Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-10-22
FAnNI NOTES.

Twonty-four cubic feet Of loose earth will
be found to weigh ono ton.
Three pints of milk contain as much nutri-
ment as pound OF beef.
Sour milk will bring better returns in eggs
than in any other way.
II is calculated that one gallon of white
paint will cover about forty -four yards Of sur.
face.
Heavy fowls sometimes receive severe in
jurics in trying to fly down from high
perches.
It is estimated that the amount of butter
made in the Iowa creameries is 80, 900, 600
pounds per unnum
II hens have warm house and enough to
eat and Of the right kind, they will lay in
winter as well az in summer
Providence never hides a smiling countc-
nance from those who manure highly, cult
vate often and seed literally.
1t is said by those who have tried it that
bran is az good as the best commercial fer
tilzer for potatoes and corn, and much cheap
err.
The manufacture OF agricultural implements
has doubled within the last ten years. In 1850
this industry gave employment to 1851
hands this year il gives employment to 49,
$50.
whenever you see IhTIn upon WHICH no
improvement is made you may be sure that
the farmer neither reads, observes nor thinks.
singular curiosity on exhibition at Frank
lin, N. Y, is a 50-pound pumpkin, grown be-
tween the four posts of a common chair, COM
pletely filling the space, so that it cannot be
removed without breaking the chair.
Hundreds of tons of bacon and pork are
sent from this country to England at six
cents per pound, and the bacon bills of Eng
land reach $50, 900, 600.
The bee keepers, in convention at Cincin-
natl report that the honey crop OF 1880 was
about half the usual yield bad weather af-
fectiug the production.
The average weight Of hogs at Chicago dur
ing the month Of September was 233 pounds,
against 252 last year-a decrease of 10
pounds
Sheer. husbaudry at one time was highly
important occupation in France, but is now
on the decline the number owned in that
country having decreased from 40, 900, 600 to
about %, 900, 900.
A writer in the New England Homestead
recommends cabbages as one of the best fat
tening foods for cattle. We have never tried
them, but one of our neighbors cows has eat
up nearly all of our cabbages this fall and
We shall note the result with much interest
Hilltop, an observing farmer Of the Con-
necticnt valley, tells the Boston Cultivator
how he and his father have for 30 years al
ways thinned their potato vines at hoeing
time to two stalks in the hill, with an increase
Of large, handsome potatoes.
Gas lime is valuable fertilizer II may
be sown on grass at the rate Of about twenty
five bushels per acre, or applied at the same
rate for wheat and other crops, narrowing it
well into the soil.
To prevent hens from scratching their
nests, make the nests Of sawdust. DO not
have the boxes too large-only long enough
for two nests, with partition. Place a little
hay on the sawdust until the hens get accus-
toned to it, also sulphur to prevent veHmin.
Young stock at pasture should he taken to
the barn before the nights become very cold
or the feed very scaut. There is no profit
| whatever in keeping any animals that are
not constantly gaining, and IT is not unusual
to find cattle at pasture growing poor in DC
| tober.
In the United States there are produced
| 300, 600 600 pounds Of cheese, 40 per cent. OF
which is exported, amounting to 100, 900, COG
| pounds. The amount Of butter produced is
estimated at 1000, 600, 900 pounds Of this
only about per cent. is exported. yet thii
small percentage amounts to 10000, 0Ot
pounds.
The California horticultural describes q
| wealthy man in that state whose land free oil
debt, is worth $500, 900 He lives in a
weather beaten shRnty in the midst of hi
wheat fields, the barnyard surrounding hii
house, the well 200 yards in one direction
| and the woodpile POO in the other, with nc
fruit tree or flower in sight.
Cider made very late in the season anC
stored in cold place will keep sweet be.
cause active fermentation is prevented. II il
| is rich and sweet when it comes from the
press, and care is exercised in making it from
good, sound apples it will not become soul
II kept in a moderately cool cellar in tigh
cask or in bottles.
p. T. Quinn says the varieties OF peart
which have been the most free from bligh
on his grounds are Duchesse dAngouleme
Seckel Doyenne Boussock, Anjou and Bart
lett. The first two mentioned have beer
found remarkably free from the disease in al
localities, as well as the Winter Nelis anC
Clairgeau. He has found the following mos
liable to injury Glout Moroccan, Vicar o
winfield, Belle Lucrative, Onondaga anC
Flemish Beauty.
Since the expectation of apples on an eI
tensiyo scale commenced, the crop Of thu
country has largely grown in value. Thi
years crop is decidedly the largest and mos
remuneratiye ever grown. 1t is estimate
that it will aggregate 2OO, 900, 600 barrels, an,
worth, with its products-ap ple-butter, whis
key, vinegar and cider-not less than SGj, 600,
600 Although in certain sections the crop Wa
failure, over greater portion Of the countr,
the trees were loaded with fruit.
We have recommended for many years
past the preservation of such wood as ma,
be exposed to the weather by using crude pc
troleum. Rustic work has been rendered tel
times as durable as without the application
1t il equally useful for wooden labels AM
stakes. A writer in the Rural New Yorke
says he has made experiments for the pas
five years with the best results. He dips tn
labels in the oil, or throws them into pal
containing it. Writing with a common lea,
pencil will last for years. Labels buried il
the ground show no indications of decay
Country Gentleman.