The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1874-12-02
Farm, Garden and Household.


Luck Hooper writes from Paris to
the Philadelphia Press: "The great
est curiosity in the Jardin d'Acclima-
tion is the singular fowl-fattening ma
chime, which has been in operation for
short time, but which is great sue
cess. Imagine the top of round tea
table divided off into sections. with
partition between each section and a
board in front with half-moon-shaped
aperture in it. In each of these SEQ.
tlons an unhappy duck or chicken is
confined by a chain to each leg, and
under each is fitted tray, which re-
ceives all the dirt and is emptied daily.
Through the center of this structure
goes q round post, and there is a series
OF such tea-table tops to the roof of the
building, each with its divisions and
its imprisoned fowls. At stated inter
walls man comes round with some
what complicated machine filled with
kind Of thin Cruel, and fitted with a
pipe at the end of long India-rubber
tube. He introduces this pipe down
the throat of a duck, presses down a
pedal with his foot, and certain quan-
nty OF food is forced through the tube
into the creatures craw, a disk above
showing exactly what amount of force
ne is to use and how much food passes.
This process is gone through with each
fowl till all are fed, and it is repeated
four times day for ducks and three
for chickens. Two weeks suffice to fat
ten a duck, but three are necessary for
chicken. Apart from the necessary
confinement of the birds the process
does not seem to be cruel one, as the
amount OF food forced down their
throats is not excessive. The ducks
which L saw fed did not seem to suffer
IN the least, and in fact when they saw
the man approach most of them became
c!amorous for immediate attention, and
plucked at his clothes as he passed,
with eager beaks.
The Barrel OF Pork.
1t appears that the recent action of
the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
In adopting the national standard barrel
OF mess pork was in violation of an
OHIO law, and therefore is. nugatory.
The law reads as follows: -, !.
THAT each barrel of beef or pork
put up for expectation in this State
shall contain. 200 pounds weight of.
Wch-blhuRuG6I6O
and such only as is well l-fatted, which
shall be denominated as follows: =
Each barrel of mess pork shall
consist of twenty-five pieces, of eight
pounds weight each, as near as NAV be.
making 200 pounds of pork, taken from
the middlings or sides of hogs weighing
upward of 200 pounds each.
Ihe pieces of pork shall be- packed on
the edge, with at least fifty pounds of
clean, fair salt, and two ounces Of salt
petre to each barrel, and when thus
packed and headed each barrel shall be
filled up with strong pickle"
This makes it clear that neither the
present standard nor the previous one
OF 1876 pounds conformed to the law.
Indeed, one is as complete violation
OF the statute as the other, and conse-
quently the Chamber of Commerce can
not enforce the new standard.
wheat-Growing maxims.
Somebody has been at the trouble of
condensing great deal of information
about wheat-growing in very small
compass, and somebody else has set il
afioat without credit. II we could, we
would gladly give the name of the
author
&, Aho poss poi Aor Wueat lS rlcn clay
loan.
Wheat likes a good, deep, soft bed.
Glover turned under makes Just such
bed.
TIE best seed is plump, heavy, oily
and clean.
About two inches is the best depth
for sowing the seed.
The drill puts in the seed better and
cheaper than hr0aHcao ofipn
From the middle of September to the
last OF October is the best time for
sowing.
II drilled, one bushel of seed per
acre; If broadcasted, two bushels.
One heavy rolling after sowing does
much good.
For flour, cut when the grain begins
to harden; for seed, not until it has
To Preserve Grapes.
A lady from Westfeld, Pa, writes a
very appreciative letter. She sends
the following: First, pick off all un-
sound or unripe ones. and lay the clus-
ters In an empty room on papers until
dry, for In all packages some will be
crushed and dampen others. Then an
empty crate will do to pack them in.
First layer Of grapes, then thick
ness OF paper, SO as to exclude the air
and keep them separate, then grapes,
then paper, and so on until you have
three or four layers-no more. If the
box Is to hold more, put in partitions
to support the others that are to be
packed. We packed hundreds of
pounds thus last year, and they kept
perfectly until the middle of March,
and, had the supply not been ex-
hausted, they could have been kept