Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-08-13
BREVlTIES.

Fifteen "Rose of Sharon" Short Horn heif-
ers brought an average Of over $1,000 each
at public sale in Clarke cuonty, Kentucky,
July Dist.
Heavy freshets are reported in Lancashire,
Yorkshire and adjoining counties, England.
The bull Eighth Duke Of Geneva, seven
years old, bred by Mr. Sheldon and exported
at one year old for 800 guineas is to be REIN.
ported, having been bought at Mr. Leneys
sale for Mr. Groom of Kentucky, at 1000
guineas.
The Tennessee Legislature has passed an
act imposing a tax Of one and five dollars
on dogs making it misdemeanor punish
able by fine of SIS to neglect for ten days
after demand to pay the tax, and imposing
penalty of $25 for knowingly keeping
sheep-killing dogs.
Joseph Harris writes to the American
Agriculturist that for dipping sixty large
lambs he used the following composition:
l took two gallons of soft soap, about six
pounds of grease, half pound of white he'll
ebore and one quart Of crude carbolc acid,
and boiled the whole together for half an
hour in eight pailfuIs (say eighteen gallons)
of water, until the grease was all dissolved
and thoroughly mixed with water. To this
we added six pailtuls of cold water, or sufi-
cient to reduce the temperature of the dip to
about blood heat. Every tick was killed.
The Rural New Yorker says grape vines
need no mulching. They never suffer from
drouth.
The Agricultural Gazette, an English
paper, states that the new potato disease
prevailing in England prevails mostly in dry
seasons. 1t has been noticed since the cul.
tivation Of the Early Rose potato became
general there, and is confined to the Ameri-
can varieties grown from English saved seed,
not a trace of it being found in those grown
from seed imported from America. The
only variety grown from English saved seed
not affected is the Alpha. That affected
most is the Snow Flake, Vermont Beauty,
great variety last year, is now in sad
plight.
A correspondent of tae Boston Cultivator
states that from experiments made at the
Maine agricultural college at Orono, January
to May, 1870, with four pigs, it appeared
that 99k bushels of raw meal are equal TO
100 scalded and fed warm.
There is great indignation in Short Horn
circles in England because S3,500 COW,
and "Winsome" to boot, did not take the
first prize at an agricultural exhibition, one
Of the first results of restraining judges from
judging by the catalogue, or in other words,
of ignoring pedigree and favOring merit only.
"Rghteous judgment"
For two years past, or rather seasons, the
orchards, forests and mountain slopes of the
Androscoggin, Maine, Valley have been in-
tested with green worms, from an inch to an
inch aud half long, which have devastated
thousands Of acres Of woodland of everything
green, so that they look at distance as bare
as in winter, aud orchards are rendered
fruitless. The country before them is as
the garden Of Eden, but behind them des-
olate wilderness. 1t is said that they are
very poisonous. Some undertook to rub
them off the trees with their hands, but their
hands grew so sore aud swollen that they be-
came tired of the experiment.
B. +. johnson says in the Country Cen
tleman, if the number of cornstalks in Hi
nois corn6elds could be reduced one-fourth,
such proceeding would add from 20 to 30
per cent to the total corn crop yield.
Jasper Hazen of Woodstock says in the
Country Gentleman, that farmers who ought
to secure the honey in their own fields by
simply placing one, two or three colonies in
their fields in such hives may secure
from one hundred to four or five hundred
pounds of surplus annually with little
trouble except to place and remove the sur
plus boxes in their season.
The San Francisco board Of provision pack
ers advises the farmers of California to iatten
hogs with their wheat as 81 400, 900 gold was
sent from that city last year to buy eastern
pork aud lard.