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Brunswick. —(Synonyms, Madonna,
Constantinople, John Mann Fig,Brown
Hamburg, Hanover, Bayswater, etc.,
etc.) Fruit very large, pyriform ; skin,
violet brown in sun, pale greenish vio
let in the shade; flesh reddish, with
occasionally a hollow centre when
grown in a very rich soil; very rich
and excellent; a prolific bearer.
Green IscJlia. —(Synonyms, Green
Italian, White Ischia, Green lied
Withers, etc.) Fruit, of medium size,
round obovate ; skin, pale green, very
thin : pulp, deep red ; very rich and
well flavored: a very desirable variety,
and quite prolific.
Celestial. —-)Syuonyms, Small Sugar
Fig, Small Violet.) Size, very small;
skin, purplish, with much bloom; pulp,
pale pink ; very sweet and excellent;
matures early, and when fully matured,
may be eaten without peeling; dries
very easily, but is rather small for that
purpose; very hardy and prolific.
Lemon. —(Synonyms, Yellow Ischia,
Cyprus, Des Deux Saisons a Fruits
Jamies, etc.) Medium, roundish ; skin,
pale yellow ; pulp ; delicate and rich ;
a very good variety; moderately pro
ductive.
Marseilles. (Synonyms, White
Marseilles, White Naples, Pocock,
Standard, etc.) Size, medium ; round
obovate; skin, very pale yellowish
white; flesh, white, rather dry but
sweet. This variety is extensively
grown near Marseilles, and along the
coast of the Mediterranean, for drying
purposes, and can be recommended for
that purpose here. It is not a desirable
variety tor open field culture in the in
terior, hut thrives remarkably well on
the sea coast. This variety is said to
be the same as that grown near Smyr
na. and from which the best tigs of
commerce are produced.
Ntrii. —Skin, pale greenish yellow ;
fruit, small: pulp, red, very delicate
and of excellent flavor ; it is not very
productive in open field culture.
Os the varieties not so well known,
but deserving mention, the following
are desirable for amateur culture :
Angelique. (Synonyms, Melittc,
White Coucourell, etc.) Fruit, small,
yellow ; pulp, white, sweet; very early
and moderately productive.
Early Lemon. — (Synonvms, Jaune
liative.) Similar to Lemon, but ripens
a week or ten days earlier.
Madeleine. —ls a small white %
very sweet, but not very productive.
Pregussata. —Size, medium ; brown,
pulp, deep red, flavor good.
Superfine de la Saussaye. —A medi
um fig, round and much enlarged
towards the stein; skin, brown; very
sweet and good ; leaves deeply lobed.
Violate Rondo. —Fruit, medium ;
skin, violet; pulp, deep red; very
sweet and moderately productive.
We have several other varieties in
our collection, but they are either in
ferior, unproductive, or doubtless only
synonyms of the foregoing described
varieties.
Fruitlaml Nurseries,'Augusta, Ga.
How to Kai.sk Good Chickens.
—l. Set the hen in a place where she
will not be disturbed.
2. Give a large hen twelve or thir
teen eggs, medium sized one ten or
twelve, and a small one eight or nine.
3. Don’t let the hen come out of the
sitting-room until she has hatched,
but keep her supplied with gravel, food
and water.
4. When chicks are hatched, leave
them in the nest for eight or ten
hours.
5. Don't meddle with the eggs dur
ing incubation ; turning them once a
day, and all such foolishness, is apt to
prevent the eggs from hatching. All
of this is good advice from the South
ern Farmer.
Subsoii.ixg ox Clayed Lands. —ls
your land is wet, subsoil to let off
excess of moisture. If it is dry, sub
soil to supply the deficiency. If it is
rolling, subsoil to prevent washes. If
it is in basins, subsoil to prevent the
drowning of the crops from heavy
rains. If it is rich, subsoil to keep it so.
If it is poor, subsoil to make it rich.
If you want to he a good farmer sub
soil. If you want to be rich, subsoil.
—Nashville Union & American.
BANNER OF THE SOUTH AND PLANTERS’ JOURNAL.
Minor uses for Corn.
Few persons, comparatively, have
thought of all the varied uses to which
the product of the grain is applied
beyond the mere service it yields as
food for men and cattle. The millions
of bushels that go to the trough and
the hopper are sometimes, in the far
West, when the maize crop is
enormous and fuel comparatively deal - ,
] followed by other thousands that are
substituted for wood and coal: and
the fire they yield is said to be warm,
as well as brilliant, in the extreme.
Os the enormous distillation of corn
into spirituous liquors it is needless to
speak. We all have oecular and nasal
demonstrations of the fact in every
city street, and probably not a village
\in the land is innocent of the effects
1 and ordors of the “corn whiskey”—a
most villainous degradation of a classic
grain.
But there is excellent oil m corn,
and a bushel of the latter will yield a
pint of the former, which may be
i readily clarified, and then will burn
with a pure, bright flame. In the
] northern part of the State of New
i York, near Lake Ontario, there is a
j distillery where the article is produced
j at the rate of 10 gallons of oil from
100 bushels of Indian corn, with the
curious result that the residuum of the
grain is worth more money when the
oil is extracted, and can be inoie
i t a lily distilled, than before.
Corn cobs are not, by any means,
j so useless a commodity as hasty judg
merits may decide. In the backwoods’
I cabin their readiest use is in stoppers
I for bottles. They are, in this light,
!the true American cork. But grind
I the sweet cob into meal, and it
gives yo.i excellent food for dairy
j cows, and will even make a coarse
kind of bread, which is, at least, as
i good as the compound of oatmeal and
j inner birch-bark used in the remote
i north of Sweden. But, as cattle
; fodder, it is found, by actual experi
ment, to he both cheaper and better
I than any other kinds in use. Oats,
rye, and corn have been tried at the
rate of (j cents’ worth per diem for
one week, given to a milch cow. She
yielded with each kind of diet 138
lbs. of milk that gave 6£- lbs. of but
ter. She was next fed with (i cents’
worth of cob-meal per diem, also, for
a week, and gave lbs. of milk,
or seven lbs. 7 ounces of butter. She
| was subsequently supplied with cob
! meal scalded, for one week, and then
j gave latlj lbs. of milk, or <> lbs. 6
j ounces of butter.
But corn husks are very varied in
their usefulness. They are employed
as] stuffing for mattresses, and paper
of good quality is made from them.
In fact, if they were more largely ap
plied to that manufacture, we should
have less soft, mushy, and perishable
printing material. Good, well selected
husks may be put to many of the uses
of horse-hair where elasticity is desira
hie, and here the first application men
tioned, namely, for beds, is worth par-
I ticular observation. The husks used
for such stuffing should he the inner
; ones, selected as perfectly clean and
whole, and they should be spread over’
a well aired floor for some days, so as
Ito he perfectly clean and dry. After
; that, when put into the ticks, they w ill
] last for a long time. Indeed, some of
the altter, used as underbeds, have
> lasted for 20 years ; and, if aired and
j beaten every twelvemonth, after being
! emptied out on a dry, airy floor and
: mixed with a few fresh husks, they
will be as crisp and clastic as ever.
I Some makers strip the husk into sec
tions, but this makes them too fine
1 and liable to mat together. The husks
] should be kept whole, and they dry in
irregular shapes, which, being retained
i give the bed a certain pleasant springi
| ness, which lasts a long time. The
| sharp beard on each stalk prevents
j most insects from crawling through
these beds, and they, consequently, es
■ cape the vermin with which straw is so
i greatly infested. They thus remain
j clean, sweet, and wholesome. A good
husk bed is nearly equal to the best
mattress for summer use, and there are
even some feather beds in winter
which are not so soft.
The best time for collecting these
husks is when the corn is fir.-t stripped j
ofi’ them. It requies but little practice
to learn how to strip otf the rough
husks on the outside first, and then, by
another motion, seize the inner ones
I along with the silks, and drop the
latter together into the husking bas
-1 ket. This plan may take up a little
more time, but the saved husks will
richly pay for it. But, even where
this plan has not been pursued, it is no
very great trouble to select enough of
the sol), silky husks at the general
pile to make the beds that are required.
When these are once made, a lasting
job has been accomplished, and there
is no need to go after straw for the
uuderbeds.
Corn, sugar, and molasses have been
procured from maize, and a French
Canadian has tried hard tor years to
effect the adoption of a plan in this
; country which, he says, would make
: sugar raising an easy and profitable ad
| dition to Western industry.
In fine, the great native American
grain continually suggests new ap
! plications in every part of its organiza
tion, from the root to the ear. It
: seems singularly adapted to our pecu
liar conglomerations of many races of
[ people and our great diversity of
climates and necessities. Nor, while
it is thus practically useful in all its ap
plications, does it fail to suggest the
most graceful figures in poetry and the
tine arts. The emblem of the ear of
maize and of its rich abundant growth,
painted in canvass, or carved in sculp
tured mouldings on the capitals of
architectural pillars, is eloquent of no
ble and consoling thoughts upon the
goodness and bounty of God.— New
York Mercantile Journal.
| Fiom the Chronicle.]
COTTON.
Friday, P. M., March 17, 1871.
By special teloerams received by us to
night from the Southern ports, we arc in
possession of the returns showing the
reccit ts, exports, &o , of cotton for the
week ending this evening, March 17.
from the figures thus obtained it appears
ihat the total receipts for the seven days
have reached 102,484 bales against 136-
533 bales last week. 126,935 bales the pre
vious week, and 136,661 halls three weeks
since, making the total receipts since the
first of September, 1870, 3 153,517 bales
against 2 303,872 bales for tho same
period of 1869-70, showing an increase
since September 1 this year of 849,645
bales.
Tbc exports for the week ending this
veiling reach a total of 103 600 halts, of
which 66,325 were to Great Britain, 666 to
France and 36 609 to (he rest of the Con
tinent, while the Slocks, as made up thin
evening, are now 644,882 bales.
From the foregoing statement it will be
seen that, compared with the corrospond
] ing week of last season, there is an increase
j in the exports this week of 8,793 bales,
i while the stocks to-night are 154 685 bales
i more tbau they were at this time a year
j ago.
i The improvement which was established
towards the close of last week not only
continued this week, but tho upward move
ment progressed quite regularly until yes
terdny, when Middling Uplands closed at
! 15} and Ordinary at 11 Jc.; this advance
was engineered under the influence of the
increased business and advance at Liver
pool, stimulated by the somewhat, smaller
receipts at our ports. Holders were less
free in their offerings, although purchasers
were able to find all the cotton they want
ed at the ruling quotations. The prin
cipal iuquiry has been on the part of
shippers ; spinners doing something with
out, however, displaying any particular
anxiety to operate, supplying simply pres
er,t wants. Tc-dav, with the receipts
footing up rafter more than anticipated
and the advices from Liverpool less assur
ing, the feeling here became less favorable
and with little doing, prices have declined
Jc. on tho lower grades and Jo. on Low
'Lduling and grades above, Middling Up
lands closing ar. 15io, and Low Middling
ai 14c. For firward delivery the business
has been large and the flu tuations greater.
As prices advanced parties having con
tracts out, began to desire to cover them
under the fear that an extra dtmaDd for
be continent springing up ni'ght loavc
i them short. This feeling Indued the ad
vance, till od Thursday Low Middlings for
April sold at 14Je; for June, 14 3-16 ; lor
July, 14 5-16 ; tor August and Septem
ber, 14 J. But tc-day prices were off f .
for April aid May, closing for March, 14;
for April, 13|c ; lor May, 13jr; for June,
13jo ; lor July, 140, and lor August, 142.
The total sales of this description for the
week have been 104 500 baler. For im
mediate deiivety the total sales foot up
this week, 21,444 bales, including 801
bales to arrive, of which 2 974 bales were
taken by spinners, 799 bales on specula
tion, 15 665 baies for export, and 2,006
bales in transit.
Weather Reports by Telegraph.—
Our telegr ms to-night report warm, uiy
weather all the week at Charleston aid
Augusta ; at Montgomery the same, ex
cept last night it rained ; at Macon it ha.-
laiued one day, at Columbus, Galveston
and Nashville, (wo dayr, and at Savannah
one dry the early part of the week ; while
at Memphis it has rained three days, and
he balance of the wick has been cloud ;.
Our correspondent at Memphis states that
he “high water” has interrupted the
free arrivi lof otton at that port. The
thermometer at Mobile has averaged 65 ;
ut Montgomery, 60 ; at Macon,' 66 ; at
Charleston, 64; at Columbus, 65; at
Mm.phis, 61, ami at Galveston, 69.
France and the Cotton Tax.— The
cable dispatches received this week to the
effect that, the new French Government Is
about to lay a tax on cotton is so unwise
that it would appear to be impossible;
nntning could operate more unfavorably to
France and more favorably to Germany
In fact such a tax might be styled an easy
way to repel Alsace and Lorraine and unite
them permanently to Prussia, cutting off
the export trade of France in cotton cloths
and building up that of Germany. The
French nation has lost its artuy, its money,
and its lands by the war, but we cannot
think it has lost its common sense
Prospects.— With a crop this year of
four million bales and over, it may be ot
interest to he reminded, before completing
our planting for another season, at what
point we are likely to begin the next crop
year. This is the more important as some
appear to think that the price at which
next year's crop is to be marketed (if it
reaches 4,000,000 bales) will not be so low
as we have, in previous reports, indicated.
As to consumption we must remember
that Great Britain is now running at about
its present maximum capacity, and it would
take several months to increase to any
considerable extent the number of its spin
dles. Low prices for cotton and paying
prices for goods will, without doubt, griul
ually enlarge its manufacturing power, but
this enlargement must necessarily be ot
slow growth According to the best au
thorities, Great Britain is now consuming
live thousand bales per week more than
the average of 1809-70, and we would
therefore (allowing for any increased man
nfacturing power) place her increased ta
kings for the year, as a maximum, at 825,-
000 bales more than last year. As
to the continent, we cannot, in view
of the disorganized state of labor
and of the manufacturing districts of
France and Germany, count on any
considerable increase, whilo our own con
sumption, by reason of our want of watei
the early part of the season, will not be
much, it any, in excess of 1869-70. Allow
ing, then, the largest possible increase 1 r
the continent and this countiy the re
mainder of the season, wo see tnat 450,-
000 bales is probably the very utmost the
spindles of the world can use during this
crop year more thau during the previous
ye r.
As to the prospects of supply from other
countries they all appear to be quite fa
vorable, the only doubt that there will be
a iarge increase brought to market from
these sources arising out of the question
whether the low prices wiLnot ch ck the
movement. Cotton, in excess of last sea
son, has been raised almost everywhere.
Egypt is fulfilling her early promises of an
enlarged yield. India had a considerab e
surplus left over from last crop, and is
harvesting a better one. Brazil and other
minor sources are not, from present ap
pearances, likely to rnako any change in
their contribution to tho total supply,
while China has raised so much herself
she will want much less than heretofore
from ladia. That these are facts is now
admitted on a 1 ride l ; There is consider
able doubt, however, when, under the
influence! of present prices, the India cot
ton will come to market. Bat we think it
is becoming evident, even if there is delay
in the movement from Bombay, which is
very likely, that still the world’s supply
from all sources other than America will
at least equal last year’s supply.
Tbc conclusion lrom these facts would
appear to be that the balance of our pres
ent crop can probably be marketed at
about the prices now ruling, with perhaps
some little improvement in the eaily sum
mer months, unless during the later spring
and early summer months the promises fol
the next yield shomd be equal to the last;
but with another planting like the last wo
must be willing to accept lower price 3 .
Exports.— The exports this week arc
somewhat less than during previous weeks,
but are still on a liberal scale., and are like
ly to continue so for a time at least. L
will be seen that the direction of the ship
ments is changing Bomewhat. the Bond
nect now taking a larger supply and L : ver
pool less. Last wec-k the movement to
France opened again by two shipment.-
frorn New Orleans, and this week we have
666 bales to Havana from Now York.
Gunny Bags, Bagging, &c.— The
market Lr cloth has been more active foi
both present and future delivery, ana
prices tend upward. The sales here and
in Boston are 7,000 rolls, mostly for future
delivery at 20c. cash and 21c. time ; 100
bales deliverable in Boston, June J, at
19}c , and 300 bales here at 20c. 30 days.
Bigs also have moved more freely, and
are held with greater firmness at ar- ad
rarco. Hales are 200 bales to arrive pci
“Mount Washington,” at 10|s gold ii
b.nd; 250 bales per “Tennyson;” 100
bales per “Olive;” 850 bales, the partic
ulars of wLich are cot given, all at l()$e.
gold ; n bonii; 40 bides at 16c. gold, a-d
50 bales at 16J. gold duty paid. Mani A
Hem-' has been quiet, quoted nomioahv
at 9|@HV\ gold; toe only sale reported
beiug 1,000 bales iußiston on priva'o
tern"-'. Jute has ruled quiet, hut i- h-Id
a. sj@sjo , with a sale of 300 bales on
private terms. Jute Butts have also been
quiet, but are held very oonfidendy. IVc
mte the sale in Boston of 300 bales at 4s.
ourretcy, and in this market 600 biles at
4J\ currency, 30 days time, and 60 days
adding interest.
Shipments op Cotton from Alexan
dria. —Tho following statement shows
tho total shipments if catton from Alex
andria for a series of years ending Sect.
30 of each year :
'-op:. .SO.* Britain. Stwtn A*. * -’’■tv.
ISM 7" 177.0*1 76110 3.1 7"
F.9 1H« UO3 SOW* 15 219 MVC.I
lso7 61 ITJ.ia 12 407 19 061 2H.7U!
lasnasoo svd sdo 213001
UMiS 3* ,011 64,185 14,616 401411
Exports from Calcutta.—Exports
from Calcutta fir a siries of years have
been as follows :
Exported f -om 181*. 1366. 1867.
Ist Jan. to 31st D0e..*2.1,977 412,310 39 >,"51
Exported trem 18 .8. iB6O.
Ist J in. to 31st D5r..263,231 202,232
Movements of Cotton at tiik In
terior Ports. B-1 >w wo give the move
ments of cotton at t tic interior port3—re
ceipts and shipments for tho week, and
stock to night and for tbo corresponding
week of 1870 :
For the week ending March 7, 1871.
Receipts. Sstiipm’ta. Stock.
Augusta 2,459 2,195 22,039
Oolumbub* 167 1,170 9 815
Macon 604 1,51-5 9 976
Montgomery 992 941 8,114
Selma 865 1,083 6,000
Memphis 9,124 16,073 3(1,970
Nashville 1,593 1,542 7,838
16,094 21 689 119,750
For the week ending March 17, 1870.
Augusta 1,227 516 22,”69
Goluuibus* 332 354 12.017
Macon 474 1,235 1 5,178
Montgomery 178 170 11.468
Selma 348 966 5,882
Memphis 4,'>80 8,829 22 839
Nashville 769 552 5,916.
7,708 12,622 96,899
*A count of stock at Culumbus to-night
discloses tho laot that there were 1,800
balus less of stook than the running couht
cilled for.
Those totals show that the interior
Jocks have decreased during tho week
11,477 bales (being now 3,851 baies mine
rlian for the same period of last year),
while the aggregate receipts are 8.386
bales more, and the shipments 11,967
bales more than for the corresponding
period of 1870.
Visible Supply of Cotton.—The _fo’.-
lowing tablo shows the quantity of c rtlon
in sight at this date of each of the two
past seasons:
1871. 1870.
Slock In Liverpool 804,000 294,000
Slock iu London 76,340 69,380
Stock In Glasgow 350 -430
Stock in Havre 41,329 65,330
Stock in Marseilles 4,0 0 6,800
Stock in Bremen 2,750 7,500
Stock rest of continent. 25,000 35,000
Alloat for G. Britain
(American; 332,000 320,000
Afloat tor France (Am.
and Brazil) 3,846 59,516
Total Ind. cotton afloat
for Europe 167,000 129,734
Stook in U. H. ports 614,882 499,197
Stock in inland towns 100,750 96,894
Total 2,202,847 1,585,116
Tiiesc figures indicate an increase in tho
cotton in sight tc-night of 617 731 bales
compared with the same date of 1870.
The exports of cotton this week from
New York show a decrease since last we k,
the total teaching 15,659 bales, against
24,669 bales last weelr.
Shipping News.—’The exports of cot
ton from the United States the past week,
as per latest mail returns, have readied
117,103 bale.-. Si far as the Southern
ports are concerned, thee are the
same exports reported by telegraph,
and published in the Chronicle.
A Pretty Glass Card Basket.—
Procure at a glass-cutter’s or glazier’s
six pieces of ground glass, four inches
square; and one piece for the bottom
having six sides of four inches each, to
fix the pieces to. Eacli piece of glass
is bound with colored ribbon, tile rib
bon sewn edge to edge, to fix the
pieces together; the top of each joint
finished with a bow. The basket may
be made more open, by having the
glass cut this shape instead of square.
To ornament the glass there are many
ways. A pattern may lie formed by
painting it in copal varnish with a
camel hair brush. The pattern will be
transparent or bright; or by dissolv
ing red sealing wax in a phial, with
sufficient strong spirits of wine to ren
der it as thick as gum, the pattern
may be made with a camel hair pencil,
with a very pretty effect. A box may
be made with a lid, to match Hie bot
tom, and ornamented according to
taste. The result will be a remarkably
pretty and‘tasteful ornament.
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