Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-01-20

The farmers Of California are uneasy be
cause the rainy season has not set in.
An Ohio farmer has raised forty bushels of
corr in two years, from four kernels.
Bonner feeds his horses from a box on the
floor, believing it is natural for them to take
their feed from a level with their feet.
Florida is called the poor mans paradise
by a correspondent. lie says a $500 house
there is as good as a $4,000 one at the North
No wood pile, no hay NOV to provide, and
land fifty cents an acre.
a Maryland correspondent Of the Country
Gentleman, raised 232 bushels of Harrison
potatoes from seven and onc-half bushels Of
seed.
Sheep are said to be so..plentiful in Austria
liza as to be sold by travelling butchers at a
cent a pound, and in two colonies alone no
less than 60, 900 are boiled down each
week.
\ fat sheep will produce coarser wool than
if only in moderate flesh. Excessive feeding
will increase the weight Of the carcass, but
not the fineness of the wool.
Geese eggs carried to the cellar as soon a
laid, and kept there, will hatch well. They
should be turned over once a day. Above
stairs the temperature is uneven. Number
the eggs as laid, that the first goose setting
may have the eggs first laid.
Muck should never be taken TO the field
direct from the swamps. 1t should be ex-
posed to the atmosphere for six months or
more, the longer the better, and conposted
with lime or unleached ashes.
A white oak tree SIX feet through at the
butt, was felle1 a few days ago on the line
] &c Tho RranhvruIna and Rp1dInn Railroad
1t was perfectly sound, and contained seven
cords of wood.
4 fruit grower in a western state tried
the experiment of burning birthstone on a
hot shovel under a plum tree to kill the cur
culio. The burning was done weekly and
the fruit saved.
Orchards should be cultivated as carefully
as corn fields. Laying down in grass is in
furious to the trees. Hood crops may be
raised between the rows of trees without
damaging the roots.
at a recent meeting of the Farmers Club
of the American Institute, DIR. FeuchwangeI
gave an account of experiments made by hin
for the preservation of wood. He said wood
boiled first in lime wafer, and then coated
with s~ilicate of coda, or liquid glass, will last
a very long time. The mixture is 10 PEI
cent alkali and 10 per cent pure sand.
If you want your apples and vegetables t.
keep well, take advantage of every mild day
and freely ventilatc your cellars.
A correspondent of the Country GentlenG,
says, he killed briars by a single cutting will
a grubbing hoe, done after the snow was OF
in the spring, and before the ground thawed
Moving in spring or summer increased them
In many farms it costs as much to keep tbs
rats as to keep a COW. He who can cleal
farms of rats will get rich without advertis
ing.
There seems to be plenty of clean and
good land In Maine, covered with heavy tim
Der. and there is the advantage that whi'
one is clearing his farm he can live on bears
In a garden in Lynn, Mass, is a pear tree
which was grated four years ago. and by
which mistake an apple scion was put into it
It bore several ripe apples Of 4 new variety
unknown to fruit growers.
The corn crop in the Northwest last season
was large and of excellent quality. In man.
sections Of Northern Illinois the yield aver
aged fifty bushels per acre. The abundance
| of this cereal fayors the pork trade, and thu
J daily receipts of hogs are very heavy.