flitral WINTER CARE OF COLTS. Colts, perhaps, are generally the worst neglected stock on the farm. No profit is expected from them for a year or two in advance. They are fat in the beginning of winter, from having had nothing to do but eat on the rich pasture through the sum mer. So when they are brought to the barn-yard, ■ they must live at the straw stack, and on portions of fodder refused by other stock. Instead of keeping their flesh and growing finely, they gradually fall away under this treatment. The coat becomes rougli and staring; the ribs and-bones pro trude ; lice infest them, and often they have barely strength to totter to the field when grass grows again. This is a cruel and unprofitable way of wintering colts. Their growth is checked and they never make as valuable animals as they would under more generous treatment. They do not gain strength and maturity so early, and conse quently cannot be put to labor at so young an age, as if they had been well kept. Their spirit is lessened, and frequently dis ease induced. The rule is, keep your colts thriving constantly until they are fully grown. They do not require food to fatten them like a steer, but to make* muscle and bone They should never be tied on a floor in a stable long at a time. Nor should they run in the same yard with other stock among cattle, as they are very liable to ibe gored, and when they master the cattle they drive them too much. They should not be tolerated at all with sheep. If you wish to confine them in a stable, the best way is to give them as much room as possi ble and not tie them. Give them the earth for floors, and litter it plentifully with straw. Two or three, or more, colffi may be kept together, if the room be sufficient. In the spring you will find a valuable bed of manure under them. It is a good plan to stable them thus in the day time when the cattle are out in the yards, and on plea sant nights, when the other stock is in the stables, let the colts run in the yards for exercise, and to pick up fodder that my be left, and forage at the straw stack. They should, however, have sufficient hay to keep them thriving, and some ground oats in addition. Oatß make more muscle than any other grain, hence they are the best feed for horses. It pays to feed them some ground grain if you diminish their other food in the meantime, and when they, are shedding their teeth it is difficult to keep them in good condition without it. Colts are a necessary evil on a farm. There'is no other stock so costly to keep; so hard to confine within proper limits ; so destructive to fences and enclosures; so uncertain of giving an ultimate profit, and so utterly worthless in case of being dis abled by accident. They are close feeders on grass, biting as low as sheep, and seek ing invariably the poorest, highest spots where the herbage is sweet; nor do they enrich the land on which they feed, like sheep. The latter spread their manure evenly over the field, and fertilize; the knolls, by choosing them for their renting places during the night. But while horses are the hardest feeders, they are likewise the poorest fertilizers of the pasture in which they roam. —Rural New Yorker. FRUIT GROWERS’ SOCIETY OF WEST ERN NEW YORE. The annual meeting of the Fruit Grow ers’ Society of Western New York will he held at the Court House, in the city of I Rochester, commencing on Wednesday, the 24th day of January. It is designed to make this one of the most important and useful gatherings of fruit growers ever held in the country. An address to farmers on the subject of Fruit Growing will be delivered during the session, in Corinthian Hall, by Hon. Lewis F. Allen, of Buffalo, I and the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, of Bos ton, the venerable President of the Ameri can Pomological Society, has promised to favor the Society with his presence and counsels, if life and health will permit. I Charles Downing, Esq., of Newburgh, who has often honored the Society by his pre sence and unrivaled experience, John J. Thomas,[of Union Springs, and other gentle men, whom all will be delighted to meet, are expected to be present. There will be an exhibition of fruits, particularly of apples, pears, and grapes, to which all are cordially invited to contri bute. It is expected the show of grapes will be unusually large, as fine collections are expected from Hammondsport, Naples, and Ohio. Those not able to bring speci mens with them may address them to the Secretary, James Vick, Rochester, N. Y. THE LARGEST FARM IN THE WORLD: M L. Sullivant, Esq., of Champaign County, Illinois, owns seventy thousand acres of as good land as is to be found on the face of the globe, twenty-three thou sand acres of which is under fence and active cultivation, while the remainder is used for herding purposes. This is undoubtedly the most extensive farm in the world, and it is said to be con ducted on the most approved plans. Nearly all the labor is performed by machinery, so that one man can perform, or rather super intend, the labor of five. He drives his posts by horse power, cultivate# his corn by machinery, ditohes, sows, and plants by machinery, so that all his laborers can ride and perform their duties. Mr. Sullivant gives employment to two hundred farm hands, two hundred horses, and a large number of oxen.— Exchange. PLANTING FOREST TREE SEED! Tn reply to a special request, the editor of the Gardener’s Monthly gives the follow ing directions for gathering,' saving and planting the seeds of our forest trees: — Tree seeds that have pulp should be washed at once on gathering, and dried in the shade gradually also. Sun-dried seeds are generally worthless, especially those of a dark color. The sooner the seeds can be got in the ground the better. They should not be sown any deeper than is necessary to keep them from the light, nor so near the air as to get dry — moisture , air and THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1866 darkness are the three essentials for suc cessful raising of tree seeds. Seeds that are usually spring sown, and are found to « damp off/’ should be sown very early, so that the young wood may get hard before the hot weather comes. The Soft Maple will not keep more than a 'few weeks good enough to grow. It should be sown as soon as ripe in June. Not sown deep, —on the surface, and slightly covered with sand, is the best way. A long article would tell a longer and perhaps clearer story than this 5 but this is the pith of the whole matter. iPORTANCE OF GRAVEL STONES FOR FOWLS. Did you ever dissect the gizzard of a hen, turkey, goose, or duck ? The gizzard and gravel stones in it, serve the purpose of teeth, in reducing the food to small par ticles, in order to facilitate digestion. The Teed is swallowed in chunks, or the grain is received into the crop unbroken. Here all such substances are softened, and passed, a little at a time, through the gizzard, which is surrounded by strong muscles; and when food is passing through it, it dilates and contracts similar.to. the motion of a bellows, and the food, kernels of grain, coming in contact with the gravel stones, is separated and torn to pieces. After the process is completed, the food is digested. These little mill-stones, as it were, do not remain long in the gizzard; they are carried out with the food, and a new set is brought along from the crop, to be thus ground. Now if the fowls are confined, as they often I are, where they cannot have access to all the sharp gravel they heed, their digestion must be imperfect, and they cannot do well, especially if fed on whole grain. Fowls need sharp gravel stones within their reach to swallow every day, and it they do not I have a range, gravel should be kept by them? in their enclosures. —Boston Culti vator. BEST VARIETY OF FOWLS. The Scottish Farmer gives the following, estimates as to the value of several varieties of fowls: —For chickens for the table — nothing like the Dorkings. For size of egg —nothing equal to the Spanish, but they do not lay very regularly. For num ber of eggs—nothing like the Hamburghs, but the size of egg is small compared to the' Spanish. The Hamburghs lay about eleven months in the year, and never sit. ‘For eggs during very hard frost and snow —- there are nothing like Brahmas. Hard weather does not seem to affect them, and they always look well and “ saucy-like,” let the cold be ever so severe. WATERING PLANTS WITH IRON. It is stated as a new discovery, that won derful effects may be obtained by watering fruits and .vegetables with a solution of sul phate of iron. Under this system beans will grow into nearly double the size, and will acquire a much more savory taste. The pear seems to be particularly well adapted for this treatment. Old nails thrown into water and left to rust will impart to it all j the necessary qualities for forcing vegata tion as described. TO TRY-OUT LARD. A farmer’s mode of_ trying-out leaf lard, one which produces few scraps, is to add to every 10 lbs. of rough lard a table-spoonful of saleratus diiring the process of trying out. We have tried the experiment, and can speak from our own experience. In trying-out seven pounds of lard there was less than a quarter of a pound of scrap waste. Utiratifo. THE MAGNESIUM LIGHT. BY REV. H. J. MORTON, D.D. The time has been when the sun was considered a very important agent in “all the things dune under it.” Particularly dependent upon his rays was photography; A dark, drizzly, sunless day was death to art. The disappointed operator requested his customers “to call some other time,” and as to printing negatives taken under more auspicious skies, it was dull work and discouraging. But now, science seems pre paring to dispense with the sun, and moon and stars, save as objects of art, and to; make its own sun and its own independent 5 source of illumination. It seems, indeed, very strange to sit' at night, in a dosed room, and be “ focussed” and “ posed” with a view to a portrait! The gaslights in the candelabra and chandelier send cross rays and tangled shadows, and we do not see how a picture can be produced that shall be other than confused and unnatural, even supposing it possible that it should be pro duced at all by such illumination. . But the photographer has secured another servant. He adjusts, in a sort of !< tin kitchen” furnished with a funnel at the top to carry off the smoke, a few strands of magnesium wire—bright, beautiful, like so much silver. These strands hagg in this tin receptacle; the focus of it directed towards the group or individual to be pho tographed. The camera is arranged; the magnesium wires are ignited by a match or candle, and at once the room is filled with a light as of midday! The gas jests dis appear as luminous objects; nay, they actually cast dark shadows! The bright est flame of gasburner or wax candle be comes black and lustreless in this superior light. The new sun of science, like the old sun of nature, quenches all lesser lumi naries, and causes them to disappear from the bright sky of its fleeting noonday. In the meanwhile, during the few brief moments of this strange illumination, the sensitized plate in the camera has received a clear and perfect impression of the objects reflected upon it. Twenty seconds suffice for the exposure of the plate, and about twenty seconds is the limit of the magne sium' light as thus arranged. The wire drops in white flakes to the bottom of the tin -reflector, and then the gas jets in ohandeliers and brackets appear again, and resume their function of illumination, and we are conscious how very yellow their light is, compared with the white light of the burning metal. The pictures thus formed are (as will be seen by the specimen printed in this num ber of the Photographer) very peculiar. The details are distinct in all important parts, whi)b there is' a grand massing of shadows which reminds one of Rembrandt’s best compositions, and a softness and rich ness which belong to no other style of photograph. The value of this light in photographing ‘ interiors” is obvious, and has already, to a certain extent, been demonstrated. The dark bowels of the pyramids, so long sub jects of description, have been made (de spite the want of air under which : these depths labor) visible to the spectatof, who can now sit in his comfortable, well-ventilat ed room, and see all that the actual explorer of those labyrinths beholds, after leagues of travel and weary hours of hot, perspiring, dusty toil. The grand and solemn arches of the cathedral, which since the day they were built have hung up in the dimness of an obscure twilight, spring forth under this new power into visible and beautiful dis tinctness, and the spider that has , woven his web up in heights where he .fancied himself secure in his semi-night, hurries away and leaves the meshes of his net hanging like silver threads among the rich tracdry of the fretted groins and graceful sculptures of the towering roof. It may be interesting to ask why this light from burning magnesium wire is thus efficient, while the strongest gaslight fails of producing any effect upon the sensitized plate. Dr. Thomas Woods has communicated to the Philosophical Magazine, an account of experiments undertaken for the determina tion of the thermal equivalent of -magne sium. From these experiments it appears that this metal exceeds all others in the amount of heat developed by its combus tion. Thus the rare metals sodium and potassium formerly took the lead as heat producing bodies; but comparing equal weights, it is found that magnesium pro d - - -- .uces three and a half times as much heat as potassium. When magnesium wire or ribbon suffers combustion, this relatively enormous amount of heat is concentrated in a small space, and acts upon a trifling amount of matter; it therefore follows that the intensity of the heat or light er actinic vibrations produced, must be excessive, and that we might ex pect to find, what we do in fact discover in 'its rays, an unusual abundance of those quick waves, high notes, or actinic beams of light, which are potential in affecting the .sensitive film.— Philadelphi g Photo- I grapher. A DRUNKARD’S BRAINS, Hyrti, by far the greatest anatomist of the ago, used to say that he could distin guish, in the darkest room, hy one stroke of the scalpel, the brain of the inebriate from that of the person who had lived bo berly. Now and then he would congratu late his class upon the possession of a drunk ard’s brain, admirably fitted from its hard-1 ness and more complete preservation for the purposes of demonstration. When the anatomist wishes to preserve a human brain for any length of time, he effects his object by keeping that organ in a vessel of alcohol. From a soft, pulpy substance, it then be comes comparatively hard. But the ine briate, anticipating the anatomist, begins ! the indurating process before death; be gins it while the brain .remains the conse crated temple of the soul, while its delicate and gossamer tissues still throb with the pulses of heaven-born life. Strange infatu ation, thus to desecrate the. godlike! Ter. rible \;enchanitment,' that dries up all the fountains of generous feeling, petrifies all ■the the tenderhumanitiesAud sweet chari ties of life, leaving only a brain" of lead and a heart of stone. —Boston Medical aud Sur gical Journal. THE DIAMOND. ; The diamond, like most other jewels, is found generally in granitic gneiss, and in torrents of rivers distributed over the whole world; but they are mainly to be found in tropical countries. It would seem that where the sun shines with the : greatest splendor, where the vegetable and the animal creation put on their most gorgeous colors, there also in the depths of the earth , the "Vivid lustre of this gem shines the brightest, and assumes the largest propor tions. The mines underground bloom as gorgeously as the flowers above. The diamond, as we all know, is composed of pure carbon crystallized, and is,the hard est known substance. Indeed, this;quality, upon which much of its value depends, has in many instances been the cause of its de struction, the old rude t, st of its genuine ness being to place it up*-n an anvil, and to strike it forcibly with a hammer, the idea being that, if pure, it would rather break the hammer or bury itself in the anvil than split. Of course many valuable diamonds have been destroyed by this ignorant trial in times past. The diamond is by no means always colorless. It is sometimes yellow, red, pink, brown, green, black, and opalescent; the admixture of color depend ing in some cases upon a metallic oxide. The Indian diamond appears to be the most prized in the market. Newton, from its great power of refracting and dispersing lio-ht, when compared with glass, came to the conclusion that it was combustible; a scientific forecast, which Lavoisier verified by burning iS in oxygen, and obtaining as a result carbonic acid. Although our analysis of this gem is perfect, all efforts have failed to construct it; indeed, chem istry is wholly at fault to produce artificially any of the precious gems, with the excep tion of the ruby, small specimens of which have actually been produced in the labora tory. The diamond is split easily with the gram; but it is upon the tact and judgment with which it is cut and polished that much of its value depends. The English were at one time famous as gem-cutters; but the art is now wholly lost among us, and most of the fine gems are now intrusted to Dutch Jews. The gem is cut upon a wheel smeared with diamond dust,--the only material that effectually touches it,— and it is polished m the same manner, a steel disk being employed purpose smeared with fine powder, an at » rrreafc sneed by means of steam power. Atthe nresent Dme Die most fashionable tr m is P the double cut, which presents a of the gem very brilliant. The table cut, such as we find in old diamonds, is much less sparkling, as it has a very much less number of facets, and a great expansion of table or flat upper surface. The Indian diamond-cutters leave as much of the gem as possible when cutting; an instance of this was seen in the Great Exhibition of 1851, where the Koh-i-Noor was exhibited, in which the. cutting followed apparently the original outline of the stone. Our readers will remember how much this gem disappointed their expectations, as it looked like a mere lump of glass. Its weight was then 186 carats. In the intervals between this and the last Exhibition it was, after much consultation, given into the hands of M. Coster, of Amsterdam, who recut it with such skill that, although it lost in the pro cess 80 carats, it yet appeared quite as large, and was transferred at once into a. blaze of light. When diamonds are found difficult to split, without fear of great loss, they are sometimes sawn with fine wires fitted into a saw-bow, and anointed with diamond powder and olive oil. Rose-cut diamonds are now coming much into fashion, as they are very brilliant in appear ance at.a vey small expense of lt is really wonderful the delicacy with which these gems are cut, considering the small ness of their size; as many as fifteen hun dred having been known to weigh only one carat. CITIES OF BASHAN, Nothing related of this giant race is more wonderful than the number of their strong cities. What, to a modern Colenso, gazing down from the heights of Anti-Libanus upon the broad desert region before, him, would appear more incredible than the record that in Argob, one of the little pro vinces of Bashan —about thirty miles by twenty —Jair, a chief of the tribe of Man asseh, who completed the conquest of Ba shan begun by Moses, took no less than sixty great cities , “ fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great many!” (Deut. iii. 4, 5,14.) Why, he might ask, accept any story ,of giants at all ? But to locate in such a rocky region, far from the sea or any stream navigable for commerce, such an empire, with its numer ous fortified cities and teeming population, might well seem a taxing of human credu lity. And yet the explorations of this English missionary and traveller fully con firm and establish the Scripture narrative. With his own, eyeß he has seen that it is literally true. The cities are there to this day. Some of them retain the very names given them in the Bible. After the lapse of three thousand years, the boundaries of Argob are still clearly defined, and these great cities which he visited and inspected are many of them almost as perfect as when first deserted by their inhabitants. “ Ba shan is literally crowded with towns and large villages, and though the vast majority of them are deserted, they are not ruined. I have more than once entered a deserted city in the evening, taken possession of a comfortable house, and spent the night in peace. Many of the houses in the ancient cities of Bashan are as perfect as if finished only yesterday. The walls are sound, the roofs unbroken, the doors and even the window-shutters in their places.” And yet the foundations of these walled oitieß and stone castles were ancient when the corner stone of the Grecian Parthenon, or the Ro man Parthenon, or the Jewish Temple, was laid. And the reason of this wonderful preservation is found in the character of the structures. i! The houses of Bashan are not ordinary houses. Their walls are from five to eight.feet thick, built of large and quarried rocks of basalt; the roofs are formed of slabs of the same material, hewn like planks, and reaching from wall to wall; the very doors and window-shutters are of stone. Some of these ancient cities have from two to five hundred houses still per fect, but not a man to dwell in them/’ Fit abodes of a giant race ! Here we probably have the very oldest specimens of domestic architecture in the world. Silent and un tenanted, many of them perhaps since the days of Og himself, these massive struc tures remain to add their silent testimony to the truth of the Scripture record, and confound the subtle but superficial reason ings of modern skeptics. —Hours at Home. ffirafef’ jhmtwjjtng ffitoh Mclntire & Brother, 1035 Chestnut Street, Would call attention to their laige assortment o very choice Silk Scarfs, Neck Ties, Scarf Pins, Sleeve Buttons, and Stnds. Also, to a stock of UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS Fall and Winter Wear, Consisting of Extra Heavy Merino, Saxony Wool, Shetland, Shaker Flannel, Red Flannel Canton Flannel (very -heavy). Also, to their MODEL “SHOULDER SEAM SHIRTS,” Guaranteed in every oase to give entire satisfaction W. G. BEDFORD, EBB VEYAS CEfl ABD RE AL ESTATE A6EST No. 53 NORTH TENTH STREET. PHLADA. 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