Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-30
AariruIturaL Itsnrs.
Snow q Eve feet deep ID ihe Yosemite
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The colorud farmers IN Grant couuty,
Ind, have formed a Grange. a 6
Mich cows are in great demand in South.
eastern Missouri. and bring good prices.
Judge Aldrich, of Boston, fined dealer
IN adulterated milk $3.50. tho other day.
firm in Decatur, ILL.,, has used 092 miles
of steel wire in making $4,000, 900 hog rings
The Mormons have concluded the pur-
chase Of 10000 acres of land near Halstead,
Kan. ..n.
Michigan expects to make fine display
OF fruits and flowers at the Centennial in
1875,
The Southern Californian says the sheep
men aru in fine spirits. They have plenty
of new feed
Napa, Cal, still continues to seud to mar
ket grapes fresh from the vines, picked in
December.
An English paper gratefully acknowledges
the receipt Of potato-bug from a returned
tourist. .Ir..a -rr
The flow Of immigrants into Texas, not
only from the older states, but from Ger
many. continues to he very large.
The total receipts of domestic wool at the
port of Boston in 1873, 22I, l59 bales is an in
crease of 65,4ls bales over 1879
The receipts of grain Qncludlng -four re-
duced TO bushels) in Chicago, during 1873,
were 97,O76. 1876 bushels. ..4 .
A large factory for the making Of barrels
boxes, and desks cut OF compressed paper is
to be established ut Rockford, Ill.
The efforts to promote immigration made
by the government Of Ontario during the
past year, have been attended with more
than ordinary success.
f. j. Ohr, General Deputy. National
Grange Of the Order Of Patrons OF Husband
ry. organized the State Grange of Maryland,
In Baltimore, on Jan. nh.
A great many planters have boon forced
failure of the crops, occasioned by the
worms and bad seasons.
l.. z. Waite, Of Weston, has small but
very smart COW. She comes in in April
and is now giving sixteen pounds of milk
per day. 81. # ...
The Michigan State Agricultural Society
has added 81, 800 to the premium list award
cd last year. # offors $3.50 for the four best
military companies in the state next year.
Dubuque is making great efforts to secure
the location there of the next Iowa State
Fair. About $4,000 have been promised
and that sum can doubtless be increased to
$4,000.
The BluC-Grass regions of Kentucky lie
across the middle of the state, and contain
some $4,000 or $4,000 square miles, or about
one third Of the state, and include about
twenty counties.
The aggregate yield Of corn in five of the
principal western states, in 1873, was only
| 5l4,O00, 900 bushels, against 1855 600 900 in
1872, and of potatoes 100000 against A.
900, 900 In 1879.
A CHARACTERISTIC crime was committed at
Cincinnati, the other day, in the theft of 10
swine by fellow who cody drove them
from public stock yard through the very
heart of tho city.
Good authority estimates the amount of
honey gathered in Aroostook county, Maine,
the past season. exclusive of the amount re-
CURED TO carry the bees through the winter,
Mt upward Of twenty tons-morc than any
three other counties in the State.
London milkman, who drew his sole
revenue from one cow and pump, on being
fined $25 and costs, recently for having % per
cent. of water in his milk, hung himself from
his bedPost, wearied and disguised with the
wickedness and unkindness of the world.
The Chicagoans look up to their towns
men, Nelson Morris and Isaac and d. Walk
el, rs the cattle kings Of the world Morris
shipped 1882 live cattle during the year
ending November "a, 1873, and the Waixels
have shipped 100000. wSrth S6,sOO, 900 at
Chicago, during the past year.
The Maine state college of agriculture at
Orono, which has entered upon ITS sixth
year, has 100 students, OF whom four are wo-
men. With an increase of students, enlarg-
ed accommodations will he needed, and the
trustees recommend an appropriation of
$40, COO to meet the prospective needs of tho
institution.
According TO French journal, horses and
other animals may be protected from the
prosecutions of flies by painting with pen
Gil the insides OF tho ears. or other parts
liable to be bitten, with few drops Of
empyreumatic juniper oil (oil Of cade).
Belts Messenger (English) says that nm
organization has been formed in Denmark,
the object of which is ito work new process
es for the preservation of butter, with a
view to its being forwarded on by sea-"
The capital of the association is $4,000.
Mr.. John Train, a Pulaski county, Ind.
farmer, built shed by driving piles In the
ground and putting the straw from eighty
acres of wheat on top of them. The rain
softened the ground so that the piles settled
on one side and the straw came down,
smothering fifteen head of fino cattle.
The Wisconsin LWni6erman estimates
the grand total of tho pine stumpaKe Of
Wisconsin ut the enormous amount OF 49,
600 900, 900 feet. Pine grows in the forests
with wonderful r%pidty, and, if the above
figures are not exaggerated, there is likely
to DO AS much pine cut in the state forty
years hence MS during amy of the recent
years. .....
Chicago elevators, on Jan. 5th, contained
l,46l, 800 bushels Of wheat; I,2sO, $3.50 bushels
Of corn; $685. $3.50 bushels of oats; 66,595
bushels Of rye, and 49O,e9I bushels Of bar
ley, making grand total of 1895. 69s bush
els of all kinds Of grain, against 1894. 100
bushels a week previously and ADJ. 1858
bushels at the same date last year.
The Gilman, ILL.,, Star says that the small
fruit-growers around Gilman and Onarga,
the past season, have made more money on
each acre of ground dev oted to fruits, than
the farmers have made on 100 acres. and as
they usually make rs much on one as the
farmers do on forty, 1t is not surprising that
so many are engaging in the business. 4
An especial object of interest at tho Port
land Poultry show was cockerel owned by
a oanilanlan on nanf opih at,aat In that ctkv