Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-06
AarieuIturaI Stenrs.


sixteen hundred oranges in Missouri Is
The lntest telegram.
~. Cedar County, Mo-, Patrons resolve against
dancing
Emigration westward has pretty nearly
stripped Dallas County, Ala, Of It's negro
population. =
Mr.. Glenn, Of Golusn County, Gal, will
put IN 10000 acres Of wheat on his little farm
this spring. ~ AtrtF
Farmers and stock raisers OF Lano County,
Oregon, offer fifteen dollars apiece for coyote
scalps. Bay,
A Pennsylvania farmer offers premium
chrome with every load Of potatoes bought
of HIM.
Cattle-feeders of Morgan County, ILL.,, are
now paying thirty-fve cents per bnshel for
corn In tho shock.
The winter has not only been exceptional
ly mild in our Northern States, but also in
corresponding ATTITUDES in Europe.
The beet-root sugar product Inst year in
Europe was 100000 tons, or double the en-
trio importation of the United States.
Samuel Barbour, of Deer Isle, Maine. did
a good business digging potatoes during the
January thaw.
The North Carolina farmers are buying
fertilizers, preparing land, and will plant
more cotton than last year.
Chicago packers have handled I,433, O2s
hogs thus far the present season, against
| ,97s. s4l head for the corresponding period
last senson
California lions are inconvoniently plenty
in tho Berryessa valley and hills. They make
light of such tribes Ms young colts, calves,
lambs, &c.
1t is proposed to import boes into New
Zealand. The bees are to be moved while
dormant, the nests being surrounded by ice
during transportation.
The chair of chemistry in the Ohio Agri-
cultural College has been filled by the mp
pointment of Professor Oberton, n graduate
of Cornell University.
Oskaloosa, Iowa. offers bonus of 800, 900
to any company that will start corn starch
factory at that place with capacity of using
1000 bushels of corn daily.
At large meeting of the Fruit Growers
Association at Dover, Del, the nth, reports
were made that the peach crop this year will
be very large.
The farmers of Scotland County, Mo-, are
agitating the question of building a man
ufactory for farming implements somewhere
in the county.
Buffalo papers admit that Pittsburgh and
Wheeling are becoming formidable rivals to
that city as distributing points for the great
live stock trade.
Experiments made in some of the SOUTH
ern counties of the San joaquin Valley, CAL,
are so encouraging that good deal of land
will be planted to cotton this year.
Within the last two years wild cats have
been making great havoc of sheep in Han
cock County, Me. 1t is estimated that dur
ing the past season they destroyed in one
town sheep valued at 800.
In Saratoga County, N. Y, one grain Of
Fultz wheat Is reported as having thrown out
nine stalks bearing 37s kernels. Selected
heads in the field contained fifty, fiity-three.
fifty eight and up to sixty-throe kernels.
The Duke of Sutherland owns three
ycar-old OK which weighs $500 pounds, and
measures In girth nine feet one inch. II
was recently on exhibition in Inverness,
Scotland, and attracted great crowds.
An English writer says that " In tho Amer
lean system of agriculture. the settler sub
dHes piece OF land. fogs It to death and
abandons the carcass, and then repeats the
operation on new subject"
On investigation it appears that sixty-three
more colts than were sired by Rysdyck's
IIambletonan in 1869, 20 and II, are claim
cd rs being his descendants and ioaled dur
ing those three years.
Gen. McCutchins, the republican nominee
for governor in New Hampshire, is described
as " one who tills his own broad acres, fol-
lows his pillow in the field, and whose locks
are busted with clover seed and red-topm
English poulterers have way of stufling
the breasts of their turkeys with pork fat.
Four pounds were lately taken out of one
gobbler by the purchaser, who is naturally
indignant at such fowl transaction.
The Net0 England Homestead says: 1.-The
tobacco growers are more hopeful and sales
areimors frequent. Over a million of dol
lars have been paid for tobacco in Connect
cut south of Hartford within the last six
weeks.
VIZ have class that pretend to be farmers
that do not farm they are drones. They go
to bed at six o'clock in the evening and lie
there until eight or nine the next morning
The first patch on their pants is put on tho
scat.
Mixed farming has one great advantage,
that is, man learns thereby great many
things, and he exercises and cultivates his
mind far moro than can be possible If he
were special farmer, hence he becomes a
larger minded and more capable man.
There is no kind of doubt of this
w. A. jenkins. of Portage County, Ohio,
sent the past season 99.ol2 pounds OF milk to
II. Peck & Sons cheese factory fror, fourteen
cows, commencing April LIST and ending De-
cember lst and received for the milk
SlIO9.3l. lie also received for butter, &c.,
from tho same dairy 1851, making total
Of Sl260.3l for the season. or 800 TO each
COW.
There are yet 200, 100000 acres public
land in the country that are unsurveyed, but
after deducting swamp lands, deserts, noun
tains, railway and other grants, 1t is ostimat-
ed that the whole amount of arabic lands
available for settlement cannot exceed $50
or 400 millions of acres. Last year nearly
-four millions of acres were taken by homo
stead settlers, and the estimate is that before
the century olapses, all the arabic lands of the
country will be absorbed
Thos. Johnston, Of Trumbull County,
fOhio, sent the past season to n cheese factory
| the milk from his dairy of sixteen cows,