The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
FACTS FROM ALL SOURCES.

I ACCORDING to the agricultural I
turns of 1874. there has been an increa
instead of decrease in the stock
. horses in Great Britain. The tot
number of horses is 1857, 900. The i
crease during the past five years is &C
900. The excess in 1874 over the nur
Der returned for 1878 is 5000. The,
figures plainly demonstrate that IL
scarcity of equine stock SO loudly cor
planned of is mainly owing to the great,
demand.
The Fultz wheat grown the past SCI
son upon the experimental farm of th
Pennsylvania agricultural college, {
West Grove, Chester county, Pa, ha
yielded at the rate of forty-two bushel
to the acre. The next highest product
were the Brittfny and red wheat, 81 A
60 bushels Rough and Ready, "a 81
60, and White Chaff Mediterranean, 3
40 60 bushels.
The Alabama agricultural college an
a committee of cotton planters hav
established an experimental station
near Wheeler's station, in the northern
part of the state. Eleven acres are t,
be divided into plats of one eighth o
an acre each, on which experiments ar,
to be tried with thirty different kinds o.
qualities of manure, and then repeated
| on subsoiled land.
A MICHIGAN man has raised five lem.
ons on tree which he keeps in hot
house. It took four tons Of coal, and
he sold the lemons for twenty cents.
He is going to enlarge his building 60
as to raise oranges and bananas.
SOUTH AMERICA is the paradise OF
thistles. They are large enough to af-
G For A1oia
~ tall to afford protection to highway
men, who with their horses hide behind
them.
EMPTY oyster and fruit cans are not
of much valne, but if the cap to them
be melted off, and thu cans otherwise
uninjured they may be put to use. It
is good plan TO fill them with lard for
summer use.
The Kansas City Price Current al
ready has information that SO, 500 head
of Texas cattle are to be driven to that
place this season, and thinks the total
drive will equal that of 1874.
The Wisconsin oranges already have
established Al cooperative associations
for selling goods, and manufacturing,
and % insurance companies; all -four
isbing, and representing capital to the
amount of 81, OOO,OOO
In England the small farms rs are
forming clubs for the purchase of short
horned bulls to improve their stock.
Their example might profitably be fol
lowed in this country.
MOISTURE AT WILL.
M. Parar is said to be the discoverer
of way of doing without rain, if neces-
sary. He knew that the air is full OF
moisture, and he knew that chloride of
calcium would attract and condense it
for culturing purposes. He has applied
this chloride on sand hills and road
beds, on grass, on all sorts of soils, sue
cessfully, and he has ascertained that
it may be applied in such proportions
as will produce the irrigation of land
more cheaply and efficiently than by
means of canals or other methods of
securing artificial irrigation. One of
Mr.. Parar's applications will produce
and retain abundant moisture for three
days, when the same amount of water
introduced by the present method will
evarorate in an hour. He believes that
his preparation will not only produce
two blades of grass to grow where but
one now grows, but that it will render
possible fields, meadows, and prosperi-
ty, where now there is nothing but sand
and desert waste.
CHARCOAL KILN.
To correspondent who asked for in
formation about building a kiln for
burning, The New York Times
replies Pale or soft brick will not
answer for charcoal kiln. Only we'll
burned hard brick can be used, as the
wear and tear is considerable. The
common shape of these kilns is conical,
or that of an old. fashioned beehive, or
as nearly as possible the shape of an
ordinary charcoal-pit. 1t is most
to make them of large size,
abo 1T twenty-four feet in diameter and
The same in height. The walls are a
brick and half thick for ten feet up,
and brick thick for the remainder. |
Such a kiln will cost 81, 600, with the
iron doors and bands to strengthen it,
and will hold forty cords of wood,
yielding about ]. 600 bushels of coal at |
each burning. Charcoal is worth twen-
~ five cents a bushel in New York.
SUGAR BEETs.
A correspondent of The Indiana Farm |
sr writes: +" I have raised sugar beets
IN a small scale for several years, with |
very satisfactory results, as they are
eaten in the winter by almost all kinds
If stock with great avidity, and are an
sxcsllent substitute for grass, prevent
ng costiveness, and keeping up a good
appetite. They are rich in saccharine |
matter, and economical food, as they
produce enormous crops on suitable
and, when well cultivated. The most |
land for them is a rich, loamy
soil, somewhat clayey, either naturally
5ry or well-drained. They should be
lrilled in rows, three feet apart, in soil
inely pulverized. They should be
1rilled four or five inches apart in the
rows, and when well started, thinned
,ut to ten inches apart. Cultivate thor
,ughly three or four times with a one
horse cultivator, after which, pull out
,y hand any weeds that may remain or
hat may start after the cultivation is
lone. If the season is favor able you
will get from 600 to 800 bushels per
lcre.
CONCERNING cRocKERY.
When buying crockery, it is poor
to buy an inferior article be-
,ause it can be purchased at one-third
ess price. A first class article of porce-
ain will out-wear many inferior pieces,
nd still preserve its freshness. It
lever absorbs stale odors, no matter
low many times heated. 1t does not
rackle by usage. thus marring its
,eauty. Neither is it as liable to break
When used harshly. Too hot water
,oured over dishes, when cleaning
hem, is a very injurious practice.
Dishes should be washed in suds, and
{ rinsed, the rinsing should never be
90 hot to bear the hand. Hard-boil-
ng wat r poured from the tea kettle
yer dirty dishes is slovenly practice,
7hich will soon tell its tale in cabalistic
haracters all over the face of the
rockery.
PATCHING BOYS CLOTHES.
A motherly woman writing in the
christian Monitor, declares that she
ully agrees with any thoughtful woman
7ho spares her boys the humiliation of
7earing great round or triangular
,atches, when her own skill and a gen.
rous supply of pieces make the re-
Gated pants look almost as well as new
mes. May they hold her in grateful
long after they shall
ave outlived the era of torn trousers.