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AUGUST............ 1872.
Only Twenty-Five Cents.
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year—every number containing infor¬
mation for the farmer worth ten times
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Correspondence Wanted.
We desire correspondence from all
parts of the South, upon Agriculture,
Stock raising, Manufacturing, Emigra¬
tion, &c. Reports of the condition
of the crops from time to time will
be particularly interesting; short
articles on these subjects will always
be appreciated, by us and our sub¬
scribers.
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f
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oar paper to admonish you of the ex¬
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contribution for the public good.
Louisville Industrial Exposi¬
tion.
We have received an invitation to
attend the Grand National Industrial
Exposition, which opens in Louisville,
Ky., September 3d, and continues
until October 8th, 1872. This Ex¬
position will attract to Louisville
thousands of people from every sec¬
tion of the West and Southwest, and
an opportunity will be enjoyed of ex¬
amining the evidences of the great
progress made in this country in the
arts, inventions, aud manufactures.—
Nearly every State in the Union will
exhibit its work, and consumer and
manufacturer will be enabled to judge
of the want s and Resources of the coun¬
try. Reduced fares on railroads and
steamboats have been arranged, and
ample hotel accommodations secured
for all who attend, The Louisville
Exposition Building covers nearly an
entire square iu the heart of the city,
is built of brick, and will seat on the
first floor alone nearly 20,000 people.
The natural beauty of Louisville, at
this season of the year, has perfected
arrangements for entertaining her
visitors economically and agreeably,
and the opportunity of seeing the bus¬
iness men of the country—the men
who arc the basis of its unexampled
progress—will attract all classes to
Exposition during the season.
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The Cook Evaporator.—Patent
Extended. —The patents covering this
celebrated machine — an invention
that has proved of incalculable value
to the Sorgo and Sugar Cane interest
—which expired on the 22d ult, have
been extended seven years.
These patents cover all channeled
paus in which a cooling surface is
used as a restiug place for the scum,
and all paus which afford facilities,
either by rockers, gate, or otherwise,
for regulating the flow of the stream
of piece on the bottom.
As it is understood that the entire
control of the cook patent has passed
into the hands of one party, and that
prosecutions will be commenced against
all parties infringing, it is important
that those using, or about purchasing
an Evaporator that infringes ou these
patents, should know that, not only
are the makers of such machines lia¬
ble to heavy penalties, but the dealers
and those using them, also.
An exchange gives us the following:
Lard or oil, is an article for the poison
of strychnine, nux vomica or any poi¬
sonous effect of the wild cherry; or
the peach tree for fox glove, or the
deadly night shade. The tea of the
common garden touch-me-not root is
a certain antidote for the bite of a
rattle snake, or any other snake—a
poultice of the same for the bite of a
spider, or the sting oi any insect.
From the Southafii Farm and Heme.
Turnips and Turnip Seed.
Mr. Editor :—I am pleased with
your advice in “Work for the Month”
in your June number, and the arti¬
cle of “J.T., Putnam county, Ga.,”
in same number, comes in exactly
right in regard to Rutabagas.
I have been gardening for the mar¬
ket for about fourteen years, and can
endorse J. T. in regard to the profit
of this crop. lie has given ail the in¬
formation needed to prepate the land.
The next thing is to secure good seed.
I, with others have been sadly disap¬
pointed by bad seed.
I propose to name a few varieties
that I have found most profitable aud
hardy. I have planted them but one
season, and tested them side by side
with the best seed of other growers
that I could obtain.
IMPORTED SEED FROM SCOTLAND.
*I)ixou's Defiance Purple lop—
Swede.
East Lothian Purple Top—Swede.
*Dixon’a Select Purple Top—
Scotch.
*Dixoh’s Select Green Top—
Scotch.
^Pomeranian White Globe.
*Grey Stone.
These are all good varieties for
Fali sowing, and I am confident w ill
give satisfaction if treated as J. T.
advises. The five marked* 1 tested
with seeds grown in tin’s country, (1
mean America,) and in two weeks
after corning up the difference iu favor
of the imported seed was decidedly
marked, and this conference continued
through the season. They grew
faster, were more hardy, and produced
larger roots, though all had the same
treatment aud on the same soil.
These seeds can be obtained in
Macon, Ga., from M. Milne, a Scotch¬
man, and letters addressed to him,
care of Geo. Bcggs, Esq., will have
attention. I will add that I am in no
way interested in the sale of these seeds
from except disappointment to save gardeners and farmers
aud loss by sow¬
ing inferior seeds.
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Spoiling Horses' Feet .—It is al¬
most impossible to get a horse shod
All without having the frogs cut away.
veterinary surgeons, all horse
men, all leading blacksmiths, agree
that the frog should not be pared one
particle—not pliable even trimmed. No
matter how and soft the frog
is, cut it away smooth on all sides,
and in two days it will he bright and
hard as a chip. You might as well
cat off all the leaves of trees and ex¬
pect them to flourish as to pare away
the frog and have a healthy foot. The
rough, spongy part of the frog is to
the loot what leaves are to the trees—
the lungs. red-hot shoe
Never have a put
upon the foot to burn it level. If you
can find a blacksmith that is mechanic
enough to level the foot without re 1
hot iron, employ him. The burning
process deadens the hoof, and tends
to contract it. If you do uot think
so, try the red-hot poker on your
finger-nail, and see how it will aft *ct
the growth of that. other important
There are many
points in shoeing horses, but these
two are of more importance than all
the rest, level to the apprehension of
men not skilled iu horses, and the two
most disregarded .—Mirror and Far¬
mer.
Bedding for Cattle
It was a common remark of Mr.
Asa G. Sheldon, of Wilmington, that
oxen would do better to travel twenty
miles a day and rest upon a good bed
of straw or other litter that is soft and
easy to stand and lie up<*n through
the night, than they would to go only
sixteen miles, aud lie upon bare hard
planks at night. Mr. Sheldon pro¬
bably had as much experience in
teaming ou the road with oxen as any
other farmer of his day, aud to this
long experience was added an uncom¬
monly close and intelligent observa¬
tion of cattle, and his testimony is,
therefore, of great value as to the effi¬
cacy of a good soft bed lor working
cattle.
Wo allude to this subject now for
the reason that where cattle are kept
for farm work, they arc at this season
kept ccnstantly in the yoke through
the day, and often very hard at work
from morning till night. Many
farmers have uu idea that now that
now that the weather has got to be
warm, the oxen do not need the bed¬
ding which they were accustomed to
supply iu Winter. But wc have
a little doubt that Mr. Sheldon was
correct, and that oxen will be capable
of doing one-filth mure work, where
they are properly bedded, and do it
with less wear and tear thau where
they are made to lie on hard and un¬
comfortable floors.
If you have not straw or oats or
lia} r to give them in sufficient abun¬
dance, get some sawdust or tan-bark,
or something of the kind, aud use it
freely three or four inches thick. Saw¬
dust is a pretty good rbsorbent aud
retainer of liquids, and useful in that
way. Sand is good for bedding.—
Mass. Plowman.
Things Worth Knowing.
To Prepare Lard to Peep — A
very intelligent lady furnishes to th •
South-Laud the following :
To one gallon of lard, before it is
rendered, add one ounce of sal soda,
dissolved in a gill of water. Do uot
fill your pots more thau half full, as
the soda makes it foam and boil over.
So other water is required than that
iti which the soda is dissolved. When
your lard is duue it will be as clear as
spring water—no loam—and the
cracklings will be eaten up. Strain
through a eoar.-e cloth into jars, and
set to cool. Lard put up in tfiis way
will keep for two years, hard aud firm,
throughout the Summer.
.1 Few Hints .—Iron rust is re¬
moved by salt mixed with lemon
juice. Mildew, by dropping in sour Ink
buttermilk and lading ill the sun.
stains may be sometimes taken out by
smearing with hot tallow left on when
the stained article goes to the wadi.
Freezing will take out oil fruit stains,
and scalding with boiling water will
remove those tlmt have never been
through the wash.