Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-01-17

Miss Clara Ball has managed tho Hills
dale Co, Mich, poorhouse and farm for the
past five years. and in the most uncxccption-
able manner
Apple growing is becoming n success in
the cold State of Minnesota, in consequence
of careful culture and the selection Of hardy
varieties.
The tobacco crop of the world is estimated
at $4,000 tons, selling for not less than 500,
600, 0O0 and worth that much less than moth
ing.
Dead bats from the caves are used rs u
fertilizer in Kentucky. With the addition of
II single letter considerable material for
sinilsr purpose might be found further east
ward.
sThe western women like corn rs II fuel,
because it is neat and handy,-the identical
reason. If we remember right, why Charley
used to kiss the girls" and n very good rea-
son II Is, too.
BY selecting well shaped tubers to plant
the English gardeners find that their crop
| is much frccr from knobs and prongs: 50
much improved, sometimes, rs to merit n
new name.
The celebrated stock stallion "Ranko Nor
rill, :" has changed owners. lie is now the
property of Mr.. George Ward, of North Dan
vile, who intends that he shall remain in this
vicinity during the coming season.
A California man tied one end of lairat
around his waist and lassoed a COW with the
other. lie thought he had the COW, hut nj
the end of the first half mile he began tc
suspect the COW had him.
Rucl Durkoe, of Croydon, n. H., beats al
creation on raising big hogs. Two years age
he slaughtered two which weighed 9is nnc
s23. This year he boasts the dressed weight
of one twenty months old to he 1912!
Plainficld. n. H., according to the census
returns, has 2l,6S3 acres of improved land
u larger number than any town in the State
while Acworth leads the other towns in til,
maple sugar line, having returned as thu
, product Of 1870. $4,000 pounds.
Wine making isnot u success in Californi
from an agricultural point of view. Tn
California Ag,fculturiSt says, persons in tina
State longest engaged in wine making ar
the poorest, and their sons and daughter
contract taste for strong drink which is fas
bringing them to destruction.
The New York Farmers Club has degcr
Grated into I'M axe grinding and hobby -ridin
establishment, mainly kept alive by the as
ricultural editors of the city papers in ordC
that they may have stuff to fill up their co
umns with. And mighty poor stuff it j
. most of It,
. Sir Robert Peel many years ago tried
:. introduce iron ploughs into use in Englan'
But the farmers refused them, saying the
made the weeds grow. and we have not IL
least doubt but that they were right.
good tllage makes the crop grow, wi
. should il not also promote the growth
wccdsa
o At st. Augustine, Fla, hard wood is
K per cord, pine wood sc per cord, vcniso
If wild ducks and other game are plenty M
# prices low. Sweet potatoes 75c per bushe
J. fish good and abundant; ut the lowest gu
10 tation marks ten cents will supply brcn
70 fast for dozen persons. Oranges. sweet III
IL plenty, varying from 80 10 SO per hundred.
The annual meeting OF the New Hampshi
1t State Agricultural Society was held in ID
id yer. Dec. 25. Matt Head was chosen Pre-:
dent and Aaron Emery. of Portsmouth, Sc
m rotary. 1t was arranged to hold II Farmer
ID Convention of three days, at Manchestc
during the second week in February, nj
Ks that liberal premiums be offered for far
m products to be exhibited on that occasio
rs The net profits of the fair last year we
Sl2s9. Sc. The society now has in its treasu
no S23s0.72.
he MIR. Rufus $. How, of West IlopkintOn,
lg H.. has a hen worth telling about. II
biography may be stated rs follows: ;
N was born of" poor but respectable parents
Id Il being Matched from n common egg can
he so considered She first saw daylight
ell June, 1871 When six months old, had "l
her master many eggs" When one yC
g old, commenced the maternal process OF
I'm cubation. At the age of eighteen months h
tn spread her motherly wings over two broc
lot of chickens, and to encourage her mas
30 during the cold snap, has presented h
with wonderful egg which measured eli
Try by seven inches, tipped the scale mt II
n ounces, and made an editor n rcspccta
INT dinner. She weighs five pounds and
Tor ounce, and is III the enjoyment of peri
health Pedigree not recorded.
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