Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-02-06
agricultural Stems.

llarrishurgh, Pa, has u cactus ovor 100
years old anil seventeen feet high
The Ohio State Grange will hold its next
session IN Xenia, on Tuesday, Feb. 18th.
Colorcd persons are excluded from the
grange movement in Maryland and Virginia.
Tho Patrons have built grain warehouse
ut Hnzclton Station. Buchanan county, Iowa
or the 5000 hogs packed at Muscatine,
Iowa, the past season, the patrons packed
4, 900.
disease most fatal to the cattle Of Column
bia county, Florida, has made its appeay-
ance.
The hen lanciors have got so far that they
advertise the pedigree of their roosters "
when they want to sell them.
The agent of IN Ohio colony has selected
u very large tract Of land at Wyandottc,
Kan, for location.
There is Spanish eak in New Madrid
Co., Mo-, that measures twenty-six feet IN
circumference.
Virginia is manufacturing paper from the
reeds which grow so abundantly in the Dis
NAL Swamp.
Gordon, OF the Ohio Legislature, intends
to give pair of bloOded sheep TO each one
of his constituents
There is mn orange tree in one Of the gar
dens of Paris that has reached thu respectable
age Of 400 years.
A Scott county, Ky, farmer recently sold
a Berkshire SOW and nine pigs eight months
old, that weighed 5000 pounds.
The Patrons of Dc Soto county. Texas,
have organized u county agricultural, plant
ing and manufacturing immigration society.
In England the average crop is 30 bushels
of wheat to the acre; in this country-l am
almost ashamed to state it--but II bushels.
The executive committee OF the Wisconsin
State Poultry Association has decided to hold
the State Exhibition in Milwaukee, Feb 18th
to 10Th.
The members of Liberty Grange, town of
Rosendale. Wis, are about TO erect II large
grist mill on the line Of the Milwaukee and
st. Paul railroad.
Every grange should have its reading
room and library, and in its reading room an
official copy Of the proceedings of Congress
and the state legislature.
The Duke of Argyle has just served no
tees 10 quit on n number Of his farmers il
Argylcshire, Scotland in order that he ma!
make n deer forest five miles square.
Cerro Gardo county, Iowa, is becoming
| famous for cattle. Two large farms are nov
devoted TO thoroughbred cattle, and man.
farmers are raising the Shorthorn breed o
cattle
The culture OF the sugar cane, which ha
to great extent been abandoned on the low
lands OF Louisiana, will in the future b
largely prosecuted on tho pine lands Of Mis-
sissippi and Alabama.
The death of Henry A. Dreer, scotsman
and nurseryman, of Philadelphia, is annOunc
ed. Mr.. Dreer has been known to the agri
cultural world u long time as a man of grea
energy industry and integrity.
What crops have paid best the past season
1t would DO interesting to have this question
answered by our farm readers. We think |
would prove aproftable investigation for ov
cry farmer to make fer himself.
st. Paul aspires to be the greatest loca
| wheat market in Minnesota, thereby adding
as sanguine st. Paul paper promises il
merchants, one thousand fold to the retail
trade of the city within twelvemonth.
The farming community have energy, in
dustry, indomitable will, but in most case
their whole attention is given to matter
within their farm gates. Thus, they hay
bad roads, and toe often dilapidated schoo
houses and churches.
The winter is good time for farmers t
exchange visits Of inspection-to examin
each others farm buildings and contrivance
for the comfort of animals and convenience
for their care. These neighborhood eN
changes Of inequalities are always profitable
besides being exceedingly pleasant.
A farmer Of Eldorado, KY, having lost
hog some time ago. found him recently undo
u large pile of straw, where he had been col
fined for eight kweOks, still alive, though ski
and bones were about all that was left Of hi
original 900 pounds.
In Castro Valley, Alameda county, Cal
there is forest of tho Australian eucalyptU
covering over 100 acres. The trees wei
only planted three and a half years ago, an
some have attained height OF fifty feet IN
n diameter of twelve inches.
The Patrons of Georgia are progressing
numbers and efficiency. The order is no
estimated at about 10000, with over 400 o
CARNATIONS in the state, and there will sur,
~ be more than one thousand before Janui
ny, 1875.
AChicago paper hears from its correspond
ent at the state capital that there are not a fe
bogus farmers and reformers in the presel
Illinois Legislature, and that the republica
managers will stand good chance of go
bling them, if they play their cards well.
The Michigan Agricultural College report
its graduates previous to 1873, rs thus en-
ployed 81 farmers, fruit growers, eng
neers, druggists, 7 business agents, lay
yers, | clergyman, physician, l editor,
professors'and teachers, most of whom a
connected with agricultural colleges, NJ
several of whom have charge OF farms N
gardens.
The farmers in the vicinity Of Prairie
Chen arc picking II quarrel with the M
waukee and st. Paul railway on the grouI
that tho companys bridge over the Mlssissi
pi at that point obstruets navigation. III
bridge was built without proper legal autho
ity, and the grasping, illibsral treatment
its patrons by the road has induced the farr
ers to turn this fact 10 advantage in wrea
ing their vengeance.
1t is u well known fact that ever since Il
,, first settlement oG this country the center
its wheat cultivation has constantly reced
, from the seaboard; but what is not so &c
orally known is, that since 1869 that cent
I seems to have commenced to return towaI
' the seabOard again. In other words, that
1863, OF Whereabouts, the fan West seems
e have attained its highest development in Il