Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-01-18
NOTES.

A Florida truck farmer has contracted for
the sale Of his strawberry crop at S3 per
quart
1t has recently been discovered in England
that the leaves of the rhododendron are in.
furious to sheep, a large flock of those ami
mails having been made seriously III by eating
them.
D. A. Jones of Beeton, Ont, had $4,000
pounds Of honey on exhibition at the Sep
tember meeting of the North American Bee
keepers association at Toronto. He is the
largest apiarist in the country.
1t is said that if common salt be added to
poultry droppings it will prevent it's burning
up plants when applied to them the theory
being that the great affinity of salt for mois-
ture prevents the rapid drying Of the drop
pings.
The National Academy of Sciences declares
that starch sugar, or glucose, is not deleteri-
GUS to health, even il taken in large quanti-
ties About ten million dollars worth is now
made in this country every year.
About year ago horse belonging to A.
II. Jones Of North Adams, Mass, had its leg
broken, and the limb was set in a plaster Of
paris cast. The animal is now AZ well as ever
and has not the slightest hitch in its gait.
writer in the Popular Science Monthly,
DIR. @. E Page, says that abstinence from
food will invariably break up a common cold
in twenty-four to forty eight hours If tried at
the outset, whatever the age, sex or occupa-
ton Of the patient. Skipping single meal
in the case of a person who takes but two
meals day habitually, or two meals in the
case of a three .mealer, will sometimes suffice
il the succeeding meals be very moderate
ones. This is reversing the old axiom,
"Stuf cold"
CoL ~ H., L., 81 1t
agriculture of Iowa. in his annual report pre-
diets that Iowa will yet make its own sugar
from sorghum. Last year the acreage OF
sorghum in the state was estimated at IS 600
acres, yielding an average Of eighty gallons
of syrup to the acre, a total yield Of 2,240-
600 gallons, having value af 81, 100, 600. In
the future development of production he rec
ommends the abandonment of the old crude
method Of working the crop on the farm, and
that instead suitable works, supplied with all
necessary machinery and appliances, be
erected at convenient points to work up the
crops raised by the farmer.
japan clover made its appearance in North
Carolina in $50 and has since spread to 9th.
or sections. 1t is leguminous perennial,
trifolate, scientifically known as Lespedosd
strata. and is said to be excellent for graz
ing, fattenng stock aud improving land. 1t
has deeply penetrating root and likes clay
soil growing and thriving on the naked
banks Of gullies, and brings its supplies from
below. 1t has more ash than clover half ~
much potash, two thirds of the phosphorc
acid and more heterogeneous matter. II thrives
in an exhausted soil where red clover will
not catch at all, aud stands the summer well
Carboic acid is death to all insects, in eve
ry stage of their growth. A fruit grower in
Duchess comfy, N. Y, whose ounce trees
were being destroyed by borers, used a mix
ture Of one gallon Of soap, two Of water aud
gill of carbolc acid. This he applied to his
trees with complete success, the millers refus-
ing to deposte their eggs on the trees. On
another occasion he applied the mixture,
which was washed of by frequent rains, when
the pests annoyed him seriously. He thinks
repeated applications very effectual, and rec
ommends the mixture to all who have orch
ards.
After bitter struggle the farmers OF the
Sacramento valley, whose lands have been
damaged by the debris from hydraulic min
ing, have scored victory. test case was
settled upon at San Francisco in the suit OF
Woodruff against the North Bloomfield min.
ing company the plaintiff moving for per.
petual injunction against hydraulic mining.
Judge Sawyer Of the United States circuit
court last week granted the injunction and
made it perpetual. In case a means can be
devised to prevent the nuisance, chance
will be given the company to have the in
junction modified Although the case involv.
ed the welfare mainly Of the farmers in the
Sacramento valley, the whole agricultural
population Of the state had become greatly
enraged against the rich corporations and
mining men on account OF their recklessness,
and very naturally the farmers INDUCED in
meetings and demonstrations all over the
state when the decision Was announced