Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-08
agricultural Stems.
Maine bias hop patch Of eIghty acres.

Missouri reports $40 oranges; with more
coming"
A COW at Norwich, Conn, gave birth to
triple calves last week.
Patagonia, South America, is looming up
rs paradise for stock-raisers.
A century plant" at San Jose. Cal, bios
somed when only six months old.
currant worm has appeared at Erie Pa,
that eats the currants as well rs the leaves
Prayers have been offered in many of the
churches in Eastern Pennsylvania Tor rain.
Your sympathy is requested, during hy-
time, for an unfortunate calf born without
tail in Weston township. Pa.
The value of hams imported into Great
Britain in the last four months was E9l4, 7s6;
in the like period of 1879, El7s,96e.
Russia has the rinderpest so badly that
Germany has prohibited the bringing of Rus
sian cattle into that empire.
Ohio farmers wanted RAIN, and now some
farms are three feet under water, and they
row around to find their cows.
The fruit crop in Southern Illinois is SO
small this year that the Illinois Central has
not run a special fruit train, as is usual
Three Russians, representing 500 of their
countrymen, are looking around Northwest
ern Iowa for suitable place for a colony.
10 Minnesota so much rain has fallen that
cOrn-fields on low ground arc under water,
and the term Railroad navigation is used.
Best authorities estimate that the wheat
crop Of the country this year viii be larger
by 10000, 900 bushels than was ever known
before
Wild nutmeg trees have been found in
both Napa and Lake Cos, Cal. But the nut
megs are no better than those that grow in
Connecticut
The STAFFORD county, New Hampshire.
agricultural and mechanical Society will
hold its next fair at Great Falls, September
1876.
Peaches and grapes are plenty in San Fran
cisco at to l5c pound each also apricots,
gooseberries. strawberries, blackberrics,
raspberriss and huckleberries.
At the present time there are over $4,000
Americans in Paris, who spend on an aver
age $500, 900 a day. Whose labor supplies
the means for this fearful extravaganza
One firm in st. Charles, Mimi. have pack
ed and sent to market 5000 dozen eggs. this
season, and expect to double the number be-
fore the year is over.
Norwegian girls, who have been ding
kitchen work in Iowa at $3.50 week, are
hiring out to work in the harvest field al
from 81 to S3a day.
George L. Williams, of Williams town, has
an apple tree that has three times in the last
eight years blossomed when there was fruit
on the tree one-fourth grown.
The Bangor. Me-, Wing says that the new
hay brought into Bangor market is excellent.
ly cured. and sells readily for $40, and some
loads for Sl3 per ton.
Angora goats are becoming numerous in
California. A paper of that State speaks Of
q drove of one thousand having recently
passed through Auburn.
On the shores Of the Danube. swine are
harnessed and made to furnish power for the
transportation of both people and produce
1t is said they never "balk."
Bears arc dsvouring the crop of hogs in
Bitter Root valley, Mon, and neither tn,
guns of the settlers nor the proclamation o.
the Governor will make them quit.
Boston estimates that 1t used last year
s.769,2s gallons Of milk, for which it pait
S2979, 1850. One-cighth of the quantity i.
| ran hill aIr,t taI 80 hnx
The Bristol Times, an English paper, no.
ports that twenty-five per cent. of the ewei
have cast their lambs this season, owing tc
their having been fed too literally on tur
nips.
Statistics from the census returns show tina
the value of agricultural products In thi
state are fully equal to those of any Othe
state east or west, on like amount Of terri
tory.
The receipt of wheat Mt San Francisco
from the interior continues light, although
the crop is rs large rs last year. The GRO
reports from the interior Of Texas are highl
encouraging,
O'Keefs and Fitzgerald, two Hsbokel
butchers had a shoep-killing match for $500
the other day. Each was to kill and dres
so sheep. Fitzgerald won, killing his so il
two hours and sixteen seconds.
An exchange says when you see
bare headed man following n COW through
the front gate, and filling the air with gar
den implements and profanity. you may know
that his cabbage plants have been set out"
The farmers movement" has reache,
New Hampshire and Moses Humphrey, O
Concord, David NJ. Clough, of Canterbury
and John ii. Goodalc. Of Nashua, are sait
to be moving for tho establishment Of a
grange.
General Tilton, Governor of the Soldiers
Home at Togus, near Augusta, Me-, hs
raised this year. on about one acre Of land
5000 quarts Of strawberries, the work of cul
tivation being done principally by the inmate
at the Home.
Many Of our farmers have kind of memo
mania for investing in lands which they do no
cultivate to advantage and which bring then
no fair interest, and perhaps run them Il
debt besides. Much of their capital is wors
than idle, mere inenmbrance.
! The production of beet-sugar during tn
last season in the north OF France was esti
mated at over $780, 900 tons, and the farmer
there are preparing for much larger return
this autumn, Notwithstanding the rise of tn
price of coal to impede the sugar manuiaC
ture.
, If corn and wheat doesn't pay, why keep o.
raising themi II tobacco and hOps are sucl
worrying, luck-and-chance crops, and sure a
tho present ratio of increase to glut the mar
: ket by and by, why rush in SO extensive
lyP The hay crop is certain, clean and re-
munerative.
A farmer in Illinois last fall packed som
apples in plaster, filling up the interstics
> with this material Opening the barrels oil
/ the l4th of june he found the fruit in won