Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-09-17


tanned as followsi
These experiments, with numerous others
that Mr. Ward and have tried, convince me
that at the lowest calculation taking the cane as
II grows on an average, large and small, II will
yield one gallon fjuice to every twenty canes
or five gallons to every hundred canes-ani
eight gallons of juice, boiled in properly con-
structed vessels, will yield one gallon OF
syrup. have accurately measured the ground
and counted and calculated the cane, so that
am able to lay down the following statistical
journal, because preferred to be on the sure
side. have laid down four feet as the dis
lance apart for planting, though my conclusion
now is that three feet or three and half most,
is sufficiently wide, which of course would
make the yield greater.
One acre Of land that will yield fifteen BUSH
els OF corn, will, planted in Chin Sc Sugar
Cane, in drills four feet apart, make II 500
stalks twenty canes to the gallon will make
$40 gallons of juice eight gallons of juice to
one gallon Of syrup will make 1904 gallons of
syrup. This, at only fifty cents a gallon, will
make about fifty five dollars per acre. Besides
you then have the blades and the tops for
tesding your horses and cows, or the seed for
feeding your fowls, all of which eat it most
greedily.
Aside from making molasses and sugar, it Is
highly worth the attention of our planters for
feeding stock. OAe acre OF land that will
make fifteen bushels of corn, will yield in Chi
nese Sugar Cane IL $40 pounds Of provender,
averaging the cane, after it is cured, at only
one pound each then at only fifty cents per
hundred, it is worth eighty-seven dollars and
| fifty cents per acre. II planted nearer than
four feet, the yield will be greater. Besides,
the cane may he cut down OAce or twice for
feeding, in the early pant Of the year, and then
mature for seed.
Not being prepared Tor it, have not tried
| TO make sugar, though / have no doubt it
would answer the purpose.
My experiments ali l consider very unfair
and imperfect, because have not only labor
cd under tho disadvantages of not having pro.
per vessels for boiling, but have myself nc
experience and but little knowledge about the
process of making molasses and sugar.
MINERALS FOR OoMrosTING.-No one cal
tell the vast quantity OF good manure that ma,
he accumulated in the course Of season, bu
he who may have made trial,-and we there
fore recommend to each cultivator of farm t.
! employ a team and haul from this to the enc
of autumn, in the collection of rough materials
1 and in the forming of compost heaps. Laboi
( thus bestowed this fall, will bring you bach
; principal and interest, next year. There are
materials enough on and around your place
Improperly ecOnOmised to go over your entire
lands appropriated to spring crops. Then, We
) ask, why should you permit them to go Il
wastei Say not that you cannot spare q hand
for such employment would put more none,
. in your purse than anything elso that vol
: could put him to, as it would enable you Il
make two barrels Of corn next season wher
, you make hut one nov. Believe us when W
! tell you,-that the making Of manure heap
should be the first duty, the first object of ever
farmer, as mould is an essential constituent {
every fertile soil, Indeed no soil can be tel
: tile without it..
A RECEIPT PoR HArPINEss.-lt is simpl
+. when yOa rise in the morning to form a res,
n luton to make the day happy one to fl
! low creature. 1t is easily done left-t
O garment to the man who needs it; kind wo
$ to the sorrowful an encouraging cxpressit
!. to the striving triaes, in themselves light
IS air, Will Go it, at least for the twenty 10
>. hours; and If youare young, depend on it 1t "
IS tell wnen you are old; and if You are o
q rest assured it will send you gently and hap
in ly down the stream of time TO eternity. Lo
Ne at the result. You send one persen, only OF
10 happily through the day that is, three III
To- bred and sixty five in the course Of the We;
in and -snpposing you live forty years only at
you commence this course, yoa have ma
lis fourteen thousand six hundred human beir
nv happy, at all events, for time. Now, wort
"a reader, is this not simple And is il not wo
mo- accomplishing? We do not often indulge
M moral dose, but this is so small pill that {
4 needs no red cuIrant jelley to disguise lis
| day we, therefore, feel warranted in prescr
N, ing it. II is most excellent for digestion, q
OF producer of pleasant sumber.
; l An Inmate or AFRENoH MAD HoUsE.-Ul
t. renton is the model mad asylum in France, a
lall worthy Of visit from all tourists.
ave The last conner at Charcntown is Mime
'iu- c., who was, two winters ago, the he'll,
ra9, MSs ea a&d peSsy Inc 'af MI
! it feeling slightly unwell, she took by mist
uld one vial for another in her medicine chest,
pa swallowed poison. 1t was believed 70
hat long time that she must surely die; the pro
by and skiliul action Of the family physician
lied pushed tho poison, but at the expense of
css, face, which was terribly ravaged. When
not victim was in some measure restored to
'on- her first care was to ask for looking glas
ard Her request was impIudently granted.
'uld saw the dreadful truth at glance her be
the was destroyed, her eyes were blOod-shot,
and cheeks swollen, her mouth twisted, and or
in feet and wrinkles furrOwed her brow
nan eyes. She gazcd with haggard eyes on
the wreck for some time in silence and then ga
lme heart-rending Shrek she was lunatc
and life.
us A FAST WoMAN.-The ladies are becot
- dangerously perfect. We really don't
l'm"' why they shouldn't " rise in rebellion"
80 day, and take away the reins Of govern
~ from us poor masculines. There are now
a. ladies stopping at Barretti, on Cape Island
- j., who are equal to the best of MS on boV
n neI and shooting. One of them made twelve
a. strikes in succession, and two hundred
~ eighty-seven points on her next game late
-. The other one, in the meanwhile, was shoe
I.,. pistol match with two gentlemen from
sste city. She hit the button six times in
shots at ten PAGES, and tho other two
camo within seyen-eighths of an inch.
o. then fired twenty-six shots at swinging
hen two and half inches in diameter and stru
MI fourteen times There would be no nece
az for any gentleman's going into the field Il
No. sco tie this last lady's quarrels.-Nelc YoTk
Just eary.
tho HEAVY vERDICr.--A case was tried a
. IN August term of the Court in Huntington co
itle brought by Patrick Kelley against the Pennsy
heh Railroad Company, for injury 10 his child in
ACE the jury returned verdict Of $4,000 for the
:, OF tf. The Huntington journal says: ut WI
ne remembered that, come three years ago, CHI
ne the plaintiff received severe lpjariGs, causin
nj amputation Of his leg BY being run oyer by n
led Of ears an said road, while he was attempt
ars cross. This case excited great interest in the
our munity, and particularly on account OF the eeL
,ist ing testimony offered. The conductor and
on breaksmen of the tTnn which caused the nccj
Two swUIe positively that the boy had ample rot
Tact cross without going under the cars, whilst some
" ten of cur very hest citizens swOre positively
tue Il child could not have crossed in any other
Mo ner than lie dill as the road was entirely bio
ing up by toe cars. The jury awarded yosdi
80 COO damages
IL The citizens of OOpiah county, Miss
ocd have recently discovered that persons resi-
nm in that county have boon inducing slave
enc desert their owners, and furnishing thcm
'Aes free passes to escape to free States. Two
ursc Jividuals, named Seastruak, it is said,
ioc- been engaged for years in this practice,
been one named Morgan has been found tampe
With with the slaves. The citizens had a NEE
~ ~ N reference to these charges, ard being 81