, 1870-01-24

Ff0x EuleuKe-Cldef VlnoKAE-E6flY
GratttnK-Annun1 Meeting OF the
Central Illinois horticultural 10
ctety-Oats Tor Seed-Shcda VI. Addi-
tIons to rho Barn-Alsike Clover
michigan Agricultural College
Effect OF Root. observation-disclosures G o.
and Netatton ef Crops.
ffRoH ouR AGRICULTURAL ooKREsEoNpEST.l
cHAAFA1oN. IL, Jan. 70.
Ft.Ax cul1unx.
81. Coof, Forea., Ir.-ualt = bushel Of aeed Is
sown when The crop u intended for seed, and
from one to two bushs1s when for the tint aud
seed. When h;ckly seeded for tho 11nt sha crop
ct seed ID nearly tho fame - when gIuHn eI.
p1eskly for the aeed. The crop seldom pays un-
less grown foe both purposes, but as the demand
for nA1 KmW n limited the crop IL not q faror1te
one- The yield Of iced Il from four 10 twelve
bushels, ray about eight on an average. 1t must
be so1n On clean, 1ex Y land, Is tho crop vii! be
sowing, the land must be put tn
rhe beat tnth, rolled down smooth
before sowing, then lightly narrowed and again
rolled. With deep. rich, loa1uy sotl, and season-
able rains, ~ high 81 fifteen TO twenty bushels
have been Crowd, but theae are exceptiona, crops
II the land tas been fall.ploEed, 1t lnoold be
thoroughly stlued With the culuTztor before SOW.
Ing, bus a general thing spring plow1ng Is tho
btst. Meadow OF pasture Ind trerch-plox xed, IL
a
without ploWtng would not answer At all, On &C.
count OF the weeds that would spring m both
Annually and hiennsaliy.
c1pxn yth1aix.
rat, Fotn, nl,no,s-ylueoar made in FINN
TWO to ten hours III done bv what IA called tho
QUICK psoceaa: and cAn be found fully described
in Prof. Wetherens Treatise On vlnegat-R work
that coats TWO dotars At tho book stores.
The vinegar wash IL feruented and then paa,ed
through what Il called \ generator. This IA mt
Ia = room with the tcmpeta,uro at ~ to 30 3er.
ard thu vinegar ia allowed to dr,u through A Inn.
mel ulled with curn cobs, or 70 pass oycr sovsrnl
hundred feet Of surface. In or1le. to oxydfxe the
alcohol tnst has been developed IN tho fefutnrtnz
pyoceaa There u nothing rew in al tAtx, a. the
large vinegar factories have used this process for
3ea1s: nor s It 4 secret 1t AL i miniature zen.
orator nsy he used in which 70 run tnroue III frnn
ntty TO ore hundred gallons day, but such facto-
res can ueger compete with thoso On large scale,
4 l1ttle sTeeteEed water, couple Of pounds Of
t4rsaric acid. few ounces OF kulphu1ic acid with
forty gallons Of rAtn water, win make 4 caak OF
vinegar II paHsed through one Of these Reuesztora
aites the wAan-aa tnete Ingredients arc called
has gone through the drst fernent,ng process.
Putting 4 trademark, "pnre elder vinegar on
this compound does not make Il cider y1aoxsr.
We need rome stringent law to pualsh Ill such
adnltsrators Of food.
What Is called the slow process, It ts kept Ina
rootn Of Il to 90 dtZ1te4 Of Fahrenheit, ana the
new cider mixed with Aa equal quantity OF old
vinegar. The1c ID serious objection to these
generators, both large and graAu. When they
become cloGHed with ha1l-decayed mother Of nm
e9ar the putr1d mass tmparta tts own quailty 10
the vinegar, ereu when usAde OF tqnl4xeS or
Nhia1ey. Then, again, un1ess the wa1h does not
paaa oyer the entire surface Of the corr eohs e.
the shelves OF tho generator, mold u produced.
ard uttle flooding washes this into tho ytnegsr
and tmparts had tsssa. It Ia uos uncommon lor
The best vinegar factories to hAre ytneR1f IL
,urued to them from these c1uses. This Is prpb.
aoly remI1ed with the wa4h, szaln run through
tha cener.,nr and s.nt ont far Aa1e In fny7ner
lrtters haye notnttd m, tho n,n,cn;s,ss
in ualiux uniform article Of cider ytnecsr. and
now TO syold them. when the orchardl.t n.tes
h1s oEn ytntrraY he must have 4 room for thas
nrrnose nne that IA ran teen At m even t.n,r.r-
.tnr. ~ mar the nroc-.. rrav IN m no,n ~,
n,efe rtthont fnterrnn,Jnn,
penis h.yo hscnn,s n ,rrnxtor,ea IN N. .h,n
h,t,ng sc,d v.nsesr. tn.t ~. ~ ~. .aars.,.t
tn.s mo- f,om csds@ Ith.1 n.eons ontts = a.n
era1 nr.c,tca r,th oroeers to nurrn.as a fer
farreis NJ che.n c1d.r n mir v,h n ~ .t,Ao,-.
~ @ !sn ~ euesp elosl ~ III "!ta aee .us1
~ sen s1A,n eAe uA" - .1 'mes. y. .asn o*a
@sa ees3n saea Sa.eo nA'e: y! ta.e, so.ae 70
-. .s LUZ. H1. .a.u ps,aoa ~. eust .1p9ot@
toess s.nee1s. "oula - nos ooA sooo 'oeA 70
~ rea ~ ~ s '~ssG @ .aoes .. ~ e.oet N.
1oe mA0 "ao u95s saoo no-saAeu sels' pto'
Win nia money without m equivalent Itls-a
catch-penny hnmbux Of the mt water. could |
e ~, s,. ma 5e,D. for mating vnss o.
tee; for cheap vinegar can only b naade tn larse
who uates hu cider into ytne1sx uust know how |
70 acoomp1nn Il and be xss ls1va e1ncnse for