Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-07
Agrirultural Stems.

Florida's green peas are covered with
snow.
A horse kicked a fat goose's head off at Tip
ton, Ind.
Texas has sent an agent to Europe for en-
igrants.
English farmers are gloomy, on account of
the wet.
Galveston, Tex, ships as high as 10000
head of cattle per month.
California expects an average yield of 400
pounds of castor oil to the acre.
In Western Wisconsin farmers dowry
daughters with 10000 hop poles.
"Uncle" John Harper has four animals in
training for the coming racing season.
Florida planters contract with their labor
ers to give them one-third of the crops.
Dickinson Co., Kan, farmers are disguised
with corn, and are going to try sheep-raising.
AT the Islington, London, Christmas stock
show, Queen Victoria took the first prize for
pigs.
BY IN accident on the Northwestern rail.
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hogs were killed
Asmall squirrel ut Franklin, Pa, was late.
ly surprised with eight bushels of shelled
corn in his possession.
The Michigan State Agricultural Society
and the Northern Michigan Agricultural So.
ciety are to be consolidated.
France and Germany are not going to beat
each other any more, but both are going ILL.,
to beat sugar tremendously
Five head ofcattle were blown bv the wind
over the highest point of bluff at Sioux
City, Ioa., and instantly killed.
One hundred and fifty men have been
lynched in the State of Missouri within the
past three years for horse stealing.
| An Alabama farmer laughed himself to
death ito see a chicken thief try to climb a
fence with his knees full of buck-shot.n
Two valuable colts, belonging to Robert
Green of Walpole N. H., died on his farm
in Westmoreland recently, of blind staggers.
The fruitgrowers of Muskegon, Mich, re-
port that the recent frost did not iniure in
the least degree the peach or other fruit trees
in that vicinity.
The st. Paul, Mimi, Pioneer says that the
damage to crops and fruit trees and loss of
stock by reason of the late cold snap, will
amount to millions in that State.
A cry for eggs comes up from all parts Of
the country, but the hens refuse to shell ont
with the mercury below zero in warm
nest
The third annual exhibition and fair OF
the Western New York Poultry Society will
be held at st. James Hall, Buffalo, Feb. IA
Is, 10, H. Is, and l6.
The Bolton, Texas, Journal says that the
Chamberlain flock of sheep, the largest and
finest in that portion of the country, has been
sold for $4,000 in gold, cash.
A farmer near Grattan, Mich, recently at.
tempted to smoke out rabbit, and burned
up half II mile of fence and his apple orchard
He caught the rabbit, however
A COW ut Rome Ga, lay down in a damp
place the other day, and her tail froze firmly
to the ground. When the COW got up there
was another cold snap--the tail actually
broke.
England with an area of cultivated land
not greater than that of Pennsylvania yearly
consumes 800, 800 tons of commercial fertili.
zers, which is a larger amount than is used
in the whole United States.
Imported rotten cheese from America al
$3.50 per cwt, is the stuff great many En-,
glish farmers fatten their hogs upon. Very
poor people also buy it for home consump
ton, but it has disastrous effect on health.
The Austin, Texas. State Gazette says thai
drouth of last season, succeeded as it Is by
one OF the severest winters ever experienced
in that State, will result in the destruction
of large percentage of prairie stock. I'm
mense numbers have been lost in West Tex.
as.
1t is reported that large flocks of diseased
sheep have lately been brought to New York
from the west, and that bad meat has beer
sold Inquiry developes the fact that 4OOC
sheep, suffering from contagious skin dis.
ease, (scab,) have been sent there and slaugh
tered, and sold the meat
Bees, when hived, belong to the person
who first hives them. If they afterwards fly
away, his right Of ownership continues Sc
long as he can keep the swarm in sight, and
he can under such circumstances, pursue anC
recapture them, even though they should set
tie upon II tree on another persons land
This is the law.
G. S. & w. II. McAlister, of West Enos
burgh, have bought of Heman Hopkins, Jr.
of Montgomery, one yearhng Shorthorn bul
of the Princess strain, for good round price
with which they propose to cross breeds with
their Devons, and grade their natives. Thes,
gentlemen are among the most successful
dairymen of Franklin County.
John T. Alexander, the great Illinois farm
en- was sued by several neighbors, recently
to recover $500 damages in consequence,
of his having introduced the Texas feve
among their herds through the medium O
some imported Texas cattle, The thing wa
compromised by Alexander's paying $3.50
to each of the plaintiffs
Winthrop, in Kennebec County, was tn
place where improved farming in Maine frs
opened its eyes. 1t was in this town that tn
first agricultural society in New England an
the second in North America was organized
as early MS 1897. This society has eXiste
under somewhat different names, uninter
: rupted, from that time till the present,