Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-07-22


culture, takes with him rs subordinates to
his new field in Japan, Prof Anderson. late
chemist of the agricultural bureau. Prof
Henry S. Poole, II Pennsylvania mining en-
ginccr, and one or two others whose names
are not yet announced.
A pear tree on the premises of Daniel Wy
man. of Diamond Hin, n. H.. has upon nu-
merous branches both partly grown fruit and
blossoms. The blossoms are ut the end of u
new growth of the twg this year, in clusters
of halfa dozen. The tree has exhibited the
same freak once before within few years.
The National Lire Stock journal gives its
opinion that the term thoroughbred should
he applied among horses only to the race
Gunning) horses and that II horse is thor
oughbrcd only when his entire blood is trace
able to animals of acknowledged purity of
breeding. whose pedigrccs are recorded in
the British Stud Book.
j. Knox. Pittsburg. Pa. once called 1.-The
Great Strawberry King" has sold his fruit
business, but says if he was going into bust
ness again it would he into fruit. and of all
fruits strawberries would be his choice; and
cunda only-says there is more money in it
than in any othcr-oR the soil, of course.
From three acres of it. one year. he sold
$4,000 worth of fruit and plants.
The american 1gricuIturist-whch some
may have supposed to be committed to the
opinion that the Essex is the best of the small
breeds of swinc-says the chief use of the
ID,
improve our common stock. and that, if the
boars chosen he thoroughbred, it makes little
difference (which breed is chosen. It thinks
the hest specimens of the Berkshires are
much superior to those introduced into this
country 30 or 40 years ago.
The hay crop in Decrfcld Mass, is gener-
ally better than last year, the meadows hay
ing recovered from the terrible frcshct of
October. 1863 The crop is being rapidly
harvested in capital condition. S. p. Bill
lings has sold the first crop on fifty acres
cured and ready for carting, ut SlS per ton.
to be weighed as it comes from the field
Making proper allowance for carriage, stor
age and shrinkage, this is probably about
equal to $50 per ton, next winter on spring
Those who take pleasure in comparing the
condition of different countries may be inter
ested by the following statement of the num-
her of farms throughout the United States,
taken from the returns Of the late census. Be
ginning with the smallest, there are 23642
farms of three acres and under ten acres;
Isl, $40 of ten acres and under twenty acres:
6l2,2 45 of twenty acres and under fifty acres;
900 4s6 of fifty acres and under one hundred
acres 1885, 2i9 of one hundred acres and I'M
der 800 acres; 2O2sO of 500 acres and under
1000 acres; and 5,3is of 1000 acres and up
ward. The total number of farms is l,942.-
24l.
j. H. Morgan, of Ogdcnsburgh, who has
for the past five years devoted most of his
time to the importation andibreeding of pure
Ayrshire cattle has just effected the sale Of
his imported cows, Model of Perfection"
and " Georgia" The former was imported
in 1870, and the latter the present season.
The purchasers IRE the Sturtevant Brothers,
the owners and proprictors Of Waushakum
farm of South Pennington, Mass. The price
paid for Model of Perfection is 81 200, and