The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-29
AGRICULTURE.

| Va, at the remarkable age of sixty
years. This animal, notwithstanding
his great age, was an excellent worker
mp to the day previous to his death.
| THE New jersey legislature has passed
a law imposing fine of $50 and impris-
oEment on any body convicted OF adulter-
ating milk or feeding cows so as to pro-
duce impure milk.
THE farmers and fruit raisers in Cali.
fornia ore suffering from the ravages OF
grasshoppers and cater pillars that have
found their way there from the east.
With grasshoppers, caterpillars, SPUR
rels and rabbits to eat up the crop the
| Golden state is no longer an earthly
paradise.
| THE directors of the granger's state
fair of Alabama offer premiums ranging
| from $50 to $50 for the best single acre
| of twenty-three different farm crops
one of $50 and two of 25 for the best
| crop of cotton and corn raised by boys
| two of 500 each for the best results
from small farms two of $50 each for
| the most valuable experiments in agri-
| culture, and one of 800 for the best
| display of sample crop from one farm.
HOW TO COOK GREENS.
An English journal contains the fol-
| lowing timely article Every housewife
thinks she can cook greens. 1t is the
,, simplest of all dishes and yet, in most
| cases, they are not well served, for much
depends upon the manner in which they
are boiled. The water should be soft,
and q Tablespoonful of salt added to a
large sized pot of it, which should be
boiling hot when the greens are thrown
in; and then it should be kept on the
boiling gallop, but uncovered, until
they are done, which can be told by
their sinking to the bottom of the pot,
and they should be skinned ont as
quickly as possible into colander, SO
that all the water will run out. Press
them with small plate, then turn upon
platter, add large piece of butter,
hot.
VALUE OF MANURE.
A correspondent of The Yves tern
Rural writes By way of encouragement
to those who hsve hitherto ne glected
this important matter, allow me to cite
to you few facts. Twelve years ago
thrashed out seven good sized stacks of
grain, and hauled the straw with sin
gle horse away from the machine. This
straw I allowed to rot down where it
lay. For the last nine years that land
has been titled, and most of the time
has been in corn corn will be on it this
season, and larger, heavier, and earlier
than on any part of the field not ma
nured. Four years ago hauled forty
five loads of barn-yard manure on two
acres of ground, and harvested the first
season seventy-two bushels to the acre,
while the balance of the field only aver
aged forty bushels. Here was an in
crease of thirty, two bushels to the acre,
and this manure on our soil will leave
its mark for at least ten years, and /
judge the increased quantity of corn
during these ten years cannot be less
than two hundred bushels from one
acre. This, at fifty cents per bushel,
would be one hundred dollars pay for
hauling out twenty-five and a half loads
of manure. or nearly four dollars and a
half per load.
FARMS IN THE UNITED STATES.
The following is from Harper's Mag
azine The great improvements that
have taken place in transportation,
which make it possible for the wheat of
Iowa and California to compete in the
English markets with that raised on
the Atlantic sea-board, and which place
Iowa in competition with New England,
have operated to specialize farming. |
The large farmer of to-day raises fewer |
kinds on his farm than did the smaller |
farmer of the last century. This spe-
cialization allows the use of the higher |
appliances and the use of capital as the |
former system could not. The true |
farms have doubtless grown in size, on |
the average. The early settlers of |
nee es sity could till but small farms. |
The tax lists of Long Island for the |
years between 1875 and 1856 show that |
in nine English towns the average land |
holding was about twenty-five acres,
and in the Dutch towns about thirty |
seven acres, or for the whole fourteen |
towns it was twenty-five and one third |
acres, and at that time over ninety per- |
cent. of the tax payers were landholders. |
The national census of 1870 enumerates |
2, $50, 900 farms, or only six and half |
per cent. of which were less than ten |
acres, and more than half of the whole |
number contained over fifty acres.
The cash value of the farms, imple- |
ments, and live stock was placed at up
ward of 81, 900, 900, 900, and the total |
estimated value of all the farm pro-
auctions at about S2,44S, 900, 900. OF
the IL, 800. 900 persons engaged in all
classes of occupation" 5000, 600 were
engaged in agriculture. We have abso-
lutely no statistics of the agriculture |
Of the colon es at the time of the revolu-
ton therefore the actual figures of |
progress cannot be given, and We re.
frain from g. Inmates.
VALUE OF A THOROUGHBRED BOAR.
Every brs eder's circular says that the
pig, in starting herd, is
chiefly valuable in breeding the common
stock. Byusipg common thoroughbred
boar upon the common sOws, you get a
half blood that does very we'll for fe ed |
ing purposes, which csn be further i'm
proved by selecting the best SOW pigs,
feedirg them literally, and again get
ting thoroughbred boar and using on
them, which, if practiced a few years
will produce porkers equal to the pure
blood. But graded or impure males
should never be used, as the tendency
Is to run back to scrub. The thorough
bred, if purchased young, can be had
rom sos to $50 each. He can be used
,ne season md sold or castrated and
ed, when he will of himself almost or
quite pay for his original cost.
At first thought, to many, the price
'or pnre- blooded pig may seem high,
put, really, it is better to pay the price
han let your sows go to scrub for
nothing. Say you pay $25 for boar,
md breed twenty sows. They will raise,
ay one hundred pigs, which is low
stimate. The pigs, then, cost you
cents apiece, and'will make
logs that will weigh at fattening time
rom one hundred 10 two hundred and
ifty pounds more than scrubs (Which
,rade pigs will do on the same feed. You
AVE therefore, an increase Of value, of
500 toS7OO a year, with the price of pork
It IS per hnndred, and you have your
,oar lef5 Can you invest your money
It a larger per cent ?-Anerico,, ,Saoi,,e
7OuTn1i.
BRAN AND CoRN-MEAL FOR COWS.
The Practical Farmer says: 1t is
veil settled in the opinion of all our
pest dairylnen that bran greatly pro-
notes the milk secretions in COWS, and
t is fed almost universally. About
equally mixed with corn meal is the
lsnal prOpnrtiOn This mixture ST ems |