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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



that was a strong anthelmintic and diruretic, 1 

 commenced giving my hogs a common teaspoon- 

 ful to every hog that was weaned from the 

 mother. They soon gave strong indications of 

 health ; and to show on what my confidence is 

 built, since 1847, I have not lost a hog of any 

 description, or kind, that I know of, from dis- 

 ease of any kind. 



It may be that the spirits of turpentine may 

 relieve the hog cholera. It can be used in a 

 simple manner: just take a given quantity of 

 shell-corn, or wheat, put it in a tub and 

 measure a teaspoonful per head to all of your 

 hogs. Be careful to mix the turpentine well 

 in the vessel, and then scatter it over the 

 ground so that each one gets his share. W. L. 



Export of Breadstuff's. 



It has become customary of late years to ex- 

 port nearly 30,000,000 bush, of wheat from the 

 United States to foreign countries, even in 

 years when harvests are comparatively good 

 abroad, because in such years the harvests be- 

 ing also good here, the price sinks in propor- 



tion, as also freights. The exports of bread- 

 stuffs of all kinds in 1857, as compared with 

 185G, from the United States, were $51,333,176, 

 against $59,300,906 in 1856. Of this, wheat 

 and flour were as follows : 



1856 . 



1857 . . 



Increase, . 



Bbls. 

 Flour. 



3,510,626 

 3,715,057 



204,427 



Bush. 

 Wheat. 

 8,154,877 

 14,570,G31 



Total in 

 bush. Wheat. 

 25,508,007 

 33,146,196 



Average for 

 Flour per bbl. 



$8.34 

 6.97* 



By far the largest portion of this export was 

 sent, of course, to Great Britain. The harvests 

 of Europe have been short 3 or 4 years in suc- 

 cession, during all of which breadstuffs have 

 remained high, a fact which has been ascribed 

 in many quarters to the influx of gold. The 

 high prices have, however, stimulated the set- 

 tlement of land and the production of large 

 crops, in the expectation of a continuance of 

 the high prices. Ths reaction, however, has 

 come. The Russian war was followed by re- 

 doubled energy on the part of the producers of 

 Southern Russia, and good prices all over Eu- 

 rope stimulated production. Their efforts be- 

 ing blessed with good harvests have been 

 crowned with abundance, and prices are ap- 

 proaching their minimum rates. Flour in New 

 York is selling at $4.25 per bbl., and freight 

 2s, to Liverpool, making $4.75, and it is there 

 dull at $5. The stock in New York is 868,000 

 :bbls., or about 250,000 more than an erroneous 

 statement published by the Post and some other 

 papers. We may make a table of the average 



annual price of wheat in England on Michael 

 mas of each year, according to official returns 

 on which the tithes are regulated ; the export 

 of wheat and flour from the United States, ex- 

 pressed in bushels of wheat; and the average 

 annual price of flour in the United States, ac- 

 cording to the Treasury tables : 



4,416,054 7,638,189 



In 1852 and 1853 the United States were ex- 

 porters at low prices, but the war raised the 

 prices, aided by deficient harvests here, which 

 even at the high rate which ruled in England 

 in 1855, cut down the export two-thirds. Since 

 then, railroads, migration, and good harvests 

 have combined to enhance supply, until an ex- 

 port of 33,146,196 bush, out of the crop of 

 1856 did notsustain prices, which have continued 

 to fall until they are now $4.25 in New York, 

 notwithstanding that the stagnation of busi- 

 ness has kept back large supplies. There has 

 been exported this year, already, since Sept. 1, 

 5,563,305 bush, against 10,265,730 bush, same 

 time last year. It is probable that the quan- 

 tity which can be spared from this year's crops 

 will equal 45,000,000 bush, if a market can be 

 found for it. The late revulsion bearing so 

 heavily upon the North and middle of Germa- 

 ny may by breaking down the machinery by 

 which German and Polish grain has found a 

 market, lessen the supply from that quarter. 

 Many large grain dealers have failed recently. 

 — New York Economist. 



English 

 average, 

 s. d. 



1852 

 1853 

 1854 

 1855 

 1856 

 1857 



39 

 45 

 72 

 '71 

 73 

 59 



U. S. export, 

 bush. 



18,600,680 

 18,958,990 

 28,148,595 

 7,821,584 

 25,508,007 

 33,146,196 



Price flour 

 in U. S. 



$4.37 

 4.94 

 9.25 

 9.50 

 . 8.34 

 6.971 



Malic Acid. 



This acid is found in apples and the 

 juices of similar fruits, and is also present in 

 the mountain ash and garden rhubarb, to which 

 it gives the peculiar tartness that is so agreea- 

 ble to the palate. It is capable of being sepa- 

 rated by the processes of the laboratory, but in 

 its pure state no useful application has been 

 found for it, although we think it might advan- 

 tageously be employed in the manufacture of 

 those summer beverages in which a sweet tart- 

 ness is so cooling and agreeable. The difficulty 

 attending its preparation may perhaps for some 

 time prevent this, but that it will be more gen- 

 erally used we do not doubt. — Scien. Amer. 



