Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24
NOTES.

The present season has been remarkably
favorable for honey in Addison county. The
market price is now Is cents per pound, but
dealers say they will soon be able to purchase
carloads Of it at - cents per pound The
copious rains throughout the spring and sum-
mer months have induced splendid growth
of white aud red clover which is favorable
to honey.
Tho enormous watermelons that come from
the South are produced by picking of the
first-formod fruit, which causes the later set
ting to grow much larger
Six years ago the sugar product Of San Do
mingo was 1000, 600 pounds this year it
will be 40, 600, 600. The increase is due to
American capital and enterprise.
farmer in Herkimer county, N. Y, raises
his best potatoes on soil consisting entirely
of pure sand He cnriches with plenty of
barnyard manure aud plants six or eight
inches deep His crops are sure and excel
lent
An Australian sheep breeder recently pur-
chased 173 merino sheep in this state, for
which he paid the sum of $4,000 -Four of
the rams cost $1,000 each. The freight to
Australia will amount to nearly $4,000 more,
which increases the sum to S3G, 600, or about
an average Of 5000 per sheep. The breeder
already has a flock of % 600, and the Yer
mont sheep will be used for purposes Of i'm
provement.
The American Cutivator reminds us that
no practice at this time of the year will save
more work to orchardist or small-fruit grow
err next winter or spring, than that of pinch.
ing of suckers or water sprouts
simple brushing OF the hand over limb will
often destroy scores of little sprouts which
would have to be removed with knife or
saw at the end of the year. Undesirable
pbOnig from thn FOOil Of pnTrant Duglpg
other plants can be more easily removed now
than ut any other time.
Prof A. j. Cook says that as Pyrethrum
PERSIAN POWDER is safe and effective against
the cabbage caterpillars, the arsenites paris
green, London purple, etc should never be
used. Aud with good n specific as white
hellebore at command, the arsentes should
never be used to fight the curraut slug
which have to be attacked ut the very time
when We wish to use the fruit
When cattle chew leather, wood and old
bones, remember that it indicates a lack Of
phosphate Of lime in their food, which is re-
quired to supply bone material. A teaspoon
full of bone meal given daily with their grain
will correct the habit aud supply the defcien-
cy which induces it. If the disposition to eat
bones is INDUCED in whom COWS are in grass
the deficiency then evidently exists in the
soil, and the pasture will be greatly benefited
by top dressing OF bone-dust Two or
three hundred pounds to the acre, sown
broadcast will repay attending expenses in a
better yield and in quality of milk and but
ter.
The richest New York farmers, according
to the Herald, are those who have grown ber-
ries and have added every year au acre or
two to their pear orchards and the most
profitable farms of all are those within few
miles of the city, whose managers bank con.
siderable money yearly from the sale of veg
etables grown on Il few acres that are hired
at rentals sometimes reaching $500 per acre
per annum. One man who bought an up.
river farm of % acres 20 years ago has for
years averaged $1,000 yearly on the yield of
pear trees that he planted himself,
The undecayed muck and vegetable matter
in swamps and boys will often remain in an
untillable condition for two or three years
The vegetable matter does not rot This is
due to the presence of vegetable acids which
delay decomposition. II the material be made
alkaline it will decay speedily. The best sub
stance for this purpose is quick-lime. Forty
or fifty bushels to the acre, or even more
will reduce some bogs to arabic soil in short
time. If straw is to be used as manure it is
best adapted to the purpose by spreading the
ground where the stack is to be built with
quick lime. The stack will soon rot down.
1t might also be advisable to spread very
little lime over the straw at intervals, as the
stack is built up.