American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . DRAWING THE soon as this is accomplished, the boats havingformed a circle and coming together, the ends ofthe net are joined. The seine now encloses thefish, being kept in a vertical position by means After thirty minutes cooking, the water isdrained off, and a man getting into the tankfills the curbs, which are circular, aud formedof strong wooden slats, bound and lined with ready to remove the cheese as it falls from thecurb, upon the opening of its hinged cheese, or scrap cake, is ground to dif-ferent degrees of finene
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . DRAWING THE soon as this is accomplished, the boats havingformed a circle and coming together, the ends ofthe net are joined. The seine now encloses thefish, being kept in a vertical position by means After thirty minutes cooking, the water isdrained off, and a man getting into the tankfills the curbs, which are circular, aud formedof strong wooden slats, bound and lined with ready to remove the cheese as it falls from thecurb, upon the opening of its hinged cheese, or scrap cake, is ground to dif-ferent degrees of fineness, to form the fish-. Fig. 3.—INTERIOR OF POT WOK! of the cork floats. Ropes pass through theserings and are attached to the Tom, a heavyleaden weight, which is thrown overboard, and,by drawing the ropes, purses the net. The fish heavy iron. These are rolled under a solidstationary head fitting closely the inside of thecurb, and against which the fish are pressed,as the curb is slowly but powerfully raised by a gunno ; this substance, being rich in ammonia-producing material, is used by some manufac-turers of fertilizers to supply ammonia to phos-phates that are deficient in that constituent. 1868.] AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 453 Hardy Apples.—Duchess of Oldenburgh. After many costly lessons our fruit growershave learned to consider the qualities of the treeas well as those of the fruit. The question isnot what is the hest fruit, but what is the best?we can. raise in our climate. With quicklyfruiting things, like grapes, the question is soonsettled, but it takes years of patient waitingbefore we can fin
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