Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-20
ey" is warranted true white-clover honey
from Vermont.
NOTES.

Sheep give back to the farm more in pro.
portion to what they take from il than any
other animal.
Philadelphia grand jury makes the sug-
gestive report in regard to penitentiary that
of the 1922 convicts, only 10 are mechanics.
Carbolic acid is very useful as a preventive
Of insect ravages Radshes may be protect
ed from maggots and orchards from borers by
its use.
Sugar beets are the only saccharine plants
that permit of preservation without apprecia-
BILE loss Of sugar. Hence their importance for
sugar manufacture.
Upon nearly every Canadian farm a certain
lot of land is devoted to roots (sugar beets,
carrots, mangel-wurzel, etc. These are con-
sidered as essential to cattle as the potato is
to men.
Last year there were shipped from Daven-
port, Iowa, over POO, 600 bushels of onions
and about the same quantity of potatoes.
This year there have been shipped about 101, -
600 bushels of onions and but 49, bushels
of potatoes.
Never set a hen in box above the ground
or floor of the chicken house if possible to do
otherwise as the eggs dry too fast and lose
their vitality. Much better success may be
expected it the nests are made upon the
ground.
]. w. Sanborn, of New Hampshire, finds
as the uniform result of many trials that
coarse foods and grain make a more econom-
ical fodder than good hay, and he therefore
recommends the cultivation of an increased
area in hoed crops.
Rust may often be removed from steel tools
by immersing them in kerosene oil for a few
days. This loosens the rust 80 that it may
be rubbed of. Where the rust is not very
deep-seated emery-paper will do, but if of
long standing the tools must be refnished.
Fowls will never touch food, if they can
help it, which lies near any droppings or an
unclean place. Special care should be taken,
therefore, to cleanse the ground of all pens
and runs daily. The smaller the runs the
greater must be the cleanliness and the labor
spent on it.
Save all the manure. The fall and winter
months are the best seasons for applying it.
Frequently it is advisable to pillow the land be-
fore spreading the manure so that the essence
of the manure may not be washed away. If
the ground be open and loose the whole
strength of the manure is absorbed into the
soil
To keep machinery from rusting take one
half ounce of camphor, dissolve in one pound
OF melted lard take off the scum and mix in as
much fine black lead as will give it an iron
color. Clean the machinery and smear with
this mixture. After twenty.four hours rub
clean with a soft linen cloth. 1t will keep
clean for months under ordinary circum-
stances
That immense region of country in south
ern Kansas and the Indian Territory, watered
by the great Arkansas, Canadian, Cmarron,
Chickaskia and AIinneseaka Rivers, is the
great cattle and sheep range of the United
States The territory embraced in the range
comprises some twenty counties in the
state of Kansas, being the southwest portion
of the state, formerly known as the "Great
American Desert"
OF the cotton-seed raised in this country
last year, about 100000 tons was fed to
stock or used as fertilizers as it came from the
gin, while from the balance of 1870, 900 tons
the oil was extracted The 2,SOO,OOO tons
contained $4,000, 600 gallons of oil, worth
S39, 200, 600 in a crude state and S62, 700 600
when refined, and this was entirely wasted. as
the seed is worth more either to feed or use
on land after the oil is pressed out. Such is
the calculation
Wisconsin farmer named Carroll has de-
liberatey amputated his own leg, and in a
surgeon-like manner fever sore had de-
stroyed part of the flesh and weakened the
bone so that he broke it off with his hands.
Then he called for a razor, cut the flesh, made
the necessary FLAP" tied up'the arteries, and
bandaged the stump
Red pepper and brown soap applied to the
wood work of stall occupied by cribbing
horse will, it is said, cure the aniual of the
habit.
The Kansas State Grange has issued a pa
per on education, proposing that the usual
course of the public schools be abridged in
an intelligent manner, and that the time saw
ed be devoted to such practical instruction as
shall give children taste for agriculture, a
love of nature, and sense of the dignity of
farming life.
An English firm has bought 300, 600 acres
of land from the state of Mississippi. Seven
hundred and sixty thousand acres are levee
lands, mostly in the Yazoo delta, COMPRISING
some of the richest cotton and timber land in
the South. The intention of the purchasers
is to improve colonize and cultivate these
lands.
Prof. Brewer of the Sheffield Scientific
School, New Haven, says: ION account of
the value of our straw and of the stalks of
our corn for feeding, it is found that an acre
OF corn, wheat or other grain pays as large a
profit here as at the West, and that the labor
of each man is as well or better paid.
The uncommonly large number of insects
injurious to vegetation, which did SO much to
destroy the last seasons crops, was not in
consequence of an open winter, but followed
a very severe season. The Larvae of these in
sects were protected by the snow. The pres
ent open winter will cause the destruction of
millions of these pests. They remain near
the surface this winter where they can be fed
of by the birds
An Iowa girl boasts of having husked fifty
one bushels of corn between breakfast and
dinner, which is either case of big girl or
big story, or perhaps it was long time be-
tween mealG.
The custom prevails quite extensively in
Maine OF cutting down evergreen trees of con-
siderable size in the fall and setting them in
yards about houses, the same as posts are set
IN the ground Trees thus set preserve their
natural appearance till warm weather comes
in the spring, when they are removed. When
the trees can easily be obtained this is a cheap
way to ornament ones premises for the win.
ter.
A poultry Spectator in Warren county.
Pennsylvania, buys chickens in the country
and writes cut a receipt for the farmer TO
sign. The point of his pencil invariably
breaks off just before the signature is reached.
and be produces fountain pen from his
pocket The body of the receipt is written
In pencil and the farmers name in ink.
When the Spectator goes to town he grasses
all the marks and writes out in ink a promis-
sorry note for 800 or 5000, and has it dis
counted by the bank.
No Boon that Science has Conferred
mas been traught with greater blessings than that
w1en mas accrued to the inhabitants of malariaridden