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MOWS AND NOTES.
The South Carolina delegates are for
Bayard.
Horatio Seymour was 70 years old on the
31st ult.
A jute factory will be established in New
Orleans.
Russia is sending iron clads and soldiers
to China.
Pittsburgh coal sells in Louisville, Ky.,
at $2.75 a ton.
A wind storm damaged St. Louis $250,*
000 on the 4th.
Illinois sends a Bayard delegation to Cin
cinnati.
The Tennessee democratic convention
met on the Bth.
The empress of Russia was buried last
Wednesday.
The army worm is very destructive in
parts of Ohio.
Philadelphia is erecting free bath houses
for the poor.
Georgia's delegation to Cincinnati is al
most solid for Field.
An average of 2,640 ties are required to
each mile of railroad.
It is said that China has given an impor
tant order for rilies in X ienna.
Several thousand Circassians are migrat
ing to the United Stales.
The newspapers of Tenn* have an ag
gregate circulation ot 211,660.
The Indiana democrats have nominated
Hon. Frank Landers fo*- governor.
Egypt is taking stringent measures for the
suppression of the slave trade.
Kentucky farmers are discouraged at the
appearance of the hemp crop.
Several lots of tobacco were sold recently
in Oxford, N. C., at $1.50 per pound.
Robert S. Gardner, of West Virginia, has
been nominated lor Indian inspector.
The lord mayor of Dublin telegraphs
tb<t there is still great distress in Ireland.
President Hayes has been elected vice
president or me American nioie fiociety.
A military encampment will be held in
Rome, Georgia, July 7th to 14th, inclusive.
Thirty veara ago Chicago had but one
railroad, and that but forty-three miles in
length.
Sarah Bernhardt, the shadow of the
French stage, is to play 100 nights in the
United States.
W ade Hampton is a delegate at large to
the national democratic convention from
South Carolina.
Anew ordinance of the city of Memphis
requires all signs hanging across the side
walks to be removed.
Payne, Jewett, Morrison, Palmer, Ran
dall and English are some of the democratic
“dark horses.”
The town of Wooster, Ohio, has voted
$150,000 to aid in the construction of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
A railroad train was stoned in Connecti
cut last Sunday, an evidence the Puritans
disapprove of Sunday trains.
W. H. Vanderbilt has given $25,000 to
the University of Virgini i to build an ob
servatory for the McCormick telescope.
Forty thousand persons in Kurdistan, Ar
menia, and western Persia, must be fed two
months if they are to be kept alive.
The New York elevated railroads carry
an average of 200,000 passengers per day,
giving them receipts of $15,421 each day.
Lord Ripon has seen fit to announce that
he will not kiss ladies who present them
selves at the Indian vice regal court.
Four companies of British troops have
orders to be in readiness to take up posi
tions for the pro-ection of British Burmah.
The senate has confirmed Joseph O. Put
nam, of New York, mininistei to Belgium,
and William B. Hyman, surveyer of cus
toms at New Orleans, vice J. Madison Wells.
Morning milk is richer than that of
evening.
Cold green tea, well sweetened and pul
into saucers, will destroy flies.
Finely ground bones is the best fertil
zer for onions, unless it is hog manure.
Four hundreded cars of live stock pass
ed through Ottumwa, lowa, in one day last
week.
Lime wash is a good purifyer,and should
be used freely about the premises of a
farmer as well as those of a merchant.
We were shown yesterday several stalks
of cotton brought in from one of our ad
jacent farms bearing fifteen bolls. —Albany
News.
After the close of the Millers’ exposi
tion in Cincinnati, a party of millers will
visit the wheat growing districts of the
Northwest,
The first new wheat of the season was
received in St. Louis, May 29th, from Fort
Worth, and was sold at auction on ’Change
for $1.62i per bushel.
The annual report of the Hon. T. H.
Pope, Minister of Agriculture for the Do
minion of Canada, which is just to hand,
states that during 1879 a total of 25,000 cat
tle, 80,332 sheep, and 5,835 swine were ship
ped alive to this countiy. There was in ad
dition a large trade in dead meat.
Oats are considered the very best food
for fowls. We think howev. r that the
feathery tribe requires a change of diet as
often as a horse or other domestic animals.
The old method of feeding poultry on
dough day after day, is very injurious, es
pecially to young turkeys.
The weather in Ireland is unprecedent
edly favorable to the growing crops, and an
abundant harvest is expected. The worst
apprehensions are entertained, however, for
the suffering people in the afflicted districts
during the intervening months of June and
July. Relief funds have run low, and con
tributions are not coming in freely.
The County Cork Agricultural Society,
of Ireland, are going to carry out a series
of experiments of potato cultivation with
new varieties of good quality, which have
already obtained a good reputation, and the
Commissioners of National Education have
given the use of their model farm to the
society for that very important purpose.
The Denver and Rio Grand railroad
company has a standing advertisement for
1,000 men to work on an extension of their
road. They offer good wages, but cannot
get the required number. Yet emigration
is reported to be pouring into Denver at the
rate of 1,000 a day, but the emigrants are
all bound to go to the mines and make for
tunes or —break.
The commission appointed by the Rus
sian ministers of public communications
and of finance to investigate the condition
of the iron industry of Russia, has recom
mended that agiicultural and other ma
chines from abroad, hitherto imported free
of custom duty, shall henceforth pay duty,
and the duties on those already liable shall
be largely increased.
Soot is the most valuable fertilizer for
the garden extant, and it should be saved
with grenf oirj i ~ *•- ; ..........it
of ammonia, anil is a great obaorhanl of
the same. It also contains a large quan
tity of creosote, which is valuable for de
stroying insects. Best results from its use
have been obtained from asparagus buds.
The largest consignment of strawberries
ever received in Chicago was received by a
South Water street commission man a tVw
days ago from Cobden, Illinois. It consist
ed of thirteen car loads, or 138,888 quart
boxes, equal to 4,300 bushels. The mere
cost of picking them was $3,472. The
largest previous shipment ever made was
about a year ago, being eight car loads.
A correspondent from Gwinett county,
to the Department of Agriculture of the
State of Georgia, gives the following cheer
ing report of the crop in his section :
“ Farmers have planted large crops, and
are buying few provisions on time. Pros
pects generally good. The farmers are in
high spirits, not caring who is President or
Governor, but making rapid strides toward.-
independence.”
The ravages of a certain kind of beetle
among Russian wheat are becoming very
serious, and as no remedy for the pest has
yet been found, much apprehension exists
as to the future of this great staple product
in Russia, the only country that can begin
to rival the United States in wheat exports.
Some of the accounts respecting this new
enemy, express the greatest alarm lest with
in a few years the wheat exports of that
country should entirely cease.
The senate has passed the Agricultural
Appropriation bill, with an amendment in
creasing the salary of Commissioner LeDuc
to $4,000. The bill appropriates $15,000 for
expenditure in experiments in making su
gar from corn and sorghum, ar.d $5,000 for
experiments in tea culture. The bill now
goes to the House for consideration. It is
likely to receive further amendment and to
again go back to the Senate.
On the large Kendall farm at Heron
Lake, Jackson county, Minn., a series of
important'agrieultural experiments is being
prosecuted this season with the view of as
certaining the effect of breaking new land
and immediately sowing it. For this pur
pose two hundred acres have been broken
quite recently, and have been sown in
patches with corn, oats, beans, sorghum and
oniens. The success, so far attending the
experiments, has been highly satisfactory.
John Burnside is the most extensive su
gar planter in Louisiana. He owns and op
erates eight plantations located in the par
ishes of Ascension and St. James. On these
tine estates, over an area in excess of six
square miles, the sugar cane now waves in
the breeze. The statistics of his last years
operations are as follows : Acres of cane
ground, 3,287 ; pounds of sugar produced,
6,084,000; barrels of molasses produced,
7,290.
CARTERSVILLE, GA., JUNE 24, 1880.
THE EGYPTIAN COTTON CHOP.
While the prospects were never better
for a great crop in the cotton belt of the
United States, it will he seen by the follow
ing despatch that the crop in Egypt —our
greatest rival—is very backwaed :
London, June 8. —The monthly cotton
circular states that Egypt can hardly be
expected to yield another monster crop,
and so far indications are quite the other
way, the plant being very backward. Au
thorities say it is from three weeks to a
month later than last year.
If this state of affairs continue, it will
help our American planters to realize a
good price for their staple.
Hereford Cottle.
The Hereford cattle, have been known
on a tract of country at the base of the
Welsh mountains from immemorial. What
the real character of this breed was, we
have no positive information ; all we know
is that Herefordshire was formerly a dairy
ing district. For the present perfected
breed and its characteristics we are in
debted to a Mr. Benjamin Tompkins, who
commenced life as a farm laborer. While
thus iuiployed upon a farm, two cows were
bought which he noticed as having a re
markable disposition to take on fat. He
married the daughter of his employer, and
obtained these cows as part of her dower.
The one with the most white on it he called
Pigeon ; the other, with a rich red color
and a spotted lace, he narnef Mottie; and
it is claimed that the markings of these two
cows may be distinguished in their de
scendants of the present day. Mr. Tomp
kins’s first system was to save his best bulls
from these two cows, and breed them to the
best cows he could obtain from his neigh
bors. He continued his improvements
through a long life, but being a man of
very retiring habits he did not exhibit his
stock far from home, nor concern himself
about what was passing in the world be
yond his own circle, and was reticent as to
the mode of practice he adopted in fixing
the characteristics of the breed. He com
menced bis improvements in 1769, but
from the unobtrusive course he pursued it
was only by slow degrees that the merits of
his stock became known, and its influence
felt. Tompkins died at an advanced age,
having realized the honorable competence
to which his high merits as an original,
skillful and successful breeder entitled him.
At bis death his stock was purchased by
the following celebrated breeders : Hon.
Oermain, Mr. Price, and the P—l
4 it Talbot, who cultivated it with a scrupu
lous regard to the purity of descent. And
through this breed the county of Hereford
has ceased to lie a dairying, and to a very
great extent become a grazing district, but
is principally confined to breeding, the
stock being generally purchased and taken
to the rich valleys nearer London, to
which market it contributes some of the
beet".
The Hereford is not a dairy cow, al
though there are occasional exceptions to
this. It is a large breed, and the oxen are
rarely excelled in weight by any other.
The horns are of medium length, the
shoulder well formed and deep: in the
brisket and loins they excel. The beef is
not so well marbled as some other breeds,
although it brings a price equal to the
best. The cows are small compared with
the large size to which the oxen attain ;
bulls not unfrequently attain three times
the weight of their mothers. They make
excellent working oxen, equally as tracta
ble as the Devons and much more power
ful. The Hereford* are, to a certain ex
tent, supplanting the Shorthorns. They
are a hardier breed, and can be raised and
fattened at a less cost on account of con
suming coarse fodder, and they almost
equal them in weight. When kept solely
for beef, they mature early and are in their
prime at three and four years. Henry
Clay was the first importer of the Here
fords in this country ; in 1816 he imported
two pairs, but did not continue to breed
them pure. Sir Isaac Coffin, a native of
Massachusetts, sent a Hereford bull and
two cows to some of his friends in Massa
chusetts.
The largest known importation was made
in 1840, by an Englishman, and taken into
Jefferson county, New York State, which
were atterwaids purchased by Mr. Erastus
Corning, near Albany, New York , some
of these went into Vermont. Mr. George
Clark, Otsego county, New York, has been
a successful breeder and feeder of Here
fords. Thomas Astor and John Hum
phries of Elyris, Ohio, have also imported
and fed them, and sent to the New York
market some excellent specimens. Mr.
F. W. Stone of Guelph, Canada, made
some importations; one from the herd
of Lord Berwich of Shropshire, England
Previously Mr. Stone had been a breeder
of Shorthorns. In the years 1873 and 1874
the writer saw his herd. Some of his
cows were excellent milkers. The stock
from Mr. Stone’s herd have been sold
principally into the United States. Ibis
breed is slowly but surely making its way
in the Western State.-, and no doubt as it
becomes better known it will, to a certain
extent, take the place of the Shorthorn. —
American Cultivator.
—
An amusing instance of the extremity to
which the customs regulations are carried
between Germany and Austria is reported
in a German paper. A Saxon farmer living
near the Austrian frontier had employed
gome men to work on one of his fields
across the border, in Bohemia, and sent
them some bread and butter and brandy for
lunch. The provisions were seized by the
Austrian custom officers as contraband, and
the sender is summoned to appear before
the High Customs Council to answer for his
alleged evasion of the Austrian custom reg
ulations.
Seiui-Tropic Florida—The Gulf Const.
From the Dixie Farmer.
►Several readers of the Dixie Farmer
having become sufficiently interested in my
letters on semi-tropic fruit growing as to
write personally for further information, I
write a more elaborate description of the
geography, and give a more detailed state
ment of the products and resources of our
island in the sea. On the map of Florida
this little point, on the west side of Tampa
bay and between the same and the Gulf of
Mexico, marked Piney Point, is not larger
than one’s thumb nail. Of this land only
a small strip or lidge here and there is suit
able for the growing of fruits, or the home
of man, and by far the greater part of these
ridge lands are taken up, and the original
pine and oak growth supplanted with the
“fruits of the gods,” oranges, lemons, lime,
citron, mango apple, avacado pear, guava,
etc. This particular point is, of all other
sections of the State, blessed, first on ac
count of its good health, freeness from ma
larial affections and immunity from insects,
venomous serpents, etc. Next, the warm
salt water by which it is almost entirely
surrounded, and the Southerly winds pre
vailing in winter coming over the water
gives it the advantage of a degree of lati
tude further south. We can, therefore,
grow the tenderest semi-tropic fruits, and
compete with the Bahamas and Burmudas
in early vegetables for the Northern mark
ets. These are not visionary statements,
but facts from practical observations in six
years experience.
Our farming prospects are not worth
speaking of—sometimes we can make a lit
tle corn or cotton ; the latter being far more
sure and profitable than corn; sweet pota
toes do well, but no fortunes have been
made from them. It may be that we can
do something with them when our country
is more thickly settled and our transporta
tion more perfect and speedy—-not that po
tatoes are perishable, but that in looking
out a market for other truck we will find
sale for them. Of course we can grow al
most anything here by selecting the proper
land, manure and taking the season proper
ly. Rut there will tie o much time ami la
mir iitvwtveu tins inai i no noi anviw
anything outside of a straight line of fruit
growing. Every man to his trade, and eve
ry country to its product. I think this the
most unobjectionable locality and soil for
all the fruits i have mentioned, and it is
quite likely that we will find more than
double as many more equally as much to
be desired. 1 do not mean to say that
nothing else in the agricultural line will
pay when properly handled, but that our
“ biggest money ” is to come from fruit.
Gardening for the Northern markets and
rice and sugar culture on the land not suit
able for fruit growing will some day be
done by many —by those who come too late
to secure fruit land. To be sure there will
be those who prefer gardening to the
chances in a grove, even now, and I mignt
open my eyes at the result when the season
is over.
The cultivation of rice might be very
profitable here; also I have great faith in
banana culture, as low damp land is very
congenial to them when properly worked
up and drained. In fact, there is a great
future for this country in her rare and de
licious products. And for this particular
Point its perfect health and delightful cli
mate, also its inexhaustable sporting range
and the unequaled fish and bivalves with
which our waters abound, and which have
been such a source of livelihood to our peo
ple in this primitive condition of the coun
try. The canning of the bivalves and the
canning and freezing of several varieties of
our fish will some day be the means of em
ployment to the people, and revenue to the
goverment as well as a “God send” to the
people in the other States. Our water is
good generally, but not cold, as the wells
are not deep. I cannot but call the atten
tion of my friinds, and laugh, when per
sons writing for information ask as to “in
sects and venomous serpents.” We have a
few mosquitos about the house at night in
rainy seasons and dead of summer, but a
little smoke and mosquito bar is all the pro
tection we need. As for venomous serpents
there are none here; I feel like speaking
thus, so few and far between are they. The
land snakes are burned by the annual fires,
while the water snakes are eaten by alliga
lorsand birds; yes, birds eat snakes ; 1 have
found two, one a large mocasin snake, in
Blue Horn.
The heat of summer is modified by al
most constant sea breezes, and by the clouds
and rain squalls which prevail during June,
July and August, though the thermometer
rarely got a above 95 degrees. It seems to
be true that we become less energetic after
two oi three years; this may he the effect
of the climate, grub or associations.
Land is cheap— 90 cents for State land,
and $5 to $lO for private land ; improved
places are hard to get on anything like easy
terms. I know a few places for sale at
double their value ; though it is hard to
come at the value of a place in this conn
try. If it has a bearing orange grove it
will only be offered at fancy figures; if a
young grove, then the condition of the trees
and their age; if lemon and lime groves, the
purchaser could afford to pay a fancy price,
but if none, or few fruits, the location may
be of value, if the location is not extra and
no fruit trees, then the place is worth but
little.
Society matters are at loose ends, and the
people much mixed except with negroes—
there being but one family in twenty miles
The natives are not ‘'over smart,” but hum
ble, honest and clever. We have schools
for the young folks. Our mail will here
after be twice a week, by steam, which is all
we now ask. We have fifty to one hundred
families of good and industrious people. A
few men of means could, perhaps, do better
here with their money than anywhere in the
world. Wm. P. N.
Pinellas, Tampa Bay, Fla., June 12, 880.
GEORGIA’S GROWING CROPS.
COTTON.
Reports from nearly every section of the
State gives encouraging accounts of the
growing crops, and especially cotton.
Where proper attention and good cultiva
tion have been practiced the prospect for a
great crop was never better. The season so
far has been comparatively favorable, and
the greatest drawback seems to be the
scarcity of labor. The weather has been
favorable to the growth of grass as well as
cotton, and there is considerable struggle
going on as to which will win. Men who
have planted large areas, depending upon
what is called ‘‘day hands,” find themselves
fearfully behind, and have commenced war
upon their more prudent neighbors by rais
ing the price of day labor from fifty and
seventy-live cents to one dollar per day t
Some planters in the vicinity of Macon pay
one dollar per day and board. We regret
to see this mistake on the part of our farm
ers. No man can cultivate cotton at that
price; and yet they must pay it or have
their crops thrown out. We trust that this
state of affairs will be a lesson to the farm
ers ol Bibb, and hereafter we advise them
to “look before they leap,” and let their
acreage be consistent with their bona jide la
bor. The policy is a bad one to plant on
uncertainties, or what is the same, depend
ing upoti day laborers. This practice is
what has reduced so many of our fertile,
lucrative farms to such a miserable state of
poverty and decay. Why will our farmers
persist in this clap-trap way of agriculture
when they have the light of reason and ex
perience before them that teaches the supe
riority of small acreage and thorough cul
tivation to the ‘‘big crop and trust to luck”
apaloio 9 If four bJo.=* of cotton Lave been
gathered from one acre in our State it can
be accomplished again, and there is money
in it, even if it does cost something to pre
pare the plant and give it proper cultivation.
At the close of the year there wili be a
handsome profit realized, and no change of
soil, only that of constant improvement.
COHN.
The Southwest Georgia corn crop is very
promising, and is further advanced than
last year at this time. The crop in North
Georgia is not as fine comparatively, but is
pronounced good ; it has a deep green color,
and is growing finely. With plenty of rain
Georgia farmers may count on full cribs
and fat stock.
WHEAT AND OATS.
These crops, while in some sections good
results have been obtained, are generally
considered poor; rust and smut being the
general complaint. We have reports from
all over the State that go to show that these
crops are verv uncertain, and even in the
same locality we find altogether different re
sults. Mr. Butts, of Milledgeville, planted
for one hundred bushels of wheat and har
vested only seven. He didn’t make his
seed besides having to pay expenses of cut
ting, threshing, etc. He said it was not the
rust that hurt his wheat, but the Hessian
fly, or some such destructive insect born of
the unprecedentedly warm winter. Jarret
Mitchell, an industrious old colored man of
the same place gathered from one acre of
land thirty-one bushels. A short time ago
this acre of land was nothing but a mass of
red clay, cut up by ugly looking gullies.
By hard licks and heavy manuring Mitchel
has brought it to a high state of cultivation.
We hear of entire failures of oats in va
rious sections of the Slate, and some very
fine yields. A farmer of Baldwin county
threshed out one hundred and twenty-one
bushels from one acre. In Lumpkin some
fine crops have been gathered. The best
fields—not considered as fancy patches—are
those of Messrs. S. S. Everett and J. G.
Singer, of which a number of acres will
produce a yield of seventy-five bushels to
the acre. The best field is that of Judge J.
L. Wimberly, of the above named place,
which at one time would have turned out
one hundred and fifty bushels to the acre if
it hadn’t b<en seriously damaged by the
wind and rain.
WATERMELONS.
The Georgia melon crop is no small af
fair, especially about Augusta, but we are
sorry to say that in that section the present
crop is reported as being very much dis
eased. It is spreading rapidly and doing
great damage. The vines have died to such
an extent that not more than one-fourth of
a crop will be made by some gentlemen.
The cause of this is supposed by many to
be a bug or worm. One gentleman who has
noticed his vines closely says it is the ordi
nary pumpkin or squash hug, which de
stroys his vines, and that he has killed sev
eral hundred of them. He states that they
suck the vines and the vines die immediate
ly therefrom. He thinks if he could get
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
something to keep oft' or destroy these bugs
his vines would do well. “One thing,” says
the News, “ is >ure —if the destruction of
these vines is not speedily stopped the wa
termelon crop will be materially reduced
and the ‘Augusta watermelon’ be a thing of
the past. Many who plant there are very
much discouraged.”
Can’t some of our readers advise a reme
dy for the extermination of these pests?
fruit.
The peach crop is considered a failure,
though some sections will have good yields.
Other fruit is doing well, and a fair yield
will be obtained.
Best Breed of Hogs for Georgia.
Mr. Newman, of Atlanta, has had an
interview with Mr. Richard Peters on the
subject of hogs at the South, and the fol
lowing is what Mr. Peters had to say:
“I will say that of the improved breeds
that were prominently before the public
fifteen to twenty years ago, the Chester
\\ hites, Berkshires, Black Essex and Po
land China ; the Chesnut Whites having
become unpopular, on account of their
liability to mange, have -een superceded by
the Poland Chinas, and t - in turn, with
in the last five years, have been inbred
with the Berkshire, until it is difficult to
distinguish one from the other, and the Po
land China of the present day may be con
sidered cross-bred Bt-rkshires, especially
adapted to the cheap corn of the far West,
and not so well adapted to the South as the
pure-bred Berkshires.
“Within the last four or five years an
other breed, known as the Jersey Reds,
has come into notice ; so that now we have
the three breeds—the Berkshire, Black Es
sex and Jersey Reds.
“The Berkshire, as improved, appears
to be well adapted to the wants of the
Southern people—their hams are beyond
doubt superior to those of any other breed,
and they fatten readily at anv age. They
are inclined to become wild if allowed to
run in the swamps, and are not called up
and fed regularly.”
Q. “What size will they attain at eighteen
to twenty months old with fair treatment?”
A. “From 250 to 300 pounds of net pork.
The sows are good breeders and good
nurses.”
“The Jprsey Reds are a larger breed than
the Berkshires. They require to be kept
on high feed and to be allowed to run un
til two or two and a half years old before
killing. They will then weigh from 400
to 500 pounds- They are a lop-eared
breed, and do not vary in color except in
the shades of red. Young pigs have small
black spots on the skin which do not show
as they grow older. They are very pro
lific breeders —old ows bringing from ten
to fifteen pigs at a litter, and when well
fed they yield moie milk than sows of any
other breed. The cross between them and
the Berkshires, using the Berkshire boar,
makes a most valuable hog for all practi
cal purposes.
“The Essex, beyond question, can be
kept at less cost than any other breed.
They originated in England by a cross be
tween the Neopolitan and the Chinese, and
to them the Berkshires owe their great im
provement, the blood of the Essex having
been freely used by English breeders of
Berkshires. They require some skill to
manage them properly, for when highly
fed, the sows get too fat to breed, and when
properly managed—allow to run on grass,
and commence breeding young, they, when
continued on that line, bring average lit
ters ahd make good nurses. On the other
hand, when the store pigs are turned out
on the ranee without feed, they do not
grow to sufficient size to suit the majority
of persons when twenty months old.
Q. “How do you manage the Essex to
get best results from them?”
A. “ After having tried all the breeds
enumerated for years at a time, I have dis
carded all except the Essex and Jersey
Reds, keeping very few of the latter. I
now allow my sows to breed but a year,
dropping their pigs in April. The sows
run on grass and clover and are fed about
two ears of corn a day, or slops make at
the house with shorts. This keeps them
along until the grain fields are open, and
they all run together then on these fields
until fall.
“Those intended for store pigs are sepa
rated and allowed to run in the woods, on
the fall mask, and are fed about one ear of
corn each in two days, during the winter.
The following year they again have the
run of the grain fields, and then of the pea
fields, and after bring fed on corn for two
weeks,they weigh about twenty-five pounds,
making nice meat for family use at very
little outlay.
“All of rhe sows, except those intended
as breeders, are spayed, and the open sows
allowed to rur, with the young boars, so
that they commence to breed as early as
nature prompts them to this function.
The first litters of young sows are invaria
bly killed as soon as dropped, and then the
sows are allowed to run with the selected
stock of boars. They bring their second
litters when they are about thirteen or
fourteen months old.
The brood sows are fattened and killed
after bringing their third or fourth litters.
The Knoxville (Tenn.,) papers give great
praise to the management of the Hampden
Sidney school of that place. Miss Helen
Hoad ley, who was called by telegram from a
distant State to take charge ot that import
ant institution, has mure than met expecta
tions. Results are also highly creditable to
subordinate teachers.