Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-21
agricultural Stems.
Female farmers form clubs in Kansas.

lhrgc scale with small profits
Thrty-ive thousand tons of wheat are
stored at Stockton Cal, for shipment to
Liverpool
The best way to break hens of egg-eating
is to break their necks and restock with birds
that have not acquired the habit.
An Indiana farmer died lately from the
bite of calf which he was instructing in the
art of drinking
10 us of the East the epizootic is now only
a memory, but away on the Pacific coast il
is decidedlya live issue.
The long-wool sheep, under certain condi-
tions, near the great markets, may be more
profitably bred than Merinos.
The lovers of pork in New Zealand are
happy in the knowledge that there are about
1000 more pigs than human beings on that
Island
The Annual Report of the State Auditor of
Ohio, places the number of sheep in that
State at AGA 1893, against 4,3O2, 9Oi, in 1871
An increase of nearly 10000
fine Nebraska COW has been sent TO Eng
land by the European agent offs western
railway for exhibition as specimen of
American stockraising.
query will the prices of farm products.
| compared with the prices of manufactured
articles, enable the farmer to educate his son
MS he ought to be P
Is II not an advantage TO the grower of
Merino wool, that portion of those who
breed sheep should turn their attention TO
the long-wool, or Southdown varieties ?
Cheese made from impure milk will not
live to a decent old age. The most of orr
cheese, besides being short-ived, is different
in flavor.
One fruitful source of deterioration in
milk is the pratice of patrons carrying home
whey in the same cans which they use for
bringing milk
No animal which has the least faint of dis
ease should be used for breeding purposes
The neglect of farmers to observe this rule
is frightful source of trouble.
| The great defect of American farming is
want of systematic want of proper COM
prehension of the relation which one depart
nent of the farm bears to other departments.
In Madison, Wisconsin, careful inquiry
showed that during the past year, in popu-
| latlon of 10000 people, 10000 lbs. of Ameri-
can cheese were consumed, or an average of
four lbs per capita.
Ripe cheese may be known by its having
lost its elasticity under pressure of the fin
ger 1t keeps soft after cuttng-not drying
up readly-and melts in the mouth like a
ripe pear.
| Our best cheese now goes to England.
The American people should be educated to
eat tirst-class cheese. Cheese if well made,
is healthy, nutritious article of food as
much so as good meat.
! The negroes of Lynchburg, Va, and the
| adjacent countless refuse to do farm labor at
any price, this year, and the planters COM
plain that the prospect is gloomier than at
any time since the war
The great demand for Chester Whites. and
the ease with which other white breeds could
be traudulently distributed in that name,
have flooded the country with spurious ami
mails.
A cotton-growing company has been form
ed in San Francisco, which will purchase
10000 acres ofland in the San joaquin val
ley, and commence blowing and planting
about the LIST of April.
contemporary calculates that California
has raised wheat enough to furnish the flour
to put griddle cake two inches wide around
the earth in forty minutes, if any spry cook
can be found to boss the job.
The labor question is a hard one, and
farmers will find it to their advantage TO so
shape their systems that they can employ
their labor all the year around, and thus avoid
the evil OF paying high wages portion of
the year.
1t has been found that microscopic ex-
animation of rennet invariab ly shows the
comparative quality and value of the rennet.
Sometimes it is not strong enough, and some
times too strong, but the exact value can be
seen under the microscope.
The National Stock Journal says For the
production of Merino wool of medium quail
ity, the well-bred Vermont Mernos are equal
to any in the world. They have also, for
fine-wool sheep, most excellent forms, and
are of large size.
At the last meeting of the Ohio Wool
Growers Association, the subject off herd
book for sheep was considered, and COM
mittee was appointed to prepare rnles and
regulations for the admission of pedigrees
and the publication of the work.
Berks county, Pa, has hydrophobia panic
and with good reason, for AZ mad dogs
We're killed in one township alone, last week.
Men, cattle, and sheep have been bitten in
the most wholesale fashion, and intense ex-
citement prevails throughout all that region.
There is within fraction of "a lbs. of pork
in bushel OF corn and the effort of every
farmer should be to endeavor to get out as
much as he can of it. And to do this, he
must have the right kind of hog, must be
placed in right conditions, and fed in right
manner.
man engaged in general farming as his
main business should not attempt much in
the fruit line unless he has plenty of capital,
and also the req uisite tact and energy for
pushing both branche 5. He will find that
they interfere with each othel, and the de-
mands of fruit are inexorable.
Cheese is popularity supposed to be consti-
pating in its effects This is true az regards
green cheese, and untrue If the cheese has
been allowed to ripen If 1t is kept until it
softens down, somewhat like butter, it is
then ripe, and rs easily digested as tender
beef
Several grass plants of the same variety
will not thrive in close proximity to each,
other some kill out, leaving space for weeds
which give bad flavor to the milk and its
products. Whereas, if II variety of grasses
are grown, their roots interlace and the
ground is well covered
The San Erancispn R,JIIeJj,1 thinks that in