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Dsvoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Mechanics and the Useful Arts.
D. P. Holloway,)
• XV. T. Dennis.   r Editors.
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Table of Contents.
Pago BO—Fro.it, Good Farm, Hominy.
61—Cast Iron Walla, Salt for Horses, Patent Office
Reports, Peaches, Prunes, Salt, Sheep.
82—Save your Manure, Lightning Rods.
53—Strawberries and their Culture, Collar Bot-
■    toms, Nurseries.
54—High Culture, Virginia State Fair.   :
55—Next State Fair, Horse Exhibition.
M—Wayne county Stock, State Fair, Corn Gathering.
57—Fair of 1854, Wayne county Society.
68—Knife Board, Wash for the Head, Salting Hay
and Cattle.
59—The Roller, Fattening Hogs, Cashmere Goats.
'60—Meeting of State Board of Agriculture, Ind.
Society for the Improvement .of Domestic
Poultry, Large Yield of Turnips.
©1—Spirit and Progress of Rural Taste, Model
Barn.
62—Brahma Crower, Milk House, Tomato, Transmutation of Plants.
63—Clinton Grape, Hedges, Fat Animals at Exhibitions, Wounds, Potatoes.
C4—Elkhait County Fair, Morgan County Fair.
|£j~ We have kept a look out for all items of information
relative to the hog crop for. the present season. As nearly as we can come at the mattor, there will be a large
amount of pork in market this winter. The very high
figures at which the list packing season closed, induced
farmers to prepare for bringing as many hogs into market
this winter, as possible, and a large crop of mast, in many
places, the present autumn, has been greatly in their favor. The number of hogs coining into market, this season, cannot be less than 15 or 20 per cent greater than
last. Notwithstanding this, the prospect for a good price
is very favorable. We have heard of speculators trying
to purchase in the eastern part of this county at $5 per
hundred, with but little success. The butchers in this
place have paid $5 all the present season for pork to supply the daily market.   Packers are talking of $4 to $4 50.
It is the opinion of a pork dealer of this State, who has
made his tens of thousands at the business, and is doubtless
well posted on the subject, that the high price now talked
of, will not be maintained. If this opinion is correct, farmers would do well to sell their pork early. There seems
to be very little lard in tho country, and fat hogs are greatly in demand at present, to supply the deficiency. This
done, prices may recede. These remarks may be taken
at their value, and no more. Nothing definite can be
known, as yet, in regard to the matter.
Sweet Apples.
It has long been generally conceded that sweet apples
are far preferable for stock, to sour ones, and yet how few
farmers pay any attention to their cultivation. In fact,
very few men in setting out a young orchard, or grafting
their worthless trees, select any of this kind of fruit st
all, unless It be two or three early varieties that are good
for eating. Sweetapples for stock are left eutofthe question. Why this is, we ctnnot tell, while everybody admits their great superiority in nutricious qualities. One
bushel of the best kinds contains about a gallon' of molasses, possessing as much nutriment as the same
amount of cano or maple molasses Think of a barrel of
good, sweet molasses, in thirty bushels of apples, which
with little or no care, except in tho commencement, might
be produced annually on two good thrifty trees, and yet
farmers neglect to plant them.
Besides feeding stock, sweet apples are very valuable in
other ways. For cider to make into apple butter, they
are worth twice as much as aour ones, as all know who
have tried them. Baked sweet apples are a luxury which
few are acquainted with. They require a very het oven,
and to be kept in it twice or thrice as long as sour ones
and then they are delicious.
To make molasses for table use, take apples perfectly
sweet, containing no acid or bitter taste, work and boil
them till they are soft and tender, pnt them in a strong
linen sack, of convenient size, and press them in a cheese
press or otherwise—boil down tho juice to the proper
consistence. Preserves may be made with this kind of
molasses, nearly equal to the best.
If this hasty sketch shall induce somebody to plant out
a few sweet applo trees, we shall not have written in
vain. What kinds are the best, we cannot say. ' Late fall
or winter varieties are to be preferred to early ones, and
should be as nearly as theso qualities can be combined,
large,tender, rich and juicy.
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Enormous Potato—Great Disco-very.
Some time since, we received a watermelon
from the Agent of the American Express Company, in Indianapolis, weighing 40 pounds. In
the note which accompanied it, we were told
that it was but a medium size! We hardly
knew how to account for the growth of such a
melon in Hoosierdom, but this morning we
have the mystery unraveled. We received a
pink-eye potato, weighing 2 pounds and 7 ounces, from Mr. John Davis, of Blackford county, accompanied by a letter, giving the modus
operandi of such great success in agricultural
pursuits. We append Mr. Davis' language.
He says:
"The people of this neighborhood, till lately,
have been taking the Commercial, Enquirer and
Gazette, and in that time 'taters came to nothing
at all; but a short time since the farmers stopped
those papers, made up a club and sent for the
Dollar Times; and ever since then, the potatoes grow three times larger, the apples much
sweeter, and it is real true that the girls are
handsomer, and we are all a great deal better
natnred on account of the spicy jokes, good
poetry, and pleasing tales."—Cincinnati Times.
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Great Meeting ot Fruit Growers.
The Association of North-western Fruit-
Growers met in the spacious City Hall on State
street, Chicago, 111., and was called to order at
10 o'clock A. M„ on the 4th of October, 1853, -
by the President, Dr. J. A.Kknkicott, of West
Northfield, 111.
About 150 different members were present,
from eight different States. The show of Apples was pronounced by competent judges to
be the best ever seen in America. Of these,
some 300 varieties were exhibited. Also 200
varieties of Pears; and large quantities of Grapes,
Plums, Peaches, Quinces, a few Figs, choice
and rare Flowers and Vegetables.—Farmtr's
Companion and Horticultural Gazette,