Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-08
AGnICuLTUnAL IrEMs.


greca as in May.
-Michigans crop Of apples last season is
estiiIated at Sl,OOO.O 900.
California now exports about ten millions
worth Of wood per annum.
Since last October England has taken
from MS over 400, 600 barrels OF apples.
Georgia boasts POO different varieties Of
fruits as growing successfully in that State.
Clinton county. Iowa. lost over seventy
five thousand hogs last season from cholera.
South Carolina raised about A. 900 tierces
of rice last year, and Georgia $4,000 1ierces.
Worcester, Mass, wants the next exhibit
ton Of the New England agricultural society.
and has subscribed a guarantee fund of $4,000.
A Colon Mich. farmer, who thought he
would do a smart thing by blowing in his bare
feet during the holidays. died the week after
of diphtheria.
The North British Agriculturist, in an ar
ticle on the past agricultural season. estimates
the losses of Scotch farmers owing to inferior
crops at elO,OOO,OOO.
There are about seventy thousand orange
trees in bearing in Louisiana yielding over
thirty million oranges annually. which are
worth on the trees about SlO0,OuO.
-Corned mutton is extensively used in for
eign countries There is no good reason why
it is not in general use here For cooking
with vegetables there is no meat superior to
it,
The United States utilities in agriculture
ten per cent. of its area Great Britain fifty
eight per cent France and Belgium eighty
three per cent ustro-Hungary lightweight:
and Holland seventy
-Texas produces more Gotten than any
other State in the Union. Its crop in 1867
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600 bales which was the next highest and
Arkansas came next with $50 900 bales.
A reliable estimate places the cotton crop
Of 1877 at 4, $50, 600 bales. 4 season more gen
orally favorable than that of last year, in all
its bearings over the entire cotton growing
districts of the country, has never been
known.
TIE larget pillow ever manufactured has
Just been turned out of a factory at Stockton
Cal The mold-board is eight feet long, and
the furrow which is cut 30 inches wide. 1t is
designed for work upon the tule lands and re-
quires twelve stout oxen to draw it.
The sixteen starch factories of Aroostook
county. Me. used last fall from 20. 600 to
100, 600 bushels of potatoes each, the price
paid at the factory being from 20 to - cents
a bushel Many farmers in the county have
from 800 to 1000 bushels stored in their eel
lars.
"A New York farmer goes wild over GUM
ca hens. He declares that each one will keep
an acre of potatoes clear Of bugs, and will an
swer every purpose of barometer in predict
ing storms. He also says that they will not
scrf tch, and lay more and better eggs than the
coLmon hen.
james II. Hooker, a Georgia farmer. is
mentioned by the papers of that State ns
having raised, last year, the largest crops pro
duced by any one man since the war. He
raised GO bales of cotton, 1900 bushels Of
corn. 800 of potatoes 1000 each Of oats and
wheat, and besides fattened - hogs
The search for tannin materials has been
rewarded by the discovery and application,
upon commercial scale, of the valuable
properties of the sweet fern. so common in
New England This hitherto useless product
affords good extract of tannin, and a manu-
factory for the purpose has been erected in
Maine.
Some farmers in Waldo county, Ne, ar,
trying the Miller system of feeding stock il
winter, which consists Of corn meal alone,
disusing hay entirely. One farmer in Unity
has fed n COW for twenty days upon three
quarts of meal daily. and the animal thrives.
1t is said that a COW can be wintered by this
system for Sl2.
killed his large Chester White hog Jan 20.
which weighed alive, 700 pounds, and dressed
$40, showing ashrinkagei III dressing of only 50
pounds. He has previously killed two others
of the same breed. one at Is months old, weight
go. the other - months. weight 7GS total
weight of the three, DOGS.
"A number of Minnesota and Canada fur
mers have put their spring wheat into the
ground and are now watching with some anx-
iety for the harvest. The experiment is a
reckless one and does not argue good farming
for though there is a chance for the seed There
are so many against il that wewould not advise
great expectations on the part of those wait
ing results.
California farmers put all their eggs into
one basket. They rely principally upon the
cultivation of wheat for export, and if that
crop fails from lack of rain. or some other
cause, they are in bad way financially. Ag-
riculture is the leading industry of the State.
OF its total area three-tifths is useless for till
age. being composed of desert and mountains
OF the entire acreage III the State only one in
thirty is cultivated -Four acres out of seven
are in wheat, and one in barley, leaving two
out of seven for other crops
Forest culture will soon hold an import
ant position among the industries of the farm.
from necessity if not from choice, if the pres
ent rate OF consumption continues IN the tu-
ture as it has IN the near past. Comfort and
Ornamentation require that shade trees be
planted not only about our dwellings, but by
the roadsides. In the latter case, besides the
agreeable shade afforded much waste land
can be profitably used The person who sets
shade trees will be called blessed by the
generations that rise up after him.
A New York farmer, last year. cut from
two acres of land six tons of clover hay, then
plOwed and sowed ruta-baga turnips. an
raised 500 bushels. These turnips were re-
garded as equal TO eight tons of hay. making
product of that which was equal to fourteen
tons of hay from two acres in one season.
The turnips We're used to feed the horses at
the rate of half bushel per day, with what
oat straw they might eat, and no grain. The
horses were fat and looked well. and were in
good condition to drive five or six hours per
day.