Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-01-10
agricultural Stems.

C0NNAAN"s
a Sacramento apple tree has tried 10 bear
six crops of fruit this year.
1t costs ten dollars yoke to have oxen
"shod all around, in Kcokuk, Ioa
Savage dogs make social calls decidedly
dangerous to sheep in Elmirn, y. Y.
\ boar attacked three horses near Clinton,
ILL.,, permanently crippling two ofthcm.
One of the best plantations in South Car
olina, containing 5000 acres. was sold for
$1,000 recently.
Joseph Miller is the champion corn-husk-
or of Seneca Co.. o. Eighty-scvcn and a
half bushels is his days work
The cultivation of the soil is fast becoming
a science, and one that is of more value to
mankind than any other.
The increased price of the great agricul-
tural staples, does not keep pace with the
increased cost OF production.
Twcnty-thrce Berkshire pigs were lately
sold by j. NJ. Barker, of Thornton, Ind. at
an average of Sl7 per head
Trade increases the wealth and glory of II
country but its real strength and Stamina
are to be looked for among the cultivators of
the soil
John Stewart of Manchester, Ioa., Is hap
py to learn that the II, 900 pounds of butter
he sent to Boston just before the fire didn't
get melted
1t is estimated that China will be II mar
ket for American butter and cheese to the
amount of $4,000 tons annually. This is
equal TO 100000, 900 pounds
That is Il sad and wrctchcd home that has
no orchard attached If the boys run away
and the girls don't love such barren spot,
no wonder!
The BrGccrs GdcHc states that, in the
opinion of many large grain-buyers, the bar
ley OF certain Western States is fast rivaling,
il not surprising, that of Canada.
The Minnesota farmers are generously
feeding the dogs, who have a iondncss for
chasing lambs, on fresh mutton; but they
take the trouble to mix little strychninc
with il before feeding.
Hops have become II great staple product
of this country. The imports from abroad,
from Oct. 10 TO Dee. 10, inclusive, were 6,3ii
bales; the receipts of domestic since Jan.
|, 1872. were 2l,6l0 bales.
The cotton crop of California, of which
we noticed the marketing of the first bale
the other day, will probably amount to from
500 to 1000 bales, or from 800 200 to ZOO
pounds,
DR.. Hull asserts in the PrdWi, FjumCr that
the simple use of sofl soap, put on hot, is
quite us electual against the borer for the
exclusion of the moth from laying her eggs
IN tho bark rs the carboic soap and not
onc-eighth rs expensive.
\ raw countryman, gazing at garden in
the vicinity of Boston, in which were several
marble statues, exclaimed: Just see what
Il waste, Here's no less than sin scare-crows
in this ten-loot patch, and any one of them
would keep the crows from II iive-acre lot!
A system of condensed gardening for Ia
dies--Muke your bed in the morning; sew
buttons on your husbands shirt do not rake
any grievances, protect ;hc young and tender
branches of your family; plant smile of
good temper on your face, and carefully root
out all angry feelings, and expect good crop
of happiness.
Under the head of Industrial Progress
the New York Tribune, paper that copy
rights its items, informs the world that "tho
castor beaver is now cultivated in California,
and an average crop of 100 pounds is obtain
ed" Can't the agricultural editor of the
Tribune send us some of the seed, with di-
rections for cultivation adapted to the eli
mate of Northern Vermont?
The report of the Maine State agricultural
college shows considerable increase in the
number of students, the total being now II,
the freshman class numbering 30. The years
crop has been very good, the work being
done, in the main, by the students, for which
they receive small compensation. The
farm has II variety OF soils, which renders it
particularly valuable for experimenting,
Statistics show that there were in 1871
about $4,000, 900 sheep in the United States,
yielding an average of four pounds of wool
each, or l2s,0O0,0OO pounds in the aggregate.
In addition, the annual importation of wool
amounts to about 100000 900 pounds, Ut II cost
of nearly Sl0000,000 Then we import wool
On goods to the amount Of nearly Sii 900, 900
per annum. There is room therefore for an
increase of 100000 more sheep in the
country to supply the home demand for wool
and for about 100000 to dispaco the inn
portaton of wooden goods.
The Tobacco Leaf says that the tobacco
disease has had a very disastrous effect upon
the tobacco crop throughout Connecticut,
and not more than ono-third OF this years
product can be used for wrappers, the usual
production being two-thirds for wrappers
and ono third for filters The leaves have
been so much injured by the rot that il is
feared they will not stand the sweating pro-
cess at ALL The growers are sanguine OF
good prices for the sound portion of their
crop, and they are asking lily and sixty cents
a pound for fine wrappers,