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so numerous I could pick from ten to twenty full-grown bugs off a 

 hill. When the potatoes were about two inches high, I had boys 

 picking them off, but could not keep them down. By the time they 

 were in bloom they had increased to such an extent that the vines 

 looked from the road like currant bushes with the leaves all off and 

 hanging full of ripe currants. I was about giving them up as lost, 

 when I applied this remedy, and before night there was scarcely a bug 

 to be seen. I followed right up with the hoe and picked off what 

 few were left. I would find two or three in a row that had been 

 where the green had not reached them. I have read a great deal 

 about the fatal effects of their bite, but it is all nothing. We handle 

 them here ; even small children will pick the old bug6 off by hand- 

 fuls, and I have never heard of an instance where one has been bitten. 

 In applying the Paris green, keep on the windward side, so you do 

 not inhale it, and if no sores are on my hands I apply it with my 

 hand ; I find I can do it faster. 



Churning. 

 Mr. J. D. Minniss, Athens, Pa,, forwarded the following report of 

 results of experiments in churning : A quantity sufficient for a churn- 

 ing of one cow's milk and cream, half and half, was churned in eight 

 minutes. Another churning was taken in the same proportion, the 

 products of another cow, and churned in exactly nine and one-half 

 minutes. Still another churning was taken from a different cow, 

 mixed in the same way, and churned in just eleven minutes. The 

 churning in each experiment was done with the cream and milk at 

 a temperature of sixty-two degrees. After the above experiments the 

 milk and cream from each cow was taken in equal quantities, mixed 

 and churned in the same churn under the same temperature, in ten 

 minutes' time. 



Colorado. 

 General Cameron, of the Greeley colony, in answer to a call, spoke 

 with sensible brevity of Colorado. He considered it destined to 

 become a stock-growing country of considerable importance. Wool 

 can be produced for ten cents a pound, and a four-year-old steer for 

 ten dollars. Agriculture will be limited by the capabilities of irriga- 

 tion. Irrigation has not been a failure, but it makes forming more 

 expensive than in a rainy country. But the silver mines are almost 

 inexhaustible, and those who work them furnish a good market. For 

 those who have asthmatic complaints and consumptive inclinations, 



