Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-06-29

The Pennsylvania Legislature has passed n
law for the suppression Of English sparroys.
Cyrus Allen Of Bridport has a Shor,horn
calf six months and twelve days old, which
weighs CPS pounds.
A raw bone superphosphate was rated at
the Connecticut Experiment Station AZ worth
Sl5 a ton less than the selling price, and an
other fertilizer was poorer still.
Dr. Darlington of Chester Co., Pa, good
authority, has proven that the proper way to
apply plaster is in small quantities. scattered
upon the damp foliage.
Vermont cattle are in favor all over the
Union. j. Il. Davis of Smileytown, Ky, has
bought, during the past few days, twenty
three head Of Jersey cattle in Orwell lie is
paying fancy prices for choice animals and
expects to make up a full carload Of Jerseys
to 60 to Kentucky.
T. S. Gold, Secretary Of the Connecticut
State Board Of Agriculture, thinks great harm
is done in the matter of feeding whey to pigs.
1t should not be fed when sweet or when ex-
cessively sour. The whey should be slightly
sour when fed TO pigs.
Florida papers say that the use of tobacco
stems as Il fertilizer for orange trees is at
tracing attention all over the state.
There does not seem to be any feasible way
Of getting rid Of the rose bug except 10y hand
llthluks ne lbnt hilk - hLblAtI utlItuh-
tor which should be kept under by busting
the plants with powdered helleboro.
The grain trade of New Orleans has grown
to such proportions in recent years that 1t now
ranks as the second port for grain exports in
the Union
Next to Texas, Wyoming is probably the
greatest stock growing region in the United
States II is said that about 900 600 cattle
are now feeding on its plains, the estimated
value Of which is about $4,000, 900.
A Minneapolis man has invented Il way to
compress wheat bran into solid bars like
sticks of wood and it is thought that in this
form it may be largely exported. The sticks
can be prepared 10y cutting up or soaking in
water.
A feature Of vegetation in Australia is the
number OF distinct species to b. found.
There are more than 10 900 species Of flower
ing plants, being more than can be found in
the whole continent of Europe. The highest
tree in the world, being $50 feet in height,
was found in Australia, and trees are fire..
quenty seen there now which are more than
400 feet in height.
Speaking of the hop craze in central New
York, the Tribune says that farms adapted to
this plant are selling for $500 or more per
acre the winters receipt of poles at Water
vile was 3G4 carloads roots generally givon
away bring now - a bushel.
During the first three weeks in July there
will be held in Paris a bug exhibition under
the auspices Of the central society of ngricult
ure and insectology. 1t will include a. use
full insects, ,2) their products in the raw state
and IL the first transformations go appara-
/ tus and instruments used in the preparation
Of these products; o. injurious insects and
the various processes for either counteracting
, their ravages or for destroying them, and 81
everything that may be Of interest to the stu
dent Of iusectology.
A label for fruit trees that seems to be a
very excellent continuance is thus described
] 10y the Country Gentleman Take IA scrap
/ of zinc, cut into strips few inches long half
or three. fourths of Au inch wide at one end,
and half as wide at the other The name is
simply written on the wider end with COM
mon lead pencil when moist and this writing
will lart years The other end is coied once
around the branch and the thing is done
As the branch grows the coil expands and no
harm is done to the bark.
The Bath Times says that a gentleman in
that city has q horse which he has owned
nine years and never had a shoe on his foot.
He thinks the advantages are viz: That in
damp snow the horse's hoof will not ball up,
and he is sure of his footing. Second, that
the horse never calks himself in deep snow,
never wears out hoors by stamping, and Is
never lame from having shoes that pinch the
feet. The horse is in good order the hoofs
sharp and tough and smooth. The owner
says that he never yet met with an accident,
not even so much as a stumble.
A panic exists among the strawberry grow
of southern Illinois, arising from the whole.
sale depredations Of an insect enemy. Some
planters report their fields so completely ruin
ed as 10 force them TO abandon the crop.
Whole handfus of berries may be graspsd
from plant Of which every berry is sucked
dry and rendered worthless. Professor
Forbes says the deprcdator is properly known
as the 'tarnished plant bug" lLygus lineola-
Wis, an insect well known for years and album
dant in many sections, but not heretofore
known to injure the strawberry and prevent
its filling out. 1t is at first a small green,
fiat, louse-like bug, about one-sixteenth of an
inch in length, which gradually grows to be
nearly oue-fourth Of an inch long and chang
es to a dull, russety color, acquiring wings
and flying when full grown.
There seems to be a diabolical purpose
somewhere within or back of the process of
evolution. No sooner do the fruit growers
and farmers discover q specific or invent a
protection against one destructive pest than
another and entirely new variety crawls in to
take its place. new and voracous canker
worms is the latest arrival in western New
York. -BOStOH Herald