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The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-03-20
Peach Growing.

Mr. S. H. Stackhouse, Crystal Springs, Miss:
Shall be brief as possible knowing
the value of time to the reader, and
that prolixity is costly to the publish
er, and at the same time shall not
sacrifice perspecuity to brevity.
When we rear valuable structure,
the first thing necessary is a good
foundation, so in horticulture the soil
should be first considered. The
amount of soil fully adapted to this
kind of fruit is small, and here science
with the laboratory, is truly needed to
know what peculiar food the peach
needs, and what may be poisonous to
counterfeit. | believe our ignorance
here is the cause of many of our
failures.
A mahogany sub-soil is good in
dex to the adaptation of the super-soil,
being generally of an open, loamy
consistency, neither too sandy nor
too level. AS the peach abominates
too much water. a pebly soil should
be avoided, having bog in it. When
it is incapable of producing 1000
pounds of cotton per acre, should be
enriched. Nothing better than cotton
seed broadcast plowed in, the amount
governed by the natural fertility of
the ground. Say from 80 to 100
bushels per acre.
When the trees are young cotton
culture will do; avoid all of the cereals;
neither should the land be pastured
except by hogs. During the fruit
season they will not do, as they soon
mutt ate the trees for the fruit. When
the land is not too rolling, the two
horse and sub-soil plows are the best
for planting out. The work is more
expeditiously and better done than
with the spade. First running the
Brinly with the bar opposite about
three ana one half feet, so as to throw
the dirt in opposite directions, every
furrow being deeper than the preced-
ing one when plowed out, run the
sub-soil as deep as possible three times,
YOU then have a bed of loose earth for
the roots to penetrate through. Then
use Il hoe to open Il space for the tree,
and throw in the top soil with spade.
Finish with a horse pillow, running
two burrows, so as to fill the opening
made by the first pillow.
When the ground is rolling, use the
spade, making an opening in proper
ton to the size of the tree, be sure and
not crowd the roots together by the
smaIlness of your opening. | prefer
five feet tree about IS months from
bud from a poor soil, as a tree planted
from Il rich soil to poor one, is apt to
become diseased.
important item-the reasons hereafter
given, when diseases and evils to the
peach are considered. They should
point Southwest and not East; trees in
that direction 10 to II feet apart,
while Southeast to Northwest IS or
20. In our next we will treat of
varieties, also. budded, grated and
seeding trees.
Most of our information is CLEANED
from life time experience and hav-
ing planted out over 50 acres alone in |
this fruit.
II. w. STACKHoUsE.
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PARAGRAPHS OF ALL SORTS.

Reports from central Illinois, shows
that the wheat is turning yellow and
rotting.
To extract CEASE from papered wa i,
dip piece of flannel in spirits of wine
and rub the grease spots and they will
disappear.
Fine flour mixed with water is a
splendid remedy for scours in cattle.
One of the most prominent canning
establishments Of Baltimore, will soon
start a similar factor, in St. Louis.
Never leave vegetables soaking in
wafer, as it destroys their flavor.
Over 100000 bushels of corn was
shipped from st. Louis last week.
We suppose it will all find its way to
tie South.
Winter wheat crops in the North
west have been badly damaged by
freezes and thaws.
DIR. J. f. Goodlet, Of Terry, writes
that the peach crop which was
thought at first to be lady damaged
by cold, is all right, and there will be
an abundant crop; 1t is not as badly
hurt here as we supposed. The pros
poets for all kinds Of fruits are very
favorable now.
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Feeding MOraes.

A great diversity of opinion prevails
as to the best methods offeeding horses,
and mistakes are frequently made by
neglecting TO give suitable attention
to the matter. We have known farm
ers who were accustomed to throw
lock of hay to their horses several
times during the forenoon or after
noon, and when not at work, the
horses would be kept eating nearly
the whole day, consuming much
more hay on such days than they
would require when at work. This
practice can not fail to injure a horse
seriously, if continued any length OF
time. Horses are frequently injured
by overlooking. A horse should no
more have all the hay he can eat than
a child should have all the bread or
fruit he can eat. Regularity and
moderation are as important in the
one case as in the other. Driven
horses are sometimes fed on cut straw
and meal, without any hay, or very
little. This is good food for horses,
as has been proved in many instances.
Some believe that six or eight quarts
of meal per day, with fifteen to
twenty pounds of good hay, is enough
for almost any horse, and better than
more. Ofcourse, horse that works
all the time needs more food than one
that does little. Some horses con-
sumo and seem to need more rood
than Others doing the same work.
The hay should be cut, mostly so,
and fed with meal, wet. Cracked
corn, to be fed with oats part of the
time, is recommended by some. Smoky
hay is specially liable to induce a
cough, and should be carefully avoid
ed. If horses are fed mostly on hay,
it should be of good quality, well cur
ed, and fed in moderate quantities
three times day. But it is the OPP
inion of those best acquainted with
horses, that they can be kept in good
condition cheaper by feeding some
grain than by giving them hay alone,
and, if horses are in constant use
grain in some form is necessity. -
Record and Farmer.
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when and How To Use Salt

An Illinois correspondent of the
| Country Gentleman says ~ am dis
posed to standby the statement made
some months ago, to the effect if
thousands of pounds Of salt were
used on the land were hundreds
are used now, such an increase
would ropOrtionately advance agri-
cultural production. But there APP
pears to be this limit, that it is Of lit
tie or no benefit on poor, thin soils, be-
cause it is not so much fertilizer in
itself as a solvent of others. That
was Liebig's explanation, and he is
still in matters Ofscientific agriculture
our teacher and master. This is per-
haps the explanation too of the wide
difference of opinion among practical
farmers as to its value, those who
have received benefit having used it
on land still retaining latent strength,
and those who obtained no benefit,
used it on soils naturally poor, thin or
worn out. Having in my own case
arrested blight in small apple Or
chard by very liberal application of
it two years ago. / am prepared
when the proper time comes to w
barrel of go pounds to each acre on
some ten acres ofsmall pasture, which,
for the last four years, has been more
or less strongly fertilized with nitrate
Of soda and superphoSphate of lime. |
If the season happens to be dry shall |
expect to get little more heritage than |
if had not sOwn it if moist or wet / |
shall hope.for {, great increase in grass |
growth. | shall not, however, an
ticipate fin Il loss if the summer is |
dry, because the benefit will be post |
ppned to another year. But in addi- |
ton to the capacity of salt to render |
mineral plant food soluble which was |
not soluble before, it is claimed that |
its act on the soil, and especially on
lime soils, and as a diffusable
and therefore that broad
Casting Of salt on a crop where it may
or may not be easy or convenient to
use the pillow or cultivator might fully
answer the purpose of either or both
the salt particles, by chemical acton,
doing precisely the same work Of the
motion Of the plow-that
Is, bringing up fresh food to the spong-
Olts of the growing plant. In the
:a-e OfpOtatOes and corn, and perhaps
;ottOn, which crops often dem md cul-
ivatiOn when Their advanced growth
iDrhids it, it is easy ~ see how a light
Of salt under the circum-
stances of a hard, baked soil, might
be Of an immense advantage, and
which could be done at a cnst little
exceeding that Of thorough cultivation.
the French and German
find they recommend |
Inc use Of sat at the rate Of 80 pounds
per acre fIr cover and other legumi-
nous plants for wheat and fax, go
pounds and for barley and potatoes,
30 p0unds-'O be sown brualcast IN
he spring season before the h.rbage |
has attained any considerable growth.
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About six years ago poor itinerant
Methodist preacher went to Florida
and settled on Orange Lake, Florida,
where he grated the sweet on to a
wild orange grove. This year he sold
his orange crop for $4,000. We re-
member once of camping on the same
lake, which is one of the prettiest
lakes in the State.
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sweet Potato Sugar.


The California CORRESPONDENT Of the
Baltimore Sun, writes that a new
variety of sweet potato is being cult
waited in Kern county, the extreme
southeastern corner of California.
They call it Ocean Queen. Picked
specimens weigh from - to IS and %
pounds. The yield is so great that
they are fed to hogs, which thrive
amazingly and make extra pork Re
cent tests suggest they will make
better and cheaper sugar than beets
DIR. StOcton is organizing a sugar
company to utilize his large crop ~
well as his neighbours. This gentle
man made last year 12j barrels Of
lucious table syrup from watermelOns.
The profit real zed encourages him to
largely increase the product this year,
aud 10 make ii permanent Industry.
He has farmed grain i'm this State
long enough t. know there is no
money la il. He finds also th.t il
does not ay TO mill raw sugar beet.
But he believes if the roots he cut and
dried by modern methods, that the
present sugar factories would be profit
able. He gets one gallon Of syrup
from eight gallons Of mellon Juice, BY
his Grade method. While syrup pays
50 wei there j. no inducement to
make melon sugar, even III IL would
erystalize, which our American vaiie-
ties do not. But seed Of the right
kind abounds in Hungary.
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c. M.BISBEE,
Dealer I'm
Fish, and Oysters, and Fruit,
-. JIRIjrIAN, MIS-
ONLY S. NILES FROM NEW ORLEANS.

BEING situated within six miles Of the Oyster
Banks, I can afford TO supply families with choice
oysters opened and put up in their own juice,
which common sense tells rs il the essence Of the
oyster, Having made special arrangements with
the southern ENprezs Company / can deliver
oyesters and fish in any part d Mississippi at re-
duced rates. Orders left with l. U. Gueringer
Eutsrpriss Cigar store, Jackson, Miss, will be fed
With dispatch
JsnI5-5nl C.M, BIsBEE.
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PRESENTS
HANOVER FIRE INSURANCE
behalf
hereby agreed the aforesaid shall be taken
of
held
claims
rlandsan aof saidCo of
B. WALCOTT, President
LIS LANE Secretary.
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STATE OF NEW YORK, |
COUNTY OF NEW YORK. ]
STATE OF NEW YORK, |
CITY AND County, OF New YORK. !


Notary Public New
l
the
VIM A. BUTLER, Clerk
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sTATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
Hanover Fire Insurance Company.
On the 3lst day of December, 1879

name of COMPANY y the HANOVER Fire iNoohAN"A ~
at No Broadway street,
President; D. kEmSfN "'"'''
Of tsC Hundred Ihousnu
amount of its Five Hundred lhousnu
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Wy viii We al
e ana made oa
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The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-03-20

Chinese immigration is moving
from California to New York. 1t Is
sui'Posed stringent laws VIII be passed
prohiting their coming into the State.
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Corn-cob meal and barley is said to
b. excellent food Tor COWS.
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STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
Manhattan Fire Insurance Com
OF NEW YORK CITY,
On the 3lst day of December, 1879.

The The n ooa OF re the Company No. g.
The amount amount Of e oapt.l S stock paid
THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOW
Cash on hand and Agents other persons
BS Esf ne BY R with
GasGssnfy 1, market value
South N Gaon Gas s Go Stock
T. l. Currency at per interest
DEBTS TO THE COMPANY SECURED BY MORTGAGE
o.ns on Bond and Mortgage being unincumbed Estate
DEBTS OTHERWISE SECURED.
Interest due on ali said Mortgage Loans
thereon
DEBTS FOR PREMIUMS.
Gross Premiums in collections Homo Office
i" C {" Inland..............
ALL OTHER SECURITIES.
G S, RsseS Per fno sSn %starc1 taken
!as9s e1 in market value"
Total assets
LIABILITIES.
Amount sS due p ss due sst to banks or other
Losses adjusted and not due
LOSES i saunepsc waiting for further proof
oherc against the Company ''.:
...,.
sWsd By any ny GHs a said
rf S5 greatest amour" allowed to be insured any one
Copy Certificate Deposit of State Treasurer
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THE AssETs OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS:

16
IN hand and the hands agents OF o'"0' 2725 90
oWpd bv the Company bearing at the rate OF - per cent
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incorporated other than State
the Auditor that such Company
of States of this Umon OF the United
AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS and that @c
held by citizens OF the United States
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PRESENTS the MANHATTAN FlkE
New York; do hereby authorize and all agents
Mississippi
Company acknowledge whether %
the
sippi hereby agreed that such service the
that behalf
according the practice of said State OF any other
hereby
and reinqushed - ,
GI.s7 ANDREW j. SMITH, PRE-
LOUIS P. CARMAN Secr1
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STATE OF NEW YORK, |
IITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK. {

STATE OF NEW YORK,
CITY COUNTY OF NEW YORK.
p CAiAlAN,
statement OF the
the hde
cash capital Invested
mortgag the above described officers Of sal
Nf'N' ANDREW ]. SMITH, Pru
LOUIS p. CARMAN. Seq
Subscribed and sworn to before me- this 10th day February Isl
H. 81 JNO. A. HILLE4
A Commissioner for the State of Mississippi in New YOI
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The greatest amount insured in any one risk:
The greatest amount allowed by the rules OF said COM
pany to be insured in any city, town or village.
The greatest allowed to be insured in any one
block.
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Tho name MANHATTAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
Tho locality Of Company is No. w, wall stree
mo anount of stock
OF Its Captal
Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-09-18
The Tontine Changes Hands

The TOntine saloon, corner of Camp street and Church Plaza, has changed hands, and MT Charles Sausele will today take possession. The TOntine, under the management of NIT. J. II. Church, has made a reputation for re- spectability and quiet second 10 none, and NIT. Sauscle proposes to keep il up to is present high standard. He also proposes to intrOdure feature which will be novelty in Tucson, though common enough in other towns on the Coasi-a iree-lunch table The toothsOme viands will rejoice the hearts of rhe boys from II to ? o'clock daily, and the innovation will cause a chorus of thanks from hungry hearts.
Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-09-18
A Fine CInIn1

Mir. W. 4. Fowler, who came in from hIs mining claims in Oli Hat District on Sunday, brought some rock from a claim called the Nalleco, which lies about three-quartcrs of a mile from the Oracle. The rock was taken by Mr. Fowler from the shaft with view to obtaining close aver. age, anG the result of an assay by NIT. Brewer was eminently satisfactory, being in the vicinity of SCI. The Val leco is the property of Judge Robin son and others, and they are to be con graduated upon owning so fine a prospect.
Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-09-18
The Surprise.

What strange ideas our Eastern friends have of life in thIs country, to be sure. They come to visi: it with a heavy pair of blankets, blue shirts, hob-uailed shoes and moral certain ty that they will have to sleep out of doors, eat bacon and slap pjacks, and be in-turn eaten by tarantulas, ceuti-
 pedes and rattlesnakes. They arrive at our cOmmodious depot, and the first thing they hear is, " Right this way to the Pal%ce Hotel coach!" Before they recover from their astoni>hmrnt they are seated in as fine bus as any that rolls the pavements of their native Boston or New York. A spanking par of large horses whirls them up to our substantial Palace Hotel with round turn, and they find themselves with pen in hand before a regular ad- vertIsing register, while a regulation porter gets his work in on the bundles of blankets and the small valises which our friends have brought along to remind them Of the civilization they have left behind. They hear the bell ring and mine host Rayteld's voice uitering those familiar words, |" Show these gentlemen tO their rooms" and before they recover their astonishment at finding genuine rooms " out here in the desert" they are con ducted up and along a handsomely carpeted staircase and hall tn room furnished with all the latest devices to secure comfort, and through the open windows mayhap they get a glimpse of the green and beautiful Santa Cruz valley, with it's wealth of brigh; foliage and soft beauty. Then the spitten gong calls them to the spacious dining-room where they find splendidly appointed tables and such well cooked and plenteOus variety of food that they conclude their meal with a blessed sense of peace and that they are still in " Gods country" This is what the Palace Hotel is dong and has been doing for Tucson ever since it has been under the admirable manage mcnt of Rayfield S Lesher
Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-09-18
A Harshaw Prospect.

One of the many claims in the vi cinity of Harshaw which were worked long ago by the Mexicans, and afler ward abandoned for no known reason IS the Silver Gem. Many years ago a cut was made on the ledge 20 feet long ard in 40 feet deep, in the bottom of which drift was run 15 feet, show. ing a strata of ore assaying ss high as sl7SS to s3157. The vein is abnuI three feet wide. with ore winch aver ages from S192 to s327. The charac- ter of the ore is chlorides and horn silver, the richest being black carbon ates. The present owner has sunk a new shaft 20 feet, which shows very strong vein, the richest rock lying close to the fooI-wall. It is pronounced free milling by both mill men and assayers.
Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-09-18
Gninr and Coming.

We have il on the best of authority that the point of junction between the Southern Pacific and he Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads has now been definitely settled upon It is al a place, not yet named, about 9 miles south Of Fort Cummings, or 021 : miles east ot the New Mexican line and 150 miles from Socnrro, the pres ent passenger terminus of the Atchi- son road. Work on the latter roli is nearly completed to Fort Craig, 30 miles this side of Socorro, and the line will soon be opened to that sta ton. The present distance be tween the two roads, SO far as the travelling public is concerned, is about 240 miles, but this is being rapidly lessened, the Southern Pacific ralls having already reached the New Mex ican line. In all probability another month will sec the two ads carrying passengers to within 150 miles ot each other.
Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-09-18
Another Tuc.on Institution.

IL may not be generally known, but Tucson's adobe walls furnish the finest echoes in the world. Church Plaza, for instance, furnishes an example of this fact The other evening some of our young bloods who can sing-and who never miss an opportunity 10 turn theIr bird-like warblcs loose on the paralyzcd world-made the trial on one slde of tine Plaza; and not only did the opposing wall reflect their re- frain, but no less than 3l pistol shots were added tO the spontaneous echo from honest citizens who were court. ing sweet sleep in the adjoining man siOnS.
Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-09-18
Tn from Bloodsuclxer.

MT. W. A. Howard, who is in on business from Bloodsucker District, reports that the claims in that sec ton on which work is being done all look exceedingly well, and ihe pros pccts for a boom this coming win ter excellent. Mir Howard and Mar tin Medley are at work sinking a working prospecting shaft cn the Fla vorite, which has before been noticed in these columns. IL is the property of the gcutlrm"n already named and D. B. Rae anl Fl. Hudson (of the banking house of Stafford, Hudson & Col A shaft was sunk some time ago on the fine-looking ledge on this claim for depth of IS feet a: the bottom of which the pay-Slreak showed about 40 inches Of rock which aver aged over Sl00 10 the ton in gold and silver, the former predominating two 10 one. Leaving the ledge at one side, ihe prospeciors then started a perpen- dicular shaft to cut il at another point. and as Mr. Howard left the other day, he shaft, then 65 feet deep, was cut ting into leige matter which looked very promising.
 On the Willow, owned by the same parties, q 16-roOt shaft on the same ledge shows nearly three feet of the same character of rock. This claim lies aboui half mile from the Favor ite, and on both Is au abundance of water. On one of them is a l0-f0ot well which had three foot of water in il during the entire dry season.
 There are but few prospectors at work in the camp, as most of the as sessment Work has been done, and the boys are waiting for someth'n to turn mp by putting in their time elsewhere
Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-09-18
Fatiiani's Man nf Tncsnn.

The maps recently compiled by NIT. A. W. Pattiani, of the Surveyor-Gen- erals office, have arrived from the Photographers, and are meeting with unqualified approva. and admiration wherever they have been delivered during the day. The urgent need oi such . map of Tucson has long been sorely felt, and the admirable manner in which MT. Pattiani has fulfilled his promises in this connection is q great credit to his skill as a draughts man, as well as correctness in the mat ter of details. The lithographers too, have done their work faithfully and as a consequence the business com. munity of Tucson have a map of the city which is perfectly reliable.
Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-09-18
SUNl MONS.

r1,HRRIToRT OFAKIZONA. COUNTY OF
 Pima In .Tustice-- Court. before \. Ainsa, ,Jusrice Of the Peace. Precinct No. I. Matthew kinney, plaintiff. ,-. Ariyaca Milling, Mining and Commercial Company, defendant. De mand S99I 35-iG0. The Territory of Arizona reuds erecting t0 the Ariyaca Milling, Mining and Commercial Company. defendant ou .re hereby summoned and required to appear before me at my office ia the town of Tucson, and County Of Pima, ou the 18th day of No vember, A. D. lsSa. at % o'clock a. m, 10 answer the complaint of the above named plaintiff, who dcn Inds of vnu that you are ln- debted 10 him in the sum oi two hundred and nipetv-oue 55-IO1 dalIar-. And if you fail to appear and answer said complaint as herein required, fine plaintiff will taSe judgment against you as demanded and for the costs oi this suit
 Given under my hand this 18th day of Sep tenlber. A. D. ls-5 < AlNSA, J. P.