Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-01-17

OF manure would be greatly increased by
keeping it under cover one year and fire.
quently overhauling it. 1t would be
much stronger, better for top-dressing,
and could with greater ease be thorough
ly incorporated with the soil when APP
piled to plowed land.
l.. S. WALKER, Secretary.
GRAIN IN VERMONT following
are the estimates of the amount, value,
&c of oats, barley and buckwheat, rails
ed in Vermont in 1866:
OATS.
Amount of crop in bushels, .4,S46,O15
Average yield per acre, 40,3
Number of acres in each crop, 12O,249
1 Value per bushel, SO
Total valuation, s3,O52,9S9
Amount of crops in bushels, 164,390
Average yield per acre, 80
Number of acres in each crop, $500
Value per bushel, 1923
Total valuation, 1928, 400
BUCKwHEAT.
Amount of crop in bushels, 225, 252
Average yield per acre, 80
| Number of acres in each crop, 1908
Value per bushel, S1,00
| Total valuation, 1925, 252
PACKING Snow UPON WHEAT. The
Wisconsin Farmer recommends packing
snow upon winter wheat by rolling it
down with common roller. The idea
was suggested by this occurrence: A
man having occasion to haul wood one
winter across his neighbor's field Of win
ter wheat, engaged to pay him whatever
damage it might do to the wheat, presu-
ming that more or less damage would ac-
crue The road was staked out, so that
it could be accurately distinguished at
harvest time. But there was no need of
stakes, for all through the season the
wheat upon the track was whole head
and shoulders above any other part of
the field, and the yield of grain was pro-
portionately larger. The difference was
so marked that the littlemanure dropped |
upon the track could not have produced |
1t, and the conclusion reached was that |
the snow where the teams passed, being
trodden hard, melted later in the season |
than that in the rest of the field, and
the wheat was protected from the freez-
1ngs and thawings in the spring, which
are supposed to destroy winter wheat
- Gov Flanders of Louisiana has re-
signed, because Gen. Hancock favors the
rebels.
a Unitarian society in Washington
having turned the black children out of
their Sunday school, the Christian Ex-
aminer APPLY proposes the following
amendation Of Scripture for a motto,
:" Suffer little achite children to come unto
me-"
Seventeen hundred and twenty-three
infants, who had been thrown away BY
their parents, were picked up in the
streets of New York, last year, and TAI
of them are now cared for in the institu-
ton at Randall's Island.
a teacher in one of the southern
states was sitting at the window of her
room watching two negroes loading
goods into cart. One Of them was dis
posed to shirl; the other stopped, and,
looking sharply at the lazy one, said,
" Sam, do you expect to go to heaven?"
:" Yes" "Then take hold and lift"
There are thousand applicants
day for relief at the hands of the com
of charities at New York.
Working hours in the New York
Central railroad shops at West Albany,
have been reduced to eight day and
wages in proportion.
The trial of Rev. Steven II. Tying.
Jr., of New York, for violation of an
Episcopal canon in preaching in Meth
'dist church III New Jersey, has been
to February 10th.
The Lowell Courier boasts that one
If its subscribers inaugurated the return
o specie payments by paying his sub
cription in coin. The cash filled a
MEASURE up to the mark of pint and a
lalf.
: If those persons who have consump-
ion, or who have an inclination to If
gould spend an hour every day in breath
ng pure air to thefullest extent to which
heir lungs are capable of taking it in,
hey would do more to prevent and cure ]
his disease than it is possible to do by ]
leditation. /
Some astonished lumbermen in On I
rio, Canada, report having seen, a few n
ays ago, stream of FIRE about twenty 7,
ct in length, which seemed to be shoot. :
g diagonally toward the earth. until s.