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


Two Clydesdale stations which were
exhibited at an Ohio fair weigh 2.400 lbs each.
And now the farmers Of Missouri propose
to raise smart weed for tanning. 1t contains
more tannic acid than hemlock bark.
A bottle of maple syrup sealed up sixteen
years ago by Mrs l.. H. Stone of Castleton
was recently opened and found to be in per-
feet preservation.
1t is announced that one cheese manufac-
turer in Central New York has cleared
Sll 900, this year, on cheese. 1t is fb,
too, this year of low prices.
The Dumbleton Hall farm, in England,
which comprises 2,lS2 acres, was recently
sold at auction for 1865, 900, or nearly
$3.50 per acre. 1t ought to be good one.
A Mr. Pyle writes to the Fancier's Jour-
nal that pure-bred Brahmas always lay dark
brown eggs, and that white eggs are sure
indication of spurious blood, and the fanciers
are all agog with pros and cons.
Deacons j. Il. Crane Of Bridport, who
finds time for the care Of bees in the leisure
moments of farming, and who is an enthusi-
astic apiculturist has crop of over four tons
Of honey this season.
A field in the Missouri Bottom" near
Phelps, Missouri, in the twenty year of
cultivation in corn, yielded ll3 bushels, by
weight, of sheled corn per acre.
Prof Miles of the Michigan Industrial
University is making experiments in fitting
green corn for winter food, cutting it fine,
treading into trenches, on dry and we'll
drained soil, and covering we'll with straw
and earth.
Amos Emerson of Worcester is raising
chickens 10 a novel manner. Finding a
partridges nest last spring, he removed the
eggs aud replaced them with the eggs Of a
bantam hen aud has now twelve chickens
running in the woods.
At the sale Of Short Horns of the Booth
family, in England, owned by VIM Torr,
Esq, seventy.one females brought 5000, ,043,
an average of S2,8l7 so, and thirteen bulls
S27 ,456, an average of S2,ll2. The COW
bright Empress" sold for Sl2,420, which
is the highest price ever paid for COW in
England.
A correspondent Of the Fancier's Journal
thinks the adoption Of standard of excel
lence by many poultry societies, and judg.
ing by scale Of points, which makes it
difficult to find competent judges, and also
to have only one judge for each class, may
have advantages, but they are of little value
compared to the injury to the societies and
injustice TO individuals which is likely TO
result.
The New Orleans Times says the best
sheep man we ever saw was soldier who,
at the end of the rebellion, invested his pile
in thirteen ewes, and turned them into a
small field of weeds and briers, which they
soon cleaned up. In winter he bought bran
and corn meal for them. Next spring they
we're turned into another bTier patch, and
the first one was dressed with the winters
accumulation of manure from the flock flight
dressing wasn't itf and planted with corn.
As his flock increased, be sowed turnips aud
clover, and now has fine flock, which re-
turns $4,000 year to the happy COnfed
crate. "a young man can we'll afford to sit
down with dozen sheep on the plains, live
in dug.out aud feed on antelope meat,
rather than undertake to become independ-
ent in city on a elerkship Of 81 900 year. /"
Suppose instead of sitting down he gets on
to his feet aud goes to work.