Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1855-04-24


q apples for my family A,use. have found
the tollowing4kinds not only very choice,
but forming q succession Of ripe ones. =
Commencing with the Hawley. the very
prince Of fall apples. and one combining ali
the good qualities for dessert as well as cook.
Ing, have found the Fameuse an excel
lent successor, then the Scolloped Cornish
or Red Gillinower, which In all respects Il
. most superior apple, in eating from No
yember to January; next. the Jonathan, q
most beautiful medium.sized, high-colored
red fruit, fresh, spicy and juicy; after that
the Green SweetiDg, ripening in January,
and continuing good for two months: to be
followed BY. the Red Canada, which is a
most delicious apple, very mild, sub-acid
and juicy, agreeable in every respect, last.
ing ill my Northern Spies begin to ripen,
say the 6rst Of March. which continue good
a. long as tits possible to keep ones hands
Cd them. Could l have intefspersed will,
the Rambo, place would have been found
In my cellar for barrel Of them. 1t is an
uncertain fruit, the tree never bearing Of
tenef Than every other year. It's SO choice
that Il Is not wonderful that il takes two
Z seasons for production. t..
For cooking the Twenty cannot be
excelled while it lasts. Then comes the
Rhode Island Greening, true and abiding
,papple. which. most all Americans have
known asa choice dessert apple, as well as
9 most profitable one fof pies and sauce.
Tor 9 sweet apple II ils season, (early fall, }
4 much admire the Baily Sweeting; it is q
great fayorite with us. Il wish producers
wOald be sure to raise all the good varie-
iirs, for you have to look to different ORCH
4 ards TOR Ri selection Of twelve varieties OF
choice fruit Some are better grown than
others, and I would like to have mine from
such persons as take the best care Of their
Trees TO insure the best fruit. ~. II. Waas,
IN Hort. . Xxx
PRoTrr IN KEEPrsa FowLs AN intelli-
gent farmer lately published the following
result Of his experience in keeping fowls.
He kept thirty-six hens last year, that yield
cd him three hundred and City dozen, or
four thousand two hundred eggs, besides
one hundred and twenty-five chickens. The
net proceeds of the sales were $59, ,37, the
family having had, Of course, what eggs
and poultry they wanted for their own con-
sumption besides. The whole cost of the
grain for keeping the hens was fraction
/ over SS. having clear profit Of S55.
No MoRE RANCID BurrEa. writer in
the Journal Of Industrial Progress recon-
meuds that butter should be kneaded with
fresh milk, and then with pure water. He
I states that by this treatment the butter is
rendered as fresh and pure m flavor as when
recently made. He ascribes this result 10
the fact that butyric acid, to which the ran
cid odor and taste are owing. is readily So
luble in fresh milk, and thus removed.
LAsrrse ERRORS OF Bones AND ANIMAL
MArrER.-We have seen crop of turnips,
by their increased luxuriousness, mark the
land where thirty years previous about one
hundred bushels of crushed bones had
been applied per acre. The Rural New
Yorker says:
We know of field in an adjoining coun-
ty that has been cropped for thirty years,
and is now in high state of fertility. The
surrounding fields are nothing like it, and
with similar cultivation would by this time
have been utterly impoverished. The for
mcr is the site OF an old Indian burying
ground, and when the country was first set
tied, was indented with graves within six
feet OF each other, all over its surface. The
dead were buried in sitting posture, not
over two feet below the surface, and the
writer, when boy, filled his pockets many
a time with beads and arrow heads, turned
up by the the desecrating plowshare. The
half decayed bones are to this day to be
found mingled with the soil, and, SAL as it
may seem. furnish food to successive crops
of grain and grass. II the soil at any time
gave signs OF impoverishment, the occupant
merelyran the plowshare a few inches deep
er and termed up feO more Indians!
q CAMPHoR, AND ITS MANUFACTURE Cam
phor is a vegetable gum, sem-transparent
Snd colorless. It is exceedingly volatile.
When exposed to the air, it flies off in vapor.
On account Of its strong aromatic smell. it
y much used TO preserve cabinets and
clothes from moths and other insects. From
,its strong smell has arisen the idea that it
is preservatiye against infective disorders;
Ss I'll poisonous, disease is more liable from
the camphor than from infection Although
camphor is dissolved in water only in a
small quantity, sufficient, however, is taken
up to give the water both its aromatic odor
and bitter taste. If some shsvings Of cam
phOr are thrown on the surface Of perfectly
clear water. in large basin, the peices i'm
nediately begin to move rapidly, some
around on their centers, others from place to
place. The cause Of these motions is un-
known. Camphor exists in many plants,
but is chiefly obtained from ;wo--one ma
tive of China and Japan. much resembling
the laurel. ltis obtained by chopping the
leaves. branches, roots, &c.. into small pei
ces and placing them in a still, with water.
The other camphor tree is q native Of Bor.
.neo and Sumatrs. she camphor is obtain
ed by splitting open the tree, when it is found
10 large peices ia the interior.
HoME-MADE CBLoRIDR CT LIME. Pro-
fessor Nash says. take one barrel Of lime,
and one bushel Of salt; dissolve the salt in
as liltle water as will dissolve the whole;
slack The lime with the water nuft;no or