Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-03-01
NOTES.

The acreage sown in wheat in Texas is lar
ger by thousands Of acres than ever before
Kennebec county, Maine, contains a larger
amount of pure and graded Jerseys than any
other county in the United States
The value OF cows in New York EQUALS one
sixth the value Of all the cows in the United
States, and in number is double the aggr--
gate contained in New England
Item from late Florida letter: Il saw a
man planting corn to-day. During the mid
die Of the day shade feels quite pleasant ::
the nights are cool. Roses are in full bloom.
The orange trees ard magnolia. will bloom
soon. Alligators are plentiful"
A proposition is being seriously consider q
to dam the Arkansas and Platte rivers. and
thus turn the waters into the great desert in
the western part of Kansas and Nebraska
whence by tapping this artificial lake
streams could be secured for irrigating pur-
poses.
The only management, besides warmth
and high feeding by which perpetual sue
cession of eggs can be obtained in winter is
by having pullets and hens Of different ages
which, moulting AT different periods. do moi,
all cease laying at the same time.
Cheese and butter are bringing. relatively.
higher prices than ever before The exports
of cheese last year to Great Britain amounted
TO Ill 600, 900 pounds, worth over $4,000
900. large increase over the previous year
Butter was exported to the amount of I 600 To-
900 pounds.
The crops i'll the San joaquin valley Of Cal
ifornia, which failed year ago from drouth
have been extensively damaged this year by
Hoods, 5000 acres Of wheat having been de
stroyed. besides immense areas of alfalfa grass.
worth $50 per acre. The cause of these ex-
tremes Of drouth and flood is attributed to
the destruction of forests on the Sierra Ne
yadas
Experiments have shown that the best way
to feed carrots to horses is in conjunction
with oats. Alone, carrots are not as good as
oats alone, but in conjunction they are better
than each fed separately. If YOU are in the
habit of feeding four quarts of oats to a mess.
give two of oats and two of sliced carrots and
the result will be more satisfactory than if
each were fed separately.
A lady correspondent writes to the Western
Rural of what an English woman Of rank
discovered while joumeying among the noun
tains of Switzerland in the way Of n sleeping
protection against cold This was quilt
made of hay. 1T is nothing but a large
square cotton bag with few handfuls Of hay
shaken in it. 1t a, as warm a. three blank
cts. Well, this is cheap enough and handy
enough to afford warmth to every hitherto
shivering sleeper.
The st. Paul Pioneer Press says that never
before has there been such demand for land
AS is now seen il Minnesota and Dakota.
Hundreds Of thousands Of acres have been
taken up within the past few months. and a
. gratifying feature Of the rush is that the seek
ers after land are mostly farmers and men.
looking for farms upon which they can make
immediate improvement.
correspondent of the Indiana Farmer of
Indianapolis, in recording conversation he
had with a successful farmer who cultivated
but twenty-six acres. says, The ], always on
the alert to gather up weeds and fuse of ey-
rr. kind, he charters slaughter-uuu-c oiIal.
and better than this, lie feeds his stock all the
food they can be cOaxed to eat. and then
feds the land with the manure. His grass
ii lbs are heavily top-dressed, and carry two
cows to the acre throughout the season All
the pasture and all the hay or fodder for his
large stock is supplied by the twenty-six acres.
and also part Of the grain; he buys bran
for the COWS and some grain for his poultry A"