Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-11
agricultural STEMS.
Florida raises green roses.

llhnss raises n tobacco crop worth more
than 80 10000 yearly.
Reports of the crops in Georgia are gem
orally highly favorable.
Crickets are doing much damage to crops
IN some parts Of Oregon.
Cattle men through from Texas report
that grass is good and water plenty.
South Carolina FARMERS advertise for gcesu
tn clear the grass out Of their crops.
The Michigan peach crop will be only one
quarter MS large Ne usual, this year
Mr.. Merry, owner of the English racer
" Doncaster," has refused $40. 900 for him.
A Hoosicr girl walked so miles In two days.
barofooted and hired out in Indiana to hny
and hoe corn.
In New York in the suit as to the trotting
mare Nonesuch. "cribbinE" is pronounced
blemish and net habit.
The great question ISL" How much is
for the sharks and how much for the farm
erp"
More land has been pre-emptcd in Pueblo
Co., Cal, this year than in any previous
year.
An Ohio professor puts calonol on his POI
tRto plants, and salivates the bugs till they
l"ss their teeth and are rendered harmless.
Why do SO many plant maple. when the
elm grows faster and is handsomer and
cleaner and so thrifty even ON hard clayP Get
the trailing ones.
The fruit region around st. Joseph, Mich,
is suffering sadly for rain. The strawberry
fields are blightsd by the drouth and will
yield much less than halfa crop.
Adirondack Murray is to deliver the adj
dress ut the annual fair Of the New England
Agricultural Society on Mystic Park, near
Boston, the first week IN September.
A high-mettled horse, though he will fly to
avoid the touch of a whip, is not in actual
fear of it. because his high spirit never rem
ders it necessary to severely punish him with
it.
The burnt district in Wisconsin is again
suffering from the ravages ofthe army worm
which is said to be marching through the
farm lands again this spring, destroying ov-
erything in its path.
The Earl Of Leicester, Oh whom Queer
Victoria has conferred the Order of the Gar.
ter. vacant by the death OF Lord Zetland, is
n special favorite Of Her Majesty, and the
greatest agriculturist of his class in England
Only week or two since, Maine was con-
graduating herself upon the prospect Of I
larger hay and grain crop than ever before
but now the drouth has damaged these TIVE
staples so badlyIhat n very meager crop viii
be the result.
A story is told of the late Judge GriVr o
the Supreme Court, how he set aside the un
just verdict Of n jury against an unpopua
man with this remark, Enter the verdict
Mr.. Clerk; enter also set aside by tho
court; want it to be understood that /
takes thirteen men to steal mans farm il
this courtn
At sale at Bloomington. H., ola part o
the Chesterfield herd of Kentucky Short.
horns, twenty-four cows and heifers averaged
S3l2. the prices ranging as high as s7l5
Three bulls brought an average of 1902 zach
Thirty head Of Berkshire hogs sold at an av.
erags of $40, running from $40 TO $3.50.
A New York bee keeper says to smudg,
bees he uses corn silk, and likes it better
than anything he has before tried. 1t is abou
the same texture rs tobacco, burns readily
giving n good, thick smoke. 1t is cheap anC
can be obtained in any qua nifty Mt huskin:
time and enough for N trial can be obtained
| from, any farn,aris corn orih
| Hear this from Arkansas, ye parched and
and painting and ye that arc choked with
dust: Crops Of cotton along the Memphis
and Little Rock road ARE utterly lost in gras:
and weeds Rains have fallen incessantl,
for 40 days. and the prairies and lowland
are endless lakes. The Mississippi is low
enough but its whole valley is submerged.
The profits of farming should consist, in
large measure, in the improvement of tn
farm itself and its belongings, and there cal
he no better investment than this. That !
very poor farming, if worthy to be calle'
farming, which though it may nominal.
show cash balance, leaves the homestead il
II worse instead of II better condition than /
| found 1t.
There are 1870 persons in the New Swedel
srttlrm eht in Maine, besides the many n
work in the tannery ut Kingman, in the Slat
quarries, and iron works in other parts o
the State. The number of acres IN crop
this year, besides land sown to grass, i
about $50 acres. There have been 30 death
in the colony since il was founded, and o
births. Forty children have been bap tized
and ten couples married.
A Madison, Conn, farmer has the super
sttiUn that hens Should be trained to reOs
with their heads to the north, in order t.
make them lay bountifully. Acting upon
this idea, he invariably visits his hennery ev
cry night, and If he finds that any biddy
through fsrgetfulnsss or u spirit Of contrari
ness, has placed herself upon the roost con
trary to the above rule, she is immediatel
righted.
There are 40 oranges, with membership
OF over 1000. in Bourbon county, Kan, an
their association has already resulted in pro
curing agricultural implements at half thei
former prices, and general supplies at an nv
erage of % per cent less. They are prepar
ing to build mill to grind their own grain
and contemplate the incorporation of q con
pany to manufacture their implements.
The state commission of domestic animal
met with the state veterinary surgeon a
Hartford, Ct, recently, and decided that th
cattle disease, several cases Of which hav
been recently reported, is not pleuro-pneumC
ma, butts splenic apoplexy, the symptoms {
which are n high fever, contraction of thu
muscles, and wild and unsteady conduct
Death ensues in from ono to five days. 1t
hot contagious; but if the meat of an anImi
dying with it Is eaten, it operates as dead
poison with animals, and possibly with mel
The United States commissioner of agr
culture reports that the total estimated pr,
duction of wheat In the United States,
1879, WAS 249, 997, 900 bushels, AN increai
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