Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-08-15
THE VERMONT
NOTES.


repeatedly cleared her plants Of plant lice, by
| the use Of a teaspoonful Of coal oil to gallon
Of water kept mixed by stirring and applied
with a garden syringe, hand-broom or water
ing-pot.
There is danger from using Paris green
! where fowls roam. A case occurred with
Elisha d. Lewis Of Columbia, Ct, who re-
Gently lost 90 young turkeys from eating the
potato bugs in field where the green had
been applied.
Mr.. Martin L. Allen, Seneca Falls. n. Y,
who raised last year 5000 bushels of wheat on
40 acres of his jOO-acre farm, keeps eight
teams Of horses and mules for agricultural
service, and feeds corn only, as no oats are
grown.
Butter is unprecedentedly low in Scotland,
and has been sold this year at sixteen TO sew
enteen cents per pound. Many farmers have
given up cheese making and as for milk it
cannot be sold, and in many cases is only fed
TO pigs.
Mr.. D. Bacon Of Westfeld, Conn, lost
some fifteen or twenty young ducks not long
since. They had been eating freely of rose
bugs, and dying soon after, some Of them
were cut open and examined, and it was
found that the bugs had eaten through their
crops thus causing death.
The cactus grows to a wonderful size in
Arizona One variety grows to the height of
sixty feet and measures six feet in diameter.
/ There are fifteen or twenty varieties, three of
which bear fruit that is highly priced 10y the
Indians, who depend largely upon it for sus-
tenance.
Georgia has grown so much wheat this
summer that the local mills are grinding
without drawing supplies fIom the North
the FIST time 1t has happened in the history
of the State. Both in Georgia and north
I D. flt. q 1Wll
and manure has extended the cultivation Of
both wheat and rye and produced excellent
crops
Montana claims that her mineral wealth is
surpassed only by Nevada and California As
! yet her mineral resources are undeveloped
| because organized capital is essential for
| prosecuting quartz mining. But Of more
value than the gold and silver is the rich grass
/ of the country, which makes it paradise for
/ cattle raising
A correspondent of the Indiana Farmer
one evening last fall, poured lime water on
! the heads of a nice lot of cabbaCeS and the
next morning the worms that infested them
were lying dead all over the patch" A
writer in Southern Home accomplished the
same result by applying, in the morning
! when the dew was on, a mixture Of one third
air slaked lime and two-thirds unloached
! ashes.
The subject of road-repairs is one that
! should be agitated until our highways are
something more than passable. 1t would be
far better for every farmer TO pay few dol
lars additional tax rather than to pay two or
three times the additional amount in repairs
of vehicles every year, occasioncd wholly by
! poor roads.
Thomas Smith Of Ipswich, Mass, is eighty
/ six years old. He does lis own farming
Laying included. He lives in an old fashion
ed manner, never had a stove in his house.
and cooks 10y an open fireplace. He has new
er used spectaclvs and can read fine print by
caudle-hght He never rode in the cars, pre-
| ferring to ride behind his old mare which.
be says, is fast enough for him
The case Of a deaf mute COW is reported by
a Russian veterinary surgeon. A COW. -
years old, Of Agava breed, belonging 10 a
Russian nobleman. never showed signs of
hearing or beloved. Seeing the other cattle
! below she tried to initiate them by stretch
ing her neck and head, and opening her
mouth, but she could not produce any sound.
| The sense of vision of this COW was found TO
be unusually well developed.
The State Of New Hampshire at the recent
session of Its Legislature, passed an act for
the encouragement Of the beet-sugar manu-
facture similar TO that passed in Maine in
1871. 1t provides for a bounty Of one cent
per pound on all beet sugar manufactured in
the State, not to exceed 5000 in any one
year, and not 10 extend beyond a period of
ten years from the time Of payment Of the
first bounty.
Mr.. Ezra Scammon Of Cape Elizabeth is
| the owner of a COW whose late history is
rather surprising A few weeks ago this COW
gave birth TO a nice. healthy calf which is
now as handsome and lively as could be de-
sired. The day after mooley brought forth
another perfectly-formed though dead of
spring, and, stranger still, on the third day
from the birth of the first one, a third calf
was brought forth, but like the second it was
dead when born.
Farmers that have a supply Of old fence
rails will find them Just the thing to place
next their tomato plants TO keep the fruit of
the ground. Place the short pieces crosswise
and the long ones ontop lengthwise. each side
the plants, and you have the cheapest if not
the best support Of the kind to be found.
To rejuvenate old orchards. cut out all
the dying wood. and three-fourtLs Of the
suckers, scrape the trunks of the trees com
pletely, removing all the old hard, broken
bark wash with q preparation Of whale-oil,
soap and water and give the orchard, not
! merely under the trees, but every part Of il O
heavy top-dressing of good barn yard or com
post manure. If there is any life or produc-
tiveness in the trees this will bring il out
A correspondent Of the New York Trib-
une says, if gypsum plaster is put on cur
rant worms at noon, II does them neither
good nor harm. But the case is different if
it is sprinkled on before they wake in the
morning. The dew falls with the gypsum
upon them and hardens in two minutes so
that when they wake they find themselves il
a sarcophagus from which they cannot es-
cape.
The Lancaster Pa, New Era, in an article
on the beet-sugar enterprise in America says T.:
Whatever the result Of the present expert
ment in New England, it is certain that soon
er or later the making Of sugar from beets
will become as general in this country as in
France Germany and Austria. Should such
q bounty as is now paid 20 the codfshing in
terest be extended to that Of beet sugar, no
doubt few years would put ii on such a solid
basis that after while, although the greatest
sugar-consuming people in the world, We
would virtually shake of our dependence on
foreign sugar markets"
A gentleman who has had some experience
at onion raising writes 10 the Maine Farmer
that he leyeled of place twenty feet square
where COW had been yArded, and spread on
II bushel or more Of wood ashes and mixed
them in with hoe and rake. H planted in
rows ten inches apart and in hills about one
nall that distance, pressing i hard with q
boaIN upon winch he stood When the onions
came mp he gave them good supply Of water
that lad been made tepid from standing in
the sun, and that was well saturated with new
manure. The result was twenty bushels of
fine onions, aud no bugs or worms. Onions
should be planted early.
The new fertilizer law of Pennsylvania
went into effect on the first instant It pro
vidts that every package Of any commercial
fertilizer sold in the State shall contain on its
outside d statement Of the amount Of nitro
gen, phosphoric acid soluble and reverted
and potash which it contains: fixes the
amount of license to be paid for privilege of
sale $40 for 100 tons, $50 for more than 100
and less than 800 tons and $50 for more than
800 tons, the money obtained from these
licenses to be placed as a fund from which to
defray the expenses of Analysing commercial
| fertilizers nndrr the Hirnctinn ~ IL. Pond