Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-27
agricultural Stems.

hog that weighed ssl lbs, dressed.
Cincinnati lost AL horses by the epizootic
IN four weeks. "a -N.e-- -r+ W ~ ~
- A WISCONSIN paper ndvertises Tor safe
COW that gives milk five years old.Y rrAT
Chelsea, Mass, has wretch who recent
~ cut out the tongue ola horse to spite It's
owner. .a
The famous stallion dodge Morrill, died
At his owners stable, Mt Worthwhile, last
week OF the dropsco epizootlc. .eat
The largest cotton crop in California, the
past season, was raised by u Derrick-a Mr..
Thos. Derrick of Sonoma.
During two days of the past season the
Shakers community Mt Canterbury, N. H.,
picked so bushels Of huckleberries.
The Ohio Dairymen's Association, Col. S.
ID. Harris, SEQ, Cleveland, will hold its ninth
annual meeting in that city Jan ~ and
90. ..t...I...
Quo family Of brothers ut Greeley raised
this summer 1000 bushels of potatoes, which
is considered very well for second year in
Colorado
In England, this year, 1882 head of short
horn cattle have been sold for about $685.
900. The average price was not far from
$780, and tho highest s7,95O. ..-.. .eg.,
England hns another mammoth cucum-
ber the "Toang Qua Itrcsembles extern
ally large water melon, and, as its name
indicates, is direct from China.
One hive of Italian bees ut the Michigan
Agricultural College produced this year
three new swnrms, valued Mt $40, and 282
pounds of honey which sold for $500.
immigration statistics for the present year
show that the arrivals from England arc
largely on the increase, that country being
even ahead of Ireland, and second to Ger
many alone.
According to The ~. Paul Press, about
1000 barrels of Wisconsin and Minnesota
cinnberries have been brought into that city
this season, and the prices Mt retail range
from 80 so to SO per bushol.
Winthrop. Me-, is famous for its Jerseys,
this breed being kept in large numbers in
that town where they aru held in very high
esteem. A lot of fourteen animals, two bulls
and twelve cows recently went from that
town to Colorado.
Dogs, cats, hens and other domestic ami
mails are supposed to be afflicted with the
epizoouc in some parts of Hampshire county,
Mass. 1t is apprehcnded that hitch-posts,
wheelbarrows and ddmp-carts will develop
symptoms of the epidemic next. ..
Peter Henderson writes to Hearth and
Home that, while American cities are far be-
hind London 10 growing plants for window
adornment we consume, in proportion 10
population, fully ten times rs great n guam
tity of cut flowers.
Nathan I. Bolton, of n. Monroe, n. H.,
has lost two shoats. When he fed them nj
night they ate their supper we'll and next
morning he found them both dead. Some
others in the town have died thus suddenly.
A number of Long Island farmers are
said to have undertaken to keep the streets
in parts of the city of Brooklyn clean, for
the sake of the manure they thus collect
Here is strong hint for many husbandmen
who live in the neighborhood of country
towns
A correspondent of the Prdirie Farmer de
soribes n fence made by planting trees eight
feet apart, morticing into their sides and in
serting rails He thinks the wood will close
over the ends of the rails faster than they
will decay, and the fence will last long
time.
Tho horse disease is now extending along
the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, in which
locality it it has been ascertaned that while
for slow work, oxen are very useful rs sub
stitutes, cows are much livclier and fuller o.
spirit, and, consequently, far more suitable
for tho festive light wagon.
The land department of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company sold, during the month
of October, 20,657 acres for SOC $40, an NV
erage of -, 80 per acre, The total sale from
July %, 90, to the present date is 6i9,05
acres at - % per acre, or S2,757,3 07 in thu
aggregate.
According to Ths Irish TURNER'S GdyeHe
the proportion of dead to live weight Of pig
is generally thrce-fourths of the live weight
when well flttcned; but the dead weight o
the improved breeds, when very fat, is FIRE
quently four-lifths Or more of the liv,
weight.
Mr.. G.. G. Chase. of North Monroe, n. IL.
.llled hog Nov. 10 that dressed 5i5 lbs. Dec
3D., he butchered another that dressed 900 lbs
and Albert Mason on the ith, one that dress
cd 500 lbs. S. Way on the 9th slew one tina
dressed 5O7 lbs and same day Curtis Paddle
ford two that dressed 1884 and 1914 pounds
Lincoln sheep are looming up as the com
ing long-wools. They are hardy and prolific
one-third of the ewes produce pairs of lambs
riplets are common and tours not grea
rarity. A pen of yearling ewes of this breed
were exhibited ut the Newly York State Fair
the past season, which weighed an average
of 3iG pounds.
The lady in Leeds England, who distrib
utes hyacinths and other bulbs among tn,
Sabbath-school children, us prizes to b.
awarded to the most successful cultivators
is thought to have served her generation n
much ms if she had invested like amour
of money in books about good little boys anC
girls who died young.
Augustus NhllmnDi Oh nltcnDulB, MISS
in an experiment to compare the value o
different feeds, found that two large cow
ate twenty-eight pounds each of good, dr.,
hay, per day, without other feed. Mr.. l.. +
Scott found that good-sizod COW belonging
to him average twenty-five pounds of goo'
hay per day. In another case dairy Of cow
averaged twenty-five pounds per day through
the winter,
Joseph Harris ("WalkS and Tdlhs'O pro
poses TO sue the owners of three dogs whicl
killed some of his thoroughbred Merinoe
and Cotswolds the day he went to the Stat
Fair, and he hopes the verdict will be of
character toconvinoe some of his good neigh
bors that keeping pack of halfstarved cur
of low degree in the vicinity Of q valuable
flock of sheep is luxury too expensive to b.