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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-10-18, Page 3NEWS OF THE DAY. CANADIAN. Hon, Senator J. G Rosa died Monday night at his home in Quebec. The Governor•General and his household romoved from Quebec to Ottawa on Mon- day. A letter has been received in Peterboro' from* member of Mr. Ogilvy'e exploring party in the Yukon region, The Windsor Board of Health will at once take stcpe to reduce the danger of a email - pox visitation from Buffalo. The Qiebeo Province Medical Board has decided that ladies may be 'leaned, toprate tide medicine in that Province. The Toronto Christian Institute, erected by Bir. William Gooderham at a cost of $25,000, was formaly opened Monday night. The price of the four pound loaf was in• creased from 12 to 13 cents at a meeting of the Master Bakers' Association of Toronto, It is stated thatthe two chairs to be ea tablished by the city of Toronto in Toronto University will be English Literature and Mineralogy. It is represented tbat the Indians of the Vermillion River district, Athabasca, are starving, and that prompt measures cught to be taken for their relief, Relegates from the various Boards of Trade throughout the Dominion met in To. route Thursday and .fixed the grain stand- ards for the eomiog year. Windstar sportsmen complain bitterly that Detroitera, not obeerviagaporting etiquette, daughter large qnanti ice of quail, which are being preserved with dziealty. On Saturday morning Pitcher, the Provi. deuce bank embezzler, was asntenoed to seven year* In the penitentiary fur bringing stolen money into Canada. The Dominion Department of teustoms� has deoided, on the advise of the Miniater of Justice, not to proceed with theappeal in the celebrated Ayer case, A meeting of Scotelumon was held in To. ronto Friday eight, when preliminary steps were tabes to form a branch of the Scettiah Home Rule ,Asaociatiou. Thirteen of the volunteer miasfouarlee for China took their departure" #torn Toronto. Thursday right. About 300 wattle acorn. pznied them to the Union stereou. Two Chinese cffieers of high rank, who are on a tour through Canada and the Stater, were put to a good deal of inconven• knee aG Ottawa by thebe<nding regulations. The zncdele, prizes, audoertiflcateswon by students at the Toronto Art echool were distributed Monday in the presence of a Iirge and dfetinfiuished gathering of citiaeeus. The assessment ed the city of Toronto, just completed, shows an increase of $14,- 865 027. and au incre:eee in the population of 11.081, the total population now being 136,150. It is uuderatcod the Imperial Government have again communicated with the Dominion Government, wishing to know what grant Canada will make towards fortifications and armaments on the Peel a coast. Considerable uneasiness is felt among the Toronto Post (Mae employes owing to the mysterious disappearance for some time paet of unregistered money lettere, alt efforts to traee the thief having 50 far failed. A conference will bo held between repro- seutatives from the Toronto and rrovinoeal Boards of Iifealth as to what oteps it would be proper to adopt looking towards guaran tine or inapectionof pavaeugers from Buffalo, in view of the smallpox epidemic in that coy. A disgraceful scene was emoted at the Opening lecture at Tririty College, Toronto the meeting being brought to an abrupt ran elusion by the conduct of three druukeu students, aided and encouraged by others. Tho faculty afterwards mob and decided to expel the three students referred to. British Columbia fishermen'are agitating a movement to induce the Dominion Govern- ment +opute. atop to the encroachment of Americo fishermen in the three-mile limit of that province. Tbis is regarded as the ont-come of the delayinaettliog the Behring's Sae question, in which the Pacific coast fish- ermen are tuurested. estzmroAl.. An international combine in steel rails has been formed. Tho movementof Mormons towards Mexico is assuming large proportions. The smallpox is spreading in Buffalo, and the city in considerably alarmed. The reports from the yellow fever districts of the South show generally an improved condition of affairs. A strong impression prevails in Washing- ton—and many other places—that the Re- taliation i3il1 is dead. The white lead manufacturers of the United States have formed a trust, and have made a big advance in prices. Mrs. Baran. Stevens, of New York, has had stoles from. her, during her recent tour in Germany and France, jewellery valued at $100,000. It id estimated at the United States Treasury Department that there has been a deereaae of $14,500,000 in the pablio debt ince September 1. • A florist of St. Louis claims to have dis- covered a sure remedy against the yellow fever, which will effect a oure in from fifteen minutes to an hour. The smallpox outbreak in Buffalo ie much more extenazve than was at first suspected. A house to -house . inspection the other day brought to light seventeen concealed oases. James W. Brown, the bigamist, was sen tenoedlin Detroit onWednesday ednesday to four years and a half in the State Prison.. He had twenty-three wives, seven of whom were present when he was sentenced. Ninety-one bales of wool shipped by Tor- onto firms to Thos. Lse •.Q Co., of Phila- delphia, have been seized by Customs. officers at the latter city, as each bale con- tained a pair of English blankets Collector Megone, of New York, the other afternoon decided that 22 detained Mormon emigrants must be returned. Among these are 15 English children, who had no idea of where they were going. l The District Attorney in Buffalo is put- ting the Contract Labonrlaw inforce against a number . of firm a which. have Canadians in their employ. As a, result of this action it is said a number of Canadians have been disottarged. The New York Produce Exehauge has been victimized to the extent of $100,000 by forged paper. W. R. Foster, jr., a young; attorney, is suspected of being the guilty party, and is being searched for by some of Pinkerton'e detectives, Senator Sherman's resolution respecting rho relationa between Great Britain,. Canada, and the Statea ass been reported back to tho Senate without xecommendation, which means that until after the Presidential elec. Hoe it will serve simply as a text for polio, cal speeches, Complaint having been made to Washing. tem that Camelians are employed on United States Government worka on the frontier, Judge Chipman has introduced a bill pro. posing that no one shall contract or labour on public works who has not declared his intention of becoming a citizen, and who fa not an actual resident, of the United Statee. The majority report of the United States Utah Commission recommends that Utah shall not be admitted to the Union tit the Mormon people shall manifest by their fu- ture acts that they have abandoned poly. gamy la good faith, and not then till an amendment shall have been made to the constitution of the United States prohibit- ing the practice of polygamy. ronmense Tea vessels were wrecked in a hurricane le Alger Bay. The Reulengeriat agitation has been re. Burned in Paris, A British protectorate ever the Coolt Is- lands i8 x to be r o° laimed. p We steps whatever are being taken in Lon - dots for a Congo expedition. The Cz zr, Czarina, and the Czarewletehave left St, Petarburg for tbe CaucMue. Mr. Mielteel Diorites Woollen Company luta declared a dividend of 7 per cent, The Salt= has conferred high decorations upon the Russian dukes who are naw visit. log him. The Ruseiau petty of action is urging the right of Raasza to maintain troops at Rest. The Catholic Blebopo; Limerick has fore bidden the collegian of money at ehapela for the P'ernell fund. Emperor Frauds Joaeph uarrowlyeeeaped being allot at the recent artillery praetiee at. the, Steinfeld ranges, King Leopold willsend Lieut. Breaker to tbe Congo to organize a stroug expedition to smolt for Stanley. There will be abig strike of miners fn England next month, unless their wages are inereased 10 per cent. Owiug to a dillleulty with the Vatieau the programme of Emperor William's visit to R3z110 is atilt unsettled. Zerelber advicesroporb further tfurderaby the nativesander.), that all the Europeans on the coat aro in danger, Storms and heavy rains in August cauaed the loos of natty lives and millions of dollars worth of property in Cbilf,. The Whitechapel murderer atilt baffles tbe London pollee, and now heavy rewarder aro being offered far his capture. The Swiss Government wilt shortly ask for a credit of a million pounds to supply the army with improved rifles. The French Cabinet baa decided to bring in during the approaobing session a bill for the rovIteon of the Cementation. Admiral 1 rants, the French Minister of Dimino, declares be Neill not agree to addi. timid reductions lathe naval budget. Mr. Justin McCarthy indignantly denies that a single Irish leader has profited pecu- niarily from the Nationalist aeitation. Tho partisanu of Maliatoa, tbe deposed Ring of Samoa, have seized the Samoan capital and proclaimed Matcaffa Bing. Lettere have been received from the Amer of Afghanistan, dated 13th inst., stating that he was then in good health. The British force which defeated the Thi- betans in Jelapale pass pursued the enemy as far as Rinoh Gouts and captured several guns. The Popo on Thursday, in addressing several thousand pilgrims, dwelt upon the necessity of the restoration of temporal rights. With regard to the Austro -German Alli- ance, PrinceRs;narok deniea the statement. In the diary, and says it was his work ex - elusively. Dr. Henry Forbes Winslow and other me- dical experts are more than ever convinced. that the Whitechapel murderer is a homicid- al lunatic. The departure of the German expedition for the relief of Emin Bey has been delayed until the rising of the natives in East Africa is quelled. Fitzgerald, who made &voluntary confes- sion to the police that he was the murderer. of one of the Whitechapel victims, has been discharged. A despatch from Zane -bar says all the Germans i n Lurdi have been murdered by the natives, and all Europeans on the comet are in dange r. The Dublin Crown officers have decided to prosecute Goulding. a former warden in Tullamore goal, for perjary in the Mande- ville in, nest. Advices from Khartoum to the Emin Re- lief Committee confirm the reports concern- ing the presence of a white roan in the Behr-el-Gaze1 country. The publishers of the Drut.sche Rundsdaeru, Ber,ia, have resolved to ignore semi official denials, being convinced that Emperor • Frederick's diary is authentic. Stanley's interpreter, Ferran, has with- drawn hie chargee of undue severity against Major Barttelot, stating that he was actuated by spite in making the accusations. The woman whose body was recently found in a box in St. Petersburg was a police spy in the guise of a Nihilist, and forty suspected of being concerned in the murder have been arrested. Ex -Empress Eugenie declines to publicly notice the derogatory statements concerning the late Emperor Napoleon contained in the diary of the late Emperor Frederick. The Empress of Austria has withdrawn her donation to the Heine monument fund at the request of the Emperor. in conse- quence of Heine's insult to the Rohenzol- 'erne. The Moslem festival of Umharram and the Hindoo festival of Rambla happening at the. same time, rioting occurred at Agra and Coorg, which had to be suppressed by Brit. ish troops firing on the rioters, Prince Bismarck has obtained R•nperer William's permission to prosecute the "[Deutsche Rundschau'" for revealing State secrete, in publishing the abstract from the diary of the late Emperor Frederick. From a statement wide by the sub curs tor of the Eoglish Pathological Museum, there is reason to believe tbat the White- chapel murders took place at the instance of an American who was offering 00 apiece for certain, anatomical specimens.. A. Zeezibar.despetch says it is rumoured that German mitt ary operations on the coast are imminent, and the Landon "Tunes" completes .of the apathy of the English Government in allowiov Germany to colon. ize the whole continent. The publisher of the Deutsche Rundsction stated to the German authorities that Peaf. Gefiueke, of Hamburg, gave him the ex• tracts from Emperor.Zrederiek'a diary, and the professor has accordingly been tainted OA a. charge of revealing Sate secreta. it has been established beyond question, that the txtraots are authentic, Bow to cc Gait" a Horse. A, writer in the JIorsentnn gives the follow fog points ail to how to give a horse au easy and graceful gait ; The lumbering, awkward gait of a horse can generally be attributed to the rammer in whioit he u ea bevelled when firer pat to work, N'aturelly ftel'ne, uo. camforteble in her.Iess, it is not to he watt. tiered at that the tint actions at a horse in ouch o utia s b oold be awkward mad clumsy. As far as future comfort in handl ing is cormerned, the fret few weeks in harness is a critical tiino in the traiazug of a horse. In meat cxece pita are then form.• ed that last duris;i life,, tied it they ere the kind that are not deairable thoyivill operate strongly against the value of the online', As it is always easier to teeth a horse to do what you want him to do than to break up batiste that have been eatablfehed, the itnportauce of starting out the right way is apparent, A driving horse is Always tie better for o can having been trained by an txperiorced driver, or " traokcd," as it ie ,generally expressed, because it 13 the bud. rues of a goad trainer to break up ell the awkward and unnatural gaits a#t e um, if it can be done. ea.. horse of ordinazy appetite area will attract the attention of a 'teeter of g -ed judgment quicker if be shows a gaol equate gait, whether at a walk er trot, or wnether it be a draught, cortege or driving horae,,tben if he should meant a fair amount of style, combined with a good op. pearance otherwise, and have & Ium'teriay, unpleasant, awkward gait. The profiler thing, then, to do when hest harncazina a young horse is to take the time necessary tnc develop a good, atraigahtforwarcl walk, with a good retool epeed. The walk ie the foundation of all the other gaits, and with. out hegmning at the foundation all faturo developments will be uneetitlectory, If It should take a few weoke to get a y0uog horse to feel comfortable in harnese, and to et -Oldish a: stride that will udd to his alp overarm and value, it is time well aorta", if nothing eke is done. After relents good horses it is foalishuoss not to give them the flufebing touches that will make it aplearr<r to use them afterward. The Temperature re of the Skin. The experiments of Davy long ago demon- strated irrefutably that the temperature of the interior of the bcdy varied little in man with race, climate or sateen ; yet hie famil- iar to all that the temperature of the skin varies considerably zn different parte, the extremitice, for example, and those parte of the akin in which the circulation is feeble being cooler than other parte. Quite recent- ly some intcrestiugexperiments to determine these variation of the surface have been made by Prof. Kunkel at Wuzzburg. Tak- ing the skin of the face in the first instance, he finds that in mon from 20 to 30 years of age it varies from 85 to 80 deg. F., with an approximate average of 86 deg. Tho thin of the more exposed parva of the body, as the tip of the nose and the ear, in which the circulation is slow and feeble, exhibited a lower temperature, not moceeding in many instances 75 deg. The skin covering the muscular To -tion of the body is warmer than that over the bones and tendons. Contrac- tion of the muscles caused the temperature of they snperadjacant portion of the skin to rise 1 deg. or more. Tho decrease of tem- perature from the skin to the outer covering in a room at a temperature of 63 deg. was as follows : On the akin 88 deg., on the linen shirt 82 deg., nn the vest 75 deg., and on the coat 72 deg. The highest temperature was found to occur in men in the full vigor of life. As a singular fact, Dr. Kunkel states that children otherwise in perfect health showed a much lower degree of surface tem- perature—from 77 to 85 deg. -than adults. He does not appear to have followed out Prof. Lombard's observations on the temper- ature of the head. Politeness of the Japanese. The petty tradesman whose shop you en- ter carries on the process for about two miontes before he oan bo induced to begin business; the rickshaw coolie to whom you pay a mere trifle for a toilsome drive, stands at the railway station, dripping from heat, mopping and bowing, until, if you be a new coiner, you rush away in convulsions of laughter. On leaving the hotel, 1 diebributed baok- sheeeh through the landlord to the various employes. One after another they came trooping up, smiling, and flapping down au the floor, thumping their heads repeatedly' against the ground, mumbling their grati- tude ; while as for beggars—who by the way are•notnumerous—they sprawl on the earth, and in an extremity of self•abasemezit literally rub their heads in the dirt. l Again, on arriving at a teahouse, the land- lady first brings in tea, which she deliv'rs crouching on the floor, and than the ent e family comes oak suooession, and kneeli g at your feet, go through the process f bumping their foreheads. Nor is the bowing. restricted to inferiors or to the lower classes. Many a time have I watched the ceremonial of two friends, from among the upper orders, parting in the street. Backward and forward they sway their bodies at right angles, as if t ey worked on pivots, until one wonders w en they will cease. Over at last, I think. of a bit of it. They separate for a few pa es, and then, as if a -sudden omission had struck them, they rush beak, and go through ;,tho whole ridiculous business again. AG*CUOVLTURAL. D' $EDINai Coma. The Western Resod saes: \%'e met a man a few days ago in Chicago, who is engaged in the wholesale cracker business, and Jeeps three team,,. In the °puree of thcconversa• io n we learned he was formerly a farmer, and finally the conversation turned upon horses. fie said he used to feed corn altogether, and had more or less aickness among his horeea. Now be fed no corn at all, and had. not for years, and never had any sickness in hia stables. S.metimes people appear to think that it a horse is worked trard, it mutt have corn. It is an error. New these horses are driven from four o'clock iu the morning until eleven at night, and they look well and feel well. In thin cencection we are reminded of an nrtiele that is going the rounds of the preen, headed a "Cheaper Way to Feed Threes," The ertiole gives one mania exp:sienci. lie feeds twelve cjuarts of oats and twelve quires of bran a say and he says that hie horses are always in geed flesh, in the beet working order and is a healthy condition. 0f vanes. The paper originally publishing the experience, talks as it it laed got hold of a very navel t dog. That Le the hied of feeding The korai and ehoelenerc hail been teeehiug for years Sail. itis well enough to say that pare of a horses ration;reay be composed of cornwltheut detriment. 1t za a very °crit' znon thlug soaping the most careful fenders to feed half oats stud hall (PM and math a ration does very welt Inca horse at work. Three parts Data end oust per„ caro, how. ever, wcu'd be oetttr. Yuma AND NV EIGHT of Bels. The standard yield and weight of o$ a #rem. the different varieties a# the domestic fowl, according to the N. Y. \YuTld, may be taken tie follows: Light Brahman and Part. rid$e Cechiu'a eggs, sovan to the pound; they lay according to treatz eat and food, front SS) to 100 per annum : sometinlaa more if kept well ; /lark i&rahmas, eigut to the pound, and about 70 per annum ; Sleek, tphito and Buff Cochlea, eight to the pound, Rua 160 is a large yield ; Plymouth Recke, eight to the pound, and they lay 100 per an. num ; Houdau, eight to the pound, and lay 1CO per annum, being ,uontitrere; LaFieche, seven to the pound, and produce 133 per annum ; Week Spanish, eeveuto the pound,. and ley 114 per aunnm ; Domiutquee, nine to the pouud, and lay ISO per annum; Game fowls, nine to the pound and lay ISO per an. our, Groves. ewe:iota the pouud, and 1GI) ;ser annum ; Legnorne, nice to the pouud, and from 10 to 2.0 per anaum ; Ilamburge, alto to the pound, and 154per annum; Pulioh, nine t0 the pound, wed 1511 per annum ; Ban- tams, 16 to the pound, and 60 par annum ; turkeys ley from 30 to GO ogge per annum, weighing about aix to the pound ; daokd eggs very greedy with different species, but range from five to aix to the pound ; geese, four to the pound, And 20 tor annum ; Guinea fowls, 11 to the pound, and GO par annum. Tim Sunue-Br.ltKling SWINDLE. Gardening : " Having immense quantities of tulips, I :tbrur,t one down at tee rout of every strawberry pant when I plant a new bed; and you *eget to see my atrawberry garden in spring, Long before the berruee ripen it is a vast tulip garden hundreds waving ail. colors in the wind. They do no harm whatever to the strawberries or plante.. Try it. Nothing mul-iplies faster than tu- lipa you know, and fifty bought for two dollars, will in a few years make a hundred, A Tlrorowx ran Wxaa'r-Gncwzlts. A farmer relates that he tried the ezpari- meet of a light winter -mulch of straw oa his wheat. lie could sea no difference between the pertain mulched and, that. coating/mei which was noC mulched, until near harvest time, when the difference he favor of the mulched potion was very _peiceptible, and the yield of grain very mucin increased. We auggess a trial of is on knolls and places where the wheat might b3_speeially benefit- ed by it. Who will try k sad report re -- tette t" the " Prairie Fernier?" Pitopzotope STRawn&RRIEs. T. J. May, Wasiaipgton Territory, says he raised some Sharpleaa strawberries this year, "mime of the Jargeet of which measur- ed nearly three-inseea in diameter." If sirawberrfre, are going oa inereasing is siza ire the future as they have in the past, says another correepoudent, it le well for tkee. pokers that they do not grow on till trees 1 How will .a strawberry ptent, contaiulog a oteeter of a dczan or tweuty silt inch straw• berries, do to add to theornatnente of a, lady's lieu A couple of edeneiblo looking men aro travelling through Ohto thea) days ou a new swindling expedition. They are "mil up" on the sheep question, and being rather homespun in their general walk and caner- cation, are wont to disarm enTiaion. They aro after Iambs. They are devoted ex• elusively to breeding and selling lambs, but can never get as many as they cnu dispose of. Their game ie, therefore, this: They sell ram for .150 cash on the understand- ing that they will purchase at a gone high tore all the lamj;s of 'his get the following seasons at weaning time. Tim male is effect- ed, the ram delivered and paid for, and the two frauds never turn up again there a second time. Wo learn from Tho Mi-hi;au Farmer that this awindlo has been success- fully perpetrated in various parts of the stato. Ib is an open question in this as an all other instances of a similar hind which le moat to be deplored the ratcatity of the swindlers or the rapacity of their victims. APPLE l;'oMA<E FOR Caserta:. About three years ago I beaten feeding my e -as cider apples. LL'e genhored them and just before feeding them ran them through n rent -cutter which broke up all the big apples which might choke the Brock. I found tnem in a few days improving in the quality and q•tantity of milk. Lest year 1 repeated the feediee, having a large quantity of apples. After they were ix• hausted I sent a team to the cider mill and drew a load of apple pomace and . began feeding ib, and found the stock quite as crazy tor ib as they had been for the apples. I continued it until I fed up a number of tons and found the cows increasing in milk and flash about the same as when fed on fresh apples. I ted it to my beef cattle also, and to young stock, and saw a decided im- provement in their condition. TRANSPORTING LIVE STOOIC, A Cheyenne dispatch, dated Sept. 22, says a new era in transporting live stock to the Atlantic seaboard has been inaugurated by a New York company, and the first train of Idaho beef cattle to make the run through was loaded'Seppt.20, at Soda Springs, by the Soda Springs Land & C tittle Company. This shipment consisted of 360 head of fins steers, averaging about 1,331 pounds each, and were loaded in the new improved palaoe•cars, having a compartment for each animal. The stook is watered and fed in 'transit. The first train left Soda Springs Thursday at 5 p. m. ; Rawlins at 6:05 a.m. Friday ; Lar- amie 10:05 ; arrived.at..Cheyenne at 1:45.•p.. m., and OmehaSaturdaynoon, making 1,025 miles in about forty-three hours. Teen PEAR Creme The New Jersey pear orop, says good Secretary Williams •in the weekly press, is nearly a total failure this year. Oar of the three largest pear growers in Essex County remarked recently that whilethey usually aggregated about 6.000 bushels aunually between them, if tbey harvested 200 bushels this season it would bo all ho could expect, and they were so scattered that the gather- ing would cost mere than they were worth. This means a good market and better prides for more 'favored localities. The pause as- aigned is unfavorable weather at the time of fructification. The trees are getting a rst that may prove beneficial. TIItIps IND STRAWBERRIES. There is a vd odd idea which E, P. Powell proposes tokthe readers of Popular Good Mr. J, T. Thongs, the veteran horticultural editor of thee paper, aperiks of an oretiard of 13srtletc para that was sprayed three times wi,h Ltria•greeu, the rams partly intermitting he action. The result now is, that the heavily landed trees are bearing scarcely a def pave specimen, while a tree, likewise heaviiy loaded, grow• log forty reds dietaut in a garden, bee neariys every pear more or lees distorted and dis- figured by the coddling worm, in the calyx and core, andby the carculie at the sides. Aa*1Iauurenal, Names. What aro yon planning to contribute to the fair. The Theisen Valley grop z erre is an en• ormona nae, Exaltemcut will iv laze the gnaatity and quaLty of milk iu the cow. C'e.anlit ase an the farm does more for its exr..l'euee than the expiu Blore of mea. ay. Tho great prep%nrlerauca of teetimeny Show thea eat fool is hatter for cattle than ie dry teed, and that to the dairy it is no trouble, with plenty of ensilage, to keep up a summer lbw of uitik all the year. The sbocine of horse is a very iwpertaut part of their care and elar.z d receive tee personal attendee of owners who would have them retain good, snuad feet. Toe hoof should not be out away tee mu :h and we think it better to /are elutes pat on aid ratter than hot. The laraelitea of old could not make' brick without straw, and tha bee of to day oanuot make eggs tvzthoat &ukelele material. Bro- ken .bone or urushed oyster s)telleare almost esseutiale, and are need freely in the fowl- houses of chase tette meke ewe, produolug and market poultry a sucaesa. A lady gran;;e-eseiyis;, of Maine, well says of f„raaera : " They act uuly give us wheat for our breal, ant ail o:h:e needful things to a .t, but they raise the very beat crop of mem, the noble, great nod wise mea that have filled our a arm au•l the earth with the glory of their deals." Tao A rioulturel aiitor of the N. Y. Times says thst the farm wife has G:o:i the drawer of water, the hewer of tv..o actual fact, very of'eu--au 1 the a.rvant of all, even of tt a hired man ; to Cook, mond; and wash for hien, to wait up= Ilan, and to do all this at times, far several c.rthom, Colonel Curtis, of K rby Hom>atced„ ,- New York State, advo;:as.•a the establish- ment of dairy achnote iu d:ff:rent part of the State, to be supporta 1 by the S:aro, and made strie-ly free to boy and girls, where all the practical and aaieatifie knowledge pertaining to dairying in ant its L•raziehes shall be tau,;ht. Sheep groavine"` for wool is most profltabie in Colorado, New M xice, and other dis- tricts ether° no winter feeding is required. The sheep preferred aro a crass between the merino and the common mixed breedA•neri- can sheep. Under favorable eireametanees the annual ircreese of a flick will amount to thirty per cent or more. An adveceto of pig pork declares that a young pig will produce mere live weight from a given weight of food adapted to its use than any other domestic animal, skim milk and meal, he says, aro the most effec- tive rations fed. Middlings is the best sin- gle food; cob meal, fine ground, is an effi- ozent food, and equal to clear corn meal. Michigan Agricultural College experi meats with wheat show that telt Iessened the yield of wheat, 150 pounds being sown to the acre. Prof. Johnson inclines to think that la bushel of seed given the best yield. The old Clawson seems to retain, in good de- gree, those qualities which have made it popular for longer term of years than most other varieties. The "Connecticut Farmer" says that S. M. Wells, of Wethersfield,' Conn., has a sevon•acre lot of onions, and they have been raised on this field for and years consecu- tively. For the pest six years be has used fertilizers only, experience having shown him that there is nothing better for this crop or any need of barn -yard manure in combi- nation with it. Every man must 'real:ze that agriculture can only remain arofitable purauit on the condition of yearly obtaining from every acre a maximum and cheap return, and that in order to succeed in this, he must restore to the soil those elements which it once contained, but which in the process of neer ishinethe plants have been absorbed and taken away. During the past' week we have boon buy- ing .pullets for next spring's layers. We were ablo to secure, in the N. Y. market, large and shapely pullets for about 12 cents: apiece less than our estimated cost of rais- ing them from the eggs. These birds ap- pear to be mainly Wyandotte and Plymouth Rock grades, with a mixture of Light Brahma and Lannshan blood. How far- mers can afford to sell them for so little money we cannot see.