Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-18
agricultural items.

permanent settlers, in 1872.
One farmer in Netawaka, Kan, propose.
to sow sixty acres to flax.
The Kansas Pacific railroad transport,
trees and shrubbery free.
There is an immense demand for Griliz
ers throughout the South.
A beet sugar factory is to be built at Glen
wood, Iowa, this summer.
Pigs In the basement ola Florida church
don't harmonic with the choir.
Farmers Club has been formed recent.
ly, by the dairymen of Fairfax.
There are l2l 900, 900 acres of land in CAL
ifornia. Only $4,000, 639 have been surveyed
The immunity from snow of Southern Col
orado is one of its chicfest advantages IA a
stock country.
good agricultural paper brings lifty-two
prizes year, and each przc is worth the
price of the tickets
Capt. a. $. Cook, of Brandon, has been
appointed Chief Marshal of the next State
Fair.
q. ID. Spooncr, Of Rutland, has sold his
black horse Ned" TO New York gentle.
man for upwards of 81, 900.
The Secretary of the Illinois State Orange
states that the number of Oranges in thai
state exceeds 300.
Southwestern Virginia is rolling North
1000 barrels of eggs daily. Southern pulets
have grown industrious since the war.
by unanimous vote the next Page Co., Ia,
Fair will be held in the interest of agricnl-
turists only, and there will be no racing.
Racine Co., Wis, is said to he fast becom
ing rs famous for beautiful and fast horses
as rs Orange county in the State of New
York.
The bill to lcgislate the sale of eggs by
weight instead of count was lost in tho Mas
sachusctts legislature, only two votes being
cast forit.
A severe frost has nipped early vegetation
in parts of Georgia. The gardeners COM
plain that general replanting will be neces-
sary.
VIM. a. Leonard, of Ferrisburgh, made
LIDO pounds of butter from four Alderney
cows, from April LIST, 1879, to January Ist
1873
+. s. Benjamin, of WOlcott, last week sold
a four ycarold colt of Young Chieftain, own
ed by H. c. Mower, of Lyndon, for four hun
dred and fifty dollars.
! A correspondent; ut lama CITY, Iowa.
writes that over 200 Oranges have been or
ganized in that state since the first day of
February.
! Texas wheat prospects are flattering. The
acreage in some of the wheat growing coun-
ties is reported rs fully onc-thrd more than
that of last year.
| There is TO be national agricultural con-
gress ut Indianapolis, May o. to consider
matters of great interest, not only to farm
ers, but to the public at large"
| ANlissouri newspaper claims that the hogs
OF that State are so fat that, in order to find
out where their heads are, it is necessary 10
make them squeal, and then Judge by the
sound
Joseph Arch, the well known leader of
the agricultural laborers in England, is to be
put up rs candidate for the borough OF
Woodstock, at the next general election 10
Parliament.
The Troy Why facetiously remarks that
Vermont forgets all the hardships of the
past winter in jubilation over its maple SUI
gar season, and chccrfully asks, what's the
odds so long its sappye"
Cyrenus Lyman, of Duxbmy. is the owner
OF only five ewes, which have brought him
ten nice lambs tins Winter, all living. One
pair weighed II lbs, and another pair 20 lbs,
when born.
What distinguished author was it who long
ed for the earth odor OF SPRING. No matter,
every old farmer does the same unconscious
ly aud unuttcrably. This is the rcvival-time
of the earth-worship planted in us.
y COW ol unblemishcd reputation mean
dered into the Baltimore lookup, the other
day, and, getting frightened, ran into one of
the cells, The apartment was so mario W
that II took something more powerful than
habcas corpus to draw her out
\ girl of 10 recently brought to market at
Americas, Ga, II 500 pound bale OF cotton,
the product of her own unaidcd labor, from
blowing the soil to picking and ginning. The
dealers gave her half II cent "a pound more
than the current prices.
II. a. Sumner, of Brandon, shipped pair
of turkeys to Il. +. Jameson, Irasburgh,
April LIST. They arrived safely April I'd:
weight when boxed 10 lbs weight on nrriv-
al, Tom 81, hen l3I. total Ii5, only
shrinking u lbs in the transit
The Bucyrus journal reports that Mr..
John Foulk of that place in dressing u calf
which he had killed, discovered that ii had
a tuit Of hair two or three inches long, grow
ing out of each eye ball apparently from
just below the pupil.
The Maine State College. of Agriculture
opens the year very promisingly, with
large class of students. The State has Just
appropriated $4,000 for its use. one item of
which is to be the erection of Il model barn
ON the college farm,
Jefferson county in Eastern Ohio, which
during the grape excitement somo years ago
went extensively into grape planting along
the Ohio river hills, shows decrease of |
one hundred and forty-four acres, only thir-
ty-nine acres in grapes remaining in the en-
tlfo county.
Associated dairylng is taking deep root |
among Maine farmers At the session of |
the Legislature just closed, nine dairying as
socations were specially chartered About |
ms many more are now in operation. and
others talked of in every part of the State.
So far ms they have been operated they have
been successful.
Corn, which can be sent from Chicago to
New York for sixteen cents in June, by wa
ter, and which the railways will carry for
twenty-five cents in August the same rail
ways charge thirty-siN cents Tor carrying in
January, and this is believed TO be in one
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