The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-03
FACTS FROM ALL SOURCES.

don range.
FACTS FROM ALL SOURCES.
A Kansas granger suggests that tn,
CHANGERS in that state would do we'll tx
resolve themselves into q great, erant
association, and procure the passage O.
law to prevent the killing of any birG
in Kansas or Nebraska for five years
The farmers of Colorado have already
taken steps to introduce the English
sparrow, hoping it will devour all theil
grasshoppers.
Costar beans have become leading
crop in southern Illinois. Five towns
on the st. Louis and Southwestern rail
road shipped seventy. one carloads last
season to Jersey City and st. Louis.
The factory at Richview consumed 10,
600 bushels. From tho town of Ashley
over 5000 were shipped. Without
doubt there will be decline in "bears'
grease" for dressing the hair.
One firm at Baltimore, Md, is said
to manufacture from Is, 900 to 16, 600
tons of super phosphates per annum,
using bones from South America, end
from Charleston, s. c., bone deposits.
Having found that hogs would starve
and calves be reduced to skeletons
when fed on whey alone, dairyman in
Ohio proposes to use whey as ferti-
lizer. He thinks it should be sprinkled
on the soil and plowed in.
| The culture of tobacco may be looked
upon as one of the principal pursuits
| of Algeria. The tobacco crops for 1874
have been exceedingly abundant, and
| the returns are double that of the pre-
vious year-namely, $3.50, 6O7f. Since
the year 1874 it has been calculated
that the cultivation of tobacco has real
lied 81, O0O, 600 francs.
TO HULL CORN IN TEN MINUTES.
This is the way writer in The Lam
sing Republican does it. "Heat a pot
half full of water, with half the amount
OF good hardwood ashes sifted in.
Pour the shelled lye into it-as much,
if you Wish, as this lye will cover. Boil
1t as quickly as you can, and for five to
seven minutes, or until the hull is eaten
of, which may be, by this time, half or
all jelly, and the kernel not saturated
or swelled any. Then wash it in
colander set in small tub. pouring in
gradually about two pals of water,
while squeezing the corn through the
hands. It is then hulled, and ready for
thorough boiling. which will take
about four hours. Keep the corn COW
cred by pouring in hot water from the
tea-kettle occasionally. The second
hour the corn swells rapidly and alb
serbs great deal of water. The last
hour let it boil very slowly, and simmer
down about dry. Don't stir it any. as
that will make it stick on the bottom of
the pot and burn. Put no salt in it.
When done. it will be as free from
the taste of I've as rice, and if white |
dent corn is used (which I generally |
prefer it will be burst open and white, |
like popcorn. By the above method, |
there is no danger of failure, and the |
secret of success "lyes" in the fact |
that very strong lye is used, which eats |
off the hull or bran before the grain is |
saturated. Hence no parboiliug is nee.
essary."
NATURES ROTATION.
The Western Rural says: A natural |
rotation takes place, even in the meadow |
and pasture, where new races of grasses |
succeed each other as the fields increase |
In age. The alienation of crops as
serts to itself something like the digni-
ty OF natural law, and man is doing
well when he adopts it. But upon what
do its good effects depend? Why do
the broad leaves alternate with the
narrow, in the ancient forest Why do
grasses change in the meadow and pas
eeAOs WY uOOS buo IAIm0f OOGa1Q q |
larger produce, and for greater num-
Der of years, by growing unlike crops
than by continuing year
after year to grow the same? The rea-
son is that one crop carries off more of
one ingredient of the soil. and another
crop more of another ingredient. After
several successive crops of the same kind
the service soil becomes so poor in
available supply of those substances
which the crop requires, that the roots
cannot obtain suficiency to nourish
the plants.
TREES ON BOUNDARY LINES,
The New York court of appeals not long
since decided that man has no right
to the fruit growing upon branches of
tree overhanging his land where the
trunk of the tree stands wholly upon
The land of his neighbor. But the law
regards the overchanging branches as
nuisance, they may be removed as such;
Or the owner of the land may remove
them if he is careful not to commit any
wanton or Unnecessary destruction in
80 doing. Where the trunk CT tree
stands on the line, the owners of the
adjoining land have joint ownership
n the tree and fruit, and neither one
1as the right to remove it without the
consent of the other.
MULES ON THE FARM.
A correspondent of the Buffalo Live
Stock Journal writes That mules are
much better than horses on the farm,
10 one can doubt who has used them
ogether. The mule will do more work !
han horse, on less food, and is rarely i
diseased. They will not endure the
'buse of hard driver as the patient horse
viii, and very often, as an Irishman {
aid, "get Up on their ear" and drive
he keeper from the stable. Of the
many mule teams which have come un-
Ter my observation, L never knew but c
me mule to die before reaching old =
.ge, and in this case, death was caused
y overlooking, in September, when he
lad previously had no grain for long
ime. Some people soy mules are y
vorthless to drive on the road, but
hey are slightly mistaken. One of my
eiehbors has mule team that can 20
-eir mile in three minutes, with lum- {
'er wagon. But some of the fancy E
1en would say, a mule is a homely P
hing. There they are wrong again,
Or IN Louisville, KY, I saw as hand
ONE mule teams as any man would
'ish to see. They were perfect beau 1,
es; one span, in particular, was coal
lack, and looked slick as kittens they 4
ere the envy of many a man, and y
ould have been sold for Thousand =
ollars at any time. If any man wants
} see good mules. let him go to Ken
lcky, where they make a business of
reeding them. These are only few
ints upon the use of these valuable
lrm animals. 6
VALUE OF THOROUGHBRED BOAR =
A breeders circular says that "the
pig, in starting herd, is
1iet1y valuable in breeding the COM :.
on stock. By using q thoroughbred 5!
oar upo1 the common sows. you get 3
that does very we'll for feed u
g purposes, which can be further I'M ILL
rOyed by seIectinp the hest sow MOS