Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-13
agricultural Stems.

hollow or not. AK It.
Mr.. Casey. The presidents brother-in-la law,
has bought BOO 900 farm.
The cultivation Of jute in India Is almost |
entirely supercoding that Of cotton.
A farm of $50 acres, near Clinton, Mo-. |
was sold few days since for $50.
To buy all the land one can. is like mer-
chant paying MI his money for n building.
France lost 900, 900 head Of horses during
the late war and only has 100000 on hand.
Germany and Italy are now large consum-
ers Of American corn in the manufacture of
alcohol
II is claimed that Michigan possesses three
times rs much timber rs any other state in
the Union.
Over quarter of the State Of Minnesota,
or l3,209,00O acres of land, have been given
to the railroads.
r. S. Angel, of Clifton, Wis, recently
sheled from an ear of White Dent corn $50
perfect kernels.
One packing firm alone in Chicago has
slaughtered 400, $40 hogs since the first day of
last November,
The Egyptian cotton crop for the past year
is estimated ut 100000 bales. The govern
ment is encouraging the industry.
The Dairymen's Association of Canada
has lately held its annual convention. There
were about 300 present during the sittngs.
Hess says that his " family has the choice
~ n,r ar,t ,,ro,yn ,,noY tbo far,,, hat that
choice is whatever is too poor to be sAlable."
The success of the Palmyra. Mich, Fruit
Preserving Company is stimulating farmers
in other localities 10 embark in similar en-
terprises.
Stalks of wheat measuring three feet high,
nicely headed ont and almost ready for har-
vest, have been exhibited in San Bernard
inc. Cal.
The McMinnville. Tenn, Era says "Our
farmers inform Us that they never had bet
ter prospect for wheat than at the present
time"
IL the wheat crop of Minnesota for the
year ending 1873 had all been loaded in cars
they would have made train 800 miles
long.
| In the five counties comprising the district
known ms Southern California, there are
over 100000 sheep. Irem which 5000, 200
| pounds of wool were marketed in 1879.
A Stanford IN. H. turkey swallowed u
corn-cob which was eight inches long, and
would have died had not its mistress wrig-
gled the indigestibe thing ont of its throat
| ~ hu oirl h.,
pants and runs her own farm, has been ex-
tinguished by II Louisiana boy of seventeen
who cleared SllO6 from farm of thirty
acres.
| A Kentucky farmer, wishing to enter some
animals at an agricultural exhibition, wrote
to the secretary Ms follows: ALSO enter me
for the best jackass, am sure of taking the
premium"
Benton Comfy. Mo-, Patrons have resolv-
ell to totally abstain from the use of coffee
:" until the price OF the article shall have
been reduced within the reach of every la
horing man."
Smith, johnson Il Co.. of Greenville,
Michc recently cut $50. 600 feet Of pine lun-
her from fifteen acres Of land. This is an
extraordinary yield, and the lumber is of an
excellent quality.
| lady in Morgan County Ca. superin-
tended plantation last season, and made,
wlthtwo hands. % bales OF cotton, 500 bush
els of corn. 10000 pounds Of fodder. 200
bushels Of oats, md 100 bushels of wheat.
!, A Missouri farmer drew all his money out
Of the bank during the late panic, and put 1t
nobody knows where. Then he died sud-
denly, and now his heirs are wildly prospect
ing in all sorts of probable and improbable
places.
The Tennessee State Grange. representing
500 subordinate oranges. assembled at Gal
latin, on Feb. 10th. The subject of the es-
Establishment of y pillow and cotton factory al
Nashville was among the important matters
discussed.
The DeKalb County, ILL.,, Patrons of Hus-
bandry are moving in the matter of estab-
fishing mandatory of agricultural implo.
mcnts II is said that by making their own
plows saving of fifty per cont can be effect
ed, while four hundred dollars can be saved
on each threshing machine.
! |
Faru ers' Movement, in II speech made n
Freeport, ILL.,, on the 9Th inst, declares that
the farmers, the mechanics and the labor
ers of this country should have specie pay
ments, n fixed and unwavering currency, ant
low taxes on articles of necessity"
During the lato pleasant weather, grass
hoppers have been Matching out in MartiI
A.. ar;n u,
. of earth were placed under II stove, and sew
: cral thousand hoppers were Matched out
: After being subjected to twenty degrees o
!, freezing, they were thawed ;out rs lively a
: over.
1t is now asserted, says the New YorI
$ Tribune, that side window in stabl
!. makes n horses eye weak on that side
n window in front hurts his eyes by the glare
E a window behind makes him squint-eyed;
window on diagonal line makes him sh
) when he travels; a stable without window
J makes him blind. Truly, farming is fear
. ful and wonderful pursuit.
!, A. fl. Elliott, OF Erie County, Pa, give
7 this mode of killing the Canada thistle, i
). the Rural NetO Yorker: 4" In the best field o
"a farm we bad about two acres of Canad
Il thistles. Five years ago we cut good Gro
r. Of clover hay, and the last week in Angus
turned the second or seed crop down for ia
wheat. Harvested IL good crop of wheat bu
: no thistles."
Al The New York state assessors make tn
!: startling statement, that IN every section {
a. the state e" the universal statement and ev
IA denco is that the farm lands have deprecia
Q. ed in value from ten to thirty Der cent.
Al the last six years" They add, that :"
re many of tho best agricultural counties III
~ number of farms is constantly decreasing
~ aud the population is not so large now MS te
Y. or twenty years ago"