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The farmers' vindicator., 1875-04-30

which is in large quantities on Mem
phis q Charleston r. R., and | think
also on line of the N. 0. st. L. & c..
r. r., and thoroughly mixed together
you would have cheap fertilizer very
near equal to the best you buy from
factories. The fertilizer made by cot
ton seed oil companies are composed
of cotton seed meal and the ashes of
the hull which they used for fuel.
Knowing that you desire to make
every edge cut, | will ask you if you
have any idea how much cotton you
throw away on your seed, by not hav-
ing good sharp gin saws, and even is a
considerable waste. / have seen forty
two pounds of very clean short staple
gotten off of one ton of cotton seed,
which sold for eight cents while the
cotton market ranged at sixteen to
eighteen cents. You can average the
amount of cotton when taken, say by
fifty tons and Tinted, at about thirty
pounds cotton per ton Of seed. Now
the difficulty with you is to make your
seed turn when you require them, let
me say that shaft with four wings
made to fit in your gin above the gin
saws, with the band attached on out
side Of gin to the ginsaw shaft will
make your seed turn finely. You can
make your shaft of wood, and the
fanges two inches wide also of wood.
The shape of the shaft when complet-
ed and viewed from the end would be
X. 1t takes no time to re-gin your
seed; so try Tiny friends, and keep the
money at home which is either lost or
given to cotton seed oil mills.
If any one has tried an experiment
in the cultivation of Castor beans, |
wish he would let himself be heard
from. | know of fifteen bushels being
raised to the acre without hardly
any cultivation, and | think it is a
subject worthy the attention of our
farmers.
Is it not a shame that Western poul-
try are worth SO much more than ours
and are always preferred, simply be-
cause they are larger and fatter, even
after long tedious ride without water
and food. Improve your stock of
chickens and have good houses for
them with lock to keep Sambo out
Of it.
Hoping l have occupied no unnec-
essary space and if SO please attribute.
it to desire To make some suggestions
for your benefit.
Respectfully,
BUNK.
Osyka, Miss.
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-04-30
Osyka, Miss.

THEJAPAN PEA.-Any Patron ofthe
FARMERS VINDICAToR, who would
like to give this product trial, can
obtain few seed peas, free, by sending
an addressed and stamped envelope to
Prof. j. P. Stelle, agricultural editor
of the Mobile Register, Box $50, Mo-
bile, Alabama, Prof. Stelle was the
first to stir up general interest in the
Japan pea, and he is therefore, desirous
that it should have a fair showing in
all parts of the country. The pea
grows upon a stalk about like that of
cotton, and should be put in as you
would put in cotton crop. The dried
peas prepared for the table on the
/" bacon and beans" plan, must be
soaked twelve hours in water before
cooking.
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-04-30

Cotton Planting season is again on
hand, and would it not be wise in plan
tiers to calculate a little as to the prob
able price they may expect to realize
for their next crop. There is certain
amount of capital used annually, in
the purchase of cotton. If large
crop of cotton is made, this same capi-
tai purchases all of the cotton. If
small crop of cotton is made, this same
crop purchases all of the capital. The
price of any article is governed by the
supply and demand; the world de-
mands about $500, 900 bales of cotton
annually; the crop of 1928 was
3,980,000, the crop of 1894 was
I'LL 900, and the crop of 1S74-5,
according to the present calculation will
most probably be about 1884, 900.
Assuming that the world demands an
nually, 3,500,000, ON the 1st of Sep
tember there will be in store, left over
from the three previous years, 1,40O,-
900 bales all Of this will not be found
in bales, in its raw state or in goods, it
is all the same to the planter.
Now, that we are beginning to plant
for the purpose of supplying demand
for cotton, is it not well to remember
that the demand is half supplied
" Look before you leap."-Aberdeen
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-04-30
Aaritnltnre.
.God Save the PIow."
BY LYDIA H. sIeoURNEY.

See how the glittering share
Maketh earth's bosom fair,
Crowning her brow.
Bread in its furrow springs,
Health and repose it brings,
Treasures that mock at kings,
God save the plowl
Look to the warriors blade,
While DER the encrimsoned glade
Hate breathes its vow.
Wrath its unsheathing wakes,
Love at its flashing quakes,
Weeping and woe it makes,
God save the plow!
Ships DER the ocean ride,
Storms wreck their hammered pride,
Waves whelm their PROV;
While the untroubled vain
Garnereth the golden grain,
Gladdening the reaper train
God save the plowl
Who are the truly great?
Minions of pomp and state,
Where the crowd bow2
Give US hard hands and free,
Culturers of field and tree,
True sons of Liberty,
God save the plow
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-04-30

ever, if he offers it, not that we care
for it ourselves, but just to please some
one else who has been waiting for us
to cancel little of our own obligations.
Our creditors are lenient with us too,
as regards forced collections, but
whether this proceeds from natural
goodness Of heart, or the difficulty of
realizing cash on the sale Of lands l
am not prepared to say.
P. r. LEATHERMAN.
Wooduils. Miss.
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-04-30

How TO ESTIMATE CROPS PER
AcRE.-Frame together four light
sticks, measuring exactly foot square
inside, and with this in hand walk into
the field and select a spot Of fair aver
age yield, and lower the frame square
over as many heads as it will inclose,
and shell out the heads thus obtained
carefully, and weigh the grain. 1t is
fair to presume that the proportion
will be the 43, 560th part of an acres
produce. 10 prove it 60 through
the field and make ten or twenty
similar calculations, and estimate by
the means of the whole number of
results. 1t will certainly enable a
farmer to make a closer calculation of
what field will produce than he can
by guessing.
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-04-30
Cotton Seed as Fertilizer, and
Other Suggestions.

MAJOR WALL: Noticing several
communications in your paper on the
subject of manuring, and suggesting
to farmers to save the same as much
as possible it induces me to make a
suggestion or two to members of the
Oranges, hoping that it will be Of
some little interest to them, and pos
sessed of sufficient merit to induce YOU
to find space in your columns for them.
/ think that farmers can hardly be
aware of the immense drain they sub
ject their lands to by improper cultiva-
tion, and not trying to replace some of
the ingredients which are used in the
maturing Of crop. 1t is undisputed
that shallow plowing is the most de-
structive cultivation that can be car
ried on, as it leaves the land in con-
dition that the first washing rain will
relieve you of the most of your soil,
and deposit the same in your valleys
and bitches. To illustrate to you fully
allow me to draw your attention to the
condition of large portion North
Mississippi, where valleys alone are
productive while the hill-sides barely
average one bale Of cotton to every
seven acres, and it was brought about
by shallow cultivation and without any
to manuring, thus impover-
ishing their land without one thought
to replace the ingredients which their
crops consumed. 1t is strange that
farmers who have the article from
which to make a fertilizer, nearly if
not equally as good as that you buy,
will not take the proper steps to place
it in condition to be easily distributed
On the land. l mean cotton seed.
l think some of you will be surpris-
I'd to know that it takes only four
pounds of soil ingredients to form the
int of five hundred pound bale of
cotton, while to form the seed alone it
axes ffty-six pounds of ingredients
without making and calculation for the
talk. Which figures alone, will con-
yince you that cotton is very exhaust
iv crop, and that you should, replaceas
ar as possible, the Ingredients thus
lsed. l know that great many
hrow their cotton seed in piles for the
purpose of rotting, but it is in poor
even when well rotted to ,
distribute, and even when you think
hat they are in a condition to use,
-ou are mistaken for cotton seed will ,
produce one gallon of oil to the bushel ,
nd great deal of it is almost impos-
ible to rot, from the amount of oil in
hem. have known seed, when sup
'osed to be rotted, to be thrown on a
eld and after two years time good
ound seed was found without any sign
f decay. | would suggest that !
ou prepare it for fertilizer exactly
5 the cotton seed oil mills do, prepar. t
tory to extracting the oil, only you a
Till have the hull mixed with it while I
heyluse itfor fuel, and that is by grind
lg it in corn burr mill. II is then
D nice condition to handle, and also e
leasant. If you could. secure mari
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-04-30

A practical sermonizer made these
remarks ON the soul.saving question !;
"My brethren, a man cannot afford
to lose his soul. He's got but one,
and he can't get another. If man
loses his wife he can get another; if a
man loses his horse, he can get anOth-
er, but if a man loses his soul-good-
bye John.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-03
From San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2nd,-The
inquiry into the loss of the steamer
Japan has elected a much greater
amount of evidence than that adduced
at Hong Kong. Captain Waterman,
Inspector of Hulls, conducted the in
vestigation on behalf of the Govern
ment, assisted by Mr.. Hawkhurt, En-
gineer-Superintendent of the company.
1t is impossible to say exactly what
the report will be, as the examination
has been conducted privately, but it is
probable that different conclusions
will be reached as to the cause of the
disaster; that the fire did not origin
ate in the coal-bunker, but in the
hold, and had gained great headway
when discovered.
In the Board of Supervisors last
night, resolutions were adopted to re-
investigate the account of Il. p. Buck
ley, ex-License Collector, the sessions
to be public, the same being necessary
in the judgement of the Board SO as to
show the conduct pursued and the
amount of defalcations in the man
agement of the department, and so
that the the ends of justice may be
SuuSerVeu anu tue duOuuI OUT OI
which the city has been defrauded as
certained, and that the same may be
recovered by due process of law.
An affray on Clinton street yester-
day afternoon, resulting from family
difficulties, in which J. Niphan stab
bed Thomas Origins in the thigh
and abdomen, and it is feared fatally.
Niphan was arrested on the charge of
assault to murder.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-03
Congressional News.

WASHINGTON, March 1st.-The Sem
ate to-day considered the Tax and
Tariff bill, and laid it on the table by
vote of 30 to 20.
The House adopted Buffers amend
ment to the Sundry Civil Appropria-
tion bill, appropriating $4,000 for the
prosecution of the claim of the United
States to the New Idria California;
Mining Company's lands, by vote of
100 to 56.
The following California items were
agreed to in the Sundry Civil Appro-
priation bill: TO survey the Pacific
Coast, $23l, 900; expenses of the Sur
veyor- General of California, $1,000;
the survey of public lands, $4,000; the
Benicia arsenal, $4,000; expenses of
the New Idria suit, $4,000; Navy Yard
at Mare Island, $4,000; Appraisers
stores at San Francisco, 500, 900; Ma
rine Hospital, San Francisco, $150,0O0.
Pengra, of Oregon, failed to obtain a
recommendation from the Interior
Department for bill granting indem-
nifty scrip in lieu of lands claimed by
the Military Wagon Road Company,
but included in the klamath Reserva-
tion.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-03
A Tanbery Burned.

STOCKTON, March lst.-A disastrous
eonfagration occurred here last night.
The Pacific tannery, owned by Kull-
man, Wagner & Co., was burned.
When first discovered, the flames were
bursting through the roof. The build
ing and all its contents, except the
books, papers and money in the office
were destroyed. The proprietors esti-
mate their loss, including the building,
stock aud machinery, at from $75, 1000
of 100000. The insurance Is small.
This is the third time this property has
been destroyed within few years.
Thirty-five or forty persons were
thrown out of employment. The orr
gin of the fire is not known, but many
suppose it to be the work of an incen-
diary. The tannery was the largest
manufacturing establishment in this
city and its destruction is a public
calamity.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-03
PRICE, 10 Gents.

This edition contains thirty-two pages of
double column matter, every article OF which
is descriptive of some thing or some part of
Los Angeles valley. The following are the
County and Los Angeles Valley" "The South
ern Pacific Railroad" "The Los Angeles and
Pacific Rallway;u sour Railroad Wants."
steamers, Rail and Stage;" "The Assessors
Figures, )" "spadra and the Surrounding Coun-
try" "The Ell Monte District "Los Nietos,"
"wilmington." :" "Anaheimp p "san Fernando"
"Centinela Colony "Compton, )" "The Tustin
SettIementp ''Santa Ana" "Cienega and La
Ballona," westminster Colony" "Semi-
Tropical and Other Fruits" "Fruit Drying
Works." "what Grains Flourish Here" "The
San Gabriel Valley" potatoes In Los Ange-
les Valley" "san Bernardino County"
"Mines in Los Angeles County," "Mines in
San Bernardino and Inyo Countless" "Mar-
BILE Discoveries, Petroleum Oil ""Climatic,"
"Fuel, Water, Cas-" "Banks and Commerce."
"Public Library" "Schools in Los Angeles
County, aChurches,r "Sea Bathing" Be-
Sides these there are many other articles Of
equal interest. This pamphlet contains more
reliable information concerning semi-tropical
California than can be found in any other
publ ication. 1t will be sold at fifteen cents
per copy-the cost OF publication.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-03
Will None Of It.

The persistent efforts of politicians
to draw the Grange into politics and
thus convert the organization into an
engine for hoisting themselves into
office have, we are happy to say, thus
far signally failed. And so long as
the Grange is true to its principles
so long as it is controlled by farmers
it will not sink into the filthy pool of
politics and become the tool of schem-
ing and dishonest politicians. Almost
every subordinate Grange, especially
those in the vicinity of large towns
and cities are beset with men who are
not farmers in the true sense of the
term, and who have no sympathy
with the faImers' interest or regard
for the farmers welfare. They want
to become grangers not because they
desire to aid in the development
and advancement of our agricul-
tural resources, but in the
hope that they may WELD the
Grange power for their individual
interests-that they may call them
selves the "Grange candidate" for the
office they have in view. We doubtif
many of these curb-stone farmers will
succeed in worming themselves into
the Grange, and we have too much
faith in the good sense of the farmers
to believe that these new converts to
the profession of CINCINNATUs will
ever reach the goal of their ambition
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-03
gos An9elrs 4lerajd,
:lTY AND COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
wEDNEsDAY,.......MARCH8 8, 1875.
That Mares Nest.

That wonderful pass which the en-
gineers of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road Company discovered in the Cajon
mountains has passed in its checks
and passed out of sight. 1t proved to
be sort of Jack o. lantern "a mirage
that existed "in my minds eye,
HoRATIo." The latest information
from the front is to the effect
that the Southern Pacific people have
abandoned their pass and vacated the
premises and that Mr.. CRAWFORD,
Chief Engineer of the Los Angeles
and Independence Railroad, has To-
Gated his lines through the pass proper
and has large force of graders man
ufacturing road bed as fast as muscle,
shovels, picks and powder will do the
work.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-03
Water Power.
work.

1t is a subject for wonder that the
great water power facilities of Los
Angeles and vicinity have not attract
ed more general attention from the
many manufacturers and machinists
who have from time to time visited
our city. Around the foot of the
chain of hills which grid our city on
the West and Southwest are the natu-
raj sites for dozen manufacturing es-
Establishments, each of which could OBJ
tain an abundant water power at mere
nominal cost. The city owns the
water of the Los Angeles river and
will always make the most liberal ar
rangements with those who desire
water power for manufacturing pur-
poses. The water is used for irrigat-
ing purposes on the level valley and
that portion of it which is brought
over the hills from the river may do
the work of q thousand horse power
engine before it reaches the field of
operation as an irrigator. Los Angeles
valley needs now beet sugar factory,
paper mill and half a dozen other
manufacturing establishments,among
them an agricultural implement man.
ufactory. These are industries that
must come and the men of business
and capital who come first will secure
the best localities OH the most liberal
terms and build up large trade with
out contending with opposition.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-03
The Louisville Library Lottery.

LOUISVILLE, February 9th. The
Library drawing began this morning.
The managers having announced last
night, that only 38 per cent. of the
tickets having been sold prizes would
be scaled in the same proportion. The
capital prize of $4,000 was drawn by
ticket 89,271; and the second prize,
$39, 900, was drawn by ticket 10,075.
The amount of the capital prize has
been reduced from $250,000 to 800 900.
The $500 prizes have been drawn by
the following tickets: 46,l6l, 47,27l,
so, l0Z, S3,423, $685.. The $3,S00
prizes have been drawn by the follow
ing numbers: 6l,145, 53,Sl3, 25,633,
Al, ,450, 40,1 The $1,000 prizes have
been drawn by Nos. 1877, 1912, 2l,-
81, So, ,235, 5S, 1853, 57,l16, 54,43l, LOLA,
77,S45, 1850, SS,S16, 92,292, 9l,171.
The $3.50 prizes have been drawn by
Nos. 49,S49, AZ, 1872, 3l,Sl5, 20,242, 75,-
666, 76,l43, 57,S24, 1924. The ST, 140
prizes were drawn by Nos. 53,784, 63,-
129, rs, ,102, 92, 152, So, ,74S, $1,000, 65,374,
$40, 14,217, 5000, 1888, %, l45, 49,
Oil, 40,079, 5,09S.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-03
Cultivation of Small Fruit.

The HERALD is in daily receipt of
letters from people in the East, en-
quiring what a person or family with
small capital can do In Los Angeles
valley in the way Of fruit raising. 1t
depends a good deal on what is con-
sldered small capital, anu OH the
kind of fruit one proposes to grow.
To do anything the capital should be
sufficiently large to secure few acres
of land on which to make the home.
This may be done with sum ranging
from ST, 800 to $4,000. Now, if it is
proposed to grow oranges, lemons and
lines, some provision must be made
for living from the time the trees are
set out until they begin to bear a
period of not less than five years.
Suppose the trees are five years old
when set out, they will yield no re-
turn until they are ten or eleven years
old. This is not an encouraging pros
pect for family that has expended
its small capital in land and trees. A
return is received from peach, apple,
and pear trees something sooner than
in the middle or Eastern States. But
a profit may be realized from land
planted in semi tropical fruit trees,
long before the trees themselves bear
fruit 1t is all the better for the trees
if the land is cultivated, and if the
space is occupied with vines and small
fruit shrubbery, handsome profit is
the result. The blackberry, currant,
raspberry and strawberry may all be
grown on land planted with semi
tropical fruit trees. Except the straw
berry, but little attention has been
paid to the cultivation of small fruit
in this valley. These products are re-
ceiving more care now than formerly,
and we have no doubt they will come
to be the means of support for families
with small capital during the inter
mission between the planting and the
yielding of their orange groves.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-03
Compromise q Failure.

NEW ORLEANS, March 1st.-The
Committee ofSeventy, at meeting
tonight adopted resolutions condemn
ing and repudiating the Wheeler COM
promise, and requesting United States
Senators friendly to the cause of
Louisiana to oppose the passage in the
House of the Joint Resolutions recog-
nizing Kellogg; and declaring their
intentions in behalf of the Conserva-
tive Democratic people of Louisiana
never to recognize the Kellogg gov
ernment, but to oppose it before Con-
gress and the people of the United
States.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-03

Bishop Ames tells story OF slave
master in Missouri, in the olden times
of negro vassalage, who said to his
chattel "Pompey, hear you are a
great preacher.n eyes, massa, de
Lord do help me powerful sometimes"
"Well, Pompey. don't you think the
negroes steal little things on the plan
tation?u "Ise mighty 'fraid they
does, massa.u 'Then, Pompey, |
want you to preach a sermon to the
negroes against stealing" After a
brief reflection Pompey replied: "You
see, massa, dat would never do, cause
'twould trow such copness over de
meetin'."
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-03
PROBATE NOTICE.

TN THE PROBATE COURT OF THE
Il county ofLos Angeles, State of California.
In the matter OF the estate of S. M. Stout,
deceased.
Lavina Stout. the Administrative Of the es-
tate of S. M. Stout, deceased. having this day
filed her final account OF her administration
OF said estate, and 1t appearing by said ac-
count and report accompanying the same
that the said estate is ready for distribution,
IL is now ordered that the Isl day OF April at the
Court room of said Court in the city of Los
Angeles, Mt 10 O'Clock A. NJ, is hereby fixed for
the settlement of said account and distribu-
ton OF said estate; and that all parties inter-
ested must be notified to appear on said day
and show cause, IL any they have, why said
account should not be approved, said estate
distributed and the administration thereof
closed, by publication of o copy OF this order
for four successive weeks in the Los Angeles
Weekly HERALD, newspaper published in
said county
Los Angeles, Feb. %, 1875.
II. X. S. O'MELVENY,
Attest Probate Judge.
A. w. POTTS, Clerk.
By Z. H. OWEN, Deputy. f27:5tw
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-03
Heaven in California.

The Charlottesville Indiana, Star,
of January 26th, speaks as follows of
California and of a Californian who
was passing through that town on the
cars to his home in Indiana:
One of the curiosities at the Railroad
Junction the other day was man di-
rect from San Diego, California. 1t
was one of our coolest mornings, and
as the shivering traveller told the gap
ing crowd how he had left the land of
gold, but a week since, with the flow
ers all in bloom, the green grass
spread out beneath his feet, the earth
and air teeming with animal and veg
etable life, the streets full of gaily-
dressed people in their Summer attire,
and the whole beneath Summer sky
and a Summer sun-the motley crowd
of interested hearers presented a
strange appearance of mingled awe and
wonder Loafers who never had
any higher ambition than to sit on the
warm side of sunny building and
whittle ON q store box, were all atten-
tien, and wished they were in that
blissful cline never disturbed by Win
ter's chilling blasts, and where drunks
can repose under a harvest moon at
any time or season of the year and
never freeze. And as that poor shiv-
ering stranger, in obedience to the
order all aboard sprang upon the
moving train, to those listeners he
seemed an angel sent from some far
away paradise; and the name of the
golden-gated city of Frisco fell on
their willing ears as the sound of rip
pling waters to the desert-worn pill
grim. 1t is doubtful if it is possible
to-day to convince one of those loafers
that the Golden State is other than the
abode of angels, or that the half-frozen
traveller was not a. messenger sent
direct from those far-off land of Peri,
bidding them to Gomez