The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-14
By ii. E. BLAKESLEE. Jackson


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 go and do likewise.
Orabge Harrington, i'll his Farmers
Page" for a Laurel paper, makes the fol-
lowing reply to 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 |
prefer dark bottles to light colored.
find that dark bottles sugar less than
ho Enh ho4 T
ever heard of in bottling was keeping
the syrup from crystalizing. The only
reliable remedy for preventing this is to
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 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. Dr. 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"
MI lSlpI DlldSlZcS the DOlilU 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
Would be pleased to hear
from others on the subject.
Abe Shepherd, of Holmes county, gives
The following pertinent information re-
5arding the use of cotton seed meal in
-aising corn:
"Ninety-Six wants to know how to use
cotton seed meal to make it profitable !
Is a fertilizer for corn, and when to
'pply. I
81 will say, first, to break your land {
arly in the fall with double team and ;
hen in March know that you have it
thoroughly in fine shape and plant When ]
is ready for work, bare off, five or six q
nches deep, with a sharp coulter on the /
low; hoe out, put three sacks of meal I
n burrows, plow with six-inch shovel a
nd use the same amount of meal, which a
7ill make six sacks to the acre. Plow @
middle out, side harrow, and in few C
ays follow with a turning plow; throw c
liddle out with a fourteeninch shovel,
0 that the dirt will fall back in the fur
Ow, and you will get for your trouble,
me and meal, excellent returns. If you I
re not well pleased with the result, let
le know" G
A novel and sensible scheme has been II
1opted by the Finkbine Lumber Com s.
my of Wiggins to people their cut-over "
nds and at the same time supply labor e.
n their mills. The establishment of an L
;perimental farm has demonstrated that a.
le soil in that vicinity is of superior 81
lality, and that after the timber has II
zen removed from the land it can then ft
) made a fine farming country. The IN
heme- is described in the following, II
hich was published as a news item NJ
ON Wiggins: +
GAS result of the experimental farm cl o
9 Mississippi Interstate Colonizing u u
mpany, of Gulfport, has recently been ie
rmed and has purchased from the Fink
ne Company all it's cut-Over lands. con-
sting of 10000 acres, and has placed Pt
EN- on the market and is selling them oil
t to people with but little means on 81,
ry easy terms. The Finkbines, for the or
rpose of aiding in carrying out their yo
,as of colonization and agriculture, I'M
We agreed to give employment in their pl.
lis to every purchaser of forty acres Ii
more, at wages ranging from $1.5O to to-
rs per day, and the company owning VIC
ese lands sells them at $3.50 per 90
e, one-fourth cash and one fourth each SUI
IT until paid for, with per cent. on mi
deferred payments. The Finkbine of
mber Company is furnishing build flu
; material for these settlers at one eli
rd cash and the balance in one and mt
. years, with 6 per cent. interest on ito
erred payments" Th
The Middleton Fruit Company, with
dquarters at Oakland, CAL, recently Na
ght 400 acres of land near Biloxi and -
establish fig farm. No section of coh
Union offers greater advantages than IN
'sissippi in the way of fruit raising, is
even those from a great distance are lde
inning to realize this fact
is not at all scared by the the
eat of her big sister, Jackson, to an
,h out and make a suburb of this ex- tie.
ent little city, but is actively forging of
ad in tha yyorLy of r,,un;o;po1 owl otbo. ofr