Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-11
agricultural Stems.

In Fairfield Co., Conn, cider sells for five
cents gallon. Job arf
The Arkansas cotton crop is about an av-
erage with last year ana4 N
Six counties in Scotland give an annual
product of nearly 10000 tons of cheese. n
The rot has been very destructive with
potatoes in the vicinity OF West Farnham, 2.
@.
The poor mountainous country of Switzer-
land exports annually more than 100000
dollars worth of cheese
Toronto horses are suffering from an cpl.
demic of catarrhal character, of which
there are now over 700 cases.
Tho little busy caterpillar has eaten up
seventy-live thousand dollars worth of cot
ton in the South this year.
Derry, New Hampshire's peach crop, this
year, sells for over $4,000; one orchard, only
four years old, producing over 100 bushels of
fruit.
Tennessee has the best cotton crop ready
10 be picked, that she has ever grown, and
from all parts of the state there is much re-
joicing.
An exchange says: The latest agricultu-
raj novelty is Alfalfa or Chill clover" Not
much of a novelty where it Will grow, but
likely to continue one in New England.
The Lexington (Ky.) Press says that the
hemp crop is now generally harvested, and
conceded TO be the finest ever raised in Ken
lucky.
On Monday, Sept. /, there were shipped
from Vergennos, l7,Oll lbs. of butter and $50
lbs. of cheese New Haven shipped last
week, lO,52O lbs. of butter, and $3.50 lbs. oil
cheese
The grape crop of Ohio is harvested in ex.
cellent condition. An unusually large
amount of wine will be made. The grape
yield of last year was more than $1,000, zoo
pounds
Texas has a splendid crop of cotton nov
ripening. All the lowland crop is remarka
bly, fine; the upland and northern not quit,
so good but still full average Texas il
one of the best cotton states.
A Vermont correspondent of the Plough
niaR says; used to think there were bette
places than New England for Yankee farm
ers to live IN. am ready TO say now that
have outgrown that idea. a good many ar
; outgrowing-that idea.
Oregon is becoming quite AN export coun
try. In October, 1871, she exported directl
to England $2S2, 503 55 worth of wheat; an,
to South American ports over $4,000 wort
of grain. Oregon also sends into Brihs
North America not less than 200. 900 bushel
of grain to be used there
Not onc-iiitcth part of the cheese con
r sumod in Missouri Is made in the same state
With the most delightful valleys, broad pfai
ries, sheltered mountain ranges, and the hes
water in the world, we are doing very it'll
towards making the cheese and butter w
use. says the Rural World
; Believers in the childlike and bland in
nocence of the lamb, are staggered by tn
reprehensible conduct of one belonging to
Cleveland butcher, which goes out with sm
ing welcome to meet freshly arrived flock,
leads them INTO the slaughter pen, and the
! shows the warning wolf side of his characte
s by slipping out of the pen and bringing in III
!. next victims.
The report of the New York butter mark,
Q says I" there is not much butter ON hand tn,
!. anybody wants. While the butter mark,
is firm. and prices generally better than the
} have been, there is always on hand n stoc
of inferior butter that wont sell. Good bu
y ter that will keep sweet, let our dairywomo
h understand, is always in request and WI
n bring u good price for table use.