Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-03-14

About one million acres Of fax are cultiva-
ted annually IN the United States
Minnesotas butter production for 1888
will nearly reach $1,000 600 pounds, worth
So, 300 600
Thirty thousand dozen eggs were recently
received by n single steamer in New York
They came from Germany, and many Of
them were lined by u superior German pro
cess.
Hickory and cherry require growth Of
thirty years before they are valuable for tim
Der, maple twonty years, beeches fifteen
years. Black walnut, however, will produce
a trunk fourteen inches in diameter in rs
many years from the seed.
New Jersey farmer writes to the New
York Herald that he gave a dressing of salt
(eight bushels to the acre. to land badly in
Tested with white grubs, and for three years
after raised good crops Of corn, which was
impossible previous to this application.
Mr.. Madden OF Pike county, Georgia,
claims to own the largest grape vine in the
United States, which is eighteen years old a
quarter of mile long, and thirty -four inches
in circumference at its base, and bears five
wagon loads Of fruit.
Luminous plants have peculiar charm to
the grower aud observer One of the best is
HAhhlutilhi VI gus plhut II IS al Olu lhNOT-
lite, perfectly hardy, a perennial of the very
easiest culture, and should be in every gar
den. In the calm summer evenings when
in bloom, light applied to the base Of the
stock will envelop the whole plant in flame.
This can be repeated time and again, and il
appears with benefit to the rpeuing seed.
This property was discovered by the daugh-
ter Of Linnmus. The flowers are white or
red, and are very fine
series Of experiments Instituted to test
the average loss IN weight by drying, show
that corn loses one fifth and VIII aat on -four.
teenth in the process From this statement
it appears that farmers will make more by
selling unshelled corn in the fall at Is cents
than the following summer at 81 bUshel,
and that wheat at SLIP in December il equal
to s l.5O for the same wheat in June follow.
ing. This estimate is made on the basis of
interest at per cent and takes no account Of
loss from vermin These facts are notowor-
thy
The phosphate rock of South Caro- ina now
furnishes nearly all the phosphate Of lime us
ed in making commercial fertilizers In the
whole civilized world but yet the mining of
1t began no longer ago than 1865. A stratum
OF the rock varying from two or three to 20
inches underes tract measuring about 80
by 10 miles few feet from the surface. with
large river deposits added, and the mining is
done by clearing the earth entirely away and
taking the phosphate out, section by section.
There are lG concerns in the business, en-
ploying nearly 81, OOO, 600 capital and over
5000 men-negroes, Italians and oonyicts--
and the product last year amounted to 27l,-
600 tons.
really good and honest dairyman' says
that milk can be tested by dipping q knitting
needle IN it. If the article is pure little will
adhere to the needle but if there has been
adulteration it will all run of and leave the
needle clean.
The new Texas fence law, passed at the
late special session of the legislature, requires
an unlocked gateway, eight feet wide, to be
made in every three miles of continuous wire
fence inclosing pasture lands Tho failure to
provide such gateways Is made misiemean-
or punishable 10y adequate fnes to insure its
enforcement. This law may not put stop
fence cutting, but when it IL complied with it
will largely do away with the necessity for
fence cutting which has heretofore existed