Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-02-05
HONE AND FARM.

Tie hour we lost at morn.
HOME AND FARM.
Great crowds Of emigrants are pouring
into California and pouring out again.
The San Francisco newspapers, vain, sell
fish and provincial, persist in writing
rose pink descriptions Of California life
that cannot be realized.
The omission to furnish fowls with
suitable drinking water is one of the
worst features of cruelty to animals.
Those whom we occasionally hear say
that ''there is no profit in poultry" are
not qualified to have the management Of
the same, and in their attentions may be
classed with the thriitless and neglectful
parties who keep fowls that get drink
when it rains.
TIE DAIRY INTEREST N WILLIAMSON
John Il. McEwen, Esq, is establishing
4O-cow power dairy on SpenCer's creek,
one and one-half miles from town. He
has an experienced dairyman from Cana
da in charge of it. Cheese will be manu-
featured and butter and milk sold. This
is the pioneer enterprise in this section
and we hope it will succeed. Some but
ter made there has been exhibited in town
and was pronounced the most beautiful
ever seen here All we want to make
porous in the globe is to have all our
citizens take the same interest in enter
prises of this character as the gentleman
referred to dOes.-Review and journal.
VALUE or IMPROVED STOCK.-A writer
in the New York Times puts the question
plainly in saying that if a farmer keeps
thirty cows that average $50 a year for
milk, and he can increase the average to $40
year by the use of a thoroughbred bull,
4 III. !.
TO pay round sum for Il bull. And yet
better results than this have been accom-
plished. II he is raising cattle for beef,
and he can add two hundred pounds to
the carcass of each, by the time it is rea-
dy for the SHAMELESS, by the use of a short
horn bull, it viii certainly be profitable
for him to pay Il good price for such
bull. And yet this is the average result
of using thoroughbred bulls on the ma
tive cows of the country, as estimated by
all tho stock breeders. And this two
hundred pounds of clear gain, for it IS
produced with no greater consumption OF
food. If the use Of n thoroughbred ram
on flock of common ewes will increase
the weight of fleece one pound en- the
average, certainly more than Five hun
dred would make it pays" whether more
than one in five would or not, is another
question. And so with hogs. The diff
ference between the common "woOds"
breeds Of to day, is beyond comparison.-
Home Journal.
PREVENTING THE CoGROsIoS OF IRON
METALs.-A mastic for preventing the
corrosion of iron and other metals when
immersed in fluids calculated to generate
galVanic action is among the French in
MENTIONS. Its ingredients consist of thir-
ty-eight per cent. of sulpher, five per
cent. of gutta percha, six per cent. of
minimum or red lead, seven per cent. of
white lead, ten per cent. fpitch, ten per
cent. of aosin. and four per cent. of spir-
its of turpentine. The sulpher is melted
in one vessel, and the coal tar, gutta
percha, minimum, white lead, pitch and
rosin, all together, in an other; but be-
fore adding the gutta percha to the coal
tar, it is dissolved, rs much as possible,
in the spirits of turpentine. When all
these ingredients have melted, the sui
pher is poured in very gradually from
the separate vessel, the whole is then
thoroughly mixed and the composition
applied hot by the aid of a brush, or the
article to be coated is dipped into it.
The WATER LocoMorIvE.-AI Huet's
theory of the water locomotive has eX-
cited considerable interest. He thinks
it Il mistake for ships to have to force
their bulk through the water, meeting
thereby the large opposing surface OF
water, and a sliding friction over the
whole of their immersed surface; this he
holds TO be, in fact, rs much of an error
as il would be TO dismount railway cars
from their wheels aud drag them, like
sledges. along the rails. He boldly ar
CUES that vessels should be
mounted on rolling drums, that these
drums should give principally the dover
of tlotation, and that they should be drlv-
en- round as paddles 10 move the snip for
ward. In this way there would be 10
ting locomotive mounted on its wheels
or rollers; the vessel would offer no re-
sistanCe but rolling one TO motion: the
whole of the supported weight of the
ship would be used as useful pressure
to give adhesive fractional effect TO
the rollers, and high velocity attained.
Magnetic ELECTRIC MACHINE.-A Lon
don inventor, after having perfected a
magnetO-electricm machine driven by two
and-a-half horse power, and equivalent
to five hundred Bunsen cells but costing
only from twelve to fifteen cents per day
to run it, is reported to have been engag-
ed for some time past in making one equal
to one thousand such cells. With this he
proposes TO produce chemically pure cop
per, which is now worth from three to
four shilling per pound, at the cost of or
binary commercial copper; potassium
and soda at less than half their present
y
shillings per pound, at thirty or thirty
five shilling, and magnesium, calcium
and other rare metals ut prices which
will bring them into general use. He is
also sanguine of his ability to purify two
tons of pig iron from phosphorus, sui
pher, carbon, silica, in eighteen or twenty
minutes, at saving Of two-thirds Of the
coal.
DRYING SWEET CoRN-J. NJ. Havuer,
of Lebanon, in southern Ohio, formerly
carried on distilery, but found the sweet
corn business more profitable. lie raise
over 500 acres of this crop annually
The drying house employs 80 persons.
The fresh ears are steamed five minutes
TO "set the milkn-the grain is then cut
Otfrapidly with cutters having coRCaye
faces. 1t is then spread ON perforated
zinc tables, and heat applied four or five
hours from long furnaces, stirring con
stantly. Ii is then packed in barrels of
three bushels each for shipment. Great
care is required to have the corn just ut
the right age, and to have il dried Just
enough to keep well. Four bushels of
fresh corn in the crib make one buShel
dried-the wholesale price Of which is
$50 TO $22 per barrel. At fifty bushels OF
corn per acre, 500 acres would Weld 20
600 bushels, and give over 1900 barrels of
dried corn, which, at $50 per barrel,
would be $4,000.
On one occasion, when there was an
abundance Of peaches, he dried Il hun
bred bushels day by means of his corn
dryers, the skin being just removed by
slightly scalding with alkali, which was
again neutraliZed with acid so as TO re-
move all Objectionable taste. When
peaches are cheap drying in this wa
would prove profitable, were 1t not that
the apparatus is needed ut the same time
for the cOrn.-COuntry Gentleman.
POTAsH AND PHOSPHATEs.-Ley Bart
lett, of New HamShirc, whom we have
known rs a writer for the agricultural
press some forty years, has just had pub
lished in the Country Gentleman his
thirteenth communication on the subject
of potash and phosphates." Speaking
ofrecent experiments made by "a professor
in the Massachusetts Agricultural COL
lege, he says:
The conclusion to which Prof. Storer
has arrived, after three years careful eN-
perimenting with q great variety of uatu-
raj and commercial fertilizers for the sue
cessful growing of three kinds of farm
crops on these light and sandy soils-bar-
rem as they generally appears that
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