Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04
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the nest.
The best mutton is said to come from
Rhode Island. The same State raises the
best geese anG ducks.
Last week u freight train on the Central,
ran into a flock of 100 sheep a short distance
above Hartland station, killing % outright.
California boasts that she has the largest
orchard in the world. 1t is located two
miles south of Yuba city, in Suffer county,
and consists of over 400 acres.
The Weybridge Farmers Club held their
annual meeting on Monday of last week and
elected the following officers president,
Deacon Samuel James; Vice. Pres, j. b.
Cherbino; Secretary, II. b. Hagar.
A barn, with its contents, belonging to
Simeon Myers, at Pownal Center, was dis
troyed by fire last week. The barn contain
ed 10 tons of hay, 100 bushels of corn and a
quantity of buckwheat. No insurance.
John McGinn advertises for sale, in the
Mansion (Wis,) Star: "Cheap, for cash, a
good four-year-old mich cow warranted to
give milk all the year round without having
n calf. She came of n COW that never had II
calf. Inquire on the premises"
The Aryus, speaking of the exciting times
at the recent trotting race at East Montpelier,
where the usual conduct that has given its
meaning to the word 'Jockeying" was con-
spicuous, says "As things are going now
/ horse trots will soon be far from high-toned
affairs hereabouts."
A wonderful instance of vegetable trans
. mutation is mentioned by a correspondent of
the Iowa Homestead. A farmer purchased
I of a tree peddler fifty different varieties of
, apples for a large orchard. In a few years
. these trees resolved themselves into only two
3 kinds.
Y Mr.. George Abbot, of Barre, threshed for
w. c. Nye, one hundred and fifty bushels of
!, oats in four hours, and stopped four times,
fifteen minutes at a time, making one hun
4 dred and fifty bushels in one hundred and
G eighty minutes. One half of the straw was
3 very coarse, the rest short straw.
e A deformed chicken of common breed, the
deformity resulting from n broken back, was
entered at the Muskingum, CO., county fair
4 rs a Hungarian cock of the ''Slavi Magyar
DTeeu, just lWporIcu, tiiu inc Sdpicut Judges,
e after gravely inspecting it, awarded it the
1 first premium over one of the finest poultry
shows ever seen in the country.
: The milk business along the Harlem Ex-
tension railroad has been very prosperous,
and has abolished the cheese factory ut Dan
= by. The net profits of those who sold their
y milk during this season have been double
the profits of those who took the same guam
tity to the cheese factory. Nearly two Car
t loads are transported every day over the
r road. Last week two hundred and eighty
seven cans were shipped between Rutland
I and Chatham.
Col. HOLSTER of Los Angeles, Cal, started
v raising sheep and cattle in a small way, when
Q that state first became the property of the
9 government, and now owns an almond grove
K covering 700 acres, and over $4,000 almond
trees yielding fruit. He has planted, and is
g successfully growing, 1901 600 orange, lemon,
Q and olive trees; had at one time over l5O,
2 600 head of sheep and cattle; owns about
q 100, 900 acres of land divided into three ranch
t es. He has recently purchased in Japan 26