The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-07-21

whole process of cottonizing under the new
plan. The manufacture of cotton has in
creased immensely in the United States
from the difficulty in subduing fax--a diff
fcul Y now happily surmounted. Hence
forth flax will be grown and manufactured
on large scale rs cotton has been. The
present demand for cotton is from %, 000.-
COO to $4,000. GOO bales, while our actual
supply is but 6.Ooo,o0o The fax OF Iowa
and other Northern States will. in few
years. We are confident, make up this great
deficit and immensely promote human COM
fort, health and happiness.
Flax requires only an equable tempera-
ture, exempt from severe drought On the
one hand, and excessive moisture on the
other-and for soil. a dry. deep loan, with
q clay sub-soil. New grounds produce n
strong crop. The land should be well
drained, through il will bear good deal of
moisture. Says a writer--"Plough in the
autumn. Immediately after harvest. across
the ridges-leave the land in this state till
early spring; then plough again, harrow.
and SOW. Sow two bushels of seed to the
acre. After sowing. cover with seed -har-
row, going twice over it--once up and
down. and once crosswise. Finish with
the roller. The earlier the seed is sown.
the more slow and steady the growth, and
the finer. in consequence, the fibre"
INTERESTING TO HORSE WIvEs-YELLow
SKIN IN The WEsT.--We call attention To
the following from the Philadelphia Ledger.
Although it is not universal in its applica-
ton to the people of the West. it is worthy
the attention of II large tribe of yellow
Skins" found here:
If our Western friends can in any way
teach their wives, daughters, or cooks, TO
keep the pearlash out Of the bread. all the
yellow people. especially the yellow chill
dren. who are supposed to be turned yellow
bv the fever and ague and bilious fevers
will soon be turned white. 1t is a great
mistake to suppose that the yellow counte-
nances of the west come from bile, when il
is only the enormous quantities of pearlash
eaten in the bread that is reflected through
the skin. Bread is the staff of life, it is
said.-and so it is;-but it is the staff OF
death, too, in this country. Bad bread kills
about as many people here as bad rum. So
many people eat poisonous pearlash foi
bread that they die by inches. Dyspepsia
that great monster disease of the coun-
try, thai deranges the liver, brings on cos
tiveness. and thus finally kills the human
| victim.--is half the time "pealfash."-
Here. ia the east,-out of New England
! we have nearly driven off the pearlash-sal-
eratus cooks, but not altogether. Pearlash
lives here yet in bread, but in cities ant
towns we have nearly whipped out the muir
derer. In the distant Western towns, be
yond the good hotels of the lakes and riv,
ers, pearlash, under the name of saeratus
is king. Il is pearlash for breakfast, pear
lash for dinner, and pearlash for supper
II is not any wonder. then that the people
Of the East turn yellow in The West. and
sicken not of fever and ague. bilious ane
congestive fevers, but of pearlash thres
times day
A correspondent of the Canadian Agri
culturist gives the following directions for
ringing pigs: Ii you have not the misfor
tune 10 be bachelor, your wife or daugh
ters will have an old bonnet or two thrown
away, with The wire in them: take this wine
run it through the flame of candle to take
| off the covering. use little sand-pape tt
brighten it. cut il up into lengths of four OF
five inches according to the size of you
pigs. file or grind one end sharp, and they
are fit for use. Ii you buy your wire, ge
stout bonnet wire, or rather annealed wire
then take rope the size of bed cord
make large moose by tying slip knot a
one end of it, put the moose in the pig,
mouth above his tusks. draw it tight, lie
your assistant haul him near tn post oil
rail about three feet high, bestride his neck
take wire, and with a pair of pliers pull
| it quickly up through his snout. abou
half an inch from the center and ialf al
inch deep, or more if big pig. bring th'
two ends to meet. and twist them together
close up to the snout, putting brad awl Oh
| nail between the wires TO prevent twisting
the flesh, then double the twisted wire W
into as round lump as you can. Do the
same on each side. When done, pull of
your clip knot and let him free. taking care
that the rope does not catch the wires ant
jerk them out. and they will be there a
Christmas if rightly done.