Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-11-23
THE VERMONT PHGN1X BRATTLEBoRo, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

Gen. Franz Sigel intends that two of his
three sons shall be farmers, and has bought
for them farm in Maryland.
California exported last year over ~, 600. e.
600 pounds of wool, worth IS, 600, 900 There
are several wool growers who own from 30
600 to 10, 600 sheep each.
Tobacco leaves are fatal to- cows, ms a
Kentucky farmer learned q few days ago by
losing three valuable animals which ate some
of the weed with their hay.
A man in Pittsburg, Penn, advertised
for book keeper. and within ~ hours had
113 applicants for the position. Subsequent
ly he advertised for man to work on his
farm, and had eight men respond
In Southern Russia rinderpest has
broken out among the cattle. SO malignant
is the disease that hundreds of thousands of
cattle have died. and in many villages scarce
ly COW or nm OK is left to the impoverished
inhabitants.
Six carloads of cattle shipped through
by n Kansas dealer without the food and
changes which the law prescribes were seized
by the United States Marshal Mt Washburn,
ILL.,, Friday, under the statute.
An American horticulturst was engaged
by the japanese Government n year ago to
establish permanent model farm in Japan.
He writes that he has already 500 acres under
cultivation, to he increased several fold.
In paper on the meteorology of forests,
by DR.. Breitenhouer, it is asserted that in
those forests where the underground is dense
the rainfall and evaporation are great, but
when the thicket is destroyed both the rain
fall and the evaporation decrease very percep-
tibly.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has re-
turns which indicate that England will have
l., nl 1,nl.. tt+lg l.,
year, owing to disappointment in raising a
good crop at home. The English crop was
unusually short this year owing TO defective
curing On the continent of Europe there
has been a fair general crop.
An exceedingly vicious horse in San Fran
cisco. which frequently attempted to bite his
keeper. is said to have been completely cured
by tossing a very hot potato into his mouth
during one of his fits of madness. He was
not only cured of his biting propensties, but
also of kicking with his hind feet and striking
with his fore feet. He became entirely tam
ed.
There are short grape crops everywhere
in California this year, and the estimated pro-
duction of wine is put down to 1000, 600 gal
Ions. There will be an increase of brandy
distilling, owing to the law passed by the late
Congress which permits brandy to be distilled
and stored for three years without payment
of excise duty, and for the first time admits
the expectation of California brandy to for
eign countries free of duty.
A very pretty and practical occasion,
known as "arbor day." has become an insti-
tuition in Nebraska. and the California agri-
culturists are making commercially earnest
efforts to introduce it into that State. The
only special ceremony about it is that every
man, woman and child plants tree of some
kind with festal observances. and it is argued
that in five years such custom would change
not only the landscape but the climate of the
Golden State double the rainfall and treb-
lie the crops by giving them plenty of mois-
ture, and preventing such droughts ms the one
that has visited the State this present year.
An "arbor day" in every State in the Union
would be of great advantage to the industrial
economy of the nation.