The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-01-30
WISE AND OTHERMIsE.


The fast-walking horse is evidently
the coming one for general use.
Cornmeal and bran together are more
valuable as feed than either alone.
We are dependent on foreign countries
for $50, 100000 pounds of wool annually.
Prof. w. w. Cook thinks there is lit.
tie difference in the feeding value of
roots and ensilage.
New York is the greatest fruit produc-
ing state in the Union, and Michigan
takes second rank.
The horse, the COW, and all other ami
mails need dry bed. Do not let them
lie in wet one.
1t is said that grangers were never
more active nor their numbers increas-
ing more rapidly than at present.
Summer following is played out. 1t
helps leach away the nitrogen and burn
up the humus in the hot sun.
The State Board of Agriculture will
hold institute meetings at Royalton, VT,
on the 21st and 22nd inst.
Pears Soap is the most elegant toilet
adjunct.
most profitable. There is little or no
profit in a 1900 pound three-year-oId
steer.
The Sanitary Era says the coffee
taken into the human system lessons
waste of tissue, and thus indirectly acts
as food.
What class of men have more done
gratuitously for them than the farmers?
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Mr.. A. w Cheever OF the ~ E. Farm
er thinks there is good deal of "sharp
practice" in arranging committees at
fairs,
Deposits of phosphate rock, very rich
in acid, are reported as having been dis.
covered in Marion and Citrus counties,
Florida.
When you have little leisure. pre-
pare plan for your garden next spring.
Many other plans should be perfected
for future operations.
Prof. johnson thinks that the popular
notion that the steer that shrinks least
in dressing is the most profitable will
have to be somewhat modified.
Sick headache is readily cured by
Hoods Sarsaparilla, which tones and
regulates the digestion, and creates an
appetite.
DO not keep your land too long under
the pillow, but do your beat to keep some
kind of crop growing on it all the time
durinp the summa saaaOn
A correspondent thinks that If the
farmers of New England raised more
grain and bought less they would have
less occasion to complain of hard times.
Every family, in the washwater from
the house and the refuse from the
kitchen, throws away enough fertilizing
material to thoroughly enrich family
garden.
Avoid the doctors bill before it is too
late, by keeping convenient Salvation
Oil, which is the greatest pain destroyer
extant. Price 20 cents.
Do not forger that fresh air and sun
shine are wonderfully invigorating 10
man aud beast, and the preventive if not
the cure of many diseases. But beware
of drafts.
Drain your muckbeds and grow on
them corn, potatoes, celery, cabbage,
onions. hay, ETC., instead of trying to
cart it out and spread it all over your
farm.
1t is the right of every one to grumble
when dissatisfied with his condition,
and it is manly to go to work to better
t, at which he will be pretty sure to
make some progress.
Every dairy farm ought to produce all
the grain fed on it and grow more pro-
Guctive all the time. The help to care
for the cows can do the necessary work
to grow the grain.
Reyeries of bachelors used to contain
an alloy of painful anticipation, on &C.
count of sleepless nights with the pros
pective baby, but DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup has made all that part Joy for
ever.
No two animals want the same food
IN the same proportion, nor in the same
quantity. any more than two men do.
Individuality must be studied by the
successful feeder.
| The fence for shelter and east wind
for food do not make very fat stock /;
but animals crowding around straw
stack on cold stormy day, do not fare
much better than this.
During the last year the exports OF
cattle from the United Sites have aver
aged 900 head per day. and each ami
nal carried away certain portion Of
the soil.
II you expect to get the benefit of the
market you must furnish it the thing
wanted at current quotations. AS you
caLnot change the circumstances, you
must adjust yourself to them.
Do not be shifting from one kind of
stock to another, but make up your
mind what you want and stick to it.
Constantly changing from one thing tn
another never yet brought satisfactory
results,
Too many people run with the crowd.
Our young men are running after the
pot of money buried at the end of the
rainbow in the West when it lies in the
soil of New England among it's hills and
valleys.
Look after the little things. A nail
driven here and there in half a minute
may save hours of labor in the future.
1t pays to keep up little repairs instead
Of waiting until you are forced to make
big ones.