Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-06

Valuable beds Of phosphate have been
discovered in Florida
There are indications from Delaware that
the peach crop will be one of the finest for
many years.
The earlier in the season that land plaster
or gypsum is sown on clover, the more Ger
tain It ~ TO produce good results Some e1-
perienced farmers SOW 1t on the last snow
and insist that 20 do most good 1t should be
applied before spring rains have passed.
Supt Gowell, Of the Maine state college
states in his report to the trustees, that it re-
quires 20 ~ pounds Of their milk. or Us
quarts for pound OF butter
A Florida gentleman spreads muslin und r
his orange trees to catch the blossoms when
they fall he will convert them into pr
fumery
The largest dealer in poultry in Washing.
ton market, New York Is Rev. Halsey W.
KNAPP, Baptist minister, who breaches oy-
cry Sunday but continues ia the business in
which he was engaged % years ago when be
began to preach.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says "The cat.
tie drive from Texas this season will be the
smallest known for years from the fact that
the demand for cattle to establish new ranches
is so great as to absorb all the heifors and
Maine has ~ cheese factories. with an av.
erage Of lO7 cows to each factory. go being
the lowest and 800 the highest number The
total product Of all the factories WAS 5sG. s34
pounds Of cheese, for which the average
price received was l2t cents per pound.
The Vermont experiment of obtaining
farm laborers from the emigrants arriving at
Castle Garden, n. y. is progressing quite ia.
vorably. Three agencies are now at work
bringing laborers to the states. and some
hundreds have been distributed among the
farmers OF course some prove unsuited ia
the farm, owing to their inexperience in farm
wOrk.-Mfrr0r.
A Jersey COW owned by L. W. Ellis. Bel.
fast Me. the third week after calving. gave.
on 81 average. thirty-five pounds of mix per
day, with the weather below zero One hun
dred and forty pounds skinned sixteen
pounds OF cream, which churned nine and
one-fourth pounds Of golden butter, and her
average butter product was two pounds five
ounces per day.
A shipment Of goods was brought from
Liverpool, England, to Kansas City for forty
cents per 100, aud a Kansas road charged
sixty cents per 100 for delivering II to it,
destination IL the interior Of the state. d do
lance Of 100 miles
The Island OF Jersey, having a surface Of
seven miles each way, keeps y 900 cows.
The breeding OF COWS has made the island
very fertile, and. as the animals are kept IN
stables all the year round. every particle Of
the manure Is saved. Cows kept IN close
yards with little exercise, are generally bet
ter mixers than those allowed to run at
large, and 1t Is this III part winch has devel-
oped the dairy value Of the Jersey breed In
winter the cows are largely fed on parsnips.
which has probably helped develop the but
ter superiority OF this breed OF cattle
A Cape COD correspondent OF the boston
journal says that he owns a hundred acres
OF land of which some was so poor that il
yielded nothing but poverty weed In 1855
ne commenced planting pine seed planting
more or less for ten years, and now he has
about eighteen acres Of quite valuable wood
land which was worthless before being thus
planted
The number Of swine in the United States
IN January, 1883, Is reported by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture Is - 27O. OSG. against
"A. H.. 200 IL 1882; OF cattle, 4l.l7I, 7G2 IN
1858, against 3j, s9l SO in 1852 of sheep.
40, 237 POI in 1883, against 45.OlG.22 IL
lssz-nearly two per cent. reduction in
swine, l4s per cent. increase in cattle and
nearly 9lt per cent. increase in sheep, al az
gregate gain IN these three classes OF animals
OF about seven per cent