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would require a large amount of money to erect these machines in dif- 

 ferent parts of the country, I have, continued the speaker, associated 

 with myself several gentlemen fruit growers and capitalists under the 

 name of the " Alden Fruit Preserving Company," with a capital 

 stock of $500,000. The design- of the company is to locate these 

 machines in large fruit growing districts remote from a market, 

 where the fruit will he treated and prepared under the supervision of 

 an agent of the company, whose business it will be to purchase the 

 fruit, see that it is properly evaporated, packed and forwarded 

 weekly to the principal depot in this city, or some one of its 

 branches, where it will be examined and labeled ready for sale, 

 every package bearing the trade mark of the company. Each agent 

 will be a stockholder, consequently interested in the success of the 

 company, and every large fruit growing district can have one trustee. 

 The business of the company will be done exclusively on the cash 

 principle, fts far as purchases and labor are concerned. 



Large Hogs. 



Mr. John Ferris, Lawrence, N. Y., forwarded the following list of 

 porkers killed in his place the past season, by whom killed, and the 

 dressed weight of each : S. L. Slocum, age, nine months, weight. 

 400; R. Lawrence, age, eight months, weight, 405; J. Demming, 

 age, nine months, weight, 410 ; A, E. McEuen, age, nine months, 

 weight, 401 ; E. Burt ; age, nine months, weight, 450. A. E. 

 McEuen killed the hog that sired the above pigs (I herewith send 

 you one of his tusks) that weighed 714 pounds. Two sows, killed 

 by him, weighed respectively 627 and 638. Enos Burt killed a sow 

 fifteen months old that raised a litter of pigs that was taken from her 

 the 1st of October, and she was killed the 15th of January, and 

 weighed, when dressed, 605 pounds. 



Mr. Edwin Black, Columbus, JS". J. — I think that you who want to 

 know how to make big hogs should put yourselves in communication 

 with some of the Burlington county farmers. 



1. Ed. C. Jameson, of Oakford, killed twenty-four ; average 

 weight, 446. 



2. Isaac Harrison, New Haven, killed thirty-three; their average 

 was 515-| lbs. 



3. John Forsyth, of Pemberton, kilkni ten ; avernge weight. 

 545. 



