The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-02-27
WISE AND oTHERM IsE.


into and easy to get out OF.
1t is a poor practice to let cattle help
themselves at the haystack.
Good wives. like good stock, need good
care. Give them all the cOnvenlences
How is thsP-$25 year for tobacco
AMI cant dfforu 81 so for the home
paper.
Nothing on the farm pays better than
a good garden. Paste this on your shirt
bUsOm.
Put your pear orchard on high ground
and II Will not be as likely to be troubled
with the scab.
SKINNED milk is good for calves, bul
1t needs little OIL meal and oat meal
mixed with 1t.
1, costs the price of bushel of corn
in Nebraska to get 1t carried by rail TO
Chicago.
A good garden Is true economy. 1t
furnishes fresh fruits and vegetables and
promotes health.
Even toorhless people can eat nuts if
they will crush the meats fine, which
heIghtens the flavor.
There is not only quicker money but
more of it IN hogs than in beef-the hogs
mature 80 much sooner.
Most soils need nitrogen, potash, and
phusphOrlc acid, and not few need all
three of these ingredients.
All corn is no better for growing beef
than il is for growing pork or mutton.
More albuminolds are wanted.
A coat OF lime wash, any color desired,
applied to roof once every five years
Will make shingles last life time.
Russia is said to be contemplating
bridge across Behring Stral =, from ls
land to island, a distance OF 6O miles.
Ballots were given for protection and
defense. Hence there may be close re-
lationsbIp between the ballot and the
beef.
The mulberry is not a profitable crop
t grow Tor the market, but one or more
trees are good tor home use.
The Sturrs Agricultural School had so
,cholars III ito 1889 senior class. Dairy
ng Is included among the studies at the
college.
Sugar drying on the pan and washing
IF gives to the product an "evaporatOr
taste"
| Don't overload the stomachs OF young
,n,mals, but give them such food a4 Will
tfford the required amount of nourish-
ment.
"Try all things and hold fast thai
which is good" This is specially appl-
cable to the seeds which you propose to
plant or sow.
To each gallon of water add pound
t blue vitrol. Soak your seed wheat
five 10 ten minutes in the fluid and Il
will destroy all smut.
Do not imagine that other classes are
Enng to look after your farm interests.
Each class has as much as 1t can do IT,
.nok after its own.
Most vegetables can be improved by
care IN selecting only the best specmen'
for seed, and growing them under favor
,ble conditions.
Whether you feed two or three times
I day. give your animals all they wait
when you do feed. Less than that Is d
| "OrI OF SLOW stdTVt tlC II.
Wheat growing IN France is still in
creasiDg year nv year. Since 1879 It has
'rnwn from 4.000,0 900 hectares to about
7 900, 900 III 1888.
Nearly every one thinks he could i'm
prove upon the weather though he may
not be able to properly cultivate COM
mon kitchen garden.
A sand-pump running in Boise city
Idaho, brought up miniature idol from
he depth nt 420 feet. 1t is thought u
,n'edate all history.
The law ia that man shall earn his
'read by the sweat of his brow The
modern pruviso Is, il he can't, by the
'weat OF somebody ese's brow.
l have used Salvation Oil in our
abler and heartily recommend II. l
,oes wonderful work with horses witt
'uts, b. ulses, spralns. strains, sores. etc
B Craig, 1anager Bradl-y's KeyStont
Stables, Wilson St., Baltimore, Nd.
There are 10000 known species o
fl ~ belonging to the house, the barn
ne field and the wood. OF these the
nusp fly IS the most numerous.
Judgment must be used in applying
erlIllzrrs as in every other operation or
ne farm. The better informed thu
IN nd the better the judgment.
/ The Presidents coat pocket protrudeC
] much at the recent Florida fishing
! .ome one asked the reason why. al
i mly bottle Of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
he handsome gentleman explained; {"
| never travel a mile without it,"
j Teaching the elements of agrcultur
n the common schools does not mea
4 hat all the schoUlmarms shall go Ou
a d work in the corn and potato field
A fair yield per acre is fifty bushels G
shplled corn. This takes from the acr
= "a pounds Of nitrogen. n of potash an
:, 80 pounds of phosphoric acid.
II Napoleon is credited with being tn
father of the sugar industry; but th
eets cultivated now are five times I
u lch in sugar as those grown in his daN
8 While farmers should not negleC
W their farms, they should not neglect
Eeep themselves pOsted in regard
,uhic affairs, that they may vote vi
i derstandipgly.
di A horseman is quoted as saying that
o. pony is the child of hard-hiD-a stuntt
morse. II 80, under generous treatmen
- NJ ought in a few generations cease
Ii be pony.
"Notbing ia created, nothing is d
struypd. but all is changed" But thing
. iuwever, sometimes get terribly out
III vlaee-as fertiIIzlng material where lt
n not needed.
n Feeding rich foods makes rich manu-
heaps. II il were not for this it wou
not pay to feed many foods at prese
prices. Moral: Save all the fertIizi
Elements Of your stable manure.
Perhaps the farmer has sold less a
y got lower prices because OF the op
a. winter; but he has had his compeD,
n ION in not having to buy 80 much. n
~ 10 the consumption Of less food by
Sv s,s, stock.
-. There is danger in impure blot
I-H. @ There Is safety in taking Hunds Sarsal
rilla, the great blood purifier. 100 do
. one dollar.
y Nearly every industry yields wa
material that Is now saved and render
av liable az a ferliil Ger for the soil. T
work of saving did not begin a min
100 soon for the future of our farm
interests.
a Beecham's Pills cure bilious and n
vous ills.
A Nashville druggist has novel v