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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1974
Page
8
A local columnist extols leaves as soil builders and compostable matter, urges practical recycling over burning, and recalls banking houses with leaf piles. Notes on banking bases, hog bedding, and autumn hornet and honeybee issues with practical, non sensational guidance.
This note urges ongoing hunter safety teaching for families with firearms. It stresses unloading guns, storing ammunition separately, and treating every gun as loaded. It warns against loading errors and ricochet risks, emphasizes knowing targets and backdrops, and calls for respect for landowners and good sportsmanship.
The note summarizes guidance from Joan Gaestel of Unique Zipper for home sewers. She urges trying on styles in stores before buying patterns and fabrics, highlighting changing fashion and rising material costs.
Sewing tips show separates like a two piece dress and five piece wardrobe can create seven outfits for under 75 dollars. Guidance covers pre shrinking fabric, care labels, stitching in the ditch, collar points, interfacing, and pocket fusing to ease sewing and reduce bulk.
Vermont dairy farmers face shifts from imports and exports as the Vermont Feed Dealers and Manufacturers Association holds its 32nd annual conference in South Burlington. The day opens with a golf tournament at Kwianaska Golf Club. The Ramada Inn hosts meetings starting at 9 a.m. with talks by Leo O'Brien on the milk situation, Rhode Island’s Martyn Zietz on legal issues, and USDA official Richard E. Bell on trade effects.
Burlington tips from UVM Extension home gardener Ted Flanagan on storing surplus crops without canning or freezing. In garden or root cellars, mulched or hay-covered crops guard against frost, with specific temps and moisture for carrots, onions, squash, potatoes, beans, peas, cabbage, and root crops.
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