The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-08-06

RAISING TURKEYs.-As your paper is specially
devoted to the interests and wants OF rural readers
propose giving my mode of raising turkeys. II is
my opinion that farmers can raise n pound of fowl
easier and cheaper than pound of pork. Heretofore
have been unfortunate in raising turkeys, but this
season adopted a different mOie-a plan of my own
inventon-by which | have been very successful.
Others may have adopted the course but not to
my knowledge
Young turkeys apt to die before they attain the
age Of three weeks. l came to the concl1sio that
the fatality among them caused by yerIun, heavy
feed, and cold, damp weather. My method, this
season, mas been this: Take the eggs of the first
laying and set under hens; the second laying let the
turkeys hItch Two or three days before hatching
sprinkle the and the fowls themselves with
sulphur VII the young Matched, I took
little sulphur, gunpowder and lard, mixed, and
gresed their heads and neck. to keep off the vermn
while the 20 ing bTUoded. LII IT does not remain on,
in ght tel days put another coat.
MoDE OF FEEDING.-I took equal quantities of
wheat bran and Indian meal aud wet with sour
milk, or lappered milk with good lot of fine cut
cves, once IN two or three days IN with IT, and feed
them till month or six weeks old; then lessen the
bran. Feed them early i'll the morning to keep them
from rambling in the dew.
Such has been my method of feeling and manage
ment, and have lost only two OF forty hatched
Ducks managed in the way-lost three by
accidental causes, out of thirty-fve Matched. One,
only, died while young Chickens in like manner,
with creased heads and sulphured nests-lost three
in about sixty. This is my mode and my success
Prairie Farmer.
TIE CocHINEAL-Cochineal one of the most
valuable insects of commerce. 1t feeds upon plant
Of the cactus tribe which is cultivated expressly for
it by the natives of Mexico Honduras. and other
tropical countries. The cochnea is small insect
bug, hardly exceeding in size 1be common lady-bug
of our gardens. The lSS(b!oduced by it are the
most brilliant and bszzskdl. The mordant employed
is loride ofss<zeGfd cream tartar, and with alum
fg zine ink is produced. The retail price CT
lhneal in market is about 81 90 per pound.
The cochineal plant grows freely in Florida and in
Texas. In the last Agricultural Report from the
United States Patent-Oce attention is called to the
cultivation of cochneal in the southern portions Of
the Union. That the insect may be successfully
cultivated where the plant will grow freely there is
but little doubt, and the only question arises can the
labor be procured to comp etc successfully with the
miserable population of the cochineal countries'
e The directors of our Agricultural Society are,
believe making some effort to introduce the above
valuable insect, in order that the experiment may
receive fair trial If it is true that the insect will
thrive wherever the cactus does, the question is
almost settled. 1t the species of cactus which
abounds in Mexico different from that which grows
so abundantly here, Snd it may be that the former
plant will also have be introduced with the insect,
in order to give full SUD to the experiment
B4rKr HoaszsThs English a;,s friend friend.
horse or team behind them and puifsspie backwards.
II should be done on smooth fair ground.
fctory beast will relish such treatment, and VIII
soop he glad to go forward at the word of command
The most stubborn will yield and be perfectly true
and tractable after three four such tutorings The
aforementioned friend tells he never failed to con-
auer in a single instance, and that too, without the
stroke of q whip or otherwise naltreatlng the AM
NAL
Or.Lr1Y OF M1LK-It has often been remarked
that il is the quality of milk, rather than the guam
tity. which gives valun to the dairy cow Great as
tonishmsnt IS sometimes produced By statements OF
the large quantity of milk yielded daily, by some
But such statements of little consequence. Inc
most remarkable for the production OF butter
have given but the medium quantity OF milk FOR
instance the celebrated Sussex, or cramp cow, whicn
for several years made average Of 6oo pounds OF
butter n wear, gave at most twenty quarts per DAY;
and the Oaks cow which made 4S0 pounds OF butter
in $ wear gave but sixteen to eighteen quarts per
dav John Holbert, of Chemung, N. T., states that
he has found by churning the milk separately, tnat
f his hest will make much butter rs MIee
of his poorest-all giving an equal quantity OF mix
He states also that 100 pounds Of milk drawn from
his cows which give the richest milk, Will make one
nounI more butter than 100 pounds drawn from the
whole herd: and he adds, that there IS more diner
ence than in the qullity. His advice in conclusion
Is that all darymen look well to the quality OF mix
their cows give.
Eight thousand eight hundred and hfty girls are
emnloved i'm the factories ut Lowell
Man creates more discomfort to himself than ever