Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-01-31
agricultural Stems.


Texas, with all her cattle, has no milk.
Strawberries. large and luscious. are pcn-
ty in the San Francisco markets.
A hanging garden of sponge is one OF the
latest novelties in window gardening.
A long legged red worm gets into the corn
and kills the horses Of Northern Georgia.
Californians are picking ripe watermeons
when it is cool enough to go ont on shady af-
ternoons.
A very large proportion of the tobacco crop
in the Connecticut valley has been injured in
the process of drying.
If the farmer owes much to railroads, land
no one questions the fact,) so do railroads
owe much, Tor ally TO the farmer
A committee of the directors of the State
Agricultural Society will meet at Rutland
February 9Th to decide upon the location of
the next annual State Fair
David Gore, one of the best farmers of
Macoupin Co., H., says he has made no bet
ter investment whatever, than in planting
belts of trees to shelter his domestic ami
mails.
Peanut culture is pronounced n success in
Michigan since Robert Scott, of Gross Lake,
has marketed his crop of twelve bushels, the
first raised in the State. They sold Mt eight
cents pound.
Charleston, S. c., circular, estimates the
rice crop of the South to be ms follows :
North Carolina, 600 casks South Carolina,
$4,000; Georgia, 9,40O, and Louisiana, 49,
500.
II was feared that the extreme cold wealth
or would seriously injure the Michigan peach
crop, but ii is reported that only few of the
buds were injured, and the prospect for next
seasons crop is good.
Mrs. David ingalls,, OF Salisbury, aged 81
years, has, as part of her winters work, pick
ed over 81 bushels of beans. one by one. and
knit five pounds of cotton yarn into stock
ings.
Tho wheat crop of 1872 is larger in Indi.
ana, Wisconsin. Minnesota and Iowa than
in 1871; very nearly rs large in Illinois; re-
duced in Michigan, and greatly declined il
Missouri and Kansas.
One hundred and twenty-five tons of to-
bacco were harvested in Walpole. n. II.
last season, and is now being stripped for the
market. Walpole tobacco is said to be of su
perior quality.
There has been large increase of pota.
toes in Illinois last season over the previou.
one; asmall advance in Iowa, Mime sofa
Michigan and Indiana, and decrease in
Wisconsin, Kansas and Missouri.
To encourage immigration in Tennessee it
is proposed that the State procure from $50
900 to 100000 acres of land, which shall bC
subdivided into sections of sixty acres each
and every alternate section given in fee t.
bona .fde settlers.
The cultivation of the white poppy for tho
production of opium. is said to be meetin!
with marked success in Tennessee. The
plants are larger and more vigorous, and tn,
capsules from two to ten times rs large a
those from the imported seed
Twenty years ago the United States did no
export more than l,0O0O00 pounds of cheese
Now the annual exports amount to more
than 10000, 900 pounds and America has Ia
ken from England and Holland their mo
nopoly of the cheese trade IN Europe
What would the people of Great Britain
do if compelled TO depend upon their own ag
ricultural products? Her outlay for whea
: and corn, from the harvest of 1872, is est
| mated mt $3.50 ,0O0, 900. being five and II hal
, dollars per capita for the entire population
| 4 I,,I \
hogs to Cincinnati and sold them for $500
with portion Of which he procured som
"ardent spirits and woman, and went t
indianapolis, and nobody has seen him since
The men who owned the hogs are gettin!
anxious.
The best wheat in the United States
, grown in Southern Virginia, North Carolina
, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, and southern Ill
: nois; and the round-hoop nours of st. Loui
: retail to the aristocracy of Northern cities 4
, from SO TO 81 per barrel over aud above tn
\ best brands Of ordinary make.
t The annual meeting of the Agriculture
o Association of White River Valley was hel
+ at Bethel, Jan :. The following officer
5 We're elected President, Crosby Miller
A Pomlret; Vice Presidents, Royal IL. Topper
@ Rochester, &. f.. 4. Sparhnwk, Gaysville
S Treasurer, NJ. Sylvester, Bethel: Secretary
NJ. j. Gilman. Bethel.
o Farmers have but lately become awake
d the fact that their interests have been owe
# looked; that they, while furnishing the ra'
e material that feeds the nation, have receive
d but n scanty portion of the proceeds of the
!. unremittng toll. There will, we hope, no
|. be no retrogresslve step taken until the
d just demands SHALL be fully satisfied.
y John Struple of Volnia, Mich =, recent
: finished threshing his crop Of wheat, while
y yieldedas follows: Thirty acres sowed
= Diehl, produced l,O66 bushels; twenty acr
: to Trcadwell, yielded 535 bushels, and t,
b" acres produced 279 bushels-total produ
:, ton from sixty acres: 1880 bushels Ave
a age yield per acre, thirty-six bushels.
le They have an institution in Walpoie, n
Dt H.. for the detection and catching of hor
IN thieves. There is about $500 in the treasu
" ry. Not horse has been stolen in the tow
since 1915, and then the riders of the socie
8 caught the thief. Any inhabitant of tn
l. town can become II member by paying oil
n dollar
5, The st. Augustine, Fla, gardens are No
y looking remarkably well, furnishing lettuc
n cabbage, beets, sweet potatoes and 9TH
It vegetables. The oranges arc now in perfe
Q ton, and they are sending to market fro
most Of the growers. The st. Augustil
climate receives high compliment fro
the fact that none of the horses have had Il
At epzootic which has prevailed SO eXtensiv
ly.
A newspaper of Iowa City gives rather
a discouraging account of what the farmers
to those "diggingsn are doing, or rather not d
a. ing, Here is the price current A pair