The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-19
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road.
BYRAM STATION MARL-

ton, on the view OTleanes 81. LOUIS anu
Chicago Railroad, ia miles from New
Orleans. The immense deposit of mari
at this station we have noticed ID previ
Gus articles. Mr. Erwin Lewis, the pro
prietor of the mari, lives at this station.
He informs US that our articles have at
tracted considerable attention to this
point, and that eight car loads of mari
have been taken to Crystal Springs and
stations below, as far down as McComb
City. Mr.. Lewis has received many let
tiers of inquiry about these marls, some
from the Western States.
COST OF MARL BY THE TON AND CAR LOAD.
A car will take about 30, 600 pounds at
a time. 1t can be delivered on the cars
at Byram Station at 50. so toI, or S62. 90
ear load. The Railroad Company will
take it to any point on the road at the
lowest railroad rates, a cent a ton mile
or twenty cents mile car load, about
S35 car load to New Orleans. Cost
per ton delivered anywhere, above or
below, not over 80 miles from Byram
Station So to "a a ton.
EXPERIMENTS WITH MARLs.
Prof. Hillgard has shown from analy
sis the composition of marls in different
parts of Mississippi, and particularly
that at Byram Station but we have been
astonished that no complete experiments
have been made with tkis valuable fer
tilizer; or we can hear of none. What
we want to know now is how much
should be spread upon an acre of pine
land, or any other lands, and what the
increase would be in the corn, or cotton,
or potato, or grass crops, or any other
crops by the application of So, $40 or
$40 worth of mari to the acre. What
will it do for fruit trees, gardens, etc?
How much can gardens, farms or fruit
growers afford to pay per ton for it? We
hope to get satisfactory answers to such
questions next fall.
This mari is made up of marine shells
principally, but occasionally bones are
per cent. of lime. Mr.. Lewis informs us
that it has been applied very successful
ly to fruit trees on sandy soil, and that it
destroys the borer, and other enemies
to fruit trees.
THE PEACH CROP-CANNING PEACHEs-MAR-
KET GARDENING,
CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Copiah Co., Miss.,l
Dec. 4, 1877.
Copiah County is the great fruit CEN
tire of this section of Mississippi. Over
a hundred thousand boxes of peaches
have been sent from Crystal Springs,
Terry and Hazlehurst to Western and
Southern markets in one year. If they
can get reduced rates on the railroad and
other facilities, they will doubtless dou-
BILE their late crop in few years. They
will also greatly increase their crops of
early vegetables for Western markets.
From present appearances the first flow
of immigrants to this country will be
fruit growers and gardeners, chiefly from
the Western States
CANNING PEACHES.
1t has for some years appeared to us
that canning peaches and canning and |
various kinds of fruits in this |
country should become an important and |
paying industry. Numerous objections
have been raised, but the country is full |
IF objections and stumbling blocks, which |
prove nothing but the stubborn oppose
ton of objections to progressive move-
nents and small industries. Some con-
end that Southern fruit will not keep
ike Northern fruit; that this climate is
to canning that the fruit
Foments badly in this climate, and other
objections too numerous to repeat
AS answer to most or all of these OBJ
ections we will state that we saw yes
.erday at Mr. Joseph H. Miller's, a jar
Of peaches put up in 1871, six years ago,
BY Mrs. Miller, and the fruit looks as
lice and fresh, and pure as peaches put
Up this season. The jar has not been
opened for six years. Msr. Miller puts
up canned fruit every year, and says she
las no trouble in keeping the fruit as
perfect as that contained in the jar of
L871, which contained Crystal Springs
peaches, good sugar and pure water, and
nothing else.
And this is her recipe, which she
brought from New Jersey, and we sup
,ose it is about the same as that which
; generally used in this country:
RECIPE.
Pare and cut the peaches, pack them
n glass jar as tight as possible, mix
wo pounds of sugar to every quart of
,ure water and boil the mixture. When
his has cooled, fill each jar about half
ull of this syrup, put the lids on lightly
md set the jars in kettle of cool water.
Boil about half or three-quarters of an
lour, then screw the lids as tight as
'ossible without breaking, each jar be-
ng full of juice and fruit. AS they
DOL tighten the covers a little more.
We hope the ladies will turn their at
ention to preserving and canning South
IN fruits for market tThere's mil
ions in TT when properly worked up.
fanny families in South Carolina make
money by putting up canned and pre-
erved fruits, jellies and pickles for the
lew York market. Why can it not be
one in Mississippi and Louisiana?
DAN'I, DENNET