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NEW JERSEY HORTICULTURAL SHOW. 
we again refer to the subject, in the hope of an 
improvement for the coming year. Western 
mixed corn has been selling here for the last few 
days at 58 to 60 cents for sound parcels, and 43 to 
54 cents for heated, very little of the latter bring¬ 
ing over 50 cents. The average difference be¬ 
tween heated and sound corn, taking the ex¬ 
tremes into account, is about 5 cents per bushel. 
Now let it be remembered that there is no differ¬ 
ence in the corn when first harvested, and the im¬ 
portance of the subject will be manifest. The corn 
when picked, should be placed in cribs, raised 
a foot or more from the ground, with a narrow 
base, swelling on each side towards the eaves, 
and roofed so as to be perfectly water-tight. 
Much corn is damaged on the cob by exposure 
to storms, or for want of air when drying. The 
corn should not be shelled until it is to be sent 
to market; it should then be thoroughly fanned 
or cleaned from chaff, as the presence of this 
substance is one of the principal causes of its 
heating in coming forward. Even when corn 
passes as strictly merchantable on arrival, it 
will heat on a voyage to Europe, unless per¬ 
fectly clean when sent aboard. More than two 
thirds of the Western corn which has come 
forward this season, has proved unsound, simply 
for want of precaution on the part of the origi¬ 
nal owners. 
There is another point connected with this 
subject, where an amendment would give in¬ 
creased value to the product; but perhaps it 
would be impossible to affect it. We allude to 
the mixture which gives its name to most of the 
Western corn in market. Yellow or white, 
when sold separately, will average, one month 
with another, about 2 cents per bushel each more 
than mixed, which is but the same corn thrown 
together. The white is wanted for a different 
market, and the yellow is much more attractive 
when placed by itself. 
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NEW JERSEY HORTICULTURAL SHOW. 
This was held this year at Jersey City. 
Notwithstanding the drouth and other nupropi- 
tious circumstances, the show of fruits and veg¬ 
etables was a very creditable one. 
“ I am very glad,” remarked a gentleman in our 
presence, to his daughters, “ to see so many pre¬ 
miums awarded to our fruits. It is such a stim¬ 
ulant toward improvement to our gardeners.” 
No comment is necessary to prove the value 
of these exhibitions. They promote to im¬ 
provement. It is a pity that all lovers of good 
fruit cannot sec how much they might promote 
iprovement; by m ^ \y visiting exhibi¬ 
tions and contributing something towards pre¬ 
miums to the men who toil to produce such 
fruit as gladdens the eye, and makes those who 
succeed in growing it, proud of having it praised 
in the exhibition room—it stimulates them to 
try to provide better, and better still. This is 
what these shows are for, and why/they should 
be visited by those most interested. 
FLAX COTTON. 
We take early opportunity to call attention 
to this subject, as winter is the time to prepare 
for spring. Growing flax for manufacturing on 
a large scale in this country, by the new process 
of preparing it so as to resemble cotton, is firmly 
believed to be practicable by a great many per¬ 
sons. It seems by the following notice in an Ohio 
paper, that that state is leading off in the true 
spirit of a go-a-head people:— 
“Hon. John F. Beaver, of Newton Falls, is now 
engaged in the erection of machinery for the 
preparation of flax cotton. The editor of the 
Warren Whig visited him a few days since, and 
says:— 
Mr. B. is sanguine of the ultimate success of 
the scheme for the substitution of flax in place 
of cotton. He showed us a specimen of the cot¬ 
ton after the third process. It resembles in col¬ 
or and texture the common lint, made by tear¬ 
ing up a piece of old linen cloth. Five process¬ 
es are necessary to prepare the flax cotton for 
the spindles. I learned from Mr. B. that twice 
as much flax has been raised in the neighbor¬ 
hood of Newton Falls this year as there was last. 
In passing from there to Ravenna, beautiful 
fields of flax, in full bloom, were common along 
the road. 
CHARACTER OF BOYS. 
Boys make a sad mistake , when they learn to 
chew, and smoke, and drink, and swear, because 
they think it manly. I made the same mistake for¬ 
ty years ago; but with grey hairs cometh wisdom, 
and now I shun such a boy as I would a wild 
animal. It is a great mistake to think any of 
those accomplishments are manly. Such boys 
are never admired by good men, lovely women 
or lovable girls. 
Boys make a sad mistake, when they get mad 
with the horses, oxen, cows, or other poor dumb 
animals, and beat, and bruise, and kick, and 
scold and swear at them; if they think by so 
doing they will be able to control them any 
better, or tame their anger or intractableness 
while trying to teach them how to perform 
some of the operations on the farm. “ A soft 
