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small barns in difFerent meadows. These save carting, both of hay 

 and n)anure. In no case should hay be foddered out to cattle with- 

 out some kind of shelter. A hovel opening to the south can be 

 made very cheaply, and with a light wall and thatched roof, it will 

 keep cattle quite comfortable. They will save the cost of building 

 in a single winter. Now is the time to put them up. 



PEOPLE WHO LIVE WITHOUT WATER. 



The day befor" we reached the Orange River we fell in with a 

 kraal of Hottentots, whom to our great surprise, we found living in 

 a locality altogether distitute of water. The milk of their cows and 

 goats supplied its place. Their cattle, moreover, never obtained 

 water, but found a substitute in a kind of ice plant (ines>zmhryan- 

 themnm) of an exceedingly succulent nature, which abounds in 

 these regions. But our oxen, not accustomed to such diet, would 

 rarely or never touch it. Until I had actually convinced myself, 

 as I had often the opportunity of doing at an after period, that men 

 and beasts can live entirely without water, I should, perhaps, have 

 had some difficulty in realizing this singular i&Gt.— Anderson s Four 

 Years Wanderings in Southivest Africa. 



A Good Lesson. — At a certain knitting establishment in Troy, 

 says the Worcester (Mass.) Transcript, the proprietor some weeks 

 since informed his hands that ho should be obliged to suspend oper- 

 ations, as he had no demand for his goods. The operators avoided 

 a suspension, however, by a method as novel as it was creditable. 

 They ran the mill on half time, and purchased in the afternoon the 

 goods which they had manufactured in the morning, peddling them 

 through the city and vicinity. In this way they have kept them- 

 selves in employment ever since. 



