The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-24

| for green sumac. It is used in the man
ufacture of the finer kinds of leather
especially morocco and similar goods
and is also employed as q dye in color
ing calicoes and delaines. Twenty thou
| sand tons are used annually in the coun
try, two-thirds of which comes from Sic
ily. Mr.. w. johnson, East Saginaw
Mich, may furnish additional infor
nation, or any reader who can, is invited
to do SO.
SAUCE FOR THE 0ANDER.
You cannot insist upon immediate
cash for every article you sell at fair o.
market, and at the same time expec
the shopkeepers with whom you deal Il
give you heavy credit, to Be honore6
only at your own pleasure, or when il
suits your own within. It has come to
this in some quarters that shopkeepers
have nearly all their working capital
out with farmers, who seldom think OF
paying till they are forced to it, and
that they themselves are oftentimes Sc.
riously hampered in their business
transactions, and made to suffer risk,
danger even, and when perfectly sol
vent, in trying to meet their short-dated
bills. -SIubb's Gazette.
A RAT TRAP.
A trap mentioned by the London
Builder called the butchers trap has
the merit of taking advantage OF the
rats nature and habits in order to COM
pass it's destruction. The way of max
ing it is to get good sized cask and
tie over it q strong piece of paper or
parchment, like drumhead. Put this
cask in the place infested, and on the
head of it q few bones, rice, or other
specially tempting bait. Let this be
done at least for q week until the bait
disappears. Next place two bricks, one
on each other, inside the cask at the
bottom, and All with water to the level
of the top brick. Tie on the parchment
as you would q Jam pot, and with q
sharp pen-knife cut in the centre q
cross, about three inches each way. A
rat on passing over the cross-cut VIII
fall through it, and on getting into the
water will at once get upon the brick
and make such . squeal as will call his
friends to the top of the cask to slip
the hole themselves as they
will all make for the brick, and terri
10 fight takes place for tho brick, In
the morning nearly all will be found
drowned or bitten to death.
FOR BLIND srAooKRs IN FIGS.
Prof. Law gives the following: When
The hogs is attacked, dash bucketfuls
Of cold water over the body, throw q
purgative injection into the rectum,
of six ounces of sulphate of
soda, and one or two teaspoonfuls OF
spirits of turpentine in ten ounces OF
water, Setons saturated with turpen-
line may be inserted under the skin be-
hind the ears, or the back of the neck
nay be blistered by rubbing in the fol-
owing mixture: Spirits of turpentine
md liquid ammonia, one ounce each,
With powdered cantharides, two
lrachms.
THE BEST BREED OF HOGS.
A correspondent of The National Live
stock journal writes find the Po-
and China (Magie) the most profitable
hog, making the most pounds OF pork
ior food consumed, aud paying better
han any other hog with which have
over had anything to do. I have had
Chester Whites, and thin
lind hogs, but none have paid me 30
veil As the Poland Chinas. I once had
! litter of pigs (seven in number) come
Nov. 10; fed them on corn until the
;hird week in May, when I sold them.
With an average gross weight OF 264
pounds. Ionce had another litter from |
he same SOW come the first week IN
June fed them corn to Nov. IS, when
hey weighed $40 pounds continued
% feed as above stated until Feb. 8
lrove them six miles to the scales,
vhere they made 1916 gtoss average.
lid not feed them with any other view |
han to make an average lot OF them.
/ could have done better with them.
doubtless, if l had handled them with |
view of seeing just what could be
lone with them.
NOTHING adds more to the beauty OF |
rees than q growth of mistletoe. A
writer in an eastern paper says: The |
pest way to propagate the mistletoe, 1s |
o cut a slit on the uuderside of q |
,ranch, keeping the incision oren with |
knife until with the other hand the |
ipe berry is pressed into it: on with |
lrawine the knife the berry will be |
ound firmly held, and in due time will |
produce the time honored mistletoe |
,ough, but patience is required, for it |
8 not inclined to mushroom growth.
Ar q meeting of the Mineral grange,
Jasper county, Missouri, the different |
Methods of destroying ehinch bugs |
we're discussed, and the following was
adopted: Resolved, That
We the patrons of Mineral grange dis
the destruction OF quails
md other insect destroying birds at any
'eason of the year.
TIE roof of Westminster abbey, in
London, long supposed to be OF oak,
Vhen examined last year, was found to
% of chestnut. It was sound and per-
ect, although it had stood for eight
centuries already, which would go to
,how that chestnut timber is pretty
rood for building purposes.
THEY have a very stringent dog law
n West Virginia. Any person Is
Flowed to kill dog, found chasing
Iheep. without Judge or jury" The
,vner of the dog is liable to all dam
,pes done. and is also liable to pay a
me of 81. so per day for every day he
reeps the dog after notification OF his
owe for live mutton.
A LONDON paper states that the
round moles may be driven away by
,Iacing clothes dipped in gas-tar in their
'uns.
In the vicinity of Santa Barbara, Gal
fornia. barley was harvested the 10Th
4 March, and farmers were preparing |
o raise q crop of corn on the same |
and.
THERE is q hen farm near Marietta, |
Ia. sixteen acres in extent, stocked
With 800 fowls. 1t il divided into acre
OTIS, containing forty six hens and four
ocks. A large number of shade, fruit |
nd ornamental trees are on the place. |
fauperism in the So nth
The New Orleans Picayune is pub
ishing a series of articles in the hope
# doing something to lead the plant
ng class out of what it calls the present