Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-03-26
Odd Notes on Agriculture, etc.


Ohio sheep have advanced in price on &C.
count of the wholesale slaughter of last year.
Seeds to or from England may be sent by
mail at six cents for each four ounces, to be
prepaid
Grass is six inches high in some parts Of
California, and snow is sixteen inches deep
in other parts.
Two acres will be planted In cotton this
year, in Middle Tennessee. for one last gear,
SAYS the Memphis Sun.
1t is thought that there will be large
overproduction of hops in Wisconsin this wear
notwithstanding the severe experience of last
season.
There has been less snow in Virginia this
winter than for several years past, and in
many cases the farmers have not been at all
interrupted in their farm work by snow OF
| frost.
| WOod-ashes contain all the inorganic in
gradients which growing trees extract from
the soil, and in consequence are Justly regard
ed as the best fertilizer for apples, pears,
peaches, plums, etc.
The demand for fertilizers in Western Geor-
gia is larger than ever before, sign of the
adoption Of an intelligent system of farming.
Gardening operations in the state were check
ed by the recent cold snap. At Atlanta the
ground was frozen foot!deep.
The Narbern On. c. Tunes says that
within two miles of that city are gardens that
do PERSONS eyes good to see. Corn, peas.
onions, radishes, lettuce, &c, are all out of
the ground, and growing rapidly.
\ course of twelve lectures on agriculture
is being given before the Lowell Institute by
Mr.. Alexander HYDE, of Lee The lectures
take place on Tuesday and Friday evenings.
The Florida planters will plant more cot
ton and corn this year than ever before The
orange, peach, cherry, and the plum trees
are now in full bloom, and promise bounti-
lul yield of fruit.
A correspondent of the New England Farm
er has had good success in breaking cows of
kicking, by fastening a cord or strap around
their hind legs while milking.
Pumpkin seeds are said to act as diurctic
on cattle - agumenting the secretion of
urine, and thus they decrease the lacteal Sc
erection. Hence il COW be fed on the same
a diminution of the daily quantity of milk
takes place. This however, is not the invar-
able rule.
A genius has invented and put in practice
a new mode Of killing mice which insisted on
getting into his seed barrels. He saturates
piece Of cloth with chloroform, and losses it
under the lid. He sometimes found half a
dozen dead at one time
Alabama papers generally state that farm
ers have gone to work in good earnest They
seem disposed to plant no more land than can
be safely cultivated. Fertilizers are also be-
ing extensively bought. The freedmen who
have contracted are reported as working well
A farmer in Griswold, Conn, has publish
ed an account of turkeys raised and sold, with
expenses and profits, from June, 1865, to
Jan, 1869, as follows Credit-9S turkeys
killed, |, 426 lbs, at p cents per b.. $685.
%; 3 turyeys not killed, estimated at 50
total, S394.02. Debtor-ll0 bush corn at
$50. Sl65 cost Of butchering, &c $40;
total, Sl75. Net profit, S2l9.02.
The productive power Of the droppings of
binary barnyard manure yet many farmers.
with a score or two of fowls, take little or no
pains to preserve and apply it to the purpo-
ses Of vegetable production. 1t is an excellent
dressing for gardens, and will repay hun
bred fold the care and expense Of preserving
and applying it.
a correspondent of the Country Gentleman
from this state gives his mode of raising
calves. He takes them from the COW at once
and gives them milk from the cow for about
three weeks, when he gives them warm skim .
med milk. At about six weeks old he begins
feeding shorts or oatmeal mixed with the
milk increasing the amount until it reaches
4 pint, which is continued until they are
year old.
\ horse weighing 1000 pounds performing
no labor. OF a COW of equal weight giving no
milk, in mean temperature Of 80 degrees
will maintain normal temperature of 100 de-
-rees by being fed p pounds good hay every
q hours, and will neither iatten nor become
hin. This Is about one pound per hour re-
juired to raise 1000 pounds OF animal helt
10 degrees. Now. supposing the out door
to be as low as 20 degrees, and
We have 10 raise the same weight Of animal
20 degrees, instead of 50 degrees, which in
he same proportion a. in wood fire would
equire 40 pounds Of hay every day TO keep
he animal from growing poor.
The tea-pant Is in successful cultivation
ONE ten miles from Knoxville, on the farm
f Capt Jas. Campbell, where it has been
r0wn for about ten wears. 1t is said that
asst Tennessee tea drinkers can easily raise !
heir own tea with very little cost or trouble
he plant j. deep evergreen shrub, and {
rows about five feet high 1t is hardy. and a
eeds no protection from frosts 1t bears an '
bundant crop. with beautiful fragrant flow
r., in October. The following season it ma
Tres seed, somewhat resembling the seed
our native hazel, and grows up readily
he rigor and hardness of this plant and its
iaptation to the climate. have been tested n
he ten produced from the leaves Of the Il
liant very much resembles in flavor the tea
ON Young Hyson plant. =