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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1966
Page
13
A Vermont article by Lawrence J. Pratt examines how access roads shape rural real estate. Developers and sellers face costs, environmental impact, and long term maintenance when building routes to isolated lots. It notes careful planning, flagging routes on the ground, and concerns over grades, curves, drainage, and soils to protect scenery and buildable sites.
A detailed guide on growing Japanese flowering quinces notes showy blossoms in varied colors and fragrant fruits. It covers thriving conditions, hedge use, pruning for heavy bloom, hybrids, thorn presence, and pest control including aphids scale and fireblight. It also explains layering and cuttings for propagation and minor notes on road design and drainage in unrelated sections.
Horticulture expert Bertie R Boyce of UVM explains how winter injury affects fruit buds raspberry canes and grape vines, with causes including cellular protein disorganization from water withdrawal during freezing. Susceptibility rises in poorly hardened, immature tissues, and sun wind drying, windburn, and inadequate snow cover worsen damage without hardy varieties or protective mulch and windbreaks.
University of Vermont extension notes Bennington County farming notes from Paul Bohne's dwarf apple orchard on Harwood Hill with trees bearing and uniform yield. Roadside updates include 500 bushels per acre goal, 200 bushels per picker day, and potential labor relief. Also covers cattle housing plans in Pownal, public health inspections, repurposing outbuildings into corn cribs, advice on using pickers, and comments from local farm wives.
County Youth News notes new leg make up replaces stockings with six six six varieties swimproof and claims no rub off. It also marks National School Lunch Week and the 20th anniversary of the School Lunch Act of June 4 1946 detailing nutrition rules for meals in schools and daily allowances.
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