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sas Pacific Eailway, and timber for the uses of the road, is ouly a mat- 

 ter of effort and time." 



Tennessee Industrial Exposition. — We note with pleasure tbe 

 complete success of the exposition of the industries of Tennessee, which 

 took place at Kashville in May. Much interest was manifested in the 

 enterprise, which was the first of its kind in the State, and its originators 

 and managers met with ample encou^ agement. The substantial and capa- 

 cious building- devoted to the exposition was thronged with visitors for 

 twenty days. Tennessee is rich in many of the chief elements of mate- 

 rial wealth, and such exhibitions as this will soon teach all her people 

 that it is their true policy to develop them. 



The census establishes the fact that petite culture, or small farming, 

 has made rapid encroachments during the past decade upon the bound- 

 aries of large farms and the system of mixed husbandry in the vicinity 

 of our large" cities. The production of poultry, eggs, milk, small fruits, 

 vegetables, &c., can be successfully engaged in u])on small parcels of 

 land and with limited means in the neighborhood of a good market, 

 and the number who have within the past few years embarked in this 

 business is greater than has been generally supposed. 



Vetches. — Dr. H. E. Casey, the correspondent of the Department 

 for Columbia County, Georgia, writes that last winter he sowed in his 

 garden a pint of vetch seed, procured in France, as an experiment. On 

 tbe 11th of June it had produced a beautiful bed of green forage, over 

 a foot high and very thickly matted. The opinion is expressed by our 

 correspondent that the plant will make good green pasturage, but will 

 possess mote value as dry forage. The yield on good ground, he thinks, 

 would be heavy. 



A POTATO planter. — There has recently been patented another ma- 

 chine for planting potatoes, which, it is claimed, makes the furrow, de- 

 liosits the seed, and covers it up, by going but onceover the ground, and 

 can be used with either one or two horses. A machine of this character 

 that will do its work well is wanted by farmers, and we hope that com- 

 j)lete success may soon be obtained in this class of agricultural imple- 

 ments. 



Lima beans in California. — Captain Jonathan Mayhew, of Santa 

 Clara Valley, has a field of 100 acres in Lima beans. The crop is in very 

 liromisiug condition. The beans sell at about 3i cents per pound when 

 the common white beans bring 2J cents, and are said to be no more 

 trouble to cultivate or to market. 



Squirrel skins valuable. — Squirrels are so great a nuisance in 

 California that a bounty of 10 cents per head is paid for their destruc- 

 tion. Mr. Frank Tracy has killed and trapped 10,000 in one season, for 

 which he got $1,000 bounty. He sent the skins to Paris, where they 

 sold at 15 cents each, swelling his receipts to $2,500 for his captures. 

 The skins are said to be more valuable than those of the rat or kid in 

 the manufacture Of gloves. 



Texas cattle. — A dispatch from Abilene, Kansas, dated June 9, 

 states that one dealer in Texas cattle arrived there that day with 5,000 

 head of mixed stock and 2,000 beeves. A close calculation foots u}) 

 132,000 head of Texan cattle now within a ^radius of twenty-five miles 

 of Abilene. 



