Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-02
agricultural Stems.

They have begun to talk about October
county fairs, in Iowa.
At Perkinsyille hay sells for IS per ton,
and good cows from S45 to $50 each.
The winter wheat in the neighborhood of
Oquawka, ILL.,, is most all dead, and has been
re-sown with spring wheat.
The Clarion, Pa, paper states that the net
annual profit Of all the farmers in that coun-
ty will not aggregate $4,000.
Alvin johnson, of Rutland recently sd
a calf, five weeks aud one day old, for SIS
eight cents per pound.
"Claymore," !our.year-olj colt, raised
at Gravesend, Il. l., is the presidents latest
acquisition in the horse line.
The Memphis Araiaiche says this years
cotton planting in the Southern States will
be the most extensive since the war
From one grain of wheat planted three
years ago, Burrel Green, Of Florida, now
has three acres of grain.
A young bearing orchard Of 500 apple
trees, at Montezuma, loa., was totally ruined
by an application Of fish oil to keep rabbits
away.
A Milford, Mass. man who attempted to
increase the speed of a horse by sticking
knife blade into him, paid $50 for the per-
| formance
W. G. Smith OF Bridgowater, is owner Of
a monster horse. lie is now six years old,
stands l6a hands high, ard weighs l476
pounds, and is true in every way.
Mr.. George Wells, rich farmer of Grun-
dy county, Ia, pays Sl050 school tax. He
enjoys it, too for he hasn't child, big or
little, to send to school, and never had.
Wisconsin has eighty Oranges Of the Pat
rons of Husbandry. Rock and Winnebago
counties lead in the movement, each being
represented by thirteen flourishing Oranges.
Many farmers find it a good practice to
mix guano or superphosphato with their
stable manure The special material supple
mcnts that from the stable and gives salts
factory result
The planting interests in Southern Georgia
are in better condition than lat this season)
in any year sincs the war. Corn is up, and
the cotton fields in splendid preparation fer
the seed.
1t is estimated that not quite as many acres
will be set out this year as last in tobacco in
Ohio but it is the very general purpose of
growers to take moro pains with the crops
than they did last year.
Geo. l.. Reynolds, OF Burlington, has sold
his shorthorn COW Sophia" by the Ninth
Duke of Thorndae," and also his call" Sarah,
by Wellington" to j. S. Davis of Danyille
Ky, for $1,000.
A Durham and Native BULL one yoar old
April 18th, owned by NJ. j. Merrill, of Fair
field weighed 1850 lbs. His feed had been
good hay sour milk and u mixture of oat and
corn meal-no sweet milk He is in only
medium flesh,
A Rhode Island man has invented tor.
pedo in the shape Of kernel Of corn, which
is designed for the beguilement of crows
As soon as that offensive bird takes hold Of
it, it explodes and blows the top of his head
off.
An aged farmer keeps no barometer MOI
does he put his trust IN the ground-hog but
he knows when spring approaches, by seeing
his sons, who have arrived OF manhood pre-,
pare to leave home after winter of" spong
ing on the old man.
There are twice as many Oranges in Kal
amazoo Co., Mich, as in any other in the
State, and the probability is that within a
few months every town in the county will
have farmers protective league. On the
10Th Of April State grange is to be organ
lied.
Orren Salterwhite, a Morgan county lind.
farmer, who started for Cincinnati about
New.year's with a drove of hogs, has JUS
returned prodigal-son fashion. lie received
$500 for the hogs, but pleasure trip with
a strange woman absorbed all except 81 80
and that's what brought him home,
Tho wide use of oats, and the ease will
which they are raised on almost every kline
of soil from the heaviest clay to the lightes
sand, have won them place in almost ever
rotation Of crops grown amongst us ye