The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28
NEWS AND NOTES.

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or four applications of castor oil to ''the
long pendulous warts which frequently
grow in more or less numbers on cows
teats," causes them to entirely disap-
pear"
Where pastures are bare, clover seed
shoHld be put in as soen as the frost is
out of the ground and disced Or har-
rowed in. By discing and narrowing
well, clover seed may be made to catch
well in blue grass sod.
The advantages of we'll drained land
are becoming more apparent every year.
More tile is being placed in the ground
this spring than ever before. Tile fac
tories generally are unable to keep up
with their orders.
Now while it is true that horse buyers
desire to have their horses when offered
for sale in good condition, it is also true
that no horse buyer who understands his
business would handle horses fattened
expressly for sale.
Breeders often make the mistake in
selecting the bears and bulls Of insisting
on large bone and q heavy frame. In
nine cases out of ten, other things being
equal, the fine boned animal is the best
feeder and the most profitable killer.
Two or three years ago farmers aban-
doned hog breeding because it did not
pay. The result is seen in the markets
this winter Many are contemplating
abandoning horse breeding now. The
result will be the same as it was in the
matter of hogs.
Perhaps one of the most difficult prob
lens for the farmer of moderate means
TO solve is, what do / make, or
do / make anything with my
cowsf We all keep them and make use
of them to our sorrow, but what can we
keep that will pay MS betterf
In raising horses successfully for mar
ket they should be kept in good condi-
ton at all times, not by PaMpering, but
by limited amount of grain and an
ample supply of fodder. They ought to
be worked, and if properly handled can
be kept fat enough for any market.
II pigs of different sizes run together,
some will get fat while others starVe.
The larger and stronger ones will pros
per at the expense of the smaller, so that
those which need special favor will be
the very ones to suffer.
A writer in an exchange says: sit
appears that dogs and sheep can't be
raised successfully in the same country.
for one would like to sec law passed
to get rid of the worthless ours and con-
fine each family to one or none-which
would be far better.
In Australia the railways that are built
and managed by the government are now
paying fair dividends on their bonds.
10 Y.aaonnahla nd ~,
colonies school children and all persons
on public business receive free passes.
The observations made OF old Sol dur
ing the recent total solar eclipse showed
that the sun was in state Of great dis
turbanee. Possibly some new natural
gas wells there have caught fire.
Ex-senator j. ]. Ingalls,, in his arti-
Gle on Kansas, 1841-1S91, in the April
Harper's says: AFTER futile and costly
resistance the dramshop has disappeared
from the State. Surreptitious sales con-
tinue, club drinking aad joints ere not
unknown, but the saloon has vanished,
and the law has been better enforced
than similar legislation elsewhere.
The teneficent results are apparent
in the dininution of crime, poverty and
disorder. Banned by law, the occupa-
ton is stigmatized and becomes disrepu-
table. II the offender avoids punish
ment he does not escape contempt.
Drinking being in secret, temptation is
! diminished, the weak are protected from
their infrmities and the young from
their appetites and passions"
Close confinement of any farm stock
for months with ut exercise means
weakened muscles and impaired condi-
ton. Very few COWS get too much ex-
eTcise. 1t is what they get in getting it
that does the mischief. Standing at the
stable-door waiting to be let in is not ex-
ercise.
The young men of CORN, Mo-, formed
Society of Woodchoppers early last
winter. The object of the society which
has been constantly carried out in the
long winter evenings, is the visitation of
the woodpiles of the widows OF the town
and the conversion of cord wood into
steve wood.
That many of the tree peddlers will lie
about and misrepresent the stock they
offer we know very well, and that many
others of them will neither lie about nor
misrepreseDt their plants we also know.
The demon in the peddler finds father
in the principles Of his his employer and
the gullibility Of the people he comes in
contact with.