Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-09-30

Outn, England, recently became engaged IN
an internecine struggle over some trining
matter which ended by fuckers MORALLY
wounding Lewis, who, with dying effort,
in turn cut fuckers head clean off and both
were satisfied.
The Marysville, (Cal.) Appeal learns from
a person who had been engaged on Bidwell's
ranch, near Chico, that there We're 5000
acres of wheat and barley on the ranch this
season, the yield of which will average 40
bushels per acre-aggregating 10000 BUSH
els of grain.
Some of the California farmers arc cult
waiting the Italian sun-hower for the sake of
its root, which is bulb, and us nutritious as
the potato. A good crop yields 1900 bushels
to the acre. About here, where it is known
as the Jerusalem artchokc, it is not so highly
thought Of
Long Island farmers are getting indignant
over the way they are treated by the New
York city authorities, and do not propose to
take any more produce to market till the city
gives them II place to stand They talk of
making arrangements with Brooklyn for the
erection of market of their own.
Twelve years ago an Iowa farmer set four
posts, cut from one long slim cottonwood
tree for his wife to tic her clothes line to.
They all took root and are now trees from
sixty to eighty feet high and about twenty
inches in diameter. The largest post was
about three inches in diameter when set.
The smallest post is now the largest tree.
There is much excitement in Middlebury
and vicinity among sheep buyers, and prices
have made a sharp advance, sheep that sold
for 80 head, twelve months ago, selling
for $40 to Sl5. Twenty sheep of fine quality
were recently sold for 800 u head, for which
S25 head was offered few hours after.
Some fiockshave been shipped West.
A few enterprising Louisiana planters have
engaged in the cultivation of ramie, II fibrous
plant of the flax kind. Some manufacturers
say the ramie is superior to flax, and if there
were Il certain supply, it would supersede
that fibre, while others say that in four hours,
they can convert the ramie into II Hossy silk
worth from three to four dollars per pound.
In Kansas the wheat crop is harvested,
and yields nearly thirty bushels to the acre
Ill SOlllc SOTll Is lIOHl nlllc W tlilI-
teen feet high. The wheat crop of Jersey
County, H., is estimated mt 200, 900 bushels.
The Iowa wheat crop is ahead of anything
ever before, and the potato crop is faring
well. All the crops in Northern Indiana are
in splendid condition, and the yield of corn,
wheat, oats, &C., will be large.
strawberry grower in Arundel county,
Md, has recently been sending second
crop from his vines to market, this year.
AS soon us the spring crop was gathered the
ground was again worked over and cultiva-
ted, and with favoring showers this second
crop of "Agriculturst" Strawberries was
raised. 1t is believed by this cultivator that,
with irrigation, regular and paying second
crop of Strawberries can be raised every year
in Maryland.
great sale of sheep and swine is adver-
tised by Mr.. Cochrane to take place at Comp
ton, Oct Goth, including in the former Cots
wolds and Oxford Downs, and in the latter,
Berkshires, Yorkshires and Sufiolks. The
number of Cotswolds to be offered is sufli-