Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-03-23

AT the risk of being charged with a
desire to bull the poultry market we
mention that a game cock was lately sold
in England for five hundred and two dol.
lars.
The Western Advertiser cites an ex-
p%erience which it thinks warrants the
conclusion that good, clean wheat
straw, with One,sixth of its weight in
bran, is equal to meadow hay in feeding
properties"
AN English grape-grower, whose vines
were much affected BY the mealy bug,
applied, with a small brush, a mixture
OF a pint of spirits of wine aud four
ounces of petroleum. He describes the
result as " wonderful )" the insects were
destroyed and the plants suffered no
harm.
SEVERAL persons died recently at
Youngstown and Girard, in Ohio, of
trichina spiralis. The lesson is that hogs
should be kept healthy, and then if YOU
will eat pork, instead of selling it to YOUR
neighbOr, see that it is very thoroughly
cooked, as these deadly worms survive a
temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Two thousand ballots were lately de.
posted by hog-guessersas to the probable
dead weightOt a porker in this city, the
guesses ranging from 143 to 1893 pounds.
When slaughtered and dressed, in pre-
n of the interested concourse, the
carcass tipped the beam at 759--precisely
the number of pounds set down by a
Jerseyman, who, according to the CON
tract, was declared lawful owner of the
ponderOus pork.
TIE increase in the export OF cheese
from this country during the last seven
teen years has been extraordinary. In
1850 the amount was Ouly 15,5l5,799
pounds, while in 1877 it had reached
the cnOrm us aggregate of 107, 1864, 666
pounds. The foreign demand has grown
rapidly with the establishment of cheese
factories, and in England the American
article is fast gaining a high reputation
in competition with the product of the
best home diaries. Some of it is sent
back TO this country as "Euglish"
cheese.
OUR milling industry, the American
Miller maintains, ranks next to that of
iron. The number of mills is over
twenty-five thousand, afford,ng employ.
ment for more than sixty thousand men,
whose annual wages are about 800
600, 600, and turning out yearly tittv
millions barrels of -four, of which four
thousand barrels are exported to foreign
countries. Pennsylvania has the most
mills (nearly 10000, New York stands
next with about 1000 and other states
follow, with from 600 to less than 100.
MinneSota's mills arelargest. and employ
the greatest average number of men,
namely, five in each.
"THE giant vine OF Montscito" is
pictured now in foreign horticultural
papers. This famous plant, as attentive
readers will remember, grew at the place
whose name it bears, near Santa Barbara.
on the California coast, in a black. sandy
loan, with a subsoil of stiff clay was 50
70 90 years old, trunk 10 inches in di-
-.@":- g ".as OAee al 50 Invur, su,,c
feet from the ground; was occasionally
watered from a spring containing sulphur,
and has borne in Ii season an estimated
crop of $500 punches, averaging u
pounds each. Showing signs of decrepi.
tuda, it a cut down, forwarded in
segmeuts to Philadelphia, and set up in
its original form, trellis and all, for the
edification and astonisAment of visitors
to the centennial exhibition.