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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
355 
CaBJiaiasg- Cwi'eeaa <C®a*aa. —Each season of 
green corn we have numerous complaints of failures in 
canning it, and asking how it should be done. We must 
answer now, as in former seasons, that it is not practi¬ 
cable on a small scale, as it will not pay to go to the ex¬ 
pense of the apparatus, and give the time required, 
simply to put up a family supply. Moreover, with the 
most experienced the process is not certain, and the 
regular canners have more trouble with this, than with 
any other article, and often fail altogether. The corn is 
boiled, cut from the cobs, put into cans, and the space 
being filled with a syrup of sugar and salt, the can is 
soldered tight. The cans are then placed in a bath of 
a solution of chloride of calcium , a salt obtained from 
the refuse of salt works ; a solution of this has a much 
higher boiling point than water, and the cans being 
placed in it, Ihey are heated several degrees above 212°. 
After boiling in this for four hours, the cans are taken 
out. a small hole is pricked in the top of each, and as 
soon as the steam has blown off, the holes are at once 
closed by a droD of solder, and the cans returned to the 
bath for another boiling of three hours’ duration. It 
will be seen that the process is quite too troublesome 
for the average housekeeper. 
r l'oi»-9ls*essisRg' Wheat with Straw. 
—‘R. W. W.,” Perry, N. Y. It would do no injury to 
spread straw upon fall wheat as a protection against 
frost. On the contrary it might turn out to be of great 
benefit. Spread very e\ only to get the most good. 
IT® Ftaa-e a Saachlaag- Cow.—“G. W. 
D.. - ’ New Brunswick, N. J. Try the perforated bit, de¬ 
scribed in the American Agriculturist for July, 1876. 
I>ry BSoot Mouses. —“A. G.,” Ontario. 
In the American Agriculturist for Oct.,1873, and Apr.,1876, 
there are descriptions and illustrations of different kinds 
of above-ground root houses. If the soil is wet, it is on¬ 
ly necessary to build the most suitable one of these upon 
the surface, and dig a sufficient drain around it to carry 
off' the water, procuring the earth for covering from the 
drain or elsewhere. 
is a native of this country, as well as of Europe and 
Asia. We have known of no attempts to cultivate it, 
nor can we learn that it has been done in Europe. It 
being found more abundantly upon land recently burned 
over, than elsewhere, it was formerly the custom of the 
German peasants to set fire to the woods and copses, in 
order to induce a growth of the morel ; this became so 
serious a matter that it was prohibited by very stringent 
laws. It is likely that it may be cultivated, by imitating 
the natural condition of the ground on which it is 
found wild, and taking up some of the earth where it 
grows, to stock the bed with spawn. 
State, County, and other Fairs in 1876. 
iStaate asa«l lK«iass4s°ial Fairs. 
Alabama.Montgomery.Oct. 24-29 
American Institute ... .New York.Sept. (i-Nov. 11 
California..Sacramento.Sept. 18-23 
Camden Industrial.Camden, N. J.Oct. 2-4 
Centennial.Philadelph a.May 10-Nov. 10 
Connecticut.Hartford.Sept. 12-15 
Chicago Industrial Ex..Chicago, Ill.Sept. O-Oct. 9 
Illinois.Ottawa.Sept.. 4- 9 
Indiana .Indianapolis.Sept. 25-Qct. 18 
Indiana Industrial.Worthington.Oct. 2=J3 
Iowa.Cedar Rapids. Sept. 11-15 
Iowa Industrial.lies Moines__Oct. 5-Nov. 5 
Kansas City ExhibitionKansas City, Mo.Sept. 18-23 
Maryland Hort. Society.Baltimore.Sept. 19-22 
Mass. Hort’l Society .. .Boston.Sept. 19-22 
Michigan..Jackson.Sept. 18-22 
Minnesota.St. Paul. Oct. 3-0 
Nebraska...Lincoln.Sept. 25-29 
Nevada. .Reno.Sept. 11-16 
New Hampshire.Manchester.Oct. 3- 5 
New Jersey ..Waverley.Sept. 18-22 
New York...Albany.Sept. 11-15 
New York Hort. Soc’y..New York.Sept. 19-22 
Ohio.'..Columbus.Sept. 4- 8 
Oregon*. Salem. Oct. 9-15 
St. Joseph Agr’l Ex’n..St. Joseph.Mo.Sept. 25-30 
St. Louis Association.. St. Louis, Mo . . .Oct. 2-7 
Texas.Austin.Nov. 14-18 
Virginia.Richmond.Oct. 31-Nov. 3 
Wisconsin.Milwaukee. Sept. 11-16 
Worcester Hort. Soc’y .Worcester, Mass.Sept. 20-22 
Centennial Specials. 
S&onhle E*Iovr—Farming- in Fjonisia 
ana, —“ C. N. F.,” Chelsea, Mass. The Deere Double 
Plow is an excellent implement for light soils. Itcanbo 
procured of Deere & Co., Moline, Ill. There is no 
book that treats specially of farming in Louisiana. As 
you are acquainted practically with agriculture all that 
is necessary in beginning in that locality is to observe 
the methods of the farmers there, and to adapt your own 
experience to the peculiar necessities of your new situa¬ 
tion. It is well to make innovations cautiously, and be 
willing to learn some things from your new neighbors. 
Coco-grass. Nn*=ga*ass.—“ C. H. C.,” 
Ark. This is not a proper grass, but belongs to the re¬ 
lated though very distinct family of sedges. Its botani¬ 
cal name is Cypenis rotundas, var. Hydra , and multiplies 
by means of numerous small nut-like tubers which are 
abundantly produced under ground. If any of our 
friends have been able to successfully subdue this, in 
many places a serious pest, we shall be glad to know the 
treatment they found most efficacious. 
Artificial TTohaee®.— The present course 
Autumn Butter and Cheese, at Philadelphia.. .Oct. 17-21 
Autumn Honey and Wax. do. Oct. 23-Nov. 1 
Autumn Vegetables. do. ..Sept. 19-23 
Cereals. / do. .. Sept. 25-30 
Northern Pomological Products. do. ..Sept. 11-16 
Nuts. do. Oct. 23-Nov. 1 
Peaches. do. ..Sept. 4-9 
Potatoes and Feeding Roots_ do. ..Ocr. 2-7 
Live Slock. 
Dogs.Sept. 1- S I Poultry.Oct.. 27-Nov. 6 
Horses.Sept. 1-14 Sheep.Oct. 10-1S 
Neat Cattle..Sept. 21-Ocr. 4 | Swine.Oct. 10-18 
EMstrict Fairs. 
Indiana. Northeastern-.Waterloo. 
Iowa, No.theastern ...Dubuque. 
Lnva, Northern.Bismark. 
Minnesota, N.Western.Winona. 
New York Central.Utica. 
New York, N. Western.Baldwinsville . 
New York, Western_Rochester. 
Ohio, Central.Mechanicsburg 
Ohio, Central.Orrville. 
Ohio, Northern .Cleveland...— 
Ohio, Southern.Dayton. 
Ohio, Western.Pinna. 
Provincial Fairs. 
Colchester.Truro, N. S.... 
Fruit Growers’ Asso’m.Wo Ifville, N. S. 
_Oct. 10-13 
.Sept. 2- 4 
.Sept. 19-22 
.Sept. 25-30 
.Sept. 5- 8 
.Sept, 21-23 
Aug. 29-Sept. 2 
.. ..Sept. 19-22 
.Oct. 11-14 
.Sept, 11-15 
.Sept. 25-29 
.Oct. 3- 0 
.. ..Oct. 9-13 
.Oct. 4- 5 
of invention or improvement so called, threatens to 
displace everything, and replace it with a substitute. 
Thus for butter and cream in cheese, we have the oil of 
tallow, or oleo-margarine ; for coffee we have cliickory ; 
for leather we have paper ; for wool, shoddy ; for sugar, . 
glucose from sawdust; and now we have paper tobacco, 
*■ a much improved article, and better in every way than 
the natural leaf” the inventors say. It is said every 
steamer to Havana now takes out several thousand reams 
of straw paper, soaked in the juice of tobacco stems and 
other waste, rolled, veined, and printed with spots to 
closely imitate the natural leaf. It is then made up into 
cigars both as filling and wrappers, or mixed with leaf 
and returned hero to be sold as real Havana cigars. No 
wonder that Connecticut seed-leaf goes a begging! 
Cotton Seed for Manure.— 1 “W. J. E.,” 
Birmingham, Ala. The usual method of using cotton 
seed, when there has been no time to compost it fora 
fertilizer, is to scatter 39 or 40 bushels per acre broadcast 
and plow it under. For winter oats, to be sown litis 
month, tlic cotton seed may be scattered, and the oats 
sown, and both plowed in together with a light furrow. 
It would probably be better to use 109 lbs. of phosphate 
early in the spring titan now at the sovjing. If possible 
to do it, the cotton seed should be rotted by composting 
with some yard or stable manure, and some leaf mold or 
swamp mnek. 
The Morel.—“S. P. W.,” Quincy, Ill.— 
This highly esteemed edible fungus, Morcliella esculenta, 
County 
a sad r JTowii Fs 
CONNECTICUT. 
on-s. 
Fairfield. 
....Oct. 3-7 
New Haven. 
_Meriden. 
....Sept. 20-22 
NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
Contocoolc. 
....Sept, 19-50 
Conn. River Valley. 
_Claremont. 
.... Sept. 5- 7 
Cheshire. 
Graft m . 
... Plymouth. 
.. Sept. 26-28 
Hillsborough....... 
_Nashua. 
....Sept. 12-13 
Merrimack. 
_Concord. 
.... Sept. 20-21 
Oak Park Association .Greenfield . 
Stratford. 
....Sept. 12-14 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
Barnstable.. 
... Barnstable. 
.... Sept. 19-20 
Berkshire. 
....Oct. 3-5 
Bristol. 
_Taunton.... 
.... Sept. 26-28 
Bristol Center. 
.. ..Sept. 13-15 
Deerfield Valley- 
... .Charlemont.. 
....Sept. 21-22 
Essex . 
... Sept. 26-27 
Franklin. 
....Sept. 28-29 
Hampden. 
.“..Oct. 3-4 
Hampden, East.... 
.... Sept. 21 22 
Hampshire. 
_Amherst. 
.... Sept. 26-27 
Hampshire, Franklin & Hamp’n.Northam’ton.Oct. 4- 6 
Highland. 
....Middlefield. 
.Sept. 14-15 
llingham. 
....Sept. 27-28 
Iloosac Valley. 
Housatonic. 
... .Sept. 19-21 
.Sept. 27-29 
Marshfield. 
Martha’s Vineyard. 
... Oct. 3- 4 
Middlesex. 
Middlesex, North.. 
. . .Lowell. 
.... Sept. 27-28 
Middlesex, South . 
.... Sept. 19-20 
Nantucket. 
... .Nantucket. 
.Sept. 27-28 
Norfolk. . 
_Readville. 
.Sept. 28-29 
Plymouth. 
... Bridgewater. 
....Sept, 20-22 
Union.Blandford. Sept, 19-20 
Worcester.Worcester....Sept, 21-22 
Worcester, North.Fitchburg.Sept. 20 
Worcester, Northwest. .Athol.Oct. 3- 4 
Worcester, South.Stnrbridge.Sept. 7- 8 
Worcester, Southeast.. Milford.Sept, 27-28 
Worcester, West.Barrc.Sept. 28-29 
NEW YORK. 
Allegany.Culm. .Sept. 26-29 
Broome.Maine...Sept. 26-28 
Broome.Whitney’s Point..Sept. 0- 8 
Cattaraugus.Cattaraugus Rescrva’n Sept. 25 
Cattaraugus.Little Valley.Sept. 19-21 
Cayuga.Moravia.Sept. 26-28 
Chautauqua.Jamestown.Sept. 19-22 
Chemung.Elmira.Oct. 5- 7 
Chenango . Sherburne.Sept. 18-20 
Columbia. Hm.son .Sept. 26-2S 
Dutchess.Poughkeepsie.Oct. 3- 6 
Dutchess.Washington Hollow..Sept. 19-21 
Erie. .Hamburg.Sept. 12-15 
Essex.Westport.Sept. 6-8 
Franklin.. .Fort Covington.Sept. 19-21 
Franklin.Malone. .Sept. 26-28 
Genesee. .Batavia.Sept. 13-14 
Greene. .Cairo.Sept. 20-21 
.Hamilton .. .Earlville.Sept. 27-29 
Herkimer.Herkimer. Sept. 27-29 
Herkimer.West Winfield.Sept. 18-20 
Jefferson. Antwerp.Sept. 5- 7 
Jefferson_... .Carthage.Sept. 13-15 
Jefferson.Redwood.Attg. 30-Sept. 1 
Jefferson.Watertown.Sept. 20-22 
Lewis.Lowville.Sept. 19-21 
Madison. . .Brookfield.Oet. 2- 4 
Madison.Hamilton.Sept. 27-29 
Montgomery.Fonda. Sept. 19-21 
Niagara.Lockport.. Oct. 5 
Oneida.Bonneville. Sept. 5- 7 
Oneida.Rome.Sept. 18-22 
Oneida.Taberg.Sept, 25-27 
Oneida. Trenton....Sept. 12-14 
Oneida. Vernon. ..Sept, 30 
Oneida.Waterville.Sept, 26-27 
Onondaga, (Indian)_Onondaga Castle.Sept. 20-24 
Onondaga. ..Onondaga Valley.Sept. 26-27 
Onondaga.Skaneateles.Sept. 20-21 
Ontario'..Canandaigua.Sept, 20-22 
Orleans.Albion.Sept. 29-30 
Oswego.Fulton Station.Sept. 19-22 
Oswego. Mexico.Sept. 12-14 
Oswego.WestPhcenix. Sept. 26-28 
Otsego.Cooperstown.Sept. 25-27 
Otsego.Edtneston.Sept. 12-14 
Otsego.Oneonta . .Sept. 26-28 
Olsego... Otsego.Sept. 28-30 
Otsego.Sehenevus.Sept, 19-21 
Olsego.Unadilla.Sept. 20-22 
Richland.Sandy Creek.Sept. 13-15 
St. Lawrence.Canton.Sept. 12-14 
St, Lawrence.Gonverneur.Sept. 6- 8 
St, Lawrence. Potsdam.Sept, 19-21 
Saratoga.Saratoga Springs.Sept. 5- 8 
Schoharie.Schoharie.Oct, 3- 5 
Schuyler.Watkins.Sept. 14-16 
Seneca. Seneca Falls.Oct. 3-5 
Steuben.Bath.Sept. 27-29 
Suffolk.Riverhead.Oct. 3-5 
Tompkins.Ithaca.Sept, 11-13 
Warren.Warrensburg.Sept. 12-15 
Washington.Sandy Hill.Sept. 6- 8 
Wayne.Clyde.Sept. 27-29 
Yates....Penn Yan.Sept. 22-26 
NEW JERSEY. 
Union.Clarke.Oct. 3- 6 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
Centre. .Bellefontainc.Oct. 3-6 
Charticrs Valley.Cannonsburg.Sept. 20-22 
OHIO. 
Allen.Lima.Sept. 26-29 
Ashtabula.Jefferson .Sept. 26-29 
Athens.Athens.Sept. 28-29 
Auglaize.Wapakonetta.Sept. 27-29 
Belmont.St, Clairsville.Sept. 12-14 
Butler.Hamilton.Oct. 3-6 
Carroll.Carrollton.Oct. 3- 6 
Clermont.Boston.Sept. 12-15 
Clinton.Wilmington.Sept, 12-15 
Columbiana.New-Lisbon.Sept. 26-29 
Coshocton.Coshocton.Sept, 26-29 
Crawford.Bucyrns.Sept. 26-29 
Cuyahoga.Chagrin Falls.Sept. 6- 8 
Drake.Greenville .."Sept. 19-22 
Defiance.Defiance.Sept. 19-22 
Delaware.Delaware.Sept. 26-28 
Eri o.Sandusky.Sept. 19-22 
Fairfield.Lancaster.Oct. 11-14 
Geauga . 
Harrison. 
Jackson. 
Jefferson. 
Knox.. 
Lake. 
Lawrence. 
Licking 
Logan. ’ 
Lucas. 
Miami, 
. . Wauseon. 
.Sept. 27-29 
.Sept. 20-22 
.Oet. 4- 0 
... .Cambridge. 
.Sept. 25-2S 
.Oet. 4-7 
.Oct. 11-14 
.Oct. 3-6 
.. .Logan. 
..Oct. 5-7 
. Sept. 26-29 
... .Jackson C. II_ 
. Sept. 14-15 
. ..Smithfield. 
.Sept. 27-29 
_Mt. Vernon. 
.Sept. 26 29 
... .Paincsville. 
.Oct. 4~ 6 
... .Ironton. 
.Sept. 12-15 
... .Newark. 
.Oct, 3- G 
... .Potaskala. 
_Bellefontainc ... 
.Oct. 3- 6 
.Oct. 30-31 
.Sept. 26-29 
. Oet. 3- 5 
. ...Oct. 3-6 
.Out. 0-7 
.Sept. 19-22 
. ..Troy. 
.Sept. 20-23 
