tilized at will bv pollen from selected 
strains for crossing. 
Mr. Allen believes that there is as much 
creation to day on this earth as ever there 
was. Wherever the climate and soil become 
exactly fitted to the wants of a particular 
plant or class of plants, those plants are 
produced or created to Jill the place. When¬ 
ever there is a demand for a certain form 
of insect to fertilize the flowers of these 
plants, the required insects are produced or 
created to fill that office. He gave instances 
where foreign orchids, whose flowers can 
be fertilized only by a very peculiarly- 
formed insect, have been brought to this 
country, and in six years the required in¬ 
sects, hitherto entirely unknown, made 
their appearance, performed their work 
and disappeared. He also cited the case of 
a foreign island, where very high winds 
always prevail, which would render the 
flying of insects impossible, as they would 
all be blown into the sea and destroyed. In 
this situation. Nature has provided a wing¬ 
less insect purposely designed and fitted to 
perform the required work of fertilization. 
Cabbage is an easy crop to grow, and it 
seems odd that farmers in any section of 
the country cannot raise enough for the 
towns around them. We are led to this 
remark by the sight, in Hartford, Ky., last 
week of a wagon load of five hundred heads, 
hauled from Daviess county—thirty miles 
away—by a Mr. Ellis, and sold on the streets 
at seven cents p^ r head. Can Ohio county 
farmers afford this reflection on their 
energy ? What does it avail them if they 
sell tobacco in Owensboro, then permit 
Daviess county farmers to supply their 
towns with garden products ?—Farmers 
Home Journal. 
Every hennery should be thoroughly 
cleansed, at least once a year, as thousands 
of fowls are annually destroyed by inhaling 
the effluvia emanating from the excrement 
deposited beneath them. The excrement 
of fowls is one of the most powerful fer¬ 
tilizers extant, and some of the tobacco 
growers in the Eastern States have substitut¬ 
ed it for guano. They put a half bushel or 
more of the excrement in a large barrel, 
and then fill it nearly full of rain water, an 
old broom handle or a round stick is insert¬ 
ed to stir the compound occasionally, and 
in a short time it is ready for use. and those 
farmers who have utilized it generally put 
a tablespoonful of the liquid around each 
plant. It is a valuable fertilizer when 
judiciously applied to tomatoes or cabbage 
plants or anything pertaining to the vege¬ 
table kingdom.— Henry G. Mosely. 
Where are the bairnies? 
Out on the green; 
Come and look at them, 
Then you'll have seen 
Sight just the bonniest. 
Father can see— 
His own little lasses 
Shouting with glee. 
See, how the daisies 
Sprinkle the grass! 
You must tread on them 
Ere you can pass. 
Buttercups golden 
Gleam through the white; 
The bairnies pursue them 
With screams of delight! 
O. H. Alexander, of Charlotte, Vt., says 
he is testing this season sixty varieties of 
Garden Peas. He sai s: ‘‘Mv ‘Early Pearl’ 
blossomed first and Parker & Wood’s 
‘Maud S.,’ second. I think I have the ear¬ 
liest variety in this country.” 
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