Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-07-14

have been received from n 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
MI 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 a 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
lug 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
mentng. An old barrel that has had
syrup in it is unfit for syrup again. As
for me, | never expect to put syrup in
barrel for my own use. Cleanliness
will not prevent syrup from fermenting,
but does its share. Jugs and hotties
should be Just as clean as clean hot
water will make them, and taken right
from the wash and filled and corked l
prefer dark bottles to light colored.
find that dark bottles sugar less than
the light. The only trouble that 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-
ccptacc, 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
i for putting up the syrup, and for pre-
venting crystalizing, from four to eight
4 drops oil of vitriol to the gallon"
,hn tr,u hp int oF
II absolute cleanliness in the handling of
Il the syrup, as have others While he
n does not think it absolutely necessary
Il to have the Jugs, bottles or cans hot for
N filing, he recommends that they be TAX
" en- from a wash of hot water and filled
q Immediately. Would be pleased to hear
4 from others on the subject
Abe Shepherd, of Holmes county, gives
s the following pertinent information re-
" Mgardng the use of cotton seed meal in
xraisiug corn:
f "Nncty-Six wants to know how to use
&cotton seed meal to make it profitable
Ma a fertilizer for corn, and when to
kapNly.
81 will say, first, to break your land
&early in the fall with a double team, and
#thcn in March know that you have it
8thorougbly in fine shape and plant. When
Ia is ready for work, bare off, five or six
Rnchcs deep with sharp coulter on the
4pIowi hoe out, put three sacks of meal
IN burrows, plow with six-inch shovel
Mnud use the same amount of meal, which
@Nill make six sacks to the acre. Plow
middle out, side harrow, and in a few
4Flays follow with a turning plow; throw
@nlddlo out with a fourteen-inch shovel,
20 that the dirt will fall back in the fur
lnow, and you will get for your trouble,
sHlme and meal, excellent returns. If you
Pr' not well pleased with the result, let
pne know"
I'D A novel and sensible scheme has been
adopted by the Finkbine Lumber Com
4my Of Wiggins to people their cut-over
Rands ana at the same time supply labor
|Ror their mills The establishment of an
experimental farm has demonstrated that
ne soil in that vicinity is of superior
AuaIlty, and that after the timber has
Reen removed from the land it can then
~ made fine farming country. The
8cheme is described in the following,
Nhleh was published as news item
From Wggins:
I AS a result of the experimental farm,
he Mississippi Interstate Colonzing
ompany, of Gulfport, has recently been
III rmed and has purchased from the Fink
s8lhe Company all its cut-over lands, con.
' Stng of 10000 acres, and has placed
@hem on the market and is selling them
Rut to people with but little means on
cry easy terms The Finkbines, for the
purpose of aiding in carrying out their
NJ Z cas- of colonization and agriculture,
'sH,y,e ", agreed to give employment in their
MS to every purchaser of forty acres
|e more, at wages ranging from $3.50 to
80 per day, and the company owning
NeSe lands sells them at $3.50 per
4re' onefourth cash and one-fourth each i
ar until paid for, with 6 per cent. on
deferred payments. The Finkbine
lmOer Company is furnishing build
material for these settlers at one
'rd cash and the balance in one and |
W,o years, with 0 per cent. interest on
Nlerred payments"
ne Middleton Fruit Company, with
%auquarters at Oakland, Cal, recently |
|pught 400 acres of land near Biloxi and
~ establish a fig farm. No section of !
In chlon offers greater advantages than
'ssissippi in the way of fruit raising,
u even those from great distance are
ginning to realize this fact
raymond is not at all scared by the
'eat of her big sister, jackson, to
/'ch out and make suburb of this ex-
ielt little city, but is actively forging
eau IN the work of municipal and other
pfovements. The water plant recently
Jailed is doing nicely, and other i'm
Vements are being agitated.
"e Masonic Grand Lodge of Mississip.
. erecting splendid monument to the
~ory of its departed Grand Secretary,
III Logan Power, which is token of
eem 70 grand and good man, Mis-
,ppi suffered an irreparable loss in the
W. 0i this truly good man. His de-