Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11
TX, AND RECORD AND FARMER, FRIDAY 1882.
NOTES.

The cucumber patch must be visited daily,
and every specimen removed that is large
enough for use Ono cucumber going to seed
will quickly destroy vine, for in nature seed
production, for the perpetualion of its kind,
takes precedence Of everything else.
The true test Of butter COW is the number
Of pounds she will make in a year, and the
cost. The large results sometimes chronicled
for a single week are often the effects Of ex-
oessive feeding, which not only increases the
expense, but effects the health of the COW and
diminshes her product for the balance OF the
year.
Professor Mcbride of the University Of
Tennessee, when he began his experiments
to ascertain the best amount of seed wheat to
SOW to tho acre, was prejudiced in favor of
thin seeding His careful experiments-the
most careful of any we know of-show dur
ing the two years they have been conducted
that ! bushels produce the heaviest yields
A produce dealer, with nearly forty years
experience in Quincy market, states that il
he were to plant an apple orchard in New
England, with n view of marketing the fruit,
either for domestic OF foreign consumption,
he should plant at least ninety per cent.
Baldwins and ten per cent Roxbury Russets.
Except that Greetings are shy bearers, they
might displace one or two per cent. Of Rus
sets. For supplying ones own home with
apples of course a greater variety would be
recommended.
To keep flies from horses, says a correspon.
dent, procure a bunch of smartweed and
bruise it to cause the juice to exude. Rub
the animal thoroughly with the bunch Of the
bruised weed, especially on the legs, neck
and cars. Neither flies or other insects will
trouble him for ~ hours. The process should
be repeated every day. A very convenient
way of using it is to make u strong infusion
by boiling the weed few minutes in water.
When col it can be conveniently applied
with q sponge or brush.
Thiriy-fve years ago the best trade in Bos
ton demanded what was then known as the
Whi'e Blue-Noso potato, grown chiefly in the
vicinity OF Calais and Eastport, Me-. and in
parts of the British Provinces. Next, as the
Bue-Nose variety deteriorated, nothing but
Chenangoes would fill the bill, and following
the same law this once much esteemed potato
gave way to its formidable rival the 0rono or
jackson White, which kept the lead for quite
a number of years, and was finally displaced
by the favorite Early Rose. This latter va
riety, always possessed Of many good quail
ties, has held the field longer than any OF its
| predecessors. 1t must undoubtedly sooner or
later be displaced in popular favor by some
more vigorous aud valuable competitor. There
arc many candidates in the field, and progress
sive agriculture will no doubt keep pace with
the public demand for a superior article.
1t is fact that the fences Of the United
| States have cost more than the land, and they
are to day the most valuable class of proper
ty in the United States, except buildings,
railroads and real estate in cities. To keep
up the fences requires annually an enormous
consumption Of timber. The 1880 farms
in Kentucky require 10000, 900 panels OF
fence to inclose them. The number of rails
required is set down at >, 900, 600, 900, costing
So, 600 600. To repair and keep in order
the fences in this one state alone costs annual
ly $4,000, 600. Illinois, a comparatively new
state, has 5000 OOO, 900 in fences, but it costs
her only about $500, 900 annually for repairs,
many of her fences being constructed Of wire.
The whole value Of fences in the United
States may be set down at $1,000, 900, 600
and it costs ST. 600, 100000 annually in re-
| pairs.