Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-08-19


calves, perfectly formed, and about three
inches in length The Russellvile HeruM is
the authority for the above.
The new Conn. State Board of Agriculture
has organized by elccting Gov Jewell presi-
dent for the ensuing year, and Mr. Hart of
litchficld secretary pro tenn. Measures are
to he taken ut once for filling up the board
by the election of county members, and the
other officers were to have been chosen ut IN
adjourned meeting on the 10th.
The other day II German living on the
farm of the Hon. James Dinsmoor near
Sterling, ILL.,, tried to separate two hogs that
were fighting by striking one of them with Il
board. The animal ut once turned from his
antagonist. Knocked the man over, and drove
his trsks through the calf of the leg to the
bone The man died three days afterward.
The hay crop in Chttendcn County is
turning out better than was expected: some
farmers have cut more hay than last season,
and it is generally of better quality, sweeter
ana more nutritious. as is customary in dry
seasons. Farmers in some towns who were
selling ut Sl4 II ton when haying first COM
menced. have been selling of late ut so in
the field.
At Randolph, Mo-, few DAYS since. eide
on llanes went ont with his wife and bow TO
gather some bluegrass seed While so en-
gagged, Il swarm of bees alightcd on the child.
covering him from head to foot The father
told him to keep perfectly still, and gently
lifting the boys hat from his head to bush.
the bees swarmed upon it, So much for
GOODNESS.
HcdrM dnd Homo says the following sta
tistcs give the amount of cranberries raised
in 1869 in some of the Eastern States: Maine
produced 1000 barrels Massachusetts. s.
900; Connecticut, 5000 New Jersey 10000:
principally from cultivated fields. On nine
teen stations on the Milwaukee IL st. Pnul
railroad, 1855 barrels were frcightcd ,lurinc
the berry season of the same year. ten
acre lot in New Jersey produced in one wear
9Oo bl'shes-value $4,000 The owner was
offered, and refused $4,000 per acre for his
lot.
Miss Marietta Childs, Il Kansas woman.
with the aid of n girl l3 years old. set ont
last year ten acres of cottonwood trees upon
her farm on Oak creek. A boy marked the
rows with pillow. The trees were pulled
from land broken the year previous. The
whole cost, besides her labor, was 800. The
profit from these ten acres, in ten wears. will
be greater than ten crops of wheat or corn
would be. Miss Childs, this year. ON her
homestead near Crete has put out 1000 shade
trees, besides apple trees, goosebcrry and
raspberry bushes and strawberry vines.
Mr.. Nj. ii. Cocllanc, Compton, Can, has
purchased the present season in Ennglad
about twenty Short-Horn cows and hcifers.
several promising young bulls two Clyde
and two Suffolk stations, and IL small lot of
extra fine Berkshire swine. Cotswold and
Down sheep. Mr.. c. expected to sail from
Liverpool on the steamer of 2lst july. and
hoped to have the new importation safely
housed mt llilhurst by August 5th CThey
have since arrived.) While in England Mr..
Cochranc sold to Lord Dunmore Sth Maid
of Oxford and calf ut 800 guincas, Easter,l;,y
and calf mt $50 guneas, and Grace ID mt $50
guineas. This lot of five, and the two Ouch