Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-09-23


A man coming to Boston from California.
last week. bought at Sacramento u car load
of Bartlett pears, packed in eases of $50 each,
and for the sum of Sl075 currency brought
the fruit car though attached to II passenger
train. The experiment, by means of per-
sonal supervision, was successful, but the
high rates of freights will preclude any gem
eral shipment Of perishable fruits.
At the Buffalo races recently Uncle Abe
won the $4,000 purse. Ten horses started
and Uncle Abe won the race in three straight
heats, without II skip-time 2:27, 1901 and
2:2fa. Uncle Abe is a Maine colt, and was
sired by Jackson's Winthrop Morrill,. lie
was bought in Winthrop for 81, 900 by John
May, of Augusta, and sold to his present
owner for $500, who has refused $4,000 for
him.
The Prairie Farmer says, our last quota
tons for pork was Sl4 per barrel; ut this
time last year it was quick ut $50. Corn
then was worth SO cents per bushel, now it is
hard to dispose of it for fifty cents, and the
market has decidedly downward tendency
Now oats are sold ut 40 cents, then they were
worth SO cents. Rye is worth about 81 cents
against IS last year. One year ago cheese
was l3 cents, now cents a pound.
The Monticello independent says that Mr..
Dick Miner, of that place, has four shoats
that lost their mother, during last winter,
when they were very young Being kept in
the same lot with fresh milk COW they soon
learned to nestle about her ut night to keep
warm, during which time they got to steal
ing their rations from the COW, which, in
course of time, became so attached to her
adopted children that she would not leave
them.
A curious blight is affecting the English
wheat. One side of each ear is full of grain,
while the other side is quite empty; although
the husks are properly farmed, no grain has
ever grown on the blghted side of the stalk.
One farmer has 20 acres of wheat IN this con-
diton, and he is afraid that this blight is very
general, although it may not have been no
ticed, his field to n passer-by presenting an
appearance of ripeness and abundance, but
when the gran is closely examined it looks
as if n hot blast had blown on the one side,
and scorched the life out of the ear
The Pract,cal Farmer says that in Penn
syvania there is rather prejudice against
orchard grass, chiefly owing to its growing
in punches and rather coarse stem and leaf
These may be obviated by thick sowing-not
less than two bushels to the acre. 1t ripens
early, and for this reason would make good
mixture with clover. We know dairymen
who value it highly both for hay and pasture.
Rapid growth, after frequent and close crop
ping or cutting is the specially of orchard
grass. We do not consider it adapted for
thin land or soils worn out by bad farming.
The Delaware peach growers are suffering,
this season, from I'm embarrassment of
riches. The crop is so large that the peach
market was glutted, prices declined to II
ruinously low figure, and "vast quantities"
of the toothsOme fruit rotted on the hands
of the orchard owners or were cast, like
pearls, before the Delaware swine. What II
nice arrangement it would be if those glori-
Gus orchards, instead of being huddled to-
gether in one little seventy -nine state, could
ha Distributed thrOuvh the now neachlpSs