Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-09-27
agricultural Stems.
No town fair in Brattleboro this year

No town fair in Brattleboro this year.
The wild plum crop is immense in tho
Missouri valley.
American rcapers and mowers are now |
largely used in Hungary.
The fruit crop in Maine promises an album
dant yield this season.
An OK with horn growing from its back
is Connccticut's latest curiosity
Apples can be bought for four cents per
bushel in some parts of Illinois.
In Iowa the wild grass is every year grow
ing less and less and of poorer quality.
The cranberry CROP this season, in Now
Hampshire, will be the largest ever raised in
the state.
Mr.. j. l.. Pierce, OF South Londonderry,
lost a horse recently from lockiaw. lc was
valued Mt $500.
The farmers OF Strllham, n. IL. send 1900
gallons Of milk week to the Boston and
Lynn markets.
Joseph Holman, of Dixiield Me-, lost II
sheep by lightning recently. l2 lambs in the
same pasture near the sheep were uninjured.
The Oregon wheat crop is an extra one,
both in quality and quantity. The farmers
are selling il mt one cent = pound by tho guam
tity
Tho Cape Cod cranberry crop is pronounce
cd almost total failure. The vines were
badly wnkilcd, ter-and much damage has
been done by worms.
The ohio Farmer says the reports from the
grape growing islands of Lake Eric and
from the vineyards of the West are TO the eff
feet that the crop is very heavy.
A. A. Royce, of st. Albans, has three
pairs of cattle, of which the age and weight
are rs follows; l pr. 4 yrs, weight i,l30; |
pr. . yrs old, 1890 pr. yr. old 2,l70
Thousands of pounds of grapes are prescrv-
ed during the winter season IN the village OF
Thomery, in France, by merely putting the
stems in bottles of water. and preserving tho
fruit from frost.
Sidney Perry, of SlXtons River, purchased
recently of John B. Mussey, OF jamaica, one
pair of years old steers, weight $500 pounds,
one pair Of 8 years olds, weight about 1900.
Price paid for the lot $3.50.
AT Richmond, Monday, ed about 1000 box.
es of cheese were sold rs follows: Good farm
diaries, II to I2 lie; factory, l2c. About
300 tubs of butter sold for: good, % &c
25c; choice. % TO &c; very fine, 2oc.
Owing to the ignorance of purchasers, nur
serymen are obliged to send trees TO thci
customers entire, while great saving in COS
of packing and freight might be made if the,
were pruned before being shipped.
Oregon will soon be added to the list OF WOO
growing states. Some entcrprisng farmer
have purchased choice Merino sheep. and
some of the very best and purest blooded an
imals in the world are now to be found il
the state.
Duncan Buchanan of Albany believes in
Ayrshire stock. He has n fine bull importe,
by himself, which he thinks tho best in tn
State. One of his Ayrshire COWS gave 8
poaLds of milk a day for several days in tn
hight Of the season.
An industrious and acknowledgements
bug, with rip-saw snout, is delighting tn
, Ohio farmers by his expertncss in saving "
the Colorado potato bug. He seems to enio
the fun. and takes just two seconds to cut
potato bug in slvcrs.
( Mr. Cyrus Heath, of Bloomington, has n
apple tree which blossonlcd rs usual in tn
spring and has brought forth fruit in abunC
ance. And now It is in blossom the secon
timo-spring blossoms and autumn fruit hang
ing from the same limb
The mesquit gum of Western Texas is n
most identical with gum arabic, and dun
ing the past year has become an article
export, some 10000, pounds having been gait
r cred in BeXar county, and rs much MOI
between that and the coast.
G. Patton, of Colchester has raised II tw
muskmelon-veri;ablo Siamesc twins, prC
cisely alike in size and shape. The stel
was about six inches long and divided ut tn
junctures with the melons; hut the melon
: tn emselvcs were fairly grown together at II
! side.
Tho vineyard of the Mass. Agricultural Go
E lcge is loaded with grapes, there being abo'
u ton of Concords on the vines. Only aboy
: third of nm aero is in bearing, the vines beir
of four years growth. Tho vineyard Is NJ
: der the care of w. G. Ware, the gardcnc
and graduate of II.
The southern planters now employ FL
supply of hands in the planting and pickir
seasons, and the rest of the year keepa fe
! hands only. This use of floating labor EN-
! blos tho planters to cultivate more land tina
, when hands were hired by the year, but {
the employment Is quite unsteady, tho pla
seems to he not advantageous to the lahore
Tho Columbia county, New York, ngrou
tural society is conducted on strictly mori
principles-horse trOtting eXcmded-and OF
: of the features of its anniversary meeting
Chatham, this week, was tho delivery Of Mi
\ Anna Dickinson's lecture on Joan of Arc to
8 large outdoor audience Us n substitute Il
!, the ordinary buncombe agricultural addres
!, Thousands of bushels of apples will be lo
!. 10 rot on the ground in the orchards of Yves
d ern Massachusetts, this autumn. In son
> towns the farmers are offering cider ut 81
4 per barrel, aud it Is difficult TO find puroha
i ers suilicientto exhaust half the apples, at al
u price. The varieties of winter fruit can
o obtained back in the rural districts Mt Il mor
ly nominal price.
THE SPEAKERsHIP-The full list of Re
i resentatives having been presented to Il
i people of the state, they naturally look amor
| them for suitable member for SpeakC