Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04
agricultural Stems.
Cider is $40 a barrel in the Pittsfield, M ass.


Boiled potatoes and boiled peas mashed
together and fed with sour milk, it is said,
will put flesh on hogs faster than corn.
Sumner Read of Denmark. n. Y, had his
skull fractured a few days ago by the burst
ing of the band-wheel to his threshing ma
chine.
The Misses Tanner of Lonoke, Ark, lately
took the $500 premium ut the Little Rock
fair for the best bale of cotton raised in the
state.
A drove of about five hundred turkeys
crossed the mountain from Arlington to
Wardsboro, recently, and another was to
follow soon.
Wisconsin is laying the JUNCTION of four
horned sheep to her soul, having "seen"
the two-horned breeds of other states and
gone two better.
A drove of 100 head of mixed cattle passed
through Woodstock lately, on their way from
Franklin County. Maine, to Pittsfield, Mass.
A result of the short hay crop.
The citizens of Griffin, Ga., are trying to
attract Irish emigration, and have started
the report that it takes just one dozen of
their potatoes to fill a bushel measure.
Hearth and Home says improved long
wooded sheep can never take the place of Me-
rinos on extensive ranges of cheap land. 1t
thinks they are the sheep for the grain-grow-
ing farmer. with clover in plenty, rather than
the owners of land well adapted to dairying.
The Tribune says that if cattle are well
fed with roots and some meal, the grubs that
burrow under their hides and give them SO
much uneasiness will not grow; they are
most annoying to poor animals who have
only common hay, all of which is exactly
contrary to the fact, rs drovers well know.
f. Mussey, Esq, of Mlddlebury, raised on
one acre of ground l4S bushels of sound corn.
This variety is Il kind of IL rowed corn, and
yet in one instance there was found to be
two ears on one stalk of each variety, 8
rowed and IL rowed, a circumstance that we
never heard of before.
N. C.. Tabor's barn in East Montpelier was
burned recently, with "a quantity of hay and
grain and Il pair of horses; loss $4,000, small
insurance. +. S. Dwinel's trotting horse
Happy John" valued at $1,000, was burned
to death, as was a $500 mare owned by C. S.
Page of Morrisville. The fire was incendia-
ry.
The Superintendent of the Eastern Penn
s~ylvania Experimental Farm took the troub-
lie to sow a square rod of chess or "cheat''
from which he obtained n peck of nice seed.
This was done to disprove the statement still
made by some parties that chess will not
grow, and is only produced by wheat or
some other grain turning into it. He also
tried pasturing wheat, but failed to have it
turn into chess.
In speaking of the Importance of regularly
sailing cattle the Canada Farmer, among
other remarks, makes the following; ave
have lately observed many head of stock
dropping, rough in the skin, and apparently
suffering from some loss of appetite. We
had thought that it was entirely owing to the
constant irritation from flies and the long
continued dry weather. Upon questioning
the owners, however, we generally find that
periodical sailing has been neglected; while
our cattle, which nave received their regular
weekly allowance of salt annear sloek and