Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-29
Mt PHOENIX; AND RECORD


During the year 1883 $50 head Of polled
Aberdeen Angus cattle we're imported from
Scotland.
In the New York produce exchange cleo
margine and other bogus buffers are called
"bull butter, to distinguish them from real
COW butter.
The earlier in the sonsou that land plastor
or gypsum ig sown on clover, the more GER
tain it is to produce good results. Some ex-
perienced farmers SOW it on the last snow,
aud insist that TO do most good it should be
applied before spring rains have passed
The shipment Of morino sheep from Yer
mont to Australia has been temporarily stop
ped by the closing OF all Australian ports to
American sheep. A shipment Of 100 which
has just reached San Francisco can 60 no
further on account Of this law. No reason
for the prohibition has yet been given.
No other industry in this country has in
creased as rapidly in the past az sheep and
wool growing. TO fully understand the great
rate of increase it is only necessary TO remem-
Der the fact that in 1880 there were only about
%, 200, 900 sheep in the United Statos, while
there are now nearly 100000 900. In 1880
the wool clipped amounted to only GO, 900, 600
pounds; to-day It is nearly 500, 600, 600 pounds,
an increase within this period of over two
fold Of sheep and FIVE fold in production Of
wool.
Lime slaked with solution OF salt in water
and then properly thinned with skinned milk
from which all the cream has been taken is
said to make a permanent whitewash for out
door work and render the wood incombusti-
BILE 1t is an excellont wash for preserving
wood and for all farm purposes.
Prof Low, an English authority, says that
boiled potatoes mixed with cut straw or hay
may be given to horses of every kind, even
H.. Al IA g.. A
a wholesome and economical food.
The is ostriches on the Anaheim farm in
California laid sos eggs last season and yield
ed $500 worth of feathers There are two
clips of the plumage year-in May and De.
cember
The st. Adams Messenger takes issue with
the papers that say Vermont farming is 60
ing to decay and shows by the census returns
that in the last decade the population has in.
creased 1885, the number of farms per
cent the tillable acres 213 OOO while the bar.
ley crop was lOO,OO bushels larger than 10
years ago corn 400, 600 larger, hay 80, 600
tonsand oats no. 600 bushels butter has gain
cd s 5000 600 pounds, cheese has lost 600,
600 and sheep and wool have both fallen of.
Baltimore canned in 1855 II, 400, 600 cans
Of peaches, 100000 cans of peas, 300, 600
cans OF string beans and 100000 cans of
I
cans OF fruit and other vegetables.
England bought 1GG, OOO, 900 bushels OF
wheat during the last crop year, but she only
took one-third of it from the United States
In Indiana when man has a sheep killed
by dog he must report the loss to the town
ship trustees within ten days, and any person
making false statement of the amount of
damage done may be fined 800 and mprs-
oned in the county jail thirty days. An as.
SCISSOR who fails to list any dog is liable to a
fine Of So for each case, and any one making
false statement Of the number Of dogs he
keeps may be fined 500. A dog caught
killing sheep may be killed without oeremo.
ny.
The apple crop in Missouri in good year
is something immense. Last fall 40, GIL bar
rels were shipped from Platte county. for al
average price of 81 per barrel or ISL ,342.
The orchards Of Buchanan county probably
yielded fruit to the value Of 5000, 900 or more:
Andrew county about the Same value, Holt
county not less than $50, 600, and Nodaway
county quite as much. II is believed that
full returns would show IN aggregate OF sew
cral millions for last years crop.
rose farm is a new Georgia industry.
Two gardeners in the vicinity Of Savannah
planted three acres in rose trees Last year
they sold %, 600 trees to parties in the North
and had orders for 80. 600 which they could
not fill. The trees meet with a ready sale at
from $40 to 500 per 100. Over half mil
ion trees are annually imported into this
country from France, England aud Holland,
and the Savannah News says it has been dem.
onstrated that Georgia has better climate
for the cultivation of rose trees than in the
south of France.