The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-09-04
WISE AND OTHE RMIsn.

If you want to feel right, do right.
One trouble about unpleasant peo-
pie is that it generally seemS impossible
for them to get out of the way.
Don't allow burrs to ripen in the
horse pasture to make mats of the
names and tails of the horses and colts.
Sore teeth will sometimes make a
horse carry its tongue out of its mouth.
A harsh bit will do the same thing.
We buy COW that is a good average
one; we could buy tirst-class one for
$15 more What does it cost us to save
that SIS?
Did it ever occur to you, that farm
ers who grow paying crops in bad or
off year are in the minority rather than
in the majority?
ALI the large breeds have been form
ed under the influence of mild climate,
breeding from the best, ana a ''plenti-
full supply of food"
After diphtharia, scarlet fever, pneu-
monia, or any other severe illness, there
is no better tonic than Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla.
Eastern Oregon and Washington this
year report a yield of thirty million
bushels of wheat-a large increase in the
production of this crop.
If managed in a careless, slip-shod
manner, there is neither money nor
pleasure in gardening. But there is
none in any business carried on in this
manner.
Sell the horse you don't need if you
can get a reasonable price for him be-
fore winter. 1t does not pay to keep sur
plus horses unless they are growing into
money.
There is a vast amount of waste of
purpose simply because it is not given
enough force to secure its proper com
pletiOn. The reader can follow out this
idea to good advantage.
Money does not always make men
that is, the simple possession of it. The
best success is not in the bare accumula-
ton of money, but in its intelligent and
advantageous use.
The popular notion is that every
flower secretes nectar, whereas the num-
Der that really do secrete honey in sufi
cient quantity to be available for the
bees is comparatively few.
For crossing ON large Brahma or
Cochin hens there is nothing superior to
the Leghorn, and the pullets from such
a cross should be mated with Plymouth
Rock or WyandOtte males.
Nearly level ground is preferable for
an apiary. If it slopes gently to the
south or east, so much the better. 1t
should never be in such a location that
water will stand upon the ground.
Make it rule never to speak un-
kindly of the absent. Tell your friend,
when alone with him, his fault, if it can
be bettered. Never speak of it if it is
something that cannot be altered.
That is true agriculture where the
land becomes richer every year it is cul-
tivated, and the farmer grows at home
all that is needed to supply man and
beast engaged i'll cultivating its soil.
The best success is such as keepe
the home and the farm in good shape;
the stock in thrifty, healthy condition,
and furnishes the children the best ad-
vantages for school training and for so
ciety.
"A speaker at dairy institute, as re-
ported in the Farmers ReUielr, said that
the best results he ever got were from
the following ration: Fifty pounds en-
silage, ten pounds clover hay, five pounds
bran.
If you cannot have box stalls, at
least let your stalls be wide enough to
allow the horses to lie down comforta-
bly,. 1t is well enough to have the parti-
tions high enough TO prevent the horses
reaching each other.
For Over Fifty Years.
AN OLD AND WELL-TRIED REMEDY Mrs. Wins
lows Soothing Syrup has been used for over
fifty years by millions of mothers for their
children while teething, with perfect success.
1t sooths the child, softens the gums allays all
pain, cures wind collie, and is the best remedy
for DaIrhPa. Is pleasant to the taste. Sold
by Druggists in every part Of the world.
Twenty-Five cents bottle. Be sure and ask for
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and take no
other kind. 1Sy1
We need fast walking horses, and
the colt should be trained to this end !;
but we are usually in such hurry that
the colt is forced to trot, and soon be-
coming leg weary, it gets into a way of
walking very slow to rest.
Good butter speaks for itself and
Others speak for it. With all the com
petition of the times, there are plenty of
people in every town who are willing to
pay fair premium for excellence"
says HoarPs Dairyman.
Of all the flies that ever tortured
brutes, the one that tickles the hors e
under the chin is the most annoying
to the equine race. Don't think Of
working horse in the fly season with
out jaw cloth on his bride.