Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-11-24
News and Comment.


two PHILADELPHIA grocers have been
sent To iail for selling oleo as butter.
The jail treatment seems to be hore
effective than fines.
Dan Patch at Memphis, Tenn. NOV.
II. again clipped the worlds pacing
record. going the mile In l:5s. Inc
time by quarters was 80. :bs. i'Io'
1858.
II Is predicted that native turkeys
will command from 80 to "a cents per
pound at Burlington VT. next weeh,
Common potatoes are selling AT ~
cents per bushel.
According to the government crop
report Connecticut produced hore
corn per acre and Maine more pota-
toes and buckwheat per acre imam
any other states in the union.
The ginseng humbug has rival IN
n much advertised orris root from
Italy. which is doomed for sale at ran
CIV prices as being In great demand OF
81 600. 900 sales and high protective
duty. The department of agriculture
exposed the fraud.
f. o. Tarr of Bowdoinham. Me-
raised three acres of Sanford corn,
using good quantity OF stable
dressing and 800 pounds OF phospha,e
per acre, using the cultivator In cui-
/ tiyation From these three acres ne
put 73 tons in silo.
The average yield per acre OF po-
tatoes this year in Maine was 10
bushels. New Hampshire 40 busheis,
Vermont gs bushels, Massachusetts,
OF bushels Rhode Island 125 bushels
Connecticut 80 bushels; for the
United States 81 bushels.
.hf
for the season TO Nov. IL was lTI4os
barrels as compared with 27S,56O bar
rels for the same period last year. The
total exports of apples for the season
this year have been 1,112,361 barrels
as against 1,075,304 barrels Tor the
same period a year ago
Massachusetts stands at the head
of the list of states on yield of to-
bacco per acre. with 1900 POUNDS
Connecticut is a close second WIN -
TOE mounds. Compare this with Vir-
ginia $50 pounds, Kentucky 500
hounds, and the United states $3.50
pounds per acre
C. s. pope, an up-to date apple
grower of Manchester. Me-. Is making
large shipments of selected fruit III
bushel boxes this fall. and he nnds
that this new departure In packing
is paying one. Mr.. Pope recently
shipped So boxes to the Boston mar
ket. where 1t Is said. ne receives ~
per barrel
Al the annual meeting of the South
lKannehec Me Agricultural society
The Following officers were chosen for
tha coming wear. President. H. d
S,none, South windsor; secretary
artbur N Douglas. Chelsea: treas
49, & GRAY. Windsor. 1t was voted
to hold the next annual ian Sep''
IS and ~. 1910.
on eight acres of land j. +. Daniels
of Bristol. VT, raised. the past sea-
son. $50 bushels of onions. 2,20'
lunches of small onions, $4,000 cab
bage. 900 caulifiowers, 100 bushels OF
, cucumbers. 100 bushels of turnlps
100 bushels of table beets, $50 bushels
of green peas. 200 bushels Of potatoes
and three acres of sweet corn
All the plans OF the goVerilllenl ioi
, the prosecution Oh Tue menu ~,
, the beef trust nave peeh upset Wy wv
claims of the packers that lhey or
! immune from prosecution on Sliili'
, inal charge because OF the eslusil1 !
they gave to COMMISSIONS, Iai,lel.
and the alleged promise MADE py mn
that they would not be prosecuted ps
, the federal government
,,,lford III correspondent say.
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