Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-02-05


Sheep in Australia sell to drovers for a cent
pound.
The Ohio cattle commissioners say no remel,
has yet been found for the Texan cattle diseas'
which is so fatal to native stock.
The winter is so mild in some parts of England
that mushrooms have been picked in the oper
fields in December.
The fmerican Farmer, (Baltimore), strong
" advocates the Introduction of sheep for the
surplus lands of Virginia.
J 4 Massachusetts, inventor has made applica-
ton for patent for an arrangement by which
all the cattle III a burning barn can be turned
loose without loss of time.
/ Excessive feeding Of sheep is said to increase
the weight Of the carcase at the expense of fine
ness Of wool.
correspondent of the Horficulturist recon-
mends Hellebore as poison for the currant
worm.
A Maryland farmer raised 2S2 bu. Of Harri-
son potatoes from II bushels
Minnesota farmers are raising live fences.
They use cottonwood, gray willow, white maple,
black oak and wild palm. From three to five
years are sufficient to raise living fence to pro-
tect the field from stock.
A small or moderate-sized tree at the trans
planting will usually be a large bearing tree
sooner than larger tree set out at the same
time and which Is necessarily checked in growth
by removal
Careful cultivation and careful handling is
essential to any considerable degree of success
in fruit-growing. And in nothing else do these
requisites pay better.
Thomas II. Burrows, the new president of the
Pennsylvania agricultural college, is making
vigorous efforts to resuscitate that lfeess insti-
tuition, and hopes to start next spring with q
class Of 100.
Moss-Ro-e, a Shorthornei COW IN England,
sold tor 100 guineas, 5000 in gold. SO ayerar-
Ell EG7 and 10 bulls averaged eG4.
California wheat is SO dry, by origin and ma
ture, that in coming east through and into
humid atmosphere, it gains greatly in weight
10y absorption. This Is an element Of profit TO
shippers. So with the -four, it viii absorb 20.
80, even 80 pounds more water per barrel than
our eastern -four, and so the bakers gain greatly
IN using t.
That must have been horribly poor land where
Of, in recent law suit about payment therefor,
II was put in evidence that it was $50 poor that
very squirrels goabout crying all the fall because
Of the scarcity OF food - and that a man in that
country declared that he would not give fftv
cents an acre for the land, and that III kildee
grazed upon it he would get so poor that defend
ant would have TO let down the fence 10 drive
him of the wheat, for he would not be able to
fly -''
The time and strength wasted in one years
ihurning, says correspondent, would build in
lne year q railroad across the continent. | have
lsei churn SIX years, Of my own invention.
not patented, made Of tin, inches in diameter
II the bottom, inches at top, and 20 inches
nigh, in which my wife has churned 800 lbs. of
butter. which brought the highest market price.
She has never taken 10 minutes 90 bring churn- T
ng. The dasher Is round. without any holes. .
inches 10 Diameter, fat bottom. C0nical at the
op- The cream is put into the churu as soon as
kimmei. the first s6immnc having handful
If salt stirred in, the mass being stirred ut each
ubsequent skimmiHg till enough Is obtained for
I'D lbs of butter
4 correspondent Of a Western paper relates
low Kansas farmer treated his poultry in win
er. He said if ] would let NY hens huddle to
ether IN some warm corner and not let them
ooss, should GIT plenty Of eggs. ! had about
wenty hens. My hen-house was q rough
hei eight feet square. with q small window and
COR ON the east ] took down all the roostinc-
oles, leaving the nest b5xes only. With a few
mall boards | made a small she'd about four feet
luare. on the south side Of the larger one and
lvereI it with straw. | maiea hole for the hens
} pass from the large house into the small one.
he result was my hens continued to lay through
ne cold weather
ARE THE SALTS OF MANURE LOST BY FurnA-
los PROF. Way says, as the results Of his pa
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