Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-08
BREvITIEs.

In one county in Minnesota 81 600 bushels
Of beans have been raised this season.
There are in. Chicago 10000 persons
"willing to work. out Of employment. I...
Pennsylvania is the nearest to. self sup
porting of any of the older states of large
population.
The dairymen of Ohio are to make
cheese for the Centennial exposition to weigh
$4,000 pounds. 1si.. t'laT "- -.
A. o. Cummins of Montpelier, lost a
thoroughbred mare for which he paid $1,000.
The animal fell head foremost into a well.
The Canada Farmer says the Seneca or
Clawson wheat has succeeded better
than any other sort, and is without doubt,
the coming wheat.
The English people eat four and one.half
pounds Of cheese per head, to one and one
half pounds per head consumed by the people
Of the United States. lra 90. .rlaT ..-f.I
1t is said that the wet summer in England
has produced bee famine, and unless they
are fed the hives must certainly perish.
Loaf sugar made into sirup is the food rec
commended. This is said to be substi tute
for the natural foed of the bee--honey.
From the results of series Of observa tions
made in France, it is calculated that a
quantity of water equal to twelve inches in
depth upon the suface of an acre of ground
passes through the leaves of a wheat crop of
twenty-five bushels, and is used in the pro.
cess Of maturing the grain and straw.
A new disease has broken out among the
swine in western Missouri, which affects them
most singularly, and has resulted in the death
of number of hogs. When first attacked,
the hog squeals as if in intense pain or
fright; the legs and back break out with an
eruption, leaving the flesh raw, and his pork
ship soon after yields up the ghost. 3 r
Large quantities of witch hazel are being
cut iu the wooded country north Of Little
Falls, N. Y, which is drawn to that village,
where it is passed through some process be-
fore it is shipped to Europe and elsewhere
to be used for medicinal purposes. The
hazel is worth So per ordinary wagon load,
aud people who had always regarded the
saplings, as worthless are now realizing
handsome revenue from its sale.
A fatal cattle disease, a sort of typhus
inflammation of the spleen, caused by eating
half.deeayed aftermath on the overhowed
meadows, has broken out among the cattle
near Morristown, Nj. Already eighty ivo
COWS and calves have died from the disea ase,
and many more have been attacked. There
is no fear Of the spread of the disease, how
ever If the cattle in that vicinity are not
taken to other places. n lps H ai.
The following waterproof harness black
ing which also serves as polish is indorsed
by the Boston Journal of Chemistry Nut
ton suet, two ounces; bees wax, six ounces
melt and add sugar-caudy, lin fine powder)
six ounces; soft soap, two ounces indigo,
lin fine POWDER one,half ounce; lampblack,
two and one-half ounces, When thoroughly
Incorporated, add turpentinc one-iourth pint,
and pour into pots and tins.
Zebina Spaulding of Bethel says in the
Woodstock Standard that so much is said
about Jersey cows that he would like to say
something about his half blood Durhams.
He has three, seven, five and two years
respectively from which he made forty and
one.half lbs butter in seven days, beside
using milk for family Of four and having
hulled corn in the meantime. He thinks If
it had not been for the "hulled corn" that
the average would have been fourteen lbs
per head for the seven days. ,...,4..
Mr. A, z, Ball, Derby Line, has bought
Of ALVIN Adams, Boston, Mass, Jerseys,
Empress 2l6, and Lady 2S9 and has sold
to the New Brunswick government the year.
ling Jersey bull JannOtt 1532, aud bull
calf yearling heiier FaWnitta and heifer
calf cows, Beauty ID 1928, and Beauty
Sd (3624)-also Ayrshire bull and five
hcifer calves yearling heifers, McMartins'
Lassie 3D. 1869, Dutchy I'd 2282, Sithead
I'd 1880, Gypsy 7th 2443, Laohine Lass
4th 26l8; twO.years-old hoifers, McMartins
l4assie I'd 1868, Jennett 4th 1852, and cows
Julia 3D. 1861, and Whiteface 3295, together
with Berkshire boar, and SOW in pig.
An item In the history of the Underhill
cheese factory, of interest to dairymen, has
lately been brought 10 light On the 18th
of July, 1875, il is said, q certain patron
was detected in watering bis milk very
freely this having been more than suspected
for a long time. Since that time he has
been denied the privilege Of bringing either
water or milk to the factory. He being
caught in this disreputable business had a
most remarkable effect on the COW Of another
dairyrnan. This COW had always been kind
until now but the next time her owner came
10 the factory with milk she had kicked over
. pailful that weighed 200 lbs. That COW
kicks yet, but the balance Of that dairy
gives far richer milk, aud it is hoped from
this fact that the production Of cheese will