Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04
Butter is 95 cents a pound in Colorado.

ed AS II cure for scours in calves.
The nut crop this year is extensive. In
addition to a full supply of walnuts, chestnuts
and butternuts, there is IL heavy yield of
beechnuts.
Col. John NJ. Connolly of Flushing, N. Y.
has bought the famous stallion "Blackwood"
of Lexington, KY, paying for him, it's stated
on authority, II larger sum than any horse in
the United States ever brought before.
John OrHara of Sheffield, has Is sheep
which have this season yielded him in lambs
and wool S1O.67 each. They all had twins,
which were sold ut about three months old
for "a a head, and his wool for As cents u
pound.
Amasa Cummings, of East Montpelier has
always raised his own wheat for flour since
he began farming. Although 66years of age,
he has never yet purchased a barrel of flour,
but has sold many barrels from wheat of his
own raising.
The Canaan N. H.. Reporter saysT j and A.
+. Hoyt OF Iteration have sold their y%earling colt
of the same blood us their tfotting stallion,
Defiance" that won the first premium ut
the New England fair ut Lowell, and the
state fair at Dover, in the four years old trots,
to Samuel Follansbec of Bristol, for $500.
These colts originated from the noted horse
"Gen. Lyon"
The product of the sugar-beet experiment
at the Massachusetts agricultural college, has
been 1000 bushels of beets from five acres.
Apparatus has been fitted up on n small
scale, for the manufacture of the sugar., of
which some of the finest graduated has been
produced. The beet (the French sugar-beet)
yielded Is per cent in sugar; much of the
n~utritive part is left for feed to stock. All
that comes from the ground is left to be put
again in the ground, thus continually enrich
ing it. Sugar-beet raising is profitable when
the beets yield 7 per cent of sugar. Presi-
dent Clark is confident that he can plainly
show that beet raising will be Il profitable
branch of farming.
Thu Lyndon Union says: "At the last State
Fair at st. Johnsbury, Col. Dole noticed
some small black pigs on exhibition, which
did not take the premium. 1t being the last
day of the Fair, the owner was anxious to
dispose of them. The Col. sympathized
with the exhibitor, praised the pigs, said they
ought to have the premium, &c. To COM
fort the exhibitor, he said he would buy one
at s., but he had no way of carrying it
home. The exhibitor managed to find out
where the Col. lived, carried one to his
place and put it in his pen. On arriving
home, he was disguised to find a small
black pig in his pen, and a request to remit
the IS, which of course he did. The pig is
worth about nine shillings, and the Col.
feels rather queer about it." Now, Nutting,
was that youP If so, however, we don't
think the Col. very badly cheated. Your
pigs were good ones, if they were black.
The plant-house ut the Mass, agricultural
college has been enriched by n present of 81
new plants, mostly tropical, from the govern
ment botanical garden ut Washington, and
presented by Mr.. Sanders of that institution.
There is a mahogany tree about II foot high
in the collection, and an unknown plant has
been received from Hayti. The banana
plant has u large cluster of its first fruit,
which will ripen in about two months, and