1881. ] [For Advertising Rates see Page 134.] AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
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Missouri the Leading Hog Raising 
State.— Official statistics of the number of farm animals, 
obtained from State officers, and published in third annual 
live stock map of H. W. Hill & Co., Decatur, 111., just issued, 
show there are 35,611,400 hogs, 40,385,300 sheep, and 33,158,400 
cattle in the United States. Missouri leads in number of 
hogs, aggregating 3,383,800; Illinois has 3.202,600; Iowa, 
2,798,400: Indiana, 2,626,500; Ohio, 2,045.300: California, in 
sheep, 7,646,800; Texas, in cattle, 5,030,300. They have pub¬ 
lished 1,250,000 copies of this valuable illustrated map for 
free distribution. 
Butter Salt. 
The salt used is of greater importance than 
might easily be considered. The usual im¬ 
purities of salt are chloride and sulphate of 
lime and chloride and sulphate of magnesia. 
Lime mixed with fats combines and forms 
an insoluble white soap. When lime is pres¬ 
ent in salt, small, white specks of soapy sub¬ 
stance, are formed in the butter, thus injur¬ 
ing its keeping qualities. Magnesia is bitter, 
and if this is present the flavor is injured, so 
that it is of the greatest importance to have 
the purest salt. Unfortunately, our American 
salt is not of sufficient purity or uniformity 
for dairy purposes, and the best qualities only 
of English salt should be used. Of these there 
are two kinds on the market, known as the 
Ashton, and Higgin’s Eureka. The latter is 
fast superseding the former on account of its 
perfect purity, uniformity of grain and free¬ 
dom from objectionable scale. As the differ¬ 
ence in price between good and bad salt is 
very small and the difference between good 
and bad butter is very large, the extra cost 
of a sack of the best salt may easily be saved 
upon one pail of butter. A hundred pounds 
of salt will pack 1,600 pounds of butter, and 
two to five cents a pound on this quantity 
may easily be lost by means of bad salt, 
making a loss of $30 to $80 to offset the gain 
of one dollar, or less.— Henry Stewart in 
Rural New Yorker. 
THORBUBFS SEEDS. 
OUR GENERAL CATALOGUE OF 
VEGETABLE, 
FLOWER, 
FIELD and 
TREE SEEDS 
for 1881 will be ready for mailing early in the month. 
J. M. THORBURN <Sc CO., 
15 .lolli< Street, New York. 
Parents Should Ask for the 
<aTs.T.C3> 
BLACK TIP 
In place of the metal, as it WILL. WE All AS WELL, 
and is intended to take its place 
UPON CUIIflDKEIVS SHOES, 
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Of the HIGHEST STANDARD, in every respect, of ma¬ 
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Written for DEMOREST’S ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE, 
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splendid March number of this model magazine. 
