The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-06-04
INDUSTRIAL BRIEFLETS.

una Marcelina from a voung vine
Fat San Antonio mission for horse.
"mp, and, though it was nearly withcr-
ia IRON the effect of the long journey,
she determined to make the trial to
plant it. Notwithstanding further de-
lay. the slip took root, budded, and
ever since p%rospcred, proving itself the
main support. for the large Domingucz
family, Qheir being eve sons and as
many daughters, and through them up
wards OF a hundred descendants, sur
vivlng the old lady at her death; she
left n son Jose, SO years old, who has
grand-children). Between 1850 and
>ls60 the vine had been trained over an
area of so feet in circumference. the
stem measuring then twelve inches in
diameter, and attaining Il height of ff-
teen feet from the ground. Some years
1t has borne over six thousand lunches
upward Of eight thousand pounds of ripe
grapes
A private firm training-school has re-
Gently gone into operation in England.
1t Is IN the center of a large mixed
farm of II thousand acres, three miles
from Tamsworth railway station, on
the London and Northwestern Midland
main lines. The aims OF the new mn
t%ertaking, rs described in a prospectus.
are chiefly these: To provide. at a
moderate cost, such opportunities as
will enable the students to be we'll pre-
pared to cncountcr the difficulties of
home or colonial farming. The pupils
are to receive 4 good general cduca-
ton. and education in the sciences con-
nectcd with agriculture, and the meth
DDS to be practically applied in the
daily farm work. During the school
sessions all are to receive lessons daily
in farm practice, and join in its rou-
tine. according to age and ability. The
nature of the soils, rotation of crops.
seeds, manurcs, and distinctions of
breed in cattle. sheep, and swine, will
form part of the curriculum, as well as
blowing, drilling, fencing. draining,
and the use of farming implements,
machinery, and tools. The education
given is intended to fit the students to
become farmers, graziers. stewards,
land agents, or sheep farmers.
DR.. CYRUS Edison writes to The Amer-
ican Grocer: In an examination of cop
p]cr-colorcd pickles made in 1854 under
my direction by Prof. Waller, of Column
bin college. some interesting facts were
recorded. In a number of samples an
alyzed the maximum amount of copper
found was 2,5l5 grains per pound. and
the minimum 0.7S6 grains. At that
time the board Gf health, acting on the
evidence | furnished it, forbade the
manufacture of these goods in this city.
Subsequently one firm persisting in the
use of copper fer coloring had its goods
condemned and seized. A peculiar
tact brought out by the analyses was
that the pickles contained more copper
than the liquor in which they were i'm
mersed, and individual pickles in the
same lots contained different amounts
of the poison. This showed that the
structure of the pickle had a special
affinity for copper, and that the method
of coloring Gmmersing Il copper plate
in the vat containing the pickles. causes
those pickles nearest the copper to re-
ccive a larger dose than those situated
n little distance of. OF course this
would also be true in the CASE of any
other vegetable.
AT Il recent meeting Of the Elmira.
N. Y. Farmers club 4 member stated
that the best crop of potatoes he ever
had vas on land which he cultivated
and plowcd eight times. Thorough
and deep pulvcrization is especially
valuable as a preparation for planting
potatoes. He found that a single sub
soiIing with q light two-horsc subsoil
pillow. in addition to the ordinary plow-
ing, increased the crop Of tubcrs from
25 to so per cent. If the season hap
pened tc be dry. it prevented the effects
of drought; if it was wet it received and
held the surplus water till wanted.
An old farmer, in past years, was asked
the secret of mis- uniformly %luxuriant
crops: He replied: 81 tell my men to
harrow the ground till it is narrowed
twice rs much as it ought to be, and /
then tell them it is not narrowed half
enough" Everything else was, of
course, performed in the same thorough
manner
A method OF keeping potatoes is thus
described in a French paper. A large
vessel of water is placed over the fire,
and its contents raised to the boiling
point. Washed potatoes arc placed in
= basket or net and quickly dropped
into the water. where they are kept
for four seconds. Before 4 fresh lot of
potatoes is immersed. the water must
DO allowed to rise to the boiling point
again. Each lot of tubcrs, as soon as
lifted out, Is spread on the floor of a
wcll-aired place to dry. When all have
been treated in this way they are stored
away in u dry, cool place. There is no
tendency to g%crminete, and the pota-
toes will remain sound and well flavor
ed all through winter, spring, and sum-
mcr until the next crop m in.
C. C. Bell. secretary of the Central
Missouri Horticultural association, gave
the following list of apples at u recent
meeting Of the association at Boon
vile which proved most profitable for
market in that region. tho result of
much experience i raising, buying,