Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-17
FARM NOTES.

Nulhult bluW AhN bthbAhA hNNi"b' NthN'N'h
of the corn crop to be % per cent Of full
average yield.
Vineland N. j., is great blackberry cen
tire. immense quantities are cultivated in
that vicinity, and nst month as many as 3d.,
600 quarts, valued at $4,000, wero sent away
in single day.
Every student Mt the Colorado Agricultural
College is required to work two hours each
day the price paid per hour is ten cents
The institution is said to be in fourishing
condition.
To preserve potatoes they should be dried
rs soon as possible, and placed Immediately
in position from which the sunlight is OK
clud'3.
correspondent of the American Rural
Home kept specimens of Northern Spy and
Yellow Bellnower in nice condition until
June, and some of the latter held out until
July. He wrapped the apples separately and
placed them in cellar which was quito
damp.
The New York horse railroad companies
feed their horses an average Of eight pounds
of hay and thirteen pounds of grain per day.
In summer the grain is a mixture of corn and
oats equal parts by measure. In winter the
corn is increased, and a less quantity Of oats
is fed.
Tho gross income derived from tobacco by
the farmers of the United States is about S22,-
OOO 900.
Squashes should be gathered and housed
before frost touches them. They are best
stored in warm dry loft, on shelves three
feet apart and need frequent looking over to
pick out the speckled ones. Give plenty of
air, and keep an uniform temperature Of
forty. five to sixty degrees. The Hubbard is
the best to keep, but is not as productive as
the Marrow
The quantity of flax raised in Southern
Minnesota and Northern Iowa this year is
much greater than it ever was before and it
is anticipated that in some of the other Wes-
tern States large crops will also be gathered
The peach and apple crops in Northern
Kansas this year are the finest ever produced
in that region. An ear Of corn 10 inches in
length was recently picked in Nehama coun-
ty, and ears l3 inches long are very common
California viniculturists call upon Eastern
merchants to send their orders for raisns to
the Golden State, and guarantee to furnish
frcsher, sweeter and better fruit than that of
Malaga, and Mt less price.
To carry the immense amount of grain ex-
ported from this country across the water,
in June alone, required 3G7 vessels, consist
ing of 81 steamers, 81 ships, 22S barks and
Is brigs.
In selecting tomatoes for seed do not be
over-anxious to obtain those which ripen
first, but select good, large, smooth oncs-in
fact, the best specimens you can upon the
vines.
The first patent for COW mixer was taken
out in England September %, 1886 the first
taken out in this country wa, November -,
1919. But the old fashioned way is the best,
after all.
1t is said that geranium slips may be nya-
riably made to take root by cutting the slips
diagonally partly of. Then let them remain
on the parent stalk long enough to harden.
after which, if put in wet sand, they will Ger
tainly take root ard thrive.
The too common practice OF covering lawns
in the autumn with manure, giving them the
appearance of barnyards nearly half the year,
in most cases does more harm than good, and
often is positive injury.
1t is said that in all the States east of Hi
nois three acres of land are required to fur
nish grass for a COW during the six months of
| the year she is in pasture, while one acre i'll
grass will furnish her with sufficient hay dur
ing the six months she 10 in the stable.
To start a nut that is corroded in its place,
so that an ordinary wrench fails to move it,
strike a few sharp blows upon its end face,
| then, holding "A dull chisel across the chamfer
| of the nut, strike the chsel-head several hard
| DlOhh, winch Will BthtIdlll hthil 'ut nut.
California has to market her wheat crops
around Cape Horn in sailing vessels, and the
President of the Produce Exchange Of San
Francisco declares that n canal across the
isthmus would make a difference Of s., 00O,
! 600 year in favor of the wheat growers, on
a surplus of 500, 600 tons.
Treoless Iowa is being transformed into a
forest-covered country, by law which re
mts certain taxes for five years on every
| acre OF fruit and ten years on every acre OF
| forest trees planted and kept alive Over
| ~, 600 acres of fruit and forest trees have
been planted, and 5000, 600 have been remit
ted in taxes
A brilliant and useful future is predicted
for the mlkweed, which has heretofore been
| considered only IA cumberer of the ground.
Its seeds yield a finer oil than liusccd; its
gum can be used in place of India rubber ;;
and from its floss fabric resembling Irish
poplin has been made; while the young
shoots are used in the Spring by some people
instead of asparagus, which they resemble in
| flavor.
The agricultural school for girls Mt Rouen,
| France, has 300 pupils varying in age from
eight to eighteen years. The farm of 1000
acres is entirely cultivated by them. Twenty
five teachers are employed Each girl on
leaving this school receives an outfit and
small sum Of money earned in spare hours
Girls educated in this school are in great de-
mand on account of their skill, and find no
trouble in obtaining situations as stewards,
gardeners, and dairy women.
Not only is tho blood of animals who drink
impure water liable to be poisoned by the
bacteria which such water frequently con-
tains but these putrefactvo germs will i'm
| pregnate both butter and milk if permitted to
] come in contact with them. The boiling
water which should always be used in wash
ing dairy utensils will destroy the bacteria ;
| yet as butter cannot be washed in boiling
water it is in the first degree important that
the cold water it is washed in should be
pure.
A practical gardener pinches off the ends Of
the young shoots of bearing grape-vnes as
soon as they have made three leaves beyond
| the last bunch of fruit. His argument is, if
this is not attended to the vines will make a
great amount of wood at the expense of the
crop of fruit. He furthermore keeps young
vines which have not come into bearing care
fully tied up, for if allowed TO fall on the
ground and blow about they do not make a
thrifty growth
Tile draining has recently been taken up
with great industry by the Western States,
its benefits to agriculture having been estab-
lshed. The drains are laid at an average
depth OF 30 lnches, ana the cost OF ulBBlnB Is
about II to 20 cents per yard equal to $2j
to $50 per acre, according to width of drains
apart, but the increased yield of the crops
sometimes reaches 100 per cent. In Ohio,
| Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Iowa there are now 40 tile factories, instead
of 400 in 1870, and last year these turned
out l75, OOO 900 tiles, equal to 60, 600 miles of
drain, at a cost of -, Sl2, 800.
At Burrawang, one of Messrs Edols q Cos
stations in New South Wales, the past sea-
sons shearing lasted 10 weeks and was finish
cd the week in December, by which time
20G,2l3 sheep had been deprived of their
fleeces To do the work a hundred shearers,
in addition to the station hands, were en-
ployed, and in single day as many as s3lG