Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-16
Agricultural Brevities.

Agriculture, welded 10 MANUFACTURES,
gives birth to commerce.
AT the Charleston, N. H., ponds 5000
trout are Matched daily.
In three years farmer On the Isle of
Man raised seven bushels of barley from a
single grain. ..
The COWS of this country turn grass
into $4,000 worth of food each year.
If they were all up to the average in the
best dairy districts, the product would be
5O0,O00.000.
A Missouri newspaper claims that the
hogs of that State are so fat; that, in order
to find out where their heads are, it is
necessary to make them squeal, and then
Judge by the sound.
Gov. English, of Connecticut, and Gov.
Padelford of Rhode Island, have both
issued proclamations recommending extra.
ordinary measures to prevent the spread
of the "mouth disease among cattle.
The strongest vegetable fibre known is
the New Zealand fax. 1t has long, sword
like leaves, ten or twelve feet IN length.
1t is used by the settlers for binding their
sheaves, fastening their gates, tying up
their horses, and in almost every possible
way.
The Western Rural says: Undisputed
testimony is to the effect that in many
sections of the country sheep husbandry
has been entirely driven from the list Of
agricultural industries, by the depredations
Of dogs.
1t is said that if all that the dogs of this
country eat was fed to hogs, it would make
$50, 900, 900 worth of pork. Add to this
the value of the sheep they destroy, and
something of an idea of the curse of dogs
can be obtained.
The Massachusetts, Horticultural School
for women located in Newton Center, has
farm of two acres, and seven pupils.
The zeal manifested by those who are
attending, convinces the Directors that the
experiment is good one.
The Illinois Agricultural Report for
1864 says -" The fences of the United
States have cost more than the houses,
cities included more than the ships,
boats and vessels, of every description,
which sail the ocean, lakes, and rivers J;
more than any one class of property, aside
from real estate, except, it may be, the
railroads of our country"
An exchange says that terrible malady
has recently broken ont among the horses
| in Kalamazoo, Mich. In one neighbor-
hood but little distance eight horses
died within three or four days, one man
losing three In the village several horses
have died. 1t is something like black
tongue. The animals live but little
while after being attacked.
The Delta says that George W. Tiff of
Buffalo, N. Y, has about 5000 acres of
land located about nine miles north of
Avoca, Iowa, out of which he proposes to
make model farm, and designs ascertain
ing if Cinnamon will make good farmers,
and to that end will import fifty Johnnies
early next Spring. He has already con-
| tracted for the building of an extensive
row of houses for their accommodation.
The premium list made by the Directors
of the Iowa State Agricultural Society,
recently in session at Des Moines, is as
follows For the best ten acres of arti
fetal timber, $1,000, payable in 1881.
For the best cultivated farm, $500, pay
able in 1876. For the best mile of hedge,
$3.50, payable in five years. For the
best five acres of orchard, the same pay
able in eight years.