The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1857-02-28
Thc Californian.
AGRICULTURAL.

WHEAT IN NEHMONT.-The Vermont
State Ac. Society at its late meeting, awarded
premiums to Nathan Gushing of Woodstock.
and y. A. Fletcher of Bridport, for winter
whcat-to the former Cor torty-two bushels
per acre. and to the latter for forty bushels
per acre Both grew the same varlety-the
White Flint. These awards show that wheat
can be rroGtab!y grown in Vermont. while 1t
is well know that no state in the Union pro-
duces better crops of Indian corn, rye. oats,
potatoes, &C.. or affords better horses, sheep
butter or cheese
NOTICEABLE PE"DUCTIoHs.-MrD ID. Cal !
derwood Of Greensboro, has made the past
season from his dairy-consisting Of seven
COWS and two two years old heiters-lS00
pound. Of butter, besides using what milk,
cream and butter, it VA. necessary tor his
family on,stng Of .even persons to have
-Elakim Allen Of Waterbury, Vt, has made
and sold 500 pounds of butter from the milk
of one since the Goth Of April last, besides
supplying his family of two persons with all
their milk, cream and butter during the time.
The COW row "lves ten quarts OF milk day
and he has a few pounds OF butter un'od.-
There is gigantic cheese dairy in Irumhull
county, Ohio, wEich mr'ovS six or eight
teams in collecting curls from the nriyhhor-
iny iarmerS-,wo hundred i'll nun Der. The
yearly product is so tons.-The corn crop
O, the United States was, in 1850, 592, 100000
bushels, far surprising in value the entire
crop of cotton. From 1889 TO lSi?, the m
crease in the production OF corn was D per
cent.-.Joshua Page OF Bath Me-, raised half
peck OF f"s, finely ripened in the open air,
las; wear The trees were brought from Al
brrmarle Sound. y. c., and have had r.o care
except in removing the tubs IN which they
are contained into the cellar every fall, and
carr, ing them out in the spring. The fruit
OF one season is ripcncd tie next season. the
Young i;.s remaining on the branches
throughout the winter, and ripenln" IN the
loIowIr. autumn with all the mature luscious
ness Of the southern fruit
TIE SWEET PoTATO.-Mr Bristol OF
Wallin.tord Ct.. communicates to the Home
stead some important results attending his
: cultivation OF the sweet potato. Ike started
his plant, in hot bed. about the first OF April
and tran>pantcd them the last OF MAY. The
land selected was sandy and rather poor. IT
, was rid ged, by throwing four burrows together
the plants set four feet apart in the rows, and
the hills treated to a light fork full OF stable
; manure. Gypsum was applied once during
: i.e summer, and the plants We're kept well
: cultivated They were dug about the midl!,
: Of Octohtr after the first frost. There werC
forty nine rods OF ground. and forty bu>!lei:
: OF potatoes. They were well ripened, an'
4! considerably lar1cr than those from the Sonl
found in :he markets. Those not wanted il
F., the family We're readily sold for : 60 Pc
4 hu>stI From portion of the land where
K he planted the hills but two feet apart, N
gathered fully double the crop that he di'
=, from the rest and he has no doubt that th
n whole crop could easily have been donble'
e on the same piece of land. This exrerim"n
=, here in New England. is very susgestv
4, and very valuable one.
PROFITABLE SHEEP GR"WING.-A. J.
v Smith of Nichols, Tioga county. \. \
bought on the 9TH of July, 1Sjj. twen
ycarling ewes at : 80 per head They wer
small and poor, and diseased. having lost a
their lambs the previous spring In the 10
u, lowing MAY, they bore Is lambs For tw
= months previous he had given them six quart
of mixed grain day. In the succecdin
November, he was offered Ss3 head for til
ewes. and S2 for the lambs Thu. the eve
were worth $50, the lambs >3G, and the woo
OF the ewes, 50 pounds, at 35 cents. sold ;
o' S20,G5, making in all 1865. The first co
II ofthe twenty ewes was $50, and the profit o
!e this little flock, by keeping them only sixtee
>, months, wac SSG,G5 This experiment on
p" small scale shows what can be done on a lare
N one. The profits on 200 sheep at the same raj
in would have been 3SGG.50.