AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
353 
1879. J 
NUMERICAL ENIGMAS. 
1. I am composed of 25 letters : 
My 2, 1, 23, 15, 12, 6. is a symbolical mime for Samaria. 
My 5, 12, 15, 18, 13, 19, is a Jewish measure. 
My 11, 7, 2, 17. 21, 13,'is used in making bread. 
My 16, 11, 10, 9, 4, 3, is a mountain in Palestine. 
My 22, 10, 14. 8, 24, 13, was a Judge of Israel. 
My 25, 2, 3, 20, 12, 13, was miraculously destroyed for 
his sins. 
My whole is a Scriptural Command. Isola. 
2. I am composed of 26 letters : 
My 6, 9. 13, 18,—the cubical base of a column. 
My 19, 21, 8,—a flock of pheasants. 
My 22, 5, 10, 3,—in Persian mythology, an imaginary 
fairy, 
My 1, 11, 3, 12,—an ancient law term. 
My 26, 16, 5, 15, 20,—to withdraw. 
My 7, 23, 24, 14,—name of a timid quadruped, also a 
constellation. 
My 17, 3, 2,—a Hebrew measure of liquids. 
My 25, 10, 3,—a prefix. 
My whole is a motto. Sphinx. 
3. I am composed of 13 letters: 
My 8, 11, 3, 1, is a metal. 
My 9, 10, 11, 5, 13, is an article of furniture. 
My 7, 6, 12, 13, is a number. 
My 9, 4, 2, is a title. 
My whole is a celebrated Eastern traveller. E. J. K. 
CROSS-WORD. 
My first is in slender but not in thin, 
My next is in metal but not in tin, 
My third is in whole but not in part, 
My fourth is in picture but not in art. 
My fifth is in stocking but not in shoe, 
My sixth is in purple but not in blue, 
My seventh is in kitchen but not in room. 
My eighth is in cloth but not in broom, 
My ninth is in dish but not in spoon, 
My tenth is in planet but not in moon, 
My eleventh is in many but not in throng, 
My whole is a power that’s mighty and strong. 
Wons si cagenodel pavoru, chiwh dulwo veah morfed 
arin; tub hotgurh bet locsends fo bet ira, sha eben rof- 
nezni sit scented, tiuo scaryinlet froms. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE JULY NUMBER. 
Abbreviations.— 1. Jewel 
— ewe 2. Larch —arc. 3. 
Pa. ha—ash. 4. Snipe—nip. 5. 
Steam—tea. 
Square Words. 
1. E D N A 2. C L A M 
DRAW LANE 
NAIL ANNA 
AWLS MEAL 
Alphabetical Arithmetic— 209/1651483(36609. (Key— 
My clean pig. 
Concealed Flowers.— 1. Peony. 2. Harebell. 3. Iris. 
4. Rose. 5. Daisy. 
Geographical Blanks.— 1. Lookout, Flattery, Disap¬ 
pointment. 2. Horn, Fear, Clear, Sable, Wrath. 
Reversed Words.— 1. Madam, Anna, Ada, Eve, Sis, Ewe. 
2. Redder. 3. Asa, mum, deed. 4. Deified. 5. Level, eye. 
Drop-letter Puzzle.— “ Agriculture is the most health¬ 
ful, the most useful, and most noble employment of man.” 
Numerical Enigmas.— 1. He preaches well, that lives 
well. 2. Pride of China. 
Cross word —Agriculturist. 
Wliat Hie l>uclcling- Might hare 
Thought. 
“Who would have thought that I came from such a 
dark and unpleasant world as that! For long, long, days 
—theyseemed like weeks—I was crowded down with my 
head and feet together, until I thought I should smother; 
and so warm too, with not a breath of air. When the 
light of this new world broke upon me it almost dazzled 
THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW. 
my eyes, but I felt the joy which comes to those who, 
having lived in darkness, are suddenly set free. I stand 
upon the shore of a newly discovered world (water in the 
distance); but, unlike Columbus, I will not return to my 
old home to be there cast into prison and hound in 
chains. No power could put me back where once I lived. 
I’ll fly and swim, and wade, and be free. Look at these 
•wiDgs of mine ; they are to beat the air, and these feet, 
to move the waters! Farewell, old empty and lifeless 
world ! I go to see what this new life has in store for 
me.”—It went. And many months afterwards the people 
said that they had not tasted a nicer, more tender duck. 
Growtlc Under IMIticultlcs—Mottled 
Apples. 
One would not expect cherry trees to actually throw 
stones—though they do seem to drop them around pretty 
freely sometimes, when half a dozen or so boys are out 
of sight in their branches—but we have seen one cherry- 
tree that was constantly engaged in moving rocks. For 
several years we have seen this tree and have often won¬ 
dered how the work began, and what the result will 
finally be. Probably a little Cherry bird—a better friend 
than some bad boys think, had been sloned out of his 
tree, and in bis hurried flight and fright, dropped a fair, 
plump cherry in the narrow, shallow crevice of a huge 
rock where there was scarcely earth enough to furnish it 
A BOTTLED APPLE. 
a covering. But great things often grow out of adversity; 
the badly-treated cherry had within it a stone, and within 
the stone a seed, which was really a little plant, and this 
sent a tiny root down between the solid walls of rock— 
encouraged by its attempts in that direction, it sent up 
a little srem and hung out a small banner of a leaf, just 
to let its friends—if it had any—know that it had gone 
into business for itself ; established a cherry factory on 
a solid foundation. We will not stop to tell how hard it 
struggled to “keep its headabove water.” No. Wemean 
from dying of drouth ; but pass on to say that it came 
through its early trials all right, and besides taking a 
high rank in its profession, it does a good deal outside— 
or rather inside work, in splitting and moving rocks. 
What a dozen oxen would have found too much for their 
strength, this stripling of a tree has accomplished. When 
we last passed that way, the once little crevice was a 
“ yawning chasm ” and more than a foot across, opened 
by the gradual growth of this tree, which still flourishes. 
We know that apples are canned or bottled, but this is 
after they have been quartered and cooked. Some one, 
probably an inventive boy, tried to bottle a whole raw 
apple, and the engraving shows howjie succeeded. A 
droll looking apple, and you will no doubt ask how it 
was done? One can say, like Topsy, “ ’specs it growed 
so,” and that would he the truth. The apple was put 
into the bottle while still small enough to pass through 
the neck of the ink bottle. But the apple was not to be 
hound down and limited to the size of the glass prison 
into which it had been thrust. The stroug wall of glass 
was burst open and the growing fruit has forced its way 
out ion one side in a singular manner, while a portion has 
literally overrun the mouth. If the bottle had been 
larger there would have been simply a change of shape 
to correspond to the form of tlie bottle. These examples 
are interesting, and teach the power which a tender but 
growing substance can exert. This shows us how we can, 
to a certain extent, control nature, and on the other hand, 
how every living thing is striving to reach a definite end, 
and will succeed under ordinary circumstances, but 
when molested, as in the case of the bottle and the 
apple, will approach as near as possible to the regular 
established form. To bottle apples alive you must use 
larger bottles or have smaller apples, or the result will 
not be any more successful than the one in the engraving. 
WIsat to B>o sit tlie Fair. 
Of course you will go to the Fair—which means your 
own, town or county as it may be, and some of you may 
be able to visit others. In many of the fairs they very 
sensibly offer premiums for things that can be raised or 
made by boys and girls. This is a most excellent plan, 
but it is, of course, too late to advise you to exhibit in 
such cases, as the articles have to be thought of, and ar¬ 
ranged for, long beforehand. We hope that many of our 
boys and girls will exhibit and take prizes, too. If you 
have something that you can exhibit, or intended to take 
to the fair, do not leave it at home because you are afraid 
that some one else will have something better. It is bad 
enough for some selfish older persons to do this. If only 
those exhibited who were sure of a prize, our fairs would 
be small affairs. Try and help your fair by showing the 
best you have. If you are so fortunate as to take a prize, 
that will be well; but it is quite as well to have tried to 
deserve it. You will learn why yon failed, and that will 
be useful. If you try for a prize, do not set your heart 
so much upon it that you will be disappointed if you fail 
to get it, and be cross over it. Recollect that but one 
can take the premium, and if that falls to another, see- 
why, and try to do better next time. But the chief ob¬ 
ject in going to the fair should not be to get a prize— 
though that is a good thing to do—but to learn some¬ 
thing, and there is always much to be learned at a good 
fair. Do not run about from place to place without any 
object in view, for you will then be too tired to ciljoy 
anything. It is very easy to get tired at a fair ; indeed 
sight-seeing is a most fatiguing work. Make up your 
mind what kind of things you most wish to see, and see 
them thoroughly, and then, if you have time you can 
look at others. If it be implements, the poultry, the cat¬ 
tle, or the horses, the sewing machines, or the fancy 
work, take time and see what any of these have to tell 
you that you did not know before. At a State lair many 
years ago, in Ohio, we think it was, the most interesting- 
objects we saw at the fair were two boys of about 12 and 
14 years of age. We met them among the implements, 
and the way in which they examined these, and compar¬ 
ed them with those they had at home, and their bright 
remarks as they came across something new, induced us 
to keep near the little fellows for a long time. Those 
boys are men now, but we have never been to a fair since 
without thinking of those boys. They made the fair very 
useful, and went home that night, with tired legs no 
doubt, but with their heads filled with useful hints, and 
probably had enough to think about aud talk over for 
many a day thereafter. We call to mind these two boys 
as their manner of seeing the fair is one that we hope 
that all our youngsters will adopt. Those youngsters 
that hang about the catch-penny side-shows, or think 
that the most attractive objects are upon and around 
the refreshment stands, fail to make the best of the Fair. 
The Boy and Mis Call'. 
Look into the face of the “Young Herdsman” on the 
next page, with his fine Jersey pet by his side, and does 
not it say, just as plainly as if spoken, “ How do yon like 
my calf? ” He is a fine fellow, little man ; and you must 
No. 469. Illustrated Rebus, - A Biblical 
truth upon which all should reflect. 
have taken good care of him—or have seen that he was 
well cared for, which is all the same thing. Not only is 
the calf a fine one after its kind, but you can see that the 
youngster is a nice specimen after his kind. This is no 
fancy picture, for we happened to know both the boy and 
the calf. It was a great day, that, on which the portrait 
of the calf was taken, and the youngster, knowing that 
he would show in the picture, prepared for the occasion, 
and he insisted upon wearing his father’s hat. What 
makes a nicer pet for a farmer boy, or farmer girl, too— 
for girls are very fond of pets—than a nice calf. Of 
course, every one of our immense family of Boys and 
Girls can not have a calf for a pet, but we have no doubt 
that a great many of them who live upon farms can have 
a calf to care for by merely asking, as the parents of many 
of you will be glad to see you take an interest in the 
stock of the farm. But do not ask for an animal to care 
