Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-22
Aoritultlrral Sttms.

The nut crop is good in Indiana and the
boys are happy.
Tho corn crop Of the country is 500. 000,-
900 bushels.
Oregon will soon be added to the list of
large woolgrowing States.
Two Iowa farmers are "lawing" about
81 calf The costs thus far are 1891.
The drouth in Cumberland Co., Pa, is
creating great suffering among cattle.
It's estimated that Hampstead N. H.. will
turn out 1000 barrels of cider this season.
The famous trottcr "Whalebone," owned
by Merrill a. Austin of Burlington, Is dead.
The foliage is fast turning to plumagc
That is to say, the leaves are nearly all
down.
The potato crop of James c. Stevens of
Cocbrook, N. H.. is estimated ut $500 bush
els.
The Massachusetts State board of agricnl-
turo will meet ut Barre on the third of next
month.
The indications from all sources are that
the English will want considerable Ameri-
can cheese.
y shipment of choice California fruit was
recently made from San Francisco to Dublin,
Ireland.
There are 5000, 900 of rcal-estate owners
in the United States, the farmers being 4,0O0,-
600 of the number.
An Oskaloosa Ioa. farmer has second
crop of potatoes this year from the same
field.
|. N. West, of Yates City, ILL.,, recently
lost 1870 hogs from oholora-siXty-eight fat
ones We're ready for market.
Lorain Co., o., exported last year 10, OOO-
600 pounds of cheese The price paid aver
aged about twelve cents per pound.
Apple trees have habit, when old, of
pushing out snppy shoots along the main
branches. These should be cut away.
Farmers in Southern Michigan who sowed
their wheat early in the Fall, complain that
it is being damaged by the wheat fly.
Licking is the champion sheep county of
Ohio, having 225, 9iO--an increase of l2,Ost
over the number in 1871.
Carlos Kingsbury of Stannard, has sold
his farm to Cushman Waterman for $500
giving immediate possession.
Names wheat crop in 1872 is the best sh,
has known for live-and-twenty years. She
is strong on hay, too.
The Portland Press says the horse discas,
/ In ntstpotiptr IN plnanl lint .,
pears to be u stable thing in that city.
There is no art, science or practice whicl
requires nicer discrimination between caus,
and effect, and more sterling common sens,
than Turning.
The Agricultural College Fair, mt Ames
Ioa., was largely attended. This Agricultu
raj College is so in practice, us well as il
name.
Virginia farmers are disposed to strk
against the millcrs, who only return n barre
of flour for six or six and half bushels q
wheat.
Apples are so plenty in some parts of Wis
consin that the supply of barrels has bee
exhausted and dIygoods boxes have bee
substituted
A few days ago Mr.. Thomas Boyd, of Lon
dondcrry, n. H., while attending an auctio
sale of live stock in that town, was attackc
by a ferocious bull and seriously injured.
At the recent California State Fair thcr
were 200 thoroughbred horses and $50 thol
oughbred cattle, besides magnificent dis
play of sheep and goats, and u fair represcl
tation of swine.
The experiment of locating II large numbc
ofSwcdish immigrants upon the vacant land
of Maine is working finely, and will be pusl
ed onward till large population is gathere
in the recent wids.
Murray Buck, of Fairfax, has sold to l. I
Paris thirty acrSs of land on the Sprin
Road, and also the "Drury place" consistr
of about twenty acres. making in all lil
acres, for the sum of $1,000.
Chas. S. Sargent, whose butter brings Il
t highest price Of any sold III America, III
. who Is equally successful in growing azalea
has been appointed professor Of horticutul
E in Busy Institution, the farm school,
: Harvard University.
Norman +. Clarke of Walpole, n. H., HI
, harvested 100 bushels onions, and. but f
the maggot, would have had double Il
/, quantity As il was, he was too much (
! the maggot by the above amount He raIst
: also, alone and in company with others,
@ tons of tobacco.
At the annual meeting of the Wcybridl
f Agricultural Library, held on Monday ev
, Oct. 2Sth, the following officers were clecte
| Dea. S. o. Wright, Pres. Dca. f. Samso
$ Vice Pres n. f. Parkill, See. and Troa,
Dea. 5. o. Wright, Librarian.
Daniel Lee says, in the Plantation, that :
great deal of land is fertilized in New Yol
by plaster alone in the way of purchas,
= plant food and ut II cost of not over 30 cen
y per acre" That is, plaster is applied to fe
Il tlize the land for clover, and the clover
u plowcd into lcrtilize for other crops.
a The peclcrs o! onions in BedfordshI
: England, where this crop is raised by Il
+ acre and prepared for picking in ls-gallC
4 casks, find that when the onions are peelC
under water the eye is not affected, or on
slightly so and thus one fertile source OF tea
a may he said to he dried mp forever.
> Paschall Morris says he once saved the Ii
:. of $4,000 Short-horncd bull, sick with
o ven, by placing wisp of twisted hay in !
c mouth and tying it up tightly behind Il
horns. Tho working of the jaws to get rid
this incumbrance liberates the gas in t
stomach, and relief Is immediate.
a As DR.. Dwight once passed through /
/ gon of very poor land, he said to II farme
y "Sir, | see your land here is notvery produ
: tive" "No, sir" said the honest farmC
!. ''our land is just like self righteousness
: GLOW is that ?" "Why, the more a mi
; has of il the poorer he is"
l.. No class of equal average mems live
Q well ms American farmers. One of thes