Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-04

The Russian government has been planting
trees for half a century, and In one province
has seven plantations, ranging 10 size from
Is, 600 to 81 600 acres each The result ts
that many sections, once too arid for agricul-
ture, now have abundant rainfalls.
just az the learned doctors bad convinced
every body that the fires use Of salt is main
factor in keeping the human economy up to
fighting trim, another learned doctor rises up
to declare that the excessive use Of salt Ia one
OF the main factors in the destruction of the
teeth.
People hardly understand what rainfall in
inches really means, but an inch Of rain means
gallon for every two square feet, or 100 tons
per acre.
The best authorities agree that one pound
OF cheese and one.half pound Of bread con-
tain as much nutriment as two pounds OF
beef.
Better spend two minutes putting thing
in its proper place when you have II in your
hand, than hunt for it an hour when you have
forgotten where you used 1t last.
II long and narrow warts appear on cows
teats, tie hair tightly about the base and
they will come of In few days. II broad
ones, make a sticky paste of common baking
soda and water, and apply to the surface at
ter milking. Warts are supposed to be con.
tagious. Milk warty COWS last
Boston Globe correspondent says that
olive oil is q sure antidote for poisoning. Sat
urate a cloth with it and bind II loosely on
the affected part.
A glue which will resist the action of wa
ter is made by boiling one pound of common
glue in two quarts of skinned milk.
1t is said that some of the New York cream
cries violate the law by making so-oalled but
ter out of a mixture of real cream and ''oleo
OIL" This oil is supplied by the oleomarga-
rine facores at a low price.
Hungarian grass may be sown now or lat.
er. Sixty days will suffice for its growth.
Sow on mellow sofia bushel to the acre
and cut when the heads appear.
One thousand pounds of dry corn coJs will
burn down to four and half pounds of ash,
and of this two and a half pounds will be
pure potash. The fact that COWS often like
corn cobs may be due to the potash they con-
tain, and which may serve to correct disor.
dered digestion. Corn cObs also contain
about two pounds Of nitrogen to 1000 of dry
cobs, but this is, Of course, lost by burning.
Agriculture, like all other of the arts aud
sciences, has seen wonderful advances within
the last century in the line of TOOLS Improv
ed machines and mechanical devices Of many
kinds have greatly reduced the farmers man.
ual labor and made an immense increase in
the power of producing with given amount
of labor. The moving machine has almost
supplanted the scytbe and the fail is fast
becoming an interesting relic. Yet as late a.
1880 in some parishes of England the labor
ers went about destroying every horse power
threshing machine they could find.
Pulp is being used as substitute for lum.
Der in the manufacture of furniture and 9th
or articles now made exclusively OF wood
By mixing the pulp with clays, steatte, a.
bestos, plumbago and mica substances oil
every possible color and compactness may b,
produced. 1t is estimated that only abou
20 per cent of the timber felled reaches econ
omic uses, while if the saw.mill were com
bined with the pulping and pressing process
es all the material in the trunk might b,
available.
We read the other day that 'thero is mon
ey in chickens" friend of ours, who run
a private hennery, says he can confirm tina
statement, because he has put lots Of MONEY
into chickens, and has never taken any of i
out.-L01eU Citizen.
Heartwood is always dead It has served
the trees purpose as a living tissue through
which the sap can come, and is now preseTv
ed because the living wood surrounding
keeps the air from penetrating to it. II
hole is made in the tree to the heart deca
will commence, unless it is done at seaso
when growth is so rapid that the wount
closes quickly. In tapping naples car
should be taken not to penetrate the heart
nor to make so large hole that the tree can
not cover il in one season. -AmericdH cult
0dtOr.