Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-25
AarituLtmraL Stems.

The prospects Ofthe cotton crop in West
Tennessee are gloomy.
The farm products Of Kansas in 1870
were worth S27,640,951.
Good farm land sells in Portage Co., o.,
at S72 an acre.
Alabama pays s16,00O,O00 annually to
the Northwest for corn.
Rochester, N. Y, is said to do an annual
seed business of 100000.
There are 200 Oranges Of Patrons of Hus.
bandry in Nebraska.
A Kentucky heifer was, lately, sold in
England for $4,000.
A single fash of lightning dispatched Sc
sheep for Michigan farmer.
Lenawee Co., Mich, has twenty cheese
factories in successful operation.
Returns from sixty-nine points in Cali.
fornia promise large crops Of grain.
A Tennessee farmer says he can get twice
as much from corn and beef raised on his
land as from cotton.
Virginia beasts this year in the prospect
ofan immense crop Of peanuts.
A sharp hoe is poisonous TO weeds, and
weeds are poisonous to growing crops.
The cotton caterpillar has made its APP
Ipearance in several counties in Alabama.
The value of eggs exported from Portland,
Or, during 1872 amounted to S155,250.
In some places in South Carolina the cot
ton crop is nearly being given up on account
Of the wet weather and grass.
The New Hampshire state fair will be
held at Manchester, opening September 80,
and continuing four days.
Over 800, 900 long horn cattle have gone
from Texas to Northern markets, within the
past two months.
Corn and cotton are reported to be both
looking very well about Quincy, Ala, and
the freedmen are working earnestly.
Sullivan Co., N. Y, claims the champion
plowman, Hiram Pintler, who plowed FIVE
acres in two and half days, with oxen.
The long seige of drought has damaged
the hay crop one.half, frightened tobacco
and affected all kinds Of vegetation but corns,
says the Dan6nry Netcs.
Among the distinguished arrivals at the
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, on june 2lst,
was "StOnewall jackson" bullock, weighing
1890 pounds
Springer Morris, of North Union Town.
ship, Fayette Co., Pa, found a guinea fowls
nest on his farm, one day lately, that
contained seventy-four eggs.
So many of the county fairs in Kentucky
were failures in their pecuniary results last
year that very few will be held in the State
this season.
There are lS,O00,00 acres of land in
Ohio, inclosed within as, 900 miles OF fences,
at prime cost Of Sis ,000, 900 and year
ly expense for repairs, ETC., Of s7,6S0,00O.
In Licking and Stark Cos, o., the farm
ers have established what are known as
monthly stock sales. The idea is to have an
appointed time and place at which those who
have stock to sell shall bring it.
1t is estimated that the farmers Of Iowa
alone have already saved s450,000 by buy
ing their machines directly from the manufac-
turers through the Oranges of the Patrons Of
Husbandry.
There are good grounds for assuming that
there were nearly 10000, 900 Of acres plant.
ed in cotton this year, an increase of 600, 900
acres over 1872, and it is estimated that the
crop will reach 100000 bales
F. Teabout, of Winneshiek Co., Ioa., has
q little farm of $500 acres in that county,
and another small patch of 1000 acres in
Clay and O'Brien counties. He cultivates
cattle and hogs on both.
In Montana they have a Society for
protection against cattle and horse thieves"
with central council, and branches for the
administration Of justice These branches
vary from ten to twenty feet from the ground
A stable at Point Breeze Trotting Park,
near Philadelphia, was burned on june Goth
and twelve valuable trotting horses persisted
An extensive stable was also burned at But.
falo, same day, and fifty horses persisted.
England raised l6,O0O,00O bushels of
wheat century ago-now 100,000,000
year. How came the increase is suggested
in part by the fact that, since 1887, she has
imported over $4,000, 900 worth of bones,
as fertilizers.
Two daughters of VIM. f. Gallagher, in
the town of Cortland, ILL.,, this year plowed
and put in eighty acres Of small grain. One
of these girls, Miss Nancy, did the blowing,
while the other, Miss Adelia, sowed the grain
and narrowed it in.
A girl in Macoupin County, ILL.,, told her
lover she would marry him If he could milk
three COWS clean while she was milking two.
He failed, and at last accounts was practicing
on all COWS he could see With the hope OF
getting another trial.
T. o. GamoaD, young Japanese, has
just arrived at the Michigan Agricultural
College at Lansing and taken set course
in practical agriculture. He is sent by the
Japanese Government together with 200
others now being educated in this country.
The crops within a radius of 20 miles
from Peoria, ILL.,, are very fair. All have
been injured by rain, but the farmers are
harvesting two-thirds crop Of wheat, while
rye and hay are in good condition. Similar
reports come from TazeWell and Woodford
counties.
Kansas calves are dying Of some new dis
ease. They commence bawlinE and turning
round, aAd drop dead in few minutes 1t
is thought that the disease is nothing more
than desire on the part of the calves to
learn new waltz just introduced in the State
by French dancing-master.
A farmer in France states that, between
Aug. 22d and Nov. Sd last he killed on two
acres of land $4,000 water and field mice,
weighing altogether nearly half ton. He
employed arsenic, and caused terriers to fol-
low in the wake of the pillow, as we'll as boys
with stout switches.