Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-06-20
agricultural Stems.

The cotton crop of tho South will be worth
S333, 200, 900 this year.
The caterpillars are playing havoc with
the fruit trees in Utah.
Farmers in Western New York think the
turnip crop will be u failure this season.
The Elgin, H., Butter Company turns out
300 pounds of prime butter aud 600 pounds OF
cheese daily.
Fall wheat throughout Canada is most
seriously damaged. Much has been plOwed
up and replaced with spring wheat.
A disease somewhat similar to inllamma-
ton of the stomach has caused the death of Il
large number of cattle in Chester Co., Pa.
Farmers along the Gcnesoo Valley Canal,
New York, will present claims to the State
for damages by the floods caused by said
canal.
There were sold, in the markets of New
Y orkcity, for the year 1879, an average of
over $4,000 sheep weekly or | 300, 900 during
the year.
Myrads of Colorado potato bugs have APP
penred in Morgan Co., H., and it seems al
most certain they will make total destruction
of the growing potato crop.
VIM. Birnic of Massachusetts has recently
sold IN Ayrshire COW which is said TO have
giveu her live weight in milk, every twenty
six days, from April to October.
Nixon, of Van Buren, county. Iowa, owns
al o-ycar-old shorthorn bull (Star of the
West) that weighed 1860 lbs on his second
birth day.
Adam Grimm. near Waterfowl, Wis, has
wintered 600 colonies of bees. lie is proba-
bly, one of the greatest growers of bee fruit in
the country.
The soil in Nebraska frozc 20 the depth oil
eight feet. The potato bug-oh, where was
coming out, gay and lively.
The Independence, Mo-, Hcrdid says that
Notwithstanding the backward spring fruit
growers say that but little damage has beer
done TO amy fruit except peaches.
f. Williams, living one mile south of Salem
ILL.,, raised last year one pumpkin vine one.
fourth of mile in length. II bore twenty
three pumpkins that weighed 4G5 pounds.
A gentleman from the western part of Fond
du Lac Co., Wis, says that ut least one hun.
drcd and fifty sheep have boon killed there
by dogs during the past six months.
A North Bend, Neb., farmer was recently
robbed by his hired man Of 800. 1t was n
trine severe on the farmer, but it is good
recommend for the ncighborhood that farm
er cal accumulate Si00.
A dispatch from GAINESVILLE, O., May 2Olh
says "A vast number of potato hugs made
their appearance in this vicinity this morn
ing. In some localities the ground Is thick
with them"
New Hampshire farmer scouts the idea
ofhking u newspaper at two whole dollars
u year. and posts notice on II school house
that 90 hoggs hev strade or bin stoolcn'
from him.
Only 1855 per cent, of the inhabitants o
Massachusetts are engaged in agriculture
And yet three-quartcrs of the farmers o
Vermont depend upon Massachusetts fol
their agricultural reading.
The FnycttevillesTcnn., Observer says:-
AN old farmer, one who has TILED tn,
ground from early boyhood, says this is ont
of the most uniavorable seasons, thus far
within his recollection.
II is estimated that within five years 90,
600, 900 bushels of wheat per annum, from
Minnesota and the valley of the Red River o
the North, will find their way TO the tide wa
ter through tho Sault Ste. Mario canal
A country maiden lady lately drove an OK
team into indianapolis, hauling load o
wood. She said sho cut the wood herself
and, when she had eilecteda sale, she bough
n gayly-rlbboned hat with the proceeds.
Five girls, all under 90, havo taken a farm
Of 800 acres in Kansas, and intend to make
dairy farm of it. All but two of them M,
graduates Of eastern schools, and two are pro
iclent in agricultural chemistry.
Tho Winamac, Ind, Democrat says III,
growing wheat in that county is badly dam
aged. One farmer reports that from sowing
which, with ordinarily favorable weather
would havo yielded him 1900 bushels, ho vii
not realize his seed,
The reports from Sangamon Co., H., anc
South are to the effect that the winter whea
bids fair TO produce an unequaled crop.
large extent of corn has been planted. Their,
will be II good crop of apples and nearly al
other fruits, except peaches,
Owing to the scarcity of Arabian horses il
certain parts of the Ottoman Empire tn
Turkish Government has forbidden the ex
portaton of horses from the vilaYots of Bag
dad, of Syria and of Aleppo, ior the next sew
en- years, to date from April 0, 1873,
Complaints are made in parts Of Virgins
of the destruction of tobacco plants by tho fly
The weather lately has been favorable to thi
insect, and sad havoc was played with plant
beds. Some farmers contemplate plantin
much, If notnll, of their tobacco land in corn
We have too many dwarfcd, misshaper
moss-grown trees already, with scarcely liv
ing branches enough 10 support the caterpll
lars and canker worms that have their homo
there. They arc useless cumberers Of tn
ground, and need digging about, and prunin
and mnnuring in order to make them of an
value. They look worse than neglccte
graveyard.
A nice old man, u vegetable gardener call
ed nj newspaper Office the other day and IN
quired very anxiously if the editor had seol
anything in the papers recently about worn
that was doing much damage to celery.
intended said he, TO have raised II goo
deal of celery this yoar, but durn me, if
think it'll pay if that burned celery grub tina
started at Washington while since, abOu
what I've heern so much ON, is coming thi
way A light dawned upon the editor
mind-tho Salary Grab,'