American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-11-01

1rult from contact with each other rs
much as possible. The sawdust should
| be dried in an oven, SO as to get rid of
all moisture, and poplar. beech, maple,
| or other inodorous sawdust should be
used. The boxes should be put away in
IA cool, dry cellar or ice-house, and the
grapes will keep for three or four
| months. Isabellas will keep as well as
any. If sawdust can not be pro-
cured, cotton-batting may be used.-N.
Y. Times.
EARLY SPRING PIGs.--We like to
have pigs narrowed as early in the
spring as is consistent with safety from
cold weather. Those narrowed in March
and April, if properly cared for from
birth, will make good hogs for the mar
ket before the next winter; while those
dropped later, must be kept over at a
loss. Cold weather is decidedly unfa-
vorable to flesh production, and pork
can not be made any thing like SO cheap
ly after cold weather sets in, as before.
OF course, warm and well ventilated
pens will go far towards modifying the
unfavorable influence of climate; but,
even then, the feeder labOrs under great
disadvantages, and fails to get the same
return for food consumed as he usually
gets from feeding through the summer
and National Lire-Stock Jour-
nal.
LAYERING POTATO ToPs.-As n ready
and simple means of increasing the yield
of potatoes, we may mention the layer
ing of the tops. This is practiced in
Europe by nearly all gardeners and by
many farmers, and it is Il wonder that
it is not more commonly resorted to in
this country, especially when it is de-
sired to augment the yield of new and
valuable varieties About the time when
the first new tubers are large enough to
be used at the table, the patch should
be gone over for this operation. With II
hoe remove the earth near the first hill
in the row almost rs deep as the roots of
the plant, then bend the stems into the
hole thus formed and cover them up
with earth, giving the tips an upward
turn, and let them reach four or five
inches above ground. Proceed with the
next hill in like manner, bending it over
the first, and so on until they have all
been layered. The stems thus buried
will send out roots and set tubers the
same as the original roots of the plant.
We have seen a potato patch, thus treat
ed, give at least one-half greater crop
han a similar patch close by on which
he tops were not layered.-Rurat NesU
Yorker
FATTENING TURKEYs.-It is a goodly /
sight, as the summer days wane, to see
he fiocks of turkeys coming home from !
he woods and pastures at nightfall, |
With full crops If the farm has not t
,een overstocked with these binds, they
nave very largely made their living upon
crickets, worms, and
,ther small fry. The regular food they
lave had has been rather to keep them
than to supply any lack of for
lge. AS the cool nights come on, and
he supply of insects declines, the bust
less of fattening properly commences.
t should be remembered that plump,
veil dressed turkeys, not only bring Il
higher price in market, but enhance the
equation of the producer, and make
lis market sure for future years. The
turkey is one of the finished products of
he farm, and one of the greatest luxu-
les in the market. The farmer should
10 his best in preparing his flock for the
handles. The main business now is
o lay on fat, and the bird should have,
very night and morning, Il full supply
f nutritious and fattening food. In
the turkey follows his feed,
nd if the supply is abundant at the farm
ard, he will not stroll far from home.
,oiled potatoes mashed, and mixed
nth meal, and fed moderately
arm, is very excellent feed both to
growth and to fatten. If the
igs can be robbed of u part of their
nix, and it be mixed with a part of the
OF potatoes and meal, it will very much
improve the dish. 1t is very desirable
} supply the place of insects with some
ind of animal food, aud butchers
craps is one of the cheapest and most
esirable forms of food for poultry !
rain should be given ut least once a I
ay with the soft and warm feed.
'othing is better than sound corn. The
'Orthern corn is thought to contain
lore oil than that of Southern growth. ,
Id corn should always be used for this {
urpose. The new corn keeps them too
'ose. In feeding, only so much corn
lould be thrown out as the birds will ,
1t up clean. Take II little time TO feed (
lem, and study aesthetics, as you watch !
lie irridescent hucs upon the glossy
lumage. There is nothing more /,
larming upon the farm, in the whole
rcle of the year, than hundred ortwo t
these richly bronzed turkeys feeding !
ear the corn-cIib. You can afford to {
ljoy the disappearance of corn, while /,
lie turkeys are increasing in weight.
reams of full wallet at Thanksgiving
nd Christmas will not harm you rs you !
ok on this interesting sight.-Agrtcul-
,rist l
THE apprentices who travel over Ger i
any on foot have had hard times amid !
e general distress, and it is now re- !
,rted from various localities that Il dis a
Use called "the beggars' plague "a t
nd of typhus resulting from INSULT !
ent and nutritious food, excessive in