Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-11-21
THE VERMONT PHOENIX RArrEBoEO, VIZ, NOVEMBER a. 1873
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.


A grange with sixty-two members was
organized at Waitsfeld, this State, last
week.
California pays 81 600, 900 year TO Scot
land for wheat bags.
Western cattle are being exported In
considerable numbers TO England.
The St. Paul Press estimates the aver
age yield of wheat in Minnesota at l7l bush
els an acre.
There are now FIVE Oranges of Pail ons
of Husbandry in franklin County, Mass,
viz. nc Greengeld, Deelfield, Northfield,
Thirteen million acres of public lands
were disposed of, last year, including 4,799,-
900 for homesteads, GOs3,350 certified TO
railroads, and 1926, 1856 for cash.
Conway and South Deeriield.
The hest crop of apples ever grown in
Aruostook County. Me-, has been gathered
this year, and the fruit is being exported at
high prices.
Owing TO the high price of coffee, many
of the Georgia people are going back to the
roasted persimmon seed, okra and sweet
potatoes Of war times.
A good deal OF the fleece of the cash
mere goat, bred on the Pacific slope, is now
being brought to the East, and some Of il is
worth So 20 per pound.
1t is stated that not less than $4,000
sheep and lambs will be driven from Aroos-
took, Me-, this fall Large droves of cattle
also are continually on the road to Dan
forth, where they TAX the ears for Bright
on.
A great demonstration was to he held
in London. in Cremorne Gardens, on or
about the 18th of the month, in favor of ex-
tending the franchise TO the agricultural la
borers. The demonstration is TO he the
| irst of a series, and 1t was intended that 1t
should be gigantic In its proportions.
In Southern and Central Illinois, straw
| berry growers are troubled by Il small, fine,
white grub which works in the lower part
of the crown, eating it out and killing the
plant. From one to eight grubs are found
in one plant. No successful preventive has
been discovered.
! The artificial butter machine going in
San Francisco is equal to six tons of bogus
butter a day. There is one farm with 5000
cows on it in California that makes a ton of
butter day; but the milk of the living
COW is thus nothing by the side of the dead
steer.
Give the strawberry beds a good cover
ing with finely decayed manure, or if hard
wood ashes can be procured sprinkle them
all over the bed. When it freezes hard
cover the plants with leaves. hemlock
boughs CT litter.
niu n en- IF nj FIR I,a ,vi nj n
just before the ground freezes solid, and
pack them in sand in the cellar. Leave the
greater quantity in the ground, for they are
delicious for the table in March and April
or as early as they can be dug.
"A farmer in the vicinity of San Diego
Cal, has discovered a new use for the aka.
Ii springs which abound in that vicinity
lie uses them for washing his sheep, before
shearing, the strong alkali removing every
Particle of dirt and grease and leaving the
fleece perfectly white.
-"W. Il. J.,' of Hardwick, Mass, whc
has kept cows for nearly thirty years, and
who has tried both open and tight barns
writes that he finds the latter far preferable
in our cold climate, but he would have the
barn so constructed that il can be thorough
ly ventilated at pleasure.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
State Agricultural Society and Wool Grow
ers' Association was held at Burlington or
Wedn csday, Nov. II. 1t was reported tina
the expenses Of the last fair were S699i, ant
the receipts SG9G3, leaving Il deficit of SAL
The Hon. William II. Sanford was elected
Pre- sldent for the ensuing year. Col. Ed
win S. Stowell OF Cornwall was elected del
eSate 20 the National Wool Growers Asso
cialion.