The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-17

Look well TO the mouths of all you
drains and see that thew are free.

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Remember that different soils re-
luire different fertilizers, and want no
others. eHa
Slow and sure will win, If you are in
5he right track and keep straight ahead.
Will varieties of buckwheat cross
md mix? is one of the questions of the
lay.
Brains as well as farms are capable |
Of cultivation. Never lose sight of this |
fact,
Give your cellar thorough clean
ing out and airing as soon as the weather
will permit. % F4.
Use your tools as they were designed
to be used. A cat drawn by the tail
scratches like blazes.
When your soil needs potash only,
what is the use of putting on other fer
tilizing Ingredients
"A soil may be overfed and troubled
with indigestion as well as the animal
system, but it is oftener starved.
There is nothing gained by crowding
crops. Numbers of plants do not COM
pensate for the loss of size and quality.
1t is a poor farm that cannot be
made to grow enough to keep the family
from starvation and afford them shell
ter.
Try to find out the best way of do
ing everything that you undertake, and
be sure that you do not do it the wrong
way. E8 q ~ Is
Sec that the food of your calves is
given to them at the temperature of 81 to
iOOo, if you do not want them to get sick.
is there any good reason why the
swill barrel should be the nastiest thing
about the house? 1t should be kept
clean and sweet.
The agricultural depression com
planned of !extends to all countries but
france. Would it, not pay to study
French agricultural .a#t 8
Elasticity in the horse shoe is great
desideratum. 1t ought to adjust itself
to the foot instead of the foot adjusting
itself to the shoe. .......
1t is not fancy but real stock that the
farmer wants for business. There is not
much that is fancy about farming.
Everythingis real-very.
Catherine Lewis tainted one night in
"Olivette,'i but it didn't cause a ripple
in the play. Twas only a cough, and
they had bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup on hand, of course.
AS soon as the frost is out of the
ground put in your onion seed. The
onion thrives better in early spring be-
fore the hot, dry weather comes on. ~
BY being careful to not let young
calves gorge themselves, you will seldom
be troubled by their having the scours,
if their food is all right.
The portable creamery-no matter
whose make-appears to be yearly grow
ing more popular 1t is a great conven-
fence to the private dairyman,
DR.. C. A. Robinson of Indiana says
the only good pig-eating. SOW he ever
saw was dead one. The fact that she
was dead was the best part of 1t.
With the nineteenth century dawned
the era of wonders. 1t has also proven
an area of surprises-for notwithstand-
ing its giant strides toward unusual
knowledge, we are told that there are
still in seauestered places few citizens
who haven't heard of Salvation Oil.
'The man who looks on can see as far
into the milestone as the one who pecks
it." The principle involved is as appli-
cable to farming as to pecking millstones'
1t is now determined that the Eng
lish sparrow does not need perch to
lipht on before he can enter hole. He
cannot be so easily evaded as it was sup
posed.
The stable can be kept sweet by
sprinkling the floor once week with
solution of copperas, at the rate 81 one
pound of copperas to two gallons OF soit
water.
Pain and dread attend the use of
most catarrh remedies. Liquids and
snuffs are unpleasant as well as danger
Gus. Ely's Cream Balm is safe, pleasant,
easily applied into the nostrils and a
sure cure. 1t cleanses the nasal passage
and heals the inflamed membrane, giving
relief at once. Price SOC.
"A combination of Paris green and
the Bordeaux mixture is recommended
as not only destroyer of the potato bee
tie but of the fungus that causes the po-
tatO rot.
AS the horses hoof is always grow
ing, resetting of the shoe as often as
once month is favorable to healthy
condition of the feet and the comfort OF
the horse.
1t is said that number of New Eng
land farmers are contemplating the
breeding of AngOra goats. They are bet
ter than sheep at defending themselves
against dogs.
The most obstinate cases of catarrl
are cured by the use of Ely's Cream
Balm, the only agreeable remedy. 1t is
not LIQUID or snuff, is easily applied in
to the nOstrils. For cold in the head it is
magical. 1t gives relief at once. Price
80 cents.
Never give up that you cannot farm
it as well as your neighbor, but buckle
on your armOr, post yourself thoroughly
on the later developments, and turn IL
and beat him.
A general knowledge of the origina
compositionUf the soil and of the char
acter of the crops grown on it will give
some clue to its needs by indicating
what has been removed.
No man is responsible for his lack
of knowledge of what he never had al
opportunity to learn. But the farmer
and all others are responsible for neg
lecting their opportunities to learn.
Some one thinks our farmers ought
to be happy and thriving when thirty
two pounds of sound oats will buy two
pounds of oatmeal Surely, the farmer
pays a big profit on what he buys back
Robert G. Blaine, brother of james
G., has been appointed superintendent o
quarantine stations under the bureau o.
animal industry. He was formerly GU
rator of the agricultural department
1t is the opinion of good judges tina
corn silage, though good Of itself, is no
a complete substitute for roots, and tina
it still pays, under favorable circum
stances, to raise roots for stock in win
ter.
An English fertilizer firm has jus
received nineteen tons, or S1SO,OOO EN-
balmed cats, for which it paid SIT 30
ton in Egypt. If it proves paying in
vestment, It is said that future supple
are large.
The injury of the hoofs of animals I,
pastures is generally over-estimated