The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-08

| Mr.. Elijah Ware, or Salem, wanted
to know what to do with some hundred
loads of turf taken from water course
along his meadow by the steam mud
digger recently. A great deal OF it is
merely turf without any vegetable
matter in it. 1t is very light when dry
and would burn quickly. He wanted
to know IL he could make compost
with lime or any other substance TO use
next year on his truck field or hay.
DR.. Trimble answered: Unless on
heavy soil the tart will do but little
good II applied alone. Its decompOst-
ton will be hastened by mixing 1t
with lime and letting 1t lie exposed to
duced and in dry condition, 1t would
do we'll for composing with highly or
ganic manures, which is the best use it
can be put to.
THE CHINCH BUG.
A correspondent from Pleasant
Ridge, Kansas, wanted to know what
was the chinch bug found on wheat In
his country.
DR.. Trimble, said the chinch was
minute specimen OF the bedbug. 1t in
craases in numbers in some OF the
Western and Southern States, and is
very destructive to the crops. espe.
cialIy wheat. We do not have 1t in
this section. 1t can only be controlled
| by the weather. a drowning rain Is
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PROTEST AGAINST THE MIDDLEMEN
Mr.. Charles W. King, of Nuremberg,
Essex county, wanted to know II there
was not some way that farmers may
escape from the grasp OF the middle
| men between the producers and con-
sumers. Take for instance our beef.
| there is the drover with his runners,
the butchers and the stall men: The
result is the consumers pay-double and
often more than double the price that
we the producers receive. 1t seems
that by combination, these middle~
men may be reduced to some honest or
| legitimate business.
Mr.. w. s. Carpenter said that arran-
| eements were about being made by
which beef will be transferred from
Ohio in refrigerator cars, instead of
alive. It is we'll known that they ar
rived here in fervid beat and the
heat Ia not healthy. The attention OF
the Board of Health has often been
called to this fact. But there are pros
poets of our receiving pure, healthy
meat from cattle killed on their own
pasture.
Mr., Gregory, who had recently re-
turned from Texas, said steamship
had been fitted out for the special pur-
pose OF bringing killed beef from Texas
to this port. The steamer VIM. Tabor,
would soon sail from the east river for
| Galveston, Texas, having apparatus
| aboard to manufacture ice while on the
| waY, A current OF cold air would be
driven through the body of the ship.
The meat would not come in actual
contact with the ice. The air would be
cold and dry, not damp. This was
an experiment which seemed destined
to revolutioniZe the trade. The beef
would be killed on its native heath ana
Immediately shipped. While in Texas
| the second largest drOver in that SEQ.
| aFFa m uunnlU a thousand head
of cattle week, weighing $50 to 100
pounds to the quarter, at Sl5 per head.
| He had no doubt that meat, without
fever, could DO purchased in our mar
| kets at 12c per pound when this expert
ment proved a success and three or four
vessels week brought TINS peer 10 our
port.
Mr.. Meeker spoke of the excellence
of the Texas cattle which fed on the
Mesquit grass, when killed on their
native heath.
DECENTRALIZATION EGG PREsERvER.'
Mr.. Eli CAN'T, of Mount Joy, Lam
caster county, Pa, enclosed one OF the
circulars of the Electro Egg Company,
which are being sOWn broadcast over
the land. He said he had no doubt the
company and the process were swim
| die. and If such was the case they should
be exposed, and that thoroughly, SO
they may be prevented to great ex-
tent from imposing on the public.
Prof. James A. Whitney said: My
attention had been called to this egg.
preserving mixture a few days ago,and
| / took the trouble to examine into it
little. The circulars sent out by
these parties state that the mixture
was patented on April 2Sth, 1868.
find on examining the record that this
is a falsehood. No patent was granted
| on any method OF keeping eggs on that
date. 1t is called an "Electro Egg Pre-
server" implying that electricity has
something to do with preserving eggs;
but there can be no electricity about it.
The preparation as set forth is pow
der to be mixed with water in the pro-
portion of six quarts of water to
bound of the stuff. It is probably little
else than pulverized lime. The same
parties, in the same circular, advertise
butter preserving powder to be used In
place of dairy salt. 1t Is doubtless
very likely is compound simply of
salt and nitre with some little color
ing matter.
THE TEN HOUR LAW IN FARMING.
Mr.. NJ. Ingalls,, of Springfield,
Otsego county, New York, wrote as
follows: II perceive that the ten hour
labor system in farming has received
considerable attention. 1t seems to me
that no approximations need be felt.
The relations of capital and labor are
not controlled by legislation but by
} necessity. The ten hour rule will not
apply to the rule for the farm because
certain kinds OF labor-the care and
feeding of domestic animals for in
stance-must be done at certain hours
of the day,-early in the morning, at
noon and at night. Suppose our legis-
lature enact q law that ten hours con-
stitute days labor on the farm, 1t
amounts to nothing. It does not pre-.
vent me from hiring a man to work all
day instead of ten hours; neither will
it affect the price of labor one tota. The
price oflabor, like that of any marketa-
BILE product, Is regulated by the law OF
supply and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. will
hurt no one and benefit no one. Mr..
Powell Is reported as desiring fixed
standard for given number of hours
of labor ; for instance, 81 for nine hours
Nine hours labor in ono locality may be
worth 81, in another s., and In aonther
only 81. The price of labor In the same
locality varies with the seasons and
ductuates like any other market value.
Again, there Is every degree OF capacity
: and aptitude in the labOrer. One man
Is worth and should receive fifty cents
day more than another. Establish a
uniform price and you defraud this
J man and overpay the other. Farm Ia,
borers in this country are already well
paid, and SO far as / have observed,
t are satisfied with what they receive.
The labor movement is inaugurated by
class OF politicians, and not by those
for whose benefit 1t Is claimed.
ACCIDENT To soLoN ROBINSON.
Mr.. Robinson wrote q note Of regret