Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-09-20
A9ritultural Stems.


The potato rot has broken out with great
virulCncc in n, ii.
Apples show bountiful crop, in Manches-
ter, and plums ditto
An apple tree in Danville n. H., 100 years
old, bears fruit this year.
Peaches were sold in New York the other
day ut fifteen cents u basket
Lcmucl Walter of East Burke, has sold his
farm to Lewis Jenkins for $500.
The potato crop of Coos county n. H., is
suffering severely from rust and rot.
Park Avery, of Thetlord, is the owner of II
> years old colt that weighs 1900 lbs.
A Kentucky stock raiser boasts mule lsI
hands high, and not done growing yet
The Texas fever is prevailing among the
cattle in the vicinity of Lexington, H.
=. ALenoX, Mass, young lady has helped load
and unload forty-one loads of hay, this sea-
son.
a large grape crop ut Davenport, Iowa.
has been sold for one cent II pound ON the
vines.
j. II. Button of Swanton has pair of
steers II months old which weigh 1910
pounds.
A Harvest Ball is announced ut Todd's
Hotel, Cuttngsvllc, for Oct 18th. A good
time is expected.
About fifty turkeys and chickens have been
caught by foxes in one neghborhood in Hill,
n. H., this summer
Linscy ID. Ward of Chester has sold tho
David Ward farm TO John G. Scribner, of
! Springfield, for 80 900.
Mr.. Langdon Pierce, Of South Londondcr-
ry, lost horse which was valued Mt $500,
last Sunday from lock jaw.
Abner Rowland of East Burke, has sold n
pair of fat oxen to G. L. A. Humphrey for
$3.50. They weigh about 1000.
| There is littl doubt that hop grown this
season will be in good demand, though it is
| quite probable nj prices trifle less than last
| year.
| Tho late rains succeeding the early drouth
/ have had the effect to cause second bios
soming of fruit trees IN several portions OF
the County.
| Orson Sargent of Norwich, recently bought
| II steer of L. n. Stowell that dressed 500 lbs,
though but two years old, and having had no
/ extra keeping.
Fruit is very abundant in Grand Isle this
season, especially apples and plums. The
former are far above the average of other
| years in size and flavor.
| The extremely wet weather of late has had
| u damaging effect upon the wheat crop i'm
the Eastern townships, causing il TO grow in
the field in many instances.
/ On the lith Aug. John McClary of Barns.
! ton, Pc. carried to mill and got ground, corn
which was just three months and six DAYS
| from the time il was planted.
Horace Greeley is to attend the approach.
ing Wcstchester County, New York, fair
near White Plains, and his 2i-year-old COW
"Old Spot will be on exhibition,
From Vorgennes on Monday 9th 10. 800 lbs
of butter were shipped, and $685. pounds Of
cheese and from New Haven $4,000 pounds
of butter and 1883 pounds of cheese.
w. L. Peck and brother of Passumpsic
have sold go horses during the past year
amounting tn $4,000, being about an aver
age of 5000 each. The highest brought
$1,000.
Robert Fletcher llouscman, IL prominent
English breeder of Short-florns and peculiar
ly accomplished rs u writer on topics con.
noctod with this breed and his history died
In July last.
Erastus Tyler of Vernon, has built a tobnc
co shed fS by 81 feet. Farmers in Vdhnor
are growing nearly double the tobacco thi,
season that they did last, and the crop is the
best they ever grew
Tho champion crop Of rye this year in III
inois was raised by Allen Harper of Bureau
Co., being little over 81 bushels to the acre
on 0 acres. The Prairie Farmer wants tc
| knuN IL IL Gun DC Dcltcn,
Peaches are quite extensively cultivated il
Now Hampshire, one orchard near Manches
| ter, only four years old, yielding lao bushol,
this season, while others more advanced
show II much larger yield
Walter Morrison, an English member o.
| Parliament and a stlunch advocate for coon
! erativo enterprises among the working elias
SEES, has bought II farm in llortfordShre, auC
proposes to put his theories into practice.
The Hop crop in the Eastern Township,
and the ncighborhg Counties in Vermont /.
good in point of quantity and quality, The
acreage is probably somewhat smaller than
last year, but the yield per acre is rs large.
Tho fruit crop of 1879 IN England, is prob
ably the smallest that the most experienced
and observant cultivator can call to remem-
branco. 1t is certainly but little better thar
no crop ut all, and in many fluit-growinl
districts will not pay gathering
Every year more hay is cut early and cur
cd in the cock; some even cooking their hay
rs soon rs wilted, and leaving il to cure
without opening or stirring After farm on
has once tried this plan thoroughly, he wal
never cure his hay in the sunshine
The Burlington Free Press says We have
hardly ever seen nicer looking or more lus
cious tasting peaches than those picked from
u tree in the garden of our representative
elect, EX-MayOr Ballou. The seed WA.
planted just five years ago by Mr.. Ballou.
Recent experiments have demonstrated
that tobacco can be raised in California of a,
good quality us the best grown ia other states
Samples OF tobacco and cigars were recent
ly exhibited in San Francisco which coul,
hardly be distinguished from the best IIavan
| ms.
In our country whore u iive-acro patch o
Ruta Bagas cannot be found within some o.
the states, to say nothing of counties, the
statement may excite surprise, that a hun
bred acres IL that root in the hands of q sin
gle farmer of Great Britain is by no mean,
unusual.
The farmers of Cheshire Co., N H. are bust
ly engaged in cutting up their corr which il
cornfodder is above the average. They ARE
also securing their rowon, which IN many
fields viii equal the first crop. The great