Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-04
agricultural Stems.
Alabama corn is up.


Factory Pointers are going for cheese
factory
Upton, 1oa.. oranges talk of establishing
beet sugar factory there.
Strawberries are getting cheaper in Bos-
ton; they be only a ninepece apiece now.
Many sugar planters of Louisiana are 60
ing to devote their lands to raising rice.
The town of Richmond, which is only a
miles square, makes 300 tons of cheese
year.
A pair of steers, three years old this spring,
owned by Loren Watts, of Waterbury, weigh
3, 100 lbs.
Eggs are SIX cents dozen in Columbia
Ga, and they bake their custards in sugar
pans.
The Lexington Caucasian says that not
less than 1000 hogs frozc to death in Lafay-
ctte Co., KY, this winter
There are sixty-seven cheese factories in
Vermont, twenty-five of which are in Chit
tenden county
Minnesota has already shipped of last
years wheat crop 100000 bushels, and
has 1900, 900 on hand.
A farmer can do more work with good
thinking apparatus than with the best span
of horses ever hitched to n wagon.
A Wisconsin farmer who keeps a large
flock of sheep, raises IL bushels of wheat to
the acre more than his neighbors.
The farmers of Saline Co., Kan, were
sowing wheat n month ago Now it is COW
cred with snow.
N. NJ. Scott, miller, of Glover, has sold
the past year 20 car loads of corn, $50 bbls.
flour and car loads Of shorts.
The British manufacturers of agricultural
implements have resolved not to take part
in the Vienna exposition. 'Fraid of the
Yanks
b. +. Dana of Springfield, the famous
Cotswold sheep-raiser, has Cotswold lamb
that weighed Ia pounds at its advent.
There are now one thousand Subordinate
Oranges in Iowa. Two hundred have been
organized since the first of last February.
The tobacco-growers in Haddam, Conn,
recently resolved that Mt present prices the
.
A peculiar hoof disease, said to result
from the sailed tracks, is very prevalent
among the horses of New York and Boston
If you have neighbor who does not take
the FARMER, but who should have it, will
you not, Reader, ask him to subscribe, nor.
Cyrus Birge OF New Haven, on going into
his barn. recently, WAS attacked by an ugly
bull, and after hard fight escaped, nearly
killed.
The Iowa Fails lime works are using corn
for fuel to burn lime with good success 1t
is considered very much cheaper than wood
and answers every purpose.
The result of II recent donation, in the vi
cinity of Ilion, n. Y, was 300 bushels of pc.
tatoes. The living of the minister is assur-
ed.
President Grant recently refused $500 pei
acre for some land near Chicago, in which
he invested $25, 900 at $500 per acre, while
ago.
Plainfed, ~ H., is the banner turkey
town, for last year its citizens raised and fat
ted 5000 of those birds tor the market, the
price averaging 20 cents II pound.
The Maine farmers expect good crop OF
fence posts this year, from the fact that a few
are already making their appearance above
the snow
Recent snow falls in California have been
very disastrous for the sheep raisers there
One man in the Panoche district lost 500
lambs in one storm.
A young lady of Western New York as
serts that when young men eat warm ma
makes them rough. Her father Is curious
to know how she found out.
The Wisconsin, tobacco growers are ag-
tating the formation OF a tobacco-growers'
association having for its object the promo
ton of more thorough methods of cultivation
and better market facilities.
The mice are making sad work among
the apple-trees in Windsor county, T. F.
Buttertield of the Springfield nursery having
lost over 10000 young trees. Scarcely II
I young orchard in the county has escaped
their depredatiOns.
of the crops in Sedgwick Co., Kan, the
Wichita Eagle says; The past winter has
been unusually fine for fall wheat, rs we
have had frequent SHOWS and no long freezes
As II consequence, wheat throughout the
country promises splendidly.
One hundred sheep, with plenty of good
bedding, will, during the ordinary feeding
time in winter produce about forty two.
horse wagon-loads Of manure, which is far
more valuable rs fertilizer than that of Ell.
Their horses or cows.
Thus far this season fourteen cargoes OF
wheat have been cleared from Portland, Or,
to Great Britain direct, the total aggregat.
ing $40, 900 centals. valued ut $4S7, 900. This
is by far the largest number of wheat cargoes
ever shipped from that port during single
season.
Colorado has been Dragging of her beauti.
full weather all the past winter, but now the
people are signing for some of the beautiful
snow to moisten the dry earth, which is SC
hard that II is almost impossible 10 pillow, and
unless relief comes soon, crop prospects will
be damaged.
The first milk drawn from the COW is the
poorest, the last the richest; indeed, the
strippings if the COW has been at rest, as in
the morning, are nearly, or quite, rs rich AS
cream. For rs the milk stands in the uddel
the bottom Is drawn first and the top last
and it takes its natural position there, pre-,
cisely rs in the pan when set,
Some of the Oregon flax was some time
ago forwarded to be tested at the Belfast
manufactures, Ireland. 1t has just been re.
turned in the shape of battlefield flax, ready
for the spinner. At the Belfast works it was
pronounced of excellent quality, and capable
of being manufactured into as fine linen as
the world produces The test was made
with view of introducing the manufacture
Of linen into Oregon.
b. Whitney, of FranRin, has sold the fol-