397 







FOREIGN AND SEA POSTAGE. 



Cent* 



LETTERS for the U. States' territories on the Pacific, a single half 



ounce or less, (prepaid or not,) 40 



*' for Havana, (to be prepaid,) 12 J 



" for Chagres, " " 20 



for Panama, " " 30 



" from any post office in the United States, to or from G. 

 Britain or Ireland, by American or English steamers, 

 for a single half ounce or less, (prepaid or not,) ... 24 

 *' for Bremen, by American steamers, a half ounce or less, 



(prepaid or not the usual inland postage to be added,) 24 

 " for other foreign countries, if sent by British steamers, 



U. S. inland postage, any distance, on a half ounce, . 5 

 An ounce, of course, will be double, (to be prepaid,) or 10 

 " if sent by American steamers, to go through the British 

 mail, the whole postage, from any U. S. post office, 



for a single half ounce, (to be prepaid,) is 21 



" for France, Spain, Holland, and the Netherlands, if sent 

 by American steamers, must be prepaid. 



NEWSPAPERS, sea-postage, besides inland, both prepaid, 3 



" from any U. S. post office, to or from Great Britain 



or Ireland, both prepaid, 2 



BLUE GRASS. 



Blue grass will grow upon any of the soils of Illinois, 

 but it deliglits in a moist situation. Hence swails, level 

 or wet prairie, bottom-land and barrens, are best adapted 

 to its cultivation. It suffers in the heat of summer upon 

 the rolling prairie, unless mixed with clover, which, by 

 its broad leaves, protects the roots of blue grass from the 

 rays of the sun, or unless it is suffered to grow unmolest- 

 ed, in which case it protects itself. Close feeding in the 

 summer will keep it short and stunted, until the fall rains 

 set in. 



Sowing. The seed ripens the 1st of July. Hence any 

 time after that, until October, will answer for sowing 

 It is better that it should get a start in the fall, as it doe* 

 better the succeeding season. It will not generally make 



