Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02
NOTES.

During the month of July the Scotch i'm
portations of butter and cheese from America
were very heavy. For Glasgow alone the
boxes of cheese during the month numbered
1877, 852, and the tubs of butter 39,G50, of
which latter 2, 800 were oleomargarine. This
was an increase of A, 900 boxes of cheese and
$4,000 tubs of butter, the largest increase
known in any month of the year. Every lot
of American cheese, rs soon as it arrives is
picked up in Scotland, and the quality is de-
scribed as very fne" Prices have gone up
to $50 per ton.
A. D. Evarts a Walthsm farmer, finds a
ready market for the butter made from his
80 head of Jersey cows at 35 cents per pound.
He puts it up in two and four pound wooden
packages in crates holding ~ and "a pack
ages. On his 50O-acre farm is a model $4,000
barn, with haymows 40 feet deep. Machinery
cuts all the straw, cornstalks and fodder.
Near mountain spring which has tempera-
ture of 80 degrees all the year, is creamery
supplied with Campbell pans and the cream
is churned by steam-power. In this herd of
Jerseys is the noted six-years- old COW of the
Woodbridge strain of Jerseys with a record of
two pounds of butter per day, and two-year-
old heifer which produced one pound of but
ter from llS pounds of milk. His average
sales of butter have been about % per cent
above the general market for grade cows but
ter.
Weathersfeld, Conn, was famous for its
onions 80 or 60 years ago, which were ship
ped all over the United States and to the
West Indies. Smut and maggots have ruined
the onion crops, and now comparatively few
are raised.
William E. Flinn's ranch near San Diego,
Cal, boasts a grapevine which bore five tons
| of grapes last year and broke down an oak,
| . feet in diameter and 60 feet high, which
supportedit.
Drinkers of Indian tea will be glad to learn
that the area of its cultivation is rapidly ex-
tending. About 200, 900 acres are now de-
voted to the plant and this years crop, it is
believed will not fall short Of 5000, 900
pounds.
The pickle business on Long Island has be-
come very important branch of industry.
| A picking factory has Just been erected there,
the proprietors of which have contracted with
the farmers in that section for 80, OO0, 900
| pickles of this years crop at 81 per thous-
and.
The number of chestnut-trees used up an
nually by our railroads for ties and posts is
actually beyond ordinary comprehension, the
average life of a stick being only about seven
years, while the fuel bills exceed any other
single item of expense. The Central Vermont
railroad company pays annually to the farm
| ers VI lulb hIdle bOluelnLlB ike HDUU,UUU IOr
fuel alone.
1t has long been known that wood set in
mortar is preserved against decay, and many
stories have been told of the lasting qualities
of wood which had come in contact with this
substance. A naval journal stated recently
that lime-laden costing schooner of unsea-
soned Maine timber, which went ashore and
bilged 40 years ago, was raised some time af-
ter and is still in service and an English pa.
per gives the history of platform of nine
planks which have been used successfully by
father, son and grandson for mixing mortar,
was then thrown aside and allowed to be
overgrown with grass, but when brought tC
light again 60 years after was found to be
still in aperfect state of preservation. Strange
ly no systematic attempt to utilize this knowl
edge has hitherto been made but now a
method based on this principle has been de
vised in France, and is simple, cheap, requir
ing no special apparatus, and also effective
The plan is to pile the planks in tank anG
to put over all layer Of quicklime which il
gradually slaked with water The time re
quired depends of course on the thickness Of
the wood timber for mines will be thorough
ly impregnated in about a week. The ma
terial is said to acquire remarkable consis
tency and hardness after this process.