Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
BREVITIES.

Dear farm help-a nice little wife.
The epizo0tic has re.appeared in New
London, Ct.
The number Of sheep in Enfield this year
is, 2,5S3 against nearly 5000 few years
ago.
Governor Beveridge has appointed DIR. W..
A. Pratt of Egin, fish commissioner for the
state Of Illinois.
In the island of Guernsey etherized vapor
is successfully used to tame vicious horses
during the operation of shoeing.
The Spirit of the Times figures up the
money offered at the various trotting courses
of the Northern states for the summer trots
at about one-half million dollars.
The London Agricultural Gazette calls
the Short-horn " the most useful variety of
cattle which has ever been by skill in selec-
tion, developed in any part of the world."
Mrs. L. p Cutter, of Hanover, N. H.,
formerly of Warren is one of the two sue.
cessful competitors of New England, for the
Dake prizes for tue best essays on butter
making.
A Texas writer claims that il costs less TO
raise an OK there than it does TO raise
chicken on the Atlantic coast. Yes, and the
chicken is worth as much on the Atlantic
coast as the OK in Texas.
Mr.. woodward of Shelby county said at
the Indiana Short.horn breeders convention,
that he had found that he could put from 800
to 500 pounds more of flesh on high grades
than on common stock, with the same feed
Great destitution is reported in the noun
tain counties Of Kentucky, owing to the
failure Of the crops for three successive
seasons. Many cattle are dying, and the
people are without the necessaries Of life.
At a late meeting of the Short.horn So
ciety of Great Britain and Ireland, a resolu-
tion was introduced by Mr.. Booth, and
seconded by Earl Bective, "that bulls with
four crosses, from cows whose stock is already
entered in the herd book, shall be eligible
for entry in the forthcoming volume"
A correspondent of Colmans Rural World
says, Knox county, N. Y, is becoming famous
for her large production of timothy seed
There is not another county in the state, and
probably not in the United States, that pro.
duces as much of this seed. One man pro-
duced 2000 bushels. Price $3.50 per bushel.
The farmers of Connecticut are petitoning
the legislature in large numbers for the es-
tabishment Of an agricultural experiment
station which is comparatively new thing
in the country, but in Europe, where they
have been in operation thirty or forty years,
they have been found a great benefit to
farmers, by applying the principles of science
to agriculture and stOck-raising.
David NJ. Clough of Canterbury, N. H.,
the "corn king" says Notwithstanding
superphosphate has been in use quito nam.
ber of years, there are yet some who doubt
its utility, and think it will not pay. Those
who do use it, as far as my knowledge ex .
tends, raise the best crops, and are the most
successful farmers have used it from the
time it first came into use, and still continue
to use it.
The Executive committee of the Iowa
state grange, at its last session, reported that
the saving in the purchase Of farm imple.
ments by members of the order, during the
year past, was $60,740; on family supplies
S90,2l0; on lumber, Sl6,050; that the
amount gained in selling through the author
lied agents of the order, was on farm pro.
duce, S356,740; stock, $l22,544. The
order owns ffty-three elevators, and the
gain to farmers on these was at least per
cent.
X.A. Willard says in Rural Nei0 Yorker:
The philosophy OF curing cheese is very i'm
perfectly undertsood-at least in America
Many dairymen, as well as cheese dealers
do not believe that fat in cheese can be pro-
duced in any other way than by the cream
which is in the milk And yet it has been
proved over aud over again, that cheese prop
perly cured, though made from milk partly
SKINNED, is often more mellow and rich tast
ing than cheese made from whole milk, bat
not so we'll cured
The Springfield Republican says: 1t il
singular that in no business is the supply and
quality Of labor offering so much below the
demand as in farming. We observe that in
San Francisco the emigrants arriving from
the east, and bringing up sooner or later at
the employment offices, are largely sought
for to go on farms, aud largely refuse to go.
wishing to locate near San Francisco
And yet agriculture is, and is always bound
to be, the great industry of this country, and
intelligence put into it in almost any quarter
of the country is pretty sure to pay in the
long run.