Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-03-29
NOTES.

Nebraska raised 20, OOO, coo bushels Of corn
and 40, 800 hogs in 1877.
Hundreds of acres of wheat were sown in
Minnesota last month, fact worthy of rec
ord
The next wheat crop in Texas promises to
he very large. More wheat and less cotton
is the order of the day
Washing with fresh buttermilk-a second
time If necessary-is highly recommended
for lice on cattle
Cattle, sheep and hogs to the aggregate val
ne Of 500, GOO. 600 were received at the Chica-
go Union Stock Yards during the year 1877.
The Coshockton county co. agricultural
society offers premiums for the greatest num-
Der of rats killed between now and its show
next fall
Pork has deprecated in value more than
any other meat, and is worth about half as
much as it was a few years ago. Hogs are
now quoted at from $40 10 $40 per hum
dred, Mt the West.
1t is an established fact that the value of
farming lands everywhere in Illinois. Iowa,
Minnesota and some parts Of Wisconsin is
steadily increasing aud thi, fact is regarded
as turning point in O. depression of all
kinds of real estate
A correspondent Of thu Toronto Globe rec
the ground that thousands Of horses are ruin
ed every year 10y improper shocing and the
only way to corr ct the evil is to license
shoers.
A new industry is said TO be extending rap
idly in France. 1t consists in the mauufac-
ture of a cloth five times lighter and three
times warmer than wool, from the feathers
of domestic aud other birds. The material is
waterproof and takes dye readily.
New London county, Conn. farmers are
hiring their hands for the summer season at
SIG to $50 per month with board Eighteen
dollars is said to be the average price, but
common laborers are very plenty ut these fig
ures.
1t is officially estimated that the wheat crop
this year will be 1000. 900 bushels larger
than last years crop, leaving 100, OoO. 600
bushels for expectation. The cotton crop will
be almost 1, 800, GOO bales The tobacco crop
will he about 60, Geo, coo pounds greater than
last year.
A two-years-od short-horn heifer. daugh-
ter Of Duchess 9th" formerly the property
of Col. King of Minneapolis, MINI. was sold
the other day for So, 500. A few years ago
the colonel owned four animals Of the same
breed, and it is estimated that their present
value, with progeny counted in, might be
reckoned somewhere in the millions
The day of high prices having passed. and
with it the profits of tobacco raising. many
Connecticut growers are thinking strongly of
turning their attention to other crops. In
East Hartford the best of last years leaf has
sold for Il or 20 cents per pound-prices that
do not begin to pay, one man making only
50 more than his manure cost him, and
another who had six or seven acres, a little
over 500. Some of the farmers who have
gone into melon raising and market garden
ing will do more of it this year, and others
will seek some more profitable crops than to-
bacco.
Cows give the most and richest milk, with
less quantity of food, when from three to five
years old. After the age of seven to eight
the reduction in quantity and quality of prod
uct, taken in connection with the increased
amount of food necessary, is such that large
proportion OF the old cows do not yield
enough to pay for their keeping. 1t is ques-
ton of vital Importance to every dairyman, to
know which of his herd pays a profit and
which entails loss. Every farmer should in
some simple way test the milk. cream and
butter from each of his cows, besides weigh
ing the food consumed by each animal, for
one week, and profit by the result The in
formation will be worth all it costs and it
will often be found that one or two good cows
are producing the profits and contributing to
the support of other inferior animals.