185G.] Glass Milk Pans.— Could' nt tell the Difference. 521 



The field and the council chamber he sought from duty ; but his 

 farm at Mount Vernon, where he wisely directed the plow, from 

 choice and pleasure. 



" Wide, wide may the world feel the power of the plow. 

 And yield to the sickle a fullness delishtinff • 

 May this be our conquest, the earth to subdue, 

 Till all join the song of the haiTest inviting, 



The sword and the spear 



Ai'e only knowni here 

 As we plow, or we prune, or we toU void of fear ; 

 And the fruit and Ihe flower all smile in their bii-th. 

 All greeting the Farmer, the Prince of the Eakth. 



Glass Milk Pans.— L. Y. Bierce, of Akron, Ohio, has been ex- 

 perimenting a little with milk in glass pans, and furnishes the result 

 to the Ohio Farmer : 



General Bierce says:— "I took the milk of the same cow, milked 

 at the same time, and divided it equally, putting half in a glass pan, 

 and half in a tin pan, and placed them side by side. At the expira- 

 tion of twenty -four hours, the milk in the tin pan was sour; that in 

 the glass pan sweet an'd good. At the end of twelve hours more, 

 that in the tin was thick clahber or lohhered, as the Yankees call it' 

 and that in the glass began to turn. 



From this, I believe glass pans will preserve milk one third lon- 

 ger than tin pans. Will our dairymen try it?" 



Couldn't tell the Difference.— A loafer got hold of a o-reen 

 persimmon, which (before they are ripened by the frost) are said to 

 be the most bitter and imchery fruit known. 



He took the persimmon outside the garden wall, and commenced 

 upon It by seizing a generous mouthful of the fruit, which proved to 

 be m a state to frizzle his lips and tongue most provokino-ly 



"How do you like it?" inquired the owner of the garden, who 

 had been watching him. 



The saliva was oozing from the corners of the fellow's mouth, and 

 he was only able to reply: 



" How do I look, naber ? Am I wisslin' or singin '.?" 



