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 Horticultural. a mucilage composed as follows will For The.Yoiingr Agricultural. The Kentucky Importing com;;
 sold thirty-six shorthorns
 _, i unite wood, porcelain or glass : 8} of recent 1 u .
 ( The Two! Ponlesj Market Chicks. portation at an aggregate $14505
 of arabic in strong solu-
 Cultivating Tuberoses. Dunces ,gum' Mattie and Charles were brother and There is always ready sale for early The highest price for a single animal
 tion 20 grains of solution of alumina
 Tuberose bulbs, in order to preserve sister. Their father was a well-to-do chicks the prices this season for those was $1000., '
 dissolved in two-thirds ,of an ounce of ,
 their which will perish in a low farmer and they his only children. I about
 germs, water were intended as broilers (weighing Hoeing; and the frequent<< stirring
 temperature if accompanied with mois- They loved and were interested in every one pound) ranging from forty to eighty, the surface of the soil,, are important<*

 ture,need to be kept dry and warm. The An English experimentalist finds c rent u n* oitbt-farm, but best of all they cents; but such sizes are only in de- dry wtather. Those parts of the Jn

 temperature! should not fall below tt5, that for every pound of mineral matter oved the horses.: When little, nothing mand in the early part of the season, that are most frequently cultivated ganfca

 and near 70 is better. A drawer in a assimilated by a plant,an average of delighted them so much as to be those weighing about two pounds each the best results. shot

 warm room is a good place to keep themin :20UO pounds of water is absorbed. As mounted upon D lbin's buck and ride desirable during the summer.
 being more luashes and all kinds of
 the best condition. Take the old the French observatory of Mont Soujit and dmvn the vines grow
 up lanes. As they grew the 1st of May is the period for
 About and yield the best by
 I surface
 found that in rich soil 727
 bulb and each small separatl- i was vent11't'fI'mona and the culture-
 remove one older thy by broilers or during "asparagus time, >
 ounds of water the manure as you would for corn
 passed through ,
 ly. Sometimes the young bulbs need : linn* they were twelve years old no one farmers express it ; but at all ;drop
 roots of wheat plants for every poundof as the seed in rows; cover lightly ;'stir tae
 to be strong J soil
 another season's growth was better trained in the use of horses fowls bring good, prices.
 enough to bloom. A bulb never blooms grain produced, while in a very poor than they. Mattie especially delighted times There several! points tube observedin often, and eternal vigilance is death to(

 but once. A good plan in this climate soil 2093 pounds passed through the iu this amusement, aiidfrom a child up raising are fowls, the pmlit being more bugs with a good sprinkling- in3etl

 would be to start the bulbs about the roots for each pound of grain. told all her sorrows and troubles to these or less according to the method of breed- powder.

 first of February; 'in four-inch pots, or THE PULSE OF ANIMALS.-In horses trusted and faithful friends. She.and ing. Much depends ujn-n the kind of Early potatoes imply early planting

 tin cans will do, as they are not to be the pulse at rest beats forty times"in an her brother often asked their ,father to fowl used. The Brahma is one of the Xo matter what variety is used, early

 set in the window. *Set them on a high ox from fifty to fifty-live, and in sheep give them each a pony. Tht-ir. father best we have for general purposes.as planting must precede early crop

 shelf back or near the kitchen stove, or and pigs about seventy to eighty beats would laugh and say, .Tut, tut, children that breed grows to a large size, lays And cultivation must be timely to(

 other warm place, and water just per minute. It may be felt wherever a ; wait until you know how to man- well, and is hardy, but while it possesses secure best results. As between level

 enough to keep them,from drying out. large artery crosses a bone, for instance.It age a horse before you glut out*. Belles many good qualities it is unfitted for culture and hillings the advantage can

 When the leaf bulbs begin to start, givea is generally examined In the horseon all that I have is yours." Mill producing broilers,as it is "leu'gy" when be determined by trial. On Ian4 too

 little more water; turn at the the cord which crosses over the bone they each wanted one for their "very very young and does not readily fatten moist for potatoes ridge planting Rill

 side of the pot, never on the bulb. of the lower jaw in front of its curved own," as Mattie expressed it. I until it is nearly matured. A cross of supply partial correction of the fault,bet

 When the season becomes warm, trans- position, or in thebony ridge above One morning when Charles was fifteen the Leghorn on the Brahma is one of thorough drainage will be a better way.
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 plant to the open ground-being careful the eye, and in cattle over the middle of and Mattie fourteen, their father called ; the best that can be made if early pullets In any case, early planting is essential

 to disturb them as little as possiblein the first rib, and in sheep by placing the them to come out to the barn. Therein are to b* kept for laying in the fall, an early crop is desired.

 transplanting. I have treated bulbsin hand on the left side, where the beatingof the stalls stood two of the most beau- as such a cross combines the quick GERANIUMS.-No class of

 this way that gave me blossoms on the heart may be felt. Any material tiful ponies you ever saw, one as whiteas growth of the Leghorn with the size, better for planta are

 the Fourth of July, and during the variation of the pulse from the figures milk and the other as black as ;i and hardiness of the Brahma, and adapted bedding purposes in
 vigor
 our hot dry' summers than the :
 season thirty-three blossoms on the given above may be considered a sign of coal. little gera
 broilers produced though a
 the so ,
 nium. It flowers profusely the
 01! father both exclaimed during
 they ,
 disease. If rapid, hard and full, it is an ,
 stem.How slower in reaching the weight,
 proper
 to Keep Cut Flowers. "what beauties! heat and drouth of summer, when motft
 indication of fever inflammation
 high or
 lite-boned and attractive inawear.wce.
 A found his into florist's are plump bedding plants suffer or are dried
 reporter way ; if rapid, small and weak, low "Yes, they air, aid Mr. Dunn ; possessing rich yellow skin up.
 afternoon and feasted his They are admirably adapted for
 yesterday "as this is Mattie birthday! I thoughtshe bloom-
 fever,loss of blood or weakness. If slow, and In crossing Leghorn with the
 eyes and nose on the beautiful buds that the to brain disease would like a pony and as yours is legs. ing, and for baskets or vases ; when x
 probabilities point breeds uniformity of color can be
 lay in bouquets there. and if irregular to heart troubles. Thisis coming so soon, I kno\v it Mould add to large brown Lctihmn cocks show is wanted they are without a rivaL
 How long will this clove pink last?" her i\eisureif! [ should give }oU yoursat secured by mating The newer double varieties are equally
 one of the principal and sure t&ts! of Cochin dark Brahma
 be inquired. an animal. the same time. I think you are both I with partridge, or as fine for bedding as the single, with
 Oh with care a week or ten days.A hens, or white Leghorn cocks ith light:
 able to take care of a horse now, aid the additional value of the flower lasting
 solid rosebud will last about the same One of the most ingenious adaptationsof may Snow takn! and Jet lead you alwaysin Brahma or white Cochin hens. two or three times as long when cut;

 time. There's good deal in knowing electricity, recently introduced, is pleasant paths. Here jump on now, Of the pure breeds there is nothing this maker them very desirable for bouquets -

 haw to keep flowers fresh." that by which machinery, when in motion aid let due see you gallop off. that can compare with the Plymouth or cut flowers.CONSTITUTION .

 "Do you use any preparations? Any may be instantly stopped-as in Two more happy mortals you never Rocks for producing the most saleable I ALLUVIAL Sits

 salt in the water, or ammonia, or the the case of an engine. A wire rope, saw. Dmles did not say much but chicks up to the age of three months, :' -Alluvial soils are made up of decom-

 like ?" coiled around the stem of the throttle his father ki.ew he felt as deeply: as and younger ones as broilers are excel- substances

 "Not at all. That's all nonsense. All valve of the engine, carries a weight Mattie, who hugged first her father and lent. Being very hardy, good foragersand posed sediment vegetable and materials the river

 that is necessary to keep flowers fresh is which is held in place by a rest, and then her pony: "There, there, that active, they grow fast and make a washed down

 to keep them moist and cool. If people, the whole arrangement is such that the is enough ; jump on now," said their plump carcass. '1'hmerican :Se- from rivers neighboring hills. The valleys of
 and streams are alluvial soils and
 instead of dipping flowers in water would passing of an electric current along a i father, while something glistened in his bright (Wyandotte) rivals the Ply-
 make a rank growth, but the trees
 simply wrap them. up in a wet news- wire releases this and causes the weightto eyes, and in another instant they were Hock in all qualities except hardiness, grownon
 paper, they would find that they would fall. The tension thus thrown upon I down the lane and soon out of sight. and have yellow legs at every stage of such soils are not so hardy or so

 keep far fresher over night. |A wet the wire ropes acts upon the throttle Such a ride they had, and this was the growth, while the legs of Plymouth fruitful as are the trees grown iu soils

 towel or napkin would be two heavy andS valve, cuts off the supply of steam and beginning of many delightful journeys. Rock pullets are dark, turning yellow with more sand, clay or gravel and less-

 crush the blooms too much,and, besides, consequently<< stops the machinery. Mattie would have lived upon horsebackif afterward. The only objection to vegetable mould. A loamy soil may fce'
 would allow the moisture to I considered in various way*. It may l* I
 it evapor- Buttons, with wire connections, are it had been iNissible: hills, stone walls them is that being a new breed theyare
 atetooeasily. See that box of buds? They placed in different parts of the works, or ditches were no obstacles: in her path at the present time too closely bred. a mixture of equal parts of sandy and

 were packed in Boston on Monday in I and on pressing any one of these the now, for Snowtlake- carried her safely The Langshan, a new breed, is as line in clayey soil. It is neither light as sandy

 wet paper, and you might say they are I' passage of an electric current acts as over them without fear. The neighbors plumage, size, laying qualities and nor so tenacious as the clay soil. As a

 fresher now than when they came oft the above mentioned. In every factory used to say to Mr. Dunn : "Mattie will flesh as one would wish ; but, having rule its composition and texture are suchI
 tmah___" I as to render it eligible for the usual purposes -
 w these electric buttons can be placed in kill herself yet, if you don't get rid of dark legs, many buyers object to them. I
 do send clear to Boston for of cultivation, and especially! so
 Why you every room, or several of them iu a Snowflake. Why, to-day, in crossingthe The objection, however, is owing to a
 rose buds? Haven't you got the same large room, as may be required. field, she never even took down the time honored prejudice, for the Lang- for fruit trees. Loamy soils in which

 kind of roses here?" Should any one happen to be caught by bars but went over them. I expectedto shan and Ifoudan (a dark-legged fowl) sand forms a large ingredient in their

 "Exactly the same kind, but they the machinery, the simple pressing of a see her dashed to pieces, but before I are superior for the table to nearly all composition are called sandy; I loams;

 won't grow so nicely here. Take this button in the most distant part of the could say a word she was out of sight." the yellow-legsjed breeds. A cross of when well mixed with gravel, gravelly
 Boston bud for example and put i loams, and when lime abounds they an
 factory will quickly stop the whole Mattie told all her secrets to her pet, the game with the large breeds givesa
 beside a native bud. They are of exact- known as calcareous loams.
 machinery. fowl with fuller and finer bone
 and, as when a little child, declared she .breast ,
 ly the same variety, both being Bon _... _
 which should be the
 understood her, and, indeed, Snowflake encouraged, as
 Silenes. But the stem of the Boston Gas for Nothing at a Profit.
 seemed to. smaller the amount of offal the better
I How
 Animals
 bud is far longer and stouter than.that In the course of a few years the dear the quality. For market chicks, there- Play.

 of the native bud. The colors are far Scientific prophets have foretold thata father died, and things did not go ou as fore, the broilers should come from theLeghornBrahma

 more brilliant and the bud is more dur- day will come when the "residualproducts" prosperously as before. They were in cross, the larger sizes

 able. When the stem is long and thickwe resulting from distilling coal want of many things, and the winterwas from the Plymouth Hocks, Wyandottes, Small birds chase each other about in

 don't have to use so much wire to will be so valuable as to reduce the coming on. One thing after another Houdas aud uigshans, while the I play, but perhaps the conduct of the

 strenghten it, and that makes it much price of gas to a mere nothing. That even Jethad to to be sold. Mattie adults should be produced from Umh-I crane and the trumpeter is most el1norI -
 dinary. The latter stands one leg,
' mom convenient. good time has not arrived it must be would jog along through the woods inas or Cochins crossed with the Plymouth I on
 I I hops around in the most eccentric manner -
 "What advantage has Boston over confessed, but if we may believe the confident and tell her sorrows to :Snowflake, feel- Kock or Houdan. The best

 Cleveland in the raising of roses?" assertions of a gentleman at ing comforted in: the belief that she sympathized capons are a cross of the colored Dor- 1 I and throws somersaults. This
 "It's the climate. It is true that it I I l Americans call it the mad bird, on account 
 Chester there is already in existencean with her. But there came a I II \ king and dark Brahma, and the largestfowl.'J
 isn't so warm there as here, and it hasn'tbeen appliance which long to- I day sad when i of these singularities. Water
 goes a way : a very day, Charles said are usually a cross of the Houdan
 extremely sultry here this winter. ward fulfilling these predictions. He to her: "Mattie, Snowflake must beI I and Brahma the first season, and the birds, such as ducks and geese, dive

 But temperature in a green-house is claims to know peculiar description of sold." -"Sell Snowllake 1 She had produce mated with Plymouth Mocks after each other, and clear the surfaceof

 easily enough regulated, as well as the oven for making coke which without of the water with outstreched neck and
 never thought such a thing as that. the second season. Black Spanish,
 quantity of moisture in the air, and the the.help of a high chimney, enables those Must it be ?" Yes, there was no help Hamburg and Polish, though excellent flapping wings, throwing abundant

 soil is made just so rich with all garde- who use it to drive steam engines with- for it. It was selfish in her to refuse it, layers, are inferior as market chicks.If spray around. Deer often engage in sham

 ners. It can't be because they are any out any expense for fuel. Every toll of so with aching heart she took her last success is desired breeders shouldbe battle, or trial of strength, by twist-

 more skillful in raising flowers there coal consumed in the oven yields coke ide. Charles led her away, and the careful in selecting the breeds most their horns together and pushing for the

 than we are here, for I know of gardeners worth seven shillings and tar and am- purchase money bought many a comfortfor ,suitable, as it is more important than mastery. All animals pretending vio-

 who have come here from the monia worth shillings, in addition to them and their dear mother, who any other feature in the manage- lence in their play stop short of wercb-

 East and expected to do the same things 14,000 feet of gas. If, therefore,the first was now growing feeble. Mattie 4ras ment. ing it ; the dog takes the greatest per-

 they did there, and failed completely.Even two products are sold, the price 11 shil- I comforted in the thought that her sor- Farm Hints. caution not to injure by his bite; and

 in New York the florist sell ten lings-more than pays for the slack coal row brought blessings to others, although Texas will net $13,00,000 from the the ourang-outang, in wrestling with
 Boston buds to one of their own growth, from which his keeper, pretends to throw him, and
 they were derived, as wellas she could never see a white horseor increase to her sheep farms! this spring.
 and it's just so all over the cuntry. You for labor, wear and interest on the think of Snowflake even without experiencing A young man inOtsego makes feints of biting him. Some
 know the more culture there is bestowed county,gained animals out in their prey.
 capital sunk in the plant. The manu- a cbokeing sensation and the carry
 $125,000 on rise in hops within the
 upon a rose the more double it be- facturer consequently gets 14,000 feet of having her eyes dimmed with tears. I last year. Young cats, for instance, leap after

I comes-that is the more of these stamens i gas for nothing from every ton of coal f every small and moving object, even to

I turn into petals. Well I suppose subjected to the process, and this he Some men can appreciate nothing but The wild duchess, of Geneva, a royal the leaves strewed by the autumn wind.

 that as Boston is credited with can use instead of fuel to generate according to its money value. Money shorthorn, was recently sold at Chicagofor They crouch and steal forward ready

 possessing an atmosphere of 'culcha,' steam. It is certainly a bold claim to with them is everything. Poisoned 21000. for a spring, the body quivering and tail

! that has something to do with it." put forward, but it may, perhaps, be food, if it has money in it, is preferredto Prof. Arnold admits that brewers' vibrating with emotion ; they bound on

I justified by the present prices of coke, wholesome food. Money is good and grain will stimulate a large flow of milk, the moving leaf, and again spring forward -

 Scientific and Useful. ammonia and tar. If, however, these necessary in its proper place, but thereis but says there is no butter in them, to another. Benger saw young;

 ovens come into general use, the market that which money cannot buy, and A sheep pasture in Dimmitt and Webb cougars and jaguars playing with round

 The largest aerolite in the world is in ,j I value of such products will assuredly compared with it is worse than tlrt>5S. counties, Tex., contains 300,000 acres substances, like kittens. IJirdsof the

 the British museum. It weighs nearly I'I fall heavily in proportion to the immense Truth and uprightness are above price. I and feeds aOO,000 sheep. It is believedto magpie kind are the analogues of monkeys -

 two tons. The largest one in the enhancement of supply, and in Money cannot buy them. It mattersnot be the largest in the world.A full of mischief, play and mimicry.

 Smithsonian, at Washington, weighs I that case the prices fetched would how much money a man may have, successful ochardist There LSI a story of a tame magpie that
 says that if hit
 less than a ton. I not cover the cost of materials and if he is not true and upright, he is not 'were to live over again he would trim was seen busily employed in a garden

 Hickory, dogwood and persimmon, labor. worthy of respect. his trees hinher and gathering pebbles with much solemnityand
 ..._ pasture his orchards
 ---- ,
 which, a short time ago, were almost 'I T with a studied air, burying them in *
 in
 sheep
 place of
 is
 Opposition what we want and must ploughing
 worthless in North Carolina, is now in Said a student of one college to a mulching.A or hole made to receive a post. After
 have, to be good for anythicg. Hardship -
 demand at five dollars a cord, for saw- friend who was attending a rival institution dropping each stone it cried lCur-ack'?
 is the native soil of manhood and Florida man has
 ing into blocks for the purpose of man- : "Your college never turns that grown a radish triumphantly, and sat off for another.On .
 self reliance. was over 2 feet long 18
 ufacturing them into power-loom shut out gentlemen." "No," was the reply. diameter and Inches in examining the spot, a poor toad

 tles.The A moderate wind blows seven miles "Our college allows gentlemen to go also a collard., weighed that fifteen pounds ; was found in the hole, which wit

 Journal de Pharmocic says that per hour. right on and graduate." 'I inches across the top.measured 4 feet 8 merit magpie was stoning for his amo Ie




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