Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-06
agricultural STEMS.

and New orleans. ii
Onawa, Ioa., shipped two carloads of hogs
to California the other day.
Several capitalists of Lisbon, WIS, are
going into cranberry culture.
Observation-Disclosures have to cat their Goldfish
without potatoes-Cause, potato rot.
II. w. S. Griswold of Walpole, N. H., has
~ tons of tobacco in his tobacco barn.
The Iowa State Grange, Patrons of Illus
bandry, meets In Des Moines next january. |
The trotting stallion, "Wost Wind" by
Alexander's Abdallaf, was sold in Kentucky |
n few days ago for $4,000.
The Corvallis, Oregon, Gazette says the
price of wheat in that place is fifly-two cents
per bushe.
Mr.. Cornelius Shear, of Marshall Mich,
raised 10 bushels of wheat from three and
one-half acres.
Beef cattle sell IN Dallas, Texas, ut about
Sl9 per head and corn ut from forty TO fifty
cents per bushcl.
There are four cheese factories in western
North Carolina, which have this year turned
out about 100000 pounds of cheese.
The United States produce annually $780,
O00, 900 pounds of wool. The yearly produc-
ton of the world is about 200, 900 tons.
Apply manure and deep culture to grass,
and themoro you apply them, the greater will
be the yield and the profit.
The largest dairy in California contains
| 200 cows, the milk of which is churned in
TO butter by steam.
Sweet potatoes are selling at Talladega,
Florida, ut soc per bushel, and shelled corn
mt Coo per bushel.
The amount of leaf tobacco sold in Dan
vile, Va, during the year ending Sept. 30
was ll,O66,OOO pounds.
IT'S pleasant sight, the well filed cellar
of a generous old farmer, especially if it is
about Thanksgiving time.
The recent New England fair at Lowell
netted S65OO, half of which goes to the Mid
dlesex North Agricultural Society.
Clover, where there is u good soil and a
favorable season, will yield, in its two crops,
soyon 10 eight tons to the acre.
A rather light, lean soil, with manure in
the hill (ashes and phosphato) is excellent for
potatoes.
A Macon Co., Ill.,. farmer, has recovered
$4,000 from some patent rights men, money
paid on fraudulent representations.
Farm life is not necessarily u vegetativC
one. With greater enterprise, we believe
will come greater success in farming, anC
so II greater love for it.
The Dodge Co., Ioa, Republican says tha
although sunfowcrs are not timber, they ar,
I raised on u large scale ut Watouwan fo
fuel.
Charles Downing, the veteran pomologist
continues TO show his face and exert his in
) iluence wherever fruits are shown and horti
culturists meet
Merno wool constitutes the greatest por
. ton of the cloths of the world, and is tn
y wool of which there is the highest nocessi
!. ty.
The "cpidogic" has succeeded the epihip
pic, and the CANNES wax melancholy, takin
no pleasure in bones. Yet the disease is no
usually fatal moro's the pity.
The cholera is playing sad havoc with tn
hogs in tho upper part of Spottsylvania cour
: ty, Va. Many farmers have lost nearly eN
cry hog they had.
The actual acreage IN California whic
A can be successfully devoted to grapes, wi
exceed that OF France in the proportion
- four to one.
When commencing to feed grain to shcel
n too much care cannot be taken not to CIV
too much at first; begin lightly and incrca,
l. gradually until the maximum feed is reache,
p. T. Barnum is largely in the business
stookraising in Colorado, and has alreaC
5000 head ofcattlc on his stock rancho
~ 10000 acres, situated near Puebla.
10 Elder j. S. Chute of Rochester, n. H., L
Gently treated some of his friends to Iii,
he of green peas. They We're part of secor
crop, grown by the Elder himself on the san
A. ground that produced the first crop.
The celebrated stallion Socrates, owned
h. Mr.. Ralphs of Philadelphia, and valued
sac, 1000, and the noted trotter Camors, own'
in by Lon Morris of Boston and valued ut S2C
900, died recently in New York of dropsy.
> You can get your land too rich for gra
~ and fruit trees, and for some other produC
y that might be mentioned, but you cannot (
~ it too rich-at least it is seldom done-f
'' corn or for grass.
be A farmer of Grand Haven, Mich, tried
". pass through narrow door, side by side wi
his horse. II was n question of human
la equine comprcssibility. lie hopes to becor
ma rounded out again in time.
As measure of precaution against I
'r, spread of cattle plague, the Danish COVER
nd ment has prohibited the importation of catt
sheep, hides, leather, and even of hay n
ne straw, from Great Britain
Nv This is the point of Glrming-to get out
;ol the profit you can without hurting the Ian
ist and there is no danger that heavy croppi
win hurt it, If properly rcplenshed and I
IN land well treated in working.
en- Mr.. j. T. Holman, an old Texas cat
raiser, says that the supply ofcattle in Tex
ew is being rapidly exhausted, and that in 70
III, years steer will be worth more there tn
he is to-day in Illinois.
ng The Austin Register says that Tex as alo
ne contains lands capable of yielding 100000
, bales of cotton annually. That is consider
'no bly, more than is consumed at present by I
'"' civilized world.
an Take your choice between Il heavy gri
49, crop or II heavy grass Tor clover) crop, n
''' do not fear you will lose by the abser
Inc, of the grain. If you want the grass, on
&c the grain; if not, you may raise the grain
1t may benefit silk-worm, when it
I'M gnawed its little leaf to roll itself up in
10 cocoon of silken threads, spun out of its o
body but it Is poor business for anything
o. a silk-worn. 1t is poor business for N
o. to roll himself up.
o.. Pasture cropped short will be greatly h
in by the sun and the drying Winds it sho
ont never be fed down close, however needful