California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



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40, 53, 50, 46, 14 is to astonish. 

 a, 34, 50, 47, 37, 57, 54, 10, 52, 7 is 

 throwing back. 



3, 59, 30,13 is a girl's name. 

 44, 41, 12, IG, 8 is to unfasten. 



53, 1, 2, 27, 23 is a part of the body. 

 43, 5, 21, 42 is a bodj' of water. 

 20, 52, 58, 54 is a part of the body. 

 22, 24, 49, 18 is to desire. 

 33, 56. CO, 63 is inferior. 

 32, 30, 42 is performed. 



4, 48, 15, 35 is a coin, 

 whole is very interesting. 



CoxcoED, August, 187C. 



Dkak Aghicltudeist: My boy Kichard 

 desires me to write a few lines to you as 

 he feels some delicacy in writing to a 

 newspaper editor. He has had no prac- 

 tice in writing letters. He incloses the 

 amount of his subscription, and wishes 

 to say he has not sent it before on ac- 

 count of "scarcity of money." All the 

 family, consisting of four girls and two 

 boys, are delighted with your paper, and 

 are receiving much pleasure and profit 

 from its perusal, as do I also. When 

 wo get a little leisure, will give j-ou a 

 few items from this county. 



Yours, respectfully, F. W. Lewis. 



Aunt Polly persuaded the Editor to 

 let her put this in the "Corner." Kich- 

 ard need not be afraid of editors. They 

 are no bigger not better than other peo- 

 ple. The Agkiculturist editor used to 

 be a farmer's boy, and did the chores in 

 ragged, dirty clothes with bare feet, like 

 any other urchin. He would only feel 

 proud now to have the little boys notice 

 him enough to write to him. But Aunt 

 I'olly wants llichard, and all other good 

 boys and girls, to write to her. Surely 

 they are not, any of them, afraid of their 

 dear Aunt Polly, who loves them so 

 much. Little boys and girls are what 

 men and women are made of. Be good, 

 and you will make good men and 

 women. 



A HIDDEN PROVERB. 



A proverb is buried in these lines — 

 one word in each line: 

 I rose one morn and said to John, 

 "My man, just put the sadtUe on 

 My horse, that I may take a ride; 

 Just lead him to the other side 

 Of the house; I would a journey go. 

 If my good horse w.ll take me; so 

 He's bad enough, I hope, to eat, 

 And water, too, to drink. 



" 'Tis but a journey short I take, 

 Ten miles, not more, I think. 

 I wish to see the men who say 

 They cannot come to make the hay ; 

 So now make haste, I must away; 

 Come and lead him out, John, if you 



think 

 He's had enough to eat and drink." 



CONUNDRDMS. 



Why is an over-worked horse like an 

 umbrella? It's used up. 



Which is the worst place for a rum- 

 hole? A man's face. 



What is the best motive for riding a 

 man on a rail? A locomotive. 



ONLY A PEBBLE. 



BY D. G. INGRAHAM. 



"It was only a jiititul jiebble after all," 

 said Johnnie, as, sealing himself on the 

 doorstep, ho untied his shoe and shook 

 out the cause of his frequent impatient 

 exclamations during our afternoon walk. 

 "Yes, Johnny," I said to myself, as I 

 sat in the easy chair in my study; "the 

 poor, despised pebble! Mankind have 

 , worshi]ied the nioinitain at whoso foot it 

 lay; art has transformed the marble block 

 into images of the great among men; the 



diamond washed to the surface by the 

 streamlet has been polished and set in 

 the crowns of royalty — but here lies the 

 pebble, their 'poor relation,' unnoticed 

 and unknown." 



Did you ever think how important a 

 part the pebble has played in the great 

 drama of the earth's development? Poor, 

 insignificant little fellow — so we think 

 him — despised even by a scratching heu! 

 But, however humble his present posi- 

 tion, his tribe has received high honors 

 in its day, and has a record it need not 

 blush for. 



The pebble descended from the kingly 

 race of rocks. Long ages since — we know- 

 not how long ago, for history records 

 only the deeds of perishing men — a no- 

 ble rock lay firmly grounded near the 

 summit of a lofty mountain. So high 

 was his head above the green valleys be- 

 low, that it was white with ever-renewed 

 snows. One morning Monseigneur 

 Granit was rudely awakened and pitched 

 from his majestic couch by an earth- 

 quake. He felt himself sliding and roll- 

 ing down over icy cliffs and dizzy hights 

 each moment faster and faster. At the 

 foot of the mountain he struck with a 

 stunning thud against a brother rock, 

 and was shivered into a thousand pieces, 

 from the size of a meeting-house to that 

 of a hazelnut. The swollen torrent of 

 the river upon whose bank the fragments 

 had been cast soon began rudely and un- 

 ceremoniously pushing and rolling his 

 lesser fragments down stream. As they 

 rattle against one another their sharp 

 corners are worn off and their sides pol- 

 ished by the constant abrasion. They 

 journey on for miles, sometimes stop- 

 ping for long rests of centuries in the 

 mud and sand, only to be aroused and 

 hurried forward by the restless waters. 

 They sometimes overtake others of the 

 same race and kindred, but of different 

 colors and complexions. Some are white 

 and nearly transparent, others are gi-een, 

 or purple, or blue, and of every shade 

 and hue imaginable. All smoothed and 

 rounded and polished by their long jour- 

 ney and rude jostling. They pass huge 

 bowlders of granite so heavy that the 

 flood cannot move them; they are them- 

 selves beaten in the oceanward race by 

 sparkling grains of sand; they mingle 

 with fragments of shale and flakes of 

 mica that are making the same journej' 

 in obedience to the same power. 



But they all claim descent from the 

 royal family of rocks, that stout-hearted 

 race that fire and flood could never con- 

 quer in the earl j' days of Mother Earth; 

 and now here they lie before ns on the 

 beach, the lashing waves washing their 

 faces into renewed cheerfulness and beau- 

 ty .at every surge. 



But do you ask what has a pebble ever 

 done? Lilce many other equally obscure 

 individuals, the pebble has had a duty to 

 discharge, and nobly has ho done it. 

 Could he speak he might say, "War has 

 carried me into slavery and sent me on 

 messages of pain and death. Ages be- 

 fore the needle-gun and jnitniiUnis, be- 

 fore even the spear and cross-bow, your 

 rude and barbarous ancestors threw me 

 from the sling. Strong men have 

 groaned in the hour of buttle when I 

 have struck them. The "smooth stones" 

 which brave little David chose to kill 

 Goliath with, were my cousins; kings 

 and mighty men have I slain, thrown 

 from a sling. I might say I have con- 

 quered a world. But peace has claimed 

 me, too, and science and commerce are 

 my debtors. The lens, whose strong 

 arm has rift the heavens above you, is 

 my brother. The nebula, the stellar 

 cosmos, the fiery comet that frightened 

 your forefathers have become familiar 

 friends by the meditation of our family. 



Mt. Cenis yielded to my keen edge and 

 your persistence. 



"My humbler brothers, too, have 

 helped in other ways. I have been car- 

 ried thousands of miles holding steady 

 the keel of the vessel and making her 

 obey the helm. For miles around the 

 city of New Orleans, where the great 

 Father of Waters drags sluggishly along 

 over sand and mud, you cannot find a 

 pebble — not one. Y'et as you ride in 

 carriage or omnibus along the street you 

 are surprised and annoyed at the con- 

 stant thump, thump, over the rough 

 pavement of cobble-stones. We came 

 from the "Granite State" and the 'Old 

 Bay State,' holding steady the empty 

 schooner which was to carry back the 

 bulging cotton bales. 



"And now, lastly, let me tell you how 

 one of our race found his way into lite- 

 rature, and if he did not find a tongue 

 himself, saved an eloquent one from ob- 

 scurity. Long years ago a young orator 

 of Greece sauntered down to the sea 

 shore to declaim his speech, that his 

 voice might gain power and depth amid 

 the thunder of the lashing waves. The 

 barrier to his success had ever been a 

 lisi^ing tongue. A little pebble glisten- 

 ing in the sunbeam as the waters retired 

 attracts his eye. He raises the tiny 

 rock and places it in his mouth. It is 

 but the pastime of an unthinking child, 

 but speaking with the pebble in his 

 mouth he finds his impediment removed. 

 Tue tongue so eloquent lisps no longer. 

 The last defect of nature is supjilied.and 

 Demosthenes is saved to the centuries by 

 a pebble!" 



Table of Contents, 



PAGE 



Bovs ana Girh.— Farmers' Boys (Poetry). 



*OnrCorner. *Only a Pebble 141-'2 



City Oardening. — tSuasoiin.blti Hiufs. fXho 



Lawn, Lii'wu Mower (illustration) 129 



Dairy.— Plain Words about Milking. Sour 



Milk Cheese. Profitable Coth's. Rules 



fijr Milking. Cheese Poisoning. Bq 



Kind to Your Cow 13G 



Dcmestic. — Seasonable Recipes. Huusehold 



Pests 131-2 



Educiticnal— *Education and Labor. Plain 



Talk to Farmers 132 



Editorial ITotea. 130 



Tho Horso. — tBest Breed of Hor.ses. Intro- 

 ductiun uf Thoroughbreds iu Califoruia. 

 Nailiug on the Shoe 137 



Hygienic. — Toothache (Poetry) . *Care of 

 the Teeth. *Keep Food in a Clean Place. 

 ♦Lessons Taught by SulTeriug. How to 

 Rescue a Drowning Pt-rson. To Save the 

 Drowning. Eating Fruit Skins. Reme- 

 dy for Warts. A Child's Bed. Earache. 

 Presurvation of the Teeth, Care of the 

 Hair. To Avoid Sleeplessness. To lie- 

 move Freckks < 138-8 



Household Eeading.— *Dotting6 and Jottings. 

 *Iutlneiice. "Apologizing. *Stray Gem 

 from Cupid's Court. ♦Up-Gountry Let- 

 ters No. 8. *Campiug Out 140-1 



Miscollanocus . — Earliest Bank of History. . 138 



The Farmers Loaning Wheat i;J5 



*Bctter Financial System Nei;ded i;iO 



Porcino.— How to Breed Pigs 137 



Poetry— Tom's Come Homo. To a Grass- 

 hopper. A Hundred Years Ago. Slow 

 and Sure 131 



Sheep aad Goats.— Angora Goats and Mohair 

 — Criticisms Answered. Impri*vt-d Breeds 

 ot'Sheep 133 



Stock Breeder. — tAgricuUural Fairs. Buf- 

 falo Bunee. Animal Parasites. Whihtl- 

 iug Meu Are liiiid to Animals. Culurado 

 Stock Ranges. International Live Stock 

 Exhibition. Holstein Cattle. Weight 

 of Live Stock 134-5 



Womea.— Lo>c. Cleopatra, the <iiueeu of 



Beauty 138 



* Contributed, f Editorial. 



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 men and wonion who havo something 

 thoy know you want, ami in a businesB 

 way they seek this mngazine as a metli- 

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