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Green Food for Swine.

Prof S. r. Thompson, of the Nebraska Agri-
cultural College, writes to the American Agri-
eulturist that green food makes thrifter and
larger hogs. Farmers who raise many pigs and
feed them exclusively on corn, know that some
of the shoats will cease to grow atan early age,
begin to lay on fat and never reach the size of
good understandable hogs. This tendency to fat
ten prematurely, at the expense of bone growth,
is not seen to any extent in grass fed hogs A
pig fed on bulky, green food will develop
larger stomach than one fed on concentrated
food like corn; and when you come to fatten IT
this enlarged capacity will enable him
to eat and digest moro corn, and thus
fatten faster than the other and be
more profitable hog to grow for market Grass
fed hogs are healthier than those granted.
Every intelligent breeder knows the advantages
of feeding green food to sows about to farrew,
They have less difficulty with their pigs, are less
liable to destroy them, will give more milk, and
nurse them better Grass-fed hogs are less liza
BILE to disease The dreaded hog cholera is not
much to be feared where hogs have the run of a
good clover pasture Undoubtedly if exposed
to contagion they would take the disease, but
they are not likely to develop it. Tor example,
a farmer had his hogs in a small pen, destitute of
grass, with no water except a muddy pool which
soon was made as vile as possible by the hogs.
After Il while the hogs began to die in considera
bic numbers, with symptoms resembling cholera.
The owner was alarmed, took them out of his
pen, turned them on patch of green rye, and
gave them water from well. The disease was
checked and the deaths ceased.
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RECEIPTS BY RAIL PAST "a HOURS
INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS.


COAL AND COKE.
Anthracite coal 1925 y ton; Pittsburg coal 81. so
p tom Raymond City coal, 81 % per ton; block coal,
SIS. so p ton; Blosshurg coal, So per ton; jackson
coal "a p ton; crushed COKE lac y bush lump coke,
lie v bush.
Tonnatoes-Tw o- pound cans, 50 09oe; pound. 95c
Glib. Peaches-Standard 3pound, 81 ,9o02 To-
3,popnd seconds $3.50 2-pound standard, 81 go
Yarmouth 81 ReSere 81 Is; dcMnrrsy
81. 25Q. 80. Acknowledgement, $1,000
1.25; raspberries 2-pound 81 As .35; pineapple,
standard 2pound $1.5oQ2.50; second do, 81. 250
LBS; oysters lpound, full weight, 81 05 a l. To-
light, 53a65c 2'pound full, 81 500 / 80; light,
l.A0; peas, marrowfat, S5cQ$l.35 small, $l.400
100 Holsters, $1.7oGl.s0.
DRUGS.
Alcohol, So. 2O02. 30; asifetida 30 035c alum, a
5c camphor q G30e cochineal, 6o065e chloro
form 81 al 10; copperas, brs, $30,3.5o; cream
tartar pure 80 040e indigo 81 al 20; hcoree Calab
genuine, 35 G4Oe; magnesia, earb., 2-oz, 30Q35e
l2G14c oil castor ~ gal SI45al.50; OIL berga
mot, p 10, S2.75 03; opium, $4 %; quinine, p
& W., q ounce, 81 25G1.35: balsam eopaiha, 60 q
65c soap, CASTLE, FIR, l2G loo soda, biearb, 4l20
&c; salts, EPSON, a DC; sulphur -four, 06c saltpe
ter S020c turpentine, 40O45e; glyeerine, 30 a 39c
iodde potass. 81 30 LAO; bror;ide potass 40 45c
chorate potash 20 PIE; borax, l6O lSci cnehonid,
OILsELinseed oil raw 6O963c " gallon; boiled
63064c Coal oil, legal test, 1Ol4 12c; bank, 90
965c best straits, 65e, Labrador, Soc; West Viz
ginia lubricating 20a SOC; miners, 65c Lard oils
No. l, 7OO11c; do. extra 70 a soc.
WHITE LEAD-Pure, &c; lower grades, 4 06c.
DRY GOODS.
PRINTs-Albion's solid colors, 5l2c American fancy,
sig; Aliens fancy, 5l2c; Aliens dark, 5lac; Aliens
pink &C. Arnolds, &c; Berlin, solid colors, 5l9c
Cocheco, &c; Conestoga, 5lac; Dunnells, 5l9c Eddy
stone, &C. Gloucester, 5l9c: Hartel DC; Harmony,
Jc Hamilton &C. Greenwich . l2c Knckerbocker ,5loc
Mallory pink 6l2c Richmond, &C.
BRowN SHEETING-Ahantic A, 7l2c Boot c, Sc
Acawam +, 5l2c; Bedford j, 5c Augusta, 6c
Boot, AL 7l2e; Continental 9, 712e; Dwight66tar
&c. Echo Lake, sac; Granteville EE 6loc; Lawrence
LII, 5loc; Pepperen Il. 712e; Pepperell r, 70; Pep
pere 81 20c Pepperel 1914. 22i2c; Utica 81, Poe
Utica lO4 27loc Utica c. 4 lac.
BLEAcHED SHEETINGs- blackstone IA, 712c Ballou
& Son 7c Chestnut Hill, l2c; Cabot A, l4c Chap
x &c; Dwight Star $, 912c; Fruit of the Loom
Sc; Lonsdale, sac Linwood, SCI Masonvile, SCI
New York Mills, I012c; Our Own, 53c; PePperen
81 22lac Pepper.ll 1O4, 25c; Hills. 8l2c; Hope,
7l4c; Knights cambria. Sc Lonsdale cambria, IL l2ci
Wbtinsvile, 33-iuches, Glec; Wamsutta, 10l2c.
SHIRTISG SrRpEs-Ameskeag &c, Arlington
slac Everett l2c Hamilton lOl2c, Park Mills No.
60 12loc Uucasville Sc, Whittenton b &c. Written
ton A A Sc Whittenton stout Sc.
OsNABURGs-Alaoama lac, Lewiston Sc Louisi-
lae Augusta 7l4e Ottawa &c, Toledo, &C.
Manchester &c.
TGcKING-AmoskeagA CA13l2c Conestoga BF &c
Conestoga extra l2c, Conestosa Gold Medal Is loo
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The market steady with a fair demand; fair 10
good native shipping steers So 90 D 80 Ohio stock
ers. S475.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts to-day 600; receipts
consigned through il carloads. Tine market shows
fair demand at lower rates prospects very bad fair to
fancy, S2)o @4s0 good to choice, 20 70 G5.1o
spring lambs. So 80
Hogs-Receipts to-day 5 900; receipts consigned
through, $50 carloads. The market fair " active
and a shade higher; good to choice Workers., $1,000
515; good medium weights, s. 50 d595,
KANSAS CITY. May 1.-THE Live Stock Indi-
Gator reports: Cattle--Receipts 500 The market
was irmer, a lOc higher ard active native shipping
steers of $50 to 1,4o0 fts average sold at 1920
Hogs-Receipts ,44O. The market was frmer and
501Oe higher sales made Of lots of 197 to $50
lbs average at5 0.40 with the bulk of the sales at
SOL .25.
sheep--Receipts, 400 The market was steady
and unchanged.
ST louis, May 10 attle-Receipts, 200;
shipments, 1900. There was only small local
trade.
Sheep and Lambs Receipts none shipments
100. There no market.
Hogs - Receipts. l 100; shipments. 5000 The
market was active; light hogs So 20 $50; packing
hogs, 30 20 a o55; heavy hogs nominal
EAST LIBERTY. May Misunderstanding do
ing: Receipts S95 shipments,
Hogs-FirIn. Receipts. 3 220; shipments, 3, 100
5.65.
Sheep-Dull and unchanged. Receipts, 1900; ship
ments. ., 600.
CINCINNATI. May 17.-Hogs steady; common and
light. $42505.65; packing and butchers, So. IS q
g. Receipts l 400 shipments, 200
MILWAUKEE, May 17.-HOgs higher at $50
$50.
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NEW YORK, May 17.-Cotten firm Futures firm;
May II. SOC; june, ! 1. Csc: July II. Sac August
IL .04c September l65c; October, 1113c; No
vember, 1094c; December, 10.9lci January, lie;
February / Zoe.
MEMPHIS May 17.-Co5ton quiet at loc
receipts 305 bales; Shipments 9l5 bales; stock on
hand 25 4s5 bales sales, 325 bales.
ST. LOUIS, May 15.-Cotton quiet; middlinG,
II Ssc sales none; receipts, 200 bales shipments go
bales; stock 5000 bales.
NEW ORLEANS, May 17-Cotton steady ana I'M
changed receipts "A bales; sales, 500 bales stock
hand 1872 395 bales
GALVESTON, MAY 17.-COtton quiet and IN
changed net receipts 90 bales; sales 81 bales stock
hand, !, 800 bales
LOUISVILLE, May 17.-Cotton quiet and I'M
changed.
CINCINNATI, May 17.-Cotton Unchanged
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Elsewhere.

CHICAGO. May 1.-THE Drovers' journal re-
ports; Hogs-Reeeipts, 1870; shipments 1900.
The market was brisk and SC higher rough packing
hogs So IS 05. 20; packing and shipping, $5.70Q
6 10; light bacon, Is. 200575 skips $4d5
Cattle-Receipts 1900; shipments, 400. Fat
steers ilrneri exports 70 p 1850 good TO choice
S5.4005. 20; grass-fed Texans steers. $4.2505.
Sheep-Reeeipts 1000; shipments, 500. Low
grades lernoralized wooded inferior fair sheep 81
a ) y cwt; medium good sheep, $5@5.15i choice to
extra al; shorn sheep, $3 $3.50.
BUFFALO, May 17.-Cattle = Receiots today
9, 200; receipts consigned through, 523 carloads.
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Corn dull and finn No mixed. spot ard May 5se;
July, 5Slec. Oats quiet and steady; No. 2 mixed,
5lec. Recepts-Wheat 1900 bu corn, 900
ba; oats Shipnlents-Wheat, IS, coo bu; corn,
10000 bu; oats, 1900 bu
KANSAS CITY, May 1.-THE Commercial Indi-
reports: Wheat steady 80 lc cash S2lse June,
Corn steady; 44le IA alc cash 45lec July Oats.
2Sc bid cash.
LIVERPOOL, May 17.-Cotton IN good demand
and unchanged; sales 10 900 bales; speculation and
export 1000 bales; American, g. 100 bales. Bread
stuffs quiet. Refined petroleum I'd.
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Foreign Money and stock Market.

LONDON. May l7.-5 p. Achievement bonds
United States four-and-ahalfs 1913; fours, 121i2
Railroad bonds-AIilwaukee & St Paul, IS a: Cana
dian Pacific, 1888 Illinois Central 127; Pennsylvania
Central 1888 New York Central, Ia; Erie, 11G7s;
seconds, TO- Reading, 11e.
PARIS, May 17.--Rentes, 7sf soc.
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OILS.

BRADFORD. May 1.-THE crude oil market
firm. Total runs Friday, 73,429 brls Total
shipments, 80 901 brls Charters not reported
Cearances, 40SS 900 brls. United pipe-line GER
tfcates opened at TSlac and closed at 81 l9c; high
est price, 81 5ec; lowest price, 753sc.
ANTWERP, May 17.-Petroleum, 1S3if
LONDON, May 17.-Petroleun Gid.
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Dry Goods.

NEW YORK. May 1.-THE market was quiet in all
departments with very light demand, though, as
Wall street STAIRS straieen out confidence improves.
Clothing and woolens have been much better during
the week than could have been expected and further
request is at hand
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NEW YORK, May 17.-Co1fee-S lots fair Rio
dull; options 10 points higher; trading dull hardly
enough to fairly establish prices Sales OF 1000 bags
8 75c; l 900 bags August at $3.50; 1850 bags
Serternber at $780, October, SS009.S5ci December,
S9O09c
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Metals.


NEW YORK, May I7.-I.ead dull common, $3.50
2
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JefrersonviIIe Madisnn 3 indiananolis

Depart-Soathern Express. daily, s....-.. 4. 10 am
Louisville and Madison Express. 7:23 am
Louisville and Madison mail, p c. 3:50pln
Louisville Express, daily ......-.. Gas pm
Acknowledgements and Madison Mail. 49,. $:a5 a0a
Indianapolis, st. Louis and Chicago
Express daily, p. .-.-.----~. 10:45 am
New York and Northern Fast Elk.
press, r. e;;.-.-....;. ,....>.... 7;O0pn
St. Louis Chicago and Detroit Fast
Line, daily, s.......... -....... 10:45 pFn
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LIVE STOCK
Indianapolis Market.

INDIANAPoLds, May IT.
CATTLE-Receipts, 3o0 shipments, 250. Fair
supply of local stock; quality fair. But few of prime
grades here; market about the same as yesterday
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Chicago, ST. Louis & Pit,5burg
Depart-New York, Philadelphia Wash.
ington, Baltimore and Pttsburv
Express daily, s.-...--...... 4;o5 am
Dayton and Columbus Express ex.
ceept Sunday. -.-..-....-........ 1o:45 am
Richmond Accommodation -. 400 nm d.
New York Philadelphia Washing
ton, Baltimore and Pittsbure tx.
press, daily, s.. h.............. 4.55pm
Dayton Express, except Sunday. 4:J5 em
Arl1ve-Richmond Accommodation except
:, Sunday ........... .........-... 9;4Oam
New York, Philadelphia Washing
ton Baltimore and Pittsburg Elk
press, daily 1s97 azl q
Columbus and Dayton Express ex
,eept Sunday .:......-. - 5:27pm
New York, Philadelphia Washing
ton, Baltimore and Pittsburg Ex !"
press, daily -. 1o:2opm
Dayton Express, daily, except Sum
Observation-Disclosures. -. 1o.20pm
CHICAGO DIVISION VIA KoKoMo p c. & ST L. r. r. .
DepaFt-lsouisvile and Chicago Express
c..--.-..-..........-........ LIS am
a.. = press daily, ''. 49, -, .lioorm
Arrive-Chicago and Louisville Fast Express
daily, s---.-...-.......-........3 $50 am
Chicago aud Louisville Express,
p. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ....--.. 3:s}5 psn
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Oats-Steady for all grades principal inquiry
comes from local consumers and immediate de-
liveries are only wanted
mixed.
Rye-Steady; 64c bid; no sellers.
Bran-Steady; $l4. 90 bid, held at $1,000.
Hay-Prine Timothy, quiet; $1,000 bid; no
sellers
GRAIN IN STORE.
May l6 1884
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cinoinna1i. Hamilton Z IndianapoHs.

Depart-Cineinnati Dayton g. Ioldeo 49,; 400 ara
Cincinnati. Dayton, Toledo and
New York .--.----.-.-- --.----~ -I0;gV am
Connersville Accommodation. a:SURn
Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo and
New York Express. --..--. 5;4UPm
Ayrive-Connersville Accommodation SOP AN
Cincinnati. Peoria and St Louis i l:39 am
SSnc;T1,afi Accommodation 3:00pm
Cincinnati, Peoria and st. Louis 1o;4opn
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Wabash, ST. Louis & Pacific.
Depart-Detroit and Chicago Mail ......-.
Toledo. Fort Wayne, Grand Rapids
and Michigan Express 1890.
Detroit and Toledo Express, daily,
c. c. and s-.-.-. ..---.-......-- ]
Arrive Michigan and Toledo Express, daily
except Monday. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Toledo and Fort WAYNE Express. !
Detroit and Chicago Mail. ...--.-
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tBee Line c., c., C. 6 Indianapolis.
Depart-New York and Boston Express
daily, .-.....-.......... 4.loam
Express, c ,'.,1 -,- 1910 an
Anderson and Michigan Aceommo-
dation .....-..... Ills ana
Wabash and Mglncie Accommoda-
ton. ---.--........-..-......-. 5:25 pm
New York and Boston, daily 5. c. c. 1880 pm
BRIGHTwooD DIVISION.
Daily lilo am. $50 nm
Daily 1O:l0 am....-. 5:25 prC
Daily -------.......11:15 -. 100 pm
Daily ---------.-... 2:lO pm
Arrive Louisville, New Orleans and ST. I.
Louis Express, daily .---.....- Gao an
Elkhart and Goshen Express. 1885 am
South Bend Express. 2:lOpIa
Boston, indianapolis and Southern
Express. ................. $50 pm
New York and st. Louis Express
daily 1882 pm
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RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.

lNvARIARI.Y N ADvANCE-POsTAGE PREPAID
BY THE PUBLISHERS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-29
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

-Non-lestructive majolica is q new
cerman inyention.-M Y Commercial.
-%Celluloid. when used as a substitute
for wood in the production OF large
printing type, is found to be much pre-
ferable to wood, it has a n surface,
possesses great durability, can ne read
fly worked, is light and can stand all
the rough usage Of the job press.-Chs
cago Journal.
The smallest inventions sometimes
move The most lucrative. A San Fran
r:sco lady, inventor of a baby carriage,
recpived S14. 900 for her patent. The
naner pail. the invention of q Chicago
lady. Yields a large income. The ggimlet-
pointed screw, the idea of a little girl.
has realized millions of dollars to its
patentee.-M Y. Herald.
The Belgian authorities are re-
nortcd to have hit upon a peculiarly
delicate volatile ink with which to print
their postage stamps, and by the use OF
a strongly resisting obliteratlng ink, to
have made it about impossible to use
the stamps q second time by d%ischargg-
ing from them the CELEBRATING marks.
1t is claimed $40, 900 has been spent
| at Ticonderoga, N. Y, in arranging for
melting iron by a new process devised
bv a French inventor. The iron, in
! stead of being melted and run off into
| PIGS, is heated to what is called a
sponge heat, and all impurities arethen
extracted, leaving the refined product
so soft that it may be cut with a knife.
1t is sad that by this new process a saw
ing of twenty-four dollars q ton is Ell
fected.-Iroy Times.
The process OF preserving fish for
| winter use is a very interesting one. On
the sea coast, as soon as the fish are
caught, they are tightly packed in lay
ers in tin pans. and between them is
put ice and salt. These pans are then
taken to a house the temperature of
which is kept at about twentv-seven de-
grees the year round, and stored until
wanted. They are then sent to dealers
throughout the country in refrigerator
cars.-Chicago Times.
The bootmakcrs of London have q
new wrinkle. A system of bootmaking
has been devised which enables the
shoemaker to fit his customer on the
spot and finish the shoe according to
| the size Of the wearer's foot, so that he
may depart in leather encasements fin
ished before his eyes. The old lady who
walked into q booksellers with a dilap-
idated Bible of a previous century and
asked the proprietor to print her anoth-
err while she waited, was, after all, per-
haps, only in advance of her age.
Some parties in Canada are report
ed to have invented a machine forcook-
ing by electricity. 1t consists Of a
saucepan or hot plate soisolated by non
conductors that the bottom forms the
positive pole of a current. The other
pole is attached to a movable point,
which travels over the under surface OF
the pan in circles sufficiently quick not
to burn q hole through. Some cakes
were cooked in the apparatus and eaten
by the inventor and his family, who are
believed to be the first members of the
human race who have eatenfood cooked
by the electric spark. One lady declared
she tasted the flavor of electricity
"quite strong.'-Dctroit Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-29
But servants IN Mexico are different

But servants IN Mexico are different
from those of the United States. Here
they do not demand the salary OF con.
gressmen insist upon "days OUT
and company in," nor do they become
so domineering that their employer is
allowed to remain on condition that
she observes sufficient politeness. Mexi-
can creados consider four dollars q
month q large salary, and in time they
get rich on It, according to their ideas
Of wealth. They live almost entirely
upon tortillas. a thin cake made from
Indian corn and baked on a hot plato,
with fruit and vegetables. Meat they
eat of very sparingly, but they all drink
coffee and chocolate, while the National
drink, the stimulant of Mexico, among
the laboring classes, in pulque. This
beverage is obtained from the magueY
plant, which is Il kind of cactus. 1t
comes to maturity in about eight or ten
years, and just before it is about to
blossom it is tapped at the bottom,
where there has accumulated a white
liquor, which, when fresh, is sweet
like honey, but by adding a little pulque
to it and putting it in a hogskin bag it
&C }uires a most horrible smell, much
like limburger cheese, only worse, but
has q taste like delicious fresh butter
milk. The drink is sold all owe Me0i-
co at one cent a glass. 1t takes the
place of lager beer among the poorer
people. From this same maguey plant
is also obtained a liquor called mescalle,
which resembles pure spring water n
color, but which tastes exactly like good
old Scotch whisky. Physicians tell me
that pulque is very healthful, especially
for weak digestions, as it contains pure
la tic acid, and that Il popularity
about both pulque and mescallc is that
although the latter contains fort.y-1lve
per cent. and the former thirty per
cent. of pure alcohol, neither has been
known to cause single case OF delirlum
tremens.
The Mexican laboring people rarely
sleep in beds. They roll themselves up
in their sarapas mats, which are also
obtained from the maguey plant, and
sleep the sleep of the just. The clothes
they wear are usually the gifts or cast
of, garments Of their employers. An
other noticeable point is that all these
poor people are invariably pious and
apparently contented. Indeed, l find
that the poorer they are, and the lower
in the social scale, the moe p:ous and
contentcd they are sure to be. AS a
class they are more honest, obliging and
supplemented folk. Each wears sus-
pended around his or her neck a pre-
cious charm, blessed by the priest,
which keeps away evil spirits. When
a%nnoyances arise or dangers threaten,
the words "Bolga me Dios!" ('Protect
me, O God !") rise to their lips as natu-
rally as sparks fly upward. With I'm.
questioning faith and that contented
poverty which aspires to no higher lot,
they are sustained and comforted
through laborious lives, and die in
peaceful trust and Observation-Disclosures
Cor. N. Y. Ereninq Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-29
About TERRA Gotta.

The manufacture Of terra-cotta has
been carried on in some form from the
earliest civilization of which we have
any record; in fact. much Of our knowl-
edge of ancient history has been de-
rived from ]terra-cotta tablets, whose>im
pervious surfaces have retained the
original inscriptions for thousands of
years. under conditions that have
caus q stone to crumble away and have
corroded metal until all trace of its hay
ing been fashioned by human handslas
disappeared.
Terra-cotta would literally include
everything made of cooked Garth,
from brick to china and porcelain; but
what is now understood by tie term is
something neither so rough and coarse
as brick nor SO fine as porcelain. II is
not an imitation of stone nor a substi-
tute for it. but a material POSSESSING
distinct advantages and capabilities
SUI ject to the limitations imposed ,y
the consistency and the processes Of
manufacture, which processes have now
become so exact as to enable us to de-
fine clearly the advantages of terra
Gotta as compared with other materials
III any particular undertaking.. As an
understanding Of the nature of any ma
terial is the first requisite for its proper
treatment in design, we shall briefly
q scribe the various stages Of manu-
f%acture. from the selection of the CLAW
to its final crystalization in q work Of
art.
The clay selected for terra Gotta is
that composed of silicatc of alumnia and
n small per centage of iron, oxides of
iron. as in bricks. producing a red color
when fired. The clay tx stacked in
Sheds until it is dry; it is then oro,nd
io fine powder, and mixcI with DOW.
dered old terra.cotta or with ground
Hint. granite sand, or othe; vitrifiable
substances. The mixture is ten ground
with a certain small proportion Of wa
ter. to obtain Il PERFECTLY homogeneous
ductile modelling clay free from the
smallest air cavities. The proportion
OF water determines the shrinkase that
must occur in burning, and this shrink
aye can re relied upon as one-twelfth.
All objects, whether mere cubes or
statues, must be hollow, and as nearly
as possible of the same thickness
throughout, as a solid object invariably
becomes distorted in burning, owing to
the interior being more slowly aied
than the exposed portions. The darker
Inc color required the harder the frino
must be- often reaching a white heat, or
more than 1902 T.
1T has not always been possible to at
tam perfect uniformity of color in a
umb OF pieces OF terra-cotta, even
"heh the pieces have been made Of The
same mixture and burned at the Same
sllie; put TINS fact is rarely Il serious
w ect'oh' ON the contrary, in many
Instances some variation in tone in a
lhoho'onous reduplication O form is
agtseaoIy etfanti7e.- 4. L. Oukey, n
'5afgsT's -Noga:ius.