Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-06-03

The apple crop in Illinois will be very
light
Arkansas is crowded with men buying Ut
timber land. Thousands of acres are sold
weekly.
Santa Barbara, CAL, held it's third rose
fair two months ago $50 varieties, in full
flower in March, were festoOned in every
form.
A writer in the Country Gentleman says
he applied tar TO young pear trees rs a reme-
dy for wounds, and now he is anxious Ia
know II bigger idiot can be found this side
of the Rocky Mountains
Tho army worm is creating CONSERVATION
among New Jersey market gardeners, and 20.
tato bugs are very numerous. In some parts
of the West the latter pest is more destructive
than ever before. The army worm is ravag-
ing the grain fields of northern New York,
and farmers are much alarmed in consequence.
Mr.. SWEET, who has charge Of Gov. Smiths
| farm at st. Adams, has made up his mind,
after considerable investigation, TO build 81
los, and will put in this year two, about 80
feet long, - wide and IA deep. To Gil them,
he will devote from u to 20 acres to fodder
corn.
An English farmer who has long been a
resident of Massachusetts writes home that
there is room in New England for plenty
more farmers, and that they can do much
better here than in Old England, for here
they can buy land for from 50 to 1926 per
acre.
When taken internally in quantities of
about teaspoonful once o week with food,
sulphur will keep all kinds of animals free
| from lice, and promotes the general health
| One teaspoonful Is sufficient for ten or
twelve hens, or three or four sheep or pigs.
The same quantityof charcoal can be COM
bined with it with good results.
There were Ill Farmers Alliances organ
lied in Kansas up to April l, including 30
counties. A strong appeal is being made for
these organizations to be kept up, so that in
time, by united action they may become
powerful in their efforts to promote the inter-
ests of the farmers.
| From an English official report it seems
that last year 9S1 cargoes of cattle, sheep and
swine were landed in England from America.
OF the animals originally shipped no less than
1863 were thrown overheard in course of
the voyage, $40 were landed dead and 3s4
had TO be killed at the place Of landing. The
need of better arrangements for transporting
live stock is very evident.
The wheat harvest has begun in the vicini-
ty of Dallas, Texas, and the quality is better
than at any time during the past twelve years.
Crop prospects over the whole state are re.
| ported as most promising, though in some
| sections the acreage is smaller than last year
on account of the scarcity of labor.
People who are bothered to get rid of old
| fruit cans may take a little comfort in the
fact that people in New York make living
by collecting them and selling them to Jer.
sey concern that roasts the tin and solder out
of them. Out West they hatten them out
and shingle their barns and out houses with
| them.
Thirty-one years ago Curtis Barrett OF
STAFFORD used balm of Gilead sprout "a
drive home some cattle when he got home
he was told that 1t would grow if lie set il
out he did so and it rooted and grew, and
now measures 50 feet in height, and line
drawn around 1t two feet from the ground
measures eight feet and from one of the
roots grew a sprout that is more than 60 feet
high.
Ludlow has a tree curiosity a maple thai
has a clean trunk-growth of fifteen feet or so
and then branches into four nearly equa
parts. In the fork thus made, the decom
posing leaves of years have formed quite
deposit of soil, in which a locust seed hai
lodged, taken root, and attained height o.
two or three feet. This same maple tree hai
yielded sufficient sap to make ten pounds o.
sugar this season.
There are in Great Britain 20, 900 females
who are farming. These women enjoy al
the rights and privileges of men with one ex
ception, they cannot vote for members o
Parliament, but they can vote on all munich
pal questions which is more than the womeI
of the United States can do. II is very sci
dom, however that they exercise this priv
lege.
A Liverpool cattle salesman visiting thi
country, and writing to his firm from Chica
go, says cattle are likely TO rule high, AM
that the home demand is largely on the in
crease that the industrial classes are wei
employed and business generally is prosper
Gus, and that as consequence there win b
greater demand for high priced beef.
The crotched or hooked stick is still use,
for blowing in Crete. One prong is cut lonl
enough to use for tongue or pole, the en-,
passing into the staple-ring of the yoke, b.
which the implement is drawn, and to som
extent guided. The oxen, not larger thai
Durham cows, are guided by single rop
around the head of each OK, tied to make
pair of lines. Ono man guides the oxen an
holds the single plow- handle of the primitiv
implement, sometimes pointed with steel
man of enterprise might make fortune i
Crete by farming with modem Improvement
Could the island by any chance achieve it
independence, or even be annexed to Greece
it would be desirable place to live in an
cultivate.