Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-29
A9rituItural gtenrs.

One farmer in Davis county, Kansas, has
1000 tons of hay for sale
The horse disease is spreading with great
rapidity in England.
Captain links, oftho horse marines, is said |
to be feeling rather epizootic.
Switzerland has 2GS head of cattle to every
1000 acres.
England has imported nearly $8,000,0OO |
worth of eggs within the last nine months.
Kansas has very large potato crop tins
year, and the quality is excellent.
Barley is selling in Kentucky ut sixty-fvc
to eighty cents per bushel.
Tennessee, with an area of 90, 900, 900 acres, |
has only 6,0OO,00 acres in cultivation.
In Missouri the number Of hogs for 1872 is
given at 2,9l5, l0s, and for 1871, 2,514,997.
The Douglas Co., Mimi, wheat crop aver
ages twenty-five bushels per acre.
The education of farmers sons is attract
ing the attention of British agrloulturists.
Apples sell for $40 per dozen in San An
tonic, Tex, and corn for so cents u bushel.
VIM. Craig, of North Danville, has sold
the Putnam Pope farm to Langmaid e. Fin
ley for about SO, 800.
There is young lady in Los Angeles Co.,
Cal, who owns 5000 acres Of land and 1000
head Of cattle.
The barley crop Of Kansas is reported ut
ten per cent. above an average, and the rye
crop five per cent. below.
1t is estimated that 1856 distinct remedies
have appeared in the daily papers rs warrant
ed to cure the horse disease.
There are forty-six Oranges of Patrons of
llusbandry in Illinois, and forty in Indi-
ana.
The entire tobacco crop OF the United States
last year was 263, l96, 100 pounds, over one
third which was raised in Kentucky
The St Louis papers are of the opinion that
there will be fully 100000 more hogs packed
in that city this season than last
In the single item of wheat, the product of
Iowa in 1850 was 1,5GO,0 bushels, and in
1870 it swelled to 2O,OOO,00O.
According to the Atlanta, Ca, Const,t,s-
ton, onions cabhages and potatoes crowd the
|
California. with more wheat than she
knows what to do with, is preparing to raise
more next year than she raised this
Horse thieves will not be pleased to learn
that the hemp crop has been harvested, and
is the finest raised for years.
The annual meeting of the State Grange
Of Illinois will be held at Dixon Lee county,
ON Tuesday, the 10th day of December, 1872
California is reported to have crop of
over 30,0000,000 bushels of wheat, for very
much ofwhich it is impossible to find stor-
age.
Taunton, Mass, mourns the loss of proba-
bly, the largest Brahma rooster III the country
weighing l6I pounds, ard larger than nm
average turkey.
a Maine man is 5000 cabbagcs out by the
upsetting of u scow in which he was making
his way from Richmond's island to Portland
the other day
a matter-of-ftct farmer being asked if he
saw General Grant when in Washington
vacantly responded, "Why, no; was he look.
ing for me Pr
A Charleston, $. c., circular estimates the
rice crop of the South rs follows North Car.
olina, 600 casks South Carolina, $4,000
Georgia, 10, 400; and Louisiana, 1880
The waste OF hay on account of excessive
rains in New Hampshire, is estimated by the
Mirror and Farmer to have been nearly
equal TO the excess of the crop over I'M NV
eragc of years.
The me ek-cyed OK has enjoyed the reputa
ton of being Steady but pair in Chicago
took fright the other day, and spread con
stcrnation and dry goods in their path fo
half mile.
A TT. Dodge, loao man, who accident,
started II prairie fire by which his neighbo
, lost his hay and grain, called in three othe
neighbors to assess the damages, and he PAL,
them.
The drive of Texas cattle into Kansas, thi
Q year, is 08,562 head less than for the cor
: responding term last year. The who'll
a number driven into the State up to Oct. I'll
Q was 3il 032.
! 1t is said the only horse in Duchess coun
l ty, N. Y, that didn't have the opizootic wa
: n thirty-two year old one. lie has nevc
been troubled with disease Of any kind, an,
the epzoo was afraid 10 go forhim
. The Bangor, Me-, Wig says that the cattl
J.. supply of Aroostock seems incXhaustibC
!. Monday twelve car loads of cattle and elev
' en- of sheep came over the i. IL N. A. Rail
!. way from that county.
During the month of October there wer
shipped East from Wichita, 1000 car loads q
:. cattle, over the Atchson, Topeka a. SAINT
n Fe Railroad Large shipments were ais
L made over the same road from Newton an
u Florence.
n Queen Victoria was so much please
" with the five barrels of apples presente
y y to her last fall by some Michigan iruit-grow
T ers that she this year sent an order to tina
I State for fourteen times rs many for wintc
n use.
y Gabriel Patterson, Jr. Of Glover, killed
last Wednesday,, Il White Chester pig min
months old, which dressed 800 pounds. /
IS w. Patterson, and also his father, eac
q killed one from the same litter, that weigh
10 cd 3l2 and $40 pounds.
II S. r. jenkins, of Bloomington, recent
70 killed two pigs seven months and seven day
C old whose aggregate weight was GA pounds
Thomas Randall of Waterford has bougl
Frederick Green's farm in North DanyillC
u for $500. Possession this fall
An intelligent farmer in Ireland gives tn
following MS the respective quantities {
roots consumed by the different classes {
stock on his premises ;-Stall-fed, "a to
Is tons per head store cattle, to tons pc
head fattening sheep, 10 TO II cwt. per head
a other sheep, 10 to 10 cwt. per head.
y 1t is the custom of English agriculture
, societies TO keep register of committee me
i who are especially fitted for certain position