Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-11-05
FACT ANn.FANoY.

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The Ames Flow Company, Eastou, Mass,
which ia good times employs $50 men, has
now only SIX men at work.
A sweet potato plantation of 700 acres
near Atlanta, Ga, is expected TO yield this
year 10000 bushels Of that vegetable.
The Utica IN. W board Of charities
seems TO have solved the tramp problem by
reduifing all ablo-bodied stragglers applying
for relief to break stones upon the public
streets.
Secretary Chandler says that when he left
Michigan for Washington, last week, be had
no more idea of being invited to seat in
the Cabinet than OF going to heaven in
chariot Of FIRE.
A little son, Eve years old, was called in
to see tho new baby. After a moments
sober reflection, he turned to his father and
said "We didn't need thatw
The great walcr.wheel at Saxey, Isle Of
Man, said to be the largest 10 the world, is
seventy.two feet six inches in diameter, six
feet in breadth and weighs ten tons.
Moody and Sankey appear at last to have
reached the hearts Of the sinful Brooklyn
people, aud the indications are now that tho
revival will be as successful as anticipated.
The meetings are described as immense in
the number Of those present and the degree
Of interest manifested.
They havo dubbed Sam Bowles, "the great
American nominator," and the Chicago
Times publishes romantic episode Of his
career The other day Sam Bowles went
to church in Springfield, Mass, and, feeling
the effects Of his editorial labors through
the week, went to mapping. BY aud by he
was awakened by the preacher, who struck
his desk and shouted "Who shall be able
to stand up 10 the presence Of the Lord on
that awful day T Add Sam Bowles, rising
in his pew, remarked "Oharies Francis
Adams is the only one that eau do it, and
nominate him for the position !"
The experience Of the Western Union tel
egraph is that twenty-five cents does not pay
the cost of receiving transmitting and deliv
ering a message. No matter how much The
business may be extended, every successive
extension necessitates successive additions o.
help, so as to maintain the first cost of hand
ling Geographic dispatch above twenty-five
cents, in spite Of every economy.
A Brooklyn photographer lately appeared
in court, bearing with him seventeen sepa
rate negatives Of one aud the same younI
lady. When the seventeenth had been sub
mitted and rejected, the loug.suiferng pho
tographer declined to spend the rest of his
life aud chemicals upon so difficult subjec
and, the lady having declined to pay for tn
privilege Of "sitting" seventeen times, h
finally went to law to obtain some compen
sation for his wasted time and capital.
; he fails to recover, it is supposed that tn
lady will next sue him for her wasted timC
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AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR OCTOBER
The Department of Agriculture gives &C
; counts from New Jersey, Wisconsin an
Minnesota, showing a large decrease in tn
, , cranberry crop by insects and frost. Tn
rice crop in South Carolina, Florida, Geor
gia and Louisiana is much larger than usua
In North Carolina the great crop was fol
merly rice, but since the war the production
has fallen oil, and no crop has taken tn
i place upon the large and valuable rice plan
= tatious, which have consequently almost gou
TO ruin
The sugar cane in Georgia, was cut shol
by drouth, In some parts of Florida nc
more than three per cent Of a crop WI
planted for want OF seed, but there will
n an average yield. In other parts Of tn
: state the crops were brought up to iu
: average by the August and September rain
II In Alabama there was a largely increase
8 acreage in average condition.
In Mississippi the leading planters al
l manufacturing their sugar and molasses I
home from Louisiana aud African can
, Much cane will not be ground for want
q mills, and will therefore be lost.
$ Louisiana has not justified the promise
;: it's fine appearance in the spring. The SO
y ghum crop, though injured in some section
o is represented as generally fine.
d The hop crop is quite good. In New Yo
If the yield was at least one.third more thu
any crop for the last FIVE years. The
n was a vast yield on oil the fields in Orego
b The culture is yet in its infancy; but Il
e cotton lands Of the Willamette will pro
$ ably prove the finest lands in the world 1
IS hop growing
d The hemp crop in Kentucky is very fai
and has been cut in good time.
The number of fattening cattle 10 Il
'. country is somewhat greater than last yea
There is falling off in the New Euglar
states, except Connecticut, which reports
!, increase nearly balancing the deficiency
r. the others.
r Ia Florida the cereal crops are beiI
!; abandondsd and supplantod by the cultu
a of oranges. In this state there is an exc
N lent crop of guavas, and doubtless lar
quantity will be converted into jelly. Lin
or are quite abundant, and will soon be fl
ii nished in quantities for shipping.