Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-10-17
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

From the first settlement of the state
up TO this day, no industry has paid as
well ss farming.
"A Georgia plantation, which sold for
$50, 900 in $780, brought $500 at a Sherih's
sale recently.
Mrs. Patterson, daughter of Andy
johnson and who "kept house" for him
while he was president, took the premium
for the best butter at a recent Kentucky
fair.
The prospecting agents sent 10 this
country by the Russian Mennontes re-
port in favor of Texas for catlle-raising,
Kansas for fruit-growing, and Minnesota
for the cultivation of wheat.
One important result of the financial
panic is the delay in the bringing of cotton
to the market, the receipts of this staple,
at most of the cotton centres throughout
the South having fallen off very much.
The planters will keep their cotton at home
until they can get the currency for ii, part
ing with II only in case of necessity.
But few farm implements wear out.
They rot down, warp, swell, contract and
become useless. Good implements will
last ten or fifteen years, if properly shell
tered and cared for-but as a rule they
don't last five years. They go to decay.
New ones at high prices have TO be pur-
chased. Debts are incurred for them that
muse be paid-and all for tho want of a
few minutes extra care.
The time is fast approaching when as
many cows will be kept on so acres as can
now be kept on 100, and people will fence
to keep cattle in instead of fencing to keep
them out. Oats and corn will be the means
of doing 1t, but this time will come when
we have doubled our present population.
Then we will do as they do in Germany to-
day.-Ohto Farmer.
The New York Tribune is very severe
in its comments on the New England Fair,
and the Country Gentleman expresses the
| opinion that "this society seeks more for
present success than for the improvement
of the agriculture OF the region whose rep
resentaive 1t is supposed TO be-" The chief
objection made by these journals is to the
undue prominence given TO the horse in
terest, and Notwithstanding Mr.. Murray's
extravagant panegyric on the noble ami
NAL, the objection is undoubtedly well TAX
en-. Certainly all New England ought 10
make show equal TO the State of New
York, and one which will command the
respect instead of the ridicue of intelli-
gent visitors from other States.
"A sharp Utica butcher made Senator
Campbell private offer of S12 for fine
looking calf of five months old, on the day
of the great sale. The butcher was smil-
ingly informed that the animal was on the
auction list, and he could have the oppor-
tunity of purchasing her when she came to
the block. That worthy individual was
perfectly speechless with establishment
when the auctioneer knocked his pet down
to Mr.. Alexander, of Kentucky, for S27 900.
She was duchess OF Oneida, and the "go-
den calf of the sale. Another butcher
present spied a handsome toddler of
week old, of which he was willing TO re-
lieve the mother at a dollar and Il half. 1t
] 8 needless TO say that he participated in
his brother caterers sentiments when the
wee thing was sold for $4,000.
We met, recently, an intelligent gentle
man who went from New Hampshire to
Kansas 70 urteen years ago, and who in his
business has constantly been travelling
through Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Min
esota, and in the course of conversation
he said: II have very extensive ac-
quaintance among the farmers west of the
NJ ississippi and do not believe those who
have gone from the East could sell out TO-
day and return with as much money as
they carried away. And everybody wants
to sell out. Why, sir, was offered last
week, for S27 900, farm in Central Kansas
of AGO acres, as good land as lies out doors,
200 acres Of it fenced in and under cultiva-
ton, with corn upon il Is feet high GO acres
of splendid timber and the remainder
prairie, with house, barn and out-build-
ings upon it and railroad running right
thro ugh the centre. I sold last week for
man 240 acres of beautiful prairie at SO per
acre.-N. II. Mirror and Farmer.