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vajjinal injections of very dilute carbolic acid, or of perinangauate of 

 potash, so as to destroy any iufection germs that may have penetrated 

 therein. 



Hatching silk-worm egg-s at will. — M. Daclanx has i)resented 

 to the Academy of Sciences of Paris an article npon the method of pro- 

 ducing at will the hatching of the eggs of the silk-worm, in which he 

 remarks that shortly after their discliarge, and as soon as n change of 

 color takes place, the eixg enters ui)on a kind of rest, or sleep, which 

 usually lasts 'until winter, and from which it can only emerge under the 

 action of cold, in consequence of which the evolution of the embryo — 

 stationary until that time — has a beginning. The impulse once given^ 

 this evolution must go on, and sometimes is interfered with very mate- 

 rially by continued cold, so as to cause the death of the eggs, or else 

 results in a feeble [)rogeny, that becomes involved in disease. The 

 duration of this second period in the history of the egg, occupying from 

 3 to 3.J months, cannot be materially modified when once begun without 

 danger, but the tirst, lasting 5 or G mouths, is more manageable, and 

 the period can be reduced to 20 days, or extcmded to 18 months, at will. 

 To prevent an egg from develoi)ing at the ordinary period, it is necessary 

 to keep it, from the moment of laying, at a temperature between 59° 

 and 08° Fahrenheit, and to expose it to cold during a period of 15 

 days, at least three months before the appointed time for hatching. On 

 the other hand, to cause the egg to hatch before the ordinary time, it is 

 necessary to expose it to cold 20 days after laying, and to leave it at 

 that teniperature for two mouths, and then to remove it. Six weeks 

 after it will be found to be in the same condition as the normal eggs, 

 and may be treated in the same manner. lu this way it is possible to 

 have the eggs ready to hatch out at any time of the year. 



FACTS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. 



Homesteads in Florida. — Governor Harrison Eeed, in his message 

 to the legislature, recommends "that homesteads be granted to actual 

 settlers upon the State lands upon the same terms as now allowed by 

 the United States Government." He also speaks of the sources of wealth, 

 as follows: " Fisb, oysters, and turtle for eleveu hundred miles of sea- 

 coast, abound, almost beyond parallel, with bays and inlets, and inland 

 navigable waters, of an equal extent, offer the richest inducements to 

 enterprise and capital, if properly protected by law. Let these mines of 

 wealth be divided into convenient districts, and rented to individuals or 

 companies for stated periods, with protection sufficient to induce the 

 systematic working of them, and a revenue may be derived sufficient, 

 in a few years, to pay the entiie expenses of the State government. 

 With the facilities of transportation now enjoyed, St. Andrews' Bay, 

 Apalachicola, Cedar Keys, and Tampa Bay oysters may soon be as cel- 

 ebrated in the markets of Savannah, Charleston, Saint Louis, and the 

 cities of the interior, as the " Saddle Rocks" are in New York, and in- 

 stead of receiving canned oysters, sardines, and salt fish from the North, 

 we may successfully compete in their markets with the products of any 

 portion of the world." 



Tea in Georgia. — William Jones, one of the editors of the Southern 

 Cultivator, Athens, Georgia, has been experimenting with the tea-plant. 

 lU'\L8(>0 he received from the agricultural department of the Patent 



