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It will thus be seen that the peanut oil-cake is very little inferior to 
the linseed oil-cake, the cost of which is five-fold that of the peanut. 
As a food for horses the peanut oil-cake was found by these experiments 
extremely valuable, the feeding during two years being attended with 
the most gratifying results. Experiments were also made to ascertain 
the relative values of peanut oil-cake and Indian corn as foods for fat- 
tening pigs, and to ascertain the cost of producing a pound of pork. 
Four pigs of equal age and size were selected for an experiment, two 
being fed upon 4 pounds of peanut oil-cake daily in addition to the 
ordinary food, and two upon 4 pounds of corn instead of the oil-cake. 
In eight weeks the former had increased in weight 99 pounds and the 
latter 89 pounds; from which it appeared that the peanut oil-cake is 
more valuable than Indian corn for producing pork. The cost of the 
corn was about double that of the oil-cake; that is to say, the corn 
averaged about one cent a pound, and the oil-cake half a cent. 
EXPERIMENTS IN FRUIT-CULTURE IN NoRTH CAROLINA.—Mr. J. L. 
Labiaux, of Ridgeway, North Carolina, writes to the Department as fol- 
lows, concerning the culture of the French grape and other fruits in 
that State: 
| My enterprise, viz, the introduction of the French grape here fer table use, and 
principally for wine-making, is a success, as I had good reason to anticipate. We 
planted last April and May 70,000 cuttings, a few of which are already bearing perfect 
bunches of fruit, (which, however, I do not think will attain perfect maturity.) This 
proves that in this climate and soil French plants and French experience in vine-cul- 
ture well agree. Next winter and spring we intend planting 100,000 or 125,000 addi- 
tional cuttings. 
Permanent success, however desirable, is scarcely to be expected on 
the Atlantic slope in vineyard-culture of foreign grapes. It has been 
sought for more than a century, without anything more than a very 
short-lived success. Climatic conditions render it impossible, in ordi- 
nary open-air culture of the principal European varieties. It would be 
important to know that a single variety, with any mode of treatment, 
had yielded abundant fruit even for a few successive years. 
In regard to other experiments being made, Mr. Labiaux says that an 
attempt to cultivate madder, from very doubtful seed, however, met 
with no success. Almond, fig, and olive plants—the latter cuttings, the 
first and second three-year trees—are doing very well. 
KEEPING GREEN CORN.—The following inexpensive mode of preserv- 
ing corn for table use after its season has passed is suggested by an 
experimenter: Dip the ears into boiling water and Jet them remain about 
two minutes; take them out, and when cool cut the corn from the cob 
and dry it, just as you would dry fruit, and when dry put it away in 
clean paper-sacks. By this means one may enjoy the luxury of green 
corn at any time. 
HUMUS AND FERTILIZERS.—The Southern Cultivator publishes a 
communication calling the attention of planters who have used commer- 
*Containing nitrogen, 4.30. t Containing sand, 1.18. 
