Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
agricultural Sttms.

Prairie coal is what they call cheap corn in
Kansas.
Beet sugar cultivation Is regarded rs n fix
I'd success in California.
Butter is now exported from Bradford Co.,
Pa, to New England.
Iowa has less waste land than any other
state in the Union except Nebraska.
The famous trotting marc Lady Thorn has
slipped her first foal
Nearly 1900 geese are being fed in Alburgh
and vicinity for the Christmas market.
II. II. Holton has sold his farm in Lyndon
to Nathan Ruggles for $4,000
A Florida watermelon vine bore $40
pounds of the luscious fruit the past season.
English records show that out of every
thirty colts from thoroughbred stock, but one
proves extra fast.
The gray trotting gelding Lottery" val
ued at $4,000, died last week of dropsy.
Lottery had record of2;97.
One paper mill ut Fort Edward, N. Y, us
es 1900 tons of rye straw, paying Sl6 per
ton for il ut the farmers barns.
A. S. Philips, of Bardstown, ILL.,, is the
happy possessor of $1,000 cabbage heads.
Many men are content with one.
At late sale of Short-Horn cattle at
Franklin Grove, ILL.,, thirty-seven of this
breed brought sll,s35.
Mary Butler, of Jersoyville, H., offers to
pillow match with any man in this country
for 500.
A down East editor has been made happy
in the possession of handsome twin--pump-
kin.
A prairie fire in Page Co., Ioa., corned q
flock of sheep, 1000 in number, and 500 of
them were burned to death.
One firm in Greenville, Muhlenborg Co.,
KY, has ready for market 5000 pounds OF
dried apples and peaches.
Troy, Kan, is credited with the possession
OF six foot pumpkin, weighing five hun
dred and eighty-six pounds.
Sylvanus Angel, at Montpelier Center,
last week killed pig 2 months and 10 days
old that weighed $50 lbs.
Mr.. Warren, of Rome, Mich, recently
sold his entire clip of wool, amounting to
some 10000 or 1900 pounds.
A correspondent ut Severance, Doniphar
county, Kansas says; 1--WE are all burning
corn, it being cheaper than coal for fuel"
To get horses out of burning building
harness them as if for their usual work, anc
they will follow rs If nothing was the mat
ter.
1t has been said that q mans wife wa
what he made her We believe it to b.
true. We also believe that mans COW
whatever he makes her.
One hundred and thirty-two students wer
in attendance last year ut the Michigan Ag
ricultural College; and they study Agricul
ture.
The receipts Mt the Union Stock Yards
Chicago, for the ten months ending Novem
Der LIST, were: Cattle, 5s7, 1892; swine. 1885
SAG; sheep, 260,3l6.
This season has been very fatal one fo
fine stock more valuable stations and BLOOD
cd ones have died in the past four month
than for some yearspast.
Olmstead Co., Mimi, raised this year |
$50, 600 bushels of wheat, averaging eightee
bushels per acre. this being more than fiji
per cent. in excess of the crop OF 1871.
Mr.. William Wheat, of Petersburg, Mich
whose orchard is trimmed SO low that n
the fruit can be reached by the hand, gait
cred GOO bushels Of fine apples this fall
w. IL. IL. Lombard, of East Montpelier
last Monday bought pair of 8 months oil
steer calves from Henry Martin, of the san
town that weighed 1850 lbs.
q A Maine paper says There's been an a
most continuous stream of hay passing oil
office, ever since haying time. Farmers Al
impoverishing themselves pretty fast.
g Andrew Knowles cut n bee tree in Bat
s via, Branch Co., Mich. from which he too
1 III pounds of honey. The hollow was abo
9 one foot in diameter, and filed eight feet
= length.
A Frankfort (Ky) rooster jumped up,
S the fence tapped his wings and crowed aft
g his head had been cut of. 1.-The reliah
Q gentleman" was there and saw him do it,
! it must be so.
d II you expect 10 make a steer weigh Is
: to 1900 pounds at three to four years,
@ must be crowded from the start. If y,
n want to build up herd of scalawags, wi
!, ter your calves on hay.
y Bees do not like bad breaths, especial
= whiskey broaths. Those having whiskcy
= the breath. who do not believe this, shou
90 near hive of bees and see how il is
- themselves.
n 1t is possible that calves can be winter
on hay or straw alone, but he that does
g. loses twice the value of the food that tn
s, ought to eat, by combining them to hay di
O. alone.
l. The sweepstakes prize ut n blowing mat
ir near Darlington, Wis, at which there we
f ten entries, was awarded to twelve-ye
old youth, with the euphonious name of ia
l. Jubb.
Is How very tenderly our legislators hanC
e. the Trades Unions, and whyi Because tn
70 arc united, and are in consequence II pow
D. in the land. Let us become united, and G
os interests will bo respected.
u From statistics of tho Census Office, il
shown that the value of agricultural imp
= ments manufactured in the United States,
=, tho year 1870, was s52,OOO,OOO. This W
I more than three times the value of tho
made in 1860.
n Mrs. Z. Dawson of Newport Center
10 sold 200 lbs. of good butter this seas,
IS from one cow, besides fattening a calf on I
" new milk, which weighed when dressed
t. lbs, and the family of three using what b
re- ter they wanted.
rs New York consumes in year i50,t
es head of CATTLE Philadelphia, 300 1000; Bost,
ns 10000; Brooklyn, 100000; Baltimore, IL
o, 600; Pittsburgh, 10000; Cincinnati, 1000
oil st Louis, 10000; Chicago, 10000; n
&c other cities and towns, 100000. Total. 9, 0i