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ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. J. F. NIS BET Editor. Our trade with the State Ex change is increasing and it i plain to be seen that if we wil patronize our exchauge we wil be beneUtted/or we help our owi institution and make it more abli to help us; then wo get. our good cheaper. The AUianccmen who pur chased their fertilizers througl the Alliance exchange will pleas* remember that, the notes are ii the bank. They are due Nov. Is and must he paid bv that time a the Co. needs the money and can not carry them longer. ['lease be up to date, brethren Cotton poured into this tnarke last week at the rate of abou 200 bales per day, and though th< price was low our buyers kep fully up with other markets When we have new cotton buyeri in our town we should show then our cotton and give them : chance to help build up the mar ket. From Tabernacle Alliance. It has been some time sine* you heard from us, but we are ii good condition just the same. We had ono of the best Alliance meetings at Tabernacle we have had in some time on the Olh. (>u: worthy lecturer. Brother Tangle was on hand and made us a gooi talk on the principles of the or der and the importance of femah members attending the meetings We were glad to hear a talk 01 the attendance of female mem hers, and hope that all the sul lecturers will not forget this lm portant subject. B. ethern, wha is home without a good woman and what will the Alliance conn to without the presence of th< good women ? Well, brethern, we are again ir the good old way meeting twic< a month, on Saturday before 2n< and 4th Sundays. We would b< glad to have some of the bretheri to visit us and tell us how thet are getting along. If some of tin Primus brethern will come an< talk with us we promise to tuk< good care of them ami pay tin visit back. As this scribe is a good hand it the cotton patch ho has but littli time to give the news in the com mu nity. Some of our farmers have gath f . ered corn. Some few are sowinj oats. Cotton picking is in fill blast. .1. M. Kskiiit. Some Notes for Southern Farmer Sptv-'ul Co \ Iioto a il la ii!. Our jrood friends in tlm Nortl liave always been frviuK to jjtiv< us ijood advice as to the di**ersify itiir ot our crops. The markets ii the North are larger and hette than those in the greater part o the South on account of the inor numerous big centers of popoiu tion. and we may cert airly tak the suggestions of our friend there as to this branch of indus try, which are, wo may ho sure given with disinterested kindliest Rut, as circumstances nlte caRes, we may all know very wel those to 1 lie manor horn, as w may say, may well he ahle to sil the good out. of these suggestion that it may he applied to on situation. Now, there are a great man; special products that are ver much more valuable than #ou common iield crops that may bi made in the South with grea profit and ease because of on more favorable situation. Sonv s j of the I desire to mention : j Fi'st, 1 wou'd desire to refer ti j the culture of cranberries,* in re t? ply to a subscriber in Alabama s I am well acquaintee with th: crop, having gathered the wih fruits on the natural heave meadows of Northern Mtcbigai 1 and cultivated them as a cro] e lor some years in New Jersey be 1 fore my removal here a do/coi * years ago. This fruit is ossentia'li a Nor!hern plant, as much so a: cotton is a Southern product. I grows to the greatest perfect iot away into the Arctic circle am t southerly to New Jersey am \ Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Tin a l.'Qst rcg'on for it is about th< t shores 1 ake Superior and tin northern, pains cf the other lakes * where thousands of aces of natu I -..1 1... 1 ui uicauun o uiauu uv iiic uoavcin 1 dams l ave bee i Hooded a id mad* the finest cranberry marshes it the world perhaps e\celling thos< of Norway and Sweden, where w< all know the climate is intense1; 9 cold, just the most adaptable fo n 11 his fruit. These facts go to show that i 3 is scarcely advisable for us to tin to fight nature in this respect,bu must content ourselves with th< nest best kind of this f'uit to tin low bosh variety, winch grows ii s the North, this being the so-callei ln'gh bush cranberry, the Vaccini j urn mac oca- pum of the botanists . which grows well in Virginia an< 3 Kentucky, and may do so else whnrn nn f Ito litsnL'c n? e' ron t and ponds. Hut the small variety , the Vaeciniu-n o:.ycocus.or small 3 low creeping va'iety, I am sur< 9 will not succeed further Soutl than New Jersey under ordinary 1 culture o?i account of iho waniil* j ot the climate. If anyone desire to try 11)is, however, he may ge 0 * 1 a barrel of p'ants ironi an; j Northern seeds-nan for $5 an< 9 try the experiment. The bes 1 soil is a black peat o rich bot j torn which must bo ditched am - cleared o? grass, and the dilche must be dammed and provide. 1 with gales, so I lie water may b< 3 becked on the beds in the win.e and a second time when the 1'rui is forming, so as to protect tin r, cop from the two insect pest I which attack it. It is most desir ahle to cover the black soil will clean sand so as to prevent tin I growth of g?*ass that would choki *. out the plants. Small fruits, the strawberry es I, pecially, i> a most valuable eroj p and may be sold in the larg Northern cities and in eveiy towi u and vi'liage in the South at r good price. It will be.ar twent, f hours' transport to market am e arrive in good condition. Hut w . have to tt?ink first ot ourselvef i and there is no more pleasan s and health'ul fruit than thi< The varieties mentioned as suit . able far Massachusetts are not al 1 , the best for the South. I hav r grown the Ihibaeh, I'arker, Karlc I with the Cumberland and Sharp loss, with much success.having a I large and line fruit .as I have eve 3 seen in the North, r When 1 say that by an eas; and simple method of irrigation y J have grown here Sharploss ber Ir ries, of which three covered the r bottom of a square basket hold0 ing a quart,and nine filled it level t with the top, these I must say r were the largest, but I had mrny 0 of them, and the average not less than one-half as big, it may be 0 thought it is worth while to cultivate this km Tin the best manner. . I have found the best way is to s make the rows four feet apart, 1 thus giving ample room for culr turo, and for the runners which i will spread after the fruit is galh) ered, and fill these spaces, giving three young plants from each old i one for making new beds for the r next year. Hut it will require a s whole column to describe fully I the best culture of this fruit, ami i tins I will give in my next arli1 cle, as the time is near for planl1 ing. ? For I want to call attention to ? sotno other valuable products 3 which are especially adapted to . the South; and may he made ex - ceedingly prolitable. One of these is the early lamb, which brings 3 ten dollars each in the Northern 1 cities at the time when the .lews 3 are celebrating their Paschal 3 feast. Young chickens then, too. / sell at high price, and all of us r know that these are easily grown in our mild climate all the winter, j when the North is buried in snow. , We are now with our fast freight t trains easily in supplying distance B of the best markets in the world . for these and for early fresh egirs. i guaranteed by dale marks stampj ed on each one, lo bo what they really are,not over a week or less, if possible, old. If there are any j others than the {Southern ladies who can excel in rearing the best ? of chickens I don't know where they are to bo found. The French pooltrv is thought to bo the best B on that side of the world, but j having been well acquainted? some time ago, it is t-ue?with th f>Sf> phif*kf??lr>f !ill Linilc n^nnnc ao<l poulardes, as well as t!>e orj dinary kinds ( those being emas v culated roosters and unsexed pulj lets), I am quite tree to say that t our poultrv will excel even these when duly cared for. j And things change hut little in s a lifetime in those old European > countries, and thus we can un questionably beat the world in f respect to our poultry. Whon in t New "\*<>rk not long ago I saw a (i big shipment of Kentucky iiirkeyf packed lor export to Europe, and in this regard we are heating the I to/cign poulterers in their spe ciallv best product. There is a l?i?r trade from Kentucky to all e ... ; parts of the North in all kinds o! | these, and this trade may lit ! greatly increased if proper atle v '' tion is given to rearing the fowls '* They must he fed from the nesl " and not left to gather all theii ,l food on bare yards, or lields, 01 v road sides. The best culture ii ' fact is necessary. ? The eultuie of tish for 0111 home markets is another thins ' that may he made profitable loi salo, as well as desirable lor home use. This is a simple adair, on!) ' needing a little attention. 1 hi> 15 must he left for future opporluni ty to describe this culture fully In the mean time I want to sa) s that the remarks of Mr. Webb in r Homo and Farm of August 10 may be supplemented by a few V words as to the making of tlic 1 dam, and especially as regards - the pressure of the water on ;i clam. There is no such enormous pressure on a dam to back the water 450 feet and five feet fall to the 100. It is not always con sidered that the pressure of the water 011 a dam is precisely G2.j pounds on every superficial square foot in depth. The width of the dam does not increase this pres1 sure, and to estimate the pressure , on the whole dam,the height of it in feet is to be multiplied by 02 i pounds. Of course a dam will then have to bear this pressure ; at the bottom, and so much less for every toot higher to the top where the pressure is nominal only and the washing of the overflow only has to be guarded aga'nst. 1 have two large fish ponds till ed with trout. One fish of four pounds* weight was taken in one of them a few days ago. and if this could have been sent to a market in any northern city it would have brought $1. But if j furnished a fine dinner for a fam i lily and this is what any farmer who has a flowing spring brook may have for a very trouble. The United States government has undertaken the work of supplying anyone who will take care of fish with a quantity for stocking waters free of cost. except for the freight, even supplying the cans for live fish and boxes for the eggs. I am reaiing thou amis of fish every year by taking the eggs from the fish at spawning time and hatching thorn?-"H process which I propose, with the kind consent of the editor ot Home and Farm, to explain in good time. There are many kinds of fish that may bo thus cultii vated, even in small ponds,either for home use or for market, with great advantage to all, producer . and consumer both, for thousands of people who have the money to spare .are always hankering after i some fish. Even the much abused carp is not 1o be dispised if it is managed aright, as I will iry to show in good time. I have eaten carp in my young days in > Germany, as well as frogs and snails in France, and can testify i they are all good, as everything i given to us by a bountiful Creator was at the first declared to ne, by i iminite wisdom. And wo have i only to use these good gifts aiIght i to get some use out of them? 11 even the homely carp, li Another injurious thirur in the household is tlie common preservative made of salicylic acid for i use in putting up fruits and vegI etables. Tomatoes and fruits, it is true, may be easily kept in this ' way, for this acid prevents all fer mentation, but at the same time . it prevents digestion and thus is exceedingly * injurious, even poi sonous, when used for this pur pose. Is is wholly inadmissible i in any household except for its strict use medicinally under ad vice of a physician in extiaordi;' nary eircumslances. 1 Tol 1 or il 11 ?/ 11 le 1-* n/viu ik no . a V i. 1 ** IIIVII ir? nu\/TT at (in IIUI jiun 5 by physicians, is best treated by ' saline laxative medicines, as it is i a disorder of the blood and not local as an affection of the skin, . along with the use of Kpsotn salts r as an internal remedy to carry off i from the system the injurious mat . ters and neutralize their effects ' in this eruption, local replication of solution of hyposulphite of soda i as a wash, with the use of per-, i fectly pure soap to wash with, 4 and care to thoroughly dry the skin alter every wash, and leave it shining bright and smooth, is the best reinecy I have used for this complaint. 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