Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-05-21
NOTES.



Twenty per cent of the cattle which run
on the Western plains die during the winter
Eight hundred varieties of pears and nearly
one hundred kinds of native grapes are said
to be under cultivation in America.
Philadelphia is arresting numbers Of oleo-
margarine swndlers that's the right name
for those who sell the stuff AS butter for but
ter prices
The Russians are complaining Of American
competition in the grain markets Of that
country Our merchants are shipping corn 10
Odessa.
Oregon is becoming heavy wheat export
ing state. Since last July her shipments have
been 4. 600, 900 bushels of wheat and $50, 900
barrels Of flour.
New Hampshire farmer, who has raised
corn successfully for twenty years tells the
Portsmouth Weekly that he gets two-thirds
less from hills than from drills 3 TO 80 feet
apart and plants inches distant in the row.
The Connecticut Board Of Agriculture has
engaged John S. Dillon, an Englishman, to
go abroad in the interest of immigration to
farms in the State now unproductive.
Georgia man in California was boosting
of the size Of Southern productions Point
ing to a barrel he said. I'VE raise larger wa
termelons than those "Watermelons =" e1-
claimed the Californian why, those are
only huckleberries
The practice Of chewing bones sticks aud
old pieces of leather by COWS is an indication
that their systems need something not fur
nished in their food, and frequently bone
dust fed in small quantities, at first with meal,
will supply the need.
The Gardeners Monthly approves of the
withdrawing Of stem and branches OF fruit
trees, as tending to keep them healthy and
aiding them to get rid of the old bark
The Germans, who for the last decade have
devoted great attention TO horse and cattle
breeding, propose to hold an international
agricultural show, especially of live stock at
Hamburg in 1852. The last one at the same
place in 1863 was very successful.
The black rust on verbeuas. heliotropes
and petunas can be cured by stimulating the
plants with liquid manure.
Mrs. Warren Loyejoy of South Auburn,
Me, has made the past year from the milk
Of four cows and a iwo-year old heifer, .O3l
IL pounds Of butter. with milk enough TO
spare for the family's use.
A new feature is to be introduced in the
programme of the annual fair Of the Mime
sofa State Fair Association next fall Belle
Cook and Anna Jewett, two horsewomen Of
that state, have made u match to ride 20 miles
to saddle, for $1,000 side, and the associa-
ton offers $1,000 additional to have ths match
take place during fair week
The average yield Of cotton on the famous
Sea Islands near Charleston 5. c, under the
slave system before the war was from 81 to
100 pounds an acre. With free labor it has
been increased from 20 to go pounds and
some Of the planters last year made net
profit of 800 an acre
A herd Of -, 500 cattle, destined for the
Atlantic States. is being driven from Oregon
to Montana. One hundred and twenty
mounted men do the driving, and the outfit
includes provision-wagons, arms and ammu-
milton, eight hundred horses aud forty dogs
The journey is made slowly, nine miles day.
and the speed will be les5aned when hot
weather comes on.
Keep your farm buildings and all your
premises absolutely clean. Use ahsorb-uts
such as dry earth and ashes and all offensive,
gases will disappear thereby promoting
health and prosperity
4 good garden will do wonders for far
mer. It will save him lots of store bills and
supply him with scores Of Injuries which he
will not get from any other source 1t will
pay in dollars and cents. in sensible and
hearty enjoyment, in the qualification of
friends, aud in health and happiness all
round. Ii is worth working for half an hour
n
BoC-butter. a substance found in bogs in
the west Of Ireland, and supposed by the
common people Of the district to have been
ordinary butter hidden away ages ago by the
fairies, or hastily buried by smugglers is not
of animal origin at all, but has been shown by
Mr.. John Plant 10 be perfectly natural pro
duction arising from the decomposition Of the
vegetable matters forming tAe peat, and be-
longing to the large family of mineral resins,
or hydro-carbon compounds.
The incubation of cattle as a preventive of
pleuro-pneumonia, which began in Australia,
has been successfully introduced on large
scale into Edinburg, Scotland. During the
past three years about 5000 cattle have been
inoculated in that city and vicinity, reducing
the mortality from - TO about > per cent.
II has been estimated by competent author
ity that the loss in England from this disease
was not less than l, 900, 900 head of cattle in
the six years ending with 1860, and the loss
in Australia few years ago was 80 to 40 per
cent Of the whole.