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A man
r to sell
tree on the farm oi
near Mountain Creek,
ihed lay the late flood sixty
its place and is left standing
Foliage still covers it.
oldest Mason has just died
and Captain Sylvanus Hatch,
ortLavacca, Tex., is now at the
There are nineteen more on deck
in various parts of the coxintry.
It is said that Kansas will plant over
tupi
a hundred thousand acres of sorghum
" j year. Last year's yield is set
at 5,000,000 gallons of syrup and
of sugar.
A. A. Granby, I
PWlip Bmaty, %j
*rmy, became inKauo from
yiwf^
.000 pounds <
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■ Of all the presents received by Bis-
mark on his recent birthday anniver-
sary, that which surprised and pleased
him most was from his wife—a beauti-
ful cavalry sabre in a solid silver scab-
bard.
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These are now 107,300 buildings in
New York, and this number is added
'to at the rate of 2,600 a year. The
majority of the buildings ereoted with-
in the past three years have been dwel-
lings worth from $16,000 to $96,000.
In Great Britian there are females
jrking in the mines of Lancashire,
Scotland and Glamorganshire.
Two hundred and eighty-eight are be-
tween thirteen and sixteen, and one is
, jtwelve. Four thousand are above six-
teen.
Sli
A verbatim report of a portion of a
lecture delivered by Colonel Robert
G. Ingersol .in Philadelphia recently
-has been submitted to eminent lawyers
f of that city for an opinion whether he
can bb prosecuted therefor under the
law of blasphemy.
A EAG3ED little girl in a London
school was recently asked why Adam
and Eve were turned out of Paradise.
She promptly answered: "Because
they didn't pay their rent." Her par-
ents had been evicted for non-payment
of rent several times within a few
months.
r
Queen Victoria's costume worn at
the royal wedding is described as a
marvel of the modiste's art. The ma-
terial was black moire antique, with a
silver thread running through it, in-
terwoven with the fabric. A special
, loom had to be made for it, and its cost
was M per yard.
Money is being collected from the
■ lawyers of Maine to purchase a gold
headed cane for presentation to ex-
Chief-Justice John Appleton for hi«
dissenting opinion in a dog case. Con-
tributions are limited to $1 from each
member of the bar, and an editor is
acting as treasurer.
' Judge Stanley Matthews Is to de-
liver the address at the next meeting
of the Tennessee State Bar Associa-
tion, which is to be held upon Lookout
- Mountain on the Fourth of July.
eUoted <®f,4*l8gtte»to Chicago
H.» Cri*. MoGilVar'y
Dennis Sullivan, and J, E. Letohor. They fa-
vor Cleveland, but received no instructions.
The MioWgan Democracy, who are largely
in favor of Cleveland, refnAdtoinstruot their
delogatos-at-lage to Chicago. The latter are
O. M. Barnes of Lansing, T. E. Tarsney of
Saginaw, O. M. Power* of Kalamazoo, and A.
P. Swineford of M&rquett
Commissioner Evans states that the refusal
Of congress to appropriate #150,000 for tho
salaries of storekeepers and gnages until July
1 will make it necessary to close the distiller-
ies.
Benjamin F. Butlor has formally accepted
tho nomination for president by the nationa
greenback convention.
The Chicago committee charged with raising
funds for the expense of the democratic na-
tional convention has already seenred #19,300.
It has been decided to placo the stage on the
west side of tho exposition building, at a oen-
tral point
The fact has dev.-loped that the death of
Hon. Hiester Clymer, a democratic leader in
Pennsslyania.wag the direct result of adose«f
morphine taken with suicidal intent, on ac-
count of financial imbarrassment His phy-
sician states that he subsequently attempted
to kill himself with a carving kni'e.
It is reported that fourteen laborers wero
killed by a premature blast os the Tampioo
branch of the Mexican Central road.
The democratic stato convention of Dela-
ware adopted a resolution presenting Thomas
F. Bayard as a statesman whose nomination
for president would furnish at once the plat-
form and tho candidate.
The fitz John Porter bill has finally passed
both houses of congress.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the senate the chair announced the final
passage of the bill for the relief of Ftz John
Porter. The Utah biD was passed by a rote
of 33 to 15 The house spent the day in con-
sidering a bill t» extend the provisions of the
Thurnnn act to the Kansas Pacific, tho Sioux
City and Pacific, and the Central branch of the
Union Pacific road. It requires the Union and
Contral Pacific companies to pay annually
into the sinking fund #2,000,000 each, with
lesser amounts for tho smaller lines.
In the senate Mr. Brown Stigmatized the
recent remarks of Mr. Ingalls as a deliberate
insult, and contended that senators were al-
ways accorded an opportuuity to revise their
remarks before boing printed in tho official
proceedings. Mr. Ingalls retorted that all ho
had said in regard to interpolation might be
construed as the senitor from Georgia ohose.
A joint resolution was passed to lease to the
Michigan fish commissioners a strip of land
adjoining Si Mary's Palls canal. Mr. Sher-
man argued against tho wisdom of ordering
an investigation into the condilion of the
banks of New York, but suggested a stringent
law prohibiting bank offloera other than direct-
ors from engaging in speculative operations.
•The house, by 158 to 61, agreed to the
conference report on the bill for the relief of
Fitz John Porter, providing that he shall re
ceive no compensation for the period since
his dismissal. The deficiency appropriation
bill was passed, the chair rnling out a propo-
sition by Mr. Bandall against political s>ssoss-
ments. A bill to amend the Pacific railroad
acts in relation to the survey of lands was
passed.
anres. and the i
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Of
/- X, —,,, ^|-. T«Vfy r ■ ■■■Si II 1> I *1 rfc J, A ai
cost oi producing wneat does not eX'
ceed 12 shillings a quarter or 36 cents
per bushel, in the northern and most
favored provinces. Farther south the
cost of production increases to 18 shil-
lings a quarter. But keeping ip ?iew
that this country cannot produce a
bushel at less than 60 cents in the Bed
Biver region and the northwest gener-
ally, and that the cost rises to 80 and
90 oents in the cftd settled states, com-
petition with India becomes out of the
•piestio*.
As far as quality is concerned, it is
acknowledged that the highest grade
of American wheat is superior to the
best Indian,but Ameriean wheat seldom
reaches Europe in an unadultered con-
dition, and besides the hard wheat of
India answers all purposes when mixed
with soft grain of the European soil.
The new machinery introduced for
the grinding of Indian wheat has also
disposed of all milling difficulties. The
data concerning the -cost of production
of* Busaian and Australian wheat are
not obtainable here, and the cost prob-
ably varies considerably in different
parts of these countries. But the pro
ductive capacity of the Australian soil
seems to be fabulous. Forty bushels
to the acre Is considered a phenome
nal yield in the richest part of our
wheat growing states. In southern
Australia, on the other hand, a good
year brings from seventy to eighty
bushels, and a bad one forty.
The advantages which all these coun-
tries have over the United States in
the grain market of the world are
therefore -incontestable, and it is only
sheer pigheadednes» that make? people
still think that wheat is cheap at $1 a
bnshel, and that Europe cannot get
along without our supplies. Tho wheat
quostion was till now simply a question
of transportation. Every now mile of
railroad built in India, Australia, and
Bussia brings several thousand bushels
into market, and now it seems the
Argentine Republic and South Africa
are sending large cargoes of wheat to
Europe, too.
! It Is said that El Mahdi's name is
pronounced as if it was spelled Moody,
which leads the alleged funny man of
a London paper to suggest that Mr.
Gladstone's namo bo pronounced San-
key.
? A couple of Turks, who were trav-
eling in Mexioo, recently, selling curi-
osities, were set upon by a party of
Mexican bandits, who lassoed one of
the "allahs," dragged him down the
mountain side, killed him, and then
. him of $50, all he had. His
, cscape.
someportions of North
'"rl dying in large numbers,
from injuries inflicted
. worm," or "sawyers,"
havoc with the pines in
about thirty years ago.
ravages are not confined to
the young ones dying
• and numerously.
butor to a London scien-
p gays that a very simple and
ys way of covering a meer-
■s bowl is by painting it while
e smoking,' and after it becomes
ith tho creamy surface of good
sH(or with cream) by means of a
aon hair pencil, which brings out
jie brown and yellow colors beau-
tjfolly. and as by magic.
Special C'srs For Nuisances,
"All passenger trains should Lave
one cattle ear, and compel every man
who chews tobacco to ride in it,""
"And they should idso haul one flat
oar," wid the cross passenger, "for the
fresh-air woman who always insists on
keeping the car window open. She
should sit on a slab seat on an open-
grated car and breath ashes and cin-
ders to her soul's content,"
"And a dark and lonely box oar,"
said the tall, thin passenger, "for the
man who whistles. The whistlers
could all get together in there and sit
and drum on tho sides of the car with
their fingers and whistle all the tunes
they did'nt know, and the rest of the
train would be happy."
"And a Kalamazoo velocipede," said
the fat pas3etjgor, for the man vhestamp
on the floor with his feet every time
the train stops." Here the man on the
wood-box suddenly ceased pounding
his favorite overture with his heels.
"By the time he had worked his
knees on express time forty-five miles,"
continued the fat passenger, without
appearing to notice anj thing, "he
might be able to give his feet a vaca-
tion of two or three hours."
"And occasionally," the man on the
wood-box said, leaning forward to gaze
earnestly into the stove "they might
put on Barnum's Jumbo car for the
man who always has to ride over the
truck for fear of springing the car."
Tbere was an ombarasting silence of
!i minute or two, when the last passen-
ger said something about refrigerator
iiUB for the man who was too freah to
keep in a dry coach, and thcac.
What They Say of Farmers.
In an addresi before the Michigan
State Agricultural Association, Mr F.
Little thus discoursed about what
people'say about farmers: They cay
that the farmer subsisteth himself upon
Jersey milk, and spring lamb and
chickens, and tegaleth himself with
the fragrance of new-mown hav, and
the aroma of his horse stables*, that he
rideth a sulky plow and reaper, instead
of stumbling over the clods of the val-
ley ; and weareth a hickory shirt and
butternut pants, without fear of mo-
lestation or abuse; that he riseth early
betimes, and sitteth up late that he
may fill his barns and storehoases with
plenty, and subscribes for some good
weekly paper and pays for it, that he
may store his mind with useful knowl-
edge. He getteth out of bed at four
o'clock in the morning and stirreth up
the maid servant out of her lair, while
he warmeth himself, and is comforted
by the kitchen fire. He eateth his
breakfast by oandle light, while the
sad and weary wife of his bosom and
mother of his children, longs for the
peaceful, happy days of her childhood.
He growleth and is sore distressed if
it rains, and anon he beateth his breast
and repineth at the severity of the
drought, saying: "Alas! my crop is
luined." Yerily the late rains do blight
his wheat, and froBt nippet.h his stand-
ing corn, potato bugs ravage his fields,
and the assessor saddleth him with
galling taxes. He weareth a blouse
and blue jeans, and men call him a
"tramp." He is shaven and clad in
"broadcloth and fine linen," and people
say: "Behold tho dude 1" Ho payeth
for insurance on his buildings for twen-
ty years, and then letteth his policy
J apse one day, and the same night a
fire destroyeth his home. His daugh-
ter marrieth a man of culture and
wealth, becomir g the proud mistress
of a palatial mansion, and in a few
short years he buildeth a lean-to to his
habitation, to shelter them and their
children. He selleth out his farm and
movetli to Kansas, and there slacketh
his thirst with alkali water and corn
juice. A cyclone catclieth him at mid
day and sweepeth his house, stock and
fences into Missouri, while he shelter-
eth and preserveth the lives of his
wife and little ones in a "dug out." He
makcth his will at the end of his days
and dieth; and the lawyer, of his widow
and of his first wife's children take
possession of and divide hif inheritance,
A New Industrial Training.
The Swedish Philosopher and
humanitarian who is undertaking to
reform intemperance in his country by
reforming the methods of cooking has
hit npon a means of civilization more
comprehensive and parctieal than Bis
inarck or Gladstone ever conceived.
Ho begins at the beginning by insisting
that the poor man and the nabob shall
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wi|fi tjbth
purpose of profc
system the general bonking business
would have been left as free frotn re-
straint or supervision as the business
of Brown Bros. & Co. or Drexel, Mor-
gan & Co. is now. The banks whioh
hive come ihto the system have sur-
rendered some portion of their free-
dom and submitted tcAsome sort of
supervision, solely in order to share
the advatages arising from the issuanoe
of circulating notes.
Private bankers receive deposits to-
day, as they nave received deposits
from the origin of the baling business,
without any restraint or supervision
whatever, nor are they required to
make any statements. The law assumes
that a man will not trust his money to
such a firm upless it has on established
character upon whioh he oan rely. It
assumes that such a character can be
maintained only by a more strict regard
for the rules Of commercial honor and
sound banking than it is possible to
seonre by any legal regulations. If
men' are not thought in need of any
"protection," when they chcose to trust
their money to any such houses, why
should it be supposed that depositors
in national banks stand in greater
need? ., "
The only reason that can be given is
that the very organization of the na
tional bank, and the limited measure
of restraint and supervision to which
it is subjected give many people greater
confidence in it than they would have
in a banking firm. But this is an ac
knowledgement that the limited meas-
ure of the restraint and supervision
does operate to some extent as an
additional security to depositors. This
being admitted, we are brought to tho
main fact, that the public often fool-
ishly assumes that it is the object and
is iu the power of federal law to secure
depositors perfectly, and that watch
fullness as to observance of commercial
rules, or scrutiny in regard to the
maintenance "of high reputation, i3 no
longer to, be expected of depositors,
because the government has inoident
ally given them some help, they are
no longer called upon to exercise anv
caution whatever for themselves. Now
it may as well be thoroughly under-
stood that the national banking law
does not attempt to create safe depos-
itories for the money of individuals
That is not its aim. When the govern-
ment attempts to provide savings banks,
postal or other, it may fairly be held
responsible if the institutions oreated
do not prove safe for depositor.
But no law that the wit of man can
devise makes it safe to entrust an
incompetent or unfit man with . the
lending of others' money. In the bus-
iness' of commercial loans and discounts
there can be no safety whatever un-
less there are qualities in the manage-
ment which no law can put into a man,
which the most rigid supervision ever
imagined cannot maintain in a manage
ment, and whioh is quite impossible to
measure by official examinations.
When a man takes a national bank
note he trusts to the national banking
law, and with reason. When a man de-
posits money with a banker, national
or other, it is strictly his own business
to satisfy himself whether the bankor
is trustworthy. If he hears that his
banker is buying real estate in enor-
mous blocks, or sees that he is living a
gay life, or finds that he is negotiating
enormous loans on securities that are
considered speculative, or learns that
the banker is also an active man of a
firm that is professedly engaged iu op-
erations involving great risk, ho has
no right to blame the national banking
law if he loses his money.
Points About Patents-
New York Sun. -
The belief of some persons that su-
gar in paying quantities can be got from
cornstalks as woll as .sorghum, recall;?
the fact that the state of Connecticut
gave to Edward Hiiiman a patent for
making molasses from cornstalks^ in
1717, or nearly 176 years ago. Senator
Piatt, who introduced this statement
into a recent speech, oited some other
curious old Connecticut patents, show-
ing that the spirit of invention was rife
there at an eaily date. There was no
da vices in the list for manufacturing
wooden nutmegs, bnt in 1783 a patent
was given to Benjamin Hanks for a
clock which will wind itself up.
Another interesting point that may
be derived from Mr Piatt's tables is,
that whiloin 1793 there were but three
patents issued by the United States
government, in 1792 but eleven, and in
1795 but twelve, the issue for the year
before last was 18,135, and for last
year it was 21,196. At certain epochs
there have been remarkable jumps in
the annual list. Thus in 1854 tho num-
ber of new patents rose to 1,759 from
only 846 the previous year, and the
gain was held and continued. So in
18(56 the new issues were 8,874, but the
following year the number Uonnded to
12,801, Very oddly it n«vor afterward
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to the raw
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be
... , «a Evidence
of such materials.
» must be labelled with
the owner's name, address and the con-
tents. It must be secflrolv put up so
as to bear transportation without
damage. The packing, unpacking and
placing in position in the building and
repacking, shall be at the expense of
the individnalor the society transmit-
ting for exhibit. Whenever practical,
county, exhibits in the "Texas State
Building" will be located by counties
or districts. Packages will be received
from time to time by the oommissioner-
in-chief between the 10th of September
and the 15th of October next.
Depots for the receiving from the
societies of all articles will be estab-
lished at convenient points on the
lines.of the several railroads. In the
meanwhile, the following points are
designated as depositories, viz: Hous-
ton, San Antonio. Austin, Waco, Fort
Worth, Abiiene, Marshal and Palestine.
The commissioner requests that the
county societies shall obtain and for-
ward to him all county and city maps
for display, and descriptive circulars
of the counties and of the state. He
also requests that the photographs of
all public buildings, handsome private
structures, and of Texas soenery, urban
and rural, shall be loaned, or donated
to the state, for displaying in the build-
ing as illustrative of what Texas really
is and has.
The circulars will bo issued at in-
terims as may be necessary for the
proper enlightenment of those propos-
ing to exhibit. The commissioner
takes occasion to announce that he is
daily in receipt of intelligence that
several of the states are making the
most strenuous efforts through liberal
legislative appropriations by county
subscriptions, and by donations of cor-
porations) firms and individual citizens,
to make magnificent displays, un ap-
proached by anything at the Philadel-
phia Centennial. .He therefore urges
and implores the people of Texas to
so bestir themselves as to secure for
our state the very best of all that is
within our borders, to the end that we
maj shine out as conspicuously before
the world at this Great International
Fair, in tha number, variety and excel-
lence of our offerings as we] do, as un-
equalled in size of area and in actual-
ities and possibilities, by any other
state in the.Union. Kespeotfully,
John F. Elliott,
Commissioner.
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v n uwuu xuu oi Diooa xrom nn
—a thing whioh no sane medical
would do at the present day. Not
Was the lancet used in thuw«y.
MM|| Application of
fho
more:
valent fifty 3
one of the beat
draw a basin
a||fea-.
mifL....
cmlyirasthe _
but cupping and the ...
leeches was continually resorted to in
oases of inflammation, whioh it was
supposed otherwise imposrible to sab-
due. It was no wonder if the doctors
prescribed such treatment that the
public believed in its utility. It was
no uncommon thing to be told by
persons that they found it conductive
to their health to be bled periodically,
and that such treatment was necessary
for them. I remember a delicate gen-
tleman who would always attribute his
not feeling well to having neglected
his periodical blood-letting. No won-
der he died in the prime of life.
A Talk With Jeff Davis.
Indianapolis Journal,
"What do you think of Mr. Grant?"
Mr Davis was asked.
"Grant," he said, "was largely a
creation of circumstances. I remember
the first time I met Grant was when
he was stationed on the Pacific coast as
a lieutenant. I was then secretary of
war. He was charged with drunken-
ness and neglect of duty. I gave him
his choice between standing trial and
resigning. He resigned. 1 knew that
he would. General Grant was a great
military oonunanJer. Ho was very te-
nacious . He fought a battle as a mat-
ler of business. Men were mere c >gs
in the wheel. All the men and means
he wanted were placed at lis command,
and he had every advantage. Ho would
have been discharged from the Army
of the Potomac if it had nut been that
too many changes had already taken
place iu the army."
"What is your estimate of General
Sherman ?" was asked.
"Shcrm.-m," Mr D.ivls said, "was
looked upon in the south a-i Alaric was
by the ltomans. He was their 'scourge
of Godhe was cruel, > et he was a
great strategist."
"Yes," interrupted Miss Davis, "he
was an inhuman monster; what he did
not use, he destroyed."
"Sherman hesitated," Mr. Davis con-
tinued, "for a long time between joining
the Confederate aud Union army. We
were uncertain what he would do. He
finally joined the Union army, thinking
I suppose, that more e >uld be gained
by it."
"My idea," remarked Mr. Davis, is
that Meade was the most skillful gen-
eral in the Federal army. General Lee
oncu said to me that he could under-
stand the movements of all the generals
in the Federal army •easier than those
of General Mende."
"What is your opinion of Mr Mc-
Clellan ?"
"He wa« the best trained Boldier in
the war. While secretary of war I sent
him on three important missions—one
to Europe to study military methods,
and he returned with a better knowl-
edge of military discipline and meth-
ods than was possessed by any man in
this country."
"Whom do you regard as the great-
est of the Confederate generals ?"
"I consider General Sidney Johnson
as the ^greatest of the lato war. Gen
Lee stmds nest in mj estimation, and
as we move away from the war, h:'
the]
epay,
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the establis
TEXAS TOPICS.
—Texas crops will strike an average
after all.
—A consignment of new wheat was
received at St Louis from Texas, on
the 17th of June, and sold for $1.11
per bushel. This waa the first receipt
of the orop of 1884 received in the
northern market.
—One dealer In tobaoco in Dallas
received from Unole Sam last week
$8,674, and another $6,784 rebate on
tobaceo Boid. These are handsome
Bums to receive in addition to a large
profit on the sale ef the "filthy weed."
—The Baird Clarendon says the
grain prospect is said to be fifty per
cent better in Callahan oounty than
anywhere between that place and Tar-
rant county. How is this for a county
where "It never rains," and where
nothing but cattle will grow?"
—The cotton crop of Texas last year
was worth more than tho entire cotton
crop ef the entire United states in 1843.
Forty years ago the few settlers in
Texas lived on game. To-day the state
contains more than 10,000,000 oattle,
horses, sheep, mules and swine.
—The land board has leased to date,
1,626.378 acres of schoel land; 43,040,
university; 640, Deaf and Dumb Asy-
lum, 720, Blind Asylum, at an average
rental of over 7 cents per acre or nearly
$120,000 annually, of whioh there goes
to the available school fund $116,896.
—The Governor has pardoned a
young mm sent to the penitentiary for
swearing that his sweetheart was 18
years of age when applying for a mar-
riage license. The evidence shows the
girl imposed upon him, and as all the
county officers asked for his pardon,
tho Governor granted it.
—-Oi the sohool landsleased by the
state, 815,800 is for ten years, 768,754
for six years; 32,083 for five years;
1,939 for two years; 2,560 for one year.
Tom Green county heads the list
with 411,160 acres; Motley, 155,387;
Hemphill, 109,000; Crockett, 108,772;
Borden, 103,040; Presidio, 101560.
Other counties range from 211 to 45,000
acres.
•
-Lyourgus McCracken, a celebrated
horse thief and murderer, was arrested
at San Antonio, June 18 by Sheriff
Price of Gonzales county. Tha sheriff
says: "We had him in jail at Gonzales.
He admitted having murdered an old
man named Holder because they had a
dispute about some hogs. He beat the
old man over the head with a sand bag,
and his viofcim died two days after the
attack, having been unconscious all the
time from the attack until his death.
He was caught afterwards on the charge
of stealing a number of horses and got
out of all the charges on the plea of
lunacy. He shot one of our deputies,
a young man named Beatty, who went
to arrest him. He killed Beatty's
horse and shot Beatty asjihe horse fell
with him, but Beatty shot and crippled
McCracken, and he was taken to jail.
He ako shot two officers who went to
arrest him in Fort Worth. He was tried
and convicted in Travis county for
horse theft, and sentenced to serve ten
years in the penitentiary, but escaped
before he could be sent off. He is
wanted in Polk and Madison counties,
and other places for horse theft. He
broke the jail of Madison with a num-
ber of other prisoners there, and made
his escepe with them.
The boss oopyrighter— the proof-
reader.— New York commercial Adver-
tiser.
"Whkn you see a liberal advertiser,'
says tho Lampasas Dispatch, "you will
see a broad guage man, one who will
always have just conceptions and will
treao you right and will sell you goods
at low rates."
The destruction byjgnats in Louis
iana has been terrible. In two districts
over 3,200 horses, cattle and hogs have
perished. They also attack human
beings, causing blood poisoning,
"Yes," said old Mr. Squaggs, "the
doctors arc getting mighty 4
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preceding winter L
ment ofthetrad^W
A correspondent of the London G rr-
den kills seeds in his%vwn by putting a
handful of salt on each plant, just after
tho mowing, which fells the in truder,
and in a few weeka the grass is grown
in its place.
A correspondent©! 4 ho Kansas Farm-
er tells of a boy -win, !0ft v.t home
alone, saved a 8W«Sof bees by "hiv-
ing" them in a pillow cage, which ho
tied up safely until the family re-
turned and a more oouvenient hivo
was at his disposal.
The Rural New fro
tree prefers a
of lighter texture,
are sandy, the frui
before maturity
cient and easy r
is to cut off and
fected.
says the plum
MNn
liable to drop
te tuber £ho >ffi-
for black knot
the branch af-
i-
A correspondent of the New York
World believes the freed-mi of tfj&avge
herd of swine from cholera fa luc to
his habit of raking up the aecnuiniula
tion of corn-eob# in ibe witbS, setting-
them on fire, put it out % wpriakl
with water. Thiiogg eat the <
cobs greedily. , _
Prof. Johnson, whd^lias experiment
ed with peaoh twigs affected by the
ellows, finds in them a poverty of ash-
ngradients, less lime, 'magnesia, pot-
sh, soda, phosphoric m, chlorine
and sulphuric acid 'that tho healthy
twigs had. The diseased twigs have a
preponderance of silien and oxide of
iron. • ,•
Farmers sometimes plant the stump*
of cabbage for seed, but the product is
generallv not worth planting. Tho
secret of success in grewlDg good eab-
—0'e seeds is ~
formed heads wii_
It is this necessity for us
that will always maiee > >
seed expensive.
The American
Where trees or
bitually dry
water, applied wh
and when the hole
in, will be beneficial.
_ large, well
roots attached,
the head
. eabbagc
tfiMmal savs:
are set in iiri-
pail or two of
too cteos are set.
Hwo-thJCrds filled
If the hole be
- "t " r. r - " uk>
then filled with loose earth and a innlch
of straw added, the roc w will be lilufly
to keep moist throughout tho season,
and the ground willnot c«ecoitta packed
on the surface.
Very few who set moro than ,1, dozen
fruit trees but find as soon as they be-
gin to produce fruit thai some of them
are not the varieties intended, or that
the qualities are not all of them up to
the desired standard; so it becomes de-
sirable to change a portion of the trees
by grafting them with something bet-
ter. If 1 ;hts work is to be done the
sooner it is commenced after the fruit
is found to be undesirable the better.
The N^w York Tribune mentions an
easy and profitable way of disposing of
the hard bones whioh are usually nfa
kicking around the ba.-k yard 01 ilis
tributedby prowling dogs, "Bury a
peck or half a bushel or more oi the
hard bones under a newly set grape
vine or fruit tree, or with'i/, reach ^
the eager toots of an old one, which
will search them out and feed on then;
year after year till th last fragment,
is transformed into grapes or applet,
as in the celebrated casu of Bog&r
Williams."
According to the Indian agri' .ill
ural department, the cost of raising
wheat in the northern rrovinces of In-
dia is about thirty-six cents a bushel,
which is increased somewhat furthe r
south.
Sows from one to three years old
bring the best pigs and are the 111 1
profitable breeders. When older the.
get heavy and lassy, so H>at with every
care it is hard to" prevent them frot
killing their pigs.
i To rid a lawn of weeds they should
be cut out with a knife, taking eare I.-
cut them off a little below the surface
of the ground. Anything' .inch, ap-
plied to the surface oi the lawn, will
kill weeds will, it is evident, also kill
the grass.
. The American Gulthaior says' th:M: it
is well after planting p tatorii to drop
a few cut pieces on t biiiiaee of tho
ground. This will attract the
beetlos, which may then % destroyed.
The beetle rarely eats I 1m 10H10 J
is attracted to It to de'iosi, g'gs.
Milch cows should always have at
least a small amount of some kind of
green food, such as roots or
when other green food 3 1
Suoh a ration will do .'ucb
their general health, I >v eii
crease the flow of mi
National Stockman, s®
The way to a c :>
his mouth, and it - <• '
the hand that fet<;
tience and firanes
tojteaqh a colt aiu-ti. n,
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