Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-16
agricultural Stems.

Every spindle In cotton factory will earn
50 for each farmer in the vicinity.
Many farmers in the mel ghborhood of Nor
folk, Va, propose to try to raise cotton.
1t is the intention of farmers of Sedgwick
Co., Kan, to plant cotton and tobacco.
The wheat prospect in Southern Illinois
was never better.
1t is proposed TO start beet sugar factory
at Glenwood, Iowa.
In Virginia, last month was the driest
April known for years.
J. G. Deyo, of Jackson, Mich, has 1876
horses in his breeding stables
Texas says that its bees make the best hon
cy produced in this country.
A Lanosboro, Minp., hen laid thirty-six
full-sized eggs inside of sixteen days.
There is promise of an excellent fruit
crop in the mountain counties of Kentucky.
Wheat throughout Northern Kansas is in
good condition, and promises large yield
The Hannibal and st. Joe road has con-
tracted to carry l5s carloads of bones from
Kansas and Colorado.
The Norwegans of Wisconsin won't use
any pillow not made after the Norwegian pat
tern, which is one-handled.
If wealthy business man loses money on
farm 1t is all right-tho money goes back
where it came from.
An orange tree in California has celebrat-
cd its eightieth anniversary by yielding fif-
ty-dollar crop.
Connecticut Yankee offers to drain the
Dismal Swamp Of Virginia if the State will
| give him the land.
Tho average value of farm products in
New Jersey is 1886 per acre, or greater
than that of any other State in the country
st. Johnsbury farmer turned his atten-
ton to potatoes, last year. and from mod
eratc-sized farm has sold since harvest, 1000
bushels, for $3.50.
The prediction is made that corn will be
worth so cents \ bushel in Central illinois
next August, and II year hence twice that
sum.
! One inch OF rainfall distributes 100 tons of
water over an acre of land-a suggestive fact
in mechanical as we'll us an agricultural
point of view.
If the people of Now-Engand would apply
4 tenth part OF the ingenuity to farming that
Is bestowed on machinery they would have
the first farms in the world.
The Wisconsin Western Farmer says that
a gentleman in that State, has, during the past
decade, realized an average of 800 per year
from eight apple trees
Those westorners will occasionally beat
us. Minnesota farmer lost gimlet, three
years ago. The other day he cut down u tree,
and found in it II e-quarter-inch augcr.
The trustees of the Maine state pomologi-
cal society have decided not to hold u sepa-
rate exhibition, this season, but to exhibit IN
connection with the state fair at Bangor.
Drying fruit for the Eastern market after
the cooperative plan followed by some of our
New England Cheese factories promises to
become an important business in California
The Bowling Green (Ky.,) Panta graph
tells of II colt, foaled last week, which gave
nearly quart of milk the morning after its
birth and has been MIXED regularly ever
since.
The Houston, Tex, Telegraph says that
the late frost killed most Of the cotton along
the Brazos river. and It would have 10 be
planted over" Not much damage was done
to the corn.
The rapid growth. of the pine is shown by
the fact that logging has been carried on dur
ing the past winter in Wisconsin where TWEEN
ty years ago, the same trees were hardly
large enough for oar-stems.
The Keokuk, Ioa., Prcsbytery OF the Unit
ed Presbyterian Church has suspended sew
eral Of its communicates for the offence of
joining secret societies, ;o-wit; THE Grang-
es, or Patrons of lIusbandry."
The Savannah, Ga, AdUertiSer says that
farmers appear to be in good spirits Labor
ers seem to be working well, and the crop
season of 1873 may be said to have been start
ed under most favorable auspices.
The Utica Herald says that milk pans
should be first washed in cold water, then in
warm soap suds, to take Off all particles OF
grease, and then scalded in very hot water,
and dried well in the sun or by the fire
At a recent sale of Leicester sheep from the
flocks of Lord Powarth, AN English breeder,
one ram brought $3.50, with one exception
the highest price ever paid for Leicester
sheep. The average of the sale was SlS5.
A company of Poles have purchased SOC
&C res Of land from the Illinois Central Rail.
way Company near Ashley This is the
first instalment, and 1t is said that several
thousand will colonize that portion OF the
State.
Beer is one dollar n glass in Montevedo
Uruguay, and sheep are 10 cents apiece.
thirsty man with only 70 cents about ms
clothes would be miserable in that city
however, he could buy COW for so cents, il
milk would serve his purpose
The addition of small quantity of glyce.
rine to the oil or fat used for greasing har
ness and other leather, will promote its pla
bility and softness, and will prevent its being
affected injuriousy by the ammonia in the
mir of stables.
The first farmers convention ever held il
Oregon occurred at Salem, few days ago
The resolutions passed were mainly devoted
to encouraging methods ofprotection against
greedy mddle-men, securing cheap trans
portation of freights and the furthsmnce o
home manufactures.
: correspondent of one of the English hor
ticultural journals says "Will any of YOU
readers kindly inform me what tho Ameri
can papers mean by sweet apples. which
they seem to distinguish as peculiar class p
DIR. Thurber thinks that man never ate bak
ed apples and milk.
A few gentlemen from Canada recent,
sent TO England to purchase first-class En-
glish stallion. They were asked $4,000 for
brokon-winded beast and $4,000 for I
"rogue," which is u horse that cannot be de
pended on in race. They concluded no
to buy.
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