber writes that 1.-The only pre-
ventive of crows that we use with sue
cess is to tar the corn before planting.
We planted ten rows without tarring,
and they riddled every row, but never
touched the corn that was tarred."
A Massachusetts, inventor has patent
ed method of baling ensilage. He pro-
poses to supply small dairymen, or those
living near cities who keep but one or
two COWS. Growing and putting up en-
silage for market may yet become prof
liable industry in favorable localities.
In my view, the ideal farming COM
munity is one with comparatively small
farms, where the interests of ownership
and labor are united, where mental ac-
tivity prevails, and where men are found
useful alike in the field, the grange, or
the farmers club or inslitute,-C. S. Rice.
Professor Jordan of the Maine State
college says, in speaking of phosphoric
acid, that the terms soluble, reverted and
insoluble are merely relative in their sig
nificance. There is no compound of phos-
phoric acid that is not dissolved, to a
slight degree at least, by water, and to a
still greater extent by ammonium citrate.
J. F. Ryder of Franklin county, Penn
sylvahia, writes to the Weekly Tribune
that ten or twelve years ago he trans
ferred the bell from sheep to a young
dog which manifested great fondness for
sleeps blood, and it broke up the habit
completely. Why not, he asks, make it
compulsory that every dog wear bell,
and if caught without 1t that he be shot
A correspondent writing to the New
York Tribune from Ithaca, n, Y, gives
the following recipe as the best for pois-
oning English sparrows dissolve ar
SENATE of soda in warm water at the rate
of an ounce to pint pour this upon as
much wheat as it will cover lin a vessel
which can be closed 80 as to prevent
evaporation), and allow 1t to soak for at
least twenty-four hours. Dry the wheat
so prepared, and it is ready for use." II
should be distributed in winter in places
where the sparrows congregate, but
where domestic fowls will not be endan-
gered, and quick decrease in their mum.
bers is certain to follow.