Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-28
agricultural Stems.

The government is talking about adopting
cheese as an army ration
Rabbits have done damaging work in the
young orchards OF Kansas
Freeport, ILL.,, turns sixty five tons Of beets
into sugar daily
Two Georgia girls raised $4,000 worth Of
cotton last year
The Alexandria, MINI. Post thinks that If
wheat don't go up, Minnesota will.
II is claimed that Iowa has membership
of 10000 of the Patrons of llusbandry
A farm of 1909 acres Mt Ossening. N. Y,
has been sold for S77 900.
The number of apple trees in Minnesota
is placed at about 100000
Flour is $50 barrel in Texas, but the
staff of life is only ten cents drink
Radshes for sale in the Wilmington, N.
c., market
Chester Co., Pa, boasts Of a calf without
eyes or tail.
Many of the apple trees Mt Moline. H.,
have been ruined by the intense cold wealth
er.
Corn crib thieves with double wagons dis
tHrb the peace of Racine Co., Wis, farmers.
New York mikman goes to the penten-
tiary for one year for selling water without
a license
Quincy, H., ground ss7. 900 bushels of
wheat in 1872, (wor;h 81, 463 $500 into 22I $50
barrels of -four.
Dogs partial to mutton are catching the
shot. gun complaint in several localities.
They never get over it,
Dubuque, Ia, has COW that laps water
with her tongue, like dog, instead of drink
ing as n d" horned critter" should.
heifer belonging to farmer near Wing
vile, Wis, declared dividend of three
calves Que day last week.
G.. Shelton, of Mclean Co., Ill.,. has n
smooth, square made steer, twelve months
old, which weighs leo pounds.
The Catawba grape vines in the vicinity
of Sandusky, o., are said to have been badly
| injured by the recent severe weather.
san Francisco milk is so badly aduterated
that the cows blush to think their names are
used to cover so vile fraud.
At White Pine, New, the inhabitants use
mountain mahogany as fuel. 1t makes n
much fiercer heat than piano legs.
Emmett Co., Ia, farmers have begun the
determination of the dogs. They cannot af-
ford to feed them with cattle and sheep.
The quality of the tobacco crop of the Mi
ami Valley, o., for 1872 is so poor that il
will not bring above four to six cents per
pound.
No farmer or planter should depend upon
one staple alone, hut should seek TO secure
himself against serious loss in bad seasons by
diversity of products.
The muck heap is the farmers bank. and
everything should be added to it that will
enlarge ii, aud increase at the same time its
fertilizing properties.
A Pennsylvania physician has died from
the effects of poison taken into the system
while making post morton examination OF
n glandered horse.
Among other things which j. Q. IRWIN, of
| Union, Ia, fed his hogs the other day was a
$50 watch which an old porker gobbled
down with provoking gusto.
The corn crop OF Kansas for the year 1879
is estimated in round numbers at 30. OOO. 900
bushels. wheat 1900, 900, oats 5000, 900 and
| potatoes 100000.
The Minnesota Legislature comprises for
| ty-eight farmers, fourteen lawyers, eleven
! abun E,r,
music teacher, one blacksmith and one
brickmaker.
1t is said that the Farmers Club ut Avon,
H., saved $1,000 last year by PURCHASING
their supplies of implements, groceries, &c.
in bulk. One of their number acts rs agent
and is allowed commission Of three pei
cent. for his services.
An excess of 100000 hogs over last yeal
has been put up nj the pork packing est,,b
lishmentS of the West, this season, willie tn,
swine have averaged five pounds per heac
heavier than ever before; $1,000, 900 pound,
of pork is the total product reported
There Is much excitement and bitter
feeling growingup all over the West among
the farmers against the railroads. The dis
elimination which the roads make against
the West necessarily creates Indignation
and there is abroad determination to hav,
redress in some shape
Reputation has something to do with tn,
value of products. Orange county butter al
ways sells Considerable butter is made II
Northern Vermont that is shipped to Orang,
Co., n. Y, re-packed, and then shipped t,
New York, and sold rs Orange county but
ter, HerkinIer county, n. Y, cheese sell
on its reputation but not lIerkimer count
butter.
The Chicago Tribune wisely and timel,
admonishcs politicians to look well to thei
seats, and to see that the bit is well in tn
mouth and the saddle firmly girthed upon tn
back of their hitherto docie agricultural
beasts of burthen; for, it shrewdly remarks
"The farmers are n large majority ant
when they unite for the purpose the mer,
politician will be endorsed"
BY referring to the statistics furnished b
, the Department of Agriculture, we find tha
a partial enumeration Of sheep killed tn
past year (lSG9) in the United States by dogs
as returned from Az counties, aggregatin!
99, Ss7, points 10 a loss of ha!f million q
sheep killed, and ms many more wounded
by Dogs, involving an actual loss of ttcO mil
hons of dollars, and constructive one O
many millions more.
California farms ON so big scale that sh,
has to form joint stock companies to ge
the necessary capital, The Santa Cruz Is
land Co., organized three years ago, bough
an island, stocked il with several thousant
head of sheep, and expended in all 1926, 900
and now they have just made dividend o
S4s 900 profit. A similar company has jus
been organized, with half million capital
to purchase Gaudaloupe island, and turn il I,
! nrrirnIInlrll and sInrk rnisinn nnrnnsns