The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-03
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

| A SOLUTION of borax kills both animal
and vegetable protoplasm, and preserves
meat from putrefaction. 1t arrests ro-
tation in vegetable cells, and soon kills
| rotitiers, cutomostraca, and infusorla. 1t
also prevents fermentation.
| A SUBSTITUTE for ink has been de
| yised by DIR. Jacobsen, of Berlin, which
consists of points, like the leads of or
binary pencils, that can be fitted INTO
holders. The writing at first very much
resembles leadpencil marks, but when
moistened Immediately assumes violet
tint, and then adheres to the paper like
ink As many as SIX good copies can be
taken from it by means of an ordinary
| copying press.
ACCORDING to an English patent,
| fresh meat, fish, vegetables, etc., are
preserved by immersing them i'll a more
| or less concentrated solution of acetate
of ammonia, and allowing them to dry
| in the air. If the articles are to be pre-
served for months or years. they are
packed i'll casks or cans filled with n
solution of Il @ salt. The boiling, roast
ing, etc, RET Oily expels the acetate, and
the articles IRE said to be free from the
sweetish taste which acetate OF soda
imparts.
DANGER TO STOCK FROM GYPsUM-
There is great Danger in turning stock
on a gas field on which plaster has
been recently soSn, or until the plaster
has been taken up either by rain or
heavy dcws. At Roanoke, Virginia,
| some stock turned upon n field on the
same day on which it was plastered ali
died III Il few hours There were no
IL dications of "hoven," the stock be-
ing in good condition, and the sudden
death was believed to be solely the
effect of the sulphate of lime.
FIRE RANGED MANURE--Mr. Bryan
TYSON, Washington, ID. c., sends the
World the following upon the above
subject eth is stable or barn yard
manure that has heated in bulk until it
has turned to white moldy color,
being very light. In that condition it
| is scarcely worth carting to field, the
ammonia, which constitutes the piinci-
pal strength. having been driven off
| into the air by the heat. 1 once tested
this matter by manurirg a row of sweet
potatoes with fire-farged manure, put
ting about quart 10 hill, and row
| beside it with the same quantity of
manure that never heated. The IN
heated doubled the yield. Tie fire.
| fanged made no perceptible increase.
IT, is reported that an Italian pro-
lessor has discovered that perfumes
| from flowers have chemical effect on
| the atmosphere, converting its oxygen
into ozone, and thus increasing its
health impartipg flowers. AS the result
of his researches, he states that the
essence of cherry, laurel, lavender.
mint, juniper, melons, fennel and Der
gamot are among those which develop
the largest quantities of ozone, while
anise and thyme develop in a less de-
| gree. Flowers destitute of perfume
have no such effect. He recommends
that jewellers in marshy localities and
places infected with animal emanations,
should surround their homes with q
profusion OF the most odoriferous flow
! ers.
BUCKTHoRN FOR uEDGEs.-The editor
of the Country Gentleman says in an.
swer to question conce rning the buck.
thorn for hedging, that it is easily grown
and transplanted, and forms a hedge
row with less training and cutting than
most plants, ''but having no real thorns,
and not growing to a very stiff tree, the
hedge does not become really formid
able barrier, although making q fine
compact screen. To make it strong fol
hedge, the soil should be rich, and 6
strip of land, several feet wide, kept
well cultivated, and entirely free from
weeds and dry knolls would probably
not be rich enough to give it strong
growth, and wet land would be unde
sirable. OF late years the buckthorr
has been mostly superseded at the NORTH
by the money locust, and in fave rable
localities and in we'll drained land by
the Usage orange.
How LIMBURGER CHEESE is MADE -
The primary steps to the manufacture
of Limberger cheese are similar to those
employed with ordinary cheese, except
that the curd is taken up in n moistel
state, more whey being permitted to re-
main, and the mass is heai ed to a differ
ent degree of temperature, thus pre-
serving all the richness which otherwise
would be lost. 1t is then taken from
the vat and put in perforated molds five
inches square 10y seven inches in depth,
which are placed on the draining table,
where it is allowed to remain a short
time. It is then taken in the cheese
cellar below the ground and put on the
pressing tables, where it remains about
"a hours before it goes to the sailing
table. After four or five days it is
| ready for shelves, where it is placed on
tiers, and changed and rubbed daily for
about four to six weeks before it is
packed. The packing proc :. is done
by rolling it in heavy paper and
covering it with tin foil, when tits ready
for market.
| KEEPING POULTRY IN ORCHARDS
Some farmers make it practive to keep
their poultry in their orchards from
early spring until cold weather sets in
and they find that it pays them for 80
doing. A picket fence should be built
around the orchard, high enough to
prevent their flying over, with suitable
house or shed in one corner of the yard
to she ter them at night. Thus stu
ated, the poultry will thrive and pros
per, keeping themselves in good condi-
ton, and the increase in eggs will be
greatly augmented and their usefulness
and value enhanced to their owners at
least, on account of the Thousand myri-
ads of insects and worms which they
destroy, and which will more than repay
the cost and labor of building the fence.
By keeping them Enclosed in this man.
ner a large number of fowls may be re
tanned in an orchard and the continual
scratching which is done by them will
| prove advantageous both to the soil and
| trees themselves. -M0ssochusetts PloaO-
| man.
FOX'S ROYAL FAMILY,
| Searching the Pastures of the United
| States for Cattle.