The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-03-06
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NAL that eats it.
Down South" they want hogs tina
can outrun the negro.
Seed potatoes. like seed corn, shoulC
be saved from the best hills.
Sugar-making time has arrived. 1
everything ready for the event
One of the coming implements is {
= potato sorter, II is desideratum.
. The best kind of store hogs are thost
!. that have reached the pork barrel.
, Set out trees enough. 1t is better &c
have one too many than one too few.
All of vegetable or animal food that l.
available and of practical use IS soluble,
If your pruning is not already don
do it at once or wait until the sap ceases
to run.
The increase in the crop Of winter
wheat is about 2 per cent over that of
last year.
Make a map of your orchard and on il
name all the varieties Of fruit as the
trees stand.
The disposition and trustwOrthiness If
the horse depends good deal on its
trainer.
Wire fences in England are popular,
and they are making fox hunting un-
popular.
COlmans Rural lhinkS man can br
llonger starving To death in farming than
in any other business.
II you have good article for sale ad-
verIisp, and you will be pretty cure tu
find customer for it.
1t is a good plan to have a reel and
line handy for aid in making all rows
of fruits end vegetables straight.
The privy pit is a nuisance and thu
cause of diseases. 1t poisons the waters
beneath and the air above.
As spring opens, see thpt your drains
are clear and clean-free from all decay
ing and fermenting substances.
A pair of brood mares, properly used.
can do good seasons work on farm
and turn out pair of fine colts.
The potato that sprouts the easiest
makes the poorest seed. Premature
'Drouting is due 10 weakness.
Is the OK yoke what it should be?
Why no improvement Wss this one
article perfected generations ago?
The man who wastes or abandons his
time is no more to be commended than
the man who abandons his farm.
Which is the better, to expend you
money IN making good roads or 10 l"se
IT IN worn out horse-hesh and wagons2
There is nothing that pays better than
good roads. Every neighborhood should
have an ambition for good roads.
1t ia not the largest seed that is alwayt
hest, but that which is most perfect and
vigorous and has been kept the best.
S. ring is the time to prune harCy
roses. They bloom on the new growth.
Cut out all useless and weakly growth.
Brine is better than wafer to quencl
fire. A barrel of cheap brine would bt
very convenient in the beginn Dg of h
fire.
Slage in the barn may tsint the milk.
hut silage in the COW does no harm, y
the opinion of Professor Cooke of V-r-
mont.
Rut and decay are the wolves that de-
your exposed farm machinery. II oughI
10 be protected against these depreda
OrB.
Have medicine chest in the house, II
you must. Let the drugs be few ano
simple. Then study how to avoid using
them.
Josh Billings says "debt is a traI
which man sets for imself and dellb
erately gets into it," Avoid it rs much
as possible.
Ii rd and soft wood ashes are said to
contain about the same amount Of pot
sh, bur the soft wood ashes contain lrss
pnosphoric acid.
The general opinion appears to be that
10 pounds of good, clean clover seed IA
u"ugh o SOW on an acre to secure q
pei feet 8 and.
IL am SIR Oracle, and when open my
Ups let no dog bark am a benefactui |
u the human race. greater than he VIII, |
has taken cities, but railroads and made |
he lightning to speak, have done more |
han these, have killed paiR, and my
anne is Sa.vstion Oh.
Keep your fence boards ana posit
under shelter until you are ready to uae
hem. Theu draw them out and uee
hem at once.
Working animals should have work
tug sires and dams. Why should the
working quality degenerate for want OF
proper exercise of the latter?
The Massachusetts, fruit growers pro-
pose 10 petition for such legIslstlOn as
nall protect them against the depre "a
ions of juvenile trespassers.
New jersey farmers are said to be
,nortgaging their farms at per cenI
md loanlng the money on Western farm
mortgages at IL per cent.
1t is claimed by some that with an
average crop, The slower pays for grow
ny corn in New England. But the
tower must be properly cared for.
What is the diff renee between duck
vIth one wing and duck with twU
Only the difference plnion. We wan'
every one TO pass an opinion on DIR.
BulI's Cough Syrup. II needs but one
GiIal.
Keep your word with the boys. II
you give tnen SIOUX, Iet your "OIu Uo
A. good as deed. Don't afCerward sell
It aud pocket the money yourrelf.
A member OF the Frsnkiin, Mass,
Farmers Cub once tn, ught IL paid to
warm water for his COWS. He now gets
just as good results from well water Ut
40 degrees.
There is talk among the farmers or
New York State about having their tx
pertinent station abolished. II they do,
It will not be the pnly foolish thing thai
farmers have done.
Broken down horses are not as COM
mon III England rs in America, and yet
e glish horses do more work than
American. How is thlsS Tney have
better roads.
"a stitch in time caves nine, and II
you take Ii, oi's SarsaparllIa now II
may save months Of future sickness.
1t you want your apple orchard to do
better, give II little encouragement BY
supplying 1t with plant food and clean
iug u up so that IL will be fl tO associate
" it'll respectable orchards.
Prof Henry thinks the coming silo
will be cylindrical. instead Of square OF
OblOng, and be coated inside win non
cOrruslve paiol. The oil tank, We sup
pose, will serve as model.
According to the Connecticut Fdrmer