Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-24

ne resignation Oh Luther 4. Fucker from
the post of secretary and superintendent of
the Horse Stock Company, has kicked up
quite dust. A Montpelier stakeholder saws:
We hope this enterprise will not degenerate
into small sectional flst-horse clique If
it is to get there, we wish to have them pay
our taxes. 1t was chartered and exempted
from taxation, that it might be a benefit to
Vermont.
A quadroon mule, the foal of II mule by
horse, is shown mt Yreka, Cal lie was sired
in the southwestern corner of Orange in 1868.
has no NAME II tail like cow, u ilckass
head and ears like II horsc-his body being
covered with II thick mass of kinky hair like
Il ncgro's head. He Is II fine looking and
well built animal, has the appearance of II
lively traveller, and before shedding his coat
last fall had II heavy fleece something like u
sheep, and also II beard to his chin. He is
quite gentle, and is possessed of the horse
nature in all ITS actions
! The Gaysville correspondent of the Wood
stock Standard says; If the game of farm
buying which is being played in this town is
to be extended all over the state we would
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offers from strangers. The aim appears to
be to get control Of the personal property,
which is done by the promise of securities,
notes, &c. This property is Immediately
turned over to- or attached by another party,
or bought by some one IN good faith and thus
converted into money leaving the matter for
settlement between the last buyer and the
farmer.
The Wallingford correspondent of the Rut-
land Herald says: There is n good deal of
complaint among our dairymen about the
unsatisfactory returns they have been getting
for their milk sent TO New York by rail
Three cents II quart in mid-winter is truly
ridiculous figure for Vermont milk. They
feel, somehow, that they are entirely in the
hands of the middlnmen of New York city.
The only sure and safe way is for our dairy
farmers to work together by some kind of
organization. That is the way business mat
tiers are arranged in New York, and prices
are regulated for everything coming from the
/, country.
The manufacture of beet sugar is destined
to become an important one in this country.
Up to the present time it has been tried on
cheap lands and where agriculture is in II
simple state. Improperly belongs to those To-
caities where mixed husbandry has pro-
crossed most, where labor is plenty and
cheap, where grain, meat and garden pro-
duets are leading staples, and where manure
and therefore stock food, are highly priced.
A beet sugar factory should he located in
the midst of n prosperous and rich farming
locality, where every farmer could help sup
ply the stock of beets. and receive the refuse
to feed his stock.
A Mr. Thornhill of Crumpsall Green, near
Manchester, England, contributes to the
Manchester Guardian the following story of
an extraordinary ducks egg He says he
, recently found one of his ducks dead upon
her nest. She had been ailing for some
months and could neither eat nor lay. The
body was opened, and there was taken from
it an egg, which we have seen, and which
measures l8a inches in its greatest crcum
ference, l6a inches at the smallest crcum-
ference, and its capacity is 81 pints of
water II contained three yOlks and after