Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-10-19
A AEBBEvILLE, $. .IcsFR1DA omoBRg 10, 1866. 1866
AGRICULTURAL.

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FAST HoRsEs ON THE, FARss.--A writer
in the Mark Lane Erpress has the following
on the expediehcy Of farmers, undertaking
to breed horses for racing purposes
There are few, and but very few, far
mers who pay especial attention to breed
Ing race horses. This is more specula
tive business than breeding horses for
hunting. 1t may answer pretty well to
procure good entire blood horse. and
travel him or let him stand as a stud.
horse but to breed horses for racing pur-
poses requires great knowledge Of the
turf, and great expenditure of money in
brood mares and covering fees and man
agement. To make way as a race-horse
breeder, the stock must be of frst-class
blood, and these are very costly !; as, should
produce fail to be Of great use, or become
unpopular, they generally turn out to be
of little value, owing to the want Of pow.
er as working auimals.. For the farmer to
engage in racing speculations on his own
account is most dangerous course. If
he can breed respectable animals. by all
means sell them to ''racing men," All
gambling should be avoided. Farmers
have no valid ground to rest upon in such
a course. has
KEEPING BACON HAMs.-Mske a num-
Der OF cotton bags, little larger than
your hams after your hams areoweIl
smoked, place them in the bags; then gat
the best kind of sweet, we'll made hay,
cut it with knife, and with your hands press
It we'll around the hams in the bags tie
the bags with good strings, put on card
of the year to show their age, and hang
them up in garret or some dry room; and
they will hang five years, and they will be
better for boiling than on the day you
hung them up. This method costs but
little, and the bags will last forty .years.
No flies or bugs will trouble the. hams il
the hay is we'll pressed around them the
sweating Of the hams will battaken up by
the hay, and the hay will impart a fine fla
vor to the hams. The hams should be
treated this way before hot weather sets
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TOMATO sW1NE.--It may not be known
to all our readers, that An excellent wine
can be made from tomatoes. We have
drunk wine Of this kind, which good judi
ges. unaw re os its tature, pronounced still
Catawba. The. e.following, ia said to be a
good receipt for tomato wine, which is
said to retain all the we'll known medici-
cinal properties Of the fruit :: Express the
juice of ripe tomatoes. put one pound Of
sugar to each quart Of the. juice and bot
tie. In few weeks it will have the ap--
pearance and. favor Of pure wine, of the
cbest,kind. No alcohol is needed TO pre-
serve it, Mixed with water, it is a de-
lightful beverage for the sick.
,ToMATo CATsrP.--Wash and boil one
busheI of tomatoes. When soft, pass the
whole through a bolander, mashipg the
mass until it has ceased to drip. There
will be about eleven quarts Of juice. Put
this in a, china-lined kettle, and add four
tablespooufuls of salt, one do. alIspice, three
do. ground mustard, f.l-2 teaspoonfuls Of
ground: black pepper, one do. Cayenne.
Boil this two honrs at least; .ie you wish it
tsafss Al fass hours. Bot,le, putting
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3aw6 gina Of 1instard ssedstwo tablespoons.
fuI 81 ground eiapamon. one tabisspoon-
t{lpll ri clayss. one paund Of hsowa augpr,
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