Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-04
agricultural Sttms.

ADIIlHllllral SIemS.
Good potatoes and corn have their eyes and
ears about them.
A Greensburg lPa.) hen hns achieved an
egg within an egg.
A larger amount of wheat than ordinary
has been sown in Illinois this year.
Strawberry festivals have started on their
annual campaign.
Four immense Aocks of potato-bugs on the
wing passed through gainesville, o., a few
days ago, flying directly west.
England supplied France with seed pota-
toes Mt the close Of the Franco-P russian war,
and France has sent over IS, 900, 900 worth OF
potatoes to England, this year.
Chan Laisun, n Chinaman, will deliver the
annual address before the Hampden Co.
(Mass.) Ag'l Society this year. The Chinese
are very skillful farmers.
Florida proposes to supply the United
States with oranges in u few years. Over a
million of sweet orange seedlings are under
cultivation on the st. Johns river alone.
Milkmaids mustn't scour the milk-pans too
brightly. A row of pans set out to dry in
Oneida county, N. Y, concentrated the suns
rays upon pile of lumber and set It on fire.
Seventeen of the Burr Oak, Kan, Changers
lately rugged their teams and broke up and
left ready for planting twenty seven acres OF
ground for brother Granger who was sick.
A Dutch Neck IN. J.) man owns sheep
which possesses so much greater locomotive
power in its hind legs than in its forward ones
that, whenever 1t runs, IL continually runs
over itself and tumbles down.
A correspondent of the Maine Farmer saws
he protects his trees efiectually against the
depredations Of the borers, by covering their
trunks for about foot from the ground with
old oil cloth or tea chest mating.
Eight Of the Fairbanks live stock scales do
all the weighing in the Chicago Union Stock
Yards. weighing by the drove ut once with
out delay. and without fretting the animals.
8, l4O,93O tons weight in the past seven years.
The agricultural report says the planting of
corn in most sections of the country has been
much retarded by excessively wet and cold
weather. and that the pests which usually
thrive in such ~ season, the cut-worms, have
commenced extensive operations and threat
en- to greatly damage the crop.
Queen victoria's farm laborers ON her Os-
borne estate. who get only IA English shil-
lings week. respectfully asked an advance,
few days since, but instead, seven of the
leaders In the movement were discharged
and the rest reprimanded.
The Shelby (Ky.) Sentinel of n recent date
says: A mare belonging to Mr.. VIM. Tucker
living. near Simpsonville, foaled a perfect
horse and n perfect mule colt the same NIGHT
the only instance of the kind, so far ms we
know, on record. r i-a-
In Canton township, Washington county,
Pa, u ewo dropped dead lamb which had
eight perfect legs of uniform size, two tails
and five ears. From the shoulders back it
looked like two lambs Joined together rep
rescntlng both sexes. .# ..4.ia.. ..l
Notice was given in the Shurbrooke, p. O, =,
Gazette for u Z" final meeting " of the trustees
of the Compton Agricultural College on the
9th Of June, for the purpose Of closing up all
matters relating to said suppressed institu-
tom
The farmers of Carroll county Illinois,
have a perspicuous and forcible way of put
ting things. Here is specimen 'Resolved
That the increase of congressional salaries,
In these hard times. is an Internal outrage
upon the workng-people of the country
A serious cattle epidemic has appeared at
Pennington, Me-, which proves fatal In from
four days to a week. ITS symptoms are
dropping of the head, loss of appetite, trenl-
bling Of the limbs, running at the eyes, and
the day before death discharge of bloody
matter 1t has baffied medical skill.
Since last July 1914 vessels, mostly large
ships, have gone from San Francisco to En-
gland, laden with wheat, and the rates Of
freight, ranging from E3 to E6 ton, were
unusually high, and have made ths shipping
business quite profitable for the past twelve
month. .D....
Two sitting hens, each mounted upon her
nest Of eggs, were toted over the rough roads
between Lebanon, N. H., and Brldgewater, n
distance Of 80 miles, short time ago and
now the perseVering owner contentedly
chuekles over the 10 chicks that have thus
far come forth from those travel vexed eggs.
Canwell, (SOn Of Stookwell. the " Emperor
Of Stallions,'D once owned by Carlos
Pierce, of Stanstead p. O., is now owned by
MajSr Altman of Connersvills, Tenn. Can
we'll Jr., thought by good judges not to be
inferior to his sire. is the property of our
friend Col. N. T. Sheaie. of Derby Line. The
colts got by Canwell while in Canada, are
nearly all of them Of high merit,
The California wheat crop has come to be,
for several reasons, considerable element
in the business OF the world 1t has grown
to be the largest of any state in the Union;
and u greater proportion Of it is exported TO
foreign countries than that of any other state,
The bulk of it goes to England, and its
amount affects the prices there, and so very
much throughout the world. Its carriage
employs much shipping, and that interest is
visibly affected. also. by the amount of the
crop. TINA. % trrTr .rr 900 .r.o fs1f