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^URAL 
EXCELSIOR 
•ft I’nrk Row, New Vorlc, 
82 Itiillulo SI., RorhcHler. 
VEAK. 
Eight Cent* 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY ED, 1870 
T^ruercft uocoriiin a to Act of (’onerc, in the your WTO. by I'. D. T. Moore, in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the United State* for the Southern District of Now York.] 
local politicians, and certain ones who can 
control tlie most votes upon election day, 
wlio, nine times in ten, know nothing of 
agriculture and care less. The interests of 
the count ry demand that, it should be placed 
in the hands of tin? “ tillers of the soil,” 
whether Republican or Democrat, white or 
black, the expense of transportation by mail 
or otherwise, to fall upon the recipient. 
When this is done we may expect that our 
country's r&MnUt'tt will 
_ _ feel the effect of such nr- 
» 4 || tildes as tiiat upon “ Cut- 
^ ting and Cooking Food 
I for Animals,” and ” The 
ffi Comparative Value of 
^ Different Kinds of Food 
for Cattle and Sheep,” 
contained in report for 
o. L. AVrLMAMs. 
Mead, Crawford Co., Pa. 
be clear to all that the report becomes a ne¬ 
cessity. 
To be sure, many things contained therein, 
may be found in the. agricultural books and 
periodicals; but, without the report, why 
sustain the Department? The supply of 
these volumes in the past lias been so lim¬ 
ited that it was almost impossinle for even 
those most interested to procure a ropy. It 
is a significant fact, that the demand lor the 
studied, as the knowledge of it might have 
been productive of usefulresults. 
“Tn fair weather, with light, variable 
breezes, the sky is seldom quite clear of 
small groups of the oblique Citrus, which 
frequently' come on from the leeward, and 
the direction of their increase is to wind¬ 
ward. Continued wet weather is attended 
with liori/ontal sheets of this cloud, which 
subside quickly and pass into the Cirro- 
stnUu*. 
industrial 
caro 
AGRICULTURAL REPORTS. 
That a very material reduction ought to 
be made in the vast supply of uninteresting 
and unnecessary public documents, no tax¬ 
payer, who is conversant with the tacts, will 
NEW CLASSIFICATION OF CLOUDS 
GOOD TASTE, 
Homb surroundings in¬ 
clude quite a number of 
objects claiming careful 
consideration. Fences, 
outbuildings, trees, and 
various other matters, 
may be designed and ar¬ 
ranged in a way to em¬ 
bellish or disfigure the 
promises. But few per¬ 
sons think further than 
to construct that, which 
will answer its purpose 
practically, regard less of 
good taste or of adding 
to the attractiveness of 
their homes. 
Fences are needed, of 
course, to keep stock out 
h grounds; 
of, and in, one 
but I would construct 
them as inconspicuous as 
possible, consistent with 
expediency, order that they may neither 
hide nor detract from the superior beauties 
nature presents to our eyes. No one who 
lias been over tbe roads 
of the Central Park, 
Llewellyn Park, or any 
V other place where there 
are no fences to disfigure 
f£§ tbe landscape, will dis¬ 
pute the statement that 
the lovely appearance 
• j would be very much in- 
jured, or destroyed, by 
having to view such ugly 
fences as we usually do 
in travelin 
Ori.’UTJS tlKTWAKD) CUJ.'t- (JLOUD3, 
More than Six and One-fourtli Miles in Altitude; 1 and 2, Cat’s Tails; G, Horse’s Tail; G and 4, Twisted Tufts; 5, Plumage 
they appear lower and pretend to deny. But, while urging this rc- Agricultural Report is steadily upon the in- 
in the quarter opposite duction, would it not bo well to guard against crease, This demand ought, by all means, 
the storm arises. Steady curtailing the Reports from the Department to be supplied. 
over the 
country. If we must 
have fences, let them be 
ns unobtrusive to the 
sight as they can be, l>y 
using wire in some situ¬ 
ations, in others hedges, 
of evergreens or other 
Rlmibbcry, which can be 
made close, and answer 
as well as any kind of 
Jence. 
While elaborate fancy 
fences may justly be con¬ 
demned, unless it be in 
the city or town, where 
natural beauty is not 
found, the moan, clumsy 
strips often used, with 
no attempt at style, are 
equally unsatisfactory, as 
good taste can as well be 
displayed in modest, sim¬ 
ple and economical struc¬ 
tures as in elaborate ones. 
To give to a short fence 
But I, for one, object seriously to its being an appearance of greater length, use small 
distributed (by aid of the franking iniquity) pickets set close together, with no distinctive 
as a kind of an electioneering document, to divisions to break the continuity, w. n 
OTTfcTiflH (HOWARD)--CJTJUXi CIAOTITIS, 
More than Six and One-fourth Miles in Altitude; 7, Fine Pencils; 8, Longitudinated and Palmated Bands 
of Agriculture? As that department was 
formed for the collection and spread of 
knowledge pertaining to agriculture, it must 
high winds arc also preceded and attended 
by streaks running across the sky in the di¬ 
rection they blow in.”—[To be continued. 
