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ing is employed. The kernels are covered 
two inches deep with line dirt. The pea¬ 
nuts are weakly and will not penetrate 
through clods. 
Cultivation consists in’keeping the weeds 
down and the ground loose. It is generally 
done with a horse cultivator, but when the 
drill method of planting is employed on 
•weedy ground hand hoeing may be nec¬ 
essary. Three cultivations are generally 
sufficient , as the vines will by that time 
cover the ground and smother out ’the 
weeds. The dirt is hilled slightly to the 
red varieties, but in the case of the white, 
level culture is practiced. 
Some cultivators plant the pea. while 
others plant only the kernel or meat. 
When only the kernel is planted, germina¬ 
tion is much more rapid than when the pea 
is planted; but in breaking the pod, care 
must be taken not to break or injure the 
kernel, as this endangers its vitality. Where 
the season is short, or well advanced when 
the plant ing is done, it iS the better plan to 
plant only the kernels, otherwise plant the 
entire pea. Of course the pea will not ger¬ 
minate after it has been roasted. 
The greatest pests the peanut grower has 
to contend against are the moles. These 
animals have as great a liking for peanuts 
as has the typical school-girl. The remedy 
is to begin cultivation earty, running the 
cultivator between the plants and keeping 
the surface loose, which will drive the 
moles so far below the surface that they 
will do no further harm. 
Scattering Pennsylvania Broad¬ 
cast. 
It was the boast of Alexander the Great 
that he would sow Grecian customs, man¬ 
ners and laws broadcast over Asia, a boast 
which in large measure he made good. 
Looking at the Census of the United States 
for 1880 we were reminded of the Grecian’s 
boast by the widely scattered natives of 
our own state of Pennsylvania. 
There is no state or teritory in which the 
Pennsylvanian is not found. Vermont re¬ 
ceives the fewest, only 372. The states on 
our borders naturally receive most, Ohio 
receiving 138,163, a number larger than the 
whole population of the state of Deleware. 
New Jersey has 46,754 natives of Penn¬ 
sylvania living within her borders; New 
York, 56,155; Deleware, 11,059; and West 
Virginia, 18,841. Our neighbors on our 
four borders have 270,972 Pennsylvanians, 
a number which surpasses six of our states. 
The general movement of population 
however, has been westward, along the 
parallels of latitude. Ohio, as said, receives 
138,163; Indiana, 51, 34; Illinois, 89,467; 
Missouri, 37,220; Kansas. 59,236; Iowa, 77, 
357; Nebraska, 25,019; Colorado, 11,387; and 
California, 15,374. The Western states re¬ 
ceive the surprising aggregate of 581,665. 
A part of the great stream is deflected 
southward, Kentucky receiving 6,032; Ten¬ 
nessee, 3,311; and Texas, 5,568. 
But Pennsylvania is not a giver alone; 
she receives from all quarters. In the city 
of Philadelphia, there are 13,637 New- 
Yorkers, and 23,869 Jerseymen. We have 
within our borders 38,826 from Maryland, 
10,010 from Massachusetts, £0,000 from 
Virginia; 44,843 from New Jersey, and 
100,490 from New York. These figures 
give some idea of the great interchange of 
population among the states, and offer 
abundant encouragement to one who re¬ 
flects upon how much this interchange con¬ 
tributes to unifying our widely scattered 
commonwealth, not only in name, but in 
language, sympathy and aspiration. 
To Distinguish a Perfect Woman. 
It was a very old Spanish writer, says the 
Toledo Blade, who said that k *a woman is 
quite perfect and absolute in beauty if she 
has thirty good points.’’ Here they are: 
Three tilings white—'The skin, the tee: h, 
the hands. 
Three black—The eyes, the eyebrows, the 
eyelashes. 
Three red- -The lips, the cheeks, the nails. 
Three long—The body, the hair, the 
hands. 
Three short—The teeth, the ears, the feet. 
Three broad—The chest, the brow, the 
space between the eyebrows. 
Three narrow— The mouth, the waist, the 
instep. 
Three large—The arm, the loin, the limb. 
Three fine—The fingers, the hair, the lips. 
Three small—The bust, the nose, the head. 
