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proceedings, will not be likely to fill these seats, 

 or to encourage their occupants to take a more ac- 

 tive part in the proceedings at another meeting. 



But this does not impair the value of the pa- 

 pers which constitute the bulk of the Transactions 

 of the Vermont Dairymen's Association, which we 

 commend to the attention of dairymen in Ver- 

 mont and elsewhere. 



Peach Cct-tbhe. By James Alexander FuUon, Do- 

 ver, Del, lllMstrated. New York: O. Judd & Co. 

 Bopton: A. Williams & Co. IvVO. 190 pages. Price 

 $l.fO. 



This book gives directions for raising trees, plant- 

 ing and cultivating orchards, gathering and mar- 

 keting fruit, with suggestions on varieties, &c. 

 The author lives in the centre of the peach grow- 

 ing districts, where orchards of twenty to fifty 

 acres are common, and in which individual plant- 

 ers have as many as six hundred acres. He ought, 

 therefore, to be able to give the results of a large 

 experience in this branch of fruit culture ; and his 

 effort has been, he informs us, to make a hand- 

 book and guide to every planter, that may be used 

 as the student uses his dictionary in the acquisi- 

 tion of a language. Whatever may be the respec- 

 tability of men engaged in other branches of farm- 

 ing, he says "most of our large peach growers are 

 gentlemen of wealth, refinement, and leisure; 

 many of great social, and some of high official 

 position." 



Cincinnati Industrial Exposition. — We 

 have received a circular from the committee of 

 arrangements for a Grand Industrial Exposition 

 of Manufactures, Products and Arts, at Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, by the Chamber of Commerce, Board of 

 Trade and Ohio Mechanics' Institute, to commence 

 Sept. 21, and continue until Oct. 15, 1870. Arti- 

 cles for exhibition will be received from the 1st to 

 the 20th of September. Circulars containing full 

 and specific information relating to the Exposition 

 may be obtained by addressing "Cincinnati Indus- 

 trial Exposition," Cincinnati, Ohio. Charles F. 

 Wilstach, President ; Abner L. Frazer, Secretary. 



Profit in Feeding Stock. — There is a general 

 impression at the East that fattening cattle and 

 hogs at the West is very profitable business. An 

 Ohio feeder states as the result of experiment, that 

 beef at 6^c and pork at 9c per pound live weight, 

 gave him 5o^c per bushel for corn. An Illinois 

 farmer says that in his section they cannot af- 

 ford to feed corn after the price has reached 50 

 cents. A farmer in Central Illinois who is a pru- 

 dent, careful, and economical man, shows by his 

 books that he does not get fair pay for his labor 

 when he sells good cattle at 8c per pound live 

 weight. 



Cheese Factories in England. — The first es- 

 tablishment in England, was started in Derby- 

 shire, but a few months since, under the superin- 

 tendence of an American, with the milk of 300 



cows. At f3rst, farmers were veiy doubtful as to 

 the success of the Yankee notion, but in three 

 months there has been so great a change in pub- 

 lic opinion that the company has been obliged 

 to refuse ofi'ers of milk supply from 500 addi- 

 tional cows. A second factory is to be opened 

 immediately at Longford, nine miles from Derby, 

 and it is believed that it would not be difficult to 

 start six factories within ten miles of Derby. 



AGHICULTTJIlAIi ITEMS. 



— One thousand cows every day contribute their 

 milk to supply the cheese factory in Hinesburgh, 

 Vermont. 



— In speaking of raising corn on "clay lands" 

 in Georgia, a correspondent of the Southern Cul- 

 tivator estimates the average crop, including good 

 and bad years, at ten bushels an acre. 



— Figs grow very abundantly in South Califor- 

 nia. They ripen twice a year, and compete, when 

 dried and packed, with the foreign imported ones 

 in the home fruit market. 



— Canker worms are stripping orchards very 

 badly in many parts of Massachusetts, while in 

 some places where they have heretofore been most 

 destructive, there are not as many this year as 

 usual. 



— Wm. F. Barber of Castleton, Vt., lately sheared 

 70 Merino sheep, all ewes, with an aggregate of 

 1,025| pounds, giving an average fleece of 13^ 

 pounds to each. The sheep were all raised by Mr. 

 Barber, and the growth of the fleece is a year, less 

 one day. 



— A statement of the hogs sold by the farmers 

 of Neponset, III., from Nov. 1, 1869, to March 15, 

 1870, is published in the Prairie Farmer. The 

 v/hole number is S300, making 2,905,000 pounds of 

 pork, averaging 350 pounds. A list of eighteen 

 farmers is given who sold 932 hogs, that weighed 

 from 400 to 556 pounds each. 



— J. H. Crook & Son, of Pittsfield, have just pur- 

 chased five Short-horns in Xenia, Ohio, from the 

 strain long famous in that State and Kentucky for 

 beef. They are Kitty Clover 2d, a four year old 

 cow ; Kitty Clover 3d, one year old heifer ; Kitty 

 Clover 4th, a calf five months old, and Country 

 Gentleman, a bull six months old. Their farm 

 contains 230 acres. They are believers in thor- 

 ough drainage and have underdrained five acres 

 with good results, one acre of which is now worth 

 more than the whole five were before it was drained. 



— The Lawrence, Kansas, Journal, says Alfred 

 Gray, a somewhat noted fruitist of Wyandotte, 

 undertook, a while since, to console some friends 

 whose orchards had been nipped by the frost, in 

 ote of his orchards he built fires to preserve the 

 fruit blossoms, and not a bud was injured. This 

 produced the usual "See there, now," of his audi- 

 tors, when he coolly added, "I had two or three 

 more orchards in whi'oh no fires were built, and 

 not a single bud was injured in them either!" 



