The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-08-28
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

he was a student. He was not misfit.
The majority of farmers will find
surer gain in growing draft horses, as
this requires less special knowledge and
fitness for the work.
"A raise of one mill in tax may save
the waste of two mills lost in the improp-
er maintenance of roads through an in
adequate tax.
AS a general rule the matted row sys-
tenn of raising strawberries is to be pre-
ferred. The hill system has some advan-
tages, especially for some varieties and
where labor is plenty.
Much of the waste of stable manure
is due to the fact that it is hard to aban-
don methods practiced from time i'm
memorial, but the young farmers should
learn better way.
The fences around horse pastures
should be of the best kinds. Poor fences
make breechy horses. Idle horses find
all the weak points. A days work may
prevent trouble in the future.
The great majority must be genera
farmers, but still to be successful must
devote their main attention to one branch
of farming, or at most two, running the
other departments as side issues.
Eggs, considering the nutriment they
contain, compared with beef, are at least
four times cheaper. To cook pound of
pork requires considerable fuel and time.
To cook a pound of eggs, little of either.
The saying that we do not want but
ter to keep is all nonsense. Every one
who buys butter needs must keep it a
greater or less length of time, and the
dryer and more compact the product,
the better will it keep.
The sym pathies of The Farmers Re
rietc are with the dog destroying shep-
herd every time. Sheep-raisers in a
western state have formed an ''extermin-
alton society,"" to kill every cur found on
the premises of any member.
Habit is strong with horse as well
as with a man. The driver that is al
lowed to "slop" along any way, half
asleep, and stumbling every now and
then, is apt to become constitutional
sluggard, with no style or get-up about
him.
An exchange says: 1T is estimated
that the wool crop of 1891 will be 3OO,-
100000 pounds. That ought to cloth
6O,OOO,OOO people very comfortably"
Does our contemporary think five pounds
per head enough? 1t is scarcely half
enough.
The seed of red clover is almost
wholly dependent upon the humble-bees
for cross fertilization; hence little or no
seed forms upon the first crop, but upon
the second, as this insect does not be-
come populous until the first crop is har-
vested.
-Dairymen able to bear their goods
in an attractive manner will find custom
ers in even small villages, where Others
cannot make sales. The appearance
pleases, and when the quality is found
as good as the looks, the market becomes
permanent.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
press often admonishes whom it may
concern that it does no good to whip OF
pound balky horse, almost every owner
or driver of one does it to-day. 1t is
probably the greatest piece of horse folly
in existance.
THE battle of life is brief" Lose
no time then to fight catarrh with Old
Saurs Catarrh Cure.
Frank makes no difference" We all
have our ills to BEAR The king has the
same need of Old Saurs Pile Ointment
to cure his piles, as the peasant. At all
dealers. Price % cents.
1t seems to be a general idea that
honey bees will fly nearly mile a min
ute. Those who have watched loaded
bees coming to the apiary near sunset
have a different opinion. A heavily
loaded bee when the sun is low may bt
seen distance of twenty rods. 1t will
require from nine to twelve seconds fol
it to go that distance.
DO not discard an old SOW because
she becomes ungainly in appearance, re
placing her by the neat, fancy young one
The latter may be bad failure; if no
she soon looses her attractive form unde
the strain of maternity. A valuabl,
brood SOW should only be fattened whel
the owner feels that he can replace he
with better blood.
-"With all the advantages that can b.
readily secured to the producer by com
binations, such as Fruit Growers Uniol
and Fruit exchanges, it is only to b.
wondered at why not more of them ar
established, or if they once have become
established, why they so often do not re
main longer in successful operation,
says Popular Gardening.
we find the folio wing pointed rebuk
to amateur farmers in the Tribune: II
you expect to learn to manage an I'LL
known farm to profit by questions pu
to a newspaper you cannot be too earl
undeceived. Do not think that the farm
.ers among whom you may find yoursel
are all wandering in the dark, and b
careful about beginning any new syi
tenn"
''Why, now | cannot get enough t
eat" says one lady who formerly had n
annetite Int took Hoods Sarsaparills