Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-03-28
GNIX, AND RECORD AND FARMER. FRIDAY, MARCH 49,


IrOt. brown says that tarmyatd manure,
from wellfed cattle, three years old is worth,
on an average, $3.50 per ton.
II your garden is clayey put on q coat OF
sand this spring four or five inches deep and
mix It in. II il Is sandy put on clay or fine
sediment from tho bitches and waior-courset
by tho roadside.
When you drive nail into the wall,
clothos-press or closet to hang things on,
drive It through n spool mp TO the head. Sc.
lect spool with hole largo enough 80 that
the nail will not split it.
Cherry trees should be grated much ear.
lier than other fruit trees TO make the cionF
do well. Graft during the present month
whenever the weather is warm enough Ia
make the wax work. II possible, use tho
splice instead Of the cleft graft.
A. d. Webb of Kentucky has produced
heavy crops Of strawberries from the same
vines six years in succession by simply ma
nuring with ground bone and keeping them
in narrow rows and free from weeds. He
thinks the James Wick strawberry will beat
the Crescent in yield every time.
The authorities of the Iowa agricultural
college make the following clnssifcations of
the relative value of various foods as milk
producers Corn per 100 pounds, 90 cents
oats, GO cents barley, IS cents wheat, G5
cents wheat bran, 20 cents oil meal, $1.45;
clover hay, 80 cents timothy, 80 cents; po-
tatoes, 10 cents.
Western grain froghts arc lower. Secret
contracts have been made recently between
Chicago and Atlantic ports as low IA fifteen
cents per hundredweight although the tariff
is twenty cents It is said that clean bills Of
lading for grain from Chicago to Liverpool
are now obtainable at ten cents q bushel
Low freights insure better prices for the sur
plus crop of the farmer
An enemy of the grape-in the form of a
grapeseed grub-has been discovered. The
eggs are deposited by a small black fly upon
the skin of the grape, and the young grubs
work their way into the immature seeds soon
after Matching. The infested fruit usually
shrivels in midsummer. The best remedy
for the pest is to gather and burn the affected
grapes.
Commissioner Loring has received tele-
gram from Prof Salmon, the veterinarian of
the department of agriculture, stating that,
after thorough investigation of the disease
at Neosho Falls, Kan, he has concluded that
1t is not the genuine foot and mouth disease,
but is due to local conditions and there is no
danger of its spreading. The commissioner
accepts this conclusion as final
A farmer at Fargo, Oak, raised single
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kernels, the product of this seed in 1882 was
onc-ffth of a bushel, and from this last year
came II Understanding II bushels from
one kernel in three years.
great many people arc always inclined
to follow crowd, and want to do Just what
they see others are doing. A great many far
mers have changed from dairying to sheep
raising, or from sheep TO COWS, Just because
they found their neighbors changing, aud a
good many eastern farmers have sold out
their homes, when they were doing fairly
well, and have gone West, for no better rea
son than because somebody else had gone or
intended to 60.
The season for imported cabbages il nearly
over. A very large business is done in New
York, where fine cabbagos command SIG per
hundred. The origin of tho importation was
scarcity of vegetables about three years AGO.
and an effort was made to bring over all kinds
of European garden stuff. but cabbage was
the only thing that proved success. The
shipments are made every fourteen days, and
range from 100000 to 2jO, 600 head in each.
The importation this season of red cabbage
for picking has not boen 10 large, the ag9re.
gate being about $50. 600. These cAbbapes
are much smaller than the white cabbage. but
are equally compact They are brought from
Holland, and shipments are made every ten
days. The demand being more limited the
importation has been restricted TO prevent n
glut in the market
The attempts made in the West Mt farming
large areas have not in the main proved prof
liable. One great drawback is the fact that
all the labor required to seed and harvest the
crop is performed within few months. ordi.
narily from the first of May to the first of
October, and thus everything must be done
with rush. Thus it will be seen that there
are seven months of comparative idleness
and therefore wheat farmers cannot afford TO
employ hired men throughout the year. So
during the busy season wages fule high, and
mechanical appliances are used as much as
possible. 1t is a debatabe point whether
they are in reality less costly.
Regarding prosecutions against farmers for
infringement OF patentee's rights, it will be
held by many that law should be passed au-
thorizing the purchase in the open market of
any manufactured article, whether made un
der patent or not, without subiectine the
purchaser TO chances of prosecution at law.
II IS more reasonable that manufacturers be
held responsible, and not the innocent users,
There Is altogether too much patenting. and
many patents are not worth in equity or in
law the paper upon which they are written.
But as matter of economy, farmers some
times submit to paying for an alleged in
trlngement in preference to paying the costs
OF law suit We would not ba understood
as undertaking the value of brains or original
discovery in art and industry, but we deploro
the petty tyranny of owners of some patents
over innocent purchasers of patented articles.
-CuHiUdt0r.