The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-15
NEWS AND NOTES.

Remember that even hog cannot
be injured by injured by cleanliness.
When you talk to a man about his
sins, don't stand over him with club.
Keep better stock and keep it better,
is the "stock" theme now. Not bad
one.
Few men have the knack to handle
more than hundred fowls and care for
them properly.
Mankind will be most prosperous
and happy as each individual applies
himself to that for which he is best
fitted.
1t has been said that what the short
horn Is to cattle, the Dorking is to poul
try. 1t is essentially the meat-produc-
ing fowl,
-'Breed goes in at the mouth" for to
feed, as the principal factor, must the
major part of all stock improvement be
ascribed,
AS rule, a setting hen is nearly al
WAYS fat, and to prevent her from setting
simply keep her in condition unit for
laying.
The greater part of injuries received
from bulls are done by the so-called gen.
tie kind; just as it is that the gun not
loaded is the one that kills.
The New oleomargarine law has had
an amendment made to it that prohibits
any family furnishing their domestic
oleomargarine for cooking or eating pur-
| poses.
The draft of farm machine is in
creased by allowing the parts that work
upon each other to rust? The man who
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horses as well as his machines.
Don't imagine a ten-acre pasture
will support innumerable cattle. The
result of overstocking pastures is death
to the pastures and starvation to the
COWS, and those are dead losses to you.
Although the Merine wool will not
supply the place of coarser materials for
the manufacture of some fabrics, yet it
will come nearer than any other one
grade in supplying the wants of man.
Mr.. Thayer of Wisconsin who grows
berries commercially, said: 1.-THE secret
of laying down blackberry or raspberry
plantation is to bend below the dirt line
and not above. You must do the bend
ing in the root"
The best way to salt horses is to have
little compartment in one corner of the
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salt. Neither cattle nor sheep, and not
even hogs, will eat too much salt if it is
kept always within their reach.
Some bright road improvement fell
low went into print with the urgent adj
vice to get che roads photographed
while they were bad and show them to
farmers after they become good, so
they will not forget. Merry good idea,
that.
The farmer should realize that farm
ing has not yet reached perfection; that
improvements are possible in thousand
things; and his constant study and care
full observation should be to discover the
better plan, says the american Home
stead.
The needs which pigs have for salt
and ashes are well known, but not gen.
orally practiced. While pigs are roam
ing in the fields and woods they do not
need the ashes, but when confined to
their winter quarters, and fed concentrat-
ed food, a weekly supply of wood
ashes will be of inestimable value to
them.
1t has always been the fate of the
Democratic party to lag about genera
ton behind the march of hnman prog
ress. The Free Trade doctrines which
it is now endorsing with such formality
and emphasis are relic of the Southern
Confederacy and have been repudiated
by even the Tories of Great Britain, who
ordinarily are about the last persons to
acknowledge that the world moves.
Henry WaJUerson has picturesque
way of putting things-or at least did
have it, before the convention. He an
nounced to Kentucky and the country
apropos of his publicly expressed opinion
that for the Democratic party to nOmi-
nate Grover Cleveland would be to walk
through slaughter-house into an open
grave-that he was not slave niger but
free niger" In an interview at Chi
cago he said: SIN 1854 we had a war can
didate on the peace platform, in 1868 a
hard-money candidate on soft-money
platform, in 1872 Republican on a
Democratic platform, and in 1880 Pro-
tectionists on Free Trade platform. In
each instance disaster followed" This
was a faithful picture, and that Of 1892
will make a companion one to chang on