Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-07
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1t is estimated that the pecan crop of Texas
will sell for 81, 600, 000 this year.
According to the report of the State Secre-
tary Massachusetts has 40 oranges with q
membership of 1900.
The Devils lake Sioux in Dakota who were
raising scalps Is years ago, have raised 1900
bushels of grain and 1890 bushels of wheat
this year.
Mr. John j. Mechi, the well known Eng
lish agriculturist and razor strop maker has
failed. His liabilities are estimated at 3D.
600 His assets comprise stock at Tiptree
Hall to the value of about e., 700.
As shown by statistics, 1880 was remarks-
bly, prosperous. The country produced 49,
600, 900 bushels of wheat, l, 800, 600, 600 bush
els of corn, Alb, 900, 600 bushels of oats, pa
600, 600 bushels of rye, 40, 900, 900 bushels of
barley and 1000, 900 bales of cotton.
DR.. Glenn's harvest in Colusa county, CAL,
is Just finished, and the total yield is AGO, 900
sacks of wheat. The doctor reserves 60, 900
for seed and has shipped the rest.
Just now in Minnesota corn at u cents per
bushel is cheaper fuel than wood at So per
cord And it is a good deal cheaper for the
farmers to use their corn as fuel than to UNI
dertake to sell the corn and buy wood or
coal.
A Louisiana planter who expected to make
600 hogsheads of sugar had his hopes blasted
by recent freeze, which ruined his cane.
The frost turned it sour.
Kansas farmers are getting from 20 to %
cents bushel for corn. Good hay sells for
eight or nine dollars per ton at Des Moines,
Iowa, and corn from % to p cents. Corn is
reported to be worth 40 cents in West Nir-
ginia and from 40 to 80 cents in Virginia.
The Touring interests of Minneapolis,
MINI, have fully recovered from the effects
of the terrible explosion and fires of 1873,
which reduced the daily capacity of the mills
242j barrels. There are now 20 mills with a
daily capacity of II, 600 barrels of flour.
Mr. d. Whiting of Riverside, Cal, is en-
closing 1900 acres of land with stockade,
and proposes importing one hundred pairs of
ostriches from South Africa, worth from $3.50
to $500 bird. Ostriches breed at four
years of age, and will produce four broods a
year, each averaging twenty chicks. At eight
months the feathers of bird become worth
s. and as it grows older, attain value of
over 500. 1t is said that it costs no more to
keep an ostrich than sheep.
Mr.. Shearer of Western New York is
feeding this winter 200 Cotswold lambs, pur-
chased in Canada last fall. He feeds mix
ture of equal parts of corn, oats, corn meal
and bran, making an equivalent of three
fourths of pound of corn daily, besides two
pounds of hay The lambs have gained one
half pound per head daily. The cost of the
feed is three-fourths OF a cent for grain and
the same for hay total one and one-half
cents per head per day, making the cost of
the gain in weight three cents per pound.
A subscriber wants to know how to pot
plants for the winter The best way is to
procure a pot large enough to hold all the
plants, and pitch 'em in, cover with dirt, and
set the pot in one corner of the yard until
springtime comes, gentle Annie. Every plant
may be as dead as Julius Caesar but this ii
better than to carry s. worth of plants in the
garnet in the fall and bestow $50 worth Of
labor and attention on them during the win
! ter. NOrriStOtoR Herald.