Connecticut western news., 1876-07-07
CENTENNIAL NOTES.
More Curiosities at Agricultural Hall

A Emodel cheese and butter factory, with rooms for an extensive display of dairy products andof the apparatus used in manufacturing them, has been erect ed under, the superintendence of the chief of the bureau of agriculture, and is now open for the reception of butter and cheese from any part of the coun- try. All entries for exhibition can be made free of charge upon forms which will be furnished on application; but freight must be prepaid at the place of shipment. It is suggested that butter offered for competition will be in the most acceptable form if sent as follows: Best sample of 200 or more pounds made at any time; best sample of thirty five pounds or more made at any time; of thirty-fve pounds or more made in each month consecutively; of thirty five pounds or more of the oldest make; of five pounds in one pound prints; of five pounds or more made from the milk of various breeds of cattle. It is also rec omme nded that cheese offered for com petition be classified as follows: Heav- jest cheese of good quality; best cheese of 5000 pounds or more; best three cheeses weighing from three to ten pounds, from ten to thirty pounds, from thirty to fifty pounds, and from fifty to seventy pounds, respectively; best three cheeses of these respective weights arti- ficially coloved; best three cheeses of these respective weights artifcially fla vored; best cheese of these respective weights, of natural color; best three cheeses, for special display in October, weighing not less than forty pounds, and made on the American factory plan, in the second and the third week of June, July, August or September; best three cheeses for special display in Oc- tober, weighing not less than twenty pounds, and made in the second and third week of June, July, August or September; best cheese of oldest make; best lot of three preserved rennets; and best sample of coloring for dairy pro- ducts. i g. ..ai. ,''7 '.' .'
 A nitro-phosphate prepared as fer tilizer by 8 company which t' buys none but fresh bones, '' and believes "that an honestly made phosphate " is the best auxiliary to the barnyard supplies, is now said to be manufactured at less cost than any other equally valuable ma nure. From five hundred to eight hun dred pounds of 1t will fertilize an acre of grass; from five hundred to one thou sand pounds an acre of potatoes; from three hundred to four hundred pounds an acre of wheat; from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds an acre of tobacco, and from two hundred to two hundred and fifty pounds an acre of corn. It is important to remember, how ever, that the nitro phosphate will in jure the stalk of growing plant, and must therefore be applied only to the soil. ..... ... .-.-. ... -.- ...
 But if ro-phosphates improve the soil, chloride of zinc, forced in solution into the pores of wood from which the air and sap have, been extracted, is said to enter into combination with the ig- neous fibers so thoroughly that no amount even of boiling will remove it. while nothing will cause it to come to the surface of the wood by ef1orescence. The object of using the compound is to harden the wood, and to preserve it from animal or vegetable parasites, from insects, and from wet and dry rot.
 From "Collection of Valuable In formation,"o published by Western manufacturer of agricultural imple- ments and distributed in Agricultural hall, learn that people consume too much carbonaceous food; that " carbon dwarfs the soul, !" obscures the mind, so that we see as through glass dark ly," and hastens :" destructive disinte- grafton" that rice pudding is diges- tible, dietetic article;" that cheese and pastry are deleterious food;' that
 death is black camel which kneels before every door," that flaw is trade in which the lawyers eat the oysters and leave the clients the shells;" that soap and water will take out grease stains; that one bushel of corn will make about ten and ha'f pounds of pork; and that when corn costs fifty cents bushel hogs are worth five cents pound.