Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-10
NOTES.

A debt due the soil Is = debt Of honor The
good farmer will no more think of overdraw
ing Ais account with the earth than Of over.
drawing MS account III bank.
Ii is estimated by leading Boston pier-
chants who handle butter that 0AF two
pounds i'll a hundred Of the to.al butter ".
ceipts i'll that city class, 4 a. '-gilt-edged. 30
or fancy
There is continued evidence that grain can
be grown III Nevada without irrigation. One
rancher this year took 1000 bushels OF barley
from Goa acres Of upland without the usr o.
water.
\ farmer astonished his friends at Dec4Jis
/ ILL.,, the other day by going into tina: PING,
with train OF SIX wagons laden Nth 81.
bushels Of barley, and drawn by = steam road
locomotive of his own invention
Fasteu short piece a a log.cLain--say
five or SIX lInks-hy nC ~, Of "a light strap Il
his leg, Just above the tnsr in the stable Of
course and sce bow quick that paving hOrs,
Vhi leave OF the habit IN most eases n few
days will be sufficient to effect = cure. So
says Tribune correspondent
A Kansas genius, representing himself az, d
practical farmer has lately been visiting all
the fairs with prize punpkln and took az
premiums every tins II measured seven
feet IL circumference ana weighed $50 pounds
Several days ago al Council Grove, a riVaI
farmer attempted 10 tap the pumpkin IN III,
absence Of Its owner to get some o. TIM
seeds, and discovered that it was I.laGe 0!
wood
A grasshopper exterminator has appeared
IN the Sierra Valley Cal, whitl. has been
swept bare Of vegetation for tA,ae years il
succession by the terrible sco4Ege The d.
venging demon is a small insect which follows
the grasshopper and deposjsIs It's eggs IN the
receptacles wherein are 4&d the grasshopper
eggs, The enemy. Matching speedily appears
il the form OF "a lttL. white worm and eats
the embyro grassho3Per-
The San Francesca Chronicle saws that da-
rying il the nCsrheru coast counties Of Cali
fornia Is mainly carried on by Swiss. who
make a good imitation Of Swiss cheese which
sells readily and at remunerative prices
Some Of the most prosperous dairymou Of the
state came 10 il poor ten years ago, but ROW
own good farms, well stocked and have ouilz
comfortable houses and barns. Ths swiss
are neat economical IL their eZpcad5tures
! and, above all, industrious
The magnitude of the business, Of raising
sweet-scented flowers for their piafume alone
Is indicated by the fact that Europe and Brit
lsh India alone consume aboGJ TjO. 900 gal
Ions Of handkerchief perfuH1s every year
There Is one great perfume sastillery at Can
mes, IL France, which uses yearly about 100, %
600 pounds of acacia flowers, 40, 600 pounds
of rare flower leaves, -, 600 pounds of las
mine blossoms, and ~, 900 pounds of tube
rose blossoms, together with an immense
amount of other material used for perfume
The Concord N. H. Monitor saws: Mr.
James Emerson, resident Oh the Mutt road
some four miles south of Manchester has
swarm of bees which have been in his house
for 40 years Having no use for one of tn
attic rooms IN his two-story house, he took
the hive of bees and placed it there, boring
holes through the side of the building facing
the hive, so that the bees might 60 in and
out. During all these years Mr.. Emerson has
used the honey freely, and the bees have
built q cont ON either side of the hive two
feet in thickness and several feet in height
The comb next TO the hive is filled with hon
ey, while there II nothing III that on the 9TH
er side In all these years the bees have new
er swarmed
There are five great natural grazing regions
in the world. The oldest is the interior Of
Asia which has furnished rich pasturage
summer and winter, since the earliest histor-
ical times The second is the large pastur z
ground of South Africa, extending from lor
south latitude to Cape Colony in 81 south
latitude, which feeds immense herds Of
cattle the year round, and has done SO for
ages. The interior of South America is the
third great pastoral region the fourth is An
stralia, and the fifth and last 10 come into
prominence Is the vast trans Missouri and
Mississippi region of our own country, which
| surpasses in every natural advantage any part
of the world as a great grazing section. the
capabilities of which are only yet but partial
ly developed.