Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-02-26

pea meal, bean meal, lnseed cake, bean
I straw (steamed), &c
Feed for Butter.-Indian meal, cotton seed
meal. parsnips, good hay, &c.
Feed for Sell MH.-Salt hay, brewers
grain, brewers slops, turnips, carrots and
potatoes.
Twenty pounds of hay daily, viii keep
COW on her feet through the winter.
Bran and middlings are excellent for cows
in mik.-American Stock Journal
10 determine whether kerosene is liable to
explode, the Boston journal Of CHEMISTRY
gives the following directions fill a pint
bowl two-thirds full of boiling water. and
into il put common metallic thermometers
The temperature will run up to over 900 de-
grees. By gradually adding cid water, bring
down the temperature of the water to 10 de
grees, and then pour into The bowl a spoonful
Of the kerosene, and apply lighted match
If it takes fire, tine article should be rejected
as dangerous if not it may be used with
confident feeling of it's safety.
statistics of cattle in Vermont, Excluding
cowe) for the year ending February 1867.
Number Ia 700
Average price. SIS "a
Total valued, $500, 45G
\ farmer of SchaghtlcOke, y. Y, was
asked for lift in his wagon, as he was going
home the other evening, by portly and
strapping female He allowed her te get in
to his vehicle, but his suspicious became cx-
cited, and dropping his whip, he requested
her to get out and pick it up. When she
did so, he drove off rapidly. and, on reach
ing home. examined muff which the pre-
sumed female had left in the wagon. finding
in it a revolver and dirk knife.
FIRE AT KEEsEvILLE.- the l7th, a por
ton Of the Horse Nail Company Works in
Keeseville n Y, was burned down. 1t CON
tanned 81 machines. The property injured
and DESTROYED must involve n loss OF not less
than so 600 Insurance $4,000. The works
Will Immediately be rebuilt and the machin-
erv repaired
HoRsEs.-The following are the statistics
Of horses in Vermont. for the year 1866.
Number 30 ODD
Average price. 81 80
Total value, $500 Al
SHEEP-The following are the statistics OF
sheep in Vermont for the year 1866
Number, 1895 $50
Average price. S3.l9
Total value. 5000, 7Gj
1t is estimated that it will require l25 ears
of the average corn of central Illinois. to
make bushel.
Three wears ago, John Rhoring, of W eston,
Mo-. sold COW to a man living in Kansas,
about l4O miles from Weston, whittier the
COW was taken. 4 few days since, she sur
prsed Mr.. r. e family by Familiarity putting
her head into their kitchen door as she was
wont to do.
The receipts of corn in Chicago, in 1867,
x.-o.o IN unu hushaIS loss than in 1865 This
however, does not show conclusively that the
crop was short to the extent this would at
first sight indicate, as more may have been
shipped through other points.
In Ohio, a fruit farmer is planting a mann
moth orchard. which will consist of 5000
apple trees, 10000 peach trees. 5000 pear
trees, 10000 cherry trees, 1900 Chickasaw
NUNS six acres of ounces, twenty acres of
-traw berries. and eighteen acres of cranes.
II appears, from the Prairie Farmer, that
the dead larvse of the Colorado potato beetle
emits poisonous exhalations, and that per
sons employed in collecting the larvae from
the plants have been badly poisoned by breath
ing the air over vessels into which they had
been thrown
To show that honey-bees instead of being
An injury to farmers are a benefit to them. the
fact is cited as well known to observe bee
keeuers that when have a fine yield OF
honey from the buckwheat, or the orchard,
that we have corresponding yield of grain
or fruits, unless prematurely destroyed by
frost or other causes. There are seasons
when bees work very little on buckwheat,
and the result has been, with scarcely an ex-
ception, a small yield of grain
Mr.. j. w. Clarke, of Green Lake, Wis.,
details in the Country Gentleman a case %
parget in which COW that had lost two teat
in previous years was again so badly affected
that one quarter of the bag changed to
scarlet color, and parts of it became detached
and fell away until the whole quarter was
entirely lost, leaving vacant space. The
wound began to dry and heal around its
edges, to which coal tar was applied to keep
off the flies. The cow recovered her health,
and is now in fair condition. though of course
not MIXED.
The Ner York World estimates the num-
Der of workmen unemployed in New York
City at $4,000, in Brooklyn at 10000, and
says that the depression in New England
throws out of work at least 10 200. in Maine,
90 900, in New Hampshire, 1000 in Con-
neticut and Rhode Island, and 100000 in
Massachusetts,. This may be high estimate,
but the number out of work " is large IN
all our cities, and the prospect for the future
is far from encouraging.