The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-03
WISE AND OTHERWISE.


Cotton has brought the South S.
900, 900 since the war.
There is no profit in poorly-kept
stock; neither is there much in poor
stock well kept.
1t is admitted by most farmers that
wheat yields the most -four to the bushel
when cut in the dough.
Not only does industry lay the foun-
dation of wealth, ease and comfort, but
it makes victuals taste good.
The principal cheese-producing sec
tions of the United States are in New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wiscon-
sin.
What does an inch of rain fall meanp
1t is simply this: A gallon for every two
square feet, or one hundred tons per
acre.
Care and fertilizers make the farm,
and care and feed make the stock. In
each case the one is dependent upon the
other.
The farmer is apt to overestimate
physical labor and underestimate mental
labor. The hand should wait on the
brain.
Time is so valuable and precious
that but one second is given us at time
and this is invariably taken away before
another is given.
-Plutocracy has enslaved wage labor.
1t proposes to enslave, and will enslave
our independent farm labor, unless our
farmers are aroused.
"Blood" amounts to nothing when left
to go alone. The young man who would
succeed with stock has first to learn how
to take care of what he has.
You may read all the books and pa
pers published on the subject, and fail
ure will surely follow if you attempt to
keep fowls by the hundreds without ex-
perience.
The successful poultry men of to-day
are those who made small beginning.
There are things to be learned that must
be learned by experience, and in no 9th
er way.
The farmer should raise horse
that, while being fitted for market, can
pay his way by doing the work on the
farm, going to market and taking the
family to church.
The wide difference in food and the
wider variations in cows, the latter be-
ing much greater than is commonly i'm
agined, must be constantly considered in
the dairy.
Recent experiments seem to demon
state the fact that the large breeds Of
fowls consume 6ne-third more food and
give only about two-thirds as many eggs
as the lighter kinds.
"A good milk cOlors red litmus-paper
weak blue, and blue weak red. A
strong red coloring of litmus-paper shows
sour milk, and such milk should moi
be mixed with that which is normal.
Cash is powerful, as Truth is
mighty" and will prevail. Credit, il
abused, means debt, and debt means
slavery in large majority of cases. We
want education, cooperation and cash
basis.
There has not been year for TWEEN
ty years when collections have not been
taken up or State governments impor
tuned to aid farmers who could not make
living on the lands which they had
given them free.
The greatest profit per COW is mostly
made in small diaries. Some large dair
les report nearly as large averages Of
milk and butter as the best small ones
but we believe the net profit per cow is
never so large.
The capacity to produce is developed
in COW by care and feed. With these
neglected she cannot produce. So one
cannot have good COW without strict
and intelligent attention on the part Of
him who handles her.
Some of us are anxious to do a big
business, TO ''spread" ourselves, and We
are apt to think our capacity is equal Ia
our desire. Many of us make the big
mistake of undertaking more than we
can carry through successfully.
Good feeding is the best prevent
| i've of lice on the farm stock, says an
exchange. These never attack animals
that have plenty of fat, the oil exuding
from the skin destroying the vermin by
filling their breathing apparatus and
thus suffocating them.
chambers may be transmitted from
onehorse to another by incubation, as
would occur if sound horse on whose
nose there was an abrasion rubbed the
sore place against an object on which a
glandered horse had deposited some OF
the CHAMBERS discharge.
Il would like to know If, in giving
weight of dressed hogs, the rough lard
is weighed and counted in the same as
the rough tallow in dressed beef is al.
lowed? II in one case, why not in the
other? Some, to make big pigs, weigh
the heart, liver and lungs.
The worst cases of scrofula, salt rheum
and other diseases of the blood are cured
by Hoods Sarsaparill.
One good thing that the German
kaiser will notice on his arrival in Lon.
don July 4th will be the, celebration of
that day by the American colony. They
will use the stars and stripes, and not
baccarat layouts.
IS. E. Swenzen, an old Texan now
living in New York, has given to the
| University of Texas his collection OF
coins, medals, relics of the stone age in
Sweden, etc. Gov. Hogg estimates the
money value of the gift at not less than
$500 900.
While young man of st. Joseph,
Mo-, was giving his best girl valedic.
tory kiss at the front door the other
night, Policeman Martin banged away al
him with his revolver. The officers ex-
PLANTATION is that he didn't see the girl
and mistook the young man for bur
glar
had severe attacks Of kidney disease.
Ny stomach also troubled me very much.
/ was prevailed upon to try DR.. David
Kennedy's Fayorite Remedy. After
using five or six bottles was cured.
consider it an invaluable remedy fol-
Kidney Disease, Stomach Trouble and
all diseases of the blood.-JOhn Wander.
slice, No. Gregory St., Rochester, N. Y.
"A grain of pure musk win scent a
room for twenty years and at the end OF
that time will not show it has dimin.
ished in the least. A grain of carmine
or half grain of aniline win tinge a
hogshead OF water so strong that mi.
croscope will detect coloring matter in
every drop. as
1t is a mistake TO suppose the
weather is colder the farther north one
goes. The northern pole Of
greatest cold is only about 30C
miles northeast Of Yakutsk, Siberia,
where the mean annual temperature is a
little lower than in the highest ATTITUDES
reached by Mares AID Greedy, 1000 miles
farther north.
had stone in the Bladder