The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-12

potash in available forms, full crops are
impossible.
2. The German potash salts afford a
present the cheapest and most available
supply of potash for fertilizers. They
supply also more or less of magnesis
and sulphuric acid, which are essential
ingredients of plant food, and some
times deficient in our soils, and Of
sodium and chloride compounds, which
latter may be beneficial or harmful
according to the circumstances of theil
use.
8. The higher grades will be mos
profitable for use in this country, be-
cause they furnish the most potassium
4 with the least admixture Of inferior ma
terials, on which costs of freight and
handling must be paid. The chlorides
(muriates), with 60-S4 per cent. OF
chloride of potassium, and the sui
pilates, with 20 to so per cent. Of sui
plate of potash and magnesia, with 81
81 per cent. of sulphate of potash, are
to be especially recommended.
4. For potatoes, sugar-beets or tobac-
co, the sulphates are preferable; for
other crops, the chlOrides, which are
cheaper, are equally good.
B. In order to secure uniform diffu-
sion through the soil, the potash salts
should be applied as long as possible
before the crop is sown. 1t is well to
mix with earth, or to compost, before
applying, especially if used shortly be-
fore sowing the seed. And, in general,
potash salts are well adapted for COM
posting with muck, earth, stable-ma-
nure, phosphates, fish and the like.
6. The best results are generally OBJ
tanned by using potash salts, not alone,
but with other fertilizers, as superphos-
pilates, guanos and fish. Mixtures of
these latter with potash salt form ''com-
plete fertilizers" The proper use of
potash salts is as adjuncts to other fer
tilizers.
Z. From 200 pounds to 400 and 500
pounds per acre of the higher, and 800
to 600 pounds of the lower grades are
appropriate quantities.
8. The question of the need of potash
in a given soil, can be best decided by
actual trial. 1t will be generally advis-
able to test the question by experiments
on small scale before making large
purchases.
DRESSING TURKEYs.-Thousan of
dollars are wasted by the seller of tur-
keys each year for lack of system and
care in dressing. A picked, I'M
bruised bird will generally bring from
two to five cents more pound than
one that lacks either of these seemly
recommendations. An experience with
these birds that reaches over quite
number of years, and a practice in
dressing equally 10 g, leads us to re-
commend the following plan: Never
feed the morning of the day in which
the turkeys are to be killed, and as
early as convenient drive them into
some convenient and easily accessible
stable. Gather your turkeyless neigh
bey), to Is birds. Provide two half
hogshead tubs for the feathers, or one,
as you may need; and having set it I'M
der some shelter, place row of chairs
in a circle around it. Now darken the
doors of your stable, and quietly seize
a bird, and hold it so that in its strug-
giles to free itself from your grasp, it
shall not hit its body or wings against
any hard substance. Then with your
left hand take firm hold of the legs and
wings (the latter drawn backward) land,
placing the neck of the bird across a
round stick, sever the head from the
body with sharp AK held in the right
hand; then hold the bird still, if you can,
by the same wings and legs, at right
angles from you, or, if you can not
(Which is more probable), press the
bird hard against the even ground,
breast downward, so that in either case
there shall be no possibility of bruising.
As soon as the struggle is mainly end
ed, seize and pull out first the tail
feathers; then holding the bird on your
knees, never letting it touch the tub,
carefully and quickly take out the
smaller feathers, being particular not to
tear the skin, and always bearing in
mind that any rough handling may dis
figure the animal, and of course injure
its sale. When the bird is partially
picked, cOnsign it to some less muscular
person to take out carefully all the pin
feathers This can be best done with the
point of q sharp pen-knife, and in no
case allow the body to be laid aside as
finished till every thing is removed that
would offend the most fastidious eye.
When the bird is little cooled, lay it
on a board covered with several thick
nesses of wooden cloth, and while held
on its back by an attendant, with a
sharp pointed pen-knife, cut a circle
about the size of a two-cent piece,
through which aperture remove care
fully and completely the intestines,
keeping all the fat attached to them
back with the fingers of one hand, while
the drawing is performed with the other.
Then wipe the neck thoroughly, leav-
ing not particle and hardly stain of
blood; lay the turkey on its back in
cool place; the next morning draw the
skin over the bone of the neck and tie it
firmly, and your bird is ready for mar
ket; and if well fattened will bring the
largest price.-E1change.