The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-09-21
Agricultural Jetti ngs.

The corn of Kansas is estimated at
over one hundred million bushels.
The Louisiana planters annually looose
one-third of their cotton crops by reason
of an insufficiency of labor. They call
loudly for laborers from the north.
A Canadian OK weighing 5000 pounds,
is attracting great attention in En9land.
He is exhibited in a building on the
lawn in Surrey garden. The Prince and
Princess of Wales lately called and paid
their respects to him.
John L. Gavin, a Noble county, Ind,
farmer, threshed 400 bushels of wheat
from eleven acres of ground-forty-four
bushels and t~hirty-two pounds per acre,
machine measure, and by weight forty
nine bushels per acre.
New Hampshire is rejoicing in the
largest potato crop ever raised in the
state, and this, notwithstanding the
beetle, which, a contemporary says, does
not grow to near the size out west.s
MoLAssEs CooKIEs,-One cuptul but
ter, two cupfuls molasses, one teaspoon
full cloves, one tablespoonful ginger, SUI
fcient -four to make a stiff batter, not
dough; mold with the hands into small
cakes, and bake in a steady rather than
hot oven, as they are apt to burn.
The experiment in importing the
migratory quail into Vermont is reported
to be proving a success, The Mirror and
Farmer says "They are often seen and
heard in the woods where they have been
placed, and are now raising a large num-
Der of young birds, some of the nest
having twelve and fourteen egss.
JELLY CAKEs.-Procure at the bakers
the crisp, light cookies known as sugar
cakes'--select those of a brown bake
spread the under sides very lightly with
current Jelly and stick together; pile
handsomely in a dish. These are very
quickly prepared. Do not spread them
until just before serving, lest they be-
come heavy.
ICED TEA.-This is a favorite drink at
the south. Make some very strong tea,
half fill a glass with small Jumps of ice
and pour over them the tea. Sweeten
with loaf sugar and add a couple of
slices of lemon. Coffee is very nice iced
in the same manner, leaving out the
ltDlDD anu suDoblbubibS "a iO" bdplSobOoh
fuls OF whipped cream.
Financially, the farmer is the safest
man in the country. Of eleven hundred
and twelve bankrupts in Massachusetts,,
only fourteen were farmers, and yet the
farming community numbers fully half
the population. The people must live,
and while the use of luxuries may be
diminished by hard times, there will be a
| call for the produce of the farm. Farm
ing has, ofcourse, felt the general depres-
sion in business.
To plant and harvest crops is attended
with much care and expense; and most
farmers exhibit c~ommendable industry up
to this point, but when these crops are
to be fed out, many of them do it with
the greatest recklessness. Corn is thrown
to the hogs in muddy, slushy yards; hay
is scattered upon the ground, to be
trampled in the manure by the cattle;
and the clearly sheep receive their hay
and grain in the same manner.
Colorado, this year, produces wheat
enough,Iit is said, to feed its people. The
people of this state claim that the wheat
/ there is the finest in the world. A gen.
eral system of irrigation is adopted, the
extent of which is most surprising. A
canal is now to be constructed, says the
New York Tribune, larger than any
heretofore made. 1t takes the water
from the Platte canon and will extend
thirty miles over the plains, fertilizing
and bringing into market over 100000
acres of land. 1t il 70 be thirty feet
wide and sixty deep.
The burning of straw at threshing
time is a sinful waste. Properly ricked
up, and With comparatively little pastur-
age, it will carry cattle through the