The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-03-20
WISE AND OTHERWISE.


Work well planned is half done.
Keep the weeds away from the young
trees.
Prune trees early for growth and late
for fruit.
India puts so, 1000 900 bushels Of wheat
on the English market annually.
There is nothing better for the gar
den than hen manure properly saved.
A machine for spraying potatoes in
Tested by bugs is run by horse.
Give your fruit trees good soil. They
cannot feed and thrive on nothing.
Dig no trenches around YOUR trees, il
you do not want to shorten the roots Of
them.
Prune little at a time and avoid the
necessity for heavy pruning in the near
future,
Do you shortening back among your
young trees before the buds begin to
start.
Anything which gives the farmer q
higher opinion o. his calling is an aid to
him,
A man in Iowa is said to be breeding
hogs with solid feet instead Of the cleft
hoof.
Be an honor to your occupation and
not expect your occupation to confer
honors upon you.
A good deal is said about making the
boys interested in farm life; but how
about the glrls
Weeds and grass growing around the
young trees are an invitation for mice
to infest the soil there.
There appears to be no one potato,
that is better than all others, or tina
yields best every year.
"Tankage" is composed Of the bones
and intestInes OF animals dried and then
ground to powder.
Think how much nicer vegetables and
fruits are when gathered from your own
garden.
Set out well.tried varieties that thrive
in your section, but do not try too many
varieties of fruit.
The test mony is universal that it pays
every family that owns a garden t,
raise its own small fruits.
See that the cattle do not get at the
y Jung trees that browse and injure #
tdey do net destroy them.
Alfalfa. when once started, will grow
we'll anywhere that red clover will
hrlve, II demands rich soil.
A small tree well supplied th lit e
roots ia much better to set out than
larger tree with fewer roots.
The Suez canal shortens the time of
transportation between India and Eug-
land from eight months to one.
Professor Sanborn says that on an av
erage the crops of New Hampshire art
in the very front ranks in yield.
Housekeepers must learn to tax care
of themselves and see that they bav.
fresh air and recreation in due amount
In testing seeds, the smaller seed.
that sre perfect germinate first. but are
afferward slower in development than
he larger ones.
Wheat is now carried for half a cent
a ton per mile on land, and from half y
cent to three cents a bushel on the
ocean.
1mportations from France and Ger
many have ruined the willow-growinp
and basket making business in thi,
country.
1t is better to have the ground cult
waited in orchards, but care should b,
taken not to injure the bodies or roots o.
the trees.
Keep the stem of the tree smooth and
free from rough bark and suckers. Let
only that grow which is needed for flu
ture use.
In setting tree, make an opening
broad enough to receive all the roots
without bending, and see that they all
lie straight.
What should he The proportion Of nu-
triment TO bulk? This 10 an important
question in cattle feeding, which no one
has attempted to answer.
OF our increased wealth from 1870 to
1880, over four fifrhs of il was in III,
citieS, Notwithstanding nearly one-half
of the population is in the country.
Plaster spread thickly over the manure
heap excludes the ir, prevents the ga
cape of gasaes and aids in the decompn-
4ition Of the manure by the retention OF
moisture.
Pears is the purert and best Soap
A great deal of confusion about stir.
ring cream has been produced by tn.
ak about not stirring it without px
planning the conditions under which il
should not be stirred, and doubtless in
jury has been the result. When cream
10 put In o II non-conducting vat, after
being heated TO 70 degrees and charged
with ferment, it does not want to bp
stirred. To stir it would injure 1t. Un
less 50 placed and in all ordinary cases
it should be stirred. as has always been
the common practice.
There is no one calling which Of itself
gives 20 good chance for acquiring
useful knowledge as the farm. The far
mer at every step comes face to face
with the secrets Of nature, aud has the
opportunity to acquire know edge from
the fountain head.
In testing seeds from different sources
the weight as well as the age of the seed
should be taken into consideration. az
The same weight Of small seeds might
show a greater number of terminating
>nes. though inferior in vigor, than
would the larger ones, which would be |
The more valuable.
When Baby was sick, we gave her castoria,
When she was q Child she cried for Castoria,