The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-06-16
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FACTS FOR FARMERS.

be was successful In the manufacture of
molasses from sorghum-made it at cost
of 50 or 40 cents per gallon. He failed
utterly in the attempt to make sugar from
it. He says Il do not agree with you
and others in the opinion that one man
should prepare for and do the sugar making
for a neighborhood. The hauling of the
cane any distance would cost more than its
manufacture. ground my cane in a
wooden mill, which did not cost me over
Sf2 or SIS, at the rate of gallon per min
ute, with two horses. The rollers of the
mill were twenty inches in diameter. l
think every farmer should raise and manu-
facture his own molasses, unless he can buy
for thirty cents per gallon and am not
sure but he can make it for less than that,
with the necessary experience. If sugar
can be raised as successfully as molasses, il
will be folly for farmers to depend on others
for their ssOeetening in future"
We believe there is profit in an econom-
cal division of labor; and in the theory that
the man will be most successful who makes
so distinctive business as the manufacture
of sugar and syrup, speciality and study.
1t is not possible that the mass of farmers
in the west can do this-can acquire the
necessary experience" without losses,
which are unnecessary. Let farmers con-
fine their efforts to the production of cane
Of the best quality, for market, or for con-
sumption in a neighborhood mill. 1t is
just as wise to say that every man should
grow his own wheat, and manufacture his
own flour, or grow his own wool or cotton
and manufacture his own clothing, as to
assert that it will be more profitable, or that
he should manufacture his own syrup and
sugar. He may do it, but we question if
he can do it proftably, unless he have more
capital than most farmers can command
Chicago Prairie Farmer.
Eco HArcH1NG MAcH1SE.-A week or
two since we published a notice of recent
invention. A recent Scientific american
contains a description of another, from
Darien IN. Y. correspondent, which we
conclude is not patented.
It consists of sheet iron Dox of any
suitable dimensions-say two feet square.
On one of the sides is door, and on the
top a chimney. The eggs are placed in
boxes 10 inches square and three deep
each egg bong first covered with cotton
batting or feathers. These shallow boxes
are placed, one above another, in the larger
sheet iron box before mentioned, care being
taken to separate them by small pieces Of
iron what would be better-ha having
them made with small legs, so as to allow
the heated lair to circulate freely between
them. About the middle of each of the
four sides of the box is pipe about three
or four inches in diameter. The ends of
these pipes are bent to receive the flame of
an oil lamp that heats the air SO as to be
substitute for the warmth of the hen. Thus,
the whole apparatus is heated to tempera-
ture which can be regulated by increasing
or diminishing the size of the flame Of the
lamp. The chimney should be quite small,
30 as to keep the heated air as long as pos
sible among the cases containing the eggs.
Prairie Farmer.
ARSENIC IN AGRICULTURAL P LANTs.-Dr.
E. W. Dayy has detected arsenic in peas,
cabbages, and Swedish turnips, which had
been MANFRED with super phosphate of lime.
This fertilizer is very extensively manufac-
tured in England, especially for use on the
turnip crop, from various phosphate mine
rails, and from bones, by the help Of arsen-
ical oil of vitriol. The arsenic, being thus
proved to enter vegetation, may very easily
and naturally pass into animals, and be re-
tanned in their organism. This is another
striking, presumptiye proof of the worth
lessness of that theological evidence which
hangs a man on the strength of minute
traces of arsenic being found in working up
several pounds of flesh and viscera.-N. y.
Tribune.
KIDNEY WORKS IN Sw1NE.-This disease
may generally be known by the animal APP
pearing weak across the loins, and some
times by weakness in one or both hind
legs. AS soon as these symptoms appear,
II 81 I-n1 lev .rNf
wood ashes or strong soap suds, and at the
same time rub the loins with turpentine.--
An Ohio farmer cures this disease by giving
one ounce of copperas daily, for six or
eight days. dissolved in warm water, and
mixed with two quarts of corn meal and
dishwater.-I6id.
SULPHUR FOR SHEEP TIcKs.-A cores
pondent of the american A.gricultariSt says:
.sSince 1914 l have used no other pre-
ventive to keep ticks from sheep, or lice
from cattle. Ny mode of feeding is to have
boxes about one by one and one-half feet
square, with sides three inches high; mix
as much -four of sulphur with salt as can
be made to stick to it, and put it in the
boxes, for sheep or cattle. Feed 1t any
time, but particularly in warm weather.
Since 1914 have seldom found half-a-doz-
en- ticks to the hundred sheep at shearing-
time, and some seasons none. think
feeding sulphur great help in keeping clear
of the foot-rot My sheep have neither
ticks nor foot-rot, although there is much of
it near, and around me-"
MULCHING STRAWBERRIES WITH STRAW
w. Petrie, of Pittsburg, states that the best
mulchiug for strawberries is cut straw. 1t
keeps the berries perfectly clean. and If put
on thick enough it viii keep down the weeds,
keep the ground moist, and prevent the
runners from catching. He hauls the straw
out to the field in bundles, and takes good
straw-cutter along. with two boys to carry
it on in baskets. The straw should be cut
short-the shorter the better-and spread
on top of the plants quite thick. and the
rains and winds will work it down under
the leaves, and the fruit stems will shoot
above the straw. This mulching should be
done Just before the fruit stems shoot.
ToBAcco FOR VERMiN.-A patent has
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