Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-07-02
NOTES.

Iowa and some Of the other Western States
arc having too much rain.
DO not water plants daily give them
good soaking once III while through dry
spell.
Discard wooden floors in your hen houses,
as they absorb and retain a great deal of the
moisture from droppings.
For maggots which work ut the roots Of
squash vines, il is said that n tablespoonful
Of saltpetre in a pGilful of water applied to
the roots will destroy these pests and greatly
inyigorate the vines.
The Agricultural appropriation bill, rs
finally passed by both Houses of Congress,
contains compromise appropriation Of
$500 for experiments in the manufacture Of
sugar from sorghum and corn stalks.
In a recent address in England, Mr. Glad
stone stated that the country annually i'm
ports e., coo, 200 Of foreign fruits The fruit
exports from the United States to England
are steadily increasing, among which apples
and cucumbcrs are tN 20 of the leading kinds.
Tho army worm is described as about an
inch in length, and as large as a rye straw,
and Of q gray color lighter on the under side.
They cat rye, oats, grass and corn with great
ayidity but potato tops nre not fayorito
food, and they sometimes, when not too hun
81 edy' go around a h'la' Tobacco is un'0o'h-
Fifty years ago it was regarded as visionary
to talk of the United States as ever likely to
become an important cultvator of grapes.
Yet that interest is now very large, flourish
ing and valuable, and promises, at no distant
day, to make the country q large exporter of
wines, grapes and raisins.
The Amber Sugar. Cane, which has created
so much interest in the South and Southwest
as being earlier and Of superior quality, orig
mated from a single seed found in q lot pur-
chased in Paris in 1850.
Fifteen years ago Chicago merchants OBJ
tanned their supplies Of cheese from the East,
while now lO0,0O0,O0 pounds pass through
that city annually for New York. One man
ufacturer in western New York has over 40
factories, while others in different parts of
the country have from to 80 each
The production of honey is becoming an
| interest Of some importance. 1t is estimated
that there are about 100000 bco-hives in
the United States each yielding on an aver
age about % pounds Of honey and n revenue
of about IS, 600, 600, and, in addition, the in
| dustrious bees supply us with 2i,OOO, 600
| pounds Of wax.
Success has attended the introduction Of
! glass mill-stones in Germany. The idea Of
| constructing mill-stonos Of glass is said to
| have originated from the observation that
the finest flour was produced by those mill
stones which have the most CLASSY texture ;
from this observation came an experiment
which demonstrated that pieces of glass COM
bined in the same way as tho French buhr,
and similarly groovod on their surfaces, gave
better results in grinding than the buhr mill
stone.
During the past iifty-three years the high
| est price Of wool in the New York market
was in the years 1866, 1872 and 1873. In
| those years it reached tho high figure of sew
enty cents per pound. In the same period
the lowest point reached was nineteen cents
The price hereafter promises not to be liable
to these wide fluctuations, and will in all
| probability have n narrower range, as the
yield, though much more extensive than for
mcrly, finds profitable market abroad for
all not consumed in this country, Mt prices
that make wool-growing one of the most
profitable branches of farming.