Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-25
AariruIturaI Stems. .

uhie uso V",VVV oushcls Ol gram pcT my.
Ohio owns 500, 100000 of live stock, nc
cording to the State Auditors report.
The annual product Of hay in the United
States Is not FAR from 2h,OOO,OOO tons.
One hundred and fifteen pounds of butter
in -four weeks from three cows is the latest
Georgia achievement ..-
In the single item of wheat, the product
of Iowa in 1850 was 100000 bushels, and in
1870 1t had swelled to 90,OO0,OOO.
Mr.. j. q. Caldwell, mn Isabella CO., Mich,
farmer, raised forty-six and onc-thrd bush
els of wheat TO the aero.
On account of the small supply of potatoes,
the prospect for business in tho starch mills
1t not very ilattering.
South Windsor, Conn, farmers are offered
90 cents pound for their tobacco crop.
They say the crop never was better in quality.
Standing corn in Morgan county, Illinois,
sells at from 81 to Sl3 an acre, and at twen-
ty-live cents bushol cribbed.
II is the opinion of those best informed that
the hog product for this year will be 25 per
cent. greater than last season.
The greenhouse of the State Agricultural
College at Lansing, Mich. has now over
6,oOO plants growing.
Mr.. Dalrymple, the great Minnesota Iarm-
err, raised $4,000 bushels of wheat this year,
and realized Sl.O5 bllshol net for it.
A farmer who seems to understand the
wants Of coffee grinders, near Fonddu Lac
(Wis.) has 40 acres of chicory under way.
Lawrence. Mass, consumes over two-iilths,
and New England over four-Glths, of all the
combing and delaine woods in the country.
James Clark, Of Detroit, has California
onion in his possession which measures nine
teen and quarter inches in circumference
A Maple Rapids, Mich, hop-raiser has
soventy-ivo girls at work picking hops. His
crop this year is estimated rs worth Sll, 900
The amount of beans shipped by railroad
from Brockport, N, Y, for the past year is
$4,000 barrels. Each barrel contained about
four bushels.
The Lexington (Ky.) Press says that the
hemp crop is now generally harvested, and
is conceded to be the finest ever raised in
Kentucky.
The corn crop of Northern Texas is extra
ordinary, yielding thirty-five to fifty bushels
per acre. In the West the question with
farmers is what to do with it.
A Clydesdalc stallion, recently sold in Eng
land for tI,5OO-said to be the highest
price ever paid for an animal of this celebrat-
cd breed of draft horses
The Scottish Earl Of Dunmoro has Just
sold $4,000 worth of Short-Horn hcifers So
choapl Some American breeders think sim
gle animals are worth tho money.
The manufacture of the hemlock bark ex-
tract promises to make every acre of hem
lock land in Northern Michigan more valu-
able than the best pine lands have ever been
From the vast establishment of the wealthy
to the tulip bed of the florist, or the potato
patch of the cottager, there is in gardening n
perpetual source of recreation, instruction
and practical benefit
Several cattle have recently died suddenly
in the vicinity Of Manchester, N. H., and
fears are entertained of contagious cattle
disease by some. The cattle are sick but
short time, and swell up and die.
Over 100000 will be paid out in Berlin,
Wis, and vicinity, for cranberry picking this
season. On two principal marshes there
have been employed I'm average of 300
pickers daily.
1t is estimated that Of the present great
crop of fruit throughout the United States,
more apples will have been lost by rotting
and waste than an average crop would have
amounted to.
Some one wickodly says that tho reason
why very young girls usually take the prizes
Mt fairs for making good bread, is because
their mothers make il for them, while the
older girls think they can manage alone, and
fail miseraby
The Leicester is useful BREED for crossing
with the common American sheep, MS the
wool is u little finer than the Cotswold, and
needed for greater variety ofpurposcs.
Still, the Cotswold is good strong combing-
wool
Horses arc excellent musical performers
A hungry horse has been
known to go through all the bars of nm oat-
field correctly and never miss an oat, al
though the owner of the oats missed all of
his.
Delaine woods come from Merino, South
down, and crosses Of such sheep with other
breeds. The crossing of three-iourth blood
ed Merino sheep with the Southdown would
produce good medium delaine wool, wool
that would sell very readily.
The fourth annual exhibition of the Lob
anon, N. H., Agricultural and Mechanical
Association, was very successful From the
report in the Free Press it would seem that
the show was nearly or quite MS good ms
some of the County exhibitions.
We cannot expect to succeed in sheep-hus-
bandry when the farmers on highlands and
owlands, and ON tho prairie, all think they
,an proiitably keep the same class of sheep |
they will have to study the peculiaritios of
zach breed, and treat it accordingly.
Tho corncrop is now matured and advic- |
rs from various parts of the country indi- |
'ate that it is one of the largest ever raised |
N the west. This, with the large surplus
oft over from last year. win keep the price
Ow and have II tendency to keep pork down.
The Journal of the New York State Agri-
cultural Society gives a'li0t of the officers of
he agricultural societies among the Indians
If that state-the Cattamugus, Onondaga
md Tonawanda Reservations: the names of
hepresidents being Perry Jocn, b. Tallchief,
md Jacob Doctor.
Sheep are said TO thrive finely during six
months OF the year in the moro elevated por-
ions of the Sierra Novadas at an elevation
# 1000 feet, much better than thoy DO in the
over valleys. The range is immense and
rec to all who desire to engage in sheep
aising.
The late James Arnold of New Bedford
oft SI OO OnO IN Harvard onlIooo e., a. - |