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down : the vile, bitter, and briny water, from which 1 had hitherto 

 guarded my head, now rushed into my mouth, eyes, ears and nose, 

 and for one horrible moment the only doubt I had, was, whether I 

 was to be drowned or poisoned. Coming to the surface, however, I 

 swam to land, making no further attempt to walk in deep water, 

 which I am inclined to believe is almost impossible.— ^as^em Trav- 

 tier. 



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Milk now performs other offices besides the production of butter 

 and cheese, and the flavoring of tea. It has made its way into the 

 textile factories, and has become a valuable adjunct in the hands of 

 the calico printer and the woolen manufacturer. In the class of 

 pigment printing work, which is indeed a species of printino-, the 

 colors are laid on the face of the goods in an insoluble condition, 

 so as to give a full, brilliant appearance. As a vehicle for effecting 

 this process of decoration, the insoluble albumen obtainedfrom eoo^ 

 was always used, until Mr. Pattison, of Glasgow, Scotland, found^a 

 more economical substitute in milk. For this purpose buttermilk is 

 now bought up in large quantities from the farmers, and the de- 

 sired indissoluble matter is obtained from it at a price far below that 

 of egg albumen. This matter the patentee has called "lactarin." 

 A second application of the same— milk— has just been developed 

 by causes arising out of the recent high price of olive oil, which 

 having risen from |200 to $350 a ton, the woolen manufacturies are 

 now using the high-priced article mixed with milk. This compound 

 is said to answer much better than oil alone, the animal fat contain- 

 ed in the globules of the milk apparently furnishing an element of 

 more powerful effect upon the fibers than the pure vegetable oil 

 per se. 



Practical and scientific farming should go hand in hand; science 

 without practice, is unavailable; practice without science, is the quali- 

 ty of the brute. While science without practice will not produce a 

 blade of grass, every acre will produce more under the culture of a 

 practical hand guided by a scientific head. 



