Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-22
AGRICULTURAL LIENS


Our readers should remember that al
though It is busy time" we are always
glad to hear from them.
The question is not how cheaply u farmer
can manage to keep body and soul together
but how he can bring both body and soul
~ the highest condition of vitality and pow
or To live is something more than to exist
Mr.. Ebon Cox, of Calais, has II COW hard to
beat. Since the first of last December I'M
to May first, he has sold 1870 pounds Of but
ter made from her milk, for $50, besides
furnishing his family with nil the milk and
butter they have used.
Rev. w. IL. IL. Murray says the reason
boys leave the farm is because there is not
enough money to be- made there, aud he is
about right, but can't we manage to make
farming pay by doing our work botter--more
intelligently. and so keep them ut homeP
The New York Butter and Cheese Ex-
change have not voted war to the knife
against the manufacture or sale of oleonlar-
garne, rs has been reported by some of the
papers, but only manifest braiseworthy
determination to prevent its sale rs genuine
butter or the adulteration of butter with it.
How much better to make butter from the
cream of COED cows, well kept, where
everything is clean about the stable and dni-
ry room; the butter yellow, lightly salted,
neither washed with water nor worked with
the hands Of II snuii-taker. nor colored with
carrots or arfatto the kind that sells high,
because there is so little compared with the
demand, in the market, and sell 1t for 40, so,
go or rs cents pound, when the other kind
sells for Is. 90 25 or 30 cents pound. Make
the "git-edgedn butter if you would live by
your business.
On the 9th inst. Mr.. Amasa Scott, of
Craftsbury, sold to Mcssrs Stratton Il Gage
beef COW that weighed 1900 lbs; her feed
per day through the winter was 90 lbs. of
hay, cut between the 10th and Goth OF June,
with two quarts of corn and cob meal in the
morning and two. quarts of. potatoes ut
night. She has been MIXED every day.
which has paid for her Keeping Mr.. Scott
also has II new nilch COW that makes Ia
pounds of butter per week, and yearling
heifer that weighs 800 pounds So much for
early cut hay.
The Chippewas in Dakota, and the Nava-
jos IN Arizona, have been induced to raise
wool by some enterprising individuals. The
eyes Of the squaws were first taken 10y the
brilliant colored yarns. and then they were
taught To use the old-flshioned hand looms,
producing blankets whose brightness added
to their delight. The care of sheen does
not call for II very great variation from tho
lazy, wandering habits of the male Indian,
hence he takes to it kindly. The Navaios
now have 10000 sheep under very good
management. 1t is proposed that the gov
ernment' ad this experiment by judicious
expenditures through the Indian Depart
mcnt.
Vermont is tho banner state for maple
sugar, producing annually almost ten mill
ion pounds. New York gives u somewhat
larger production, but nevertheless u much
smaller one in proportion to the area The
only other states which return more than
one million pounds are Michigan four mill
ion, Ohio three and one-quarter million,
Pennsylvania nearly three million, New
hampshire two and One-quarter million,
Indiana one and ono-half million, Massa-
chusetts II few pounds more than u million
The total production is forty million pounds.
The total production of maple molassos is
one and II half million gallons, of which
Ohio returns nearly four hundred thousand
GALLONS, Indiana nearly three hundred
thousand, Kentucky one hundred and forty
thousand. aud Vermont only sixteen thou
sand gallons.