Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01
AsriruIturaI Stems.

Winter wheat.
San Francisco is getting its first punches
Of this seasons grapes.
An extra large wheat crop is promised
from Minnesota.
The potato-bug is destroying all the toma-
to plants about Altoona, Pa.
Oregon has the heaviest hay crop, this
year, that was ever grown in the state.
There is an increase of twelve per cent in
the acreage of cotton planted this year
Two Muscatine, Iowa, men are sultivating
n watermelon patch of hundred acres.
The grain crops throughout tho whole
Territory of Utah are reported MS promising
largely.
Western farmers are driving the entomOl-
ogsts crazy by reporting innumerable new
kinds of bugs.
Within mile Of Browniield village Me-,
are seven widow Beans. whose ages range
from 81 to "a years.
Mr.. A. J. Alexander Of Woodford county.
Ky, recently sold two-year-old heifer to
60 to England for $4,000.
There are now in this country over 400
"Granges Of Husbandry," with total mem
bership Of about $4,000.
Louisiana expects this season to have the
largest sugar crop since the memorable har-
vest Of 1850.
The wheat crop of Kansas is all secured,
and makes better yield than was at first
anticipated.
The apple crop in Wisconsin is not likely
to be an average one, but the other kinds Of
fruit grown there generally promise well.
In the neighborhoSd of Little Rock, Ark,
some of the planters have abandoned por-
ton Of their cotton crop. Scarcity of labor
A farmer of OrringtSn, Me-, crazy over
the second coming of Christ, sold his proper
ty for $4,000, which he distributed to his
poorer neighbors.
Corn sells for $l5 a ton ut Buffalo, and
hay at $50. 1t rs remarkable condition of
things when hay is worth double the price
of corn.
Notwithstanding the long continued drou tn
there is an average crop of hay in Belchor-
town. Mass. and vicinity. II is Of very fine
quality. and is nearly secured
The vine worm is making sad havoc with
the cranberry boys in Harwich, Mass, and
many pieces have been already totally de-
stroyed.
An artesian well, pumped by windmill,
now supplies the barns ON the Agricultural
College farms at Lansing, Mich, with wa
ter.
A Kentucky farmer keeps well-disciplin-
ed army of toads with which he has turned
back several invasions of grasshoppers and
potato-bugs.
The superintendent of the tree planting bu-
reau of the st. Paul and Pacific railroad is
now running 10 break plows. and will set
out SOC, 900 trees before next spring.
The Kansas City Industrial Exposition and
Agricultural Fair. to be held at Kansas City
Mo-, Sept. Is, 10, II, 10. 10, and 20, is open
to the world in competition for all premiums.
A bare-footed Ohio girl. who walked ten
miles to hire out to hoe corn, was admired
by widower worth sec. 900, and the two are
now one. Isn't there lesson in this
Ho girls, Ho
Several Michigan farmers have shut up
their hens until half starved and then allow
ed them the freedom OF the potato patches.
1t doesn't take them long to clean of the
bugs.
In Des Moines Co., Ia, the crops are
promising. Barley is large; wheat is better
than for many years; corn is astonishing
apples aro abundant raspberries ditto; pears
are failure; potatoes arc buggy.
A cheese factory in Hampton, patronized
in part by the Poultncy farmers, is doing
finely. The stock pays ten per cent The
dairying interest has considerably increased
in Poultney in the last six years.
1t is stated that the freight money upon
the cattle transported from the West and
received at the Brighton station, amounts to
the large sum OF about two million dollars
in single year.
In order to avoid competition with the
Horticultural society, the New England agri-
cultural society will offer no premiums for
fruits or flowers. Much attention will be
paid to the horse display.
A days work for the hired men of some OF
the farmers of Taunton, Mass. sixty years
ago was " from the time they could see no
stars in the morning till they could see stars
in the evening"
Applicants for admission to Kansas grang-
es must bring full-grown "chinch" bug,
captured on their own farm. Some parties
who tried to palm of bed-bugs on the exam
lining committee were kicked out with 9
tedder.
A colony of twenty five Michigan families
have Just arrived in Virginia, and settled
near the Bull Run battlefield The emigra'
ton from other portions of the country &c
Virginia is represented rs quite large this
season.
A farmer in Union county, Kentucky, had
his fences whitewashed. An old no-accOuni
cow of his went around and conscientiously
licked all the whtewash off. That COW now
gives two gallons of milk day. The neral
draws itself.
fox among his hens. II had killed one wheI
It was driven off. lie put some strychnin'
in the carcass and allowed 1t to remain Ovel
night. Strange to relate, ON visiting the spo
next morning nine dead foxes were found
near the half-eaton carcass.
Responsible citizens of Pulaski, Tenn.
vouch for the story that n staid old hen thai
has laid eggs and Matched and scratched for
IA years has recently gone into the rooste
business. Her comb has grown brighter, new
glories have been added to her tail feathers
her age has been renewed, and she strut;
about with the vim of u rooster still in the
vigor of his "teens."
Several cases of highway robbery have
lately occurred in Goodhue and Dehata Cos,
MINI. Farmers on their way from selling
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