ura Ktoltimq. OVERNMENT EXPERIMENTAL Th GARDENS. It was my good fortune, a few days ' . inee , to visit these gardens, which are located on the canal west of the Capitol. T h at devoted to fruit raising (formerly to surbunt) consists of five acres ; further crest are twenty acres devoted to experi „ets on other vegetables. In the first ; foun d a large number or varieties of the , ra pe, apple, pear, peach, strawberry, raspberry, currant, etc. At the present e xperiments are being made in grape " litare . The choice varieties, such as the canorba, Isabella, etc., have by experi et shown their unfitness as to climate to ope with the more hardy varieties which h a ve more recently been introduced. In the opinion of the superintendent of these edens, Mr. William Saunders, these -- eho ice varieties will ere long be supplanted br o thers more adapted to our climate, and les liable to disease. He showed me a num bet u f clusters which had been sent him for e xamination. Samples from the Shen andoah valley, Va., were very fine and delirious; these were varieties of the Fox ga pe Some very interesting facts and tieze stions will appear in the forthcoming scijellitUral report upon the various dis eases incident to the grape family. In the f eetable garden some interesting facts hire been brought to light in the culture 0 : onions ; some specimens of remarkable 4e. have been raised during the season by air s pains in preparation of the soil. A t o variety of water-melon has - been im p,rted from Turkey. I think it excels nr variety heretofore known in this coun ts;. A visit to these gardens will richly ; ;pay rho pomologist and the lover of beau forms of vegetable life. Before the garden, the superintendent pre oied me with a sprig of a tea plant, illicit I send you for a place in your her ; taking it for granted that editors these stirring times have leisure to make : , Itions of plants.—Cor. Boston Re- IRRIGATION. illat the artificial application of water beneficial to nearly every species of 4 etation, is quite evident. We have seen Sects too often to doubt the truth of proposition. Grass especially shows : : :r plainly the benefits of irrigation in its ;;creased growth and deepening color. !!eilows and swales always produce the ':-iciest crops when the rains are most if they are not in excess; and , arms where under-drainage has been ralised, it will invariably be noticed that etc , growing near the mouth of the zru is much more luxuriant than that laitiliately adjacent but which does not %owe the benefit of the flowage. Places hth receive the wash from the roads, too, remarkable for their fertility, and are distinguished from the less favored mons of the field. And what is true of grass is equally pl , ileable to all those crops that grow btIICT ; La moist than in dry seasons, and thil includes nearly every variety of vege. 11 , 1 L latter. Indian corn may seem to be ta exception, as that thrives best in warm, ibAnt weather, and is less affected by ,Ituon droughts than most other crops; zit does not follow from this that artifi at watering would not be beneficial to it. ;Lily weathr is usually accompanied with rol, cloudy atmosphere, which always lards the growth of corn ; but irrigation .irtitical means, on the contrary, may carried on with no exclusion of warmth r sunshine. T.; carry on the work of irrigation so al.rately and to such an extent as is :aimed in many of the countries of the I \Told, would, perhaps, be unprofitable 'br American farmer; and yet there is ::'her country where it is more needed, where the facilities fir its operation are iatir or more abundant. There is .retly a farm which might not be greatly :.:S'ted by a little labor expended in 'sin, the course of a brook so as to flow . tZ acme dry place; by judiciously distri• 7 jEg the wash from the buildings in little lands to different parts of the farm; f minx the water which runs down the flitiiies and leading it to the adjoining is; and in other ways turning to a good o 4 the superfluous water which is now or even detrimental to the land. Probably the most extensive plan of irri -9EI ever adopted in this country is to Lund on the farm of Mr. A. B. Dick '''', of Hornby, Steuben Co., N. Y., of i'th a detailed account was given in the ' 1, 4 Cultivator some years since. This 'l6 very simple and cheap, consisting -!:1 1 in carrying a furrow along the 'lt part of the fields to be watered 7 11 a reservoir employed for the purpose, '--lice other furrows extend to every part "desired to reach. Care is necessary 'Y the main furrow so as to secure a `tie and regular.descent. Into these fur the water is admitted and trickles . '3 their sides over the intermediate 1., "ere are comparativ,ely few farms on one or more - fields might not, by a little and the exercise of. a reasonable of good sense, be treated in a simi `aY, to the great advantage of their the garden, too, the frequent applica water, either clear or the waste of ' k itchen or wash-room, has a surprising ct it the rapid growth of nearly every ' t tlble, especially those which will bear Inaaurinz. But the natures of plants ccd some require more moisture '" l her:i. The amount and its distri- must be determined by judg '" experience, and will vary accord , - the nature of the season. As a gen we may observe that all root crops, 4:ld berries, and all gross feeding aela as rhubarb, celery, cabbages, improved both in size and quality 4tht waterings, providing the hoe BA LLAR,D'S NATIONAL SHOE STORE. ONE PRIOR THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1866. is employed to prevent the ground becom ing too compact. But while the most perfect system of irrigation cannot "supply the . place of manure and good cultivation, it will doubt less prove an excellent auxiliary, where it is practicable to introduce it; and so far as gardening is concerned, deep and en riched soil, and thorough and mellow cul ture, will go far toward preventing the ef fects of drouth, where irrigation cannot be introduced. A combination of both would, if managed with judgment, produce excel lent results."— Vt. Farmer. HINTS ON PAINTING OLD WOOD WORK. As soon as there have been one or two hard frosts to kill most of the flies, it will be an excellent time to paint wood work in the kitchen, or any other part of the house. Saying nothing of the economy of painting, it is an excellent practice to apply a thin coat of paint to all the wood work of the kitchen once in two or three years. Good paint always saves much hard labor in keeping such parts of a house clean. Some doors that are used often, need painting every year to keep them at all decent. It is not best to put on thick, heavy coats, as these are needlessly expensive, and after a few years will look bad. The same amount of paint, applied often in thin coats, will look better and cost little more. Where wood work is much spoiled, especially by hands not scrupulously clean, it is sometimes difficult to make even the best paint hold well. It will dry soon enough, but will afterward peel off, for paint will not adhere well to a dirty, greasy surface. This is particularly the case in rooms where washing and cooking are usually carried on. In order to make paint stick and become about as firm as the wood itself, wash the surface thoroughly with moderately strong ley, using , a short swab( then wipe it off with a cloth wrung out in fresh water. This will remove all grease and dirt that prevent the paint from taking a firm hold. Paint for such places should be made of the best white lead, mixed to the consistency of thin 'cream, with two parts of the best boiled linseed oil, and one part of good lacquer, or " liquid drier." Such paint will dry in one day, and become suf ficiently hard to handle in a few days. A very small quantity of lamp-black will make a beautiful lead color. Yellow ochre may be added until the paint is of the de sired shade for painting mop-boards, or wainscoting. Pure white lead for the body will make a more durable paint for floors than most other kinds. The' use of zinc white, which is much superior to white lead in some situations, as for instance in privies, is attended by a little difficulty, because it must be applied very thick to cover well when used alone ; but a second coat, not so thick, may be put on over other paint., and it will give greater bril liancy and will not tarnish from sulphur ous gases frequently rising from sink drains, etc., nor from the exclusion of light, which causes white lead paint to turn yel low.—S. E. Todd in Country Gentlemen. ktimtifiL IRON AND STEEL. (Concluded.) ANCIENT MODES OF MAKING STEEL The ancient method of making steel, though rude, was remarkably effectual; and to this day, the Hindoo iron -smelter, who builds his clay furnace, lights within it his fire of wood, and charges it with iron ore —urging the flame by blasts of his sheep skin bellows untill he produces his small lump of toootz, which is found in the hearth at the bottom of the furnace—produces a quality of iron that the most expert manu facturer in England cannot equal. Out of this wootz, afterward carefully fused with carbonaceous matter, the finest Indian sword-blades are made, the wonderful tem per of which, as those of Damascus, is the despair of European cutlers. The iron made by the native Africans also, as we have already seen, is of the quality of steel, being a highly carbonized iron ; and hence they refuse to use English iron, which they characterize as " rotten" compared with their own. The ancient metallurgists entertained the idea that by burying iron in the earth until the greater part of it was converted into rust, the remainder was capable of being forged into weapons, and particularly swords with which bones, shields, and helmets could be cut assunder. Beekman sap. ; however improbable this may appear, it is nevertheless the process still used in Japan; and Swedenborg has introduced it among the different methods of makina steel. There may possibly be some element in the Japanese soil to account for this extraordi nary effect of burying iron in it until it rusts; but science can fiiid no rationale for it, and remains incredulous. Certain, how ever, it is, that the old workers in metals believed that iron acquired a certain tena city by burying it, and some of the old Sheffield cutlers, who were famous for turn ing out first-rate articles in their day, were in the habit of placing bundles of steel in the mud of some watercourse for a few weeks, by which they alleged it became greatly improved in quality. It has been stated that, on the removal of the old Lon don. Bridge, the wrought iron with which the piles were shod was found of such pure quality and so malleable, that Weiss, the celebrated cutler, contracted for some tons of it for conversion into steel—the action of the moist clay, without exposure to the air, having had such an •ellect upon the metal as to render it almost equal to steel. " So," said one of the metropolitan journalists, " we may one day mow our beards with a relic of old London Bridge." IRON AND STEEL RAILS The consideration of these circumstances led the officials of the London and North Western Company to direct their attention BALLARD'S 37 NORTH EIGHTH. STREET, NRAR FILBERT 'ONE PRICE. to the employment of some more durable material than ordinary wrought iron for rails, with the object of providing a more " permanent" way than any that had yet been adopted. Mr. Woodhouse, the Superintendent of the Permanent Vay Department, induced the Directors, in 1861, to order 500 tons of Bessemer steel rails, which were laid down at such parts of the line as were subject to the most rapid de struction, not only by the passage of the regular traffid, but the starting, stopping, shunting, and making up of trains. Some of these were laid down in the Crewe Sta tion, and others at Camden Station. Per haps there is no spot on any railway in Europe where the traffic is so great as at the latter place. At Chalk Farm Bridge there is a narrow throat in the line, at which the whole system of rails employed at the London termini of this great Com pany converges. There all the passenger, goods, and coal trains have to pass, and the shunting of carriages is constantly going on day and night. The iron rails laid down in this throat were rapidly ground to pieces by the enormous traffic. The face of a rail Was usually worn away in little more than two months ; and the traffic being so unin termitting, its stoppage for the purpose of changing the rails or renewing them was found most inconvenient as *well as danger ous. Certainly no better spot could have been fixed upon for determining the durability of the Bessemer material. On the 2d of May, 1862, two steel rails were laid down precisely opposite two new iron rails of the best quality, so that no engine or carriage could pass over the iron rails without also passing over the steel. When the iron rails were worn as far as the safety of the traffic would allow, they were turned, the lower side upwards, and the second face was worn off in like manner. The old rail was then replaced by a new one, and this process went on until the 22d of August, 1865, when one of the steel rails was taken up. It was computed by the engineer, that during the period that had elapsed since it was laid down (three years and about four months) not fewer than 9,550,000 engines, carriages, and trucks, weighing 95,577,240 tons, had passed over one face of the steel rail, and worn it evenly. down about a quar ter of an inch, whilst it was still capable of enduring a good deal more of the same work. During the same time eight iron rails had been entirely worn out on both faces, and the seventeenth face was in use when the steel rail was taken up. The ex traordinary endurance of the new material compared with the old, was further proved at Crewe Station, along both sides of which steel rails were laid down, and after three years' wear not one of them required turn ing; whilst iron rails similarly placed had been removed or turned every few months. EFFECTS OF PERCUSSION AND FROST Dr. Percy raises an important point for discussion, with reference to a supposed deterioration in the quality of iron resulting from the effects of percussion, which applies equally to steel. It has long been a moot point with engineers, whether under repeat ed light blows, or rapid vibration of machi nery in action, iron becomes disintegrated and consequently brittle. This is undoubt edly the case with brass, which, when sub jected to vibration, in a few weeks becomes as brittle as glass. When the frightful accident occurred on the Versailles Rail way, some few years since, occasioned by the breaking of a crank axle, the best men of science and practice in France were called upon to give evidence upon the point, but they were by no means agreed. The whole subject was again discussed before the Commissioners appointed by our own. Parliament, in 180, to inquire into the ap plication of iron to railway structures. Evidence was given to show that pieces of wrought iron exposed to vibration, frequent ly break after long use, and exhibit a pe culiar crystalline fracture and loss of ten acity; whilst other witnesses maintained that this peculiar structure was the result of an original fault in the process of manu facture, and that the internal constitution-of the metal remained unaffected by vibration, however rapid or long-continued. In op position to the popular view as to the brit tleness of iron being occasioned by vibra tion, Mr. Robert Stephenson pointed to the engine-beam of a Cornish engine which re ceived a shock equal to about 55 tons eight or ten times a minute, and yet went ou working for twenty years without apparent change. He also referred to the connect ing-rod that communicates the power of the locomotive to the wheel, and receives a violent jar eight times in a second at ordi nary speed, and yet remains unaffected. He pointed out that in a case of that sort, a rod that has borne 200 million of such jars, will be found, on examination, to have re tained its fibrous structure. Where iron exhibits a crystalline appear ance on byeaking, Dr. Percy rightly points out that time plays a most important part in determining the character of the frac ture. When the metal is broken with ex treme rapidity, the fracture will be crystal line; when broken slowly, it will be of a fibrous appearance. In the case of the breakage of a crank-axle, we apprehend the cause to . be torsion, not vibration. It was stated in evidence by a locomotive engineer, at the inquiry into the' causes of the Bow accident on the Great Eastern line, that the very first turn of a crank-axle begins the process of breaking and that the final fracture—nearly always at the same place —is only a question of time. That the brittlehess of iron is increased by frost, is also a prevalent notion amongst engineers, similar -to the popular impression that bones are more brittle in winter than in summer. But the railway accidents which occur in frosty weather are more probably attributable to the circumstance that at that time the road is hard and rigid, and the engines running over it at high speeds are much more strained, and conse quently more liable to accident than they are in ordinary weather when the road is soft and yielding; just as in frosty weather we are mere liable to falls, and consequent ly to fractured limbs, arising from the slip- BALLARD'S FINEST FRENCH AND AMERICAN BOOTS, SHOES AND SLIPPERS EVERY PAIR WARRANTED. ONE PRICE. periness of the roads rather than to the increased brittleness of our bones at that season. To put the matter to a practical test, however, Mr. Ramsbottom had a piece of rail taken up while covered with sharp frost, and placed under the large steam hammer at Crewe, when it stood the blows necessary to double both ends together, without showing the smallest indication of fracture. 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Really so excellent that there can hardly be much difference of opinion respecting them.—WILLIAM MASON, the eminent Pianist. The best instrument of its class with which I am acquainted, and worthy a place in every drawing-room.—Hemay S.L.sosasois, the emi nent Pianist. In every respect far superior to every thing I have ever seen of the kind, whether in Europe or America.—Gsmans WAS/BOURNE MORGAN, the eminent Organist, N. Y. I can only reiterate what so many in the musical profeslion have said, that for equality, promptness and exquisite tone, they are unqualied.—Joax H. WILCOX, the eminent Organist, Roston_ Surpasses everything in this line-I have ever seen, whether French or Amencan.—Josrx ZIINDEL, the eminent Organist. New York. The best reed in struments in the world are made in the United States, and your Cabinet Organs are greatly superior and by far the best made here.—MAN liisitsvasa, Musical Conductor, New York. Far surpasses all other similar instruments which have come under my observation. ZERRAHN, Musical Conductor. Boston. Ex ceeds in my estimation every other instrument of this general class.—Tnomas HASTINGS. I can recom mend them with confidence.—Lowsia. MASON. As soon as the public become acquaintanted with the superior merits of your instruments, your only trou ble will be to supply the demand.—Wm. B. BRAD strRy, I have never.seen anything of the kind which interested me so much.—Gsoans F. ROOT. Excit ing much interest in musical circles, and already be coming the fashion.—N. Y. Home Journal. The highest accomplishment of industry in this depart ment. This is not only our opinion, but the unani mous verdict of the organists.—Boston Advertiser. A glorious instrument for the temple service, so readily secured as to be available for any congrega tion, and effective and beautiful as to meet the de sires of the most refined and fastidious.—New York Obierver. TILE MASON & HAMLIN CABINET OR GANS must not be confounded with other reed in struments, from which they vary essentially, their superiority being largely derived from PATENTED IMPROVEMENTS, which cannot not be employed by other makers. Among them are:— TUE AUTOMATIC BELLOWS SWELL (patented,) a most important invention, and greatly the best swell ever devised; being much more effec tive and easily used than any other. The variety and beauty of effect of which it is cable, cannot be appre ciated except from actual use. The many attempts to imitate or find a substitute for this swell prove its value. None of them, however, approach it in excel lence and simplicity. IMPROVED SELF-ADJUSTING VALVES (patented,) secure much more perfect action, durabili ty, and freedom from liability to get out of order. WOOD'S OCTAVE COlTPKER.(patented, in effect nearly doubles the power of the instrument in which it is used. NOISELESS SAFETY VALVES (patented.) prevent the hissing sound often heard. TILE IMPROVED , COMBINATION RE GISTER (patented,) gives great facility in drawing stops. Circulars, with full particulars. and list with illus trations of styles and prices, sent free to any address. Wareroonis, 596 BROADWAY, NEW YORK; 154 .TREMONT STREET, BOSTON. ' 1065-eow3t CARHART'S BOUDOIR ORGANS: CARHART'S CHURCH HARMONIUM'S CARHART'S MELODEONS! ____„/U-4:4k . , • ~, ,_--- , -------- ~ .., ill Unequalled by any Reed Instruments in the world Also Parmelee's Patent Isolated Violin Frame Pianos, a new and beautiful instrument. Sole agent, H. M. MORRISS. 728 Market street CONFECTIONS GEO. W. JENKI.NTS, Manufacturer of choice Confectionery. Every varie ty of Sugar, Molasses and Cocoanut Candies. amp, Wholesale Dealer in Foreign Fruits. Nuts, 2L-e. &c. GEO. W. .IrElf l K/NS , 1037 Spring Garden Street, Union Square, pff 'MA DELPHIA. 1048-1 y BALLARD'S FINEST FRENCH AND AMERICAN BOOTS, SHOES AND SLIPPERS, EVERY PAIR WARRANTED, ONE PRICE
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