The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-14

Desert, when running at full capacity,
put up %. 600 cans a week, employing /
about fifty hands. Until within short |
time plenty of HOLSTERS have been taken |
about the harbor, but now smacks are !
used, which cr1ise around and purchase I
of various parties. The price paid at
! this time is about 81 per hundred lbs.
The smacks bring IN 10000 or Il, GOO
/ pounds at a time. The vessels are built
with two decks, with perforated bot
toms, so that the fish are preserved alive
and fresh in th cir native element. Upon
the arrival of the smacks the Holsters
are dumped upon the wharf in big piles.
They present curious appearance, bi-
ting aud clawing at each other, until
they are shoveled into great kettles of
boiling water. They are then dipped
out, broken up and the meat taken out
for canning. The big claws and tails
are the only parts used. The cans con-
tain one pound. A liquor is made of
the contents of the body of the lobster,
strained and prepared with salt and cay
enne pepper, and small portion put in
each cap. After soldering the cans are
boiled two no. rs and half, when they
are taken out, little hole made in the
top TO let the steam out, then tightly
sealed and boiled again. The cans are
then vanished, labelled, and boxed for
market. HOLSTERS are not now very
! plenty, and are rather small. The par
I ties who set. the nets Gull out the large
&; ones for Boston and other markets.
/, BOILED Com FOR PoULTRY.-In the
e breeding of poultry as in all other pur-
suits, little care and forethought inva
Z riably return an apparently disprOpor
3 tionate result In the rearing of poul
II ], tho ifT1T.a IF noah FnVv
Is is small and the material provided com
n paratively inexpensive, We are apt t.
d overlook the small wastes which Occul
Il in the transformation of the differen
e grains into poultry, but which aggre
l. gate quite a respectable sum.
l. The opinion that corn is very pOurish
=, ing food for fowls is so universal that NJ
l. further thought is given to the mat
e ter. If any one should suggest tina
ID corn would be easier of digestion
L, soaked or boiled, he would yer.
lg 4 likely receive the answer that corn wa
ne not hard TO digest for birds that sWal
er low stones and other hard substance
IS. without detriment. Amoment's thought
49,. however, will convince that the mi
q q stone and the grist are very differer
~ things, and feeding hard grain, althoug
,If not exactly like feeding the mill stone
- with pebbles, bear a certain Likeness
ne to it. The trouble attendant on tn
- preparation of food, if it is to be cooked
.aO may indeed seem very disproportionat
" to the advantage to be derived froI
\ such treatment; but, in reality, littl
~ time need be spent, as before going til
llly rounds Of the nest a little hot watt
iiie may be poured over the corn, tigl
N cover put on the kettle, and the who
IL IL placed on the stove, where, by the tin
lA your rounds are completed, the cor
51' will have become steamed and mellO
IT and have lost none of its good qualitie
III Remember that each hen has a certai
amount of animal force to be expende
10y every day in some direction, and ii
i" less she has to give to digest her Zoe
~. the more she Will have TO give to be e
,IJ pended in producing. The adva
lI.9 .tages of warm food In winter, Wht
: :iiU much food goes toward producing an
lIe nal heat to withstand the cold, are w
~ fold-the direct action of the warmi
and the slower action of the food itsel
dis to say nothing of the fact that. the co
IN tents produc, by nourishing food vi
SITS result in mora eggs, for a hen tho
he oughly at home viii lay more eggs-th'
ere a Disconnected one. We have perfoTmt
~, this experiment ourselves, and knC
ed that feeding boiled corn does pay: a
RI. it is as a result of experience that '
7as offer this plan to our friends.-k
am 4 C{dnOe.