Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-03-22
NOTES.

Canadian horses are being transported to
! England in large numbers. where they are
sold at fair market prices
A farm hand in central Italy gets seven
cents day for harvesting. and is glad TO find
employment at that rate.
The female cankor worm ascends apple
trees early in the spring frequently in warm
March-to lay her eggs. Look out for her.
Oregon, with population of but 1876, COO,
this year produced a surplus Of 5000, coo
bushels of grain and i,OOO,OO0 pounds of
wool
| In Prussia it is said the potato is cultivated
with peculiar success. As the stalk grows,
the earth is heapcd up, leaving only three
leaves at the top; roots are thus greatly in
creased, while the produce is said to be aston
ishing.
More than five million cans of corn arc now
| packed in Maine annually and sold in every
part of the world, yielding business to the
! State of about 81, 80, 600 and giving prof
table employment to from eight to ten thou
sand people during the packing season.
The largest plough ever manufactured has
| just been turned out of n factory at Stockton,
Cal. The mould-board is eight feet long. and
the furrow which is cut is thirty five inches
wide. 1t is designed for work upon the tule
lands and requires twelve stout oxen to pull it.
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| they should not be longer neglected The
| quantity and quality Of the fruit which they
will produce will depend in no small degree
| upon the pruning which they receive. No
| pruning may not mean the same as no grapes,
but it will mean the production Of a smaller
quantity and an inferior quality Of fruit
1t is worthy husbandman. and not a city
| chap" who says; "Our farmers hear OF some
! farm being sold at $40 an acre, which has
been held at $50, and with long faces wonder
what We are coming to. They seem to for
| get that good farming land has stood the
! shrinkage of values better, after ALL than
most any other interest or investment, and
that we are having seed-time and harvest as
of old. z2zssf-TnTch more abundant If there
4-Ts-1 class of men in this country to be enyied
| it is the well-to-do farmers out of debt"
English dairymcn take great pains to pre-
| serve liquid manure, accommodating il in tanks
and drawing it Mt intervals upon the land
! They find, also that grass land is greatly i'm
| proved by giving the cattle pastmcd on it an
allowance of oil-cake and grain. The food
! which they claim is most convenient to give
| in the fields is linseed or cottonsecd cake
Meal may also be given. Boxes or trougls
are placed at short distances from each other.
and thus the animals are readily fed. The
cost of artificial food is largely repaid by the
extra quality of the droppings, which should
be frequently scattered.
A succession of crops of tobacco on the
same ground finally renders the soil lfelcss
and barren. Again, the price of leaf tobac-
co varies so greatly from year to year and is
so uncertain at all times, it is doubtful wheth-
er any farmer who has steadily raised tobac-
co for series of fifteen or twenty years has
ever wound up without "A loss-both in the
deterioration of his soil and in his pocket OF
| all tho ,,riupipol dealers ~, tobacco il, sar4l