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


If you have a good COW ofany breed,
keep her. Good qualities are of more
consequence than breed.
Wood ashes are an excellent top
dressing for fruit trees Of all kinds. 1t
is also equally good for the small fruits,
If you have but small farm, put
your energies and cash into that and
make it produce as much as most large
farms.
An underground stable is not
healthful place in which to keep stock.
The air in it is liable to be damp foul
and funky.
If poultry houses were plaStered, the
hens would be warm in winter and the
work of cleaning out the lice in summer
made easier.
The Egyptian women knew better
how to churn centuries ago than we did
forty years ago, for they knew that the
temperature must be right.
Some dairymen ought to do little
more thinking and figuring. Too many
of them are satisfied with cow that
makes $50 pounds of butter year.
Butter kept but short time. in cold
warmer temperature. Keep your milk,
cream and butter away from severe cold
and frost.
Our most available wild lands are
already taken up. We can extend our
farming area but little more. The prob
lem of higher agriculture will soon be
rorced upon us.
Agriculture has not shared as it
ought in the rapid growth of the coun-
try's wealth. The fou dation of that
wealth, it has not kept pace as it should
with associate industries.
The arb-hydrates, or carbonaceous
elements in feed, being much cheaper
than proteine, if they can be used eff
fectively in much larger proportion than
the German standards admit and with
no i'll effect except the increase of fat, it
is worth while to know it, The change
will greatly reduce the cost of feeding.
For Over Fifty Years.
AN OLD AND WELI-TRIED REMEDY Mrs. Wins
lows Soothing Syrup has been used for over
FIFTY YEARS by ILioEs Of MOTHERS for their
CESS. 1t SOoTHEs the CHILD, SOFTENs the GUNS,
ALLAYs all PAIN: CURE WIND Collie. and Is the
best remedy for DIARRHoEA. Sold by Druggists
In every part of the world. Sc sure and ask for
Mas. WINsLOw's SOOTHING SYRUP, and take no
other kind. Twenty-Five cents a bottle. 17y1
"A wire, twisted tightly around a
blooming branch, will increase the size
of its fruit but it will be apt to kill the
branch. The best way to accomplish the
result of increasing fruitfulness is by
cutting out ring of bark one-quarter of
an inch wide in June or early July. This
win heal over and not seriously injure
the branch.
The deposit under old farm buildings
e gta hag oil lao al
ments of fertility, but is over rich in
nitrates, and needs to have plain phos-
plate used along with it, to get the best
results. Fine bone is the best for this
purpose. A little ashes helps. So i'm
proved, it will go over twice the land,
with twice as much benefit.
What may seem merely dry earth
with no smell of manure about it, is
really richer and better than the rankest
manure made from fresh excrement 1t
is not safe to Judge of manure by its
smell A little piece of decaying horse
flesh in commercial phosphate will 90 a
great way in satisfying many farmers as
to its fertilizing value, but don't fool
yourself that way.
-"How strange it is that dairymen
will put so much stress on the waste of
fat in the cheese vat, which no eye can
see-and quacks go TO the extreme of
advising the Swimming off of all fat
above a certain per cent!-and then put
the screws down on the curd in the
hoops when it is put to press, and see
the fat run off in streams" says Brother
Curtis of the Mirror d Farmer.
-"Who ever heard of the farmer that
made a millionaire of himself by farm
ing? Yet his is the primary occupation
of man, which can never be dispensed
with, and on which the usefulness Of all
other occupations rests. Then why
should not the farmer become the mil
lionaire, if men engaged in any honest
occupation ever become such?' asks
Brother Curtis. Sure enough!
Scratching keeps the blood in circu-
lation, and increases the heat of the
body, not only protecting against cold,
but it also assists in warding off disease,
promoting digestion, and allowing of a
more profitable condition, and induces
laying as well as giving the hens an ap.
petite for any kind of food that you may
wish to give them. Therefore give them
grain among their straw, and let them
scratch.
"A correspondent OF the Mirror a
Farmer says: ~ do not know why it is
that dehorning takes the ugly out Of 9
bull Mine made me think of Samson
after Delilah sheared of his seven locks;
since then no animal could be more
quiet. He runs in the yard every day
and seems like lamb. In caring fol-
cattle there would not be half so many
accidents as there are now if all were de
horned.