Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-16
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Governor Dix of New York received n
three hundred pound cheese "a u Christmas
present
California is rejoicing in the early arrival
of her rainy season. About 10 inches. un ,n
average, fell upon tho agricultural district IN
three weeks, and only 10 more are needed 10
give I'm encouraging prospect Tor mining and
agriculture next season.
California pays 81, 900, 900 IL year tn scot.
land for wheat 'mgs.
An International horticultural exhibition is
TO take place ut Florence, Italy, in May next,
in conjunction with AN International botanical
congress.
There is an orange tree in one ct the gar
dens ut Paris that has reached the respect,,.
bic age of 400 years.
The officers of tho New Hampshire Agri-
cultural Society voted to return the funds
which were generously contributed by some
of the leading citizens in aid of the State
Fair which was hold in Manchester IN Sep
TENDER, for the reason that the exhibition
was so great success that tho contributions
to upward of $1,000.
Chicago reaches the end of the year 1878
with larger totals on tho records of her prod
uce trade than ever before. The increase
over 1879 is also very marked, and the only
visible limit to business has been the made
qunte means OF transportation. The total
value of the products received is set down ut
s24O, 100000.
The system of associated diaries has be-
come well established in Maine. There are
20 cheese factories in operation, most of them
having been put in operation for the first
time last season, and eight others are prepar-
ing to begin work in the spring. The sue
cess of the factories has been very encOurag
ing.
Some brutal semblances of human being
entered the barn of Mr.. Crosby Roundelsy,
of Benton, Me-, one evening last week, and
after splitting the under jaws, cut out the
tongues of pair of cattle. which had to be
killed in consequence
There is no use in manurIng land TO grow
weeds in buying tools to rot under the stone
wall; in erecting buildings to ROT away for
tho want of paint and care; in buying ami
mails and leaving them TO the unhindered
action Of disease.
In lecture before II British agricultural
association, Mr.. Cassie, V. s., says that the
reason why whole grains appear in horse
manure is because the horse is watercd soon
after being fed The most OF the water
dlank by horse passes directly through the
stomach to the large intestines, and grain
Just swallowed is liable to he carried along
with the water, instead Of remaining in the
stomach.
The Country Gentleman says: The i'm
proved varieties of Siberian crab. il well
grown and skillfully put up. would doubtless
sell well in winter, although not much
known in market" Very likely, but as all the
varieties in general cultivation are summer
and fall fruit, there seems to be difficult
ty in the way that the Country Gentleman did
not think of.
A number of people living IN Cottonwood
and Murray counties. Mimi, have sent petit
tions to the governor saying that on account
of the destruction Of the crops by grasshop-
pcrs, last summer. they are destitute, and
asking for loans of money from the state.
A Texas farmer turns his cattle out to pas.
turc in IN enclosure one hundred and fifty
miles long and fifty miles wide.
The farmers are represented in Congress
10y only per cent. of the congressman, while
the lawyers have 65 per cent The largest
class has the least representation.
| A correspondent of the Louisville Courier.
Journal says that the people of Alabama and
Georgia are much worse of now than they
were immediately after the war, owing to
poor crops, the financial trouble and bad
government. Large numbers of thom are
moving to Texas.
| A week or two ago travelling agent left Il
number of lightning rods temporarily in a
barn Mt Bowling Green. Kentucky. A few
nights after tho barn WAS destroyed by being
struck by lightning, and the owner claiming
that the rods attracted the electric current
has sued the agent for damages.
The celebrated trotting horse, Ripon Boy
| for which the owner, G.. w. Van Bront, had
refused go, 900, has just died at Oshkosh
Wis. Death was caused. it is thought, by
hydrophobia, contracted from the bite of u
dog about month before.
Tho Shorthorn COW, Eighth Duchess o
Geneva, that was purchased ut the late New
York Mills sale by Mr.. r. PAWN Davies, o.
Worcestershire, England, at the enormous
price of SAC, 600, has again changed hands
and will remain in America us part of the
herd OF Col Lewis &. Morris of Fordham, n
Y.
Till less land aud till it better; turn on
the barren land to grow up TO timber; stoI
attempting or expecting impossibiitics b,
expecting always TO be able to take crop'
from the land without putting anything back
adapt the crops TO the soil.
Can the watermelon be successfully cult
waited on sandy soil in rural town OF foul
thousand inhabitants, and theological in
stItuto located near by, containing one hun
dred and twenty students studying for thu
ministry? asks the Danbury Neps.
The vine-dressers of France are happ,
over the discovery, IN Missouri and othe
parts of the United States of n bug, called ~
/" acarus which has an Unsuitable appetite
for the phylloxera vastatriN, ''a parasite
which has long preyeh upon the grape vines
and dciied the entire French peasantry
Ono OF those analytical chemists who Ar
always making remarkable discoveries, ha
discovered that two-pound loaf of brsa'
contains as much alcohol as u glass of ligh
beer. Luckily bread is not n beverage, o
It might receive unwelcome attention iron
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