Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-08
AariruItural Stems.

Names cattle supply has diminished 20
600 in ten years.
The cultivation Of olives is on the increase
in California.
The corn cribs of Pennsylvania this yonr,
are too small for her crops.
Oats, wheat and potatoes are all a failure
in Scotland, this year.
More winter wheat than usual has been
sown in Fond du Lac Co., Wis, this year.
Sixty cents per bushe is the price paid for
wheat by the mills III Yamhill, Oregon.
A Michigan mans thirty plum trees ncttcd
him sixty bushels of plums this season.
Ohio has 346.s2G acres of orchard, and the
apple crop of that State, this year. is enor-
nous.
A Michigan farm of eighty acres is sur
rounded by II gigantic hedge of black walnut
trees.
A Michigan packing house has put up 3d.
600 cans of Strawberries, 10000 of peaches,
10000 OF tomatoes and $4,000 of corn
j. ID. Williams, of Braintrce, has had fiji
teen sheep killed by bears during the past
Summer, and $. II. Bachelor four.
Milo Lewis of jay has sold his farm to u
man from Berkshire for 50, 500, together with
stock.
California has great trouble to get oakcn
casks for her wine. The vintage this year
will be the same rs last, contrary to the great
expectations
S. S. Orcut of Jay has divided up his farm
among his children, and those who have no
buildings are going to build upon their land.
II gives each ofthcm fine farm.
The president of the Mass. agricultural
college tells of student in that institution
who is supported from the proceeds of straw
berries grown and sold by his widowed moth
or from one acre of land.
The agricultural society of New South
Wales, Australia, wants an exhibition there
of American farming implements, and thinks
that profitable market would be assured by
the means.
A letter from st. Johns says that the pot;l-
to crop of Newfoundland to great extent is
destroyed by blight, and that the cod fishery
will certainly not be more than two-thiris us
productive us that of last year.
The pulse of our domestic animals, as
given by Vatol, in his Veterinary Pathology
is rs follows: horse, from 80 TO 3S pulsations
per minute; OK or COW, 25 to ~; ass, i9 to
81; sheep, 20 to 10; dog, 90 to 100; cat, ITO to
100; rabbit 100; guinea pig, 40; duck, 1885
hen, 40.
The European monarchs arc generally FOND
of horses, and good ones, too. Queen Vic
! toria's horses are valued ~ $4,000, King
Williams at $4,000, Francis ,Josophs al
$4,000, Victor Emanuel's ut $4,000, Czal
Alexander's ut 1853 900, Leopold's of Belgium
at 800, 600, and the Sultan's at 100000.
Mr.. Mechi the great scientific farmer, sum.
up the results of the English harvest in the
? London Times lie says he is no alarmist
but he believes that England will have tC
pay for foreign corn, in quantity and price
El5,OOO, 900 to 2OOO0,O 600 sterling moro thar
! in II good wheat season.
At the close of the Franco-Prussian wal
quantities of seed-potatocs were sent iron
Great Britain to enable the half-ruined Froncl
farmers, whose lands had been overrun by tn,
! contcnding armies, to produce a crop for tn,
, ensuing year. Part of tho second years pro
duce of those seed-potatCes is now being ship
, ped for the English market.
|, Two sheep thieves were found by Harr,
l Carter, of New Haven, on the night of Oct
; 2lst, who had got Is or 20 of his best sheer
out of the barn, ready to drive. They lief
suddenly, dropping soldiers ovcrcoat, an,
, followed by n charge of shot from Mr.. Car
= ters gun but he could not identify them.
p The Iowa Homestead mentions heavy yield
, of wheat in that State. In Plymouth county
COZ bushels from twenty four acres 1877 from
five acres and 100 from three acres. Ii
Lyon county, 65S bushels from thirty sown
900 from forty-two bushels of seed; and 80
bushels per acre from field of nine and
half acres.
Ezra NJ. Carr, formerly of Castlctun,
professor of Agriculture, Chemistry and Ilor
ticuture in the University ut Oakland Cali
; iornia, of which Prof. ID, c. Gilman has ju,
: been elected President. DR.. Carr is ais
President of the Oakland Farmers Clul
one of the most vigorous associations of tn
kind IN California.
y 4 Greenwich man has invented somethin
=
, anything like an apple or potato that may b
misplaced. A good deal of enjoyment in II
; animals eating is married by the apprehen
- sion of accidents in swallowing. The Green
f witch mans invention will be apt to give tn
= animal more confidence.
: There are now in daily use on the Mich
! gan Central railroad fly-one cars fitted II
6 expressly for carrying butter, beef and egg.
from Chicago to Boston and New York A
average of four of these cars start East eac
= day, and are inspected and ro-iccd at Detro
: before they go further. Each car consume
4 four tons flee on the trip.
= II. A. Soule of Fairfield has recently sol
; n very promising Ayrshire bull calf,-"Jack,
: from his thorough breed Ayrshire COW
"Dorn" and "Sir John Fairfield" no bein
! from "Ann" (23O) imported, to Owen Camp
b., bell, of Fairfax. Also Il yearing bull "Burt,
o from Highland Mary 3D." (i52) and Isl
4; John Fairfield" to Elliot Darling of Georgia
Campbell's Late Rose potato does nc
seem to please those who have tried it. ia!
;, Lippincott, Jr., of Burlington Co, N. j
y sends the Country Gentleman an mfAvorabl
= account of his experience last season wit
j. this variety. lie planted four pounds Gu
s one eye TO piece, and dug n bushel and on
peck, of poor quality, while 1.-THE Poorles
right along side, beat them three to one"
g A tree was recently cut on Sandy Greek, i
, Australia, for tho purpose of procuring hor
oy, which ii was known had been colloctc
there by n large swarm of bees. When tn
tree was cut down there was found in tn
hollow one of the most astonishing colleC
It tious of honey ever known, probably, to hay
It been gathered by one swarm of bees, Their
: were several immense layers of comb tie
IS feet in length, and of great density, eXtent
" ing along the inside of the trunk, and almo,
d closing the hollow of the tree entirely