Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-10-18
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many exciting stories for boys, is raising
sheep in England.
In consequence of the Indian troubles in
Oregon the exports of wool from that State
this year. instead Of six million. viii be less
than one million pounds.
The old Endicott pear tree set out 10y Gov
Endicott 24i years ago ON the old Eudicoit
estate now owned 10y Mr.. Page Mt Davons-
port, Mass. is alive and hourishing having
borne two bushels Of pears this season.
Near Bromley. Ont. stands log house.
built over two years ago Of poplar and Balm
of Gilead logs, which the past season has been
growing, rs green rs a green tree, sprouts
having been thrown out from the logs both
inside and out, and making the structure one
mass Of foliage.
Ex-Governor Seymour Of New York is
showing that having been statesman does
not incnpacitate a mau from aft,rwlrl, being
a successful agricultural Some OF his musk
melons raised this summer on his Utica farm
are said TO be the largest ever raised north Of
the Mohawk river.
Mr.. d. n. Kern, Of Pennsylvania, tells the
Practical Farmer that twcuty-four whole po-
tatoes planted in rs many hills, with hand
full of bran in each, gave yield of three
pecks, and the same number right alongside
of them, but without bran, yielded only half
a bushrl.
At the Wilton, y. H., county farm the la
Dor of catching potato bugs has been reduced
to a science the past season. 4 canvas net
hung upon poles was carried between the
rows. while other men knocked the bugs of
into the net with birch rods. In one field of
nine acres fifty bushels Of bugs were taken.
The field was trayersed every other day and
the bugs were cmptiod into the furnace
The Indiana Farmer says that most farm
ers have noticed in fatteu.ug swine, especial
ly when they are crowded rapidly they al
ways appear weak in their hind legs. and
sometimes lose the Use Of them entirely An
intelligent farmer says that he and his neigh
bors have made practice of feeding bone
meal in such cases, and fluid that a small
quantity mixed with the daily food will pre-
vent any weakness and strengthen the animals
so as to admit OF the most rapid forcing
Last year the potato bug invaded Prussia.
but the authorities of Schidau and Mulheim
built fences around the fields. covered them
with sawdust and tan bark, soaked this with
kerosene and set fire to the mass This he
role treatment has been completely success
full, as not one of the dreaded insects has
been seen this year
An Oregon paper states that recently a
team hitched to a seh-biudor ran away
through a standing field OF wheat containing
about one hundred acres. Strange to say.
the machine kept together, and bound every
bundle that came to it with lightning rapid
ty. When the team was stopped, it had nice
ly bound about one hundred and fifty bun
dies.
The celebrated English farmer, j. J. Ne
chi, doesn't believe that land becomes sick
and wants rest. He claims that land wants
10 rest. but merely manure and change OF
crop. Nature is constantly changing her crop
or growing mixed ones. Land can always be
kept clean by cultivation between the crops
without q long faliow Gardens are neither
long nor bare-fallowed
One of the largest farms i'll the country is
one near Fargo, Dakota, which is owned 10y
half a dozen capitalists and embrace 100. coo
acres. 1t is divided into sections Of POO acres
each, and the different points of the vast area
! are connected 10y telegraph and telephone
lines. This year 1900 acres of wheat have
been planted and harvested, and next year
20 600 acres will he sown. The yield has been
- bushels TO the acre, bringing in TO the pro
ducers some &C cents net profit per bushel.
| 1t is intended to put a.. 900 acres into wheat
ultimately and 10 rails, = million bushels ev-
cry year
Japan has contributed a new fruit to this
| country which la California is called the per
simmou, though very different from the wild
! pcrsimmun of the Western and Southern
States. 1t ripous without frost and grows to
a large size sometimes weighing as much as
a pound OF bright orange or reddish col
/ or. It's flavor resembles that Of plum and iig
combined. The tree has dark, glossy folj-
| age and when the fruit is ripe looks bcaati.
full The fruit is a great fayorite in Jayau.
and can be successfully grown in the greater
part of this country. We hope ii may he in
| troduced here.