California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



will add that when the youug fish begin to 

 feed, they come out of the water at the call 

 of a hen, when she finds a grain of corn or a 

 worm ; and after their return from sea, the 

 fisherman catch them by imitating a clucking 

 hen, and thus call them on shore. Queer 

 people, queer fish, queer editors of agricul- 

 tural papers, who print such stutj" in their 

 attempts to get up items on fish culture, 

 when they have no idea of its very first prin- 

 ciples. We meet this "item" often, and as 

 it seemed incomplete, we have taken the lib- 

 erty of finishing it. — Live Slock Joxirnal. 

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How TO Feed Youno Fish. — N. A. B., 

 Dunbar, Colorado, propounds a question to 

 Dr. W. A. Pratt, of Elgin, 111., to which the 

 Dr. responds. The question is : What, in 

 your opinion, is the best apparatus now in 

 use for preparing the food for young trout, its 

 cost, and where it may be had ? 



Any sausage grinder will answer the pur- 

 pose. After grinding, chop with a knife, 

 mixing a little water with it, but almost as 

 early as the young fish commence to eat in the 

 spring the green fly comes, and by running 

 a wire across a pond and hanging a piece of 

 liver upon it, the fly will " blow " it, and 

 about the third day the maggots will com- 

 mence dropping off, which will last the fish 

 about two days, which makes an excellent 

 food, and prevents fouling of the water. 

 By hanging on some liver or a piece of meat 

 once in two days, you can have a constant 

 dropping of food for the young fish, and a 

 very excellent food. There will be much less 

 odor than one would expect. The liver or 

 meat should not be hung more than a foot 

 from the water. 



Fish at the Centennial. 



It is the desire of the Centennial Commis- 

 sion of the International Exhibition to afford 

 all reasonable facilities for the exhibition of 

 fish and the various appliances and processes 

 used in fish culture. 



All parties engaged in the propagation of 

 fish as a business pursuit, will, no doubt, find 

 it of advantage to exhibit; as also, those who 

 are engaged in the manufacture of appliances 

 for the culture and capture of fish. 



It is therefore suggested that the Commis- 

 sioners of Fisheries of the various States, 

 take such concert of action as may surely ac- 

 complish so desirable an object. Individual 

 effort, however praiseworthy, can hardly be 

 relied upon as expressing the importance and 

 prospective extent of this new national indus- 

 try. 



The exhibition will open May 10th, 1876, 

 and will continue for six months. The de- 

 tails of arrangement for a display of fish and 

 fish breeding apparatus will be under the ad- 

 ministratiou of the Bureau of Agriculture. 



The Woman's World. — Although they may 

 not be willing to acknowledge it, the happi- 

 ness of the race depends to a great extent up- 

 on women. They regulate the domestic life, 

 and npon it, more than upon the great events 

 which fill the pages of history, depend indi- 

 vidual peace and comfort. Probably few 

 things have more to do with the happiness of 

 a household than the presence or absence of 

 that exquisite tact which rounds the sharp 

 comers, and softens the asperities of different 

 characters, enabling people differing most 

 widely to live together in peace, cheered by 

 mutual good ofiices. The possession of this 

 quality is tha especial characteristic, and its 

 exercise one of the most delightful preroga- 

 tives of womanhood. We may be willing to 

 lose all, to die, if need be, for those wo love, 

 but if we do not, from day to day, abstain 

 from the little unkind or thoughtless acts 

 ' which interfere -n-ith their comfort, wo shall 

 utterly fail to make them happy, and their 

 hearts will inevitably escape us. The heroic 

 and n-mgnifieent acts of life are few. To 

 many but one, to most none comes in a life- 

 time. Therefore influence can only come 

 through the right performance of the "trifles " 

 which " make the sum of human things." 



Duties and Privoleges of Women. 



BY M. £. THOMAS30M. 



EAR Sister Readers of the Agriculturist : — • 

 I had hoped long ago to have made 

 your acquaintance, and enjoyed with 

 you through the columns of our favorite 

 journal, many social chats ; but sickness and 

 home duties have kept mo silent ; I have 

 swept, dusted, and chased the flies ; I have 

 cooked, washed dishes, and darned the holes 

 in my husband's socks, because those things 

 must bo done. Common opinion gives all 

 such work, and very much beside to the wife. 

 In this way much has been thrust upon 

 woman that does not properly belong to her, 

 and much withheld from her to which she 

 has a just claim ; I do not allude to the bal- 

 lot box. It is my opinion that the right of 

 suffrage would not help the matter, nor en- 

 able woman to do anything for which her 

 constitution or her education has not fitted 

 her ; beside, does she not already exercise a 

 voice in political affairs? 



The life of men and women are inextricably 

 intertwined ; everywhere they are inseperable 

 companions, giving and receiving influence ; 

 consequently the male vote is the j^roduct of 

 both male and female thinking. One will 

 seldom find an intelligent woman ignorant of 

 the aims of political parties, but to require 

 her to walk out on election day and deposit 

 her individual vote, would be, to add to that 

 chain of injustice, already too long. 



Much has been said and much written, 

 about woman's rights and woman's wrongs. 

 My opinion is, were the wrongs removed, the 

 rights would naturally assert themselves ; 

 but here lies the trouble, the wrongs have 

 rooted themselves so firmly and assumed such 

 natural colors, that any hasty attempt to up- 

 root them, threatens unpleasant conse- 

 quenses. Time, patience and education are 

 the champions to accomplish this work. 

 Woman must learn to distinguish between 

 her real duties, and those imposed upon her 

 through the custom of ages ; she cannot do 

 this without a proper knowledge of the laws 

 that govern mankind. 



I read an article in Sunday's Ledger, written 

 by "somebody who thinks he knows all 

 about it " and I believe he does know more 

 about it than some folks. He gives his opin- 

 ion of " what men need wives for :" "It is 

 not to sweep the house, make the bed and 

 cook the meals chiefly that a man wants a 

 wife ; if this is all he needs, hired help can 

 do it cheaper than a wife ; if this is all, when 

 a young man calls to see a lady, send him in 

 the pantry to taste the bread and cake she 

 has made ; send him to inspect needlework 

 and bed-making ; or put a broom in her hand 

 and send him to witness its use. Such things 

 are important, and the wise young man will 

 look after them ; but what the true man wants 

 with a wife is her companionship, sympathy 

 and love." How beautifully such sentiments 

 harmonize with the original design. 



I think it quite likely that Adam knew 

 more about bread-making thou the men of 

 this generation know. 



Men boast of their wisdom in this age ; 

 consider their laws just and equal ; and de- 



clare that all the relations in life are properly 

 and impartially arranged ; but there never 

 Was a graver mistake. Where is the wisdom 

 in sealing the fountitins of useful knowledge 

 to only one half of the human race ? Would 

 it not be as well to fertilize the mind and en- 

 rich the soul of woman as of man ? It is the 

 mothers of a country that shape its destiny. 

 " As the child is nur.sed on the bosom of its 

 mother so, on the character of woman the in- 

 ternal character of the race is formrd and 

 shaped.' How necessary then that woman 

 be thoroughly trained in all the branches of 

 learning which her children will need ; it re- 

 quires a cultivated understanding, and a well 

 disciplined character to form the principles of 

 the young ; as the mother instructs, so the 

 future man will think ; the paths she marks 

 he will follow ; the prejudices she instills ho 

 will nurse ; the generous fires she enkindles 

 he will keep alive, and all fur the good or the 

 evil of his country and of humanity. It is 

 for man to " shake the senate and the field ;" 

 to act his part bravely before the world ; but 

 at home and in the social circle is seen the 

 perfection of womanhood ; which perfection 

 does not consist, (as some may imagine) in 

 the wife's ability to accomplish the drudgery 

 for a large family. There are homes, Ahis I 

 in which a woman is only a machine ; turn- 

 ing out all sorts of work from dawn till dark 

 while her children are growing up, deprived 

 of their most sacred rights, remembering at 

 last only the frown of a worn and weary face. 

 Some of these sad homes the cruel hand of 

 poverty has made ; and in them manly hearts 

 have bled for lack of power to shield a fair 

 form ; but ignorance and injustice have 

 made many more than has poverty, and it be- 

 hooves the world, if she would grow in pow- 

 er and in greatness, to see that the laws of 

 God are respected. 

 GiLBOY, Sept., 1875. 



Woman the Equal of Man. 



I have faith in man, but I have greater 

 faith in woman. In many countries she has 

 been, and still is, an jtrticle of merchandise. 

 She has been educated as an inferior, and un- 

 til the last few years has been denied an equal 

 education in all the higher institutions of 

 learning. But she has steadily advanced, so- 

 cially and intellectually. The educated wo- 

 man of our day would have been the wonder 

 or horror of early civilization. She has at- 

 tained, and holds without remark, a degree 

 of liberty and various efficiency which would 

 have violated the customs and shocked the 

 prejudices of olden days. At each change 

 and at every upward step have stood those 

 pleaders whose posterity are yet reasoning in 

 the same manner, aflirming that already she 

 was in her right place and should stay where 

 Providence had placed her. For those who 

 reason with faces prone to earth, think always 

 that the state to which the world has grown 

 in this day, is all that God meant it should 

 ever be. Men of great conceit have even 

 thought that time was ripe in them. 



At length woman interested herself in liter- 

 ature. When she became a reader, men no 

 longer wrote as if for men. She enforced pur- 

 ity and higher decorum. When she became 

 a writer, men saw that guiding star which 

 led them where the young child of Christian 

 purity lay; for after all it is the pen that is 

 the tongue of the world, and a woman's hand 

 is becoming more influential than the orator's 

 mouth. 



Thus, step by step, against prejudices and 

 arguments of her unfitness, against rude 

 pushes downward, and much advice as to her 

 proper duties (which in the main have been 

 the drudgeries that men disUke) woman has 

 advanced to a wider plain, to higher duties, 

 to the liberty of following freely her own nat- 

 ural gifts, and to the reluctant recognition of 

 her right to do whatever she could do well. 

 Nor have the prophesies that, like bats, have 

 flitted about her, been fulfilled. In the en- 

 largement of her sphere she has forsaken no 



