Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-07-15
agricultural gtcnrs.

sent to Havana, there made up into cigars,
and then exported rs the genuine Havana.
There have been IL number of cases of
cheese poisoning in Burlington lately. The
Free Press attributes them to "stagnant rem
net whatever that may be.
Messrs Sturtevant Bros, South Framing
ham, Mass, have recently sold Ayrshire
bull calf Cmp.) Banquo, IL mos. old, from
mp. Mona, to +. ID. Dcarth, Dover, Maine
The editor ofthc Hamilton (Iowa) Ereema,,
offers to any boy in Hamilton county, not
over Is years of age, who will raise the best
ten acres of corn this year, a premium of 800.
At the great trial of tedders and mowers
June %, by the American institute at Croton,
n. Y, the Billiard tedder was victorious
over all others. The committee did not
make public their report on mowers.
Mr.. Henry T. Brown, Providence, r. l.,
has sold to Peter 7. Stephens Il Son, Nyack,
y. Y, an Ayrshire heifcr, sire Lucknow,
2i9, dam Myrtle, and an Ayrshire bull, sire
Black Douglass. 90. dam Harriet 9th, 429.
Wallace Berry of Pleasant Hill. Mo-, is
trying to raise little corn this year. He
has started off with 1900 acres in one enclo-
sure, which he cultivates with II men, II
cultivators, and "a mules, which do 100 acres
II day.
H. Montague of North Cambridge was re-
Gently attacked by an unruly bull, and both
he and his wife, who came to his relief, con-
siderably injured. They were saved from
death by their dog which took IN efficient
hand in the figh~;
Central New York has been congratulating
herself upon her potato prospects, when, 10,
the other day, ut Brunswick, the potato bugs
came down upon the murphies and are now
blighting the hopes of the farmers. This ID
their first trip east.
1t now appears, by the census figures, that
the breed of the domestic animals has been
so much improved in all New England, with
in ten years that, though their total number
is much less in the farming districts, their
aggregate value is much greater.
Mr.. John L. Glib, Sunnybraes, Compton,
p. O., has sold to c. X. Harrison, Pikesville,
Nd, the imported Ayrshire bull Glenlucc,
the two imported heifers, Miss Meikle and
IhtTTytO1 litSs, inc ncllcr caves LILY Sd ana
Park 3D., and the bull calf Argyle.
The farmers of Northern Coos and Essex
met at the Monadnock Hotel, Colebrook, on
the 9th ult., TO take measures for the forma-
ton of an Agricultural Society, with the ul-
innate view of having II Fair in Colebrook
next fall. The attendance was small and
another meeting is called for Tuesday, the
Goth.
The part of the holding of II farmer or land
owner which pays best for cultivation, is the
small estate within the ring fence of his
skull. Let him begin with the right tllage
of his brains, and it shall be well with his
grains, roots, heritage and forage, sheep and
cattle; they shall thrive, and he shall thrive.
practice with SCIENCE is now the adopted
motto of the Royal Agricultural Society.
A city exquisite, having become agricultu-
rally ambitious, went in search of II farm,
and finding one for sale. began to bargain
for it. The seller mentioned, us one of its
recommendations, that it had very cool
spring on it. "Ah-,,wn said the fop; 81
won't take it, then, for I've heard that cold
springs ruined the crops last year and don't