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Tim Profits of Geese Raising.
Geese are profitable birds for the
poultryman who lias ample space to
give them in which they can satisfy
their roaming instincts unrestrained
by the necessary limitations of a city
poultry yard. The universal improve
ment which has resulted from the
efforts ol zealous fanciers in the past
few years has extended itselt to all
classes of feathered stock and includes
the various varieties of geese, of which
the Emoden and Toulouse arc the
best known. This improvement is
shown not in an increased egg pro
duction (for no one has succeeded iu
changing the natural habit ot the
goose in tiiis particular iu as great a
degree as has been done with fowls,)
but in the increased size of the mature
birds. Almost all varieties of geese
are good sitters and need only the
most ordinary precautions iu .setting
them to insure favorable results.
After laying out their batch of about
a dozen eggs they feather their nest
in a manner almost identical with
that employed by their wild congen
ers. and at once commence the duties
of incubation. After a few weeks
trial the eggs may be given the sitter,
and a little care is needed for the
next month, during which she will sit
quietly, provided she is not t oo much
annoyed and interfered with. At the
end of a month the goslings will ap
pear in good shape to begin life on
their own account. For the first day
or so they require only the same diet
of boiled eggs and bread crumbs as
chickens of any domestic fowl receive,
with, perhaps the addition of a little
tender grass, cut fine, on the second
day. In the course of a few days
they will become strong enough to
commence investigations of the near
neighborhood, and may be transferred
from the nest to a coop slatted up so
that the old goose will be confined,
while the openings between the siats
will permit the goslings to pass in and
out freely. When the goslings appear |
to have gained sufficient strength for
longer expeditions, the mother may
be given her liberty, when she will
lead her flock all over the pastures
and may be trusted to care for them
unassisted by her owner. Geese left
at large iu this way will thrive and
grow fat simply on what they can
pick up suited to their taste on almost
any uncultivated meadow. Grass
and various wild plants furhish their
staple food from April to November,
at which time the young are ready
for market. Geese frequently attain
great age, and birds of forty are by
no means unheard of, while a recent
report mentions a venerable specimen
of sixty years. A goose at least forty
years old and still yearly laying her
clutch of eggs and bringing forth a
fine brood of goslings is mentioned
iu a recent work, and youngsters of
twenty are by no means rare. Geese
raising can hardly ia.il to be profitable
to any one having the proper facilities
for their culture, for their expenses
for food are almost nil, while the
profit from the birds weighing forty
or fifty pounds to the pair is by no
means inconsiderable, and live geese
feathers will always be jn demand.—
JPendtry World.
GULF FISH.
How They Should be Cooked.
Red Sx a peek.
This fish varying in weight from
three pounds to thirty, should be
either boiled and dressed with drawn
butter and t*gg, or oyster sauce.
Raked, stuffed with oyster dressing
or plain. Broiled after slicing
lengthwise, removing the hack bone.
Fried, dip the slices in corn meal and
cook in hot pork fat, Cape Cod style.
BLACK CUtOl FEE.
This fisli, with flesh similar to the
Hallibut, should be skinned, then
cook same as snapper.
UEl> GKOFFKU.
This fish has a distinct lobster
flavor, skin and cook same as snap
per : requires more cooking, as the
tlesh is harder; when well done, will
suit the palate of any lover of good .
eating.
is u i: nsu.
Eat this fish broiled, fried or
baked; prepare for baking by stuf
fing and score with a sharp knife to
backbone, and insert thin slices of fat j
pickled pork. For broiling, split {
open down the back, clear fire and
only one turn.
POMPANO.
Split down the hack, clear through
the head, dry with a cloth, broil over
a clear fire, l>e careful not to burn,
salt only after the side is cooked and
turned up; dress with a little good
butter, and the fourth of a good lem
on dropped on the flauks and centre,
when hot it will permeate and devel
ope its unsurpassed, nutty flavor.
“Lives there a man with soul so
dead,” fcc.
,i av R eli., (pronounced “WarrelL”)
This fine fish is best adapted to the
pan; clean and score to the backbone
with four cross cuts, fry in sweet
pork, fat or olive oil, and you will be
able to emulate the secretary of a
certain corporation who ate five at
one sitting on board one ot our
smacks and then quit only in consid
eration of the feelings ot the fish.
Baked similarly to the bluensh, it is
rich and highly flavored.
SIEVE u WHITISH.
This fish, equal to the speckled
brook trout, treat in the same man
nor. Sheephead, spadefish, salt wa
ter trout, bass and blackfish, ditto.
SPANISH M ACKEKEI .
Cook same as the Pompano.
Mem. —ln ail cases a hot fire and
clean dish. Of the tortv varieties
in use “from the depths of the sea,”
we commend all for varied qualities
of nutrition and flavor.
Some of our friends in the interior
who submit them to the trying or
deal of “frying in warm lard” over a
slow fire, never will discover that
they are other than “almost as good
as cat" until they treat them with
good cooking and common sense, lly
order of
Nepti xe's Chief Cook.
—Pensacola Gazette.
Shetland Dainties. .
'fiie luxuries of Shetland are what
some people would never dream of.
One morning—l had been in Ler
wick about ten days—our landlady
brought up a well grilled bird. She
“thought we might like a scorie by
way of a change.” In my ignorance
I knew not then tlie meaning of a
scorie. Upon asking my friend op
posite, be replied with much clear
ness, “What is a scorie?—whv—just
a scorie.” I concluded it Avas some
kind of game peculiar to Shetland—
and I had already discovered that
dainties were rare, and that nothing :
must be too rashly despised. It was j
very good, tender and delicate, and j
in the end I learned that it was noth
ing but a young sea-gull; a gull of
the'first year, when its feathers are
yet gray, and it has not long used its
wings. Most people would dislike
the idea of eating a sea-gull; perhaps
I should have done so in any other
place than Shetland; I can only say '
that I returned to the charge another
day. and without reluctance. It is a
very eatable bird, without suspicion
of fishiness, unless cooked when a
little too old. The Shetlanders Avill
not, as a rule, eat these scories. They
go farther and fare worse, much
worse. While despising scories,
which are easily obtained, they avill
take a great deal of trouble to secure
a young cormorant. They cook and
eat these cormorants, which are
coarse, impossible food to any one
but a Shetlander. They also make
them into a soup which they think
delicious; a strong, unctuous liquor
that, from its appearance, must pos
sess some of the more wholesome but
not agreeable qualities of cod-liver
oil.
The Oleander Poisonous.
The different varieties of the Ole
ander (Herimn Oleander) so popular
as house plants in cool climates, are
in warm countries often cultivated as
ornamental trees, and used as hedge
plants. The tree, in a suitable cli
mate. will reach the higlit of 20 to 80
feet, and forms a most beautiful ob
ject, both in its leaves and flowers.
But with all its attractiveness, it has
the misfortune to be highly poisonous,
a quality not so likely to be manifest
ed when grown as a house plant, but
one which becomes ot serious iinpor
tanee when it is in common cultiva
tion in the open ground-. Some
[ months ago, one of our correspon
i dents in Bermuda, where Oleander
THE I’LOEIDA AGKICULTHEIST.
i • f iV" t —T —f J *. : i t ?
hedges are very common, wrote to
ask if the tree could poison the her
bage around it, as he had found that
animals that grazed near the Oleander
hedge w ere frequently made seriously
ill—a trouble which might be readily
caused by a few fallen leaves. Later
accounts come from another British
colony. New South Wales, of the
death of six cows at Sydney; the ani
mals were fed upon grass recently cut
from a-lawn on which the Oleander
grew, and its leaves became mingled
with the fodder.
It is quite likely that the poisonous
principle is more attractive in climates
which will allow the plant to grow
continuously in the open air; still,
while we do not remember to have
heard any casualty from house plants,
it is well to knoiv of the danger and
be on guard against it. St. Louis,
Mo., may almost"be called the City
of Oleanders; such is their abun
dance, that it M ould seem that every
house has one or more bushes, and
the markets are gay with them. We
should expect accidents here, if any
M-here. from the plant. A case is
recorded in Europe, in which fatal
results followed eating meat in
which a skewer of Oleander ivood
had been used.— American Agricul
turist.
How to Sit.
' Ifall's Jnernal persists in robbing
us of our comfort in this style : All
consumptive people and all afflicted
Avith spinal deformities sit habitually
crooked in one or more curves of the
body. There Mas a time in all these
Avhen the body had its natural erect
ness, Avhi.ii there Avas the first depar
ture on the road to death. The make
of our chars, especially that great
barbarism, the umvieldyand disease
engendering rocking chair, favors
these dieasts, and undoubtedly, in
some instances, leads to bodily hab
its which originate the ailments
just named, to say nothing about
piles, fistula and the like. The pain
ful or sore feeling which many are
troubled tvith incessantly for years,
at the extremity of the backbone, is
the result of sitting in such a posi
tion that it rests upon the seat of the
chair, at a point several inches for
waW of the chair back. A physio
logical / hair, one which shall pro
mop 'the healtli and preserve the
human form erect and manly, as our
Maher made it, should have the back
straight, at right angles with the
seat, the seat itself not being over
eight inches deep. A chair of this
kind will do more towards correcting
the lounging habits of our youth than
multitudes of parental lecturings, for
then if they are seated at all they
must sit erect, otherwise there is no
seat-hold.
Com (Misting Mock.
To increase the manure pile is the
object; hoAV to do it is the problem.
Muck is found in sunken places in
woods, fields, or swamps Avherc the
water runs off sloavlv. It is gathered
there by Avashings of leaves and mel
loav soil from the hills, together Avith
coarse grass, Aveeds, leaves, and fallen
Avood which for ages have grown
there, fallen down aud decayed. If
the water could have run off freely,
the laud would have been dry aud
productive. It can be utilized Avitli
profit, but it takes time and money.
If you can not get on the bed Avith a
team in the Avinter, wheel it out to
the bank in summer or fall, then you
can draw it to the barn yard at your
leisure. Spread a thick coat two iect
deep over the entire yard. Throw
all the stable manure made, upon it.
either from horses, cows, or hogs.
Feed vour hogs on a pile of it daily,
and there should be a dozen or more
pius to Avork it over cheaply. Mix
refuse dirty salt, plaster, coal ashes ;
1 in fact every thing to increase its bulk
j and value. Your yard, of course,
I should slope slightly imvard, to retain
; and catch all surplus Avater and wash
:of the grounds. Increase this pile by
this method, one year, and then com
i mince drawing to the land. It Avill
; be fine, decayed, and avcll mixed.
Spread it evenly over your meadows,
! your Avheat fields, and land designed
| for corn or potatoes, about ten or
i twelve loads per acre. By this
i course you will reap the best and
I only paying results from the use of
muck.— C- J' ( - i ’“ Oounlnj Gentle
i/ti’Ot.
“ Farniiug Under the Sea."
The fact is not generally known,
that within three hours ride of Bos
ton a large and profitable business
has been carried on ever since 1849,
along the seashore, and which is
nothing more or less than “ farming
under the sea. ” Everywhere upon
the coast of Eastern New England
may be found, about ten feet below
water mark, the lichen known as
caragreen—the “ Irish moss ” of com
merce. It mav be torn from the
sunken rocks anywhere, and yet the
little seaport of Scituate is almost
the only place in the country where
it is gathered and cured. This vil
lage is the great center of the moss
business in the country, and the en
tire Union draws its supplies from
those beaches. Long rakes are used
in tilling this marine farm, and it
does not take long to fill the many
dories that await the lichen, torn from
its salty, rocky bed. The husbands
and fathers gather the moss from
the sea, and the wives and daughters
prepare it for market. Soak it in
water and it will melt away to jelly.
Boil it with milk and a delicious
white and creamy blanc mange is the
result. The annual product is from
ten to fifteen thousand barrels, and
it brings fifty thousand dollars into
the town, which sum is shared by
someone hundred and fifty families.
Its consufnption in the manufacture
of lager beer is very large, and the
entire beer interest of the country
draws its supplies from the Scituate
beaches. It is generally known that
the moss, as an article of food, is
called “ Sea Moss Farine. ”
—Trees that Grow Sitirts.—
Ilumbolt says that he saw on the !
slope of the Cerra Drida shirt trees
50 feet high. The Indians cut off
cylindrical pieces, two feet in diam
eter, from which they cut the red
and fibrous bark, without making
any longitudinal incision. This hark
affords them a sort of garment,
which resembles a sack of very coarse
texture aud without a seam. The
upper opening serves for a head aud
two lateral holes are cut to admit the
arms. The natives wear these shirts
of Marina in the rainy season ; they
have the form of the ponchos and
manos' of cotton which are so com
mon in New Grenada, at Quito and
in Peru. As in this climate the riches
and beneficence of nature are regard
ed as the primary causes of the indo
lence of the inhabitants, the mission
aries do not fail to say in showing
the shirts of Marina, “in the forests
of Oroonoka, garments are found
ready made upon the trees. ”
Spotted Fruit. — Xia Science pour.
Tous says that M. Dachartre present
ed recently to the Academy of Sci
ences at Paris a paper by M. Prill
ieux on the dark spots which appear
on the skin of apples and other fruits,
giving the results of observation as
to whether or not these and the
cracking of fruits were due or not to
parasitic fungi. He finds that there
is “ unique ” proof that disease is due
to the preseuce of a fungus, which
not only penetrates the epiderm, but
also the solid tissue of the fruit.
The fungus attacks the leaves and
branches, as well as the fruit, and
thus travels by means of propagation
by grafts. And this is the chief
reason why it often seems to be con
fined to one variety of fruit. The
name of the small fungus is Clado
sporium dentriticum of Wallroth. M.
Duchartre pays a compliment to the
address to the * Pomological Associa
tion at Chicago, iu 1875, by Mr. Thos.
Meehan, of Philadelphia, and con
tends that the observations there
noted correspond with the recent re
searches of M. Prillieux, aud which
prove, he says, that on both sides of
the Atlantic “microscopicfungi clearly
explain these morbid appearances. "
—The death of the widow of the
lion. John Bell, of Tennessee, sug
gests how startling are the inroads
of death upon the prominent men of
the country. Out of ail the Presi
dential aud Vice-Presidential candi
dates before the people in 1860—
only seventeen years ago—but two
are alive, llannible Hamlin and Hcr
scliel V. Johnson. Lincoln, Doug
las, Breckenridge and Lane, and Bel!
and Everett, are all dead.
Legal Notices.
RASTER'S SALE of Real Estate.
IT By virtue of a Decree of, made, and en
tered in the Circuit Court, 1 will sell at
Snblic outcry in front of the Court House
oor at Enterprise, Volusia County, State
of Florida, on the first Monday, the .fifth
day of August, a. and. 1878, within the usual
hours of sale, the following Real Estate,
lying in Volusia Couuty, Florida, ana
known and described as follows: Known
as the Dunlawtou place, being a grant by
the Spanish Government to Patrick Dean,
on the 13th day of August, 1804, by Patrick
Dean to Bunch, by Bunch to Lawton. by
Lawton to Anderson, by Anderson to John
J. Marshall, including Sectional Grants
forty-three, Township fifteen, south of
range thirty-three, east, containing two
hundred and ninety and nineteen one-hun
dredths acres, more or less, and section -
thirty-seven. Township sixteen, south, of
range thirty-three east, containing seven
hundred and sixty and sixty-two one
hundredths acres, xuoreor less, bounded on
the north by lynds of K. N. Swift, on the
east by lets foiir aud five of section thirty
three, Township fifteen south, range thirty
three east, and lots two, three and four of
section four,of Twonship sixteen, 6f'range
thirty-three east, and on the west by lot
number one, section eight, Township six
teen south, of thirty-three east, lots one,
two, four and five, of section tire', Town
ship sixteen south, of range thirty-three
east, aud the fractional southwest quarter
of section thirty-two. Township fifteen,
south, of raugo thirty-three east, contain
ing in the aggregate one thousand and
seventy-seven acres, more or less, also the
land on which the dwelling of said J .T,
Marshall is situated, immediately on tho
Halifax river, known and distinguished
as lot one of fractional section three. Town
ship sixteen south, of range thirty-three
east, containing fifty acres, more or less.
Sold under and by virtue of a Decree
made by the Judge of the Circuit Court on
a bill tiled to ioreelose and inforce t'uo
lieu of said John J. Marshall on said land
for the purchase money thereof ami sold to '
satisfy said lien and said purchase money.
Sold at the risk and for the benefit of
Pomeroy, a purchaser at a sale of said
land and premises heretofore had. who
having failed to comply with the require
ments of said sale and pay the pusebase
money. Sold under and by virtue of a
subsequent decree made by the Judge of
the Circuit Court, at his risk and for bis
benefit.
Terms cash, purchasers paying for titles.
July. 1878. HEZKKIAH E." OSTEEN,
8-11 Special Master in Chancery.
TN TIIF, COUNTY COURT Vo
lnsia County.
Iu the matter of the petition of li. 11.
DeYarman. administrator of the estate of
the late Abner Shearer, deceased, for the
sale of Real Estate.
I nder and persuant to au order made iu
the above matter hy Fredrick J. LaPeno
tiere, County Judge of Volusia County and
ila+e<l 15th June a. i>. 1818. I will sell nfc
public auction on Monday the sth day of
August 1878, at the Court House at Enter
prise, between the usual hours of sale on
that day, the following described premises
to wit: The east half of Ihe southwest
quarter of the southeast quarter of the
northeast quarter of section 15, Township,
range 30 east, Florida, contains five acres
with the improveniets consisting of an or
ange grove situated thereon.
Terms cash, purchaser paying for titles.
Dated June 28th, 1818. •——
. oeo.b.parklK
Commissioner.
NOTICE—On Monday, August loti.
1878 I will apply by petition to lion.
W. A. Cocke, Circuit Judge of the Seventh
Judicial Circuit of Florida, at his residence
near Fort Reid, orange County, Florida
for an order to sell for the benefit of Mar-,
garet Watson, Elizabeth Watson and Flor
ence Watson, minors, all their right, title
and interest of, in and to certain Real
Estate situated in Volusia County. Florida,
and known as parts of u. w. j of s. 0. 11ft,
s. r. 31 e.; and parts of s. 1, 1.19 s. r. 30 e.
July 8 1878. Maxjssa Watson,
7-10 ■ Guardian of Minors above named.
TN THE CIRCUIT COURT—7th
* Judicial Circuit, Volusia county.
William Allan vs. M. M. Hedges and Joae
phene M. Hedges. Amount sworn to,
$517.81
The defendants and all others are hereby
notified of the commencement of this suit,
that an attachment has been issued, and
that they are required to appear, plead or
demur to tho declaration filed in said cause,
by the first Mouday in October next, the
same being rule day, or judgment will be
taken by default.
May 29,1878. JOHN B. STICKNEY,
O. B. BCCKNOR,
my29in3 Plff’s Attys,
TN THE COUNTY COURT aud
of Probate, Yolusia countv.
In the Administration of the Estate of
Arthur Rossetter. Jr„ dececaed: Notice is
hereby given that 1 have been, by the
County Judge of Volusia county, appointed
administrator of the above estate, ami that
all persons having claims against the satne
are requested to file the same with me dulv
authenticated without delay, and all per
sons indebted to the said estate are re
quested to make settlement forthwith.
Beresford P. 0.. Volusia eo., Feb'v26,lß7B.
A. T. KOSSETTfiR,
ieb2s-6nt Administrator.
Ox Motion, Ordered that election dis
trictKo. lfi beemposed of the following de
scribed territory in Volusia county. All
of township 17 south, range 29 east, less
that portion lying west or the St. Johns
river. Also section ?sos six, seven, eigh
teen, nineteen and thirty, in township 17
south, range 30 east, with voting place at
Beresford.
On Motion, It was ordered that, that
portion of section 28, township lfi, range
33 east, lying south of Spruce creek, and
sections 33, 34, and that portion of sections
35 and 20 lying west of Turnbull creek, in
township and range aforesaid,nrw included
in district No. 10, be set off and included in
district No. 9.
JNO. VV. DICKINS,
Clerk of Board Cos. Commissioners.