Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-10-15
FARM NOTES.

Canada as well as the United States has an
immense apple crop this year
Beets endure little frost turnips improve
with little, carrots stand good deal of it
and pnrsnips, sAlsafy and artichokes may be
left out all winter with advantage.
lump of charcoal put into the boiling
water with the cabbage will almost entirely
remove the ofense
Fall is tho best time OF the year to paint
farm buildings. The paint is thought to be
more permanent when put on at this season
than any other
Farm tools will rust and rot out sooner than
they will wear out. Many farmers njure their
farm implements more by exposure to the
weather than by the use on the farm.
Cases are by no means unheard Of where
heifers give milk without having been with
calf. Two such are reported in Missouri, one,
heifer year old giving gallon Of milk
daily.
The last affection that has overtaken the
people of Arkansas is plague of caterpillars.
| There is much apprehension lest the repul-
siye creatures shall do permanent injury to
the trees upon which they gather.
A farmer in Iowa estimates that the profit
of raising one 2-year-od shorthorn steer for
market is equal to that on eighteen scrub
steers, which have to be kept three years or
| more before they are salable.
The dust bath is natures renovator, and is
as necessary for cleaning the feathers of
| fowls from vermin aud promoting the secre-
ton of impurities from the skin as a water
or vapor bath is to the human family.
A dispatch from Minneapolis says that in
the aggregate the wheat in Minnesota and
Dakota has turned out better than was expect
ed three weeks ago, when a heavy rain over
took the harvesters. Minnesotas crop is but
| little short of an average, and Dakota's is
| fully up to the average, turning out from
twenty to thirty bushels to the acre and most
| ly grading No. l.
One-eighth ounce nitrate Of lead dissolved
in quart of boiling water, and mixed with
five gallons Of water in which an ounce of
salt has bsen dissolved, is recommended as
the cheapest and best deodorizer and disin-
fectant known.
Every dairyman should bear in mind that
poor butter or cheese is always the first 10
feel the effects of n dull market. The best
products are always inquired for, even on the
poorest markets
The silk worm which feeds on the allan
thus tree, more hardy variety than the mul.
berry feeding worm, can be successfully
raised IN the Northern States as has been
proved. With proper machinery for Keeling
the silk, it is believed that this country might
rival China in its production
The Cincinnati butter men, says the Chica
go Tribune, are very mad, and deny that
soapstone story. They insist that a commit.
tee from the New York Provision Exchange
shall come out and taste their butter, Offering
a premium of $4,000 an ounce for all the soap
stone that can be obtained from Ohio butter
According to Lorin Blodget, the value oil
the annual wool manufactures in the United
States is about as follows
Six New England States 1927, 500 OOl
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania aud
Delaware. 93,34O OOi
Twelve Western States and Utah ........ Al 400 OOI
California, Oregon aud Washington Terri
1850 OOl