Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-08-20
FARM NOTES.


the rule 10y which they calculate the amount
of milk required to supply the population of
any city.
Two owners of one flock Of sheep in Hum
boldt county, Nevada, sold a few days ago
10000 pounds of WOOL this years clip, an
average of six pounds per fleece.
The present cattle grazing belt of the Unit
cd States (wild lands) is about ., 900 miles in
length and $50 in breadth. 1t stretches from
the Rio Grande to Manitoba.
The valley of the Mississippi has ,257, 600
square miles of territory. Its waters make
about 10, 600 miles of navigation, and its val
leys give level routes to vast system of rail
ways.
Texas commenced raising wool in 1915 and
has now 100000 sheep. 1t is estimated
that Montana will produce this year so, OOO,-
600 pounds of wool, nearly as much as Cali
fornia.
Peaches require warm, light soil II the
people would take pains to raise Seeding
peaches they would gradually get a race of
trees much harder than those brought from
a more southern climate.
We have not only greater variety of fruits
than any other country, but our climate gives
them to US in succession, which adds greatly
to their value and to the comfort and enjoy
ment of our people,
The most widely spread and fatal disease of
swine is the hog cholera Commissioner lie
Due claims that the aggregate loss to farmers
of the United States from this source foots
up from Sl5, 900, 900 to 5000 900 per an
mum.
Feed horses according to their age and
work required of them. Full feeding and lit
tie work disorders the digestive organs. Sc
lect only such hay as is the best quality that
Of ipfarior 1uolifu il laor Of
there is no proper nourishment in it.
lie Dues plans for his experimental tea
farm are well advanced. The applications
for tea plants from American farmers are in
creasing and a farmer in Georgia has actually
raised tea equally as good as the imported ar
ticle worth fifty cents a pound.
The total wheat crop of the United States
in 1879, according to estimates of the Agri-
cultural Department was 440, 900, 600 bushels,
and it is believed, with favorable close of
the harvest, that the product of this year will
exceed it to the amount Of about 30, 600, 600
bushels.
In all probability the potato is the most
valuable vegetable produced, taking it the
world over certainly there is no single one
for which so much labor and money is ex-
pended, and none SO universally consumed.
The idea of dinner without potatoes is the
best illustration of the idea of the play of
Hamlet with Hamlet left out.
A French paper relates the following ex-
| pertinent A COW was MIXED three times Il
day for eleven days and yielded 40 quarts
of milk. With two milkings daily she gave
| only l4G quarts in the same number of days
Analysis moreover showed that the milk in
the first case was richer in butter globules by
more than one-seyenth than in the second
case.
Never water horse directly after feeding
him, especially il he is fed on corn. Thirst
| should be allayed before the feed is given,
| and if any water is allowed after it should be
merely a mouthful, until tbs lapse of two or
| three hours time has been had for gastric di-
gestion. Many valuable animals have been
lost by allowing them to drink freely directly
| after eating
Last years wine product in France aggre-
| gated 56j, 400, 900 gallons, or $50, 600, 900
| gallons less than the previous year. showing
the enormous falling of of nearly one-half.
| The insect pests which have infested many of
the wine districts for years have not been the
only cause of the diminished yield, but it is
largely attributed to the unfavorable weather
of the past year
1t is asserted that fifteen or sixteen years
ago Chicago merchants obtained their sup
plies of cheese from the East, while at the
present time as much as 100, 600, 900 pounds
of the compound pass through that city an
nually for Eastern Markets. During the same
time prices have fallen about % per cent,
but are still sufficiently high to mako the
business very remuneratiye.
Parsnips, carrots, Swedish turnips, and es-
pecially mangel-wurzel, will all fatten pigs.
The roots ought not to be given in a raw
state, but always cooked and mixed with
beans, peas, Indian corn, oats or barley, all
of which must be ground into meal When
pigs are fed on such cooked food as we have
stated the pork acquires peculiarly rich fla
vor, and is much esteemed, especially fol
family use.
The ten cotton crops from 1852 to 1861,
raised by slave labor, numbered -, 995, 44C
bales the ten crops from 1870 TO 1879
raised by free labor, numbered Al, 454, 74S
bales.
William Jones, a prominent farmer Of
Campbell county, Va, few days since at
tempted TO jump on the thresher box of q
wheat threshing machine while it was in mo
ton when he slipped and fell upon the cylin
der and one foot was ground entirely of
Amputation was performed, but Mr.. Jonei
died in few minutes