Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-02-13
agricultural Stems.

field, Nd, last week
Clermont, Iowa, has u horse that dcvours
live chickens ut every opportunity.
Many Of the Pennsylvania farmers predict
nm entire failure Of the fruit crop this year.
Minnesota railroads have been given more
than quarter of all the land in the state
A San Bernardino County. Cal, farmer
harvested 2O,OOOepounds of beans on eight
acres. value $1,000.
A twig sixteen inches long, containing
thirty-two oranges, is one of which Los An
gclcs, Cal, boasts
The orange groves of Southern California
nro now in full glory, and large quantities of
the golden fruit are being sent to market.
Two million bushels of peanuts ARE every
year devoured in the United States, most of
them by pale, heart-jroken young ladies.
Kern County, Cal, is rapidly filling up
with Immigrants. A large number of farm
ers from Illinois have recently settled there.
NJ. j. Bolts. of Audrain county, Mo-, re-
Gently sold in the st. Louis market seventy
head of sheep ut $685. per 100 pounds. They
averaged 1850 pounds.
Jute gowing has lately been successfully
introduced into some of the Southern States
In North Carolina the yield has reached 5000
pounds of fibOr per acre.
In the five counties comprising the district
known us Southern California, there are
over 100000 sheep, fiom which 100000
pounds of wool were marketed in 1873.
Columbus, Neb, has exported over 400
ear loads Of wheat during the past season,
against twelve car loads shipped from that
station in 1870.
There are now over I2OO oranges and
about 1000 members in Michigan, and appli-
cations to form new oranges are coming in
on every hand.
A New York city farmer felt so bad about
the recent Cuban outrage that he erected a
guillotine in his poultry yard and behcadcd
all his Spanish fowls. 1t relieved him.
The sugar product of the Sandwich islands,
last year, was "a million pounds, an increase
of eight millions over 1872, while cnly one
million pounds is consumed at home.
The Earl of Mount Cashel left Ireland a
poor man, and is now u well-to-do farmer
near London, Ont. lie drives his produce to
market as independently as any other man.
V. b. Martin, of Butler county, Ky, sold
four saw logs to Cincinnatian, n few days
ago, for SO each They were walnut of Il
peculiar texture, and will he cut into veneer
ing by the purchaser.
The number of peaches packed, last year,
Appropriated about 100000 tomatoes
lsOOO,0 900, and corn from 5000, 900 TO s,O00,.
900. The headquarters of peach canning are
in Maryland aud Delaware.
Local freghts on the railways of Wiscon-
sin are so high that farmers and business
and goods to Milwaukee in Wagons dis
tanco of 30 and even so miles.
A stock raiser from Willow Island, 2jC
miles west of Omaha, Neb., says that winter
grazing has proved u success in that vicinity
Eight thousand cattle are feeding there OF
the prairie grass that has cured on the range
and are in fine condition.
When II man milks COW he should not
attempt to smoke n cigar. A young mar
tried it, and got along well enough until h,
lowered his head and touched the cow.
flank with the lighted end of his weed. The
next instant himself and cigar were dread
fully put out"
Mr.. Gail Borden, the inventor of tho proc
ess Of condenslng milk, died in Colorado
county, Texas. on Jan. 18th. He first attain
He aiterward turned his attention to tn,
condensation of milk and after many dis
couragements finally succeeded.
At II meeting of the Otoe County, Neb.
Central Association of Patrons of Husband.
ry, held mt Syracuse on Jan. 9th, the Patron,
resolved not TO deal with The leagued pillow
| firms until they shall rs publicly make known
the resembling of their resolutions rs the,
were publicly made
The Kansas Farmer heretofore publishe,
twice month, appears IN fine style MS
weekly under the management OF Mr.. j. X
Hudson. Mr.. Hudson has overthrown tn,
premium business and puts his paper on it,
own real merits for support Success tc
him.
However miserably man may misgovcrn
the earth does not refuse its increase, the mus
cuar arm of labor docs not palsy, tho force
of nature do not cease to fill the,sals of com
merce and turn the wheels of manufacture
Even war cannot wholly suspend the pros
perity that springs from toll.
AT recent sale of heavy cart horses il
Liverpool the amounts realized We're from
S27l, the lowest price, up to $525, the high
est. The animals were from five to six year
old, in fine order, and would weigh on al
average 1000 pounds each, and reach seven
teen hands in height.
The annual VINE production of the coun
try is estimated Mt 10000, 900 gallons. o
this amount, 500, 900 gallons would COM
| from the Atlantic coast. The market vnlu
ofthis product is estimated mt nearly fourteen
million dollars, to which must DO added u.
the total value of tho vintage, about egh
millions for grapes consumed, grape vines
| &c.
Archbishop Alemany, Of San Francisco
says that in his judgment so far as he has in
CURED into it. he is of the opinion that there
are no objections to Roman Catholics joining
the Order of the Patrons of llusbandry; il
| fact, that he rather thinks favorably of tn
matter, and that it is advisable for Catholics
who are eligible to join he order.
In order to encourage tho raising of hogs
the Kansas Pacific railroad offered severa
years ago to carry stock hogs into Kansas u
half rates, and has continued to do so eve
since. Tho consequence is that where thu
road carried 1888 hogs in 1871 and 5000
in 1879, IN 1873 it carried ll2, 563, I'm inoreas
of nearly 900 per cent. over the first named
year.
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