Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-11-09
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

upon an SO-acre farm than into the best po-
litical Office that could be found.
The South Carolina rice crop will fall from
one-fourth to one-thrd short of its early prom
Use, on account of bad weather, high tides and
the ravages of birds.
1t has been proved in Nevada and other
silver producing States of the West that cap
ital devoted to agriculture pays better and
more regularly than if put into gold and silver
mines.
Mr.. Isaac Smith, farmer in the vicinity
of Montreal, recently found Canada thistle
with well-formed potato on the root. 1t is
supposed that the thistle was underneath, and
forced its way through the potato
-Ex-Secretary Chambers Michigan farm
consists of 31GO acres 1t has cost him about
500, 900, and is just beginning to pay ex-
penses. A large number of prominent ogri-
cuturists visited the farm last week, and were
addressed by Mr.. Chandler
John Bean of Warner, n. H., recently
lost COW in a singular manner. 1t engaged
with another COW in friendly bout with
horns, when Mr.. Beams COW was thrown, and
her horns being entangled with those of her
opponent, her neck was instantly broken.
1t is gratifying fact that returns show
that the cotton crop of the Southern States
for the eight years succeeding the war show
surplus of ., 500, 600 bales over the cot. On 'op
of the eight years preceding the wa. AID
the crop was not mortgaged to the extent that
it was in former times.
The new wheat pest, the 'Hessian Fly"
has already begun its ravages in Canada, and
its ravages are being felt to an alarming ex-
tent. 1t has been increasing in numbers dur
ing the past three years, and it is feared that,
unless active measures are at once taken, the
pest will develop into terrible calamity
Several prominent farmers of Williams
burg, Mass, have made it practice for sew
eral years of picking off the apple blossoms
from some of their best trees, and in this
manner make the trees bear an abundance of
fruit on the "of" year This being one of
the off years these farmers have a good
quantity of apples while their ncighbors are
obliged to buy.
The United States consul at Odessa in
forms the department of state that disease
has broken out among cattle, in section of
South Russia, from which hundreds of thous-
ands of cattle have already died. So malg-
nant is the disease that in many villages
there is scarcely COW or an OK left to the i'm
poverished inhabitants.
The Fruit Recorder says that black-cap
raspberries may be set out in autumn to bet
ter advantage than in spring, by first crtting
ting them out well as deep as they stood be-
fore, and protecting each plant with forkful
of coarse manure till spring. They get an
early start and do better than spring-set
plants
Minnesota is coming to the front as SUI
gar-producing state. Two men, S. H. Kin
ney and C. f. Miller, after years of discour-
aging toll have perfected process of extract
ing from hybrid known as the 'Minnesota
early amber" syrup and sugar equal to the
choicest product of Louisiana and the West
Indies, and preparations are going on for the
manufacture on large scale.
New Haven cornty, Conn, has farm OIL
which it is said the were raised this year j5(
bushels of oats, yielding 40 bushels to the acre
and costing % cents per bushel; 500 bushel,
of corn costing 40 cents per bushel, and Il
| acres of broom corn, turnips, etc. No ma
nure was used except Pacific guano, which
cost 81 per acre for the oats and SIS for tn,
| corn.
-Chicken-rearing by machinery has reach
ed its last and most glorious period-it even
supplies an artificial mother hen for the guile
| less chicken to brood under at night and fl,
to in moments of pc ! during the day. Thu
| hydrOnere is French invention. and striking
| ly reese nbles n real hen in all but one pa.ticu
lar beneath its downy breast instead of
warm heart, there is only warm water. Thus
one latter another. by the chicken-hatchinl
machine, by the chicken food-cramming ma
chine and now by the heartless HyirOmere
are the innocent joys of chickenhood vanish
ing.
England tends to become less and less
land of wheat-growers and more and more
fruit-bearing ntTy. 1t is noticed by Mr.
Giffen, in his report to the Board of Trade
that in one year the orchards of Great BI ali
- l. IL r
whereas the wheat grown in 1877 was Il ougl
more than last year, still much below the or
binary average. The decline is about s pc
cent. The stock of horses in the country
| increasing, while horned cattle are decreasing
thanks to cattle plague, foot and mouth dis
ease, and scarcity of fodder, which make
grazing an exec edingly risky business AM
threatens to make it a very unpopular one.
Returned Cinnamon who have learned il
California to prefer wheat to rice are intro
ducing taste for it and the cultivation of
into their native land. For the las, tire
years they have imported the grain consider
ably, but they will soon have enough and +
spare of home production. They cultivate S
much more closely than we that forty bushel
to the acre is about the lowest yield, and thi
pays well at twenty-five cents bushel deliy
cred at Hong Kong Their sweep of count,
| adapted to wheat exceeds that of the Pacifi
slope tenfold, and their cost of labor is 10 pc
cent less
A Nashuan who sometimes wanders i
the back districts with a fish-rod says he Ia
discovered one of the reasons why farmin
don't pay. His tale is thus told He live
Just the other side of the State line. said t
him, That spotted hog is just like one SAY
in the same pen when | was this way seve
years ago, and he replied OF course. It
the same animal asked him why he ha
not killed and raised some other hogs and h
answered, Why, bless ye, man, that hog eat
all the swill we make and consequently Their
amt no sense in KILN him an buyiu' anotl
err" The reason why farming don't pay
with this man is obvious Nashua " H.
Telegraph.