Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-01

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The crop of cheanuis about Braitleboro. Is
large.
The crops in Utah are better this year Than
were ever before known in the Territory. Il
In Lawrence, Kan, people who ''cru-
ely neglect to feed their cattle" nrc fined.
An English unframed ycarling colt lately
sold in London for $4,000. tf .t.f
The Iowa State fair cleared $4,000, the to-
tai receipts being $4,000
At Lexington KY, is the largest private
conservatory in the United States.
Cashmere goats do better in California
than India
The Irish flax crop is this year fine and
heavy, estimated at fully double that Of last
year.
The broom corn crop of Knox Co., H.,
will be seventy-fve per cent. above IN aver
age yield. .f..
Mary Butler, of Jerseyvile, H., offers to
pillow n match with amy man in the country
forSlOO.
One of the crops of Posey Co., Ind, this
year foots up to 100000 bushels of the best
wheat over thrashcd in the State.
The last unprecedented wheat crop has
been heard from. 1t is Ontario Canada,
this time that is ahead
Within few weeks over five hundred car
loads of wheat have been shipped East from
Utah.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Daniels invited the
citizens of Grafton to grape festival, on
Thursday evening, the 9th Oct.
Col. John Hunt, of Vernon, has sold his
farm for about S27, 900 to Hon. f. l.. Nor
ton, ex-mayor of Charestown, Mass.
DIR. N. Webster, of Guilford, has sold his
farm TO Judson Alexander, and with his fam
lily intends to start for Florida.
The annual meeting of the State Grange OF
Illinois will be held Mt Dixon, Lee county, on
Tuesday, the 10th day of December, 1872.
A factory ut Fairfield Me-, has put up 400, :
600 cans of corn, this season, paying the
farmers Sl7, 200.
Australia and New Zealand have now
about five millions of horned cattle, and fifty
millions of sheep. -It .H-UuB
Nearly all the Kentucky TOBACCO crop has
been housed and the yield is very good not.
outstanding the loss by worms.
Vermont maple sugar is quoted in the San
Francisco, Cal, market ut thirty cents 4
pound.
The Swiss government asks the support q
the cantons IN importing breeding horses
from England to improve the native breed.
Winter apples (graits) are so plenty i,
Wallingford that they are sold. hand pickcC
from the trees Mt so cents per bushcl or Sl.6C
per barrel.
Mr.. Shubel Barrett of South Wardsboro
has sold his farm known rs the Tufts farm
to Mr.. Nj. l.. Holden of Fitchburg. Mass
Price $3.50.
1t is said that il wash of tobacco juice OF
the bark of shade-trees will not only turn
the stomach of the worst of cribbors, but re
tain its virtues for fully six months.
There has been greater falling of in tn,
| apple crop this season than before for man,
years, 1t is accounted for by the flct tina
there are so many more apples to fall OF
Edward Douglass, of Chelsea, has thirty.
two pumpkins that grew in his garden, bein!
the product of one seed twcnty-six of tn,
number ara fully ripe, and all ofa fair size
Pere lIyacintho abiurcs monastic VOWS,
The childess father has become . spouse,
BleSt with his consort in their nuptial bower
Behold the llyacinth double Hover.
+. Cornish of Bath, Ne, sold horse fo
800 short time ago, because he was to,
slow for II family horse. The same hors
has Just made cal on the Lewiston park, nm,
is now worth $4,000.
1t is claimed that there are in Wyoming
territory 1896 sheep to each one hundre,
acres of improved land, while Mnssachusett
has four and half, and New York has sew
enteen.
France produces annually 1000, 900 900 gal
Ions of wine, 10000, 900 pounds beet sugar
besides silk, oil, and other products; and no
sides raises more cereal grains than will sup
port her people.
Iadoc Pratt of Prattsville, Green Co.
| AN'N Abih WIS ~ liblNh lhNl Nllu uittl II
1870, ut the age of eighty years. lie wa
known as the husband of five wives and tn
tanner of million sides of sole leather.
An imaginative speaker at the recent New
York Milk Producers Convention, said tina
the noise of mixing milk and water mt Jcrsc
City in the early morning sounded like Nj
agara.
On Monday, Oct. 81, IS, 100 lbs. of butte
were shipped from Vergennes. There wa
shipped from New Haven 1881 lbs. of but
ter. All the cheese in the factories has bocr
closed out for future delivery,
The scarcity of potatoes in Western Massa
chusetts has made panic in the market, an,
farmers who have been selling Tor sixt
cents bushel are now holding for n rise
expecting to get half dollar more.
The superlbundanco of fodder and tn
scarcity of stock causes decided rise from
last years prices. One man in ~ H., ha
just sold a pair of oxen, which cost S55 yea
ago, for Sl65, while another paid S35 las
year and now gets Sl35.
The total yield of the new hop crop in tn
United States is now estimated ut 1900, 90
pounds. or about 10000 bales The yiel
in Wisconsin is twice what it was last sea
son. Tho total supply in this country how
ever, is less than it was last year.
G. w Adams of Lyndon Center has pur
chased the Geo. Filler farm, half mile mort
of the village, and moved on this week
lie purchased of tho Jason Oolburn estate
farm and this years crops, paying abou
$1,000. I'D.
A veterinary observer writes to the Prdiri
Farmer that it is n mistaken notion that
horse is better for having large feet. IL
looks upon large feet, either in horse or man
MS nm indication that nll the bones of the AMI
nal are soft and porous.
Western Michigan has 100000 peach trees
200 pear trees, $4,000 plum trees, $500
cherry trees, 10000 apple trees, 10000 quinc
trees, and 100000 grape vines, There ar
also great many acres devoted TO tho cul