Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-03-07
NOTES.

IL may be depended upon tnRt the external
appearance of articles has much TO do with
the price they bring in the market. We do
not care what the products may be, the rule
is the same. Vegetables Of all descriptions,
IL outwardly fresh and clean, make a favora-
BILE impression on the buyer apples, IL in
good, clean barrels, will bring more than il
presented in old, dirty, greasy ones and
grain In neat, clean bags looks better aud
probably will bring more than If in shabby,
dilapidatod, patched-up sacks. Other things
being equal, neat clean. looking articles
bring the highest prices. The value Of poul-
try, for instance, is often diminished one
half by the untidy manner in which IL is sent
to market Farmers will find that inatten-
ton to these little things frequently deprives
them of the privilege of commanding the
highest market prices for their products
Mirror.
The amount of gold in the United States at
the present time is estimated to be S57S, 600,
600, being an increase Of $500, 600, 600 within
FIVE years. The farmers grew the crops that
brought it, but the gold is now in the hands
of the railroad magnates and the banking
lords-men who draw big dividends on shares
they never paid for, and men who for twenty
years have been receiving q double interest
on their captal-bOth by the favor of "a gov
eminent Of the people, by the people, for the
people. "-HoSkiaS.
The practice Of veterinary medicine offers
to young men splendid opportunities for a
livelihood. The profession is not over
crowded, and skill and education in this line
are fully appreciated. Blooded stock of all
kinds is becoming so common that the de-
mand for veterinary services is rapidly in
creasing. The "horse doctor" with college
diploma is a man of good social standing
nowadays, and can hold his head up with
men of any profession, while there appears
be no limit to the size of his fees in difficult
cases. To save valuable horse or COW is
job which the owner can appreciate in dol
lars and cents, and for which he is willing to
pay handsomely. -SpThatield Union.
The common practice of dairyiug in this
country when no ground feed is purchased is
to have about five acres of grass to a COW.
When men begin to talk about one acre or
less to the COW they begin to look to some
one else's farm for COW provender, and it does
not alter the case that the corn or cotton seed
from which the meal il made lies many thous-
and miles away. Which plan is the most
profitable is another question, and one to be
solved by each farmer for himself. american
Daiyymdn.
If we will learn to treat timber as a crop,
and, allowing 10 or 20 years for its growth,
will cut it by some process of rotation that
will all the while provide for and protect a
new growth, we may reach an intelligent pc.
stion. But, as it is now, with the unregu-
lated, reckless destruction of our trees, we
can only look for floods and droughts as a re-
suit, and can only blame ourselves for the
distress and loss that follow. Hartford Cou-
rant
The egg product of the United States
10. 10 4
and often surpasses the latter During the
last fiscal year, for instance the corn crop
was worth $780, GLIB, 400, the wheat crop
S4S4 ,G75, 779, and the egg crop S475, GS2,.
$50. The hen, in her relation to our domes-
tic economy, is thus emitted to more respect
than has commonly been paid to her.
The Pullman IIl.) sewage farm, which is
enriched by the sewage of city of GGSS in
habtants, raised last year 1900 bushels of
potatoes, 100 600 squashes, 240 600 punches
of celery and other vegetables in proportion
The total operating expense of cultivating
AGO acres was about $500
In 1881 Fargo Dakota farmer noticed a
single stool of wheat in his oat field the
product of one kernel, which consisted of %
stalks, headed out. These contained $50
grains, of which go were planted in 1882,
yielding one-ifth of bushel Last spring
ibis wheat was planted and carefully Guilt
waited. The product is II bushels, an in
crease of 50 fold and yield of SO bu. 80 lbs
to the acre. Seventeen bushels from sin
gle kernel in three years is a good growth
and illustrates the fecundity of nature.
An Iowa man has figured up the cost of
keeping dogs in his state, and finds that they
eat enough annually to feed 100, 900 work
men, and, counting in the damage they do to
the sheep farmers, the dogs cost the state
50, 100000, while the education of all the
children IN the state costs less than half that
sum. A Tennessee man makes out similar
condition of affairs in his state. He finds
there are 100000 worthless dogs, which con-
sumo food enough, if fed to hogs, to make
10000, 600 pounds of bacon, which would be
equal to feeding meat to 100, 900 able bodied
men whole year At ten cents per pound
the bacon would be worth 50 900, 900. The
worthless whelps prevent farmers from keep
ing two million sheep, the mutton and wool
from which would be worth 50, 900, 900. In
Guiding the sheep now annually killed, the
whole expense for keeping the dogs of that
state amounts to the pretty sum of 50, 600,
600, while only So, 100000 is spent for edu-
eating the children.