The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-04-25
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Air-slacked lime is a sure remedy for
the Shiny pear slug and an easy one to
apply.
Cultivation and spraying orchards are
far in advance of pasturing with swine
or sheep. Best prices prevail where best
care is given.
With poultry as with other stock there
is a choice is breeds, but the breed will
not help careless person to success.
Systematic, judiciOus care is more i'm
portant than the breed,
Do you want to grow good crop of
nice potatoes in your garden Then be-
ware of sprouted seed. If your seed po-
tatoes cannot be retarded otherwise, keep
them IN the ice house or refrigerator,
The Farm Journal we'll says eve
eat our cake and have 1t still, when we
feed bran, linseed and cotton seed meal,
as these are foods rich in nitrogen, phos-
phoric acid and potash"
There is nothing like the winds of
March for drying the sap out of wood.
If more appreciated this fact less farm
ers would be going to the woods in the
busy days of planting time to get fort
nights supply. 1t is poor economy to
burn green wood.
No farm is completely equipped with
out goOd-sized nail box filled with diff
ferent sized nails, bolts, screws, copper
Tivets, and some soft wire. Emergen-
cies are constantly arising arising on
every farm when the above articles will
be brought into requisition.
Professor Cook, in one of his expert
ments, applied the London purple solu-
ton to every apple on a small tree by
hand lin order to be sure that every ap-
pie had been reached) and, as a result,
every apple was free from cooling
worms. This is IA convincing expert
ment.
In preparing land for seeding plank
drag is in many cases better roller than
the roller itself. Take two heavy planks,
six feet long, cleat them together and
,lraw them sideways, A pair of horses
will handle drag of the above size, with
a man upon it and not fret.
A writer in the NeU England Farmer
says that the best way to color butter is
through a judicious selection of COWS
and intelligent breeding. But annette
is so convenient, you know, and it re-
quires neither intelligent breed
ing nor judicious selection Boston
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To show that some farm experiment!
pay, the Hon. II. G. BOlles of Wilbra
ham, at recent meeting of the Hamp
, den Harvest club, told of successfully
reclaiming two acles of bog meadow
land at an expense of $l20, from which
he has since cut three tons of gooC
herdsgrass per acre.
1t is a serious question, says Mr.. E II
] Libby, whether the codllng moth, tn
current worm, the potato bug, tn
! chinch bug, or the mildew and rot flung
which attack our grapes, apples, plum
: and peaches, are so great an injury, oil
, the whole AS they seem. Without thes
checks there would certainly be tire
E mendous overproduction.
t The NeW England Farmer has latel
asked why not have Dairymens Assc
citation in Massachusetts ? We say VIII
r not ? Mr.. Cheever of the Farmer n
doubt is the one making the inquiry an
> that after having attended the annua
+ dairy meetings in New Hampshire an
Vermont, where so much interest wa
O manifested in this unquestiOnably lead
8 ing farm industry of today.-Pe0pie
p Patriot.
e Alfred Ross in the New York UOrl
a of March 18th, tells how he grew pott
toes last year at the rate of 1926 bushe
per acre, They were planted by tn
middle of July in middllng heavy sand
S loan plowed twelve inches deep. Th
seed was cut TWO weeks previous to ont
half eyes and busted with plaster. tn
If seed was dropped in trenches in sing
IL pieces from four to five inches apart an
IS covered one aud one-half inches deeI
Mapes potato manure, at the rate of 81
pounds per acre, was scattered
trenches. The balance of the trenche
four to five inches Deep was left ope
for the rain and dew to fall in and di
solve the manure. The seeds then hs
four or five inches of mellow soil belo
it. AS the buds grew the soil was pres
ed IN and the trench gradually filled
the surface. Thus the lateral buds reac
the surface from six to eight inch'
from the main stock and are full of roo
with many tubers and plenty of rool
to grow in. The potatoes are cultivate
: aud hoed three times and then billed VI