Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-06

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All these claims have been denied, but
a correspondent Of a Kansas City paper
says: The famous Russian mulberry
tree has not proved to be a fraud, at
least as a poultry-food producer. The
muloerrys are excellent food for fowls;
n the abundance Of the fruit sup
plied for fully four months in a sea-
son from a single tree is simply re-
markable. Every poultry breeder and
grower should plant q small mulberry
grove as o poultry-yard. 1t will be
found OF much advantage in saving
other food. Tho cheapest way and the
surest way to obtain the best quality
OF mulberry trees is to procure select
seed OF the "Tartaricar" or the Rus
sian variety. The tree will flourish in
any latitude in which poultry can be
produced. The trees yield fruit very
young--evon the second year from the
seed may begin to bear, SO that there
can DO no fault found on account of
time required to wait. The seed should
be planted in spring in proper corn
planting season, and the trees trans
planted into grove the succeeding fall
or spring.
SUGAR FROM COAL TAR.
What Is described as an important
commercial discovery has been COM
munjcated TO the members Of the Man
chester (England) Society OF Chemical
Industry. The new substance is named
s%acchsrln, is extracted from coal tar,
aud possesses, it is said, sweetening
properties far stronger than the best
| Qona or hnpf. Ynnf Grrar This C,h-
stance, the chairman Of the society
says, seems likely to enter into daily
consumption. The chemical name of
s%accharin is anhydro ortho sulphanine
benzoic acid. and, according to Mr..
Levinstein, one part of it Will give a
very sweet taste to ten thousand parts
of water, for it is go times sweeter
than our best sugar. Saccharin taken
in the quantities added to food as
sweetening material has no injurious
effects whatever on the human system.
Patients suffering from diabetes have
been treated for the last few months
in n Of the principal hospitals
in Berlin with s%accharin without
fenced by its use. The use Of saccha-
rim would therefore, MIR. Levinstein
said be not merely u probable substi-
tute for sugar, but it might even be
applied to medicinal purposes where
sugar was not permissible. Tho in
v%entor, DR.. Fahlberg, q German chem
ist, combined with it glucose. or starch
sugar, a substance very similar to cane
or beet root sugar, but inferior to those
In sweetening properties. He thus OBJ
tanned a compound which he called
dextro saccharin, and which was
scarcely distinguishable from the best
sugar. Mr.. L~evinstein exhibited speci-
mems of pure crystallized saccharin,
and also small balls made from starch
to which had been added 0.05 per cent.
OF saccharin. One was sufficient to
impart a very sweet taste, very SINH
lar to that Of the best sugar. to a large
cup of black coffee. He also drew at
tention TO some liqueur sweetened with
~saccharin, some lozenges made from
deXtro s%accharin, ONE raspberry
syrup sweetened with s~accharin, and
also a small bottle of quinine, the bit
ter taste of which had been disguised
by the addition of q small quantity of
saccharin. The chairman said he must
leave the future to decide as to the
revolutions saccharin may bring about
in the ~coal-tar industry, in the %cultiva.
ton of soil now devoted to growing
cane or boets, and in the sugar indus
try generally, as we'll as other indus
tries connected with it. But AS great
and important commercial interests
were in question, it was highly advis-
able 10 look well into the matter, and
not allow oar foreign competitors to
secure exclusively for themselves the
benefits which the discovery might
confer
Luminous trees are reported to be
growing in a valley near Tuscarora.
New. AT certain seasons the foliage
gives out sufficient light to enable any
one near at hand to read small print,
while the luminous general effect may
be perceived some miles distant. The
phenomenon is attributed to arasites.
As soon as made, butter should be
set in a cool, dry, sweet place, and
kept at u temperature Of about 80 de-
greos. Do not set the tubs ron the
RIcubts W ucSOku I'LL OhAkhJ oIhCii
and flavor. nor permit any mold or de-
caying substance. or anything that
gives off an offensive odor, to be in the
same department. with the butter.
Much good butter is spoiled by inn
proper keeping and handling between
the make-room and the consumption
market.
A farmer who has devoted much at
tention to raising potatoes states that
it is a great advantage to have all
tubers sprouted before planting, but
the sprouts cannot BIO too dwarf and
dark-green, and it is only when the
tubers are spread out in a single layer
and in full light that shoots of this
stamp are forthcoming. They must be
kept in the light, and on a good day
air may be admitted freely to them.
AS the early varieties are planted out
their place should be filed up with
later sorts, and in this way
every potato that is planted may
have two or more growths on it from
one inch 10 two inches in length. Cen
orally speaking, potatoes which are
planted with proper sprouts will ma
ture their crop a fortnight sooner than
those planted with dormant eyes,, but