The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-02-06
WISE AND OrHERMIsE..

gallons of petroleum.
The stock of broom corn in the country
is estimated at $500 tons.
The Orange County Farmer pro-
nouuces carp an abominstion.
The wheat crop of Austi ALA is esti
mated at $4,000, 900 bushels.
Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas corn is be-
ing ships d for Europe via Duluth.
The agricultural department at Wash.
ington wants new labratory at a cost
Of $350,000.
The Eng lish owners of Chicago eleva.
tors have been putting up the price Of
storage rates.
Southern Russia Is so far bare OF snow
and this fact is causing no little appre.
hens on about the wheat crop.
Do not ate mpt to grow too many va.
reties of fruit, but be content with those
that thrive best in your locality.
The cars which bring Minnesota pota.
Tres to Boston are said to be warmed by
OPAL stoves to keep the frost out.
HE jests at scars that never felt a
wound" and he can afford to Laugh at
the horrors of rheumatism, who never
mad a touch of its quality. But it seems
the time for universal laugh-since il
is known that Salvation OIL cures pains
Of all possible kinds.
Good roads cost money, but There ia
nothing for which money is expended
that brings a more satisfactory return,
In Michigan the peach buds are said to
be swelling rapidly. There is a good
chance for Jack Frost to nip them.
A bushel of pea beans is said to con-
tain 10000 in number, and twenty two
dollar bills will weigh as much as sill
yer dollar.
Why is wholesale beef so low and re-
tail beef so high? Are the modern meth
DDS of butcheriDg more expensive than
the old?
II the Goblin moth does not get
sprayed next summer, it will not b.
because all the newspapers have not ad
verified it.
Experiments made at Cornell Univer-
s,ty showed that horse manure lost oveI
AZ per cent of its value by exposure tc
the weather.
Corn dries slowly and the shrlnkage il
about one-tenth. They are using art Fl
ciaI dryers in Chicago TO fiji corn for de
livery 20 fill contracts.
Cultivate home markets for every
thing. Send nothing to the genera
market until you have satisfied all tn,
demands of those living near you.
The price at corn is lower than at an,
time since 1859. 1t is worth abou
twenty-nine cents bushel in Chicag
and thir;y-nine in New York
Corn and stalks fed together consti
tute better ration than either fed sep
arately. Nature knows better than mai
how to combine food constituents.
Don't say there is no hep for cstarrh
hay fever and cold in head. since thous
ands testify that Ely's Cream Balm ha
entirely cured them. 1t supersedes tn,
dangerous use of liquids and snuffs. l
is easily applied into the nostriis ant
gives relief at once. Price SOC.
Lay out your garden while you hav
leisure and arrange tn put everything II
rows as much as possible, so that tn
cultlvator will do the work.
Chicago's receipts of wheat anC
of Il lnr reduced to bushels in 1880. wer
1873, 90 1853 bushels, which is nearl,
! ,OOO,O 600 bushels more than her receipt
last year.
The Chicago board of trade has
membership of 1915 Seven member
ships were forfeited last year for non.
payment Of dues. A membership i
valued at 5000
A century of progress has not pro.
duced remedy equal 10 Ely's Cream
Balm for catarrh, cold in the head anG
hay fever, 1t is not liquid or a snuff
but is perfectly safe and easily apple d
into the nostrils. II gives immediate re-
lief and cures the worst cases.
Good cultivation means improving
the producliveness of the soil, not de.
pleting it. The farms that produce the
most are he ones that increase the most
in productiveness.
A sma lot of woodland will furnish
all the fuel for family by simply judi
clously cutting out such timber as will
never be any better but slowly die and
go to decay.
The jersey COW has increased in both
size and quantity of yield since intro e.
duced into this country. We have bet
ter cows in the United Stptes than can
be f. und on the isle of Jersey.
There is bill before congress pr, vid
ing for the payment of fifty cents bar
rel on -four exported from the United
States until the amount Of SEQ 900 600
is exported.
IF YOUR SKIN
is rough and pimply or covered with
bloch, and sores, and you want clean
smooth skin and fair complexion, use
Sulphur b tiers. The best medicine in
such cases ever sold.-C. E Scheffier
& Co, druggists, Lawrence, Mass.
Great stacks of corn are piled along
the railroad tracks IN northwestern
Kansas, it bring impossible to move it
heceuse lack of cars, every road being
short by 500 to 1000 cars.
Duluth, up to the LIST of January had
received 10000 900 bushels of wheat.
By the end of the trade year, it is esti
mated thai her receipts will reach 90
900 900 bushels.
Every farmer should have at least a
small and well-selected library, and take
some leading papers and magazines Of
the day. This is all the more Important
If he has children.
Prof Goessman has for years been
studying the scab on potatoes, but fails
to find the cause or remedy. Try salt
freely applied. II has been apparently
successful in some cases, at least.
DIR. Moore, in the Sanitary Era says
a barrel of kerosene oil, poured into a
hole ten feet deep, will contaminate the
water in every well within a quarter Of
a mile of it, 30 as to make it apparent to
the taste.
Keep writing materials handy, and
encourage letter writing by your child
rem. 1t will do them good and relieve
some of the tediousness of the farm IL
they will write short essays on the cur
rent topics Of the day.
When Baby was sick, we gave her castoria,
When she was n Child she cried for Castoria