Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-01-24
Asrirultural Stems.
Colorado raises all its own wheat.

A Nashville paper quotes turkeys 8 apiece.
All right-but how large piece.
Louisa Co., Ioa., farmers, are obliged to
sell their sheep to avoid the devastation of
dogs.
The cattle IN Hardin Co., lon, are dying
rapidly from new disease, supposed to be
rinderpest.
Farming rarely secures large fortunes, but
1t does better by producing large numbers of
medium ones
Nevada farmer owns twenty-six camels,
and he has to hump himself to get fodder
| for them this winter.
pair of three-year-old steers were re-
Gently sold by A. +. Kelsey, of Iona, Mich,
which weighed 1900.
Irving Starkweather, of Worthwhile, Mich,
has raised, this year, 9O7 bushels of wheat
from thirty acres of land
The Rupert cheese factory dcservedly
stands number one on their cheese in New
York and Boston markets.
The cash value of farms in Pennsylvania,
us fixed by the late census, was over one
thousand millions of dollars
Farmers in White Co., Ind, are driving
their stock from distance of several miles
to the Tippecanoe river to water.
Canaan, N. H., advertises 90 farms for
SALE Outsiders naturally infer that the land
doesn't flow with milk and honey.
Pennsylvania buckwheat crop is SO UNI
usually large, that pancake festivals are to
be Instituted to consume the supply.
Seventeen hundredto tons of butter have been
shipped on the Erie railroad from the village
OF Addison, N. Y, during the past year.
Indiana farmers band together and run
sour-krout factories. on the same principle
on which cheese factories are conducted.
Clark Brothers, of Hllsboro', n. H., have
made fourteen hundred barrels of cider this
past season, using $4,000 bushels of apples.
Central Iowa has had no heavy soaking
rain for three years, springs are dry, wells
ara low, cisterns are empty, and drouths pre-
vail.
The recent rains in California have extern
ded throughout the State, reaching the driest
portions and giving farmers hopes of heavy
crops this year.
IL is feared that the peach trees and grape
vines all along the famous st. Joseph Belt,
on the eastern shore of lake Michigan, have
been killed by the recent cold weather.
We desire to call attention to the "Cou,,-
try Gentleman" advertised in our columns.
This is one of the oldest and most reliable
agricultural papers published in this coun-
try
Farmers in Calhoon Co., Mich, are COM
planning ofthe scarcity water. Not enough
snow has yet fallen to relieve the difficulty.
Some farmers have already had to commence
hauling water for their stock.
A city editor, speaking of fat rural CO.
temporary. said-"If all flesh is grass, he
must be u load of hay" 81 expect | am, -
said the obese. farmer editor, from the way
the asses are nibbling at me-"
At n late meeting of the Farmers Club ut
Charleston, H., it was resolved to appoint a
standing committee Of six, whose duty it
should be to cndeavor to secure the perfect
organization of each township in Coles coun-
ty into farmers clubs
The practice of scalding poultry before
plucking it, has very properly been vetoed by
market dealers. Fowls may be plucked
with equal facilities and with better effect in
preserving the flesh, Immediately after death,
and before they have had time to cool.
1t has come to light that the custodian of
the funds of the Iowa Agricultural College
has been borrowing" from them quite ex-
tensively for private use. lie is no less a
parsonage than the present state treasurer of
Iowa, one Major Samuel +. Rankin.
Huntley Young, who lived on his farm in
Kirby 81 years, never bought barrel OF
flour and but two bushels of corn during the
time. lie never changed seed during the
time, and has every year had some of the
original kind of corn and wheat for sale.
The Legislature of Illinois continues its eff
forts to legislate the Canada thistle out o!
the State, but us yet with discouraging want
of success. 1t steadily refuses to be cxter-
minated and displays pertinacity only
equalled by barnacle office holders.
England wants 100 OOO, 900 bushels of this
years wheat crop to feed her people on, be-
sides II goodly quantity of picked meats,
about cubic mile of French eggs, and other
things too numerous to mention. No Won
der the English emigration business is brisk.
The rains have been abundant and salts
factory in California, the grass has started
up early and vigorously, fewer sheep have
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wool and the wheat crops of next season are
already confidently estimated rs greater than
in any former year.
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society
met Mt Boston Saturday. The total receipts
in 1879 were$32, $40, &c. There are $50 life
members and 4sl annual members. The
present value of the society's property, ex-
elusive of works of art, is S267, 26l,lI, and
the total Indebtedness $S95OO.
A farmer in Kentucky recently made bet
that he could husk eighty bushels of corn in
a day, but before he finished the job he as
certaincd that the man with whom he had
made the bet was making arrangements to
elope with his wife. lie abandoned the job
lost the bet, but frustrated the designs of the
guilty couple to their a-maize-ment.
At the late meeting of the Missouri State
Board of Agriculture resolution was passed
authorizing the president of the BOARD (Nor-
man j. Colman) to call meeting of the
board at such time and place ms he saw prop
or, for the purpose of aiding in holding farm
ers institutes in different parts of the state.
In Illinois these institutes have been held
with great profit and success,
In Nebraska, corn hauled twenty miles to
market brings ten cents bushel Wood is
scarce and coal beyond the reach of most
persons, and many are using corn rs fuel.
The East and the South want this corn and
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