The Portland daily press., 1877-08-21
FARM AND H0UEHOLD.
News and Notes,

Mr.. J. G.. Gaines, Of Berkshire, VT, has
two four-year-old Jersey cows, one named
"Corie" and the other "Mysie." From Corie's
milk, when she was two years old, there were
made in sixty days, from March % to May
q, 81 pounds of butter. During the first
week in April last she gave, on an average,
23t pounds of milk day, which yielded 1Oa
pounds of butter. From Mysie, in March,
when two years old, there were made Z
pounds and IA ounces in one week, and in
March, 1877, II pounds and 2 ounces in one
week. Last April, from one milking of
these two cows there was made one pound
and III ounces of butter, or about one
pound of butter to Is pounds of milk. From
70 pounds of milk yielded by the two.yeaf-
old heifer pounds of butter were made, or
in the proportion of one pound to III. These
figures would indicate the milk to be of good
quality and rich in butter as compared with
our common stock of cows, and Mr.. G.. says
the same quantity of cream by measure will
produce much more butter and requires less
time in churning than ordinary cream.
The wheat and other crop prospects in
Alabama are satisfactory. The corn crop is
unusually large.
The standard weight now generally ac-
cepted as the practical measure for a quart of
milk is 215.
The potato crop promises to be very large
all through Vermont. The price paid at St.
Adams for the best is but twenty-five cents
per bushel.
The Canadians are confidently expecting a
bountiful harvest.
Within the past fortnight the grasshoppers
New Jersey seemed to have been visited
with plague. for they have died by the
thousand. In many fields they are fonnd
clinging to the heads of oats, weeds or what
ever they were feeding on when struck with
death.
Wheat is yielding Unexpectedly we'll
throughout Central New York
The State Agricultural College of New
Hampshire is $4,000 behindhand, and there is
need of wholly new fences and $500 appro-
priation to give the farm running water and
new mathematical instruments. But the
greatest need is for students, as, independ
of the incoming class, they now number but
eleven.
The export of oleomargarine butter from
this country averages about one million
pounds per month. The New York fat
dairy people are using oleomargarine in the
manufacture of cheese.
The value of fresh beef, mutton and live
stock exported from the United States thus
far this year amounts to $685., 675, against
$1,755, 101 for the same period last year-an
increase this year of $3,s30.494.
The Central Maine Poultry Association
will hold its second annual exhibition at Fair.
field, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Dec.
IL, Is, and 18th. The list of special pre-
miums will be large and attractive, and it is
thought that the exhibition will be far better
than the one held last year.
Cincinnati advices state that the quality of
the new wheat coming forward is so excellent
that the millers do not require old wheat to
mix with it. This is an unusual occurance,
1t is reported from Orange county, Yer
mont that the great army of grasshoppers
which has been doing great damages is rapid
uloolipSdIluSs "a hluu Vi TtU llCo Is destroy.
ing them.
The statistician of the Department
Agriculture reports that dnring the
last year 100000 swine of all ages
have died from disease, with a money
loss of more than $20,000,00O. One
fifth of the entire loss was in Illinois;
while Missouri and Indiana together, lose
$10,000,000 Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana have nearly as large percent.
age of loss in numbers, aggregating $780,
600, but in New England the losses have been
very small. With proper veterinary inspection
there is no doubt that all but very small
percentage of this enormous amount of loss
might have been saved to the farmers, and
the money SO lost in one year would amply
provide for such inspection over the whole of
the United Stares for 100 years-apparently
incredible, but true, nevertheless.