Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-25
NOTES.

One cord of birch wood weighs 23Gs
pounds.
Worms infest the lungs, the intestines, and
the kidneys of pigs.
Forty cords of oak wood will yield just
about ten cords of merchantable charcoal.
Soft soaps differ from hard in having pot
ash in place of soda as an alkaline base.
Water in which fax has been stepped not
only kills fish but is injurious to vegetation.
The Chicago Packing and Provision House
kills 10, 600 hogs every day, day being ten
hours.
The first one or two litters laid by pullets
are not so good for Matching purposes as
those laid later.
Andrew Sprague, of Easton, Me-, raised POO
bushels of very large sugar beets from forty
square rods Of ground.
Hon. George Wells of Grundy county, Iowa,
has lost this winter POO head of cattle by the
storms
Reports from all over the country show
that the fatality among the bees has this win
ter been very general almost, if not quite,
equalling the disastrous winter of 1872.
Reduce as far as you can the amount OF
fencing upon your farm, and put that which
is necessary to keep up in good substantial
order. Fences at best are dead capital, great
and constantly recurring expense.
The domestic cat is again charged with
spreading disease, this time by the physicians
of district in Sullivan county, N. Y, where
small pox is epidemic. In several cases the
proof is pretty strong that house cats carried
the pest, and owners of cats have been warn
ed to keep them from roaming about,
The fortune of any man would be secured
if he could discover any method by which ap-
Piles, pears, peaches and grapes could be
| Eapt from darav until tho natural TINA of
healthful ripening, or materially lengthen
their keeping qualities when ripe.
The Oldest fruit orchard in California, ac-
cording to the Sacramento Weekly Mirror"
is at San Juan, in San Benito county. The
| pear trees in it have grown to a great size,
| having been planted about the year 1875, and
still bear an abundance of fruit of excellent
| quality. In the same county are some almond
trees that were planted fifty years ago and
continue to yield plenty of nuts.
A Devonshire (Eng) farmer who brought
home 20 potato bugs from Canada as curios-
| tiles was fined $25 by local judge, and com
PEELED to kill his treasures in the presence of
the court
Nature is constantly struggling to renoV ate
the soil. With nature decay is renovation.
Ten millions of cattle are annually slaugh-
tered in this country TO supply the home de-
mand for meat, which is valued at $400, 000,-
| 900.
The Poultry Yard advocates quick fatten-
| ing for fowls when they are intended for ia
BILE use, and recommends milk in any state
from fresh to thick. This should be fed in
connection with grain diet.
There are fifty injurious insects in our veg
etable gardens, fifty in our vineyards, seventy
i've attack our apple-trees, more than a hun
dred injure our shade trees, and more than
fal1 Ave
of dollars was the damage done to the wheat
in Illinois in one season; and nearly ten years
ago the annual loss in the United States,
from insects alone, was $500, 100000
The number of eggs consumed in this coun-
try is enormous, and has been rapidly increas
ing for quarter of a century. As many as
10000, 900 have been shipped hither annually
from Montreal alone, and it is computed that
more than thrice that number come East from
Ohio and the interior states. Eggs are re-
ported as also very scarce and dear this win
ter in Great Britain, where some 400, 900, 600
valued at near IS, DOC, 900, are annually i'm
ported, mainly from the continent II has
been estimated that the consumption in the
United States reaches more than 200, 900, 0OC
every year.
The air bubble or air cell in an egg is at tn,
round or blunt epd. 1t contains the air which
is to supply the chick during the process o.
incubation. 1t is known to contain greater
} proportion of oxygen than tho air we breathe
; As the chick increases in size the air bubbl,
grows larger, aud when on the point of hatch
! ing it occupies one-ffth of the whole egg
= The slightest perforation of this air chambe
will prevent success in Matching out. Abou
} the nineteenth day of incubation the air eel
: is ruptured and the chick breathes with it
5 lungs. 1t is at this date that the lively move
ments seen in eggs placed in water are OBJ
o seryable.