California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



Cleaning a Field From Thistles With 

 Sheep. 



Mr. Hawkins aud Mr. Broughton, of So- 

 lano county, live near together. They each 

 have a hundred acre field adjoining. The 

 soil is alike. Year after year these fields 

 have been sown in wheat until the average 

 croi> was not more than fifteen or twenty 

 bushels to the acre; beside this the little 

 thistle, or nettle as some caU it, had almost 

 taken possession of them. During the 

 month of February last year, Mr. Hawkins 

 put 600 sheep on his and let them remain 

 until August. In the meantime they ate up 

 every particle of vegetation and trampled the 

 whole field into a perfect dust bed. Yet 

 when they were taken off they were per- 

 fectly fat. Last winter it was put in wheat, 

 and when harvested produced fifty-eight 

 bushels to the acre, the whole being per- 

 fectly free from thistles, while Mr. Brough- 

 ton got only fifteen from his, and any 

 amount of thistles. May not farmers learn 

 a lesson from this? This land did not lie 

 profitless as fallow ground does, but the 

 sheep were a source of revenue. While 

 thoy enriched the soil they cleared it of 

 weeds and prepared it for a more abundant 

 yield. — Sonoma Demoivai. 



A Model Republic. 



The little Republic of Switzerland, perched 

 among the Alps, is the pattern Republic of 

 the world. Its population consists of 2,- 

 400,000 souls, and there are 485,000 house- 

 holds of families. Of the heads of these 

 famihes 405,000 possess landed property, so 

 that the whole of the real estate of the Re- 

 public may be said to be distributed among 

 the whole of its people. The exports of the 

 country amount to $58,000,000, and the rate 

 of pauperism is the lowest in Europe. Taxes 

 are nominal, officers' salaries low, defalca- 

 tion and civic corruption are unknown, and 

 the oflices (local and federal) go a begging. 

 Such are a few of the effects of the extensive 

 diffusion of property, and nearly equal pay 

 for service public aud private. 



Advancing and Retreating Races. 



As the wild man retreats, so the wolf who 

 shared the forest with him is forced to yield 

 to the prowess of the dog, that comiianion 

 of the second; while the lordly bison is com- 

 pelled, year by year, though the requisite 

 " nine points of law " be on his side, to re- 

 linquish his rich prairie haunts to the more 

 sturdy ox. The wild hog, too, that most in- 

 trepid and tenacious of brutes, disappears in 

 some unaccountable way from his favorite re- 

 sort of field aud forest, where the domestic 

 hog roots aud riots in his stead in ever-in- 

 creasing numbers. Wherever these two op- 

 posing forces meet there seems to be but one 

 inevitable result — the lower type must con- 

 form to, and be blended with the higher, or 

 be exterminated. — Phrmological Journal. 



Testing SEEre. — In n portion of Den- 

 mark, where one-fifth of the land is culti- 

 vated to clover, the vitality of the seed is 

 tested by placing a quantity of the seed on a 

 knife blade, and heating it over a lighted 

 candle. The good seed will pop open and 

 pop off, while the worthless remains and car- 

 bonizes on the blade. Mr. Christian Baggs, 

 of Oakland, reminds us of this fact in res- 

 ponse to an inquiry for practical tests for 

 seeds. — Ttural Press. 



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SAN JOSE INSTITUTE AND BUSINESS 

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A Day and Boarding School for 

 Both Sexes. 



The next session commences the first Mon- 

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The Faculty consists of a corps of eight 

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The Modern Languages, Drawing and 

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