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Sugar-cane in Western Georgia. — 6fC. 



Vol. IX. 



Sugar Cane in Western Georgia. 



Colonel James M. Chambers, of Columbus, 

 in writing to the Southern Cultivator, gives 

 the following description of a visit to the 

 farm of Judge Taylor, in Randolph county: 



" The next day I passed to the house of 

 Judge Taylor, in the county of Randolph. 

 The Judge is living on his farm in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Cuthbert, and is full of the spi- 

 rit which a personal and practical knowledge 

 of planting is so well calculated to beget. 

 He invited me to see his process of making 

 syrup or molasses, from a little patch of su- 

 gar-cane which he had cultivated last year. 

 Everybody knows that molasses may be made 

 from the cane, and this is not therefore the 

 fact which I propose to report, but the yield. 

 This is the point of interest, and I doubt not 

 will be of astonishment to nine-tenths of those 

 who hear it. He had cultivated not quite 

 three-fourths of an acre in cane — common 

 ribbon — on very common pine land, a little 

 manured. At the time of my e.xamination, 

 he was just filling the second hogshead of 

 80 gallons each; and said he had cane 

 enough to make 40 gallons more — making 

 200 gallons of good syrup — and he had seed 

 cane enough left to plant two and a half 

 acres. This would be at the rate of nearly 

 or quite 300 gallons of syrup to the acre, 

 appropriating from the crop only seed enough 

 to plant the same quantity of land again. 

 This, at twenty cents per gallon, would be 

 si.xty dollars per acre; and he assured me 

 that it was not more difficult of cultivation 

 than Indian corn, and the process of boiling 

 not half so tedious or complicated as the 

 making a kettle of soap. The mill for grind- 

 ing the cane is a simple and cheap affair, 

 which can be put up by any rough workman, 

 and need not cost a planter more than ten 

 dollars." 



To Sweeten Rancid Butter. — The Echo 

 du Monde Savant says: "An agriculturist 

 in the neighbourhood of Brussels, having 

 succeeded in removing the bad smell and 

 disagreeable taste of some butter, by beat- 

 ing, or mixing it with chloride of lime, he 

 •was encouraged by this happy result to con- 

 tinue his experiments, by trying them on 

 butter so rancid as to be past use; and he 

 has restored to butter, whose "odor and taste 

 were insupportable, all the sweetness of fresh. 

 This operation is extremely simple and prac- 

 ticable for all. It consists in beating the 

 butter in a sufficient quantity of water, in 

 . which put twenty-five or thirty drops of chlo- 

 ride of lime to two pounds of butter. After 

 having mixed it till all its parts are in con- 

 tact with the water, it may be left in it for 



an hour or two, afterwards withdrawn, and 

 washed anew in fresh water. The chloride 

 of lime having nothing injurious in it, can 

 with safety be augmented ; but, after having 

 verified the experiment, it was found thai 

 twenty-five or thirty drops to two pounds of 

 butter were sufficient. — Chatham {Canada) 

 Gleaner. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Engrafting. 



Mr. Editor, — In the spring of 1844, I 

 put several engrafts on a large apple tree — 

 whip engrafting — and as I supposed, by sub- 

 sequent observation from the ground — for I 

 did not ascend the tree and examine minute- 

 ly, — without success. 



During the present month I ascended the 

 same tree, in order again to try to alter its 

 character, when to my astonishment, many 

 of the engrafts which had been put on a 

 year previously, were, for the first time, just 

 commencing to expand their buds. Not 

 having seen, in my horticultural reading, 

 any account of such occurrence, therefore 

 my astonishment. 



If limbs within reach, or small trees had 

 permitted my engrafts to remain thus dor- 

 mant, I should have considered it prima 

 facia evidence of their failure, and should 

 not have hesitated to remove them with that 

 portion of the stock above the best shoot, in 

 order to have a fine branch for inoculation 

 in August or September. But it appears 

 from the foregoing, that the horticulturist 

 may say, as well as the doctor, dum spiro 

 spero, whilst there is life there is hope. So 

 long as the engraft retains its vitality there 

 is a possibility of its growth. 



I shall not now attempt the physiological 

 explanation of the above fact, but shall make 

 further experiments. If it be well known 

 to nurserymen — with whom you often have 

 opportunities to converse — please suppress 

 the above, and oblige J. K. E. 



Paradise, Pa., April 26tl], 1845. 



Mammoth Hog. — S. G. Allen, landlord 

 of the Franklin House, Jersey Shore, Pa., 

 slaughtered a hog a few days since, only 18 

 months old, which weighed, when dressed, 

 seven hundred and six pounds! This hog 

 was raised by Mr. Allen, and never received 

 more than ordinary keeping or attention. He 

 was of the John Coursey breed, with a small 

 sprinkling of Berkshire. Had he been kept 

 until the 1st of April, he would, no doubt, 

 have weighed one thousand pounds ! Mr. 

 Allen had also in the same pen, a pig three 

 months old, which weighed 66 pounds \'—Ex' 

 change paper. 



