Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03
BREVITIES.

Kerosene lanterns are not safe in the barn.
There have been heavy losses of lambs at
weaving time in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and
Missouri, caused by the rank, sour grass and
excessive rain.
1t is estimated that if all the manure q
pig makes is saved and utilized it ia the
equivalent of two cents per pound on the
price of the pork.
There is man in Jay that had not fn.
ished haying last week. He had hay in the
tumble. hay in the windrow, hay in the
swath and grass uncut
The patriotic and enterprising superin-
tendent Of Fitchburgh Railroad, @. l.. Hey
wood, Esq, has offered premium of $500
for the best essay on Forest Trees.
1t is said that some English farmers knock
out or break of the front teeth Of their sheep,
to prevent their eating the roots of maugolds
when turned in to feed off the tops.
Mr. Humphry, chairman of the New
Hampshire board of Agriculture, says he
raises corn at cost of forty-one cents per
bushel, including interest and taxes on the
land.
Mr. A. c. Miller of Springfield, recently
lost valuable four-year-old colt. He ap-
peared we'll on Sunday and tho following
Saturday morning his dead body was found
in the pasture.
A farmer at Woods Hole, Massachusetts,,
writes to the Boston Advertiser that the
blackbirds gathered about his field of ripen.
ing barley but it was found they were after
the army worms.
Mr. Charles F. Wadsworth Of Genesee, N.
Y, one of the owners of the Genesee Valley
stock farm, has compiled and published for
free distribution among the breeders Of the
Princess cattle, record Of the family.
A new and singular cattle disease prevails
in Van Buren, county, Mich. The animals
affected suffer terribly, and rub their heads
against sharp objects till the flesh is torn of,
and the disease is fatal within "a hours.
Maine men who return from California,
after soiourning several years in that state,
are satisfied that man of limited capital
can do better at farming in Aroostook, make
more money, and become independent sooner
than in any part of California.
DR. George Sutton Of Indiana, says in
report on TrichinOsis, prepared by him and
published in the transactions Of the medical
society of that state, that ''From micro
scopic examination Of pork killed in south
eastern Indiana, we found from three to SIX
teen per cent of the hogs affected with trich-
ina, the number Of hogs diseased varying
greatly in different localities.
Mr. VIM Renuie Of Toronto now has on
exhibition, three Long Red Mangels weighing
Oh lbs. the heaviest being 81 lbs, three
Yellow Globe MangelS, SO lbs, heaviest 35lbS,
three white carrots, lsi lbs, parsuipS IL lbs,
and Swede turnips (Rennie's Purpletop) IL
and 10 lbs each. The Swedes were checked
10 their youth by drouth. Mr. VIM Burgess
of MimicO grew the whole Of them.
Potatoes are pouring into New York from
all directions. Four hundred car loads arr
rive every day and large tows 60 down the
river, every boat loaded with from 5000 to
5000 bushels. Last year New York raised
1925, 900 bushels or nearly one.quarter of
all that were produced in the country. This
year the crop is much larger in New York
and nearly double in some of the other
states.
A new process Of preserving eggs is to
puncture the shell at the air bubble with =
needle, when they are placed in receiver
and the air exhausted by an air pump, then
a valve is opened and melted paraftine rusheS
in TO 6ll the vacuum in the receiver aud In the
eggs They arc coated with parafhne, all con.
tact with the air externally or internally is
prevented and they keep fresh long time,
and are in no way injured BY the process.
The Boston Journal of Chemistry says
that mineral matter in dilute solution is capa-
BILE of being assimilAted by the body, the
structure Of which may thus be materially
modified. II the water We drink contains
lime, that substance will be taken up and
will appear as phosphate of lime m the bones.
If the water is deficient in mineral matter
there will be corresponding deficiency in
the constitution of the bones. Water that is
pure aud sparkling aud entirely free from Or
ganic impurities, may contain inorganic sub
stances fatal TO health. The sulphates Of
magnesia and soda in drinking water have
caused dairrhCea to prevail in communities.