Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18
agricultural Stems.

Wisconsin sheep put out the eyes of his
shearer by driving the shears into them.
Even Patagonia is looming up as an arri-
cultural region, and paradise for stock
raising
U. b. Johnsons COW, Of Grafton, Mass.
impaled n hind hoof ON one Of hor horns
while trying to scratch her head, the other
day.
There are now three hundred aud forty
oranges in Missouri. All except nineteen Of
these have been organized since the first of
February last.
Myriads Of grasshoppers begin to show
themselves in Conway, N. H., and Fryebure,
Me-, to the disgust Of farmers. W no will suf-
fer largely by their ravaRes.
Can you conceive of more powerful COM
binatiOn on earth than nation of farmers
solidly organize on just principles for mu-
tual protectionP
Farmers report that the recent rains In
Iowa have caused the corn to heat In many
large cribs and fears are entertained that it
will spoil.
New York City does butter and cheese
business fifty millions ofdollars year and
makes more money in handling than the
farmers do in making it.
Many farmers have been Obliged to re-
plant their corn throughout the southern
part of Michigan, on account of poor seed
corn.
A Pittsburg clergyman found nice gold
watch in his strawberry bed, the other morn
ing. He made no attempt to discover who
had been there.
Christopher Shearer, fruit farmer Of
Reading Pa, has refrigerator, IS feet
square, which holds about l4O carloads of
ice and 1000 bushels of fruit.
An Iowa farmer sprinkled Paris green on
his potato tops 10 kill the bugs, and three
valuable horses died from nibbling the tops
And then the bugs laughed at him.
Whenever the quantity of milk COW may
give can be increased by other kinds of food
furnished her, the evidence is conclusive
that her pasture food is either insuflici ent or
inferior in quality.
Utah has several tons Of wheat left over
from last year, and is now sending 1t to San
Francisco by rail for sale. The railroad COM
pany must have carried 1t at very low rates
to make the sales at all profitable.
An Iowa horse tried to swallow himself,
last week, commencing at his left hind foot.
At least he was found helplessly tangled up
in his stall with the shoe Of that foot 80 caught
in his teeth that II took three men to get il
out.
the presidency of the Ohio Agricultural Col
legc. resigned after the Credit Mobiier af-
fair, and the vacancy has been filed by the
appointment of Prof. Edward Orion, of yell
low Springs, Ohio.
The California farmers ARE largely deter
mined to pay more attention to the kind of
men elected to the State Legislature, and the
first thing they propose to do is, wisely, to
disregard party ties. Indeed they have al
ready inaugurated the plan, and now they
find the politicians scheming to get their
support.
A thin, black worm. averaging about two
inches in length, with red head and tail,
has appeared in myriads, in groves in Ham,
ilton. Butler. Warren, Preble and other
counties in Southwestern Ohio. In Preble,
its ravages have been confined principally to
the beech tree; in Butler and Warren to the
elm.
The uncertainty Of Trotting Pedigrecs
finds new illustration in the claims Of vari-
Gus horses to be tho get OF Rysdyk's HANDLE
tonian. The executor of Mr.. Rysdyk's es-
tate certilies that from Aug 18th, 1867, to
MAY 2lst, 1869, he was not use for service,
while tho records are said to show that no
less than II colts and fillics foaled in 10 90,
are said to have been Of his string
At n banquet given in honor Of Hsrschel
V. johnson by the Macon (Ga.) bar the fol-
Lowing toast was offered: THE Agriculture
of the State-Based upon licns buried in
mortgages; controlled in its councils by law
yers; perlumed with the aromatic odors of
distant isles of the sea; with its cOrn-cribs
and mcat-houses in foreign States its offence
Is rank it smells to heaveni"
Among the trotters doing their work at
Beacon Park, Boston, Is n four-y ear-old geld
ing called Ticonderoga. sired by the Bald
win horse. This colt possesses wonderful
speed. and it is said he trotted mile on the
ice last winter in 2.2s. He was bought u
year ago for $500, but an offer OF $65o0 was
refused for the colt two weeks ago.
The farmers OF Du Page. Kendall and
Kane Cos, H.. have organized Farmers
Board OF Trade, at Aurora. The market
days nre TO be fixed for certain days in tho
week, when the producers and those wishing
to purchase their produce will meet face to
face, buying and selling. The dairymen Of
Elgin, ILL.,, and vicinity adopted the same
plan year or two ago, and il works we'll.
Rev ID. S. Frost, Of Jonesville, has three
year-old Jersey, One-quartsr shorthorn, that
has given 50 lbs. of milk in "a hours. In
four days from the 18th Of June she made
lbs. ozs. of butter. and during the same
four days there were sold and used nine qts.
of milk. At the same rate her milk would
make little over twelve lbs. of butter in a
week.
At sale of yearlng colts by the colebrat-
ed Stallion Fearnaught at Milton, Mass, re-
Gently, the following handsome prices Wero
realized Dragon, $lO25; Dawn, $505; De-
votlon, $500; Diadem, $3.50; Duplicate.
$3.50; Darkness, 1855; Daphne, $500; Diana,
$1,000; Dora, S46O; Dairymaid, 1880; Dan
dy Jim, $3.50; Defiance, $3.50; Douglass
$li9i; Decay, $1,000; Dsdain, O65. Four
teen thousand dollars for sixteen yearling
colts, an average of nearly $s75 each.
job. Wallace, of Atlanta, is said to have
the finest orchard in all northern Georgia.
He has in it 4s varieties of grapes; 10 variO-
ties of scuPpernongs; 100 kinds OF peaches;
20 sorts of apples; IS varieties OF pears; 81
kinds of cherries; 10 sorts of nectarinesi 80
of plumsi small fruits in abundance, such MS
mulberries, currants, etc. He is preparing
to cultivate English walnuts and pscans, on
a large scale.