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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-9-16, Page 71 1 1 SNIT. 16, 1S92, THE BRUSSELS POST. LATE FOREION NEWS. EXPERIMENTS WITH WINTEE 'WHEATS, nuitetin S8 n.»1 or onterte Uncut. weal 110 reass. The Kr upp works at Essen, 0 ermany, re- cently turned out a gun that can propel a ball fifteen mita. Father Cho, a French pried stetioned at jorsualem, recently found a Magee a the dine of King David in11 donryard, vasshoppers asa o iMMOnSO amount ef damage in Ohio to oats and other growing crops. Whole fields of oats were destroy- ed. During one weak this month 31:3 car loads annieing 10816 tons of green fruit were shipped East frown Cailfornia. So for this season 6,000,000 more pelmets of (nit have been shipped than last year, Burt Ramer and Charlea Lemont, of Dam deo, 1c1 inn., were both in love wi the same girl and they agreed to nil le the matter of rivalry by a light in the prosenee of the oung woman, She wee watching the bat- tle from a buggy, whou the horse took fright and min, throw lug her out and cause, ing fated injudea. An ingenious Frenchman has invented a, Ii growing winter wheat, and indeed any other form of areal atop, it is highly firm portant that the filVITIOVII give ineeh attention to the selection of the more useful varieties. In enme easons th Ia not so important, ne almost any veriety will glee A fair return, but in others when the conditions of growth end ripening are riot so favorable the dIffer. mice m the yields 10 0000 inetances aln00II1S to needy 50 per net, witlt varieties grown under tbe sante cond i does, As it ie inmos, eible to fore:mit the nature of the swan, it is always bettor to be forearmed by slowing varieties poi:sassed of sufficient vigor and herclibood to enable: them to bear up well inider adveree couditions, The qualities to besought in winter wheat include the following 1. Ability to give good yields. Occasions auy wo meet with varieties having nearly all the requisites given below, and yet the yield front them le only ordinary, ouality of the grain, including contrive:Ice for removing the hair by teri, weight per bushel mid value for milling obieery. 118 18 told (181 18 operates with as permutes, .A variety poseessing good milling great precision as 1/r. Guillotine's, and doe's propenfee is certainly to be tend preferred not remove so much of the :nen with the to ono equal in other respects but lacking in hair. Photography bas determined the cause of the neat glacial &villanelle in the Alps. It was hydraulic pressure beneath and be- hind the gIncier, predicted by masses of ice falling into connecting water above and at O considerable distance. In view of the impending cholera plague Dr. Daremberg :says to the Parisians, ' Boil your ice l'Freezing does not kill the germ of contagion, and there is only one practica- ble way of preparing 100 80 that it may be taken safely into the system. By the new Education Aet in South Ans. tralia, women are made eligible as members of the boards of advice. These have some. what the same functions as British school boards, but witlw less authority. The authorities in Russia have ordered that a person who dies from cholera shall not be buried for twenty.four hours in order • to prove groundless the popular belief that many aro buried alive. A Vienna glass manufacturer claims to have produced a substitute for glass which contains all the traneparent, odorless and aoicl-resisting properties of glass, while it has the greater advantage of being pliable and to a greet degree unbreakable. The city of Paris makes much of its shade trees. The transplanting of large trees is done there with perhaps greater success than anywhere else. It 18 DOW proposed to make an offielal inspection of all the trees in the city, with the view of tome's:- ing those that arena healthy and substitut- ing trees that are. A decree has juet been announced in Ser. via that all peasants who Inc in arrears with their taxes will be permitted to pay them in the form of hay and straw, to be delivered to the Army. .A. new species of bear was shot by Captain Bower during his late travels in Shiba. The annual WAS chocolate colored, with a white collar, and is quite unknown to nat. uralists. An electric a:Away is being built atEMbe, Japan, to give readier access to the moun- tain resorts and direct communication with the Waken Gulf on the west coast, sixty. five miles distant. A breech line will be added to Crime., the chief summer resort in that part of the country. these. 3. Strength of straw. This is very im- portent in some seasons, more especially on soils where the grain is liable to lodge, as it heave so direetly on the yields and on the labor of harvesting. 4. Non -liability to rust. Although rust ie largely dependent on eeason, soil mid lo. "Alton, some varieties have the power of resisting it in a marked degree. 5. Earliest In nurturing. This is also in- timately associated with yield, ns in some seasons an advantage of from three to eve days in early ripeniug will make a groat difference in the returns. 0. The presence or absence of beerds. These are so far objectionable unless there ts a decided superiority in other directinns, as beards aro less pleasant to handle, they lessen the value of the chaff for feeding per. poses tuiri are associated more on less with lack of refinement in quality. Owing 80 110 low prices ruling for winter wheat there 9911 110 en limitation to sow a loss acreage this season. Thio tendency can easily be carried too far. Vire do well to remember WO have an excellent wheat producing country and that we want large quantities of straw for bedding which can- not be secured so effectually in any other svay. There is always less hazard in grow- ing a variety of Grope, and it also furnishes O more equable division of the work of the farm. And there is at the same time a possibility of some advance in prices. It is at least questionable as to whether this province should at any Hine grow leap wheat than will suffice for home consump- tion, SELECTION OF VARIETIES. In selecting varieties to sow those kind :Mould be pre- ferred which have given the 0088 Satisfac- tion during a torin of years rather than for one per. We sometimes find varieties give excellent yields one year which do very poorly the next. We are now able to give taets relating to the behaviour of a consider- able number of varieties for three years as shown in Table IL, and these should cer- tainly prove valuable to the fermers of this province engaged in growing winter wheat. A photogreplier in the Tyrol made a neg- ative of ton tourists against a back ground of pine woods. When lie developed the plate a faithful presentment of a large bear in the net of inaking for the denser timber appeared in the edge of the forest. Neither the man with the camera nor any of those in the group had known that the brute WAS 1188.n. Dr. Grana, s country physician in Spain, has, it is stated, discovered a cure for diph- theria, whieh he claline never fails. The queen regent of Spain is greatly interested in the discovery and received Dr. Crane at court a few weeks ago. The physician has been invited to explain lois remedy to the Madrid Acadetny of Medicine. Intring his recent tour in the eolith of Franco, President Carnet, personally pinned the decoration of the order of agvioultural merit upon the breaet of a fat farmer, who betrayed signs of unusual emotion. lt was afterward discovered that el. Carat had stuck the pin about: a half inch deep into the poor Partner's breast. The Pope is to have a yacht presented to him by subscription on tho part of wealthy Roman Catholics in England, Spain, and Italy. Pope Pio Nono, the predecessor of his present holiness, had a yacht given to him by the Empress Eugenie, but it was sold by direction of Leo XIII. as " unsuit- able" being to armed, barque -rigged, screw corvette. A Capt. Blundell at Oxford, Ala., offered 625 to any one who would get into a boat and allow it to be blown up with dynamite, so thee Blondell might show his lifeaving methods. A young men named Neely ac- cepted the offer, and WAS blown about forty • feet into the air unhurt, but on his return to the water's surface he alighted on the fragments of the wreck and received a fractured leg and other injuries. Tin VARIETIES GROWN. There were in all 115 plots of winter wheat grown at this station during the present year, inclading 68 varieties. Of these 35 varieties were grown in duplicate plots; and in another held 8 varieties were grown in plots varying from half an acre to two acres. The larger plots were duplicates a some of the smaller plots, end the particulars relating to them will be given in the annual report. Of die OS vadetios grown, 44 were Canadian and Atnerican and 24 were foreign. The foreigm varieties which were imported originally from Germany, England, France and Russia itt 1889, are all from last year's seed. As none of these kinds have as yot proved equal to some of the best of the Canadian and American varieties and as many of them do not ripen sufficiently early to be reported upon 18 180 bulletin with the lattermve do not feel justified as yet M recommending the farineis to grow them. This bulletin there- fore gives t,he partioulars relating to 44 Canadian and American varieties grown under taxiway the name conditions, LOCATION' AND Soli.. All the varieties of winter wheat both native and foreign, were groavn in plots side by side in the same range. These plots contain each exactly the ono -hundredth part of an acre. The yield per are lo gstimated from the actual meld of the plots. The aspeut of the lend is southwesterly,with so little slope, however, that it is abase imperceptible. The soil mem be designated as a mild clay loam. liet in point, of yield, averaging 40.27 111141. per tteve for the three years. It is p0/4088. ed of teeny good qualities, ns ability' to yield well, good :strength of straw, freethen from mot and good :Milling properties. The 111 y Red Ulawson Mikan ohesoly with All average yield of 45.70 ball, lie resrlinese nf ripening is a attune point in its favor, Tlits Reagan whiell eomes third on the list does not stand high as teInilling properties. The el anehoster whielw Yields well In 801,10 localities, has uot dmie so well with tie, es it is somewhat prone to rust, The Red Lion, which severed years ago WAII sold in 001110 lonlities for $15 per bush, is very weak in the anew. 11 weiglie well, ated dile is the Most feature 101811 11. III. gives yields of the following 8 POLO (3.)—Dawson's Golden Chaff, Amovioau Bronze, ,Ionee' Winter Fyfe, Fnitz, Golden Drop. Bah fanner wishing ono of theeente will please addrese the Seeretary, C. A. Zavitz, Belied:melt Station, GuelPho 2,0,1110,, 4,1 WhiPA .I 11,11 `drevi when the grain with lin street Mot for tosling, end blank forms on widoh to report, will be forwarded free of cost to hie madras, FoVOLINIONA. 'rho resulte of the experiments may be thee suinmarised 1, That the average yielde per more of the 41 (I:median and Attorieen varieties grown in 1.8412 were : 111PAW 3.2 tone, grain 49.0 bush. pa acre and weight per bush, varietice for two years : Amman Brota.m, oom 18 141YPtialti eserrlei'l emu, Jaws- 2. That as theeveragee obtained from the Winter Myfe, Bulgtirian, 11. Inter Pearl, 15 varieties grown at this antion fov three (Jusweilian Velvet Chaff, Decioerm, Theme ware sore 30,11 hush, no 1890 ., 51.6 bait varieties have been grown here for but two In 8:11, and 41,0 Inish. in 1892, while the years, ani like those of the previous table everage weight per bush. In then respeotive under the remo oonditions. The average years 1800 11, 23.3 arid 60 lb., we are jest!. Yiehl 01400e1 ream them in 1891 NV" 5.111 11011 000elitling that the wheel) produe. Mush. per acre ; ie 1812, 31(0 1 fee ing eapabilities of Ontario are still of a high the two mare 47.6 bush. The svorngo „saes, weight per 1.1m11, lit 1141)1 98tI8 63.! lb. ; in 1, 3. The four best yielding varietiee in1802, 1811.2 51(1111'. ; 1.wr' Y°11'1'3 111'5 1.'" all of whieh govo more then 50 Miele per The 'American Moen which 010110 first in acre, are Dawson's Golden Chaff, Golden ;mint cif yield for iho two years did not gi,vo Drop meditmiro„:,on,u and vuloa5tor, named nearly so good return uomparatively 1111$ in the' order Of the yields whinl they made, year as last. Although it stood tip 4, The heir varieties givieg the licavieet well, it wee cotweiderably Dilate:1 with rnet. The Egyptian, though an old variety, i1118 weights per bah. in 1899 were the Fattens. done well, aed it will also be observed that ten: 01.5 11f; ; Velvet °bar (beardea), 1111 it weighwell. The Garfield coming third 'be ; .Red ender, 02.8 Lb. and Fultz, 62.5 e in point of yield betrayed consideimble 118. weakness of straw, while theplots on either 5. The four best yielding white wheats side of It steed up well. Jones' Winter in 1892, were Dawson's Golden Chaff, BM. Fyfe although possessed of fist -class mill- platen, Democrat and Surprise, and the Ing properties is only medium as to yield four beet yielding varieties of red wheat and weigh c of grain. The Bulgarian which wove the Golden Drop, Mediterranean, F1. bears considerable easemblanco to the Den- aster end Red Weeder, in the order natn• ourat yields fairly and weighs well, It ed in both instanees. Apropos of the elownish deportment in the House of Commons of Keir Hardie, ehe representatite of a workingmen's oonstit- unney, the English papers relate the ex. palace of the first labor member of the French Chamber of Deputies. No eaten - tion was paid in the Chamber to his bteach. es of conventionalities; bait the evening, .when be darted ont to see some of the sights mid tried to enter a dive called the Montagnes Rusees, he was etopped at the door on the ground thathe was nobsuitably dressed. anis to be a ragged wheat end is possese- ed of good milling properties. The Cana- dian Velvet Llhea has 410110 rather poorly with us this year. The yield of grain WAS cote pitratively low, and it was notably defl• cient in weight. Table 1V. gives yields of the following 91 varieties foe oue sear. e—Dawson's Golden Chaff, Mediterranean, Pule/tater, Red Won- der, Deitz Longborry, Belbabl, Fulte, Rus- sian Amber, Coryell, Rutherford, Ramsey, Genesee, Valley, Walker's Reliable, Hybrid eloneete, Red Russien, Lengberry Red, Velvet Chaff, Manilla, Scat. The 21 varieties in Table IV. were grown here this year for the firse time in these omparative tests and considerably more than one-half the number were imported from the United States. The average yield per acre is 44.74 bush., and the average weight) per measured bush. 61, 3 lb. The yield of straw per acre is abnormally large, being 3. 9 tons per acre, which is probably 511 per cent. niore than in ordinary seasons. Weigeing the straw ut to later date would doubtless ease some reduction, The Daw- son's 00111011 Chaff originated in 1831 by Robert Dawson of Parts, Out, domes first PREPARATION OF TIIE Sum. Tho soil WAS prepared on the bare fallow system po so. are uniformity of condition in a field dm voted to the growth of experimental grains. This is the only bare fellow that we lied oto the farm The cultivation given was much the same as is usually put upon bare follows. Barnyard manure wits applied at the rate of 15 toes per acre in the spring of 1890 and a crop of rape was grown and pastured off upon the land the :same year. No manure was put upon it aince. Mageett AND TIME OF SEEDING. The seed was sown by hand as we have no inaohines suitable for sowing in drills in plots of the Sin mentioned, The plots were all sown Sept. 2nd, with the °Keep - bion of Nos. 27, 29, 36 and 40 of Table given below, which were sown Sept 911, and Nos. 34, 37 and 39, which were sown Sept. 15th. The same amount of seed was sown upon each plot, at the rate of la bushels per auto by weight. Teot CONDITIONS ON SEASON AND \TEAM. ant, These were on the whole not er: favor- able as tinting the previous wheat year. The weather in the autumn was such that all the Canadian and American varieties made it good growth and they also passed the winter safely. But the mouths of May mid June even abnormally wet, whith along with the heavy winds that prevelled caused more or lees of lodging in nearly all the varieties, Some of them also rested eon. :Adorably. In foot none of them could be etid to be entirely fret from leaf rust. Dur- ing the ripening period tho tomperattre was uoduly !ugh, bet notwithstanding the yields wore in many histancies fair. A second table shows the yields lot'. 81100 years of the following fifteen var ieties :—Surprise, Early Rod CI:meson Rodger's, Rai Velvet Chaff, Golden Drop, Bonnell or Landreth, Golden Cross or Vol - Minot, Manchester, Standard), Hybrid Mediterranean, Martin Amber, Sammie On 0114W11011/ L£111(18810I, Red Lion, NOW Mon- aoh. The average yield of grain pa am of those fifteen" variation was 30.9 bush. in 11390; 51.5 bah. in 1891, and 411,511, in 1809, For tho three years the average WAS 41..19 Muth. The average weight pee bush. in 18110, wak 60 lb. 110 1891, 68.3 lb; in 1892, 60 lb. Per the throo pate tho aver. tvaa 611 Ib. The Surprise heads the 0. That the bald Velvet Chaff varieties gave an average of 7.8 bush, less per acre than the mean average of the 44 varieties grown in 1892 aiM weighed 3.1 lb, less per bush. 7. That in our exparieuce of the past throe years the average yields per acre 01 the white and red wheats have not been far different, being about ono bushel per acre in favor of the white wheats. 8. That in oar experience of the past three years WO have found that the red wheets average [tom. I to 9 lb. more per bush, than the white wheats. A BOManee .of Real Life. Lord Sherbrooke, whoee' death occurred recently, made a good deal of money during his nine years at the Australian Bar, but there is only one forensic speech of hie at the Antipodes that) is worthy of comparison with his oratorical triemphs in England. The occasion (says a writer in the Sunday Mena, wits a sensational trial indeed—the appalling finale of a lurid life. One ot tho 015000 05 most respected of English families —when head sits in the noose of Lords, in point of yield. The wheat stood up bet- and whose name is by no means unfamiliar ter than any other variety but it was affect- in the Commons—had the misfortune, in od considerably by rust which no doubt the early years of the century, to be cursed affected the quality of the grain. !with a son who developed extraordinary The old Mediterranean, 'imported from oriminal instincts in his very boyhood. He the 'United States, comes second in point of I went to sea, and had risen to the position yield showing that it still retains its old- ' of a coinmander in the Royal Navy when he time vitality. The Fuleaster, also from the ;committed a robbery, was tried at the Old United States, gave the remarkable weight , Bailey„and transmuted to Australia under of 64. 5 lb. to ‚.be bush. Tbe Red Wonder a sentence of fourteen years. On landing acne out well Mit is very weak in the straw. in Sydney "Sinith," as we shall cell him, 1 It would probably do welt on sharp, sandy was promptly liberated on ticket -of -leave, land. The Scott, so populae at one time, and then he gave full play to his criminal seemed to be lacking in vitality and stands instincts, committing nearly OVOry crime in 1 at the foot of the list in point oi yield. the calendar short of murder. At length From a table given it is shown that 'gen- the colonial authorities resolved to send orally speaking the home:lad red chaff red him to that lonely speck 0, tbe Paoific— wheats gave more straw and more grain per I Norfolk Island—which was then reserved acre and also gave grain weighing mon per for the worst and most incorrigible prisonero. bush than the bald white chaff white Ile was accordingly placed on board a Gov' wheats. There is very little difference in the relative quantities of etrasv I reduced. In weight of grain the average difference in favor of the bearded varieties as compared with the bald is 2.03 lb. In 1891 the differ- ence, 1.37 lb., is also in favor of the bearded sorts. The red wheats outweigh the white varieties by 1.48 lb. per bush. In 1891 the difference in the same direction was 1.96 lb. In 1892 the bearded varieties gave an aver- age yield of 6 bush. per acre more than the bald while in 1891 the bald varieties yield- ed 9.9 bush. per acre more on an average than the bearded. The present season, the I threw overboard alike the dying and the red wheats yielded 4 bush. per acre more , dead, not even sparing their follow.conviets, thau the white, while last season the white ' who in their irons; were brought up one by wheats yielded over 5 bash. more than the !one and cast into the sea, " Smith " then rod. In Bulletin Lxv I. Mead on winter I assumed the command of the brig and sail- wheets in 1891, it Is stated " that when led away for America. What a situation wheat ie grown under favorable conditions for Mr. R. L. Stevenson 1 'Unfortunately the bold verieties yield coneiderably more 1 for himself, " Smith " tom:3110cl at New Zea - than the bearded." To this wo may add : land port, where the brig was recognized that from the res Ate obtained this year 11' and recaptured, Brought back to Sydeny, would seem to be true that in seasons when 1 " Smith " turned informer, alleging that hie the conditions are not really favorable tho part in the pit:Weal seizure WAS played bearded varieties will yield more than the ' under compulsion. So he saved his neck, bald. Dairy. The old-fashioned dairyman plows little and peaturee mull. The modern dairymen recluees his pasturage and grows ailing °rope, keeps more cows to the acme, improves his land, 10181 00 more money. Beware of patenb Minns and till new- fangled devices for bringing the butter quick, or forgetting more than the ordinary quantity from a gtven arnountof mills, roe tho home dairy nothing is bobber than the emelt reetangitlar or sent g churns, and none will bring ninth more than five pounds of ' butter from 100 poen& of fully average milk. Agents and peddlers who twin t to sell you reeipos and implements which will do more than this aro as bad ati lighthing rod men. Separators, an a title, will take oub about a half pound of butter moro on ono hundred patinae of milk than the churn will. This Is nem thereon() of abet% ten pen ceut. 1 tit product, The separators mill for a little mono than $100. With this date, and know. ing the 8100 of your dairy, aunt eon figura ont for yourself whether it will pay to invent In 0110 or thane Indthines. ernnient brig in company with some forty other irreclaimable criminals. One night the brig was might in a terrific storm and "Smith" tiotwithstending that he was heam ily ironed, oentrived to get on deck, seMe quantity of arsenic, and throw tho poison into the ehip's cooking utensils. Next day every soul on board, save "Smith " and nine other desperadoes whom he had taken into his confidence, was seized with violent pains and became absolutely helpless. Thereupon " Smith " and his confederates took possession at the brig and ruthlessly DISTIMIUTION OF SEED. A TOWN EtilLT ON OOLD, a Very Giti.eatged rieture. • A. correepondont of the London Thnes, writing, at lobanwiesberg, says i—The town is neither beautiful nor impresitive from an aestleitie point at view, bet it 'night be Bet down 118 it SW11119111 any part of the eivilized world. it hes a popelation of 1,001 40,11(3), Ties buil:liege ore good, the streetis nre brood; there are shops with plitte.glatie w1n110w:1 full of ball dresses and Silver plate ; the raidential rpiarters are rapidly spreading themselves mit into squares and boulevards ; a train line connects them with the business centre ; for 90 miles east and wed yon may see the fitenels of II -willing worlm smoking agaiest the :sky ; the S0111111 td An 0,110110 whistle 1 in ,your are, and yen find dem the train has 10,011 eonstrnet- ed whieli rune from one end of dm Rand to the Mar, The two is lit ivith gm, water applied to all its houses:, every ordinary appliance of civilization is here ; aud when you remember that, it has all boon done in five years, and that evevy scrap of material has been carried uo, and tlus Mx pianos that 1 saw waiting at the frontier will prisently be carried by on waggons, yon begin to realiee something of the extraord. Mary auditions whiell 000 have rolled so stulaleu a developineut into exisleuce. "Jo. hannesberg," 0030 1110 correspondent, "stande upon gold." If the while Ins ma confederates wen lso.osgod. On the urgent solicitation of very influen- tial people, " Smith " was given one more As we have a limited quantity of eeafor chance, and permitted to remain in Sydeny distribution we append the following in ref- as a laborer in the Government dockyard, erence thereto :—.1Ve will supply any, of But one movning a poor widow wee found bhe following varieties, viz. Amerman lying in her house barbarously murdered Bronze, Jones' Winter Fyfe, Early Red with a tomahawk. 0110 finger had been Clawson and Bulgaria!s in lots of ono and severed and taken away, the murderer in two bushels. As the quantity of °awl' var.' his haste being unable to pull the gold ring iety is limited we can only agree to furnialt off. The ring was soon pawned fov a small in which we receive the applications. The 14 Smith Ism, and frotn the pawnbroker's description seed ensile the supply lasts and in thq order "vas promptly identified and se - prices charged will be moderate. For fur- rested as the murderer. Robert Lowe was tar information apply to the Professor of j retained for his defence, and the facts of Agrieulture, the prisoner's guilt being conclusive he re. Some of the vedettes will be distributed Hod solely on the plea of " instinctive in smaller lots through the medium of the oriminality," supporting it in a speech of Ontario Agricultural and Experimental marvellous power and psychological in. Union. This Union which meets annually I sight, Bob it was all of no avail." " Smith at the Agrialtural College is composed of was convicted and exeunted, the officers, emstudents and students of the College, end all farmers throughout the province arc invited to oonperate In the She Yearned for a Sphere. work (1108 10 being uarried on by the Asso- "Charlie," she :mid, softly, "I often think elation. This work consists of the testing whet a noble thing it is to have a sphere a seeds and fertilizers under conditions as and fill it as you ought." limey sitnilar as may be found predicable. ' "Have you ?" returned Charlie, after some The seeds are fernishedby the Union free to farmers and full instructions regarding the mode of conflating the teen ere also furnished at the same time, The only to. turn naked of the farmer 18 a reporb of the results to be sent after harvest by a time fixed upon as mentioned in the instraction sheet These reports are merle imon blank fornis furnished to each experimentenalong With the instructions. Ab the preseet time there are no less than 5,083 plots under cote periment in tido province emulated by ex. students and other farmere, the results of 9911011 aro published annually, and cannot fail to be of moth service to the agrieultur. In the subjoined table will be found the different sobs of varictioe of wheats whia will be sent by mail in half.pound lots of each venially to farmers applying fot them and in order of the itpplication so long as the supply lasts, Thnoo sato of Fall Wheat fon Conperntive tests. (1.)—Dmveott'a Golden Chaff, American Bronze, Emily Red Clawson, Bulgarian, Med iterran eau. (9.)—Dawscm'a Golden cho, Arnerioan Bronze, Puleanter, Red Wonder) fhteprise. REEPS CONTINCE 111F0 as they are near the suefates, there will be a limit to the possible working until at some future time the entire gold reef has been removed. Boring and Junking opera. dons have proved that the reefs are, as a general rule, both larger and richer in the lower levels than in the upper levels ; and, more than this, it OAR been found that, overlying the known series, there are in the lower levels other conglomerate beds cf a workable size and value svhia give no in. dication whatever of their existence at or near the surface. In 010 (1100, at a depth of 60018, there are six lodes of-payable:dee and value, three of which show no sigc on the surface, and only begin to appear in their lemkon lines of conglomerate pebbles tit a depth of 3001e Indications of this kind open prospects of great epeculative imerest in the developments of the near future. There is an element of tho unknown in it all, but it is of an unknown into which many ineursions by way of experiment have been made, and the opinion of men who are in the beat position to form well.founded conclusions appears to be practically unani- mous that TI1E PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY 01 1110 deep levels will prove at less than that of the companies working on the out. crop itself while it tney move mural greater. At this moment there as 53 companies working on the 01 181.; cia ms. They ern. ploy 3370 white men ano 32,100 natives, and they are producing gold at the rate of 4) millions sterling per amount And these figures are only an approximation to the possible output front existing sources. Very few of the mines have attained to more than half their lull legitininto production. Many are workiug with inedequate machinery and development and on almost virgin property. Some arena at present contributing to the output at all, but are developing with a view to.future results. Better methods of working, modern developments in the Haien- tifia treatment of ore, and cheapened trans. port, which will allow of the freer use of machinery, must steadily increase the total of praduction. One particularly interesting element in the permanent sources et be moose is the new deprature which has late. ly been made in the chemical treatment of concentrates and tailings. Chlorination and cyanide worth have been established in which, by an ingenious end simple process, gold is molted by solation out of the pow. dared one just as, sugar might be melted out of sawdust. A quantity of gold which used to be lost is in this way recovered, and goes to swell the average of production. Phe amount may be judged by the returns for May, which wore the latest I was able to obtain, The ordinary mill returns gave 9.99r1wt of gold per ton of one produced, while gold recovered s u y. "Yes; and I have of too wonderell what my particular work in life is." "Indeed," replied Charlie, after some heal, tation, "Charlie, tell me, do you think I am fit- ted to make a home happy 1'1 "I dunno," said he, absently. "Can yon cook?" 'YOUNG FOLIO. The Oran Spirit. Joseit. had run awny—aetually run away, because mamma wiolied her to take sonic jelly to a poor sick girl at the oottage down the road; but the sun was hot, and she felt lazy and thought perhaps if oho ran away mamma would get Boma o»o else to do 811e bed mime to the water's edge, ant lay on the bank in the cool, sweet grass, listentog to tho rushee as they swayed to. and fro ie. the !Ranee, and watehing the tall ood their Lewin All at oath there was a commotion; amongot the ruches, something was coming up out of the 11%101% WAS iG a toad ? )Miele rateed her:self up and looked bend, for if there w.as one thing in tho world she hated it was toads, But this was not a toad 11 0008 the strang- est thing she had ever seen, She knew fish eouletinues jumpesl up out of the water, but thin was not a ileh. First a little green head was poked up, with n tat of fine grass sticking straightution the top of it, tnetead a hair, It looked like a boy's face, and presently %vitt; a sprittg, a funny little figure came out of the water and stood upon the lank. There WAS gran banging frau its neck to its knees, and its long lege wen bare and green like its hands and head. The hands she noticed first, because they were so shri- velled up and small, The little oreature set there fur awhile shaking the water off the Medea of grass whielt formed its dreeminuch as a dog would shake itself after it had jumped oat of the water. Theo it turned around and saw j°s8ie. "Holloa 1" he said, in a week 118(19 110100, "and who are you?" Jessie was too touch frightened to answer, so, without waiting, tho funny little crea- ture went on. "I suppose " he said, "tint if I don't tell you who 3 am first, you woi,M tell mo who yul are. Don't look so scared, I never hurt 011) 000. I ant a Grass Spirit." "I never saw you before," said Jessie, in such a hoarse, frigatened voice, she hardly knew it for her own. 1 0,1 e,e1 aoyf tom.bo 1.1 een yr: eNcvi ht lei ne eevr tu ee yor t‘b hI rouwt yourself down on tbe cool, green grass, and think how uice it is to feel so happy and. comfornble, I am there close, though yo10 don't see ine. Thou I run often in other places, too. When the babies run about on the grass and like to feel it beneath their bare little toes, 1009 there beside them, and when the.good people in the cities bring sick children into the country for a picnic under the trees, I hide behind one of the truuks and listen to them laugh, and help them en- joy themselves, though they do not know it. Then when the cows or goats are nibbling at the long grass in the fields, I am making it taste good." " You must be very kind," said Jessie, getting over her fright a little now. • The Grass Spirit smiled. "You wouldn't have thought so once," he said, "but I have had it lesson. I uried to be a. little boy, nut I was not always kind, for I kept re- fusing to do anything that would make any one else feel happy, till one day I fell asleep beside a bank, something like this' only there wore no trees 01 11, just tallgrass hero and there, and I sitpped off into the water in my sleep and something happened, I don't know what ; but I was changed in- to a 'Grass Spirit,' and rose out of the water all green ,with long grass hanging front my shoulders, and my hands all shrivelled ' up worse than you see them, because they are getting bigger now ell the time. "1 could not bear to look at them atfirst, and I 9900 00 angry I would tear handfuls of the grass off my shoulders. You see it was because I never used my hands to do any- thing kind, that they became shrivelled 104. " When I got out of the water I found, after awhile, that my heart was changed too, and had become so soft that I kept flying about trying to make some one else happy. One day I met another Grass Spirit,' and he told me that if I kept on as I was, being kind to people for the samenumberof years that I had not been kind to them, that I svould get changed back again into a buy. But look 1 The sun is setting. and I gener- ally travel at uight, so I must be off." And while Jessie watched in astonish- ment, tho Grass Spirit soared away and was soon out of sight She was wondering what would happen next, when she felt herself gradually slip- ping, slipping down the bank. In her terror alio clung to the grass. She was close to the water now, and in another minute would be changed into a Grass Spirit. Was it possible she had been dreaming, and that We was her mother's hand holding hors? She was safe enough 181118 her head on hor mother's lap, and her hand in hers. " Why, Jessie," said the well-known voioe, "what 0 the matter, my dear, you are shivering as if you had been frightened in yea sleep 1" " Oh, materna, ib was a dream then," said Jessie, looking about her in a bewil- rimed way. " I am so glad, and I will nievea run away again when you want me to take 8011101/1Ing 10 A sick person." In the Midst of Our Prayers. FROM ATZ SOURCE'S brought, the average ep to 123dwt per ton. 'no cyanide of potassium process has been so lately adopted that tailings aro being produced eight times faster than they can at present be dealt with, The mass of aa. cumulated tailing: has,therefore,to be reck- oned in the assets of tho future. The lete depressina in shares is another foot which is recknned by the owners of 0001e0 as a cam of increase in the output. It has had the Mime of sending under-gronnd Imagers, minieg engineers, and others einployed in the miners away from the speculative mark. ors and book to their work, where during the boom it wee next door to an impossibil- ity to keep them. The result has been a considerable development, which 18 DOW ellowing trait. Year by year since the first returns were made upon the Rand, in the middle of 1887, the figures of the output have shown a steady increase. Ear the first half year up to the end of 1887 they were 23,1550z ; in 1838, 208,121oz ; in 1889, 369,- 557oz ; in 1800, 494,8170z •, in 1891, 72.9,• 338oz ; and for the six months which have elapsed of 1392 the total returns have al- ready reached 564,452rm There seems to be little doubt io the minds of the bed nien of Jolumnesborg thee this increase might be expected to grow steadily. The opening of the railway will further so oheapen trans- port as to render possible the working of a number of low-grade reefs which are at pron. ant considered unpayablo ; and if the views generally entertained with Toped to the dee, -level workings be correct, the basin of the Rand maybe held to be only at the be- ginning of an utiparalleled record of gold prodootion, But profitable development may have to wait, like that of other indus. tries, for the opening of the railway, Office " Kinder POots Up." " Well, you got the office V' "Yen" " What did 18 cost you ?" " That'e a hard qteation. Yee zee, broke my leg mooting for it and that cost considerable ; then, my bnother-in-law WAS killed milking a speech for me and 3 had to bony hitt then I barbeetied all my cattle, Itilled throe-1ml es ridin' around tho aotintry, mortgaged the farm and got A divorce from tile family ; so, you see, it kinder foots up 1" --- A collation of butterflies long owned by Baron von Yielder, of VISI1T1A, WAS reeotttly soyi to Lord Rothethill, of London, fOr 515000, 4114. Can you ever keep your mied ten minutes on one supplication? FM of no clam While you are praying your store comes in, your kitchen 0011108 in, losses and gains come in. The minister spreada his hands for prayer, you put your head on the back of the pew in front, and travel nOtInC1 the world in five minutes, A brother rises in prayer meeting to lead in supplioation. Afton he has begun the door slams, and you peep throtigh your fingers to see who has mono in. You say to yourself, "What a finely expressed prayer 1" or "What a blundering speolmen I But how long 10 1000(15 on I Wish he would stop 1 He prays for the world's conversion. 'wonder how much he gives toward it? There, don't believe 3 turned the gas down in the parlor I Wooden if Bridget has gone home yet? Wonder if they have thought to take that cake out of the 0110105 018, what mo fool I was to put my name on the book of that note I Ought to 11E00 sold those goods foe oash, and not credit I" and so you go on tumbling over one thing after another until tho gentleman oloses his prayer With Anion 1 and you life up your head, saying, "There, I haven't prayed one bit ; I am note, Chris- tian." Yes, you are, if you have resisted the tendency. Christ knows how much you have resisted, and how thorottghly we are disordered of sin, and He 'will mok out the °tie earnest petition from the rubbish and answer it To the very depth of His nature He sympethinee with the infirmity of our ' prayer, --IT. 130 'WittTalmage. Mancheater Ship Cana. The total length of the Manchester Ship Canal will be /151. miles, The enrage width at water level will be 17210, and the mini. mum depth 26 ft. The minimum depth of the canal at the bottotn will be 190ft, except between Barton and Manobes. ter, whore it will bo 17018. At Salford dooks there will be a water space of 71 acres, an area of quays of 129 miles and n length of quays of over three miles, 'the Manchester dooks will have 11, water space of 33 eau, an area of quays of 28 acres and a length of quays nearly two miles. At the Partington Coal BASill there will be a water space of 50 Dorn, itti area of quays of 20 mires, and 11 length of quays of half.tom110. The proposed cloths at War. ringten will, when they aro constru;ted, oover awaterapace of over Whores an area of quays of seven mires, and e botih o: glove of over half.eamilo. The largo locks Bastlutm aro 0000 by gott, the into. mediate 3500 by 50ft, aud tho small looks Izort by 3018, The large lecke tit latch. ford, lrlam, Barton, and Mode Wheal aro each 60021 by 61)! 0, enet the iotormediato looks 350ft by 450, There will be sobsid iany rocks at Westow Oelioaoh, Weston Merney, Bridgewater Canal, and Ituneorn, (Old (uay). The biggest eel rank in the world in at the Waterloo terminus in Londoe of the London and Sooth•Western Baillyny Coin. pany. It ex tends from York Road, under. uoath tho railway archee, up to the arrival platform, And is between a third anti it quarter of 0011110 in length. 'Upwards of n thousand cabs aro called iu the course of the twoutpfout hours.