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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[September, 1SS2 



haras are packed in barrels, anri covered over with 

 with a thick layer of dry wood ashes. He says he 

 lias never lost a pound, and never failed to have 

 bacon and hams sweet and delicious to tlie taste, and 

 commanding the hitrhest price in the market. We 

 should add, that in curina: very large hams by the 

 process, as a safety precaution, he makes a small 

 opening down to the bone joints, and fill them with 

 the hot salt. 



He cures beef in the same way, but only puts it 

 through the salting process. Indeed, some of his 

 neighbors give ham only the first salting, but he 

 deems the second application, as above described, as 

 better, and insuring perfect success always. 



Stewed Cohx. — Into a pint of nicely-prepared 

 brown sauce put in a pint of sweet corn cut from the 

 ear, and cook it slowlyfor half an ho\ir. Serve it hot. 



Brown Sauce. — Make a brown sauce as follows : 

 Put over the fire in a sauce-pan one tablespoonful 

 each of butter and flour, and stir them constantly 

 until they are light brown, and then stir in very 

 gradually a pint of boiling water, a teaspoonful of 

 salt, and a quarter of a saltspoonful of pepper, let 

 it boil two minutes, and use it hot. 



Boiled Sweet Cohn. — Remove the husk, except 

 the inner layer, from short, plump ears of sweet 

 corn ; turn this layer far enougn to permit the re- 

 moval of the corn silk, then replace it, and tie a 

 short string around it to hold it in place ; boil the 

 corn in boiling water without salt until the milk is 

 opaque white, ten to twenty minutes ; then remove 

 string, husk, cover corn with napkin, and serve it 

 with a dish of melted butter, pepper and salt. 



Stewed Corm and Tomatoes. — Stew together 

 for half an hour one pint of corn cut from the ear, 

 one pint of tomatoes peeled and sliced, one table- 

 spoonful of butter, one teaspoonful of sugar, one 

 saltspoonful of salt, and quarter of a saltspoonful 

 pepper ; serve hot on toast. 



Live Stock. 



Improved Sheep, 



The Alabamains have given but little attention to 

 growing stock, and more especially to sheep, because 

 the negroes must have a hog for every negro child, 

 and the dog's appetite is very injurious to the health 

 of the sheep. We hope hereafter Alabama will de- 

 termine to have more sheep and fewer dogs. All the 

 sheep that we see are of the commonest andcoursest 

 grades. It is just as easy to grow a fine Southdown, 

 Cotswold or Merino as it is a scrub, and the fine ani- 

 mal is doubly profitable. We intend to appeal to 

 the farmers of our State to improve their breed of 

 sheep until they hear us and follow our advice. The 

 next two months is the period for looking after fine 

 wooled rams, to cross on the common ewes that are 

 now here. This is the cheapest and most successful 

 way to improve the common sheep, and at the same 

 time keep them strong enough to endure the climate. 



Sheep taken from Kentucky or Ohio and carried to 

 Southern Alabama or Florida, lose at first in the 

 weight of their fleece, and finally in its quality, wool 

 becoming courser and mixed with hair. To keep up 

 the quality of their flocks, the owners of sheep 

 ranches in those sections must therefore bring in 

 new blood from Northern flocks, or their wool will 

 rapidly deteriorate in value. The Northern sheep 

 man, therefore, while not able to compete with them 

 in raising wool cheaply, owing to the difference of 

 climats and cost of land, yet has the advantage of 

 being able to dispose of young stock at good prices 

 to his competitors in wool-growing. It is as neces- 

 sary with them to procure this stock, and thev can 

 never breed it for themselves.— .VoHtgomery (Ala.) 

 Southern Agricnllurist . 



Management of Piggs. 



The greatest danger to whl?h young pigs are sub- 

 ject to overfeeding. A pig at weaning has a very 

 small stomach and very limited powers of digestion, 

 and yet these young animals are permitted to gorge 

 themselves with sour milk and meal slops as soon as 

 they are weaned until their sides are swollen. This 

 over-feeding produces indigestion, with disorder of 

 the brain, or so-called staggers, nervous disorders, 

 with paralysis or epilepsy; the growth is arrested, 

 the breath is fetid, the teeth become black, and some 

 people ignorantly bel eve that black teeth are doing 

 it all. The teeth are knocked out with a stone o"r 

 a bolt in a rough manner, and the mouth made so 

 sore that the pig refuses to eat for a while, and then 

 recovers from the abstinence. So that the removal of 

 the teeth is claimed to be the real cause of the re- 

 covery. Black teeth do not cause disease: they are 

 asymptomof it only, and when the health is good 

 the teeth are all right. Half a pint at a time of 

 sweet skimmed milk is a sutHcient meal for a weaned 



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A New Catte Disease. 

 Persons who have just returned from a tour of 18 

 miles through North Heidleberg and Jefferson town- 

 ships bring the most alarming reports concerning the 

 deaths of cattle from a new and mysterious disease. 

 Cattle have been known to drop dead 1.5 minutes 

 after they were first attacked. Two cows of Harri 



sou Haak were driven into pasture early in the morn- 

 ing. They were apparently well, but in 20 minutes 

 they dropped dead. The rest of the herd commenced 

 bellowing and pawing the earth, and pranced about 

 the di'ad carcasses that were rapidly swelling. In a 

 short time six more of the same drove were dead. 

 The owner had the swollen bodies carefully limed 

 and buried in the woods. In this way some 35 head 

 of cattle perisheid on different adjoining farms. Some 

 died in the stable. One farmer found two cows dead 

 in the barnyard. Among the other losers are Levi 

 Moyer, Moses Schaeffer, John Snyder, Henry Zerbe, 

 Gabriel Lutz, Benjamin Haas, Widow Klopp, John 

 Lutz, William Umbenhower, Joseph Ernest and 

 others. 



When the cattle are first attacked they refuse to 

 eat or drink. They seem to be seized with a chill 

 and breathing becomes dilHcult. Some moan and 

 appear to be in great pain. In a short time they lie 

 down and die in great agony. Their bodies swell out 

 of proportion antl a very foul odor is emitted. A 

 hasty examination of one of the bodies shows that 

 the blood of the dead animals turns completely 

 black. 



Benjamin Lutz, a veterinary surgeon, has been 

 kept very busy for the past few days, and at present 

 is working day and night. He says the disease 

 starts in the head, and he has become deathly sick 

 while boring the horns of sick cattle. He says that 

 the cows are dying from appeplexy of the spleen, and 

 his opinion is concurred in by Drs. Owens and 

 Collins, who are busily engaged in the work of at 

 temiing to various herds now in quarantine. The 

 spleen of some of the dead carcasses is found to be 

 quite putrid. The bodies of dead animals are very 

 poisonous and one man has already died from lock- 

 jaw and blood poisoning. His name was Harrison 

 Haag. He undertook to skin a carcass for its hide 

 and also to perform a post mortem. Some of the 

 poison of the animal got Into his system through a 

 wound on the hand, and in a few hours his entire 

 system was poisoned. His body, arms and limbs be- 

 came fearfully swollen and covered with black 

 blotches. He was then attacked with lockjaw and 

 died in terrible agony. Two others who assisted him 

 narrowly escaped death. Their blotches were burn 

 ed with caustic Since then no attempts have been 

 made to skin animals or examine them. They are 

 buried in a hurry and the balance of the herd quar 

 antined. All barnyards and stables are being 

 thoroughly cleaned, and farmers are strictly quaran 

 tiuing all their cattle. The disease is contagious 

 and said to be worse than rinderpest or pleurophe- 

 umonia. 



The latest returns of live stock and fresh meai'im- 

 portations from the United States and Canada into 

 England at the port of Liverpool shows large iu- 

 crea-ises. For a single week in August the quantity 

 of live stock was double the quantity for the week 

 preceding it, and in fresh meat there was censider 

 able advance, particularly in beef. The totals were : 

 Cattle, 1,808; sheep, 2,860; quarters of beef, 4,748; 

 carcases of mutton, 453. No hogs whatever were 

 landed. 



Literary and Personal. 



Walt Whitman's " Leaves of Grass." — Tears 

 ago, we had a copy of this work, on loan, for a 

 week or ten days, and gave it an ordinary perusal, 

 and whatever opinion we may have entertained or 

 expressed in regard to it, we certainly never would 

 have thought of classing it with obscene or immoral 

 literature. There may be some passages in it that 

 are repulsive or impure to the " immodestly mod- 

 est," but there are also such passages in the Bible. 



If " to the pure all things are pure " can be at all 

 predicated of intelligent beings, then we may view 

 humanity in all its aspects, and from any standpoint 

 in which it may be presented, with moral, philan- 

 thropic and philosophic incontamination. 



Sinultaneoslt with the announcement of the re- 

 appearance on Thursday July 20th, of Walt Whit 

 man's "Leaves of Grass" from the presses of Kees 

 Welsh & Co., book publishers of this city, comes the 

 statement that the Philadelphia Society for the Sup- 

 pression of Vice and Immorality are preparing to 

 anticipate the issue of the much maligned book by 

 an endeavor to have it placed under the category of 

 obscence literature, thus to prevent its circulation 

 through the mails. 



THE REV. MR. MORROW's VIEWS. 



Speaking yesterday on the sublect of the Vice 

 Society's measure of interference and his own posi- 

 tion in regard to thePhiladeiphia publisher's request 

 that he would review the book Mr. Morrow said: 

 "The members of this society are my friends, and its 

 work is my work, but in this particular instance I 

 think they have made a mistake. I deprecate the 

 attempt to suppress the circulation of a book of this 

 character, and tear that It will not have the good 

 effect intended. In Europe where Whitman's 

 "Leaves of Grass" is looked upon as one of the 

 highest types of the American classic, the endeavor 

 to suppress the book is regarded with astonishment. 

 As an exponent of a peculiar form of thought, it is 



entitled to a place in American literature, and as 

 such its publication should be unobstructed." I 

 have no wish at the present time to become identified 

 with either side in the fight which is now going on 

 over Mr. Whitman's work, as it would probably in- 

 terfere with certain movements with which I am 

 myselfconnected. But if you ask me what I think 

 of the book from a moral point of view, I would say 

 that in my opinion it is neither lewd nor obscene. 

 Nor but that to the minds of many of our readers it 

 may appear so and be so— that depends largely upon 

 the purpose for which it is read. Tlie obnoxious 

 poems, I believe, were not written in a spirit of 

 lewdness. 



" Walt Whitman is robust, virile, but not obscene. 

 In his poetry he tries to carry out certain ideas of his 

 own, ideas that may not be consonant with accepted 

 notions of morality, but which with him are convic- 

 tions. He believes that the human form in all its 

 parts and functions should be made a commonplace 

 theme in social intercourse, and one or two of his 

 poems are exponents of this belief. 



" ' Leaves of Grass ' should be read in the same 

 spirit as that in which it was written, and not as an 

 encouragement to immorality. I give Whitman 

 credit for attempting to formulate thoughts which 

 are to him earnest convictions. His doubtful pas- 

 sages differ from those m Shakespeare and other 

 classical poets, in that the latter are expressions of 

 the current notions of the morality of the day, 

 while Whitman's are exponents of his own ideas, 

 and are at variance with present conceptions of mo 

 rJility. I should not, however, for mv own use, 

 want one line in his book expurgated. But if I 

 wanted my daughter to read it I would expurgate 

 many passages. Now, you can umlerstand my rea- 

 sons for deeming it unwise to suppress the work. It 

 is a book which can only circulate where the eon 

 tents will be digested by mature minds, and where 

 its capabilities for moral injury are null." — From 

 the Philadelphia Press, July lo/A, 1882. 



Department of AoRicULTaRE. — Special Report 

 No. 47. Climate, soil and agricultural capabilities of 

 South Carolina and Georgia. By J. C. Hemphill, 

 Washington. D. C, 1882. «5 pages octavo, in which 

 is ably discussed a multitude of matter relating to 

 the Sea Islands of the State; how the soil is fertil- 

 ized; the preparations for planting; the planter's 

 profit on long staple cotton ; the rice growing region ; 

 the central cotton region ; the methods of cultiva- 

 tion ; the cultivation of corn ; the upper and middle 

 country ; labor and wages ; small farms in South 

 Carolina ; number of farms ; farms occupied ; the 

 colored people of the State ; the lien law and its 

 operations ; farming on advances ; official figures as 

 to the extent of the system ; cotton manufacturing 

 in the State; profits of the mills; compression of 

 cotton ; the phosphate industry of South Carolina ; 

 trade in fertilizers; agriculture in Georgia ; Upper 

 Georgia; Southern or lower division; market gar- 

 dening in the State, with many instructive tabulated 

 statistics. 



Premium List op the New .Mexico Exposi- 

 tion, and driving Park Association. Second annual 

 fair, to be held at the city of Albuquerque, Septem- 

 ber 18; 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23, 1SS2. A demi eight vol. 

 of forty-eight pages, divisions A to (}, subdi- 

 vided into twenty-four classes, including rules and 

 regulations, etc., etc. We observe that our friend, 

 Dr. W. L- Stracham has a "finger in the pie," be 

 ing the superintendent of minerals, which will 

 doubtless be a prominent feature in the exhibition. 

 The premiums are very liberal, and there ought to be 

 and doubtless leill be a successful fair. 



Justice. A weekly newspaper devated to anti 

 monopoly principles. New York, one dollar a year. 

 No. 1, vol. 1, (of an indefinite series) has reaehed 

 our table, an imposing folio with an imposing title, 

 and the following inscription decorating its banner; 

 'Our principles anti-monoDoly. We advocate, and 

 will support and defend the rights of the many as 

 against privileges for the few. Corporations, the 

 creation of the State shall be controlled by the 

 State. Labor and capital allies, not enemies; justice 

 for both." 



Published by the "Justice Publishing Company," 

 a very fair and well gotten up journal, the proclaimer 

 of principles which we have heard announced by 

 diliertut political parties these very many years — 

 principles endorsed by the majority of educated 

 mankind, and doubtless also practical until they be- 

 come incorporators themselves, or possess the means 

 to become bondholders thereof, then 



"Whiteman berry unsartin. 

 And nigga neber sure" 

 is too often most lamentable realized. 



One would suppose that Justice is a too self evident 

 factor in (the moral ultimation of man, to need a 

 corporate effort to effect its illumination in practical 

 life. If we thought it essential we might say that 

 we are in sympathy with above principles in sjiirit 

 and in truth— and much more of the same sort, but, 

 having heard them "'rumpeted" these fifty years or 

 more, we have concluded that they never will be 

 practiced until each individual begins the work of 

 reform iu his own person. There may bb other 

 modes and the newspaper may be au auxilary in 

 their development — we bid it "God-epeed." 



