Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-02-13
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS,


Minnesota railroads have been given
more than a quarter of all the land in the
State.
"A certain plant which grows in China
has the peculiar property OF changing col
or three times day.
1t is stated that lamp chimney put in
cold water and allowed to remain Till the
water boils will not readily break.
Tobacco is becoming a staple crop In
Wisconsin, and six millions off cigars were
made at Milwaukee last year.
An expert thief in Cincinnati, few
DAYS since, stole IS swine from public
stockyard and cooly drove them through
the very heart of the city.
The people near Farmersville, Living
ston County, NO., were scared nearly out
of their wits, few days ago, by the fall OF
ded in the ground, and is said TO I've about
twenty-five feet in diameter.
"A California woman owns l73,065 acres
of land.
The grain crop of California for 1878 is
valued at $50, OOO, 200, being $40, 900 more
than all the gold and silver mined in the
State during the year.
Tea is now extensively raised in Hin
dostan, the exports 10 England in 1872 ex-
ceeding 16, 900, 900 pounds. The India teas
are of rare flavor, and are used by English
shopkeepers to mix with fine Chinese.
The Californians are turning their at
| tention 10 the making of raisins, of which
their grapes make the very best.
The department of Agriculture reports
the difference this year greater than last in
the prices of corn and wheat. The differ
ence between Chicago and New York pric.
es of Spring wheat is AZ cents against 81
cents last January. Tho difference be-
tween the average home prices OF wheat in
Illinois and New York is SO cents, against
| AZ cents last year. Corn ranges cents
higher, as compared with last year.
The people in Southwestern Minnesots
are suffering severely from the ravages by
| grasshoppers, last Summer, their crops in
many cases having proved a total failure
The Legislature has appropriated $4,000 &c
the sufferers and probably will loan them
$4,000 on two, three and four years time
without interest. Eastern stockholders Of
the st Paul and Sioux City railroad have
nnirihnted $500.
-"With one single field OF coal, .ouar.
ing 5000 square miles with apparently in
exhaustible copper and iron stores with
lead and silver mines; with 20,00O,000 o.
acres of cotton bearing land, and with az
ricultural resources equal TO those of any
State in the Union, Texas can enter upor
her new career confidently and joyously,'
we are told. Well, who objects?
-Rosenwall of New York, is purchasing
tobacco at Northampton at an average Of II
cents through, and recently purchased 81
cases of one OF the Hatfield Billingses al
the same figures. What fall from 20 and
25, the ruling prices Of year ago! 1t has
been definitely ascertained, that dozen
| large farmers are going to throw up tobac
co, and cultivate potatoes, beets and corr
instead, while some in CRANKY propose
cabbages to supplant the weed.
| The California Grangers have grand
irrigation scheme, which they intend I,
bring before the Legislature shortly. They
want TO tnrn the San Joaquin river, from
where it debouches from the Sierra Nevada
into grand canal constructed along the
foothills up to Stockton, a distance of 13t
miles. This, it is claimed, would render
over million and a half acres OF ..lapd
now of little worth, the most III !.
the world, furnishing. fiou"0','e 1t
r,yicoI,,o oo. 40 at the same time 1
nro5 III, as. ,fal for the transportation o
linyGuce, which the farmers could .ravers'
in boats of their own. Estimated cost, 500,
900 per mile.