Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-12-05
Farm. Garden End Household.
FAttsning Fowls.

: Lucy Hooper writes from Paris to
the Philadelphia Press! "The great
est curiosity in the Jardin d'Acclima-
ton is the singular fowl-fattening ma
chine, which has been in operation for
short time, but which is a great sue
cess. Imagine the top of a round tea
table divided off into sections, with a
4 partition between each section and a
board In front with half moon-shaped
aperture in it. In each of these Sec
tons an unhappy duck or chicken is
confined by chain to each leg, and
= under each is fitted tray, which re-
ceives all the dirt AID is emptied daily.
Through the center of this structure
goes round post, and there is series
OF such tea-table tops to the roof of the
building, each with its divisions and
( ns imprisoned fowls. At stated inter-
walls man comes round with some
what complicated machine filled with a
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 q
pedal with his foot, and certain GUAM
tity of food is forced through the tube
into the creatures craw, a disk above
showing exactly what amount of force
he is to use and how much food passes.
This process is CONS through with each
fowl TIL all are fed, and it is repeated
four times day for ducks and three
Tor 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 a cruel one, as the
amount of food forced down their
- Threats is not excessive. The ducks
which saw fed did not seem to suffer
in the least, and in fact when they saw
the man approach most of them became
clamorous for immediate attention, and
plucked at his clothes as he passed,
with eager beaks.
Gee The Barrel of Pork,
It appears that the recent action 81
Che Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
in adopting the national standard barre
- OF mess pork was in violation of al
Ohio law, and therefore is nugatory
The law reads as follows: =,
That each barrel. of beef or porl
put up FOR expectation in this STATE
shall contain 200 pounds weight O.
soupd,' clean, well-slaughtered meat
and such only as is well-fatted, which
sH shall be denominated as fellows.
Each barrel of mess pork shal
consist of twenty-five pieces, of eigh
pounds weight each, as near as may be
making 200 pounds of pork, taken from
the middlings or sides Of hogs weighins
upward of 200 pounds each.
The pieces of pork shall be packed Of
the edge, with at least fifty pounds o
e clean, fair salt, and two ounces of salt
petre to each barrel, and when thu
packed and headed each barrel shall b
@'- allied up with strong pickle"
This makes it clear that neither til
present standard nor the previous on
OF 1876 pounds conformed to the law
indeed, one is as complete violatio
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 G
condensing great deal of informatio
about wheat-growing in a very sma
compass, and somebody else has set
at1oat without credit. If we could, W
would gladly give the name of til
author
The best soil for wheat is rich ella
loan. 49,.
a. Wheat likes good, deep, soft bee
"a Glover turned under makes Just sue
-..- bed.g
''-- TIE best seed is plump, heavy, oil
and clean. -ra
.,:sl About two inches is the best dept
for sowing the seed. &c..
The drill puts in the seed better an
cheaper than broadcasting.
From the middle of September to I'll
last of October is the best time fl
sowing.
If drilled, one bushel of seed p,
acre; if broadcasted, two bushels.
One heavy rolling after sowing dot
much good.
For flour, cut when the grain begin
to harden; for seed, not until it hi
hardened. ~
To Preserve Grapes.
A lady from Westfeld, Pa, writes
very sppreciative letter. She sen,
the following: First, pick off all u
sound or unripe ones, and lay the clu
tiers in an empty room on papers UNI
dry, for in all packages some will
crushed and dampen others. Then
empty crate will do to pack them i
First layer of grapes, then thic
ness of paper, SO as to exclude the 6
and keep them separate, then grape
then paper, and SO on until you ha
three or four layers-no more. If t
box is to hold more, put in partitio
to support the others that are to
packed. We packed hundreds
81, pounds thus last year, and they Ike
perfectly until the middle of Marc
and, had the supply not been
& vhausted, sthey could have been Ike