The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-01-03
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Remember that the sire is half the
herd.
When you see people going out on &C.
count Of low price then is the time to &c
in.
To cut down taxes stop up the cracks
IN the stables Town, comfy and State
taxes are not the only ones the shiftless
farmer pays.
The farmer who thinks his farm paper
Is not practical enough should contribute
some of his own practical knowledge
and experience.
We may yet get the Jersey quality
into the Friesian milk. The idea is
worth considering, and we believe an
effort in that direction is worth making.
Prairie Farmer.
| There is nothing educative IN a stack
OF hay, but it is otherwise with a classi.
fled and named list of the different kinds
OF grasses. which enter into the compo-
sition of that stack.
Prof. Sanborn, formerly of New
Hampshire, now at Missouri Agricultu.
raj College, says that he cannot perceive
that farm capital is being much better
paid in the west than in the east.
Keep the harnesses well oiled and give
them an occasional dressing of harness
soap. When cleaning look out for weak
spots and if any are found have them
mended and thus avoid runaway,
Charcoal is an aid to digestion and
should be given occasionally to fowls
and swine. Corn burnt on the cob is
the best form to give it. and a little
properly charred will benefit the human
organism.
From an experiment tried at the New
York experiment station, it would seem
that coal ashes hitherto accounted al
most worthless possess some value when
applied as mulch to the strawberry
bed.
We would urge our readers engaged
In butter making to stl ip the cows clean
as the strippings contain from twenty
five to thirty per cent cream. If milk
IL left in the cows bag to dry away
there will be Jumps IN the teats.
Let us have from every Legislature
this winter, says the Western Rural, a
law compelling hotels and boarding
houses and restaurants that serve bogus
butter on their tables to announce the
fact in way that everybody who enters
such places may know it.
Owners Of well-bred colts should not
be discouraged if their youngsters do
no show great promise of speed while
young. Many of New England's great
est turf performers did not show speed
in their early days, and their owners
had so little faith in them that they
were disposed of at low prices. Under
a Judicious system of training wonder
ful results have been produced. .-Lelvis-
ton Journal.
There are men who, given a pot of
paint, brush. and little spare time,
will paint until there is nothing left on
the farm to paint, save, perhaps, the
stock. And when the paint is dirty
yaller," flaring red, or a sickly green.
how the man will revel in it, until all
taste and decency have been outraged
hevond remedy. Keep the paint pot
within proper bounds by all means. and
if you paint use sober colors.-Ne,C York
Press.
Every tricycler carries with him a
handy tool bag containing a small
wrench, screw driver, oil can and the
special tools required, besides oftentimes
few nuts, ETC., and a coil of wire.
Every locomotive carries tools for sim
pie repairs, and every steamship on the
sea is provided with a small machine
shop, Wagons regularly engaged IN
teaming are sometimes provided for in
this direction, but how many carriages,
wagons and other farm vehicles carry
even monkey wrench