Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1870-12-09

4,772,O45 pounds, against $685. 14 for the
corresponding period of last year, showing
about three-quarters of a million of pounds
difference.
The Woodstock (Vt.) Standard says;-
" We saw in our streets, II few days since, II
drove of fine wool sheep which had been
bought for SI.35 a head - circumstance
which illustrates quite forcibly the low state
of the wool and shee. market"
The Cheshire Co., n. H., Agricultural
Society has taken measures to procure II
number of stock animals for the use of its
members. 1t was also voted to invite the
State Board of Agriculture to hold n meeting
in Keene during the coming winter.
Mr.. Loomis of Connecticut has recently
sold to II. NJ. Armes of Springfield, VT,
twenty Cotswold ewes, making Il flock of
fifty or more breeding ewes, which are mated
with Emperor 2d, II ram bought by Mr..
Loomis in England at a cost of 1870 g%uineas..
HearH and Home says of Brezee's Prolific
potato -" All accounts from quarters where
potatoes have. done well at all agree in ac-
cording to this variety great excellence.
~ 10 VI uii'h Niopppi' pb''t''s w
of large size, fair shape, and of most excel
lent quality"
A farmer a few days since purchased i'm
Bangor, Me. some barrels in whichtopreserve
cider. Upon rinsing them out he found in Il
whiskey barrel, seventeen large plugs of
tobacco all soaked in whiskey, which had
evidently been placed there to improve the
| a won. 4, nj 81 I>nI,, - sc thA 1;.,,or
Tn fears entertained some time since Chat
T the United States would lose her cotton SUI
premacy, and that India would be the COM
peting country through which England wouldk
rule the cotton production and manufactures
of the world, are mt length dispelled. The
cotton of India is of inferior quality, and no
effort will bring it up to the American stand
ard.
The Shakers of Tyringham, Berkshire
, County, Mass, have decided to sell their
entire property there and remove to Lebanon
Springs, or possibly to other settlements of
the sect. The estate is very valuable, COM
prising 1900 acres of valuable farming land
in Berkshire County, meadow, tillage, past
ure and woodland, besides their substantial
uWtliihSo.
The sugar beet crop at Chattsworth, ILL.,,
says the Prairie Farmer, has been harvested
in good condition and is of good quality,
, yielding, so far as manufactured, II fine per-
centage of sugar. Our readers will remem-
Der that the above named place is the point
where extensive and costly experiments in
beet sugar manufacture have been conducted
for several years. The result has shown
abundance of sugar in American grown
L beets; but the conditions of success have not
been fully met at Chattsworth, and so far the
; experiment has been a financial failure.
The Maine Board of Agriculture having by
the act of the Legislature which makes it II
State institution, acquired the right to say
for what purpose one-half of the State appro-
y p~riations to each County Society shall be used,
has decided that one-fourth shall be devoted
= to the organization and support of Farmers
Clubs, and the other fourth as a premium to
encourage wheat. No Society can obtain
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