1863. 



THE ILLINOIS FAEMEK. 



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pensation fixiblT-^ such justice or commissioner, 

 for the care and keeping of such animal, and 

 without paying any other charges. And the 

 person committing such wilful act shall be liable 

 to a penalty of twenty dollars, to be recovered 

 in an action at law at the suit of the owner of 

 such animal or the person maliing nuch seizure. 

 §. 6 All acts or parts of acts inconsistent; here- 

 with are hereby repealed. 



— We would call the attention of the members 

 of the Legislature to the above law, as well as 

 all farmers in the well settled parts of the State, 

 that a similar law be passed, subject to the town 

 or county authority, or a popular vote of either, 

 so that all parts of the State now prepared for 

 its introduction can avail themselves of its use. 



The cost of fencing is a heavy tax on the 

 farmer, and who has often to protect his crops 

 from the stock of persons who neither own or 

 lease any land. We need a public act on this im- 

 portant subject. 



In many parts of the State stock is not allowed 

 to run in the highway, and it is found an easy 

 matter to enforce the law in thick settled parts 

 of the country. Every farmer is interested in 

 it, and those who own stock are compelled to 

 pasture it or dispose of it in some other wav. 



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Packixg Butter. — A Chicago merchant who 

 deals largely in butter, gives tbo following di- 

 rection for packing: 



" In packing butter, be careful to select butter 

 of one color for each iirkin, work out aJl the 

 milk, use fine dairy salt, and not so much of it 

 as to spoil your butter, weigh y.jur firkin, giving 

 good weight, and mark the weight on the firkin, 

 and when filled head it up, and nail the' hoops 

 so as to keep thom in their places ; and if kept 

 in a cellar, place them at least afoot from the 

 ground or floor, to prevent the dampness of the 

 cellar from staining them ; and when you ship 

 mark them as little as posdble, for it affects ihe 

 sale of the butter from one-half to one cent per 

 pound. In the condition in which the packa'^'cs 

 arrive, packers of butter will find by observin<r 

 the above suggestions that they will often realize 

 sufiicient above tho .,.arket prices to pay the 

 Ireigjt and commissions on thdr butter to Chica- 

 go, or even to an Eastern market." 



Curing Pork.-A French chemist has lately 

 asserted that scurvy will never arise from the 

 use of sa.t provisions, unless saltpetre be used in 

 the curing ; that salt alone answers all the pur- 

 poses provided the animal heat be entirely parted 

 with before salting. He claims that the insertion 

 ot pork m pickle alone is not sufficient but that 

 It should be rubbed thoroughly with dry salt after 

 It has entirely parted with its animal heat, and 

 that then the fluid running from the meat should 

 be poured off before packing the pork in the 



barrel. This should be done sufficiently closely 

 to admit no unnecessary quantity of air, and 

 some dry salt should occupy the space between 

 the pieces, and then pickle, and not water, 

 should be added. Great care must be taken to 

 fill the barrel entirely full, so that no portion of 

 the meat can at anytime project above the sur- 

 face of the fluid ; for, if this occur, a change of 

 flavor ensues such as is known with rusty pork. 

 The pickle, of course, must be a saturated so- 

 lution of salt and water, that is, so strong tnat 

 it is incapable of dissolving more salt. It must 

 be remembered that cold water is capable of dis- 

 solving more salt than hot water. 



StRAWBEBRY PlANTS — LooK OUT FOR HuMBUG- 



GERT. — Wm. R. Prince of Long Island, thus ex- 

 poses some of the humbuggery that has been 

 practiced at some of the late exhibitions.T 



•'We have witnessed the present season quite 

 a number of the old varieties of strawberries 

 exhibited under new names. And it now ap- 

 pears that the Bartlett, which has been puffed as 

 a new seedling, and as producing at the rate of 

 six hundred bushels to the acre, is in fact the 

 Brighton Pine, or some one allied to it, and very 

 unproductive. The Newport proves to be an old 

 valueless variety; the Wyoming and a new Elton 

 Seedling, have been proven to be the Hovey; the 

 Germantown pistillate proves also to be the 

 Dover, and the Germantown staminate is the old 

 Cushing; the Q'leen of America proves to be the 

 Voorhis, and the Bunce is said to be Cutter's 

 Seedling. Lennig's White, the Albion, White 

 Pine-Apple, end White Albany, have all four 

 proven identical, and tha Strawberry Committee 

 of the Brooklyn Horticultural Society, have just 

 granted a ten dollar premium for "the best new 

 seedling," which proves to be Longworth's Pro- 

 lific : while the British Queen, which Mr. Knox 

 his recommended for field culture, is River's 

 Eliza. It is fall time we should have a standard 

 as to the qualities demanded for any new straw- 

 berry, and not multiply sour and insipid trash. 

 It is also full time we should have experts on 

 our strawberry committees, and thus prevent 

 what occurred at the reoent exhibition at the 

 American Agriculturist rooms, where, in conse- 

 quence of the awards being made for plates of 

 berries numbered and not named, there were ex- 

 hibited several plates where the same kind was 

 duplicated. " 



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Black Knot ox Plum and Cherry 

 Trees. — Vv^e have repeatedly examined the 

 fresh excreseeuces with the best micro- 

 scopes, but without discovering the least in- 

 dication of any insect. If the cureulio were 

 present in ninety-nine cases out of a hun- 

 dred, yet if I were shown conclusively that 

 it is absent in the hundredth, it is hard to 

 conceive how it should cause the excres- 

 cence in this hundredth case. — [Country 

 Gentleman. 



