Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-27
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

The emigration from Great Britain was
greater last year than in any year since 1854.
Mr.. Grow, of East Topsham. has n hen
that he claims laid three eggs in one day.
Aud she still lives.
The Turkish government are about to es-
tablish u council of agriculture, to develop
the resources of the country.
To work against monopolies, who do
their work in secret, you must meet them
with the same weapons they use.
A butcher in Keokuk, Iowa, gives away n
chrome with every ten pounds of meat.
Pious man! He beats the religious news
papers!
Egyptian agriculture has made great adj
vances during the last decade. The area
under cultivation has doubled, and there is
greater variety OF products and better meth
DDS of culture.
A woman 80 years old. living In Estil
County, KY, wears beautiful shawl made
of the fur of rabbits which she caught last
winter. The hair WAS cut of, spun, and
then woven into cloth.
ht ueulHtlS Ol isbS AHsSltss Oal', No uS-
voutly thankful for such IN uncommon del
uge OF rain for eight successive days that il
has presumably drowned out all the gophers
and squirrels in the lowlands.
Indiana has II new kind of beef. which is
called ''hat-rack,n and signifies beef so lean
that you can hang your hat on the bones.
There's usually some of that breed To he
found in Vermont about this time al year.
When political parties become so corrupt
that good citizens can see but little To- choose
between them, it is high time for II political
revolution. This upheaval always begins
with the ycomanry who are the foundation
of society.
The negro exodus from Alabama and
Georgia continues. The Montgomery Id
UertiSer learns that fifteen thousand tickets
for negro emigrants have been taken up on
the roads leading southwark and westward
from that city.
The West Sufiield, Conn, farmers are get
ting discouraged about tobacco raising and
will probably devote themselves more to
mixed crops, next year, Few lots oi tobac-
co have been sold yet, and much will have
to be held over
Orange blossoms for bridal wrcilths was
originally u custom Of the Saraceus. their
significance being in the TACT that the orange,
bearing fruit and flowers At once, was n
symbol OF fertility. But the emblem is
merely legendary and very few brides OF
to-day know anything about il.
A Chicago paper says, The little state OF
Delaware has the honor of growing about
all the peanuts that are grown in the United
States" The Louisville COurier-JOurnd
replies IF all the peanuts Georgia pro
duces in single year were poured into Del
aware, they would blot out the State ns eff
ieotually rs Pompeli was blotted out 10y the
ashes Of Vosuvlus."
A Rhode Island man has invented tor
pedo in the shape of u kernel Of corn, which
is designed Tor the begulcmcml of crows
| As soon rs that offensive bird takes hold o
IL, it explodes aud blows the top of its heaC
of. This affords cheap and innOcent rec
reatiOn for the crow, aud ut the same Time
does away with II gricvous evil,
A politico- phlologist who wants to cap
turo the Indiana grangcrs, and have them
support Governor Hendricks for the pres
idency in 1876, gives this analysis of the
governors name; "llrnd,' to lay hold Of
'ricks,n stacks of grain; Hendricks" /,
harvester. Now Is there granger who
dare refuse to vote for the born agrlcutur
list?
The Chicago Tribune has aroused thu
pork packers aud inspectors To rag" by pub
fishing communications and editorial state
ments indicating that fully one-qmrter o
the stock of shoulders and hams shippe,
from that city east, this winter, hava heeI
tainted. One Philadelphia provision lirn
recently found 20 per cent. ot An invoice o
300, 900 pounds bad. The eastern customer
attribute il to Chicago's ambition to handl
all the meat trade, without having hoiltie
to do so.