Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-25
Agrirmltnral Stems.

inside OF three years.
Salinas Valley, CAL, raised $4,000 sacks
Of mustard seed last year.
They are eating blackberrics in Jackson
vile, Fla
Everybody in San Francisco is eating
Strawberries.
A good many sheep are made to suffer
from shear carelessness.
An Iowa man is planting 1000 trees on
his 800 acre farm near Ellsworth, Kan.
A great many cattle have died Of black
leg" in Wright Co., Mimi, this winter.
An Abba Qowa) firm recently shipped
$4,000 dozen eggs to an Eastern market.
Reports Of the wheat crop in number of
Virginia counties are very uDfavorable.
Sugar planting in Texas has been Of larger
extent this year than at any previous time.
A farmer near Fulton, Galloway Co., Mo-,
last year made $4,000 from his milk and
butter.
The total meat supply of Great Britain
last year was seventy-eight pounds for each
person.
Essex Co., Mass, has farm which has
been in possession Of the same family for the
past 287 years.
The Mexican Indians make butter out of
the interiors of certain worms which feed on
vegetation.
A Wisconsin farmer, who keeps a large
flock of sheep, raises ten bushels of wheat to
the acre more than his neighbors.
The legal weight of bushel of corn has
been reduced in Iowa from seventy to sixty
eight pounds.
A farmer in the San Joaquin Valley,
Cal, has put in $4,000 acres Of wheat, and
this, too on his own land.
The beet sugar factory at Freeport, ILL.,,
offers $3.50 ton for beets delivered on the
cars at the city.
Nineteen hemlock extract factories are
now in operation in the State of Michigan,
or being built.
Kentucky produced in the year 1872, 96,-
207, 26l pounds of tobacco, 30,236,37S
pounds short Of the product for 1871.
The Wisconsin farmers are organizing, af.
ter the Illinois example, for concerted
warfare upon the railroad monopolists.
Speaking of the cotton crop this season,
Southern papers say that the money paid for
il in its raw state will not fall short Of $780,.
600, 1000
Col r. Il. Houston, Of Pettis Co., Mo.
raised on his own farm, last year. $4,000
bushels Of good corn which was fed to hogs
and cattle
The extensive condensed milk factories in
Switzerland use 10000 quarts Of milk daily,
and four-6fths Of the product is exported to
England.
Texas is the third state in the Union, a.
a wheat-growing state. The wheat crop o.
Texas was, in average per acre, just equa'
to that of California last year
The growing wheat, says the NorvalE
(O.) Experiment, looks remarkably well THU
spring, Notwithstanding the extreme cold o.
the past winter.
A farmer at GAINESVILLE, Wis, recently
found missing COW in the upper story o.
his barn. She had gone up stairs and wa!
enjoying unlimited rations Of timothy.
1t is certain there can be no tirst.rat,
farming where the only products of the
country come from the farm. Crops grow
best in the sight of factory chimneys.
1t is settled fact that frst-cass gar
dener can find hundred places to work al
good wages while the ordinary young maj
is looking for a situation as clerk.
On the arrival of a stock train from Chi
cage at Pittsburg, the other day, it wa
found that 1900 hogs 200 cattle, and 10
of sheep, had been smothered to death.
A lawsuit to recover the value of duel
was recently dismissed from Troy N. Y.
court, the other day, after each party ha'
spent about hundred dollars on it.
More fruit and of better quality i
grown in the towns and cities Of Vernon
than on all the farms" says the Ne'o YOrJ
Tribune, which would be more important
truer.
A Wilson Co., Kan, farmer intends plant
ing ten acres to castor oil beans, this season
He says one Of the greatest incentives I,
immigration to new state is cheap physi
and whiskey.
One can give an approximate guess at til,
immensely Of the coming wheat crop in Cal
ifornia, when it is known that the producer
are negotiating for fifteen million sacks t.
hold 1t.
The season in California is wet and late
In place Of the usual pleasant Februar
weather. there were cold rains and shar
frosts, and the grass and wheat fields hav
been seriously affected thereby.
The wool growers OF Lagrange Co., Ind
have organized "The WOol-growers Associn
ton Of Lagrange County" with Harve
Prough as president. They will hold thei
first exhibition on the 9th of June
In England, billy and dry pastures, suc
as are Of little value in this country, ar
treated once in five years with ton and
half Of ground bone, which dressing double
the quantity Of feed.
A Jefferson County (Iud) farmer report
that there are thousands Of lively grasshoI
pers on his place, and he wants to kno'
where they came from, and what they ar
doing there at this season. Probably the
are anxiously waiting for grass to hop on.
The Patrons of Husbandry in Iowa bel
a meeting at Waterloo, the other day, n
solved "that the interests Of the farmer
have been betrayed and sold out by all pal
ties" and nominated State ticket of the
own-D. w. Adams for governor and Jane
Wilkinson for acknowledgement.
The 81. LOnis Republican announces tbs
the plow-handle is the lever that move
the world" in other words, that "the han
that turns the soil controls the tide Of hi