The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-06


| But work or rest, whate'er befall,
The farmer he must feed them all.
FACTS FROM ALL SOURCES.
THE THISTLE TAX.
The Canada thistle is gradually worl
ing its way westward, having no,
reached Iowa and Kansas. It appeare
in Indiana and Illinois several years age
but vigorous efforts were taken on tn
part of the states, and the warfare
constantly kept up. Men are employe,
at regular wages to dig and burn tn
plants, it being Intellectual to leav
them on the surface of the ground t,
dry and die. Wherever the thistle get
a foothold in community, the damag
is equal to tax of 10 per cent. on al
the farming land, at q fair valuation
It is agreed that the seed was first in
troduced, in the hay with which frui
trees are packed. 1t would be better t.
raise ones own trees, and have inferio
fruit, than to be thus burdened
Oranges, agricultural societies, ant
clubs should make it an especial bust
ness to watch the Canada thistle.
THE GRASSES.
DIR. Bachelor, of central New York
talks thus of the different grasses will
which he has been experimenting
Perennial rye grass he considers of NJ
value for hay or pasture, as it will moi
endure the winters but italian rye
grass, he says, is hardy anywhere il
New York, and is one of the most valu
able grasses known either to cut fol
soiling or for hay. In vigor it is like
orchard grass, but it is finer in texture,
and is of the "cut-and come-again
kind" often producing two crops in q
season and then a rich aftermath.
Meadow fescue he finds to be one OF
the most vigorous grasses, adapted to
either meadow or pasture. 1t equals
timothy in the amount of hay and can
be cut at the same time. It is a good
grass to grow with timothy. Sweet
vernal grass ought to be grown in the
meadow to give fragrance to the other
hay. Cattle devour it with great eager
ness. Orchard grass alone, or with the
medium clover, is valuable. but it ripens
too soon for timothy. If cut just before
the fower-scape opens it makes a valu-
able hay, but if left till it ripens its seed
is no better than rye straw.
USES OF sAwDUsr.
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer
writes About six years ago had a
saw-mill set on my farm. At first they
washed the dust, as the sawyers called
it, by letting stream of water run
under the saw. As the water got low
it would not work then they had to
wheel it out in a pile, and when they
went away I had a big pile of sawdust
on my hands. As it was on a good
piece of bottom land that I desired to
pillow, I wanted it out OF my way.
tried to burn it, but it would not burn.
I concluded at last to turn it to some
good account SO when put my hogs
up to fatten I hauled q good load every
few days and threw it in the pen.
They mixed it with their manure and
the cobs, and in the spring had about
twenty loads of the very best manure,
besides keeping the hogs clean and dry.
I used the sawdust for bedding the
horses and COWS put it around my
grape vines to keep down grass and
weeds and the ground moist. The
vines improved wonderfully. So my
is used up, and it has paid.
If was to have mill again I would
make bargain to have the sawdust left
on the ground.
GRATING WAX.
One pound of rosin, five ounces IS
per cent. alcohol, one ounce beef tai
low, one table spoonful of turpentine.
Melt the rosin over slow fire, add the
beef tallow, and stir with a perfectly
dry stick or piece of wire. When some
what cooled add the turpentine, and
last the alcohol in small quantities,
stirring the mass constantly. Should
the alcohol cause it to lump, warm
again until it melts. Keep in bottle.
Lay it on in very thin coat with a
brush. Should it prove thick, thin it
DOWN with alcohol. It is always ready
for use it is never affected by heat or
sold, aud heals up wounds Theoretically.
LIQUID GRATING WAX.
The horticultural gives the follow
ing formula for making Lefort's graft
ing wax, which is said to have been
highly recommended in France and
until lately kept secret: Melt one
pound of common rosin over a gentle
Gre. Add to it one ounce of beef tai
low and stir it we'll. Take it from the
ire, let it cool down little, and then
mix with a tablespoonful of spirits of
and after that about seven
ounces of very strong alcohol, (si1ty-
i've per cent. y to be had at any drug
zist's store. The alcohol cools it down
80 rapidly that it will be necessary to
put it again on the fire stirring it con-
,tantly. Still the utmost care must be
exercised to prevent the [alcohol from
getting infamed. To avoid it, the best
way is to remove the vessel from the
ire whom the lump that may have been
formed commences melting again. This
must be continued till the whole is q
mass similar to honey.
After a few days exposure to the
in thin coat, it assumes a
whitish color, and becomes as hard as
stone, being impervious to water or air.
A Threatening Fashion.
A Paris correspondent writes GA
bint-a prophecy of coming fashion: 1t
is projected in the highest world of the
and ladies' who craato nnr