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Flour Mill in Mississippi. — The Pea Bug. Vol. VIII. 



finally sink under the experiment. In this 

 case, the finer the flour the worse for the 

 man. We have never had horses in better 

 condition for labour, tlian when we have fed 

 tliem with cut wheat straw, wet up in a tub 

 with Indian corn meal. It is evident there 

 nnist be some proportion between the bulic 

 and the nutritive power of food, and grain 

 alone eives too much nutritive matter for 

 the bull<. Oats, perhaps, approach nearer 

 the standard than any other grain ; but the 

 use of these alone, will in a long run be 

 found unadvisable. 



One of the most carefully conducted ex- 

 periments we have noticed, was the one 

 made by Mr. Brotherton, near Liverpool ; 

 and he came to the conclusion that horses 

 cannot be kept in a condition fit for work, if 

 fed on grain alone. For nine years, Mr. 

 Brotherton allowed eight horses three bush- 

 els of oats and one of beans, but no hay or 

 chaff. During this period he annually lost 

 more or less horses, wliich he attributed to 

 the quantity of grain being greater than the 

 stomach could digest. This induced him to 

 adopt feeding hay with his grain, in the fol- 

 lowing proportion : — To eight horses he al- 

 lowed one bushel of oats, one bushel of 

 beans, and three bushels of cut hay, straw 

 or clover: and he found them better able to 

 do their work than before, and for several 

 years after adopting the plan, lost but one 

 horse from disease. Farmers, we are confi- 

 dent, have much to learn on the subject of 

 feeding animals, and the health and good 

 condition of the latter will, we doubt not, 

 be found compatible with greater degrees 

 of economy than has generally been prac- 

 tised. — Cultivator. 



Flour mill in Mississippi. 



The person who would have prophesied a 

 few years ago, that in 1843 we should have 

 flour mills and raise our own wheat, would 

 have been considered little short of Parson 

 Miller in wildness. Yet a {ew days ago, in 

 Vicksburg, we called and examined an ex- 

 tensive and complete mill, built by Messrs. 

 Vannatta and Fulsom, to furnish our citizens 

 with that luxury they have not hitherto 

 known — fresh flour at every period of the 

 vear. This mill has been now in operation 

 for some week or so, and has ground quite 

 a quantity of wheat into an article, which 

 to our judgment, as well as that of every one 

 else we have heard express themselves, is 

 superior to anything brought to our markets. 



For the benefit of those among us who 

 cultivate wheat, and who may wish to get 

 it ground, we inquired the terms on which 

 the proprietors would conduct their busmess. 

 They will either purchase wheat at the cur- 



rent market price — now from 50 to 62^ cts. 

 per bushel — or they will grind it for the 

 owners, returning them in flour, a barrel for 

 every six bushels of wheat. They will keep 

 constantly grinding, and will be able at any 

 time, to furnish fresh ground flour in any 

 quantities, at the market price, at the 

 wharfs — now from 84 50 to $5 per barrel. 

 One of the proprietors will start for the 

 u])per country in a few days, to lay in a sup- 

 ply of fresh wheat of this year's harvest, and 

 according as he pays for wheat, they can 

 afl,ervvards sell flour. When wheat is from 

 50 to 60 cents per bushel, they can afford to 

 sell flour at 84 to 84 50 per barrel. The 

 mill is situated on Water street, just above 

 the steam saw-mill, convenient to the depot, 

 as well as to the river; and those who raise 

 wheat, cannot perhaps, do better than to 

 send it here to be ground. We hope the 

 establishment of this mill, may have the ef- 

 fect of still further lessening our imports 

 from abroad, and increasing our home pro- 

 duction. Wheat succeeds quite well in our 

 State, when properly managed — our neigh- 

 bour, JNIajor Peyton, and several others, hav- 

 ing now beautiful fields ready for harvest- 

 ing — and every one with a little labour and 

 on a piece of ground scarcely missed, might 

 easily raise enough for domestic use. 



In a few days we shall have a sample of 

 the flour maimfactured at Messrs. Vannatta 

 and Fulsom's mill, at our otfice, where our 

 friends are invited to call and examine it. 

 The proprietors understand tlie true method 

 of whetting an editor's discrimination, and 

 have promised us a treat of fresh flour. 



Since writing the above, Mr. Denson, of 

 Madison, called and left at our office, a bun- 

 dle of the wheat cultivated by him the pre- 

 sent year. It is very fine indeed — seems as 

 heavy as any we ever .saw at the North. 

 Mr. Denson assures us, that some parts of 

 his field will turn out at least 40 bushels 

 per acre. He is well acquainted with its 

 cultivation, and not likely to be far deceived. 

 Sotith Western Farmer. 



The Pea Bug. — So well acquainted are 

 most persons with this insect, that it needs 

 no description, but the way it gets into the 

 pea is not generally known. The egg is 

 deposited on the outside of tiie pod ; it is of 

 a yellowish colour, resembling that of the 

 horse bee, though not quite so large ; it ad- 

 heres to the pod opposite to the pea on each 

 side, when it hatches and bores its way 

 throuah the pod into the pea, where it is 

 transformed into a bug, and remains there 

 until the next spring, when it comes out 

 and flies about, and waits for the pea to 

 grow. — New Genesee Farmer. 



