Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-02-20
agricultural Stems.
switzerland has the opizOStic.

er this winter.
Prof lIolton, one Of the first botanists Of
the country, died nj Boston lately.
A pine tree cut noar Lake Michigan net
ted 4 1924 feet, board measure.
The bec-keepers of Central Iowa held u
convention Mt Cedar Rapids on Jan. 95lh.
The proposed building for the Corvallis
Agricultural College, Or, will cost $4,000.
Many of the Pennsylvania farmers predict
an entire failure Of tho fruit CROPS this year.
In 1850 Ohio raised us much wheat as she
does to-day, but with FAR less consumption.
The landowners of Louisiana are begin
ming to sell their plantations in small lots to
the negroes.
Upward OF 10000 head of Texas cattle
are being wintered in Western Nebraska,
without any hay or grain.
Laportc, Adams, Douglas and Marathon
arc the only counties in Wisconsin in which
there are no oranges. q.
A priest in Serene. Chilli, ondeayOred To-
drive caterpillars from garden by formally
cursng them. They still flourish.
Twelve inches of rain ut Los Angeles, Cal
during tho season-an unusually large
amount.
The colorcd people OF Kansas City are
making efforts to establish II grange in that
city
The wheat crop of Goneseo County,
Mich, for 1873 is averaged Mt twenty BUSH
els per acre
A teamster recently shot wild hog near
Muskegon, Mich, which weighed nearly
GOO pounds.
Texas editors are Boosting that the flour
made in that State is superior to that brought
IRON st. Louis.
The total cost of fences in California is
S29,O0O,O00 Annual cost ol same, includ-
| ing repairs and interest, SS,OO0,0OO.
Several heavy tobacco growers from .Vir-
ginia have recently bought land in Kansas
for the purpose of cultivating tobacco.
The wheat crop never looked better in
Missouri, especially in the southwest part
of the State ut this season than now.
OF all men in the world, the farmer has
the most interest in a stable, permanent
| currency.
The North Carolina farmers are buying
fertilizers, preparing land, and will plant
more cotton than last year
The Georgia State Grange met at Atlanta
on Jan. 2Ist, 275 oranges being represented
The session continued two days.
| 4 400 I,o,I of oottlo ,.,a.. L;llaI hv
the settlers down about the lake of Kern
County, Cal, during the past season in de-
Tense Of their crops.
Feeding race-horses on soft rubber, so that
they may stretch out their neeks at the fin
ish and win the race, is the latest freak Of
the wooden nutmeg men.
A Mrs. Pcale, of California, manages n
farm of $4,000 acres, and thus demonstrates
the fitness Of her sex for something above
millinery and fancy goods
A process has been patented in England
for making cheese OF rich quality from
skinned milk and taIlow, provided the
latter Is not too highly fiavoredw
Southern planters are growing sensible.
| They have sown three times rs much wheat
this season rs thoy did last They will also
sow more oats and plant more corn.
At their meeting IN Bangor the Pcnobscot
Farmers Club voted unanimously that Il
was expedient 70 establish farmers oranges
in the State of Maine.
Louisiana raises this year |, 200, 900 of the
100000 bales of cotton produced in the
South, but her yield of sugar is greatly re-
duced.
In the reign of Edward l., sheep was
sold for twenty-five cents, and IN OK for
$3.50 or $500. while wheat was only thir-
teen cents bushel.
The owners of vineyards in Sonoma Coun-
ty. Cal, assert that they cost an average of
ut least S225 per acre. Some owners re-
port n cost of 1925. not including the orig
inal price of tho land.
The cotton crop (Which is about all they
raise) has been so short in portions of Ala
bama and Georgia, that many thousand
dark laborers in families are emigrating to
Texas and Louisiana.
Stanislaus County, Cal, claims to be tho
OF Of, c69, 1857 bushels of wheat produced in
the State in 1872, 5000, 900 were produced in
Stanislaus county.
A cheese, weighing 1890 pounds, made in
Oneida County, N. Y, was shipped TO Lon
don recently, made on special order for n
Christmas show; $1,000 pounds of milk
was consumed in making it.
Mr.. +. II. Allen, Master of the Missouri
State Grange, says, in the Missouri Farmer,
that thoro arc new fully 1900 oranges in
Missouri, where Mt the beginning of last
year there were but nineteen.
An Oskaloosa, Iowa, man sent his friends
in Scotland barrel of apples. They went
through all right, and tho freight was Sl3.6C.
Notwithstanding this his friends wrote him
that they were cheaper than they could get
them AT home.
Congress proposes that seeds shall be sent
from the Department of Agriculture post
tagc free .-Aprop0S of which the New York
Tribune irreverenty inquiries if il would
not be - good plan to place live-cent piece
in one of dozen papers.
A good many Cincinnatians are sensitive
on the point of Horticulture since they were
Interviewed by II young man, who, after ex-
hiblting n dclicately perinmed plant which
he called the Arctic Morning Glory sold
them neat packages of turnip seed
Chicago elevators, on Feb. 3D., contained
2,49l, 97s bushels of wheat; l,s69,3 bushels
of corn; 0sl,746 bushels of oats 62,257
bushels of rye and 1874, O63 bushels OF barley,
making total of 5,435,3s bushels of all
kinds of grain, against 4,ll3, 1913 bushels one
week previously, and 6,73l 1861 bushels ut
the same period last year.
A Virgnian, writing from Georgia, says
that the Southern people nre not half poor
enough for their own good yet, They
| haven't learned vet TINT i'm order to DIoSper