Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-01-03
agricultural Strms.

ing colt which weighs 1890 lbs.
North Stonington, Conn, has furnished
over $4,000 pounds of poultry for the market
his season.
The Wisconsin Agricultural Convention
meets ut Madison, the first week in Fobru-
lry.
The Indiana State Board Of Agriculture
meets the first Tuesday in january, ut Indi-
annapolis, Ind.
The Ohio State Board OF Agriculture meets
the second Wednesday in january, Mt Column
bus, Ohio.
The common run of turkeys sent to the
New York market do not average more than
eight or nine pounds.
Bone meal for fowls must be perfectly
bones ground for fertilizers, containing pu-
crescent animal matter.
The Illinois State Board OF Agriculture
meets at Springfield on the first Tuesday in
January, to close up Its business. The new
board meets the succeeding Tuesday.
A beautiful belle of Minneapolis was re-
Gently run away with by short-horned hcil-
er, which she was driving along the avenue
attached to Il cdtter.
Central Iowa is dry spot justine There
has not been II heavy, soaking RAIN there for
three years, and winter has set in upon
springs, wells and cisterns nearly dried up.
a farmer in Iowa hauled load OF corn
to Dies Moincs, and with him went his wife
ID charge of tweuty-four chickens. After
the sales, the woman had more money than
the man.
The Michigan State Board of Agriculture
has raised the salary of President Abbot, of
the Agricultural College, to $4,000 per year,
besides house rent. The salaries of the pro-
fessors are raised to $4,000 per year.
The champion farmer is William Brown,
who lives in Edglrtown, Mass, and Is 0G
years of age. lie goes about his work daily,
and harvested an acre of potatoes last fall,
besides taking care OF other crops. lie is Il
Norwegian by birth.
In Georgia, the empire State of the South
there are more farmers who have studied
the chemistry o! manure, and who under
stand the economical application of 1t to the
soil, than there are III any one of the old free
States.
One hundred Merino sheep, with plenty
of bedding, will, during the ordinary feeding
time in winter, produce about forty two
horse wagon loads of manure, which is fll
more valuable us fertilizer than that of e
Their horses or cows.
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is making very rapid advances in this State
Only two years ago there was scarcely al
agricultural society in tho State. Now ther,
are some forty organized, and others in prog
ress of formation.
Peter Henderson says that experiment.
with pure water, sawdust, charcoal, anthra
tic, brick dust, and sands of all colors ant
textures, showed that cuttings placed in each
in the same temperature, rooted almost sim
ultancousy, and equally we'll
1t is proposed by correspondent of tn
Utica Hcrdid that the nights milk for tn
cheese factory be cooled and stirred by som,
clockwork machinery, and delivered witt
the mornings milk, thus saving ono trip da
TO the factory.
Brockpor, n. Y, is the banner bean rals
ing locality. The past year $4,000 barrel,
of four bushels each, were shipped. Tn
average price was $500 per bushcl, and tn
| income S200,0O0. About 700 acres were dc
voted to the crop in that vicinity.
Frizzled fowls are not celebrated for thci
utility, and certainly not for beauty. Thei
oddly. however, always attracts beholdcrs
They look MS if they had been drawn throug
n wood-pile backward, nearly all their fcath
ors being turned the wrong way
| Sevcnty-two pupils are now in attcndanc
ut the Maine College of Agriculture ami Nc
chanic Arts. Tuition and room rent to stu
dents in the State is free, while board. wash
ing, and fuel are furnished mt cost and thos
of AN industrious turn can put their hands T.
the pillow and pay MS they go.
An exchange gives an instance where
colt was killed by eating Il peck of corr
! Lard and linsced oil were administers
without effect, and the query is raised, win
more could have been done? Two or thre
tablcspoonluls of turpentinc with Il suitabl
dose of castor oil would have produced
speedy operation of the bowels.
Colorado expects next season to have i
! operation II cheese factory on an eNtcnsiv
scale mt the central point of the Monumer
valley, about sixty miles from Denver Tn
NcwS says the facilities are uncqualcd, col
spring water being abundant and ayailabl,
building material cheap, and the milk fror
1000 to 1900 cows already promised.
1t is said that sap from young maple tree
can be procured without harmng the trunk,
by occasionally cutting of small limb, an
hanging pail in such position us to cate
the sap flowing from the cut Mr.. ID. 1
Wier Of Lacon, ILL.,, has practiced this cours
with much success. The sap. in quality AN
quantity, does not differ ut all from tina
which flows from the trunk.
Joseph Harris claims that he can max
cheaper pork out of late fall pigs than out c
spring pigs. Ifwell wintered, being young
they will consume but little, they will kcc
fat on clover during the summer, and II yer
little corn iii the fall will make them read
for market, His plan is to give young pig
all the cooked corn-mcal they will eat unit
! four months old.
A writer in the Poultry World says HI
plan for curing hens of n desire to set is I
put them in an open yard, where there al
no nests or rOosting-places, and differing 4
much ms possible in appearance from the
regular quarters, and feed them LIBERAL
with soft feed, made rather hotwith cayenne
give them plenty of cooked meat and a
the milk they will drink.
This years wheat yield in Minnesota place
that state third possibly second, in the whe
producing states of the Union The tot
wheat product for the year is 10000, 600 busl
els, and the average yield per acre Il an
thrce-quarters bushels. Of this amount II,
more than 100000 bushels will be require
for home consumption, leaving 100000
for export, moro than double the amount o.
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