California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



Women, 



Going- Away. 



And so you'll soon he goine away, 



3Iy darling little Bess; 

 Aud HO you ha' been to the store to-day 



To buy your wedding dress. 



And so yoiir dear good mother and I, 

 Whose love you long have known, 



Must lay the light of your presence by. 

 And walk the road alone. 



So come along with your mother an' me. 



To the porch for an hour or two, 

 Aud Kit on yotir old father's knee. 



The same as you used to do; 



For we who ha' loved yoti many a year. 

 And clung to you, strong and true. 



Since we've had the yoimg professor here 

 Ha' not had much of you. 



But lovers be lovers while earth endures, 



for once on a time, be it known, 

 I helped a girl with eyes like yours 



Construct a home of our own. 



And we laid it out in the garden spot. 

 And dwelt in the midst of flowers. 



Till we found the world was a good-sized lot. 

 And most of it wasn't ours. 



You're heavier, girl, than when you come 



To us one cloudy day. 

 And seemed to feel so little at home 



We feared you wouldn't stay. 



Till I knew the danger was passed, because 



You struck so mortal a track. 

 And got so independent and cross 



God never would let you back . 



But who would ever ha' had the whim. 

 When you lay in my arms and cried, 



You'd sometime .sit here, pretty and prim, 

 A waitin' to be a bride? 



But lovers be lovers while earth goes on, 



And marry as they ought; 

 But if you would keep the heart you've won, 



liemember what you've been taught. 



Look lirst that ymr wedded lives be true. 

 With naught from each other apart: 



For the flowers of true love never grew 

 In the soil of a faithless heart. 



Look next that the buda of health shall rest 

 Their blossoms upon your cheek; 



For life aud love are a burden at best, 

 If the body be sick and weak. 



Look nest that your kitchen tire be bright, 

 That your hands be neat aud skilled; 



For the love of a man oft takes its flight. 

 If his stomach is not well filled. 



Look next that money is fairly earned. 



Ere ever it be spent; 

 For comfort and love, however turned, 



Will ne'er pay ten per cent. 



And next, due care and diligence keep 

 That the mind be trained and fed; 



For blessings ever look shabby and cheap 

 That light an empty head. 



And if it should please the gracious God 



That children to you belong, 

 Kemember, my child, and spare the rod 



Till you've taught them right nud wrong. 



And show 'em that though this life's a start 



For the better world, no doubt. 

 Yet earth an' heaven ain't so far apart 



As some good folks make out. 



-[WillJ. Carleton. 



WOmAN'S WORK --CONGRATU- 

 LATIONS. 



•^\ 



(«<#DITOR Agricultueist;— Will you 



q!! permit a few words of greeting 

 IjN from a stranger? Not entirely a 

 fpK stranger, but it is only within a 

 S'§^ short time that the A(iRiC[JLTURiST 

 has oome under our observation, and 

 Tipon the coming out of your January 

 number, we were strongly moved to send 

 you our congratulations upon its new 

 dress and improved a])pearance. Hav- 

 ing a fine corps of able contributors, 

 with its increased beauty and attnictive- 

 ne.ss, it must coiitiiiiie to grow and de- 

 velop to full perfection. It has not now 

 a peer among iirsl-class and impartial 

 .jnuruids. 



I am told, Sir Editor, that this beauti- 

 ful design and ingenuity of construction 



of the AGEiccTLTtrEisT's present attire is 

 a woman's work. If it is so, -n'e are 

 proud of it. Nothing so satisfies us for 

 being a woman as to know and see what 

 useful, beautiful and grand things wom- 

 en have done aud can do. We honor 

 our own sex more and more every time 

 we hear of a woman's ha\ing done, or 

 attempted to do anything that ennobles 

 ;tnd endows her with the qualifications 

 for advancing humanity's interests, mak- 

 ing the world better for her having lived 

 in it. Whether every undertaking is a 

 successor not doesn't matter; effortouly 

 proves the ability, as a sex, to ilo, to 

 be, and eventually to compel the world's 

 recognition and appreciative plaudits of 

 power and of worth. 



But what we wished to say was this: 

 that you, with your generous recognition 

 of feminine ability, and sympathy with 

 its present position socially aud intellec- 

 tually, will not omit to give this work its 

 full meed of praise and justice. We are 

 sure you Arill not, for you know, dear 

 sir, that as the matter stands to-day wo- 

 men get but very little share of praise 

 or encouragement for what they do, try 

 to do, or for what they in reality accom- 

 plish. Masculinity (God bless the men, 

 anyhow) gets the lion's share of the 

 credit for even women's labor and 

 achievement, in this nineteenth century. 

 We venture to say, however, that a large 

 proportion of all the elegancies of de- 

 sign and execution, in almost every line 

 aud province of human labor and suc- 

 cess, if it could be found out, is tracea- 

 ble to the busj', aching brain, the toil- 

 ing, weary fingers of women behind the 

 scenes. And to think of it! so much — 

 oh, so much of the beauty, gi-ace and 

 perfection of the artistic, so much of the 

 utility of the useful, which will be ex- 

 hibited at Philadelphia, has received 

 enough of woman's best thought and 

 best work to forever immortalize us as 

 artisans of handicraft; and wrought, too, 

 by women of the deepest obscurity, the 

 severest toil, the most abject and com- 

 Ijlete social and mental enslavement. 



But as a .sex, we will j'ield the point 

 gracefully and prettily, as we can now, 

 fully confident that when the American 

 nation shall have another Centmnial, wo- 

 man will then come, not in the reiir but 

 in the van, standing where she should 

 have stood, not only 100 years ago but 

 from the beginning of Time. Therefore, 

 as we women cannot, and would not if 

 we could, do without the men, we will 

 still continue to humor their peculiarities 

 and whims, because we sincerely believe 

 that if ever they do come to their senses 

 their rejiaration will be so full and com- 

 ]ilete that they will be in daiiger of err- 

 ing as far the other way, to wit: of do- 

 ing us, in degree, as much too much 

 honor as now they do us too little. 



Your jjardon, sir, for want of brevity. 

 Wo did not contemplate this tirade in 

 the beginning; indeed, we had nothing 

 to say, except to tell you how nicely your 

 new paper looked, and also how glad we 

 are to know that women designed and 

 engraved its title page. And now, if 

 this should not prove objectionable, we 

 may, with your permission, have some- 

 thing further to say about our sex, to- 

 gether with matters and things in gen- 

 eral. (!. H. 1). 



San Jose. 



Oranges near Sonoma. — The Dmio- 

 errit says that (Jeneral Vallejo has '200 

 Uourishing orange trees. 100 of them 

 are in full bearing. As many as (100 or- 

 anges have been taken from one tree. He 

 has, jjerhaps, the largest nundier of 

 pomegranate trees in any one place in 

 the State — fifty bearing trees. He has a 

 full grown magnolia and a biiuana tree. 



fyxxt^^mAtmt. 



"DEEP PLOWING" REPLIES. 



Editor AoRicnLxnEisT: — Permit me 

 to reply briefiy to Mr. Burrell's crilique 

 on "deep plo\ving." He starts out with 

 saying that mountain lands will not ad- 

 mit of deep plowing. That may be so, 

 but I dare affirm that but few, if any, 

 have tried it; so that is merely a matter 

 of opinion, and is a mere evasion of my 

 facts. His next statement is, that the 

 wheat plant has no tajj-root, and charac- 

 terizes my statement as mere "asser- 

 tion." I am sorry to find any one pro- 

 fessing to be a farmer capable of making 

 such a statement, which is its own refu- 

 tation. This denial is so simple and ex- 

 plicit as to be unpardonable. Any far- 

 mer can siitisfy himself as to the tenden- 

 cy of the whe:it plant under the differing 

 conditions of deep and shallow plowing. 

 Four years ago I deeply plowed part of a 

 field one mile from San Jose, that had 

 been consecutively cropped for ten years, 

 and was thought to be worn out. It had 

 never been plowed more than three inches 

 deep before. It is a fine sandy loam and 

 sutlers considerable from drouth. I han- 

 dled the soil strictly according to my ex- 

 perience. I had a hohhy — thoroughly pul- 

 verizing the soil and then consolidating 

 with a heavy roller after the grain was 

 up. On the part deeply plowed I had 

 as heavy a crop as the first that was ever 

 raised upon it. On the part plowed 

 about three inches deep, I had ;ibout 

 eight sacks to the acre. So much for 

 facts. 



This is but one instance among many 

 with the same results. It is a little 

 amusing how your correspondent in- 

 stances his " garden ' ' aud ' ' grape 

 patch " in which he experimented with 

 deep culture, as an offset to my facts 

 about deep plowing. I have no doubt 

 that any one can spoil a garden patch of 

 virgin soil, as his must have been twenty 

 years ago, by trenching it two feet deep. 

 It must have been a curious "hobby," 

 that stimulated our friend to such un- 

 timely and excessive digging. But I was 

 not writing about a garden or grape patch. 

 I ventured a few thoughts to practical far- 

 mers — to men who can discriminate be- 

 tween a garden patch of virgin soil an/1 

 an exhausted wheat field; and I stated 

 facts which canuotbe controverted. I have 

 tested this thing so thoroughly, with the 

 assistance' and in the presence of the 

 best advised and most scientific farmers, 

 and under differing conditions of soil 

 and climate, and do not know of a single 

 instance where deep plowing on exhaust- 

 ed hinds, followed with the culture I in- 

 sisted on in my December article, has 

 not been productive of the most satisfac- 

 tory results; and when shallow plowing 

 has been a total failure alongside of it. 



NEW AGRICULTURAL PATENTS. 



Issurd by rim UiiUecl States Palfiit Of- 

 lUe from Dec. l!ltli, to.Iun. Hill. 



flu-ported for the California AGRIcU[.TtrRieT by 

 Louis Bugger & Oo., Solicitors of Patents, 

 Washington, P. C.l 



Ivotary Spade Cultivators, 1> \V lirodiiex, 

 ^o. 'UocK<lal(!, Texas. 



Mowiu;; Abiclilues, Wm C Doulhett, Spring- 

 dale. L'.i. 



(;iu-ck Kow Phmters, Wni II ,Iohnson, Far- 

 mer City, Illinois. 



ISee-llives, Klvin Armstrong, .Ier.sey ville. 

 Illinois. 



I'l-occsses of Preparing Preecrvc.l Kj-uit, .Iiu> 

 F lioBsford, Now York, N. Y. 



(iraiu I'ouvcyer Sluill, Henry I Chase, IVo- 

 ria, Illinois. 



Fences, Wm A Couch, Ilanuibcl, Nevada. 



Corn I*lante)-s, Coiu-iid (Irueiner, Dale, \\'is. 



Plowing and Seeding Machines, D McVaw, 



Gallatin, Texas. 

 Plows, Josejjh Philips, Smithton, Illinois. 

 Butter Carriers, B F Roberts, Bennington, 



Vermont. 

 Gang Plows, Timothy M Shaw, Lebanon, 



Tennessee. 

 Hay Lo;ider8, Clias M Young, Meadville, Pa. 

 Sway Bar CJuides for Ha:'\-efterB, W R Baker, 



Chicago, Illinois. 

 Grain Separators, D H Caswell, Nashville, 



Tennessee. 

 Seed Phuiters and Fertilizer Distributers, M 



P Curlee, Corinth, Mriss, 

 Fences, Jno Dwver, Marion, Oliio. 

 Hand Seed Planters, Thos J Hubbell, Napa 



City, Cal. 

 Reciprocating Chums, Wm McKinley, Bel- 



lare, Ohio. 

 Cultivators, E B Moore, Bell's Mills, Ala. 

 Feediuf,' Belts and Partitions for Corn Shell- 



crs, Wm B Quaiton, Freeman, Ohio. 

 Corn Drill, Jno R Rude, Liberty, Ind. 

 Grain Separatoi-8. C F" Buttertield, Garden 



City, Minn. 

 Adjustable Locks aud Dogs for Hay Eleva- 

 tors, J R Fitshous, Centre Hall, Pa. 

 Grain Meters, B M Sulliam, Tolmo, III. 

 Reel Rakes for Harvestei'S, R C Taylor. 



Brockport, N Y. 

 Milk Coolei'8 aud Heaters, M L Bush, Hunt- 

 ington, Ohio- 

 Self Rakes for Reajjer, S B Gillsland, Salis- 

 bury, Mo. 

 Corn Ilusking Iinplementa, H W Hill, Deca- 

 tur, III. 

 Plows, Henry II Habley, Cent i-al Manor, Pa. 

 M;inutactuie of Grian Cradle i^iugers, C P 



Kelsey. Richmondville, N Y. 

 Grain Separators, L Theobald, Plaiuwell," 



Michigan 

 Churn D;)sherB, Jno R Underwood, Nelson- 



ville, Ohio. 

 Wheel II.arrows,FBramer, Little Falls, N. Y. 

 Churn Dashers, R M Case, Auburn, N Y. 

 Plows, N G Pinney, New Hudson, Mich. 

 Combined Reels iuid Rakes for Harvesters, 



H Stoles, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Hooks for Harrows, J D Tracy, Sterling, 



Illinois. 

 Plows, Jno Wori'ell. Clayton, Ind. 

 Bee Hives, Daniel Cox, Kingston, Mo. 

 Convei-tible Revolving Harrows, Beuj G 



Devoe, Kenton, Ohio. 

 Milk Coolers, M D Fei-guson, Carthage, 



New York. 

 Grain Separators, Lewis W Hasselman, In- 

 dianapolis, Ind 

 Poiato Diggers, Robert Heydemann, Kreb- 



sow, Prussia. 

 Clover Separators, Geo F Metzger, West 



F;iyetle, N. Y. 

 Milk Coolers, Isiiac IT Wonzer, Elgm, III. 

 Churns, Daniel McCarty, Croppers' Depot, 



Kentucky. 

 Appaiatus for Storing and Preserving Grain, 



Hans P C Lassen, Chicago, III. 

 Gang Plows, J 1{ McCormick, Georgetown, 



Texas. 

 Corn Stalk Knives, Peter C Moore, La 



F;iyette, Ohio. 

 Portable Fences, Isaiah W Pancoast, Liber- 



tyville, Io\v;t. 

 Di-:ig rake Handles, Ilugli Smitii, Passumsic, 



Vermonl. 

 Portable Feiu-es, Horace Tell, Bristol, Md. 

 Churns, ,l:unes Watson, Port Colborne, 



Canada. 

 Stump Extractors, J A Hart, Tionesta, Pa. 

 Hoi-se Riikes, Chas B Perkins, Keiiduskeag, 



Maine. 

 Cultivators, Josluia Pierpont, Bnslmell, III. 

 Horse Rakes, Wm C Rayuoi', Milwaukee, 



Wisconsin. 

 Sulky Plows, H Ridiardson, Janesville, Wis. 

 I'l(n\s, ,Ino .Scwell, Bowdon. (^ieorgia. 

 Drills anil Fcriili'/or Distributers. Aladiui 



\\ isliart, Lurulicrlon, N C. 

 (iniiu Hinders. .) K .Vpplebv, Beloit, Wis. 

 Plows, Asa Hiill, Rocliford", III. 

 harm dales, Wm J Hollis, DeVVitl, Mo. 

 Fruit I'i(-k(-rs, John Mooney, Provlden<c. 



Ivliode Isbliul. 

 Hay Loiuleis, Geo E Peck, Geneva. Illmoie. 

 Seed Separatoi's, Jno L Catchpole, Fnimsden, 



Great Britain. 

 Cultivators, Joseph W Case, Midilleport, 



Ohio. 

 Straw Cutters, .lohn Griiiun, St Limis, Mo. 

 Yielilint: Teeili for Seeders a[id Culiivators, 



(' P ilewili, Kingston, Wis. 

 Land Rollers and Alarkcrs, James Jl Hunter, 



Clai-iiula, Iowa. 

 Stc-;uu Plows, lienj S Hclison, Baltiuiore, Md 

 Ciller Pre.-<ses, L Rockwood, Ottawa, 111., 

 Potato liiig Destroyers, Isaac W Gnscoiu 



Woodbury, N J. 



