Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-23
AsriruIturaI Sttms.
English sparrows have appeared a, waite,


market this year
Grand Junction, Iowa, Is shipping prai-
rio chickens to England.
A Sunderland, Mass, farmer, raises 81 900
worth Of onions TO the acre.
When II man calls for two fresh eggs in
Nevada il means dollar and half
The Patrons Of TIusbandry are organizing
n tannery in Charlton county, Mo.
A fatal disease is prevalent among the
horses and mules in some parts of the San
Joaquin valley, Cal.
A train of forty-five cars, with fifty hogs
in each car, lately passed through Frankfort.
Ky.
Dunbarton, N. H., rejoices over peiri-
fled (O hog, dug up from muck swamp
where II was buried fifteen years ago.
The Pawnee county, Mob, Patrons have
commenced shipping their hogs to Eastern
markets direct.
Several destructive prairie fires have re-
Gently swept over portions of Vernon coun-
ty, Mo.
Marion county, Mo-, boasts of swine
that has six perfectly formed toes on two Of
its feet.
Officers of the Dumb Animal Society, in
Buffalo. are trying TO prevent the feeding of
distillery waste 10 cows.
w. p; Blake, West Watorvillc, Maine,
raised last season eighty-five bushels Of first
class wheat from five bushels sowing.
A Butte county, Cal, man receives $4,000
IL year rent for l6O acres of land. The land
is worked by Chinese gardeners
A Cairo, H., grocer who sold crock OF
butter with u ten-pound cobble-stonc in tho
bottom, was fined $40 by justice.
In many parts of San Bernardino county,
Cal, il is only necessary to sink wells to find
flowing streams sufficient for irrigation.
There have been shipped this year from
California to England 20i,3l2 barrels Of
flour, valued at 81, e57,759.
President Grant has purchased one thou
sand acres Of timber land near Riverhead,
Long Island, two miles north of Gov. Dix
place
Good hay, pressed, sells ut Iloulton Sta
ton, Aroostook county, Maine, for SIl per
ton. One firm is to send over u thousand
tons to Boston.
L. X. Allen, Master of the State Grange
of Missouri, says the charters will be with
drawn from tho Oranges that admit editors
of political papers rs members.
The Oranges ami Farmers Clubs in
America have got into the London Cornhill
Mdgazine in n well-written and carefully
considered article.
Thirtv-ono years ago, corn sold in Mans
field, Ohio, for twelve and half cents, oats
ut ten cents, wheat at forty cents per bushel,
and dressed hogs Mt one cent per pound.
1t has been calculated that in England,
the loss Of cattle from diseases propagated
by tho introducing of foreign animals has
been fully S25,OOO,OOO for each of the last
thirty years.
II will surprise some of our Western pork
packers to be told that the largest packing
establishment in the United States is not in
Chicago, Cincinnati or st. Louis, but in Bos-
ton, Massachusetts.
The Los Angeles, Cal. Express says j..
Welch, Of that county, has beet which
weighs 230 pounds, and Layman, neighbor,
has two which weigh sol and 2l3 respective
ly.
The wheat crop of Iowa is beginning to
move. Five hundred freight cars were last
week ordered along the line Of the Milwau-
kcc & st. Panl railroad between North Nc
Grcgor and Austin.
The farmers of Kern valley, Cal, are be-
ing worried by the fact that wild geese APP
pear TO be unduly fond of their alfalfa and
are making themselves - nuisance to the
growers of that favOrite grass.
lake county, Cal. farmers sell their live
hogs TO San Francisco butchers for four cents
n pound and buy the bacon they eat, in San
Francisco, at eighteen cents per pound.
They are wondering why they don't get rich.
Some of the Mississippi Oranges in order
to induce white men to settle in that State,
have promised to furnish every white family
coming into their respective counties with
forty acres of land, rent free, for five years.
The grain fleet wintoring ut Milwaukee
has y carrying capacity of 1909, 800 bushels.
When navigation opens in the spring these
vessels will make m impression on the stock
Of grain in store when they take out their
cargoes.
The number of pounds of cheese made in
Trumbull county, Ohio, the past year, ac-
cording to returns. was 5,ll6,256. Lorraine
exceeds that by over 100000 pounds.
Trumbull county produced over 100000
pounds of butter. and Ashtabula over 1900
600.
Tho Sioux City Journal has the following !;
IF. A. Harroun, who is buying wheat along
tho line of the Dakota Southern railroad,
estimates the number OF bushels of wheat
in Dakota and Nebraska, tributary 10 the
Dakota road, nj 100000 bushels, This es-
innate is based on carefully collected infor-
nation.
The Sioux City, Iowa, Journal says
Last winter the aggregate number of prai-
rie chickens shipped from Sioux City to the
Eastern market was about $4,000. Thus far
the present season there have been over 35,-
900 purchased by our dealers. The ruling
price is from $500 to $500 per dozen.
There is some talk of raising Angora
or Cashmere goats in ChAtauqua county, N.
Y. The jamestown Farmers Club Of that
county have passed a resolution to form =
company to buy and experiment with Ango-
IA goats with view 10 their general intro
duction II they are u success.
The California wheat yield for 1884 will
be enormous. Forty million bushels, ae-
cording to tho most reliable data Mt hand, is
tho estimate. This is more than double that
of last year, and fifty per cent. in excess Of
that of 1871. The Golden State, Mt this rate,
bids fair to be, at some future day, what
Egypt was in ancient times--the kranary OF
tho world.