The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-13


summer use is bearing fruit. Letters
| have been received from number OF
persons with regard to the plan sug-
gested two weeks since. 1t seems that
it has been tried, with slight variations,
and found successful. Several parties
have offered samples two and three years
old for confirmation that it can be per
fectly kept, and it has been decided that
all who can furnish few bottles or cans,
and will do so, they will be received
with thanks and comprehensive exhibit
| will be made at the exposition this fall,
together with all information necessary
to enable Others to 60 and do likewise.
| Orabge Herrington, in his Farmers
Page" for Laurel paper, makes the fol-
| lowing reply to a request from the writer
| for his experience on this subject:
1--WE have practiced heating the jugs
and bottles, but find that it does little
or no good compared with filling them
right from the pan. We have been jug
ging and bottling our syrup for three
years, and have never heard of but one
Jug being sour fermented, and | believe
| that was a mistake-a lie. One man
has handled over 400 gallons for me since
the last of February. Cleanliness is the
| main thing to keep the syrup from fer.
| menting An old barrel that has had
syrup in it is unfit for syrup again. AS
for me, never expect to put syrup in
a barrel for my own use. Cleanliness
will not prevent syrup from fermenting,
but does its share. Jugs and bottles
should be Just as clean as clean hot
water will make them, and taken right
from the wash and filled and corked. I
prefer dark bottles to light colored. |
find that dark bottles sugar less than
the light. The only trouble that I have
ever heard of in bottling was keeping
the syrup from crystalizing. The only
reliable remedy for preventing this is TO
skim the syrup on the pan as little as
possible; say scarcely any for one-third
the distance of the pan from where the
syrup is turned off. The syrup should
have only few inches to run to a re-
ceptacle, and be stirred Just as little as
possible while getting into your jug or
bottle. After the vessel is filled and
corked it should be set aside with the
care with which you would handle an
egg and not moved for at least one
month DIR. Stockbride, of the Florida
Experiment Station, recommends tin cans
for putting up the syrup, and for pre-
venting crystalizing, from four to eight
drops oil of vitriol to the gallon"
Mr.. Harrington emphasizes the point of
absolute cleanliness in the handling of
the syrup as have others. While he
does not think it absolutely necessary
to have the jugs, bottles or cans hot for
filling. he recommends that they be tax
en- from wash of hot water and filled
Immediately. Would be pleased to hear
from Others on the subject.
Abe Shepherd, of Holmes county, gives
the following pertinent information re-
garding the use of cotton seed meal in
raising corn:
"Ninetv-Six wants to know how to use
cotton seed meal to make it profitable
as fertilizer for corn, and when to
apply.
81 will say, first, to break your land
early in the fall with double team, and
then in March know that you have it
thoroughly in fine shape and plant When
it is ready for work, bare off, five or six
inches deep, with sharp coulter on the
plow; hoe out, put three sacks of meal
in burrows. plow with a six-inch shovel
and use the same amount of meal, which
will make six sacks to the acre. Plow
middle out, side harrow, and in few
days follow with a turning plow; throw
middle out with a fourteen-inch shovel,
so that the dirt will fall back in the fur
row, and you will get for your trouble,
time and meal, excellent returns. If you
are not well pleased with the result, let
me know"
A novel and sensible scheme has been
adopted by the Finkbine Lumber Com
pany of Virgins to people their cut-over
lands and at the same time supply labor
for their mills. The establishment of an
experimental farm has demonstrated that
the soil in that vicinity is of superior
quality, and that after the timber has
been removed from the land it can then
be made a fine farming country. The
scheme is described in the following,
which was published as a news item
from Virgins:
GAS a result of the experimental farm,
the Mississippi Interstate Colonizing
Company, of Gulfport, has recently been
formed and has purchased from the Fink
bine Company all it's cut-over lands, con-
sisting of 10000 acres, and has placed
|
out to people with but little means on
very easy terms. The Finkbines, for the
purpose of aiding in carrying out their
ideas of colonization and agriculture,
have agreed to give employment in their
mills to every purchaser of forty acres
or more, at wages ranging from $1.50 to
$2.75 per day, and the company owning
these lands sells them at $3.50 per
acre, one-fourth cash and one-fourth each
year until paid for, with per cent. on
all deferred payments. The Finkbine
Lumber Company is furnishing build
ing material for these settlers at one
third cash and the balance in one and
two years, with per cent. interest on
deferred payments"
The Middleton Fruit Company, with
headquarters at Oakland, Cal, recently
bought 400 acres of land near Biloxi and
will establish fig farm. No section of
the Union offers greater advantages than
Mississippi in the way of fruit raising,
and even those from great distance are
beginning to realize this fact.
Raymond is not at all scared by the
threat of her big sister, Jackson, to
reach out and make suburb of this ex-
cellent little city, but is actively forging
ahead in the work of municipal and other
improvements. The water plant recently
installed lis doing nicely, and other i'm
proyements are being agitated.