Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-20
Asrirultural gtems.

Oats arc ten cents bushol in Stuart, Ioa.
A Chenango county, n. Y, COW weighs
l,525 pounds.
Florida ships weekly to Cuba thousand
head of cattle
Palatka, Fla, is shipping hundred barrels
of oranges week.
California has raised - three-pound pear
and is now satisfied.
We have still nearly 1000, OO0, 900 acres of
public domain left unsold.
Adams Co., Wis, hasn't had II soaking
rain for eighteen months.
In Morgan Co., ILL.,, thirteen Berkshire
hogs averaged 400 pounds.
The IIessian fly is attacking wheat in the
ground in Fayette Co., Pa
A New Hampshire man has converted 49,
900 bushels of apples into cider this year.
Mr.. Myron Williams, of Charlotte, has re-
Gently lost fifty sheep; disease rot and scab.
A Fulton Co., H., man riding on a load of
hay thought he'd take n smoke. The hay
took n smoke, also.
Large quantities of potatoes were frozen
in the ground in Cherokee Co., Ioa., for want
OF help to dig them.
1t will require "a, OOO,OOO bushels of corn to
Winter the 100000 Texas cattle now in Kan
sas.
\ Georgia planter has kept rust out OF his
wheat for seven years, by sowing 100 pounds
of salt per acre.
Ii is dry subject that now occupies many
Western farmers-what to do with their
wells.
Near Ripon, Wis, farmers ar 'liged to
drive their cattle one and twol o wa
| or.
Thirty thousand bushels of corn were
burnt up by prairie fire in Sedgwick Co.,
Kan.
| A California man is manufacturing water
melon syrup, and thinks his experiment n
success,
| A farm in the famous Shenandoah Valley,
once valued at 1000, was recently sold for
$4,000.
The Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical
College, Mt Atlanta, has Faculty of ten
professors and 1876 students.
james Riddinger, of Buchanan Co., Ioa.,
lost l,60O bushels of corn, his whole harvest
of wheat and oats, etc, in u burning barn.
The California HorticultUrta notices
chestnuts from Italian seed measuring three
inches in circumference, raised in Sonoma
City.
Canning fruits is extensively carried on in
San Francisco, fruit being cheap and plenty
and with Chinese labor it is expected to be q
profitable business
The locks of west Texas sheep have great.
ly increased of late, and the coming wool
clip will exceed in quantity and quality any
of lormer years.
The Mattituck Qong Island) Times say,
that the shipment of caulinower from that
place for the last month by railroad and steam
boat has averaged 40 barrels per day.
Augusta, Ga, is reported TO have shipped
over the Georgia railroad, from July LIST tC
September l, 1879, 0s,22e watormclons, ant
1889 cantelopes.
They raise some fine hogs in lIonnker, n
II. Washington G.. Cogswoll recently butch
ercd two that together weighed over clever
hundred pounds.
The wheat crop in the Valley of Virgnli
is said to be looking remarkably fine, an'
there is larger acreage planted in the, Val
ley and Piedmont, than for many years.
The New Orleans hcdyunc says Okkeeii
mckee Swamp, that immense, good-for-noth
ing engenderer of malaria in Southern Geor
gia. is TO be drained aud made "cottonable.
The man who produces the largest yield t.
area cultivated, with the least expense, ant
increases the fertility of his soil, is the mos
: scientific farmer, however ignorant he ma.
be of tho fact.
Alpheus G.. Hubbard, of East Brookiield
has u colt one year old which weighs $50 lbs
The colt was sired by the Green Mountain
Tiger, owned by Frank Hcmenway, of Chel
sea.
From July /, 1872, to Nov, %, 5,053,9O
sacks of wheat have been received at SAL
Francisco from the interior. For the sam
time of 1871 only l,i59,65s were received
The amount of flour is also double
An extensive fodderer who runs larg
number of milk machines, with which /
supply tho market with milk thinks Their
is at least months advantage this "fodde
season. over last year, and that the 'mows
, are also nearly a month better,
r Rich cheese feels soft under the pressur
: ofthe finger That which is very strong
Q neither good nor healthy. To keep one tina
D is cut, tie it up in n bag that will not adm
y flies, and hang in n cool, dry place. If an
r mould appear on it, wipe 1t of with dr.
: cloth
A report comes from Cuba that Il suga
, planter there has doubled the value of hi
= estate by the use of steam-plow Introduce
= in 1868. What was formerly almost an in
= pervious tract, the effect partly of natur
. and partly of inefficient cultivation, ho
been reduced TO porous soil
d The receipts of cheese up to Nov. 30, /
Il New-York, are us, 1877 boxes more than
d 1872, while the exports ARE 60, 300 boxes les
II Tho reason Of this is an increased home d
i mand The highest price during the yes
D. was nineteen and half cents, and WI
i. maintained during three weeks in the mont
T. Of March. The lowest was eleven cent
and was for the week ending July IL. III
lie largest amount sold any one month was
N August, being $50, 797 boxes, 3ii,4sG Of the
Of went to Europe.