Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-03-14
agricultural Stems.

that gives milk five years old
A Madison Co., lou, farmer is going into
the gouse business. and will buy 1000 to
start with.
CORE spondent of the Liverpool Post
thinks the British wheat crop of 1873 will be |
the shortest one on record.
Iowa is the second honey producing, the
third corn-growing. and the fourth wheat
raising State In the Union.
The work OF establishing Oranges in ILL
nois Is progressing rapidly. Tne number
now reaches nearly two hundred.
Orvin Marsh, of Browington, lately lost AS
good II y"rrling rs could be fOnnl in town,
by getting hung in the stable.
John Cheney, of Browington, tapped few
trees in his sugar place last Saturday, and
says the sap flowed freely.
Wesley Shorburn, ofGlover, sold his farm,
six COWS and two horses last week, to Oar
win Hawkins of Calais, for $500.
A fruit canning establishment in Dover,
Del, has received I'm order from single
house IN London for 4OO, 900 cans of peaches.
Large quantities Of burned grain ARE now
being shipped TO points north of Hartford,
Conn. II is used for manure by tobacco
cultivators.
Upon the marriage of Miss Wheat, of Vir-
Einia, an editor hopes that her path may be
flowery, and that she may never be thrashed
by her husband
Great fears are entertained in Southern
Kentucky that the wheat crop, owing to the
number OF dry freezes this winter, will prove
II failure.
The Ashland, o., Press learns that some
dogs got among sheep belonging to Mr.. Sad
Ter Of Milton township, and killed the entire
flock.
Dogs have been making sad havoc among
the sheep.folds of Ross Co.. o. About 400
sheep were killed by them during the past
week.
Not less than Is 900 head of cattle and TO-
J 900 head of sheep, have been abandoned in
! the Modoc country and are now running ut
large. u prey to Indians and coyotes, it being
unsafe to look after or herd them.
At discussion upon tn" most profitable
disposition Of straw, by an English farmers
club recently, the prcponderance of opinion
was in favor of treading down into manure
by sheep fed on clover and turnips.
A cheese factory at Snybrook Station o.,
| worked up 650OOO pounds OF milk the past
season, making therrfrom $4,000 pounds OF
cheese. The net average price received
during the season was fraction over nine
and one-hnli cents per pound.
, Farmers should he their own insurers.
g Their risks are isolated, of moderate values
4 and losses can never become ruinous IN cx-
1 tent rs in towns and cities. For II farmer &c
: insure in u city company is for him to pay
n fivu-fold his propOrtionate risk.
5 One ofthe practical facts a,liuced from tho
e experiments of Messrs. Lawes and Gilber
u IN pig-feeding is that pigs Of about nine
= months old consume from 20 to 80 pounds o
II fresh corn per head per week. and increase it
/" weight at the rate Of from 1871 to 81 pounds
e per every 100 pounds Of such food consumed
>. Nitrate of Soda u valuable artificial fer
-. tilzrr, is brought from Peru. In one Of thu
:, Peruvian provinces is adeposit extending fo
=, hundreds of miles, and several feet IN thick
Il ness, so that the supply is practically mex
.. haustibc. The rapid decrease Of the gnant
4 deposits will soon tend to bring natural nitro
> gcnous fertilizers into extended use.
X fla man warrant u horse, it is not neces
r snry for him to say" warrant that horse,
Is hut any distinct affirmation in regard to thu
Dt quality or condition of horse made to oper
al ate. aud which does operate, on II sale
+ amounts to IL warrantee. If II man don
n want to warrant he must keep his mout
lg shut; and If he does open his mouth, h
re must tell the truth.
.. The cattle Of New England and the Mildl
!" States command the highest prices IN tn
!" market. Three-ycar old steers in Maine nv
y GRACE value of $50 in Rhode Island, $66
in Massachusetts, SOS; in New-hampshr'
81 S63. SO: in Vermont, S63; in Connection
~ S55. so, and in New York. $50. An averag
" Texas steer is worth only $ll 81. and - Flol
ida steer Sl4.40.
An old farmer once said -" When tie,
am going to leave behind me, ne heritag
-, for my children, the home where they weT
I, born. made rs beautiful rs my means an
-. cries of the home fircside and of the sum
-, summer days. and Il true regard for the dil
-, nifty and worthiness of the calling which the
IL. father followed"
mt A Maine Farmer correspo ndent says D
or has four shoats IN his barn cellar living we
ira on raw bcets and one quart of corn put dow
II. with the manure every morning. The wa
lt,, e., hat. " ha ia
ar ly lovely. The manure is rooted, re-root,
hi. and rooted again ill it is worked up rs iii
,r- as old manure. The stock is bedded evel
ell night"
rly "Of all dreary places" says apromineI
60 writer. "deliver me from the farm hous
,er which many people call home. Bars for
NO front gate, chickens wnllowing before Il
zee door, plg-pens ebowingth house in the rea
nd scraggy trees never cared for or no trees
all, no cheering shrubs, no neatness, no trim
ny ness. And yet lawn and trees and II NJ
ell walk and pleasant fence don't cost gre
It's, deal"
OF The st. Louis Democrat says :-Cncinnf
mr. is buildngR huge sausage for the Nienl
! Il Exposition, that will require the Great Eau
ut ern to tow il across the ocean. after II h
rye been fuated down the Ohio and Mississippi
tai the gull II WAS made in sections in u rnlroi
ne. tunnel, the hog being drove in by the hu
Ir. dred, and then subjected to hydraulic pre-
sure.
ke The Mark lane Express contains noti
mt of n remarkably prolific family of cows. Il
maternal ancrstor-name, "Old Noggy
M NJ gave birth to 90 calves in Is years, viz. 81
new single, eight double, and two treble. One
ave her daughters, Venus presented her ow
IN or with IA calves in seven years, name
"'J three single, four double. and one treble Dirt
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