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The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15
The French way win Poultry.

Ia Basse-cour French journal spe-
cially devoted TO the interests of the
poultry-yard, gives the following d.
rections for white, plump and tender
poultry for the table, as obtained from
celebrated cook In the south of
France:
"To get good weight and delicate
color, only meal from grain of last
years growth should be used in the
fattening process, and the water en-
ployed for the mixing of the food
should be mixed with salt in the pro-
portion of ten grammes TO the litre
ithree-eighths of an ounce avoirdru-
pois, to quart of meal.) Further, a
small quantity of coarse gravel should
he added to the paste thus made, so as
to assist the birds digestive functions.
Special care should he taken not to
give them any heavy meal for at least
twelve hours before they are 10 be kill
ed, so that the intestines may be empty
at the time of death, and the acid fer
mentation of their contents which
would otherwise ensue, and which fa-
elites decomposition, may be avoided.
Nor should we he i'm too great hurry
to pluck them " feathers are pulled
out while the blood Is still fluid, the
vescicle at the root Of each of them be-
comes gorged and the skin gets spot
ted. A fowl killed while digestion is
going on will hardly keep for a week.
BY attention to the above directions
they may be preserved for a fortnight
In mild, wet weather, and for three
weeks or more when it IL dry apd cold.
A few pieces OF charcoal put inside
will assist Ia preservation.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15
RECIPES.

REMEDY FOR BURNs-Dry Sale
ratus applied to burn will afford
speedy relief.
A SIMPLE REMEDy.-Raw potato,
scraped, and applied directly over the
eye, which has become inflamed from
having something blown into it, will
afford great relief.
To WASH VELvETEEN.-Wash in
cold water and do not wiring, but
shake thoroughly, spread on the line
as much as possible; when partially
dry take down and shake again.
To PREVENT MoTH.-Scrub your
floors with hot brine before lacking
the carpet down, and once week
scrub.your carpets with coarse salt.
CLEANING MIxTURE.-Goodt to clean
coat collars and to take out grease
from floors or carpets, and to clean
paint or white walls (calcined.) Take
half bar of washing soap, and a
lump of saltpeter, and salsoda each as
large as walnut, two quarts of boil
ing soft water stir well and let stand
till cool, then add three ounces am
monia (spirts hartshorn). bottle and
cork tight. 1t will keep good n year,
and is the best thing know of to re-
move grease, and is always handy. 1t
is best to bottle when lukewarm, and
add the ammonia at any time.
The lemon syrup bought at stores
can be made ut home much cheaper.
Take pound of sugar, boil il down to
II quart, drop in the white Of an egg to
clarity it, strain ii, add one-fOurth of an
ounce of tartaric acid. If you do not
find it sour enough after it has stood
two or three days, add more of the tar
taric acid. A few drops oil of lemon
improves it.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15
Tainted MIX.

We have often urged the impor-
lance of pure water for the cows, in
order to have pure milk, or good but
ter and cheese. 1t is impossible to
make good butter from the milk faint
ed by the impure water they drink.
A dairyman in New York states his
observations as follows: ~ received
tainted milk from three-fOurths of the
patrons for thirty two days in June
and July. During this time there
was no rain, cioudless skies and excess
sive heat. The first rain was heavy
thunder shower, when the faint dis
appeared. ! found that patrons who
delivered pure milk watcrel their
cows ut theil wells, while those bring
ing tainted milk watered their cows
at the Cayuga creek, where the water
was in shallow pools on the rocks,
exposed to the sun until ii became a
putrid mass. The faint was very
plain in the mornings milk, which
was lost after being mixed with the
nights mess, to develope itself again
when the cheese was twelve days old.
The decay was very rapid from that
time on, until it was as offensive to
the taste n: Il piece of putrid meat"
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15

duction of $500, 600, 900 worth of silk
goods, which in strength and dura-
bility excel, and in beauty are fully
equal to the finest products of its
French competitors at Lyons.
In the manufacture of iron and steel
the story is the same. We have fur
naces which are supplied with every
variety of the best ores, and are max
ing 100000 tons of pig iron per
annum.
"By wise policy of legislative
protection we are practically free from
that foreign competition that threat
ened to throttle our manufactures in
their infancy. We consume our whole
product, and that is nearly fifteen per
cent. of all the iron used in the world.
OF our enormous coal yield, about So
600, 900 tons year, large fraction is
consumed in making and working
this iron, 100000 or more tons OF
which goes to market as wrought iron
in thousand different shapes.
The growth of our Bessemer steel
production is even more marvellous.
Twenty years ago this wonderful illus
tration of the marvels of chemical
science was looked upon as merely
an Interesting and curious process,
of no immediate value and of most
uncertain promise. To-day single
establishment is making LOG, 600 tons II
year.
"The United States Is looked upon
as the home of all ingenious and eff
fective labor-saving devices. The Cor
liss engine has revolutioniZed the
steam-engine manufacture of the
world. The class of men from whose
ranks the members ofthis city are prin-
cipally drawn direct, and labors near
ly $1,000 of working people in Il third
of million mills, are responsible for
the preservation and profitable util-
ization Of 81, 500, 900, 600 worth of capt.
ital direct; the payment of 900, 0OO,-
600 of wages the consumption of 3d.
10000, 600 worth of raw material, and
the output of $4,000, 100000 worth of
manufactured articles. Fifty thou
sand sueam-engines and more than an
equal number of water-wheels turn
the machinery of the hundreds and
thousands of workshops throughout
the country"
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15
Quince Culture.
Maryland Farmer.

Mhylahu Farmer.
now write to fulfil my promise Ia
give an account of another years en-
perience In cultivating the much neg
lected ounce. i have learned several
very interesting facts i'm addition to
those contributed in previous numbers
If your valued paper. / haye learned
m regard 10 the propagation that a
cutting may remain dormant in the
ground a full year, and then grow the
next year. Some time in March,
while preparing to put In my cuttings
for trees this year, / saw, as / pulled
upa cutting of last year, that roots
had just begun to push through the
bark. SO | replanted IL with some
Others that had kept a fresh bark OH
through the year, and found 10 my
surprise that they were among my
best young trees this fall the best hav-
ing attained a growth of five feet and
three inches, which Is just the height
of some of the best that / raised from
the cuttings of this year. ...
Another marvellous growth was eX
hibited by many shoots ON the trees
propagated two years ago, one of
them reaching the height Of six feet
and ten inches, and many others were
but little less. / described TO you my
method Of handling trees of this lot
I'm my last, and 80 will leave them for
the present.
l have previously recommended n
little salt for ounce trees, and from
this years experience / must empha-
size this point. About pint TO each
of my young trees, and a little more
for the larger and older trees | find of
great service, not only in promoting
growth, but think also ia preventing
blight. / have had so little of this
among my trees since | made a regu-
lar business Of sailing in the spring,
think IL must have acted as a proven
tive. / have also learned this year of
new variety of this valuable fruit,
which seems TO almost perfect the list,
by giving a succession in the time of
ripening, and quality Of keeping for
use. In this latitude the apple ounce
and Rea's mammoth get well ripened |
early In September, about three weeks |
alter, or 10y the first of October we
find the orange ounce In perfection; |
and then about two weeks later
this new variety, the Champi- 1
on Ounce comes to maturity,
with a keeping quality that carries
IL to January. To still further
ffCOtuiuthu IT. buc EfoNAu - fiBofOus,
IL is very prolific, very large, and Of
good quality. am not prepared to
furnish the trees at present, but refer
those interested 20 VIM. Parry, the we'll
known nurseryman Mt Cinnaminson,
n. J from whom obtained the Cham
pion Ounce trees 1 am now eultvat-
ing.
My oldest trees are the Orange
Ounce, and from them ] have propa-
gated most Of the tress now have.
The trees are seven years old, have
yielded ON an average peck and a
half this year, and at the same time
grown with most satisfactory show.
Some Of the new wood is in shoots over
n We feet long. The largest ounces
weighed Is ounces-forty filled half
bushel measure, and eighty-five round
ed off a bushel. / realized 3 bushel
for these largest the trees averaged
g6 cents. An acre at the same rate
with this little piece, would give a re-
turn of over $3.50. More anon from
Yours, truly. w. w. MECH.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15
Cure for Hog Cholera.

A correspondent of the Kansas Far
nIer, says:
A farmer in this county extensive
ly engaged In the hog business, here
and in Marshall county, and who has
suffered from the loss Of over 100 hogs
this year, has a remedy which he says
cures i'm every case. The remedy Is
50 simple and Gusts so little, that |
hope all our farmers will try 1t, and
report your success. My informant
breaks box Of concentrated I've into
a barrel Of clean water, and when the
lie Il dissolved, gives il to the hogs as
drink. A neighbOr who bad lost some
DO hogs this season, tried the cure
with entire success every one OF the
hogs got well, and none have sickened
since. He says he had i'm his feeding
lot a hog which would weigh 400
pounds, 20 near dead that he thought
il useless to try to save him, but sec
Ond thought said, try anyhow. so
he rolled him on his back and poured
a pint Of the liquid, made stronger
than in the barrel, down his throat.
and In less than an hour, porker was
ln his feet cracking corn nearly a.
lively as ever"
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15
CrystaIIIzing Flowers ana Grasses.

Editors Indiana Farmer:
Put Is ounces of alum into a quart Of
water excepting the same proportion for
a greater or less Quantity, and dis
solve it by simmering il gently i'm a
close, lined vessel over moderate fire.
stirring il frequently with a wooden
spoon. When the alum has dissolved
IL must be poured into deep glazed
jar +; as it cools, the subject intended
10 he crystallized should be suspended
I'm IL by a piece of thread or Irvine
from a stick laid across the mouth of
the jar, where they must be allowed TO
remain for "a hours. When taken out
Of the solution they are be hung up ia
a shady, cool place until perfectly dry.
The solution must be neither too hot,
nor quite cold, or the crystals will not
be pretty. The uests Of small birds
containing eggs are handsomely crys-
tallized, and then placed on n branch
OH a bracket. Bunches of hops, small
ears Of corn, furze blossoms, lichens
and MOSES, as well as dried grasses,
crystalline finely. Spiders, beetles
and grasshoppers arc good subjects for
Mrs. +. s. l.. #.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15
PARAGRAPHS Of ALL SORTS.

Good authority says cattle fed on
cotton seed meal will pay for the meal
in manure.
The National Stock Journal says
bran should be fed TO stock mixed
with hay.
The annual.prOduction of petroleum
is now l5,OOO,OOO barrels.
One of the most deleterious systems
of gardening, says the London Chron-
icle, is to spade about a foot deep,
while the subsoil remains untouched.
The railroad between Vera Cruz and
Mexico is said to be marvel of engi-
neering. 1t ascends 1900 feet in 25
miles. 1t took 36 years to build it.
The value of hogs received at Chi
cago during the past month was Sl2,-
100000.
The quality of tabacco grown this
year is inferior to that of lust.
Vicksburg will soon have cotton
mill.
A bunch of grapes lately shown IN
San Francisco from Santa Barbara was
three feet long and six feet in circum-
ference and weighed 1875 pounds. The
vine is 1G years old and bears 10000 lbs
every year.
The Ames-Milandon plantation is
expected to yield this year 1000, 900
pounds of white Sugar.
The United States, while it contains
one-sixth the population of Europe has
four-fifths rs many swine.
The fiat lands on the Escambia river,
Florida, are alluvial deposits from the
rich lime lands Of Alabama, and will
make large crops for hundreds Of
years without manure.
Rome, Ga, has received $1,000 bales |
Of cotton this year. We think over
two-thirds of the cotton has been mar
keted.
The Agricultural Bureau reports
that the corn crop will be less this
year than in 1879.
Mr.. David Harp, of Lexington, KY,
shipped s carloads of Cots
void sheep to Europe, that average
1877 lbs each.
Byrethrnm is said TO be II perfect
cure for cabbage worms.
Cooked celery is said to be splendid
for rheumatism. This is
worth knowing, as there were 3,840
persons died with the disease i'm 1876.
A new remedy for hydrophobia is to
'athe the parts in warm vinegar, and
when this has dried, drop "a few drops
f muriatic acid into it.
Little Rock is to have a glass fac
Dry. SO Is Ocean Springs, Miss.
Woollen manufactures have increas-
! the last ten years 20 per cent.
st. Louis has shipped this year to Z
ew Orleans l5,0O0,0OO bushels of q
rain-last year only a little over g. q
,O,00O-next year we think she will f
zip 10000 600 bushels. =
In 1870 the manufacturing indus v
les produced S9,OsO, $50 worth of ar a
cles, and employed 500 persons. In y
80 10,S77..persons were employed, and r
he products were worth $40, 9O9,OI7. q
Chicago is going to establish plate
ass factory. The factory at Ocean
prings propose TO do the same thing. y
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15
PlOw tng Orchards.
Country Gentleman


We have repeatedly urged the I'M
portance eff observing the distinction
between blowing orchards in dor
mant and in growing state. Cut
ting Il small portion of the roots while
the trees are dormant, can do no harm,
and would have far less influence than
cutting the whole, as in root-pruning.
Quite different result would take
place if the roots are cut after grow
ing has commenced. A distinct proof
of the correctness of this position
was stated by Mr.. Anderson before
the Montgomery county co. Hor-
ticultural Society. He has two peach
orchards, one of which was plowed
in autumn, and the other the follow
ing May, after growth had commence
ed. The leaves on the spring-plow-
ed trees turned yellow, and the trees
suffered from the first dry weather.
Those plowed in autumn made II
handsome growth, with no turning
yellow and no suffering from drouth.
Mr.. Longstreth said that he had plow-
cr quite carly IN spring, before the
buds had expanded, with good results.
Another portion of his orchard, plow-
ed considerably later, had been seri-
Dusly injured by il. These state
nents accord with the well-known
tact that tree may be safely dug up
md transplanted while dormant, but
would suffer or die If removed later,
when in leaf. The Importance will be
1t once suggested of always perform
ng the deepest blowing of AN orchard
,ither In autumn or early spring, and
shallower after the growth
IF the trees has commenced
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15
A wonderful Country.

At the first annual meeting Of the
American Society Of Mechanical En-
gineers in New York, few days ago,
Prof Thurston delivered the address:
Much" he said, remains to be
done by the general government in
the development of the resources of
this country. The new organization
of the geological survey Is such in
form and i'm the character Of its adj
that we hope to see the
work Of determining the value of our
resources done with maxi
mum rapidity and efficiency. In
tracing the progress in the various de-
of American enterprise he
said that ninety-nine years ago Sam
uel A. Slater started Che first success
ful cotton-spinning mill at Pawtucket,
X. i. To-day we raise ,5OO,OoO,W0
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15
TRICHINA IN CRYSTAL SPRINGS.

During this week my father killed
a hog whose flesh was swarming with
millions OF parasites and evidently
had genuine case of that dreadful
and fatal disease called trichina.
Every particle of flesh was living
mass extending to the backbone, and
the hog would have soon died from
the disease. Persons eating of the
flesh would have been attacked with
the same disease and died.
This dreadful malady is getting to
be very common. A few days ago
young man died in New York, his
body was subjected to the lens Of
miscr0cOpe, and in the small space of
an inch there were hundreds of thou
sands of the parasites. We can scarce
ly take up u paper, unless there is
some account of the disease. The
surest remedy is to examine your hogs
when killed, and be sure that your
meat is thoroughly cooked. In this
case there can be very little danger.
This will not apply to meat which
is packed up in our Western markets,
as In the rushlof killing thousands Of
hogs by machinery they have no
time to examine their flesh. Such
condition of affairs ought to stimu-
late our people to raise more of their
meat at home and then they can find
out better what they are eating.
Beef is better, and if they would raise
more cattle and not eat so much hog
meat, we believe it would conduce
more to the healthfulness OF the
country.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

! We heard a man say the other day
THAT great many farmers during the
very cold days We have experienced
this winter, when the snow was on
the ground, had left their stock I'M
sheltered and unfed in the fields-and
such treatment to animals would come
under the law against "cruelty to
animals"
A farmer who is not able to care for
his stock in the winter, had better dis
pose of them before winter comes on,
and not let the poor brutes suffer and
die in the cold. The cow which gives
you and your children milk deserves
better treatment. A shelter can be
built of few rough boards that will
answer in our mild climate, while hay
could be laid aside for such emergen-
cies, and it would be economy to the
farmer, and blessing to the poor
dumb brute.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15
VS.. COTTON.
of the Me

correspondent of the Memphis
Ppeal, says: LAST June l planted
five and half acres of ground, from
which gathered 200 bushels of corn.
Ipaid for the cultivation and gather
ing of the corn $ll so, not charging
anything for the use of mules and
plows, or about cents per bushel. /
have just sold a neighbOr 100 bushels
of this corn for sos, or ST 05 per
bushel. The money that he paid me
he got from the sale of cotton, at s
cents per pound, net. So he gave 81
pounds of cotton tor one bushel of
corn. Now, Il man with the proper
tools can make and gather 1000 BUSH
els of corn. So, if he can trade his
corn for cotton at the same rate, he
would get for his crop of corn 1920
pounds of cotton, or 40a bales, averag
ing 400 pounds. Now, brother far
mers, for fifteen years you have been
doing this thing. Is it any wonder
that the North tells you that the
South cannot be trusted with the
Government? You have given your
time and work to a people who hate
you. You have toiled hard twelve
months in the year to pay for corn
and meat that you could have pro-
duced with four months labor"
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15

The manufacturers Of lard butter
are being ventilated by the press in
all parts Of the country, and we
are Inclined 10 think that the storm
raised about their ears will not be with
cut benefit TO the consumers, and the
law should be enforced against all
siealers, wholesale and retail. Anti
huff has entirely disappeared from
the West, and nov let gutteriDe fol-
low suit-Elgin Advocate.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15
WANTEp--A yos PRESS.

A NJ one having . JOB Press IN eosa run
n ming oder, that can fnle forms frsm srI2 up,
u. r. BAnRETT
Bee u ise-n Kusriuska. Mis-.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-01-15
1921 THE CULIIvATOR 1901
AooA AsD Aooi
Country Gentleman.
THE BEST OF THE
CULTURAL WEEKLIES.
lium Annual to Every Reader.

uHiry fseiIfi1tnan IL TnsurJnssei, 4 not
4, for he Atn8uhf and Naniefy a. The
laisslnaiis.n 81 s-sufains, aud ifr fhr AL
xieut q it, Gorr'-sissudi.nce-ia The Three
stfints e
IsOP AND PEOcEsSEs.
CULTURE AND FErITsROwING.
LIVE STOCK ASD DAIRYISG-
al-s nciu4-s ~ Hiinsr departments n
-ri-si snch a. the rs.altry Yard. Eafo-
ks.-KeeT6uz, tsrssubaaee and tsrnIsry.
Iseg,iies, Fsrpa QBesiisaIs and Ansver.,
.s.adinE. Dsnnt-iie EcDHouy, and a sum-
he Ncss Il DE- Ntek. fts Narkei Re-
unnsmnflv co1uplsfe, and more iniOIna-
- enihssxsl fran ~ columns fhsn frc,u
.oarre sifh re.nra ~ the Prospects 81
a. thrusinn Hight aIssn use 81 she mes
a al 1Ins.t isas--Nh her o. b. and When
{ j. IissHily lliasirafns-l, and ceusiituies
- 6esrs~ than any ID ~ contemporaries
'ICULTURdL NEWSPAPER
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'IcULTURAL NEWSPAPER
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-13
Sacramento Market.

FaUrI-our Sacramento quotations are from
the price-lists Of W. r Strong Co., and are
revised up to P. NJ yesterday. They rep
resent trade prices, and have In view selected
fruits suitable for shipment Oenges, California, %
az so; Sicily, s9a10 y box; California, 1904
bananas, s4a4 so o bunch; sugar cane,
80 50@3 o bunch pineappes ss@9 q dozen
lines, s2d2 25 % 100; do, . box, s1Sd2o
Apples are very scarce California Oranges are
now coming forward freely. Sacramento Straw.
berries decreasing in supply We quote
7@9c Cherries 7(a15c Gooseberr1es. std9c. The
last Mexican steamer brought very small supply
of Lines, and as no more are expected for some
time, prices are likely to continue firm. Cherries
are quite plentiful, and likely to rule low.
DRIED FRUIT-Apples, sliced, ease; do quartered,
Sole pears, cyclic; plums, pitted, 14@l8c; whole,
6@sc peaches, 13@14c; peeled, 1s@l9c prunes,
l2@14c; baekberries, 15@lsc Figs, 7@10c.
HosEY-Comb, San Diego, 13a17c; comb, in 2-n
cans, 50 50@4 extra extracted, 8@l0c . b ; com
mon extracted, ease " h.
SxKp-Alfalfa, 15a17c; Timothy (Eastern), LOG
12c Red Clover, 15@16c Red Top, 13@16c.
NUrs-English walnuts, 9@1oc; new California
do, extra choice, 9@l1c Almonds, 16@l8c; Pea.
nuts, 6@7c for California and 8@9c for Eastern
Hickory Nuts, s@10c; Pecan, 15c; Filberts,
15c Brazils, 13@14c . b /; Cocoanuts, 500 100.
FKKD-Our quotations are from the price-lists Of
E. A Burr, of this city, and are corrected to date
oat hay, sl5@17 ton, baled alfalfa, $11@12 ton,
baled bran, sl4@15 . ton; barley, $40 y ton
ground barley,sl 10 q cwt.; wheat, 81 259l 80
oats, 90 y cwt; white wild oats 81 D.