Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09
NOTES.

ub l1Olhltlu COW, ECHO, OWleu Dy Eftu.
@. Stevens, the proprietor of the Maplewood
stock farm, Attica, N. Y, has Just completed
her years milk record, which foots up Is, / 2OI
pounds, which is 115 pounds more than the
famous COW Aggie, which has heretofore led
all the bovines of the world. Echo is 10 years
old and weighs 1910 pounds consequently
has given over ten times her weight in milk
during the year. The largest yield in one day
was 50 pounds in one month, 4l9G pounds.
When hens in their prime have ceased
moulting and do not lay, try feeding them
meat.
Maine farming has boom. The state has
spent this year s., 225, 600 in farming ma.
chimes and manures, 500, 600 being for phos.
pilates. The dairy product is improving and
the farm mortgages are growing fewer
II farmers could be prevailed upon to keep
all their stock as well as they keep their thor
oughbreds, there would not be such mighty
difference after few years. Poor shelter
and low feed will bring out the bones in the
finest stock
A. b. Carpenter of West Waterford thinks
farming pays. He has sold about $1,000
worth of butter this season, has raised . hogs
and 40 pigs, 4Sj bushels of corn, 800 bushels
of oats, % bushels of Indian wheat 200 bask.
cts of clover seed, 100 bushels of potatoes, so
tons of hay, and 1900 pounds of sugar.
An extraordinary yield of butter was lately
obtained from an English-bred Jersey COW
owned by farmer in Hamilton county, On.
tario. carefully conducted test of ninety
three days duration resulted in a yield of 29G
pounds l0t ounces of uusalted butter, which
when ready for market, weighed 81 pounds
- ounces. Grass and FIVE quarts of ground
oats constituted her daily food during the
trial
The simple plan of storing eggs in dry ash
es has been used for some time by a CORE
spondent of the Live Stock journal with very
satisfactory results. Though rather fastidi-
GUS about their quality he reports having en-
joyed those thus kept during period of moro
than four months and in one instance a whole
year. The only precautions seem to be (be-
sides, of course, sound eggs to begin with to
see that the ashes are quite dry, and to see
that the eggs do not touch one another
The average land rent paid by the farmers
of England is said to be $50 per acre, or an
aggregate in the whole island of $3.50, 900, 600
per year, and this vast tax has to be met
whatever the harvest or prices may be.
Massachusetts, grange has voted to recon.
mend to the consideration of all local and
state oranges and also to the national grange,
the order of the Bands of Mercy, which is de-
signed to educate children and youth to be
kind to dumb animals and thus awaken
feeling of humanity which will develop and
intensity to the extent of creating 2 higher
standard in manhood and womanhood"
When bees gather quantity of fruit jul
ces frosted honey, or like unhealthy food,
the Indiana Farmer advises feeding them
from one quart to a half gallon of syrup made
from Coffee "a sugar. This seems to neu-
tralize the poison in the cider or frosted hon.
ey which appears to be so fatal to the bees
during a long confinement. We have tried
this plan with good success for the past few
winters, and are inclined to give the matter
considerable importance in connection with
successful wintering
The annual convention of the national cot.
ton planters association for 1883 will be held
in Vcksburg, Miss, beginning Nov. 81. In
view of the worlds industrial and cotton cen
tennial exposition to be held in New Orleans
in the winter of 1SSf-Sj, under the Joint au-
spices of the government of the United States,
the national cotton planters association and
the city of New Orleans the coming conven.
ton will be more important than any hitherto
held. The managers extend a cordial invita-
ton to the people of the North, and especial
ly of New England, to attend and take part
in the proceedings
carefully made experiments conducted at ex.
perimental stations is that so many are mark.
ed ''inconclusive. This should be a lesson
to many farmers, who, with much less care
in ascertaining results, are always ready to
assert that their methods are better than any
others. There are very few points in farm
ing il which the same course is always advi-
sable in other words, no set of rules can be
laid down that will dispense with good iddg-
ment based on practical experience To this
extent the prejudice against "book farming"
is well founded, or rather would be, if agri.
cultural writer's attempted to lay down posi-
tive and invariable rules. In reality, how
ever, the most opinionated farmers are those
who are always vehemently declaiming against
farming by book.
To see the yards of different house owners
in cities and villages, continue the old style
of fencing in their domain, gives a chilling
appearance. One is reminded of prison walls
and reeurs to the thought, thus far shalt thou
go, and no farther, without permission. But
like many other things that seem to be out of
keeping with the ideas of the present age
fences are being removed, and yards are be.
coming common, not only to each other, but
to the highway, giving a more cheerful and
friendly aspect to the neighborhood SO i'm
proved " II. YeOmans.