Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-08-06
FARM NOTES.

hhBlhnu phlu sbu,UOO,OVO more Tor foreign
grain in the crop year just closing than in the
year before OF this increase $40 OoO. 600
was paid for wheat, more than two-thirds
from the United States
Mr.. j. W. Sanborn of the New Hampshire
agricultural college, is justly characterized by
the Connecticut Courant as zone of the bright
est farm professors we have got"
Vermont produces about one-sixth part of
all the maple sugar made in the world, and
more than one-quarter Of all that is made in
the United States. Only one other State New
York; produces half as much, and Vermont
makes more than 1000 900 lbs more than
New York.
Cultivation by steam has been successfully
accomplished in England with steam digger
recent invention, which, worked by single
cylinder engine of eght-horse power, under
20 pounds pressure of steam, digs at the rate
of 10 acres per day land that takes three
horses to pillow an acre a day at the same
depth.
Fancy farming" in the usual sense Of the
term, is almost always the sure road to finan-
cial ruin. 1t requires fat purse TO expert.
ment with costly breeds Of cattle, sheep and
fowls. Much however, is thus learned. and
the more wealth turned in this direction, the
better for the farmers.
Wheat exports in June were 10, 59G, G5l
bushels, against S,S1G, 7s3 in June, 1879, and
for twelve months were li0, 1879, 293 bushels
against 10, O93. J3j during the preceding year
an increase of $50, 900, 600 bushels The
increase in -four exports was equivalent to
=, lSG, 900 bushels.
Captain Tom Sewell, of Lincoln. Neb., is
the possessor of a thoroughbred Jersey heifer
which was calved April Is, 1879, and on the
the 27th of May, 1880, she dropped her first
calf, being one day less than ID months old.
When cock has passed his prime, his pro-
geny are moro liable to leg weakness, roup
gapes, etc, and the progeny will be ailing
and very poor layers
There are in this country 2s3, 600 600 acres
of fertile land to be added to the 1O7, 600, 900
acres now in cultivation in the great grain and
provision producing centre, not including Cal
lfornla and Oregon, and no account being
taken of the fertile valleys of New Mexico
Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Mon
tana, which in the aggregate comprise a very
large area.
DIR. G. W. Siemens, the champion Of the
electric light as applied TO horticulture, pro-
poses, with steam engine at his country res
idence, not only to saw wood, cut feed for
cattle, and do other farm work but to supply
hot water aud artificial light at night, with
which to force fruit, flowers and vegetables
to quick maturity.
The wild berry crop of New Hampshire is,
the Mirror and Farmer thinks, worth in an
average season about 800, 900, which is pref
ty much clear gain, as it is mainly gathered
by fingers that would other wise be idle In
two days, recently, the Nassau and Greenfield
railroad carried 400 bushels Of blueberries for
the Boston market.
farmers wife writes the Country Gentle
man that she saved her plum trees from the
black knot by showering the trees with salt
brine and pouring brine upon the ground
around the trees. Those having plum or
cherry trees affected with black knot will do
well to remove all the knots and then apply
the brine thoroughly. 1t is not likely at the
worst to injure the trees any more than the
black knot will and it may prove benefit to
them.
Failures in tree planting too often arise
from the mistaken notion that when the roots
of tree are once in the ground the work is
done. After tree is carefully planted it
should be mulched with leaves, straw, tan or
any similar material, not SO thick as to ex-
clude the air but sufficiently to retain the
moisture in the soil for, although there may
be plenty of rain early in the season, the
chances are that drought more or less Sc
we're will follow.
A table prepared by the agricultural de-
land is valued highest in Massachusetts,, SS5,
followed in order by New Jersey, $50. ~,
New York S5S. 4S, Ohio, 1853, Pennsyl-
vania, S4575 and running down to SO. 80 in
Alabama, which stands lowest. In timbered
lands however, New Jersey stands highest,
S56.S2, then Massachusetts $4325, Ohio
S4l.S7, New York $40. IS, and running down
to 5000 in Florida.
Copper rivets and burrs are Just the things
to repair old harnesses which are not past
their usefulness. Harness makers do not rec
ommend them for reasons best known to
themselves, but in case of need a copper riv-
ct will mend broken trace, harness tug or
line neatly and quickly. 1t can be done at
home and will last equal to stitching. The
writer has mended collars, brides halters
and horse blankets with rivets, besides fas-
tening handles and bales to baskets, and
united stove pipes and iron hoops. Consid-
ering the many uses to which copper wire
and rivets can be put they are a necessary
part of farmers equipment.
The Poultry Monthly, of Albany, N. Y,
gives the following directions for feeding
poultry :-''All kinds of fowls should have
sufficient food given them regularly, two or
three times a day. If confined they should
be fed oftener than when at liberty. Full
grown fowls should have Just as much as
they will readily eat and no more. The food
should consist of oats, ground and unground,
barley meal and corn, middlings, bran and
buckwheat, pieces of bread and vegetables of
all kinds, scraps of meat chopped fine, bone
meal and milk, either fresh or thick, will fat
ten or make hens lay if there is any fatten-
ing or laying to them" There are many
ways published from time TO time to "bring
up" ducks and manage grown fowls, but the
foregoing appears TO be all that is necessary.
Try it.
Louisiana's sugar crop, which fell from
459, 40 hogsheads in 1861 TO 10, 1857 Just af-
ter the war in 1864, amounted to 1863, 972
hogsheads last year Sugar is very profit
able crop in that State, yet the processes
for extracting the cane juice and boiling the
syrup are still very defective. The best av-
erage results give about 1910 per cent. of
crude sugar and molasses together TO the
weight of cane, but on the average the Juice
lost in manufacturing, in the shape of scum,
| deposits and other impurities as well as in
imperfect milling, is estimated to be / 7 per
cent. If this could all be saved it would
nearly pay the whole cost of manufacture.
The average of molasses TO each 1000 pounds
of brown sugar ia abOut TX Dallona Hraot