Agricultural. As an illustration of the profits of corn culture in Lost Angeles county, California, the (Gazette cites the case of a farmer who last year sold 150 centals of corn from 30 acres, He sold it ‘or $1.53 per cental—a total of $1874.50 —and outlay hardly $150, Anaheim his cash down a branch and keeping it in The may until roots are formed. plant the connection with the parent 1 S011, then be severed, far more easily propagated thus than by cuttings. The milk of fourth calf is generally richer in quality a cow in her third or than a younger one, and will continue In the quality is generally richer, although the production of the s0 for several vears. dry seasons weather favors Cold coo! cheese, weather increases It should be remembered that COW nay be it is unre wonable to expect the quanity and richness of the product to be kept up unless both the quantity and adaptability of the food are matters of attention. ties, even if you are the owner of prize Do not expect impossibili- milking animals, The best time for any considerable distance ship or quite early in May, before the combs are too heavy in prep nary usage in hatching they may be ship- proper care ped at any time with comparative sale except in quite cold weather. The have 900, 500 sheep, Navajo Indians in and 200,000 go: invest ING invesiomes the result of the for them by three vears pensive tribe required of only $5000 a year an (L-SUSLAINIII sidered oC an immense which is held for I think the val ing stock generall seed there 18 my place tons of Yery and I was obl ously erally. should h rotien m spikes are may occasionally be given A writer in the Fruit the statement that one of planted some cabbag corn where the butterflies did not therefore, come to the the cabbage patch was in of the not find them as they corn-field the butterflies would fly plain sailing, than there were three or four years ago, The profits of herding were great, and there was a rapid increase until drought and subsequent severe winter caused the loss of thousands of vation and that Colorado have as many head of before this disastrous experience, head from star- It in many exposure, will not ¢. cattle as it had sold the past season £3000 worth quinces from an orchard of 10,000 trees which have been baring three Years. should, largely increase. So far of salt and ashes, cleanly cultivated, too large to grow them. The greater part of the water found in plants, and the earthy or mineral in- gredients, includiug the nitrates, enter the plants by means of the roots. Prob- ably gaseous matter may also be ab- sorbed by the roots, Absorption of fluids by the roots is due to diffusion, by virtue of which liquids of different densities have a tendency to mix, the thinner passing into the thicker liquid through the cell-walls, Sandy soils are, in the average farm- er’s sense of the word, the lightest of all soils, because they are the easiest to work, while in actual weight they are the heaviest soils known. Clay, also, which we call a heavy soil, because stiff and unyielding to the plow, is compara- tively a light soil in actual weight, Peat soils are light in both senses of the word, having little actual weight and being loose or porous, The sheep is a close grazer, and even and the trees are ’ | lously clean, though not very select in | the choice of the herbage on which fit feads, | of albuminoid food for sheep than other | raakinants Wool chief profit of sheep farming, it be feed demand. economy to oats or i of this staple. used for them for to be I have used able article | poses, three or struction of the currant worm, and find { any other poison, ive on cucumber vines to keep off the | striped bug, | no further trouble with the worms. The cabbages heated well, receiving no in- from the The better to be sifted through a fine sieve, —E. J. H. in Fruit Recorder. jury ashes, ashes are Oxford and Pestilence. It is remarable how often Oxford was scourged by pestilence in the sixteenth century, and Merton College was by no The hich A 88178, U8 from iis ravages, utbreak was that w took | ring the 1 were afterward means exempt TLIOS and MACK n a called, in the hey year when some 500 persons are said to ished of Li have per fever, ing Judge, the High Sheriff, most of a hundred Fe TUTOrS. An members of lows of Merton Anthom curred pleasant to 1 Warden, ation i earned publ +) t posterity has been taugh regard as the golden age of Elizabeth, Fortnightly Review. .- Afraid of Banks. An eld lady of respectable appearance was recently arrested at a draper’s shop in Paris on suspicion that she was cir- A clerk had pronounced bad a silver fi v which she offered him, whereupon she which he likewise rejected. authorities found suspended under her in gold, each, 100,000 francs, in public securities, In reply to questions the old lady gave her name and address, and said that as she lived alone she always carried her doubted that her coin was bad, as she never accepted a piece without examin ing it. The Commissary of Police sent the silver to a money changer, who at once declared that the shopman was mistaken, as there was not a bad piece among the coins, The lady then readjusted her treasure in its hiding place, and left'the police station some- what disturbed by her adventure. — A —————— A correspondent of the Druggists Circular recommends the following as the best remedy against dandru, itch ing of the scalp and falling of the hair : Borate of soda, 10 drachms ; salicylic acid, 10 scruples ; tincture of cantha- rides, 6 ounces ; bay rum, 25 ounces, rose water, 256 ounces ; boiling water, enough to make 4} pints, Dissolve the borax and the acid in boiling water ; mix the bay rum and rose water with the solution; then add the rest, and filter, DEATH OF THE MONGOL." i From o'er the ocean's trackless tide, From land of sun and flowers, The Mongo! came with hopeful pride To find a home in ours. In childhood's days his breast had thrilled With tales his elders told How o'er the sea the land was filled With precious gems and gold, And when ripe manhood’'s hour had come Tho held by gentlest hands, He bade adieu to friends and howe And sought the fabled lands “Full soon,” he said, “with riches blest, I'll hie me back again ; For better than the favored West I love my native plain! Alas! sad eyes shall weep for him, Who nevermore Tha West-winds sing his requiem, Who died so far from home! Nor will they know who look in How fond y turns d his eyes In fan y back plane And to his native skies, ‘M ¥ dear, mv native land, for thes Alone is shed this tear! In life the brightest spot to me, th thour't doubly dear! may come yain tty his native rom thee | die sun and flow rs, at least is nigh st hours! Some part of thee To bless m gs but a ight frox That as his life fast eb f ya friends and | Bryn Mawr [Pa a Silk Culture South. Practical in the L Silk to Reels and their Im the Automatic portance Industry the South ut ilk culture 54} $hiat i 3 $ x3 1 uth, and that it is the natural home of the sil We can one k producing silk worm. produce three full crops of the | this is another undeniable proof of the silk in season, in South, and superior locality for silk culture in the South, It must be here understood that the | very best localities of France and Italy | can only produce two crops and in some We ship arnually, millions of our own and Italy, to be hatched and raised in The silk-culturists ef those countries prefer American silk eggs for many good reasons, principally of which is the well known freedom from disease among American silk worm eggs and, among other reasons, their extreme hardiness but not least, the superior fineness of American silk cocoons which produced from American egyes. Another proof is the wonderful climate we have for the production of raw silk (silk cocoons) is the well known fact to all silk culturists in America, that we of the South, require no artifi- cial heat (fire) to hatch the silk worm, whilst in the old silk growing countries it takes four and five days manipu- lation of the eggs before they can com- mence to hatch the eggs besides having artificial heat (fire) to be able to hatch the silk worm eggs, While all we have to do in the South is to spread the eggs out on the feeding trays, and in a few hours they com- mence hatching vigorously. In the short space of four or five days you can hatch m'llions, when it would take ten and twelve days to do the same work in foreign silk growing countries, and we are silk worm have done the work in half the time we enjoy, for fore money, Another is the fact thirty-five worm to we save time and there- greal advantage that whilst it we takes from fifty days for the silk attain its full wrowth commencing to spin its cocoon of silk in the old world, we have only to feed the silk from twenty-one thirty days for them to attain their size and commence to spin thelr of silk (silk Th saving in time amounts to an to worms to house Cocoon). immense [S818] SUI IN one season, The yield of silk will be at least third worms spin their silk in this sho; sill more, especially when the 1 ai of time, for it is a well known fact ti the sooner the silk worms begin to spin their cocoons, the finer the the greater the yield than quality when thes take a longer time to mature, I have sold t hese 10 the worm N orth, 5 the these ees Years, West, CO 4 and from returns ons from all sections the same breed of silk worms eggs it be coons grown at the South excel all both cocoon, st seen at a glance that the in ments wil | have imported and and these same silk 1 the 1 I copy from Fri | consumed in i astom 1 y i AF gall 3 $ bogs One YeRt. Lit SLO i reports from ancisco and New York city, for the which up the for San ls OTINUS sum $2,652, 000.90 reeled silk importation. silk cocoons Now the September im- port is a fair estimate for the balance of the year. Now multiply this sum by (twelve months in the year) and form fu twelve you can a fair estimate of the silk of the United Slates, manufactories GROWING AN LAND, PROFITS OF SILK FROM ACRE OF To give an estimate of what can be done (I give you as an example the profits of one acre), and what has been done on my silk farm near Memphis, and many others not only in Memphis but in many other parts of the South these last few years, One acre of ordinary land planted in White mulberry, wild mulberry, or oeage orange trees, the first year will produce £250 00 The second year will produce 800 00 The third year will produce 850 00 and will incresse in the same proportion year after year, for the trees grow very rapidly. and two crops of leaves can be had in one year The above address was delivered, by P. Wallace McKittrick silk culturist, of Memphis, Tennessee, and is an ex- haustive reswme of this important ques- tion. Mr. McKittrick is one the best informed persons on this subject in the country, and is entitled to nat- fonal commendation for his zeal in at- tempting to place us in a fair competi- tive plane with similar industries in E urope. ER AM MD MSS For the illumination of balloons M, Mangin uses an incandescent electric light, surrounded by water contained in a glass vessel, Sanitary. Tne Care or THE Eve. —1. Avoid Light should come from the side. i 1101 from back the © ou the or from 8. Do not read or study while suffer- | ing great bodily fatigue, or during re- 4, Do not read while lving down, » 5. Do not use the eve to near work, but give them oo 6. Reading and studving 7. During the study, avoid the stoo ing position, or whatever tends to pro- duce congestion of the head and face, 8. Select well printed books 0. Correct refraction ' v ek Pe { per § 10. A and the us COMI Ions productive It is therefore, 1 no surprising circumstance, y find the woman who swel- ters all day in such a temperature and adds to it at night by superfluous bed- clothing. cross and disagreeable from little that scarcely if she her opened then. would kept and and everv-day troubles ruffle her temper room at sixty-hive the windows Our ( degrees every now : ¢ > onfinend, The Workshop. It is desirable to locate and machinery so that belts shall run off from each other in opposite directions, as this arrangement relieve the bearings from the friction that would result where the belts all pull one way on the shaft. A liking for onestory factories has been developed among the manufact- urers of New England, and they are being built in many cases where the nature of sites permits. They are said to be economical, handy, safe and free from that vibration which looms impart to all structures, Jacob Reese of Pittsburg, Pa., puts forth some remarkable claims in regard to an alleged new discovery in metal lurgy. He says he is able to melt in- stantly a bar of cast steel one inch in diameter— which cannot be fused in less than five minutes in the highest furnace heat attainable — simply by throwing against it a column of air having a velocity of 25,000 feet per minute. To lay out quarterturn belts, draw will ‘ry two full-size d pulleys and the position of the floor, and measure this correctly, and then, if de- a smaller There should be some allowance sirable, transfer to paper on scale, the use string or tape between the tw through trial In cutting the holes through floor, o pul- in he passing holes The following i8 given by an exchange good boiler cement Mix two parts dy powdered litharge with one part of |, and one part of been allowed to to the any uring. In into paste 4 boiled quicklime which has for 21033 » kept must be DECOTNES Home Economi One cup of flour, one cup of corn starch, of white rar, half a we heaning on = Denning cup cup of butter beaten with SUZAr until it is as light as cream, one large teaspoonful of baking powder and the whites of four eggs beaten to a stiff froth and put in last ; a large half cup of sweet milk should be stirred in with the butter and sugar after they are well beaten. This cake does not keep well, and should be eaten while fresh, A nice white cake to be covered with or- ange is made by using the whites of five eggs, one cup of milk, balf a cup of butter, one teaspoonful of baking pow- der, one cup and a half of sugar and about three cups of flom The Oldest Locomotive En- gineer. Frederick Lunger. who died at Davenport, Towa, a few days ago, aged seventy-five vears, is said to have been the senior railroad locomotive engineer in the United States. According to the New York Tvibume, his first ex- perience in that calling was in 1835, on the Albion, an engine built by George Stephenson and run on old State road from Philadelphia to Co lumbia, Pennsylvania, He remained constantly at the worklof “‘engine driv. ing” until 1856, when he retired to farm life, In 1876 he was invited by the late Colonel “Tom’® Scott to visit the Exposition at Philadelphia, and on his way there and back again to Davenport he rode in his old place in the cab, and handled the lever as skill. fully as ever, thus literally working his passage, although his pockets were full of first class passes over all the roads,
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