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a second growth, especially if the ground is 
moist, and this ii.jures them very material¬ 
ly. They should not be put in too large a 
bulk at first, as there is some danger of 
heating. They should be kept thoroughly 
dry, then if there is a pure circulation of 
air there is little or no danger of loss. 
With many farmers it is often a question 
of which is the most profitable, to sell or 
to store and wait for better prices. My ex¬ 
perience is that, taking one year with 
another, if fifty cents per bushel can be 
realized for either crop when first harvest¬ 
ed, it is better to sell than to store away; 
unless, of course, you are well enough post¬ 
ed as to the supply and demand to know 
that there is a small supply, in which case, 
it may be better to hold. There is nearly 
alway s more risk to run in storing away 
any crop, and I have always found it profit¬ 
able if a fair reasonable price could be se¬ 
cured, to market when the crop is ready. 
Literary Mention. 
Practical Poultry Keeping, by G. M. T. Johnson, 
Binghamton, N. Y. We have been favored by the 
author with a copy of the 4th edition of this excellent 
work, and we still think, as we said of the 3rd edi¬ 
tion, that it stands ‘‘up head” among the Poultry 
books. Considerable new matter has been added, 
and new engravings have been made of the differ¬ 
ent breeds of fowls, poultry houses, etc., and the 
common-sense style of the work will recommend it 
to all who want a book that is fitted for every-day 
instruction, and not filled with impossible theories 
and fanciful diction of no.value to any o::e. The 
book is handsomely bound in cloth with gilt title and 
colored lithograph plates, and sold for 50 cents, a 
price that brings it within the reach of all. 
The Housekeeper for June is an excellent num¬ 
ber. Miss Juliet Corson has an article telling just 
how to set and wait on a table for a company at 
dinner or tea. The third “Inskip Paper” discusses 
easy methods of doing work, and an illustrated arti¬ 
cle gives several plans for a kitchen. Some one 
ought to send to the publishers (Buckeye Publish¬ 
ing Co., Minneapolis, Minn.,) for their handsome 
illustrated premium list and get up a good club here. 
The publishers send specimen copies to any address, 
free. 
Good Times is the name of an illustrated monthly 
magazine, published at Boston, Mass., devoted to 
furnishing Songs, Recitations, Declamations, Dialog¬ 
ues, &c., for school entertainments, as well as useful 
information for both teachers and pupils. Teachers 
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bors, and a dollar spent for a year’s subscription 
would be a good investment. 
The Manhattan. The fourth volume of this ele¬ 
gant Magazine begins with the July Number and it 
is very evident that the publisher is determined to 
spare no pains nor expense that will make each vol¬ 
ume better than its predecessors. In its mechanical 
work it nt w rivals the older periodicals, while in 
literary matter it falls not one whit behind. This 
number now before us contains some twenty articles 
by the best writers, many being finely illustrated. 
The frontispiece is a fine portrait of the Earl of 
Dufferin, K. P. Fair Verona is an illustrated article, 
by J. W. Davis, descriptive of that ancient Roman 
City. Martha J. Lamb gives a description of River¬ 
side Park with fine sketches of charming bits of 
scenery there. White Elephants, by Frank Vincent, 
Jr., The Ancient Water Supply of Constantinople, 
illustrated, and much other interesting matter make 
this number of the Manhattan the pride of its pub¬ 
lisher and the joy of its reader. Published monthly 
at Temple Court, New York City, at $3.00 per year. 
The August number of The Popular Science 
Monthly contains two brilliant and striking articles 
on the future of religion. The first, ‘‘The Ghost of 
Religion,” is by Frederic Harrison, and is an attack 
on Mr. Spencer’s ‘‘Unknowable,” and the second, 
“Retrogressive Religion,” is Mr. Spencer’s reply. 
Grant Allen’s “Hickory-Nuts and Butternuts,” Dr. 
C. C. Abbott’s “Some Rambles of a Naturalist,” and 
M. J. Fischer’s “My Monkeys,” may be equally well 
described as lively or amusing essays, or as scientific 
articles, for they are both; and Dr. Peale’s “The 
World's Geyser-Regions,” with several full-page 
illustrations, is also readable, scientific and instruc¬ 
tive. Mr. Frederic G. Mather’s “Salt-Deposits of 
Western New York” deals principally with the salt- 
wells of Warsaw, Wyoming County, which appear 
to be the strongest and best in the United States. 
The serials on “The Chemistry of Cookery,” Mattieu 
Williams, and “The Morality of Happiness,” by Mr. 
Thomas Foster, are continued; and there is also a 
curious and interesting article on old-fashioned 
arithmetic, under the title of “The Mystic Properties 
of Numbers.” The Editor’s Table is occupied with 
a discussion of the relations of “Science and the 
Temperance Reform.” 
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