Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-07

stories from that section we smut our eyes 10
and swallow without salt.
The pear crop is very large this year and
prices for quite choice varieties are lower
than those for first class apples. Pear grow
ers who know how to market their fruit best
make the most. The first quality sells high
when the second will not pay expenses.
The South continues to tell doleful stories
about the damage done to the cotton and
rice crops. 1t is certain the yield of cotton
will fall considerably below that of last year,
but how much it is impossible to say yet.
Rice was looking well, but has been greatly
damaged by late storms.
Chas. Shepard, Ogdensburgh, N. Y, writes
to the Live Stock Journal:
"My experience i'm raising cows strictly for
the dairy is that the more Ayrshire blood in
the grades the more the product of butter and
cheese from our ordinary pastures. For TWEEN
ty years have discarded all bulls in my herd
except full-blooded Ayrshires, purchased
sometimes at .fancy prices-say 5000 for u
bull calf"
Mr.. G. L. Allen of Queens, Co., l.. l., has II
flower farm of seventy acres, where, during
the last season, were $50 varieties of peonies
of different colors, 100, 900 lilies in bloom ut
one time, and nearly 100000 specimens of
gadiolus. He has now 900 tuberoses.
The taste for flowers is largely on the in
crease, rendering horticulture IN important
branch of business.
The Waterville, Me-, Null thinks farmers
are acting from the impulse Of an excessive
panic in disposng of their stock, especially
milch cows, ut present rates. VIXEN butter
is forty-five cents pound, and corn eighty
five cents n bushe, is it good policy to sell
good cows for ten or twelve dollars? The
Null says farmers will winter their cows
cheaper than they did last year
If the following, told by the Peterborough
Transcript, is not whopper, then the berries
were whoppers: "Nlr. Shattuck has Il large
tract of land on which bucberrics gov pro-
fusey, some of them very large. In Il quart
left at this office, picked from one small bush,
IL very large proportion of them measure one
inch and a half each in circumference-the
largest we have seen this year"
At the date of the last mail advices from
England they were just estimating the char
actcr of the wheat harvest, which comes de-
cidedly later there than here. The general
impression seems to be that the yield is con-
siderably below the average, some of the
best authorities estimating the deficiency as
high rs fifteen per cent In France wheat is
not more than two-thirds of II crop.
Orchard fruits are, to n large extent, II
failure in England, this year, as well as the
wheat crop; but in other respects the far
mers have had II prosperous year. Oats,
barley, peas and beans are above the average,
turnips, and all that kind of produce, of
which English farmers make so much ac-
count, promise surprising yield, and pota-
toes are turning out fairly, though many of
the tubers are rotting.
In England the price of beef rarely reaches
twelve cents per pound. And this is the
case when farmers hold their farm us yearly
tenants. These farmers buy stock cattle, or
cows or sheep. and then buy corn or linsecd
cake from America on which they feed them.
Why, then, can they sell their meats ut
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