his humble crust of bread, as he sits by the refreshing spring. It is because experience has 

 long proved that it helps to sustain his strength also, and adds (beyond what its bulk would 

 suggest) to the amount of nourishment which his simple meal supplies. 



Somebody advices, in a note to us, that the blossoms of the Ailanthus be clipped off every 

 year before they begin to give their nauseous odor. If the gentleman would just trim a couple 

 of dozen by way of pastime, perhaps he would change his mind as to the labor, to say nothing 

 of very decided if not satisfactory effect of such cutting upon the trees. The place to cut is at 

 the roots, Mr. Clinton-place ; cut off the dog's tail about an inch back of the ears, if you 

 would be sure to prevent him from running mad. — N. Y. Paper. 



Prize Awarded. — The Society for encouraging National Industry in France, which had 

 instituted a prize of 3,000 francs for the introduction of the most useful plants into the mother 

 country or the colonies, has just decided that the above sum shall be this year divided equally 

 between M. Diard, who has introduced a new kind of sugar cane into the island of Keunion, 

 and M. Fery, who has established extensive rice plantations near La Teste, in the landes of 

 Bordeaux. 



Useful Investigations. — The Commissioner of Patents has sent Mr. Glover to Florida, 

 where he is to pass some months in studying the insects pei-nicious or beneficial to rice, tobacco, 

 sugar cane, orange, the cotton plant and other staple vegetables. Mr. Glover's investigations 

 into the habits of the destructive insects in the Middle States will be published in the next 

 agricultural report. 



Cotton Seed Oil. — Mr. Shephard, of Galveston, Texas, it is announced, is perfecting a 

 valuable invention by which he can produce oil by compressure from cotton seed. One hun- 

 dred pounds of seed yield from twelve to fifteen pounds of oil, which, when properly clarified, 

 is equal to sweet oil for machinery, and is superior to ordinary lamp oil, while it can be sold 

 at one half or one third the cost of either. Another source of income is the cake formed of the 

 seed when the oil is pressed out. It is said to be valuable for feeding hogs and other farm 

 stock. Cotton seed has heretofore been regarded as entirely useless. 



Wine Making is getting to be a profitable business in Lower California, where the vineyards 

 are extensive. One proprietor last year had twenty-five thousand bottles of wine from his 

 vineyard, and this year he expects a greater yield. 



The above we clip from a newspaper. No doubt but the climate is entirely suitable 

 for the manufacture of wine in California as well as here. In a little trip through 

 Chester County in this State lately, we observed a large number of vines in growth in 

 large fields on the European plan, no doubt intended to supply this market, or for wine 

 making. Will some of our correspondents inform us? 



Camellias in Cornwall, Eng. — In the gardens of J. S. Bedford, Esq., of Pendrea, near 

 Penzance, I noticed a splendid Camellia just coming into full bloom, and bearing upwards of 

 2000 buds and flowers, all fine and perfect. The size of the plant is 7 ft. high, 1 1 ft. in 

 diameter, and 33 ft. in circumference. The gardener informed me that it has been in the open 

 air throughout the past very severe winter ; but a slight covering is now thrown over it, to 

 protect it from the cold east wind and hoar frost. When planted in 1848, it was only a foot 

 high. — {Gard. Chron., p. 317.) 



WiKE Worm. — This can be entirely extirpated, by using hog manure. So says a correspon 

 ^|cnt of the Rural New-Yorker. 



