The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-01-16
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

1t is said that vegetables put into a
barrel or box and covered with earth
keep crisp and nice.
1t is a good feeder who is able to
judge OF the quality and feeding value
OF foods at his command
Machinery that's nsheltered ia kes care
of itself. just as agriculture has always
been supposed to do.
Most of the work on The farm can be
done by mares which rear colts each year
This can be made no small source OF
profit,
Well fed pigs don't root much. As
some one says, "You can't make pig
fat rapidly and work him at the same
time" True as the gospel.
The farm that has the poorest culture
Is the one that runs out first. The farm
that grows the latest crops is the one
that continues to grow fat.
You cannot make any radical change
IN the character of your soil, but you
can greatly improve it by cultivation
and the judicious use Of fertilizers.
According to the Milling World, our
Touring mills are superior to those in
Europe.
There are various kinds of economy.
One of the best is the saving of your
health and vital resources.
The feeding standards should be con.
sidered as guides and not as formulas to
be implicitly followed.
India is shipping maize to England.
She shipped 500, 900 bushels during the
week ending Dec. Z, 1889.
A railroad 1900 miles long is being
built by Russia through Siberia. It will
open $500 miles of river navigation.
There is no disputiDg the fact that
corn gives the most profitable returns
when converted into condensed animal
products.
Not many are aware of it, but a GOV.
cred barnyard ia paying institution
better than spreading manure on the
snow and ice.
To insure success. put your products
into market in superior condition, and
have them of little better quality than
others.
There does not appear to be anything
gained by narrowing the German ration,
thus making it stronger in heterogeneous
elements.
A woman living in the central part Of
New York state has a flower farm of
seventeen acres, from which she some
times clears $4,000 year.
Teach the boys to take apart and put
together farm machinery. They will
better understand how to run it when
they are old enough.
There is no better foundation for a
feeding ration than corn ensilage and
good clover hay. With this foundation
but little grain is required,
DIR. Theodore Clemens says he has
used iDhalatiOns of chloroform in all
cases of pneumonia for forty two years
and has not lost single case during that
time.
Insect Life says that the eggs of the
horn fly are not laid at night, as was
by Prof. Smith-an impor.
tant consideration in providing prevent.
tives.
A French chemist says that where the
soil is lacking in nitrogen the green of
the vegetation has a yellowish hue. A
starved vegetation certainly has pale,
sickly hue.
A correspondent Of the Rural Neiu
Yorker secured a good sod for the first
time in thirty years on square acre of
sandy soil by spreading twenty loads of
coal ashes on it, lightly manuring il
with barnyard manure, turning the
whole under and seeding to clover.
A Chicago stockyard man says he can
tell the condition of business BY the
action of the dogs that are around it,
When business is good they are treated
Kindly and appear happy; when it is
bad, everybody kicks them and they 90
noping around with downcast look.
The ex- mayor of Chicago, Carter Har-
rIson, who has made tour of Europe
and knows whereof he speaks, says
There ia no use talking, horse meat is
good, and the day is not far distant
when this fact will be generally recog-
lized and horse flesh will be for sale in
III our markets"
1t is the opinion OF the great Western
market gardner, ]. NJ. Smith OF Green
Bay, that the beet place for starting the
business OF market gardening is near
Iome growing town. There is too much
in large city. His market
g mainly the lumber and mining region |
" Lake Superior.
Potash is likely to be needed on most
I'D farms. When the timber was cleared |
If and the logs and brush burned, they
ii, lded an abundant supply Of potash.
This is exhausted or leachpd down be-
'ond the reach of most plants. Hence
he need Of new supply.
Every county at least should have
armer's club, and one in every town
would be better. We are glad to see
hat the formation OF farmers club. fol-
nws the institutes in the State of New
FORK. 1t shows an awakened interest
hat must result in practical good.
In using bisulphide for destroying in
ect life, it is found that when it IS dis
olved in vaseline that the bisuphids
iberstes itself progressively and then
aporizes, penetrating soils and woody
issues in the most remarkable manner
While the action OF the vapor is pro.
onged through many days.
ARMED TO THE TEETH
a very common expression, but we think that
rmed to embellish and preserve them to a ripe
Id age is decidedly more appropriate. This can
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