Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-22
BREVITIEs.

Oregon is said to be wonderful country
for wheat.
The starch factory at Marysvile, Me,
uses from 1000 to 1900 bushels of potatoes
day.
Six thousand hogs have died of hog chol-
era within month in the vicinity of Colum.
bus, Ohio.
The New York Times says profit of one
dollar year for each hen is as much as can
be depended on in the poultry business.
President Wilder says The total yield of
raisins in California last year was estimated
at four hundred tons, valued at nearly
$4,000.
Oranberries grow to great perfection in
Japan, and all the use made of them is by
the boys, who blow them through tin tubes
for the fun of the thing.
A ship recently sailed from Boston for
Africa with l,200 Eagle plows. from the
Ames Plow Co, to be used by the Africans,
in blowing, We suppose. u. ...
The Essex county (Mass) agricultural
society is out of debt, has fund Of S20, 900,
and also farm with an income of $500,
and all this accomplished without horse
trot. r
Governor Tilden says there is bug that
consumes every crop, and that is the tax COL
lector. Far too much of the fruits of labor
are consumed for the purpose of carrying on
the government. s.
The best milch COW at the New York state
fair was adjudged to be grade Short-H
owned by Mr. George Ayrault of Poughkeep-
sic, which surprised the owners of Jerseys,
Ayrshiros and Dutch cattle.
X. A. Willard says, in the Rural New
Yorker, that there is nothing in the natural
grasses of the West that is objectionable for
dairy COWS. The prevalent notion that
Western dairymen must SOW "tame grasses"
is an error.
Mr. Francis Gerry of Fairfield writes the
Scientific American that "bland solution
OF carbolic acid in whale oil or kerosene is
the scientific preventive Of the potato rot"
The way to use it is to dip the potato in the
solution just before planting.
A mammoth steer, owned by George Mil
Ter, farmer on Lost river, near Klamath
lake, Or, has arrived at Salem, and will be
sent to the Centennial. 1t stands nineteen
hands, or six feet, four inches, measures
twenty feet from tip to tip, and weighs 5000
pounds. a'
Mr. Hastings, large pork raiser Of Mont
gomery county, ILL.,, states that burning the
carcasses of hogs, that die of cholera, to a
char, and permitting those living to eat it, is
the best remedy and preventive of the dis
ease.
Arba Campbell of Tioga county, N. Y,
writes to the Country Gentleman that on
hill lands of beech, maple and hemlock tim
Der, fat stones and soft water, lime is ben
efcial, and the cheapest, manure. They
usually SOW FIVE or ten bushels to the acre,
slkckel lime.
The editor of the Country Gentleman says,
in issue of October z. we have often sown
grass seed later than the present date and
had It do well and make fine growth the
following year, and on one occasion only has
it winter killed. Sow clover seed early in
spring.
The Massachusetts board Of health, in
their fourth annual report, state that the
average life OF farmers in that state is fifty
i've AMI one.fourth years. Of outdoor me-
chanics it is fifty-two and one-half years.
These are much above any other occupation.
The Vermont Watchman copies one of
those "bunkum" items about Michael Sulli.
want, or somebody's 22,000.acre cornfeld in
Illinois, and asks, "What is there remarka-
BILE in Mr. Sulivant's extensive skinning of
Illinois prairiesP He farms like the rest of
the farmers in that country regardless of the
irretrievable barrenness he is bringing upon
the land"
A correspondent of the American Rural
Home visiting the Barnstable Mass county
fair, writes that he saw no agricultural i'm
plements, hardware, machinery, household
implements, manufactured goods, musical
instruments, etc, usually on exhibition at
fairs.
1t is probable that the banana will be
widely cultivated in the South In future.
Acres Of them have been planted in the
worn-out cotton fields Of some of the Gulf
state while in Florida this culture has be-
come thriving business, The trees grow
readily without cultivation and rapidly yield
fruit " 1 - 't
O. W. Herbert Of Ruuiuey, N. H., win
tered ll2 Ootswold sheep from which he
has sold 1926 worth of wool ,eighty-six lambs
for 1915, and now has ll2 sheep aud TWEEN
ty-ssSen lambs left. The remaining lambs
are worth Sl0S, which makes the income
from his flock of ll2 sheep, this summer,
S9I9.
The Country Gentleman says that the
Walter A. Wood company exhibited at the
New York state fair their selEbinding reap
ing machine in operation, which excited
much interest by the simplicity Of the con-
| trivance aud the success Of its work. The
small wire which is used for the bands, we
were informed, cost about twenty cents per
acre. The cost, as 4 separate attachment to
the reaper, Is 1925. 4l
Richard Peters Of Georgia writes the
New York Times that in 1869 be purchased
some Merino ewes in Vermont, and on their
arrival they communicated hoOf all TO the
whole flock of 200 sheep and 100 Angora
goats. II had full sway for four years, not
withstandIng the almost daily application Of
blue vitriol, sulphuric acid, pine tar, coal tar
and over S75 worth of crude earbOlic acid.
They we're finally cured with strong sOlu-
tion of nitrate OF silver, followed by pow.