The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-16
REsT.-GoErHE.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

If your farm Is so large that you cannot
cultivate all of it to advantage, nor keep
good fences 1t, sell a part, and put the
money out to interest. You may depend
that by 80 doing you will save great deal OF
care and trouble, and make money faster
than by skimming over a large surface to
get poor crops, and those half destroyed Dy
unruly cattle breaking over your dilapida-
ted fences.
A cow that rears a calf every season will
yield more milk and produce more butter
or cheese keepin better condition during the
entire year, and endure greater number OF
years, If she be allowed TO go dry not less
than two months in each year. Cows that
are MIXED during the growing season should
always go dry at least three months every
Winter.
The Jackson Pilot is terribly shocked be-
cause ''two democratic niger hirelings'
from Tennessee and Virginia have invaded
the State. We suppose that colored men
have no right to arpet-bags-that occupa-
ton Is the exclusive property of white men
no doubt.-Vicksburg Times.
The soil must, like the horse or the OK, be
fed, i'm order to give forth abundantly, ana
it must have rest. A judicious rotation OF
crops Is the grand secret OF prosperous farm
ing.
HEN CHoLERA.-A correspondent. writing
to the Iowa Department of Agriculture,
says:
My chickens have been dying of cholera
for the last two years,-even turkeys have
died of the same disease. When / notice
the hens begin to droop and look sleeky,
give them three or four tablesnoonfuls of
strong alum water, and repeat tile next day.
1 also mix their feed (say Indian meal) with
strong alum water, feeding twice day for
two or three days,-atterwarCs once week.
Since commencing this practice l have not
lost any.
Another gentleman, writing to the same
Department, says:
Take two eggs, one tablespoonful of finely
pulveriZed alum, and sufficient quantity OF
flour to make thin paste, and force the
chicken or turkey to swallow a portion of
the mixture and there are two chances to
one that it will recover. ] have used this
remedy for two years with success. / have
also used alum, once day, in their food as a
preventative, when this disease is prevalent.
Fowls should never have access to swill tubs
or any other kink OF sour food.
PRESERVING MEAT.-Appleton's Journal
says new process of preserving meat is
mentioned in the French Journals. The
flesh of sheep or oxen is ''cut up in portions
from four to one hundred pounds" STEPPED
in bath containing about 50 per cent. of
water, mixture of giycerine, hydrochloric
acid, and bisulphate of soda, and finally pack
ed UP in tin boxes, filled as full as possible
anu carefully soldered. The meat is thus
preserved perfectly, and is found, at the end
of Il year. as fresh and sweet as if newly
brought from the butchers. To divest it OF
the sulphurous acid it retains, it is only ne
cessary TO wash IL with water moderately
alluded with vinegar, and EXPOSE il TO the
open air, where 1t may be kept with safety
forty-eight hours, after which it presents
the appearance OF perfectly fresh meat.
GOLDEN CHICKEN RULEs.-The fol-
lowing are some rules that it would be
well to observe in rearing chickens
L. Keep the chickens in a warm, clean,
dry coop.
z. Don't let them run out in the morn
ing until the sun has removed the dew
from the grass.
3. Let them have plenty of food and
fresh water
4. The coop must be rat proof.
B. Don't let the chicks have access to
Stops or stagnant water.
3. See that they are well housed when !
a storm is threatening.
Rules for keeping the henery in proper
order:
l. Clean out every day and sprinkle
hand full of lime.
z. Sprinkle ashes over the floor two or |
three times a week.
8. Frequently change the straw or hay
forming the nest, and whitewash the nest
boxes at every renewal, and twice year
thourghly whitewash the whole interior of |
the house.
Horse BoNNETs. see on our
streets neat and tasty continuance for
protecting the heads of work horses from
the heat of the sun. 1t consists of a sort
of awning about foot wide and eighteen
inches long, raised some three inches from
the horses head by wires attached to the
headstall. The device is very humane
one, and we would be glad to see it GEN
orally adopted. Norfolk Virginia.