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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
393 
To Improve the Quality of an Article Enhances Its Value, 
Indicating tile monetary loss from using any salt but Ashton’s in dairies, a correspond¬ 
ent writes that “the losses to the bulter makers in his county would have furnished them 
salt and paid their State and County Taxes.”—To use Ashton’s Factory Filled Salt iij making 
butter or cheese Imparts a fine flavor which improves its quality, and the product commands 
a higher price than it otherwise would; consequently, its use really puts money In I he purse 
of every dairyman (large or small) who uses it. Butter salted with Ashton’s is enhanced in 
value $3 to $5 per hundred pounds, at an extra cost of not to exceed 11-3 cent to 3 cents for salt, 
and cheese Is increased in value 50 cents to $1 per hundred pounds, at a cost not exceeding 11-3 
cent for salt over the lowest priced salt used in the Dairy. In fact, there is no investment that 
pays the butter and cheese maker so well as (lie purchase of Ashton’s Factory Filled Salt. 
It may now be hod of reputable dealert. Everywhere, in sacks of 5G pounds each, as .well os in 
the large sacks of 334 pounds each. If not obtainable of your dealers, address 
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The smallest size hand-power 
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C. PIERPONT & CO., Manufacturers, 
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Made from Fresh Meat, Fresh Bones, and parched and carbonized grains, all reduced to a fine, sweet, highly nutritious 
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with a bushel of common meal or other food, and the mixture is fed as vou would ordinarily feed common meal. It will 
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Allen's American Farm Book , (the former edition of the 
present volume), has been one of the standard farmers’ 
hand-books for twenty years ; it is still a valuable 
book, but as its author, Mr. R. L. Allen, could not give 
time to its revision, this was undertaken by his brother, 
lion. Lewis F. Allen, the distinguished farmer of Erie 
county, editor of the American Shorthorn Herd-Book. 
The present edition of the work l's greatly enlarged, 
and full of suggestions from the rich experience of its 
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Continued from p. 369. 
Ill justice to llie majority of our sub¬ 
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“Mexican Tomato.” —“M.,” Ag’l College, 
Texas, forwards the flowers and upper leaves only of a 
plant from seeds sent by the Ag’l Dept, at Washington,, 
as “ Mexican Tomato.” It is evidently, as he suggests,, 
not a proper Tomato, but some species of Physalis — 
which one we can not say without the fruit. The Mexi¬ 
cans use, under the name of Tomatilla (little Tomato), 
the fruit of several kinds of Physalis , and we cultivate 
one as the “ Strawberry Tomato,” or “ Winter Cherry.” 
Please send the fruit when ripe. 
Spiraea Palmata Elegans. — Last year the 
English and French journals were enthusiastically prais¬ 
ing a plant with the above name, concerning which was 
made the remarkable statement that it was a hybrid be¬ 
tween Spiraea palmala and Astilbe Japonica. We 
doubted the possibility of such a hybrid, and the colored 
plates indicated no greater difference from S. palmatte 
than often occurs in sports. Having arranged to get 
I this remarkable production—remarkable in the claims 
made for it—we were not a little surprised to read in. 
“ The Garden ” that “ It is simply good for nothing, and 
the least ornamental of all Spiraeas.”—Why can’t plants 
grow like the highly-colored pictures, or the still more 
highly-colored descriptions which those who have them 
for sale give us in advance ? 
How Lime Is Applied.—“C. S„” Jackson Co.„ 
Ohio. Lime is usually applied by spreading it dry slacked 
upon the sufacc—40 or 50 bushels per acre—and mixing it 
with the soil by harrowing. It is best spread from a 
wagon by means of a long handled shovel. 
Treatment of a Curb.—“A. J. S.,” Jefferson 
Co., Ohio.—A curb is a swelling just below the hock on. 
the hack of the leg, and is caused by a sprain of the pos¬ 
terior ligament of the hock. At first more or less lame¬ 
ness results from it. After the tenderness is past, the 
lameness disappears, hut the swelling remains. After a 
time the soft swelling develops into a hard callus, which 
is difficult of removal. To treat the soft, swelling, take 
1 dram of powdered iodide of potassium and dissolve in 
7 drams of glycerine, adding a little water if necessary to 
make it dissolve. Rub this upon the curbs for 10 
minutes every day until the swellings disappear or be¬ 
come hard, when blistering should he resorted to nnder 
the advice of a veterinary surgeon. “ Dadd’s Modern 
Horse Doctor” is a useful hook, and every owner of a 
horse should have a copy of this, or of Prof. James- 
Law’s “ Veterinary Adviser.” 
Apple Pomace.—“A. E. E.,” Worcester, Mass. 
By composting with lime (5 bushels to the cord) apple 
pomace will be decomposed and made into good manure 
in three to six months’ time. The lime neutralizes the 
acid and aids decomposition. The material contains 
considerable potash and phosphoric acid in the seeds, as 
well as some nitrogen. 
Five Hundred Hollars is too small a capital 
on which to begin milk farming near New York. So we 
would advise “ P. B.,” who “ would have to rent a farm, 
buy a horse and wagon, and feed, the first year,” not to- 
try it, as the experiment must end in failure and loss. 
Many people suppose that farming can be carried on 
profitably without either capita! or experience. While 
this may he possible to a certain extent on new lands, 
which cost almost nothing, the idea, as a general thing, 
is wrong, and has caused much loss and many disap¬ 
pointed hopes. One of the chief obstacles to success 
with the majority of farmers is the lack of working capi¬ 
tal. In England, every farmer must have from $25 to 
$50 per acre, while here his working capital is too often 
represented by a debt in the form of a large mortgage 
