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AMERICAN AG-RIC UJLT URIST. 
[April, 
DIAMOND PUZZLE. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN TUE EEBKrART NU1LUER. 
The center letters, perpcnuiculai 
and horizontal, 
name 
Ncmemcal Enigmas. — 1. Be just, and fear not. 
'1 isc First Lesson in Koiring. 
one of Suakspeare's characters. 
2. Autumn leaves. 
Can you swim? Yes, Miss, we mean you as well as 
1. A consonant. 
Cross-Words. — 1. Laura. 2. Samuel. 
your brother. We believe that both boys and girls 
2. A qnadrnped. 
Alphabetical Arithmetic— 
should be taught to swim. Boys generally, if they live 
3. Trials of speed. 
lS09)3SeG502SO(213737 Key: "Reckon last." 
near the water, learn to swim without much teaching. 
4. A name. 
Square-Word. J V D D 
If they can swim, then they can learn to row, for we do not 
5. Sediment. 
JOKER 
think that a boy should be trusted in a boat unless he is 
C. Eaten. 
UKASE 
able to take care of himself if he should happen to ^ct over- 
7. Two hundred. 
DESKS 
board. It is not only useful to know how to row, but 
William P. and 
Edwin H. 
Albright. 
DRESS 
rowing is most capital exercise. It calls a great num.- 
TAKING HIS FIRST 
CROSS-WORD. 
My first is in tact but not in skill. 
My nest is in dose but not in pill. 
My third is in noun but not in verb. 
My fourth is in spice but not in herb. 
My fifth is in part but not in whole. 
My sixth is in heart but not in soul. 
My seventh is in won't but not in will. 
My eighth is in note but not in bill. 
My ninth is in pink but not in blue. 
My tenth is in one but not in two. 
My eleventh is in knoll but not in hedge. 
My twelfth is in pin but not in wedge. 
My thirteenth is in blue but not i»pink. 
My fourteenth is in speak but not in think. 
My whole is a city of well-known fame: 
Study the letters aud tell its name. 
Ja-se-pe-es. 
alphabetical arithmetic. 
OLA)CRIIBEKS(LIOLA 
C A A R 
Draicn and Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
K L A E 
K E H B 
BHSK 
B C C H 
LCSS 
L B n S 
A A E 
BLANKS. 
(Fill the blanlcs with words pronounced alike but 
spelled differently.) 
1. He was ordered to out the of the church. 
The does not grow on the island of , 
Will you a of apples for the child? 
The was a man of mean . 
I am afraid this will not agree with the 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 
youn 
C. 
The child began to - 
- for the - 
Italian Boy. 
ITidden Names op Ancient Grecian Deities.— 
1. Venus. 2. Castor. 3. Saturn. 4. Cybelc. 5. Doris. 
6. Occanus. 
Ornithological Amputations. — 1. Powter, tower. 
2. Plover, lover. 3. Snipe, pine. 4. Ortyx, Tory. 
All contributions for the Puzzle-Bos should be ad- 
dressed to "Aunt Sue," Bos 111, P. O., Brooklyn, N.T. 
AUNT SITE'S NOTICES TO CORTiE9PONT>ENTS. 
Hannait K.— Thanks for your " contribution, " but as 
it may be found in most of the unabridged dictionaries 
it is scarcely worth our while to publish it. 
Thanks for answers, letters, etc. to O. A. Gage, Miles 
P. J., Mary C. S., Maggie Cator, J. E. Frahm, W. II. S.F., 
James LI. G., and Mamie W. 
A Corresponding Society.— One of 
our boys writes that he thinks that a corresponding soci- 
ety might be formed- among the farmers' boys which 
would result in great benefit to its members, and sends 
us a notice calling for the addresses of those who wish 
to become members and asks us to publish it. This is a 
question to which there are two sides, and we hope that 
"O. F." will not think us unkind if wc decline to pub- 
lish his call. In the first place he takes no measnres to 
satisfy us that there is such a person as " O. F.," and we 
do not Inoic— although wc do not think it— but it is a 
dodge of some one to get the addresses of boys all over 
the country. Secondly, we do not think such a proposi- 
tion would meet the approval of parents in general. We 
should not wish a son to be in correspondence with a 
circle of boys of whom we know nothing whatever. A 
forced correspondence of this kind is not likely to result 
in much good. If " O. F." is desirous of improving him- 
self let him get together half-a-dozen or more boyB in 
his own neighborhood and form a young Farmers' Club, 
lie will find it of much more use than a wide-spread cor- 
respondence with Btrangers you never have seen. 
ber of muscles into play, and not only exercises the arms, 
hut the chest and, in fact, the whole body. Rowing is 
now very popular with college students, and crews from 
a number of the leading colleges have a yearly rowing 
match, which is the occasion of mnch excitement. They 
carry a good thing too far, but even that is better than 
horse-racing. The hoy is fortunate if he. like the one in 
the picture, has an "old salt" for a friend, who will 
teach him how to handle the oars. Of course great skill 
can only be had by practice, but you can get along much 
faster with a little showing. It is amusing to see what 
work those make who are unused to rowing; they lay 
out a great deal of strength to little purpose, and get move 
tired in fifteen or twenty minutes than a regular oarsman 
would in all day. Some men who live in the lake 
regions make nothing of rowing twenty miles or more 
from one point to another. The hoy in the picture has 
"caught a crab." Perhaps yon doirt know what that 
means. When one misses a stroke and instead of pulling 
his oar against the water pulls it against the air he is 
very apt to lose his balance and tumble over, and this is 
what sailors and water-men call " catching a crab." 
Writing: for t\\e Paper.— A number 
of boys and girls have written us articles that they wish 
us to print. Now, we are always glad to hear from any 
boy or girl of our large family ; you may he sure of that. 
But wc must be the judge as to the printing. There are 
but few very young people who can write what other 
young people would care to read. It might please the 
writers to see what they have written in print, but we do 
not often get an article from boys and girls that we think 
should be printed. "But should wc not try?" 01 
course yon should, and the very first one who writes 
what we think the rest would he pleased to sec will have 
the article appear in the paper. You who can nol yi I 
spell all the words correctly must not think of writing 
for the paper. First learn to write a plain and neat 
hand without making a single mistake in spelling; 
the time will be much more usefully employed than 
in writing things that you hope may be printed. 
