Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-05-13
NOTES.

A search through the records does not dis
close a single well-defned case Of trichinosis
in England in six years, notwithstanding the
fact that she imports 700, 600, 900 pounds of
pork from America annually.
Wherever sheep feed, new, sweet grasses
flourish and weeds are destroyed. II farmers
fully appreciated how great a benefit sheep
are to land, they would raise more of them.
In a recent address, DR.. @. A. Greene Of
Lancaster, Pa, took the sensible ground that
tight check-rein Is cruel, binders O relic of
barbarism, and the crupper undesirable with
the majority of horses.
Greater advance has been made within the
last thirty years, in the art of agriculture, by
the application Of science In developing the
principles, calculating the mysteries, and
showing the reasons of the operations in eve
ry department, than for a century before.
Tomato plants should not be grown too
rapidly, and IL they begin 10 run should be
transplanted repeatedly, so as 10 induce stocky
growth. Some gardeners take pains to pot
them, but this is not generally DONE as it is
expensive and troublesome. Repeated check
ing by transplanting induces carly maturity
and early fruiting.
A Mississippi planter wanted TO turn his
land into q stock farm. His neighbors, who
stick to cotton, applied to a court for an in
seed, on the ground that the grass would
spread over adjoining plantations, and unfit
the ground for cotton. The injunction was
granted.
James Utley cut chestnut tree in Colum
bia, Ct, perfectly sound, that made 1910 feet
of two-inoh plank, one railroad sleeper, aud
IA cords of wood. Such trees are not COM
mon.
Ashes are a special fertilizer for potatoes
Fifteen loads to the acre, narrowed in will
vastly improve the crop aud the land at the
same time.
Prof. Riley says that kerosene oil is sure
death TO insects in all stages, and the only
substance with which we may hope to destroy
their eggs.
The destruction of tomato plants by the
cut-worm may be avoided by making com
pact mound Of earth about the plant, as large
as an inverted teacup, the cut-worm being
unable to climb Another Is TO wrap around
the stem, If the cut-worm is feared, few
inches of paper or large green leaf of any
kind before drawing the earth around it.
They will not take the trouble to gnaw
through the paper or leaf
Alfred Quimby of Stockbridge has lost four
yearlings and feeding hay cut by the side OF
potatoes where Paris green was used dry Is
the cause assigned.
In letter TO the New York Tribune, Seth
Green, the noted pisciculturist declares that
the water area in that state is equal in value,
as a food-producing element, to the land,
when properly stocked with the inhabitants
of the water II have become thoroughly
convinced" says Mr.. Green, Through years
of investigation, that an acre of water can be
made to produce as much food as an acre Of
land"
Posey county, Ind, claims to have raised
the largest COW in the world. Her name ID
Lady Posey breed mixed Durham and Big
English. Her measurements are: Greatest
height, feet 10 inches girth, $ feet 8 inch.
es; length, 10 feet inches, or, including
tail, IL feet. Her form is good, and, though
not fat she weighs 5000 pounds. Her color
is red and white, red predominAting Age
six years. Her present owner lives in Stark
county, Ill.
The Minnesota millers are now fighting the
| old-fashioned flour barrels. Their cry is fol
cotton sacks holding half barrel Of -four
and they urge in favor of the change thai
-four does not sift through good cotton baI
as much as it does through barrel, and whilC
barrels are worth 40 cents each, sacks cos
only 10 cents apiece, a saving on q barrel OF
-four of 20 cents. with the sacks left. Flour
is shipped to Glasgow and Rotterdam in sacks
and the sacks are valued as high there as here
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
writing from st. Paul, April 10Th, says AT
ter examining the wheat crop during the las
three weeks from Tennessee to Dakota,
am prepared to place my judgment on rec
ord, as have in previous years, and say tina
the prospects for both winter and sprinI
wheat are as good as 1 have ever seen in thi
country. l believe the next crop of wheai
will be 525, 000, 900 bushels. Last year es
timated in the Chicago Tribune the coming
crop at 475, 600, 600 1t finally measured W
4S0, $40, 1923 bushels.