Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-31
NOTES.

Wooden posts have been brought to prema-
ture decay by painting them before their
moisture had evaporated.
The owner of an eghteen-acro Florida
orange grove with three acres in bearing, re-
fuses to take $50, 900 for it..
About 81, 600 different species of plants
have been distinguished by scientific men,
and $500 Of this number are different forms
of grass.
Malvern W. Isles considers the souring Of
milk during thunder storms to be due to the
conversion of the oxygen into ozone; the
ozone then forms acetic acid and the acctic
acid causes the precipitation of cascine
According to Dr. Wiedehold, fungus
growlhs in cellars may be combated either by
burning sulphur or by pouring two parts Of
concentrated sulphurc acid over one part Of
common salt, and so closing all openings as
to prevent any escape of the yapors.
Drawings made on the assumption that the
light falls from the left hand top corner APP
pear solid but if the light s made to fall
from the right hand lower corner thu objects
will appear hollow.
Charcoal is sometimes eaten by fowls with
great avidity 1t should always be kept 10y
them pounded to the size Of kernels Of grain,
for the varying need of animals directs their
appetite, and therefore what they crave will
be good for them
MI a; D. CHAMPION OF huuahd' Aas faiSeu
during the past season, on six acres Of land,
$50 bushels of ears Of sound corn, AT aver
age Of 1913 bushels TO the acre. He also har-
vested - bushels Of rye from a field of two
acres, in seventy days from the time Of SOW
ing
The fires of last spring III the swamps of
southern New Jersey have had the effect OF
producing the biggest cranberry crops ever
known growers oe"mied their certAlh rum
Uu' Tue nrcS nave SO ehricneI Lne s'ouuu 'ia'
the pants nave ProduceI treoIe III quantity
anu qu'"ty'
At meeting OF stock raisers at Chicago,
recently, resolutions were adopted urging
Congress to pass law to prevent the spread
OF contaglon among cattle 10y prohibiting the
transportation OF diseased cattle from one
State to another, also recommending that the
President be authorized to appoint govern.
ment cattle inspectors in the different States,
Probably fifty years hence there will be AL
abundance OF trees at the West. Agrlcultu
rists are rapidly awakening to the necessity
of planting them. Tho Fort Scott and Gulf
railroad company has begun the planting OF
hundreds of acres of trees on ITS lands.
Boston capitalist has engaged a company OF
raisers Of forest seedlings in Illinois to break
and pillow a large area in Kansas, and plant nc
less than 2I2O trees to the acre, and cultivate
these until they shade the ground, when the
plantation Will be delivered to the owner.
The process VIII take about ten years
The timber lands of Washington territory
cover 20, 100000 acres bordering on Puget
sound and are travcrsed by fine logging
streams. The timber, principally pine ano
FIR, Is equal to any, the soil from which Il
springs being of great depth and richness
and kept moist by rainfall which continue'
during ten months OF the year. One such
hewed was l2l feet long squaring - inche'
at the small end, and without sap. The ave
rage hight of the trees Is POO feet, while many
stand 300 feet tall, measuring II feet through
at the butt. This territory has also II ,oo0, Oo'
acres of grazing prairie, where nutrltiou'
bunch grass keeps green fve-sixths OF the
year, and j,O00,O0O acres Of wheat lands
which yield from 80 to 50 bushels per acre
| The catch of salmon last year was 10, OOO,O OI
| pounds.
The Irish harvest this year is described a
| tla hot Ly,grt, for ,,,or. than a uanerat;ou