Hlzpab. ■) k- Lsrri watch betwecm me an A ttteejwhen -*• we ebewit one from another." A toroad gold band engraven With word of holy writ— A rim, the bond and token Wkieh love and_pryer hath lit, When absent trom each other Oar mountain, vale and ana, The Lord who guarded Israel, Sat p watch 'twren me aud thee. nooagh days oi light and gladness, Through days of love and.liie, Through smiles, and joy and sunshine, Through days with beauty rife; When absent trom each other, O'er mountain, vale and sea, Ihe IxDrd oi love and gladness Keep watch 'tween ine and thoe. fh rough dnys ot doubt and darknesa, In lear and trembling breath; Through miats oi sin and sorrow In tears, and grief and death— The Lord ot life aud'glory, The King oi earth and sea, The Lord, who guarded Israel, Keep watch 'tween me and thee. The Argoty. THE GR ANGER'S STORY; OR. Three Elopements in One Night. Sbe was young, gentlemen, an' she was sassy, an' jest tut full of solid sense .•she was of fun—an' she was full of fun within prescribed limits, as an egg is lull of meat. She Knew her mind, too, an' could love ase a woman when she was sot to it, as ihe Btory shows. There was no better nor likelier gal In this country, which she's proved since, an' the way she did up them two city lawyer stugents was tan, gentlemen, fun. Yes, she's the gal that eloped with three fellers in one night, an' as respect able a gal as you'll find in the State to tatf- Was she well behaved? Well, you est bet your life sbe was. Lively an' •right when she was woke up, she was a most thunderin' smart girl when it same to takin' business charge of her nail. She was as pretty as a pictur' that's tart ready to walk out of its frame. Her bar seemed to float all around her head, an' when the wind blowed through it an' the sun lightened it up,it looked like a gold mine—such as you read about. Sbe was a fresh, wholesome-lookin' g&l as ever was, with a bright eye that went through a man like a buzz saw through a pine log, an' she had a tigger as round a> a buck leberry, an' sweet, as a butter- Why, I knowed her when she was •anly so high; she was born and raised 5r this very town, an' her money, a mat ter of about SIO,OOO, was left by her grandmother in trust with old Judge Willes, an' he looked out for it, too. The pal lived with her grandmother till she was eighteen, an', when the old died, she went over to her Aunt Uilton's for three years till she got mar ried, an' they say she made it lively for them two women; in her own demurc- Xke an' innocent sort o' style, of course. Thankee; yes, I smokeevenin's some times. The way it commenced was something Ike this: You see, gentlemen, I got a partickler here and a partickler there till I got the whole thing. Jennie—her name was Jennie Thomas then—hed bed a kind o' sneakin' regard tar Jed Billings, a smart young farmer, fairish off, but not over well-to-do at Art time. They'd went to school together, an' Jed, one day, hed hauled her outer the mill-pond. She'd fell into it in one of bar wild scrapes a tryin' to walk across At dam on a four-inch edge, an', from what I heerd at the time, I guess that mm the way the affair begun between Hat somehow, she was kind r' offish Is Jed, yet that young farmer bed a • mod eddicashun—first-rate, and was fcmewn to be square—that is, square as sgsare goes nowadays, when the golden vsfr appears to be to do unto others as atom would do uuto you, if tbey got the Btt whether it was that Jennie mated to hev her little foolin' afoie she 3M up, or whether she wanted to see if Jsd really loved her, or whether she waited to fool him an' sow her female wild oats or what not, land only knows. tail said afore, howsumever she was ilsfi, an' wouldn't make no regular en figiunt, and right in the nick of the wan j them two lawyqr stugents from taertty arrived among our midst. You see old Judge Parker bad his son Irt an' his nevvy Charley Gifford to wMktate, an' be fixed em both up for tawym.jest as if we warn't over-stocked wttk them chaps, same as we be with mj worms; an' yit, gentlemen, we're im on good haymakers an' farmin' arty frurally, as you know. She nevvy, Charley Giffnrd, was a **taw good feller, as everybody's -.ware rt to-day. But Ham Parker was a par- Tkhkrly curious cuss, an' bid fair to turn art lest such a mean, cross-cut lightnin' wrtmktor as his father was—which most sd jou know'd well enough, partickly rtn yon had any affidavys to be done wdthe old roan wanted his twenty-five •rti in advance. Woll, as soon as them young sharps rwdiwated an' come home they both sot Owdroyes on Miss Jennie. Iwd bless you, in the mornin' you'd ■■lsm a-drivin' her out to the pond in Iwkcr's old gig, in the afternoon Charley 'd be a-takin' her up Garden drive in the same shaky but respectable winnicle. It looked a Rood deal like a dead race lor Jennie's SIO,OOO. Now Jennie's aunt was dead down on Jed Billings, because he was only a farmer, though even then, gentlemen, he looked a blame sight more likely to make a big farmer than either o' them other fellers did to make a big lawyer. Anyhow, Jennie's aunt didn't care much which of the lawyers g*jt her as long as Jed was kep' out. But the cunnin' old lady rather preferred Sam l'arker, because he was sure to hcv his father's practice, while Charley might hcv to whistle a good while for a client. Then, too, Sam had away of flattcrin' her up in city style, an' Charley was too open and off-handed with het. It's most generally the rascals that gets ail the advantage-; but not in the lo.ig run, boys, not in the long run. Well, Sam an' the old lady got a talkin' one day an' fixed things up be tween 'em. ' Jennie don't know her own mind," said her aunty, " an' it's my opinion that whichever gits away witli her first will get the prize, an', Sam, you'd better do it. She's a giddy young thing, an' 'll slick by the one as gots for her the heaviest. She's morantic, an' won't marry in church noway; them kind never koes till arter they gets married in a wagon by moonlight." You see, gentlemen, she didn't size Jennie up jest right. Things begun to thicken up pretty good, an' one day Sam Parker, the law yer's son, thought it was about time to put up his little job on Charley and Jed arter his own style, as agreed on with the aunt. The strickiy honorable didn't run much in Sam's family anyhow. Sam's plot was like this: He got Charley aside one mornin' an' told t. n everythin' was fixed, an' he was goin'ij marry the gal that night. " Now I know what you love me for," said Sam, in his c-00l style; "but I know that for old friendship's sake you'll give in to me, so the gal can be happy with the man she loves." " How do you know she loves you?" asks Charley, as gloomy as a dyin' mud turtle. " This day," says Honest Sam—which they usd to call him so because he was so tricky—" this day she giv me her promise," an' be perjuced a lock of hair an'a ring with her name on. "Now, Charley," he continued, " I tell you this, first, on account of our old, sweet friendship, an', second, because I want you to help me by takin' care o' Jed Billings while I git away with the gal. He watches us like a weasel, an' might kick up a fuss. It he tries to foller ah you've got to do is to pick a muss with him so's to give us a chrnc " I don't see how that's a-gom' to pay me," said Charley. " If I marry her to-night," saia Sam, solemnly, " I shall take her to Boston to ive, an' ycu step inter my practice nere." So Charley said agreed, and s" forth, but he knew Sam was deep, an' kep' askin' himself why should Sam be afraid to Jed if he was really engaged to Jen nie, as he said; an' why should he run away anyhow. So he kep' on a puz ziin', but couldn't git it out. Well, as soon as it got dark, Sam hitched up an' took Charley down near Jed's farm to keep a watch on him, an' then turned round an' took the back road up to Jennie's. The girl was considerably surprised for Sam to ask her out ridin' on a dark night, an' no party or dancin' to go to; but she warn't afraid o' nothin', an' was alius full o' lively curiosity about fun. So she made up her mind to sec it out, most pertickly as her cunnin' old aunt made believe r'ic didn't want her to go. Then the way Sam Parker put that old plug o' his through to Eatonville was a caution. What was said on the way ain't known, but it's tolrnble cer tain that marryin' warn't spoken of till the two got to work eatin' supper. Then Sam said how he loved her, an' how this was an enlopement, an' the parson was ready an' all that. Then he goes down on his knees an' pulls out the ring. But, in pullin' out the ring, out come along lock of hair, the same that Bam had been playin' off on Charley for hern. "Ob, you dreadful, dread ul flirt!" hollers Jennie, makin' b'leevc mad, and then she busts out into just the tallest laflln' that's been heard in the Adams house for forty years. Then Sam pitches in an' gits wild as to what he'll do to her or say about her if she don't marry him, an' then Ihc door opens sudden, an' who should bounce in but Charley. You see, Charley had got tired a-watchin' Jed; so he concluded to hire a liom and jest foller Sam an' Jennie up, to see for himself how things was. He'd been a iistenin' at the door till Sam got ugly on Jennie, and then he see his chance an' bounced in. "My preserver! my preserver!" screeched out Jennie, an' she goes over to Charley an' he gits out with the gal before Sam—who is a kind of a sneak, any way—recovered from his surprise. Well, tbey took the road to btarboro' a fiytn'; but it wasn't ten minutes be fore they hears wheels behind 'em, an' Charley cries: " That's that rascal, Sam Parker!" So be puts on the gad an' goes tearin' over the road wuss than ever till he brings up at the minister's house In Starboro', with his horse all a-foamin and nigh dead. Then they both got out of the wagon, an' Jennie all of a sadden begins to cry. You see, she had enjoyed the fun a.l along like everything; but at laet it be gan to look serious even to a gal with her nerve. It was mighty late at night an'there she was astandin' afore the minister's house in Starboro', fifteen miles from home, nn' with no more idea of inarryin' Charley Gifford than you or I hev this minit of marryin' Queen Victoria. But Charley put on steam an' talked away to her at a tremendous rate on ac count of Sam's bcin' behind 'em. Then got all broken up again in the narves, an' while she was a-cryin' and wringin' her hands, the other wagon drew up. But the man that jumped out wasn't Sam Parker. It was Jed Billings—Jed Billings, gentlemen, as good a feller as I ever met an' the best man with a pitch fork in the two counties. Then the gal straightened up an' went right into Jed's arms, as straight as a chipmunk slips into a holler tree. Of course this was war, an', arter a lovin' embrace, Jed lets her down on the minister's steps an' prepares to go for Charley. "I'll teach you, you young [pettifog ger," said he," to play tricks like these," an' he was a-haulin' off in that dynamite style of his, when Jennie jest stepped up atwixt 'en). Now, gentlemen, I like the female cle ment myself, as I suppose the hull on ye does, an' I appreciate 'em as angels and peace-makers an'all that; but it must be allowed tlAt Jennie did spile what would hev been the goljnmbdest fight that ever took place in Squigg county. Mind yer, the stakes were SIO,OOO, an Charley had a good deal of stand-by in him, if he was a fortune-hunter; an' as for Jed, everybody knows he's got a hogsheadful o' p.uck alius on hand. It's a shame, gentlemen, the mill didn't come off; to this day, whenever a man gets a liVtic hard cider in him about here he wrasties his tongue with some body as to which would hev licked. But Jed an' Charley only lafls about it now, an' wouldn't muss for anything. Where was I? Oh, yes. Well, Jen nie stepped atwixt 'em, an' says: "It was all my fault, Jed—it was all my fault, an' 1 only did it to see if you'd be jealous. I'm a cruel, hateful, wicked giri, an' if you won't fight, dear Jed, I'll go into the minister's with you now, provided you'll git me home afore my aunt's up in the mornin', an' then I'll marry you in church as soon as I can git ready proper. I love you, Jed, an' if you love me you won't want to do any thin' to hev this business talked about 'till arterwards." You can see, gentlemen, she was a level-headed gal arter all. Then she turns, as cool as a cowcum ber, to Charley, an' she>ays: " I know why you an' your fritnd wanted to git mc. As it stands now, you tried to fool me an' I had to return the compliment." " An' now Jed's fooled you pretty good," said Charley, iaflin. Then they all ot a-laffln, an'Jed caved an' Charley caved, an' all went into the minister's, Charley actin' as witness. Jest as they came out, Sam drew up, with his boss lame in three legs. He looked pretty sour when Jed introduced Jennie as Mrs. Billings Jennie was taken to her aunt's a-flyin' an Charley followed at a two-mile-an hour gait, with Sam's horse hitched on Charley's buggy to keep him up, an' Sam walkin' aside of him to jest stimmerlate him up, now and then. The perticlers didn't leak out till long arter the church weddin', and then there was some big fun over it. Everybody knows now that Jed's made that new stock-farm o' his pay like blazes, an' Jennie's as quiet and stiddy as the Mulbrytown guide-post, an' a good deal more charitable. When old Judge Barker died, Sam took his practice, an' then sold out to Charley an' went West. Charley has married a likely gnl on the creek, for love, an' is a-doin' well. " But how was it," asked one of the listeners, "that Jedjmanag>'d to be on band in tiraeP" It was this way, gentlemen, said the old granger. Jed was a-fixin' a leak in the roof of his barn, when Sam Parker drove up to the crossroads that nigbt, an'he recognized the old gig. When it stopped an' let Charley down an' then went flyin' up the back road, Jed thought somcthin' was up. So lie crep' alongside the stone wall, an' before long he was a-watchin' Charley instead o' Charley a-watchin' him. Then, when Charley got sick of his job an' then went down to the direction of the livery stable, Jed jest chucked bis boss in bis buggy—an' there ain't no belter piece o' boss-flesh between here an'Greenfield— an' foilcred bim up. But Charley bed a good start; so Jed got to EatonviUe about ten minutes ar ter the couple had left for Btarhoro\ He got all the perticklers at Eatonvilie from the hostlers, and didn't see Sam, who was upstairs a-ponderin' what to do. Then he set his boss to steamin' an 1 be arriv'. Well, that hoss is old now. and no use; but they say he winka at Jed, now and then, as much as to say: " I pulled you through on that • 10,000 business; eh, old manF" Then Jed winks, an'the boss is satisfied. Jed wouldn't take no money for him to-day. "Are Jed an' Jennie happy in their present connubial relationsP" furtively inquired the schoolmaster. " Carn't say," replied the old granger. " You're married, an' you oughter know how it is yourself." a A balloon ascension was;made by Pro fessor Grim ley, at Montreal, in the pret ence of 30,000 spectators. At an eleva tion of a mile and a half the barking of doge and oheering of men were distinctly audible. Till ELY TUPICM. The missionaries in China find the opium traffic their chief hindrance. It is estimated that 3,600,000 people a year perish, owing to their inveterate habit of consuming this drug. The city of Ningpo lias 2,700 opium shops. According to recent statistics, taking 1,000 well-to-do persons and 1,000 poor per4ons, afterfi vc years there remained alive of the prosperous 943, of the poor only 665. After fifty years there re mained of the prosperous 557, of the poor, 233; at seventy years of age there remained 225 of the prosperous and of the poor sixty-five. The Russian czar's recent trip to Li viulia was guarded by 40,000 men sta tioned along the line. He is more afraid of assassination than ever. The pro gramme of his proceedings is made pub lic and then altered. He does not sleep twice in succession in the same chamber and takes his meals at different places and hours from those expectc d. Marshal Bazaine writes to the Paris Caulois from Madrid to inform his friends, if he still has any in his mis fortunes, tlmt during the Bix years of his residence in Spain he has never suf fered from the slightest indisposition. He does not know why people are mak ing him die by anticipation. "But," adds the marshal, "I have so often risked my life during my longTand very ardu ous career that obituary notices have little effect upon me." There is danger that young couples in Rochester, N. Y., on matrimonial thoughts intent will have to content themselves with the services of civil magistrates hereafter, as the Express announces that a sort of ministerial union has been formed there, the mem bers of which pledge themselves not to perform the marriage ceremony under any circumstances without a fee of at least $5 on each occasion. The Troy l\mts is of the opinion that if they would also pledge themselves not to marry people about whom they know nothing, they would be doing Christi anity a service. Seth Green publishes a card in the Albany (N. Y.) Argus protesting against the action of unthinking farmers who kill salmon trout,£lack bass and other fish during the spawning season, when they frequent shoal water and are read ily taken by spearing. This course is as ruinous to the fish interest as a slaugh ter of setting hens would be to the poultry yard. The salmon trout spawn during Ocfober and November, the black hass from June 1 until July 10, the Oswego bass from March 10 until June 1, and the wall-eyed or yellow pike from April 10 until May 20.1 The swelling figures of the annual re port of the United States land office al ways gives at least vague notions of the vastness of the public domain, from the magnitude of the statistics employed in dealing with it. In one way or another by homestead entries or timber entries or cash entries, by college scrip, mili tary warrants, State swamp patents, or railroad grabs, fourteen millions of acres have been during the pmt year subtract ed from the public domain. The survey ing operations do not much more than keep pace, in amount, with the current disposals of lands. However, thus far, about three-quarters ola billion of acres have been surveyed since operations be gan, while more than a thousand mil lions remain still unsurveyed. The ltilian m ; nister of the interior, Sigr.or Depretis, lately issued a circular to all the prefects of the kingdom, call ing their nttention to the extraordinary nnmbcr of arrests made by the police which are not followed by a conviction. The minister says that this fact cannot but injure the prestige of justice and the dignity of the authoriths. The criminal statistics show that, on an average, a thousand persons are arrested daily, which means 365,000 criminals in the year. But the judicial authorities deny that these criminals really exist, as of the 365,000 persons arrested 240,000, or two-thirds,are released at the first inter rogatory. Thus every day 660 innocent persons are imprisoned through caprice, abuse, or on an empty pret ß xt. The smoke-consuming engine invented by Mr. David Binton. the Cincinnati millionaire, is said to be a complete suc cess. The peculiarity of the invention consists in a series of four arches of varying heights, built of fire-bricks and rising from the sides of the furnace to the bottom of the boiler. Between the third and fourth arches is a (large open beat-chamber. The coal is retained in the fire-bed, in front of the three arches, Until the oxygen and coal gases com bine and pass under the arches all aflame into the hcat-cbamber, where they produce an intense heat devoid of any smoke. Mr. Sinton will give Cincinnati the free right to use his in vention in its municipal buildings, and he has no id*a of devoting to his own use any money arising from the 'ale of rights to others. The new Warner observatory which is being erected at Rochester, N. Y., so attracting much attention in social and literary as well as scientific circles The new telcsoope will be twenty-two feet in length, and its lens sixteen inches in diameter, thus making it third in size of any instrument heretofore manu factured, while the dome of the observ atory Is to have some new appliances for specially observing certain portions of the heavens. It is to be the fineat private observatory in the world, and has been heavily endowed by Mr. War ner. Strange that in a country so densely populated as China, vast tracks of good an d should remain uncultivated. Yet the governor of the province of Che- Kiang lately proclaimed that, though seventeen years have elapsed since the Taiping civil war ravaged the country, large areas have since remained untilled. In throe-named departments 1,600,000 acres are idle, and in three others 6,000,- 000 acres. Some of the land is poor, but at least 6,500,000 uncultivated acres are rich and fertile. Surely there are big opening at home for every Mongo lian in this country. The capital employed in feeding and clothing the civilized world is amazing. It is estimated that there are from 484,000,000 to 600,000,000 sheep in the world, or, at the lowest estimate, 320,880 miles of sheep, if strung along, one closely following the other—or nearly enough to encircle the earth thir teen times. Of these, the United States have 36,000,000 —that is, marly enough to make a solid column of sheep, eight in a row, from New York Fran cisco. Great Britain has about the same number of sheep as the United States, and the wool clip increased from 94,000,- 000 pounds in 1801 to 325,000,000 in 1875. France and Austria produce as much, but the United States product is only about 200,000,000 pounds—not two thirds of that of Great Britain. The great sheep-breeding countries of Australia, New Zealand, South Airica and the River Platte brought the total wool clip of the world last year up to 1,497,500,000, worth, at a low estimate, S3OO 000.000. Shooting the Walrus. Speaking of the return of the schooner an Diego, after a five months' cruise in the pursuit of walrus among the islands of Behring's sea, the San Francisco Chronicle says: The ivory and oil of these huge hyperboreans are utilized for various manufacturing purposes, but the market heretofore has been supplied by whalers, who, when whales were scarce, eked out a cargo with the product of the walrus. To the usual articles of ivory and oil the San Diego has added the hides of these immense animals. Walrus abound in immense numbers among the islands of Behring's sea. Like the seal they clamber up the rocks | and beaches, and, huddling closelv. sleep lor days without movement. 1 this condition they can be readily ap pi oar lied, and by skiilfui marksmen shot at will. The crew of the San Diego shot 700 in one shoal on the beach nt Hall island before the myriads composing it took to the water for safe ty. Many of them weighed over 3.000 pounds. Owing to a violent storm but ,wo hundred of this number were se cured. Near Cape Upright and the southeastern end of St. Matthew's is land eighty-one were shot, and another storm occurring, during which both an chors were lost, obliged the return of the vessel before the cruise was half I completed. Heretofore the method of capturing wairus has been with the har poon. The alarm which this method created soon rendered it impracticable. The plan adopted by the crew of the San Diego was for each man armed with a Winchester or Sharp's rifle, to approach the sleeping animals cautious ly and shoot at the particular portion of the skull covering the brain. Any fail ure to prnetrate the brain does not kill. The front of the head is im pervious to a bullet, and the neck is so well protected by the blubb-sr that a ball produces no other effu t than to alarm and excite the ani mal, and thus cause the entire shoal to take to the water. Every shot must kill instantly without producing any commotion or the game disappears. The walrus is very stupid unless dis turbed, when it fights with great power. Throwing its immense head back so as to elevate the tusks to a horizontal posi tion, it springs forward, and by a rapid move of the head is enabled to strike with unerring aim any object within three or four feet. Woe to the man or animal within that limit. He is trans fixed in a moment. Fights among the males are frequent and terrific, often terminating in the death of one or both. Few females are found in Behring's sea during the summer months, the theory among hunters be ing that they pass this season with their young in the Arctic and appear \>elow the straits late in the fall and winter. Unlike the seal, they have s habit of sleeping in the water with the head partially exposed. The ivory of the walrus sells read ly tor forty-five or fifty cents per pound. Billiard balls, cane heads and all ivory articles of similar siav are made of it here, but the larger part of it is sent to China and used ex tensively in the manufacture of Chinese ornaments. The oil is equal in quality to whale oil, commands the ame price, and is used for the same purposes. The hides are from one and a lis to two inches in thickness. When tanned they furnish n superior article of belting for heavy machinery, and are unsurpassed for polishing silver plate. General Francis A. Walker, the super intendent of the census, had a sword captured from bim at Beam's Station, Va.. during the war. Ex-Confederate General Anderson has recently returned It, and has received a cordial letter front General Walker. It is proposed to sell that portion of the crown jewels of France which is not considered of artisllo value, and devote the proceeds to the purchase of works of art- The estimated value of these jewels ! is •1,600,000. fAKM, 81BDKN AMD HOIHEHOLD. *'• Tmur ClOMll VtaUlatcd! There is nothing BO handy in a house an an abundance of large, roomy closet*; but because they are handy and ex tremely useful they are apt to be abused. There are tn&ny things which, as a mat ter of course, are always put into a closet, of which the articles of outward wearing apparel make a large part. There are also things which ought not to go into a closet, i. e., a closet adjoin ing, or closely connected with, a living or sleeping room. Of such aie ail soiled undergarments, the wash clothes, which should be put into a large bar for the purpose, or a roomy basket, and then placed in the washroom or some other well-aired room at some distune frornthc family. Having thus exploded one of the fertile sources of bad odors in closets, the next point is to see that the closets are properly ventilated. It mat ters not how clean the clothing in the closet may be, if there is no ventilation that ciothing will not be what it should be. Any garments after being worn for a while will absorb more or less of the i exhalations which arise from the body, and thus contain an amount of foreign— | it may be hurtlul—matter which freecir ! eulation of pure air can soon remove; , hut if this is excluded, as in many close 1 closets, the effluvia increases, and a., the clothes, closets and adjoining rooms I in time possess an odor that any acute sense of smell will readily detect. Every j closet in daily use in which the night j clothes are hung by day and the day ! clothing by night, should have an airing ■s well as the bed. If the closet can be large enough to admit ola window—and it is in some cases—an ample provision I for sunlight and a circulation of pure | air is provided in the window, which should be left open for a short time each day. In the case of small closets a ven ; tilator could be put over the door or I even in it. In many cases such pre i cautions for pure clothing are not prac ticable, and the next best thing is to see that the door of the closet is left open for a half hour or so each day, at that I time when the windows are thrown up and the large room is purified with fresh air from out of doors. In this way, first, by keeping out clothes in tended for the wash, and seoond, daily changing the air, the closets may be comparatively pu re.—American Agri culturist. for Fattening Cattle. In the last number of the "Journal of the Koyal Agricultural Society," I)r. Voelcker gives the results ola compari son of linseed cake witli decorticated eotton-seed cake and Indian meal in fattening bullocks: Four animals were kept on wliito turnips, swedes and rhafi, to which w added a mixture of equal parts of the cotton-seed cake and Indian meal. Of this mixture ttiey consumed from November 9 to the following Janu ary 17, 38 cwt. Another lot of four bul locks, which up to the time when the experiment was begun had been fed in the same manner as the first lot, re ceived in addition to the same quantity of root and chaff as abive 34 cwt. of linseed cake. Both sets of animals made about the same gain in weight, but the pound of increase cost in the former case but 5 1-8 pence, against 6 1-1 pence in the second—making a difference of a little over sl2 on the cost of the fodder in favor of the cotton-seed cake and meal. — American Cultivator. RnUdlBK Poultry llouit*. The Poultry World remarks that in very many cases the poultry house is built with sole reference to keeping the fowls warm. No provision is made against t be heats of summer, and conse quently in warm weather Hie hens pant and swelter upon the roosts and fall away in health and stop laving. A mer ciful man is merciful to bis beasts. Fresh air is necessary at all seasons and im peratively demanded in summer. A building with roof and no sides is the best thing for fowls during half the year. If summer quarters of this sort cannot be afforded, separate from the winter house, the next best thing is to build the latter, so that the sides and ends shall consist entirely ol doors. Keep these open; then have wirework to keep the fowls in. Mpod Point* m CSMM Banking. One who is posted in cheese dairying, being asked what was the great point in cheese making, answered: " Knowing whentodip." By that be meant to say: " Knowing when to salt." There is an other point equally essential, and that is to get the whey out of the curds and also out of the cheese. The first can be done by fine cutting and a few other close points, the second by proper hooping and Dressing, both of which are much neglected. I>mt Krep Too Mark Stock. There is such a thing as keeping more than a profitable number of cows or sheep upon a farm. A halt dosen half starved cows will not yield as much milk as three that have all the food that they want. If there is no more stock than can be well kept the returns will be the greatest in money, anc also in the tatis