Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-03-07
agricultural Stems.

man in Oregon has calf with wings.
He keeps it chained in order to prevent
rise in veal.
Wolf scaps in Illinois bring Sl5 apiece,
and some of the farmers are talking Of sell
ing out OF sheep and stocking up in wolves.
The corn crop in the United States for the
year 1872. was the heaviest ever grown reach
ing the enormous total If /. 100 ,OOO, 900 bush
els.
An English writer says the requirements
for II wheat crop in that country are "a small
rainfall, II genial spring, and an early hot
and dry summer"
| The man who wrote to the State Board of
| Agriculture to ascertain what was best TO
plant in wet lard, was iavorably impressed
| by the answer 1t was " Lecks."
| A lady OF Peoria, H., on returning home
from n nelghbor's, found the family COW in
herpIror, chewing her cud and contentedly
viewing herselfin the looking-glass
Scarcely any object is more beautiful from
the kitchen windows. than Red Astrachan
tree, full ofits beautiful and excellent fruit.
BE sure to set one out next April or May. 1t
will soon come into bearing.
Why shouldn't farmers wives attend the
meetings of Agricultural Societies? From
New Hampshire we learn that it is the Gus
tom of the Hillsboro County Society TO in
vite women to attend the sessions.
In England, IN less than century, the
production of wheat had risen from 10000
600 to IO00OO,0OO bushels This enormous
| increase he attributes to systematic attention
to all the requirements of good breeding.
The number of hogs received Mt Chicago,
during the week ending Feb LIST, is ISIS, LAG,
and the number slaughtered for the season is
l,0S5,0Ss, against l,0l7,s99 for the CORE
spending period in 1872, and 7s5 SOS in 1871.
The largest yield of corn ever reported in
Oakland Co., Mich. was raised by William
and Thomas Hadley during the past season
From off twenty-lour acres they harvested
2,425 bushels, an average of over lOl bushels
tn the acre
Vermont has had herdny forhorses, sheep,
Early Rose potatoes and Norway oats and
now is the time to seize upon the golden OPP
portunity for butter, and rival the world
and hold it forever. The laws of nature are
in her favor.
A malicious libel Is going the rounds that
vegetation is so scarce at Cape Cod, that tive
mullen stalks and whortleberry bush /,
called grove, The truth is that unlcs,
there are three whortloberry bushes they
never think of saying grove.
The area under cultivation should be with.
in the limits of the capital and labor employ.
ed or in other words ON impoverished soil,
no one should cultivate more land than b,
can enrich with manure aud fertilizers, be il
one acre or twenty,
James Boyd, of Racine, Mich, recently
sold fourteen dressed hogs, which weighed
in aggregate s, $50 pounds-an average of over
! 400 pounds each five of the heaviest hog,
averaged over 500 pounds, and the heavies
weighed 500 pounds.
The most successful breeders of horses
cattle, sheep on swine, know from experience
that, although they may possess the hes
breeding animals, they will not he successful
in producing superior stock if continuou
growth of the young animal is not Kept up,
A machine for making -four without tn,
use of milstones, has just been started il
England, The grain is crushed by - thou
sand little trip hammers attached to tn
proper machinery to produce the results de
sired. The new machinery is very cheal
, and does up its work In scientific manner
Said Anderson, of England, more thai
forty years ago; "One thousand sheep, fold
ed ON m acre of ground one day, would ma
nure il sufficiently to feed l,O0l sheep s.
that by this process, land which the last yen
could have fed only 1000 sheep may tn
next year rs result of their own drOpping>
feed 1895.
The Maine State Board of Agriculture ha
4 decided that one-fourth of the State stipen,
4 received by the county agricultural societie
c shall be expended for the formation, promo
+ ton and support of farmers clubs and ais
A the societies shall offer not less than one
/ fourth of the stipend MS premiums for farm
improvements.
4 Brighter days are coming-just think a
!, ii. Blue birds dandelons, caravans, arli
I chokos, violets and hHnd-organG, will soo
f sing, shine, show, scent and shrek tina
. spring has come
i Warm suns will shine, and the son winds blow.
n And rivers swell with the melting snow,
A And the daisies soon again be seen,
Andthe teemng fields DO clothed IN green,
n A correspondent of The Maine Farm G,
4 vouohed for Ms Que Of tho most esteemed eli
II zens of one Oithe most euterprising village
= ofCumberland County, gives it as his candi
and deliberate opinion that the Maine farm
u ers are annually swinded to the am cunt {
d more than $4,000 by patent peddlers, VIII
a sell to them improved ohurns, washing-mi
T. chimes, 10, 81. Same In Vermont.