Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-10-05
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

1t is estimated that the wheat crop of
Ohio this season will be worth Sl2O,OOO, 900,
and hay $50, 100000
The peacock eats the potato-bug, and
there's a prospect that the proud bird may he
useful rs well as ornamental.
California has new bug which has APP
peared on some farms, destroying the pump
kin vines. He is numerous, green in color,
and literally covers the ground.
"A letter from Stamford, Delaware county,
n Y, says that n new cattle disease is raging
in that neighborhood. Twenty COWS have
died, on all of which was found the Texas
pest. 1t is believed the frost will arrest the
disease.
1t is thought that the cattle disease which
now prevails in Kansas is produced by mala-
ria. Some cases were examined last week
and the temperature of tine body was found
to be 104 degrees Farenhet. The temper-
ture to be dangerous in human is fixed at
LOG degrees
The Chicago Tribune says that it is an
established fact that the value of farming
lands everywhere in Illinois. Iowa, Minnesota
and some parts of Wisconsin is steadily in
creasing, and it looks upon this fact as turn
ing point in the depression of all kinds of real
estate.
AT the close of the first centennial of the
United States there were 2j,7l7,9O7 hogs in
the whole country lj,9d3, 100 were in or en-
route to Cicninnati. and the rest chiefly be-
tween st. Louis and Chicago. This il less
than two-thirds of hog to each citizen.
"A valued contribution to the Hampden
county (Mass) cattle show, last week. was
made by Evangelist u. L. Moody of North
field who showed a fine thoroughbred Jer-
sey heifer and flock of Shropshire Down
sheep. descendants of stock imported from
Manchester, England, in 1873. The weight
of the imported buck is 2G0 pounds, and he
sheared II pounds of wool last Spring The
ewes sheared pounds each. and the year
| ling lambs II pounds each. 1t is understood
this stock was gift to Mr.. Moody by an
English friend
Hundreds of insect pests find safe winter
quarters in the rubbish of the field and gar
dens. The prunings of currant bushes. rasp-
berries and blackberries dead squash vines,
| cucumber vines, loose pieces of bark, punches
of weeds and such rubbish hide multitudes of
| eggs, larvae pupa or perfect insects. Such
| loose stuff had better be burned: to consign
them to the manure heap is only to propagate
| the pest. When burned there is IN end of
them, and of such unsightly waste rs no neat
person should have about his premises.
Who, says the New England Farmer, can
compute the advantage to agriculture that the
| Autumnal fairs have brought about? And
who that looks at the subject from other than
a cynical and selfish stand point would dis
| pense with them: If they have sometimes
not met the reasonable expectations of the
people it has been either from lack of interest
in them or from acknowledgement Bat this
is no argument against them. The corrective.
if any is anywhere needed, is in the hands of
| farmers themselves.
Mrs. Sawin of Kansas is Il plucky woman
| who has farm of 800 acres of prairie laud
This spring she harvested ten acres of wheat
of her own ploughing aud sowing, and put
down twenty acres more. besides some sor,
| ghum and broom corn. She is not a strong
| bodied woman; on the contrary. when she
begun her ploughing, she was so feeble that
| she had an easy chair Mt the end of her fur
row, and was Obliged at every second row to
stop and rest. SHE chose this life because
she had more fitness for it than for anything
else that gave promise of future for two lit
| tie sons whom she desires to educate to use
fulness. Her health improves, and a sheep,
raiser in the neighborhood has engaged her to
| plough ten acres of land for him and take hei
| pay III sheep.