The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-04-09
AGRICULTURAL.

Excessive moisture is injurious to
sheep.
Chambers and fancy in horses are diff
fsrent notifications Of the same disease
A lining Of tarred paper in poultry
houses if recommended as preventive
for lice.
If you want manufacturing establish
ments to come to your towns, reduce
your taxes
In experiments with barley the best
effects were seen where nitrogenous ma
nurcs were used.
Judicious draining causes nutritive
grasses to spring up where inferior
grasses formerly grew.
The worst whisky is made from APP
pie. The next worst is from potatoes,
but that Is bad enough which is made
from corn.
Farmers this year should make a de-
termined effort TO raise the mortgage on
their farms, whatever else they may at
tempt TO raise.
The most primitive way Of making
bread was to soak the grain in water,
subject it to pressure and then dry it by
natural or artificial heat.
A South American has discovered
plant which gives milk, butwe don't see
where the fun is to come in, as it can't
turn around and kick the pail over.
The man who stopped his paper lately
because he could not afford it, recently
sold hundred bushels of wheat at 20
cents less than the market price.
Potatoes cut ten days or two weeks
before planting, and sprinkled with
plaster, Will sprout earlier and grow
better than when cut and planted on
the same day.
Parsnips are used very much in
France for fattening neat cattle and
hogs. Steaming or boiling them is
strongly recommended, especially for
swine and poultry.
The prize for the best bale of cotton
exhibited at Paris has been awarded to
Memphis. The same bale received a
grand testimonial as being the best ever
raised in the world.
There are now four times as much
wheat produced in the United States as
there was only twenty-nine years ago
Then, 100, 4S5, 944 bushels; last year,
425, 600, 600 bushels.
The finest wheat in the world is grown
in Barbary and Egypt, fact which has |
always existed and always will, on ac-
count of climatic influences. The Scotch
is the poorest.
1t is reported from Jersey that the de-
mand for the island cattle is in excess of
all previous experience. France and
America are competing with England /
for any choice specimens.
1t is said that Nicaragua is raising ex-
tensive coffee plantations on the side of |
the volcano called FL Vieio; 200, 900 |
trees have been planted there and next
season will decide the feasibility of the
project.
1t is more honorable and dignifed to
be living independently on a farm, max
ing good butter and cheese and raising |
abundant crops and fine stock, than to
sit in high places and aid in making bad
laws.
The Guadalupe Telegraph says; Near
lv all of Alamos Valley has now been |
seeded, and, with the late rains and |
few warm days, everything has started |
up finely. There is every prospect of a
good crop.
The manufacture of jewelry from pure
blood of the OK is fourishing in Germa-
ny. The blood Is dried, reduced to a
powder and then nodded and polished. |
The ornaments thus produced are capa- |
BILE of high polish.
Over 10000, 600 pounds of artificial
butter were manufactured in this country
in 1873, much of it being sold as the
genuine article This produce has an
influence in depressing the price of the
poor grades of butter.
urge farmers to associate that they may
have their inspiration kindled. Farm
life develops steadiness of character; but
not only dries up human sympa-
thies, but the intellect becomes moldy UNI
less spirit ofinquiry is awakened at some
time Of life Hon. JAS. Wilson.