I  winter  has  been  unusually  wann.  The  crop  of 
wheat  anrl  outs  never  looked  Qner  at  this  season. 
In  fact,  It  was  put,  Ip  with  imcommon  care,  and  i<o 
much  cotton  see^l  was  applied  as  manure  that 
some  planU-re  wUl  need  It  at  pUuiUug  lime  to 
;  raise  another  ciop  of  cotton.  As  to  oats,  every 
available  piece  of  laud  Is  sMU  lielnjr  sown.  And 
you  need  not  wonder  at  plows  ruunlui;  now,  when 
the  plum  trees  arc  In  full  blwtn.  and  wc  are  trem- 
I  bllng  for  other  fruit,  its  all  kinds  of  trce.s  are  just 
1  ready  to  bud 
of  State  and  local  govemmentB,  and,  by  restricting 
the  addition  to  bonds,  make  a  much  better  de¬ 
mand  for  those  already  in  exlslence. 
The  JapMese  t:ommla6loners  lothe  Centennial 
--Messrs,  o  Kunst.  .m.  shieda.  t.  Yamaun,  h. 
CO  Francis¬ 
co,  Jan.  81,  and  will  soon  come  East. 
W.  a  <icorgla  brigade 
by  Ocn.  J, 
A  NATIONAL  ILLU8T11ATEO 
VVIIlard*t«  rrnpilpnl  flatry  Ilwubnndpy.— Thl.S 
work,  published  at  the  Rukal  Offlee,  Is  thus  no¬ 
ticed  in  the  last  numltcr  of  the  New  England 
HoiBest.ead; 
“The  author  has  been  long  known,  both  In  this 
country  and  England  as  an  authority  on  all  mat¬ 
ters  connei^ted  with  the  Dairy.  Ui  this  volume  he 
has  given  the  results  of  liis  e.vperlcnce  and  ob¬ 
servation,  and  has  made  a  truly  standard  work  on 
practical  Dairy  Husbandry.  It  Is  decidedly  the 
best  book  ol  the  kind  which  ha.s  ever  b«en  Issned. 
It  is^complete  and  accurate,  nicely  printed  and 
finely  IlltistrnUKL  The  (;hapters  on  the  Manage¬ 
ment  of  Grass  Land,  Dairy  P'arms  and  Fixtures, 
and  Dairy  .stock  arc  very  valuable.  It  Is  a  flr.st- 
rate  ijook  and  should  bt:i  in  the  hands  of  every 
fanner  In  the  coiudry.” 
Augusta,  Macon,  Savannah,  and  Atlanta. 
Philadelphia.  Those 
entries  should  understand  that 
there  cun  be  no  more  delay  in  the  matter. 
A  i,ONo  list  of  topics  for  Centennial  sermons, 
has  been  prepared  Jointly  by  the  centennial  Corn- 
mltt^  of  the  KrookU  n  Baptist  Boclal  Union  and 
I,  ®  Centennial  Committee  of  t  he  State  of 
New  York. 
O.  R.  I.VGERSOLL  of  Knlekerboekcr  Grange  No. 
154  of  New  York  C’lty  has  been  invited  by  Bro.  8. 
\V.  Lawrkncb,  Sec’y  State  Grange  of  North  Caro¬ 
lina,  to  deliver  his  celebrated  oration  on  the  Cen¬ 
tennial  Encampment  before  the  state  Grange  of 
N.  C„  Feb.  15Ul. 
p.  Advertisino  In  the  Catalogue  of  the  Centennial 
ExhlblUon  Isin  eliarge  of  Messrs,  S.  M.  Pbitesoill 
&  Co.  of  New  lork,  Phlla.  and  Boston,  the  oldest 
and  most  experienced  advertising  hou.^  In  Amer¬ 
ica,  and  one  widely  noted  for  its  responslbllin-  and 
Integrity.  They  have  an  agent  In  Europe  who  Is 
procuring  advertisements  for  the  Catalogue  and 
prominent  American  newspapers. 
D.  D.  T.  MOORE, 
-JWountlor  and  Ooiidiiotiiig  idditor, 
Millie  some  residents  arc  seeking 
new  homes  in  i'exus  and  the  West,  peraon.s  from 
all  parlu  of  the  world  are  lo-speittlng  our  land.” 
Unless  the  <-old  weather  which  many  predict 
will  prevail  this  montJi  (and  which  opened  hereon 
ihe  3d,  giving  us  liic  first  slelglilng  of  the  season.) 
pmves  vciy  severe,  tlie  prospect  la  that  the  Cen¬ 
tennial  Year  will  be  one  of  unusual  vegetable  pro¬ 
duction  and  consequent  pi'osperlty  U)  all  engaged 
lu  rural  pui-sults. 
WM.  J.  FOWLER,  ANDREW  8.  FULLER 
A-Stjoclato  JEditors. 
HENRY  S.  RANDALL,  CL.D,,  Cortland  Village,  N.  Y, 
Editob  of  Till  I»r.r*aTM*M  or  Suttr  Hlsbamisv 
X.  A,  WILLARD,  A.  M.,  Little  Falls,  N.  Y., 
EniTOK  Of  Til*  IlnrAiiT,!*!!*  OF  Diinv  IIiifamihf. 
G.  A.  C.  BAKNETT,  Fubtisher. 
RURAL  NOTES  AND  QUERIES 
TERMS  FOR  1876,  IN  ADVANCE, 
INCLUDING  POSTAOKt  WHICH  PUBLISHERS  PREPAT, 
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forfl.8,10!  SovfjD  Copies,  and  one  free,  tor  *17,20;  Ten 
Coides.and  one  free,  *21.50— only  *2.14  per  copy.  Tbc 
above  roUis  hu-liulii  pnstaQr  (under  the  new  law.)  to 
any  part  of  the  United  States,  and  the  Amcrioan 
postage  on  all  copies  raailed  to  Canada.  On  papers 
mailed  to  Europe,  by  steamer,  ihe  postage  will  be  S6 
cents  extra -or  *3.60  in  all.  Drafts,  Post-Office  Money 
Orders  and  Registered  Lottera  may  bo  mailed  at  our 
risk.  tlT"  Liberal  Premiami  to  all  Club  Agents  who 
do  not  take  froo  copies.  Specimen  Numbers  Show- 
Bills,  Ac.,  sent  free. 
Fast  yinilH  in  liTB.— One  hundred  years  ago 
the  phrase  “  fast  mall”  did  not  mean  all  that  It 
does  now.  The  following  paragraph  from  the 
Pennsylvania  Gazette  of  February,  1775,  shows 
what  w'as  t  bought  a  decided  progress  tor  those 
times: 
General  Post-Office,) 
PHILADELPHtA,  Feb.  U,  1T75.  f 
1  DivcrHifird  IiirminH  for  the  Nontli.  — Tlu> 
Granges  or  tlie  boulhern  States  are  moiing  rpilu* 
generally  to  decrease  the  production  of  cotton  the 
coming  year.  .So  far  us  this  means  tbc  creation 
of  new  Industiics  It  Is  a  gotal  movnuent.  The 
•South  needs  a  more  dlveralfled  industry  us  the  flrtrt, 
step  low'urds  prosperity.  Undoubtedly  the  atten¬ 
tion  of  planiera  has  been  directed  too  exchLslvcLv 
to  eottou  growing,  .and,  as  a  result,  the  price  is 
below  a  fair  paying  rate.  But  wc  notice  that  the 
antithesis  to  cotton  is  almost  always  corn— If  a 
planter  concludes  to  grow  less  cotton  he  nils  up 
the  gap  in  jiroductlon  with  corn,  rarely  thinking 
of  anything  else.  There  Is  Just  a.s  likely  to  be  a 
glut  of  corn  as  of  eollon.  In  the  West  farmers  al¬ 
most  always  have  a  glut  of  corn,  atid  the  price 
there  Is  nsuallj'  too  low  lor  prollt.  Let  t  he  South¬ 
ern  plantfir,  besides  corn,  grow  othergralns,  sheep, 
cattle,  horses,  vegeldbles  and  fruits  of  all  kinds 
suited  to  the  ellmntp.  In  Ibis  way  they  will  be¬ 
come  really  prosperous  and  indepenrlerit,  as  t  hej 
cannot  ;hope  to  be  on  two  crops  more  Hum  upon 
one.  Corn,  Indeed,  Is  the  txKirest  crop  to  grew  lu 
connection  w  lib  cotton,  asthe  lalxirof  cultivating 
and  harvpsOng  of  both  comes  jit  the  same  sea.snn 
of  t  he  year.  What  1»  newied  is  an  indnstrj' which 
shall  furnish  employment  in  seasons  when,  under 
the  present  sj-stem,  there  Is  nothing  to  be  done, 
i’hls  ought  to  be  more  easy  In  the  South  than  In 
our  more  rigorous  Northern  tilmato;  but  it  seems 
never  G)  Jnive  been  done.  Hence  the  general  lack 
of  prospeilty  of  .soutlnan  plfintoi-s. 
RURAL  BREVITIES, 
It  having  been  round  very  inconvenient  to  per¬ 
sons  concerned  in  trade  that  tbe  mall  from  Phlia- 
delnhiatoNcw  England  sets  out  but  onco  a  fort¬ 
night  during  the  winter  season,  this  is  to  give  no¬ 
tice  that  the  New  England  mall  will  henceforth 
go  once  a  wfjek  tho  year  round— where  a  corre¬ 
spondence  may  be  cariiert  on  and  answers  obtain¬ 
ed  to  letters  between  Fhlladclphla  and  Boston  In 
three  weeks,  which  used  lu  the  winter  to  require 
six  weeks.  By  command  of  the  Fostrasslor-Gene- 
ral.  Wm.  Franklin.  Comptroller. 
pa.vdelion  in  full  bloom  was  picked  in  Medi¬ 
na,  Ohio,  In  Jannary. 
Tub  date  of  the  next  Ohio  state  Fair  Is  fixed  tor 
Sept.  4,  1876,  and  the  five  days  following. 
The  Annnal  Fair  of  the  IVesrern  N.  Y.  Ag.  Soc. 
will  be  held  on  the  Driving  Park  Grounds,  Roches¬ 
ter,  Aug.  89  to  Kept,  2,  IncTasIvc. 
The  expoit  of  grain  and  flour  from  New  Y'ork 
for  the  last  week  In  January,  was:  flour,  44jiS6 
barrels:  wheat,  442,(326  bushels;  corn,  332,326 
bushels. 
iNiUANAPOLis  grunts  with  sattefatiJon  liccause 
the  number  of  hog.s  packed  tliere  ibis  season  up 
to  date  has  been  250,364,  an  increase  orer  last  year 
of  n,o27. 
The  famous  racehorse  Gladlateur.  which  won 
the  Derby,  the  St.  L**ger,  the  'Pwo  Thousand  Gui¬ 
neas  SGikefi,  and  the  Grand  Prize  of  Paris  In  1865, 
recently  dP-d  In  England. 
Minnesota's  principal  crops— grain,  grass  .and 
potatoes— which  were  rained  nt  *2.740,00<)  tn  i860, 
aggregated  *36.600,000  la.st  year.  This  shows  re¬ 
markable  growth  and  progress. 
One  singular  fact  about  wheat  Is,  that  the 
foreign  markets  have  3o  per  cent,  le.ss  wheat  than 
at  tJilR  time  last  year,  and  the  Increase  In  price 
over  la.sl  year  Is  but  lorn’  per  cent. 
The  Mich,  state  Pomologlcal  Socleiv  w  in  hold 
its  next  meeting  at  J.anhlng,  Feb.  16—17,  when  the 
arfalrw  of  the  Society  and  ll«  programme  foi- the 
year  will  he  rnnsldercd  and  settled. 
E.  A'  .1.  C.  WiujAMs  of  Chestnut  Hill  Small  Fruit 
Nursery,  .Montclair,  N.  J.,  send  us  Muir  descriptlx  c 
catalogue  of  Frail,  and  Ornamental  Trees,  Grape 
Vines  and  Small  Fniits  for  the  spring  or  1S7«. 
Wm.  G.  Wayne  has  purchased  Ihc  well-known 
Bull  farm,  on  the  banks  of  Cayuga  Lake,  This 
Includes  tlie  famous"  Bull’s Grovc^ .and  the snlen- 
ADVERTISINO  RATES  i 
InBlde  nth  and  IStb  paEea  (Agate  spaoe).60o.  per  line, 
"  18lh  page . 70  " 
nr  Innt  page . . . l.yO  •• 
Kif tv  per  cent,  extra  for  unusual  display. 
Special  .Noilcos,  leaded,  by  count . 1.25  " 
Business  •'  .......1.50  “ 
Reading  ‘  2.00  ** 
Discount  OD  4  insertions,  10  per  ot.i  8  ins.,  15  per  ct.; 
13  ins..  20  per  ct.;  26  ins..  25  per  ct.:  62  ins.,  iS)i  per  ct. 
Pf*  Ne  adrertUement  inserted  for  less  than  *3. 
Oft  Cattle  In  IVintcr.— Farmers  often 
neglect  to  salt  their  cattle  In  winter.  The  old 
practice  of  suiting  hay  In  the  mow  has  been  dlfv- 
carded,  and  we  think  Justly,  bccuuse  It  more  fre¬ 
quently  Injures  than  jjrescrves  the  Day.  But  this 
usually  results  In  HuppljiDg  the  animals  with  no 
salt  durlngthe  winter  monihs.  It  Is  pleasant  also 
lu  summer  to  visit  the  herds  in  green  pastures  and 
throw  the  salt  In  lumps  on  the  velvet  turf,  while  lu 
going  Into  a  dirty  barn3'ard  In  winter  tliere  Is  no 
enchantment  whatever.  Salt  should  be  given  to 
cows  In  the  stable  or  some  other  dry  place,  and  on 
no  liccount  In  contuct  with  snow,  tor  snow  and  ice 
In  contact  with  salt  create  an  Intense  cold,  winch 
Is  Injurious  to  anlmaLs. 
PUBLICATION  OFFICESi 
Ho,  78  Duano  Street,  Hew  York  City,  and  Ho.  «7 
Kast  Main  St.,  (Darrow’s  Bookstore,  Osburn 
House  Blook,)  Rochester,  H.  Y. 
Tlir  wrlciiilflr  I'armrr.— Tills  valuable  paper, 
lllllug  a  place  In  agricultural  literature  w’hlch  no 
other  Journal  can  supplj',  has  been  removed  to 
Boston,  Maas.,  and  will  hereafter  be  conducted  un¬ 
der  the  tNlltorlal  mauageinent  of  Dr.  E.  L.  Stcbtk- 
vant  and  E.  H.  Libby.  These  gentlemen  arc  well 
(lualifled  for  their  positions,  and  the  »clenllfic 
Farmer,  In  their  hands,  must,  cotitinuo  to  bo  an 
import iinr  medium  tor  comlilning  scieutinc  ro- 
senreh  with  tho  conclustoms  oi  practical  farmers. 
The  paper  Is  Issued  monthly,  In  good  style,  at 
*1  per  year. 
,  The  iiaiirry  Kiidaiigcred,— "  The  nmiuh  Of 
iinprovcmcnl "  In  New  York  City  Is  up  town.  The 
lower  part  of  the  city,  or  what  constituted  the 
whole  of  New  York  of  lOO  years  ago,  (and  a  good 
deal  loss)  Is  comparatively  neglocutl,  and  Its 
rural  fciiuire.s,  especially,  seem  Gj  be  little  canal 
for.  The  old  park  has  been  filled  with  line  build¬ 
ings,  noGibly  the  new  Fost-Onicc,  which  is  the 
finest  and  most  imposing  structure  lu  thtx  city. 
Now  It  Is  proposed  to  occupy  jvsiiKms  of  the  Bar  - 
Icry  Park  with  bulMlrigbOt  the  FHevated  Railway 
Cobipnnlc,s,  and  thus  do  away  with  that  brcalliing 
place  fortUonsiiiids  G)  whom  even  centra!  Park  l.s 
not  ciislly  till.ilnablc.  Ag.ilrist  Mils  we  prote.si. 
The  rural  featuri>  of  New  York  (Inchidlng  the 
Kukai,  Nkw-Vokkek)  are  among  Its  l>csl  and  most 
iinixirtanl  fcaiurcs,  Whiil  parks  remain  should 
be  made  (hr  moHl  of.  The  BhUcit.  cspiH  lall.v,  fif- 
foiUsaii  outlook  on  tlic  Boy  which  makes  It  n 
more  pleasaul.  Mimmer  resort  thiui  any  other  park 
not  giving  (he  cool  SiilGwatcr  hreeze.s  and  view 
ennld  be.  .\h  the  i  roes  recent  ly  planted  attain  age 
and  size  Ihe  Battery  Fork  will  become  more  at¬ 
tractive,  and  be  more  and  more  regarded  as  a  iie- 
ccsslly.  tji»are  the  old  Ballcri  ! 
S.YTURDAY,  FEBRUARY  12,  1876 
BENEFITS  OF  THE  OPEN  WINTER, 
includes  Uie  famous"  Bull’s  Grovc^  .and  the  splen¬ 
did  wocats,  and  Is  One  of  Iho  flne.st.  lako-slde  farms 
In  the  State. 
A  YOUNG  man  of  East  Juffrey,  N.  IL,  who  went 
to  Vineland,  N.  J„  a  few  years  since,  to  make  his 
tortnne  raising  grapes,  and  lost  *2,000  worth  lu 
1874  and^3.ooo  woitu  lu  isis  by  pests,  has  returned 
to  his  old  home. 
Thk  Nurserymen  of  the  Northwest,  are  In  meet 
at  the  Falmer  House,  in  Chicago,  on  (ho  second 
w  ednesd}!}  of  Juuo  next,  forthc  piirpoae  of  organ¬ 
izing  u  Nuioicrjinens’  Association  lo  promote  The 
general  weltiire  of  the  iKic-growing  interest. 
A  uousEKFErKji  Hi  Dos  Alolncs,  Iowa,  having 
been  much  i  roublcd  by  tramps  who  robbed  hls 
clothes  iiucH  and  stole  things  generally.  Inis  pub¬ 
lished  a  card,  warulng  all  Interlopers  that  he  wlU 
shoot  t  hem  on  sight  If  I  hey  appea  r  alter  nightfall. 
An  ox  weighing  5,0<m)  pound.s  arrived  In  Jersey 
<■  Ity  one  evening  last  week  by  the  Midland  Rail¬ 
road.  He  1«  five  years  old  and  twenty-two  bunds 
high.  He  rode  in  a  hay  car,  the  ordinary  cuttle 
car  being  too  small,  lie  v»  as  raised  In  Otsego  Co. 
The  Maine  Male  Ag.  Society  has  llxcd  the  lime 
of  lU  next  Annual  Fair  for  Wednesda.v,  a  ug.  3(i, 
to  hold  six  dayti,  thus  keeping  over  the  .SabbaMi— 
an  experiment  the  neeesslty  or  which  (we  agree 
with  the  Maine  Farmer  lu  saying)  la  somewhat 
iiucstlomihle. 
The  Preadent  of  the  Va.  Slate  Ag.  Soc.  has  sent 
a  coinmmilciiMou  to  the  Legislature  of  that  state, 
asking  ail  approprhUlon  of  *lo,000,  to  be  added  to 
a  like  sum  from  the  Ag.  Soc.,  for  the  purpose  of 
holding  a  State  Fair  at  Richmond,  as  a  part  ial 
compensation  for  Vhglnla’s  lack  of  representation 
at  the  Centennial. 
Stokhs.  Haknison  &  CO.  of  Palnesiille,  Ohio, 
have  sent  us  their  Spring  Catalogue  or  New  and 
Rare  Plants  for  1876,  Including  Green-House  and 
Bedding  Plants— admirably  arranged  and  illus¬ 
trated.  .also,  their  catalogue  ol  Fruits,  Orua- 
inenGil  Trees,  .Shnibs,  Bulbs.  Ac.,— and  Seml-.\n- 
nual  AVholesalc  Trade  Circular. 
A  RusuBi.  of  oats  and  loo  ibs.  of  clover  hav,  will 
winter  a  sheep,  IVlth  hay  at  $10  per  ton  and  oats 
40e.  per  bvisUel,  the  cost  ot  wlnteiiug  woiUd  bo 
*1.40.  If  .stumaeiing  costs  aimhlng  this  does  not 
leave  much  marghi  for  prom  except  in  the  ma¬ 
nure  aud  opiviiiunlty  to  work  up  coarse  teed  not 
otherwise  available. 
The  EvccuMvc  Board  of  tbo  Mich,  state  Ag,  So¬ 
ciety,  a  lute  meeting,  decided,  by , a  vote  of  15 
to  5,  lo  heroatu.T  give  no  prizes  for  running  or 
trotting  —  whereupon  prominent  owners  of  tast 
horses  issued  u  call  for  a  meeting  ot  all  horsemen 
at  Lansing,  the  rirsi  Tuesday  in  March,  with  a 
view,  if  thought  best,  ••  to  organize  a  Slate  Horse 
•Vssoc-iallon,  award  jiremlums  10  all  classes  of 
horses,  aud  also  give  preinlums  lor  trotting  aud 
nmiilug.” 
While  the  mild  weather  of  the  fii-st  I  wo  monihs 
of  whiter  has  proved  detrimental  to  poopl»‘  of  a 
few  occupatloua  in  IliulG'd  regions  thegreai  mass. 
In  lioUi  coTinlry  and  city,  ha\e  rtcMvcd  groat  ad- 
v.iniagc  and  benent  iroin  the  absence  oi  Host  and 
snow.  The InlcresLs of  Ihc  rural  population  seem 
lo  haxc  been  cspcchillj'  promoted  by  the  open 
xTiiiter,  In  almost  every  part  ol  the  country— the 
fannci-s  of  the  West  and  South,  as  well  as  1hos(;  ol  i 
the  North  and  East,  having  Gikcn  advantage  of 
tho  genial  wcatlicr  to  perform  much  spring  work 
In  ad*-aii(.e.  For  example,  tin  old  Kansas  sub-  | 
scriber  to  the  Rur-yl— Mr.  B.  M.  jioi  sk.  now  » 
resident  o(  New  ton,  Kansas— writes  under  dale  ol 
Jan.  24  as  follows: 
“The  last  season  was  one  of  unpieccdcntcd  , 
prosiKTlly  foi’  the  fcrmor.8  of  lids  part  of  Kansas,  1 
they  having  been  successful  In  cverj’  branch  of  ' 
agiicullural  Induglry.  our  farmers  have  taken  i 
advantage  of  the  beautiful  WCatUer  we  have  been 
having  Mils  winter  and  prepared  ihelr  lands  lor 
the  rtxicpUou  of  crops  lu  the  spring,  not  haiing  i 
been  liitercupG.xl  by  frosts  or  snow  .  Mtiuj'  peoph*  I 
arc  breaking  the  prairtes,  on  which  they  will  sow  I 
oats  In  the  .spring.  II  was  formerly  the  pract  ice 
here  to  Im’ak  prTilrtP  only  through  the  mouths  of  1 
Maj  and  June,  It  iicltig  supimsed  that  xvhcu  bro¬ 
ken  HI  anj-  other  time  of  year  11  would  not  roi,— 
but  within  the  last  year  or  two  it  lui-sbeen  demon- 
strared  by  actual  experiment  lUat  pralrte  bi-oken 
lu  the  winter  ami  sowiiwiMi  oats  in  tlie  spiiug  M  alla,  harvested 
will  rot  equally  well  with  that  done  In  !Maj  or  biushels  axerage: 
June.  There  are  huge  quanllMes  of  hreuking  lio- 
Ing  dono  here  Mils  winter,  and  the  ground  will  be 
sown  to  oats  (n  the  spring  niid  the  crop  taken  oir 
In  season  for  wheat  next  fall,  thus  alToidlng  the 
farmers  the  benefit  ot  Ixvo  crojis  xvhere  only  one 
was  formerly  secured.  It  hu.s  been  donionsf  rated 
bej'ond  the  posslbillU'  of  successinl  contradlcUon 
that  the  lands  ijing  contiguous  to  the  A.  T.  and  S. 
r.  RR..  which  is  In  the  beautiful  Valley  of  the 
Arkansas,  ai'c  the  richest  and  most  producUveof 
any  in  the  biutc,  and  the  liberal  oil'ei^  made  by 
that  t'ompan*  havo  induced  an  emlgniUon  lo  this 
p.irt  of  the  State  ivhlch  w  ill  veo-  soon  bring  every 
a<Te  of  land  under  rultlvuMon.’' 
From  vorlouh  parts  of  the  Middle  and  Kasteni 
States  xve  bave  fax  orablc  rcpoii.s  Iroin  farmers, 
horticulturtsts  aud  gardeners  xxiio  have  been  en¬ 
abled  to  fake  advantage  of  the  “ethereal  mild¬ 
ness ’’by  working  In  field,  orchard  and  garden. 
Even  in  the  South  the  xvlnier  has  been  so  unusual 
that  much  unsea.sonable  labor  has  been  performed 
most  ndvanlageousB'.  A  Fanner  xnitlng  riom 
Monroe  Co.,  Ga.,  Jnn,  ’Ki,  to  a  contcmiJoran*,  says: 
FmiiiiiinK  for  Corn.- We  learn  that  the  pre¬ 
miums  for  corn  announced  by  Mr.  Conrad  Wilson 
txvo  weeks  ago  are  to  be  materially  Increased  and 
new  features  added.  The  matt-er  xvHi  also  be 
taken  In  chaigi;  b.v  the  Centennial  Commission, 
and  the  pr«mlum  corn  can  be  cxhlbltod  at  the  In, 
icrnatlonal  ExposltJon  lu  ITilladcIphla-  Corn  is 
Mic  great  American  cereal,  (he  amount,  both  in 
bushels  iiiid  value,  being  much  grcaier  than  that 
of  any  other  grain,  aud  It  Is,  therefore,  decidedly 
appropriate  that  corn  should  figure  conspicuously 
at  the  American  Centennial  Exhibition. 
If  nine  Foiiliry  .Hhow.— The  Maine  roultrj’  As¬ 
sociation  held  a  rerj'  successlul  shoxv  (Us  third 
annual)  at  Fortland  during  the  xvcck  ending  Jan. 
29.  iiic  first  year  there  were  alioufc  4(X)  cntrtcK, 
last  year  about  soo,  aud  this  year  l.ooo.  The  qual¬ 
ity  of  the  exhibition  was  superior,  showing  great 
improx'cment  In  the  stock.  The  attondauce  was 
largo,  some  25,000  itersons having Mslted  the  show. 
The  stock  on  exhlblUon  was  estimated  at  *60,0tKt: 
the  pigeons  alone  were  valued  at  *lo,ooo,  four 
pairs  of  which,  from  Nexv  Y'ork,  cost  *900.  A  good 
crow  for  Mie  siiniis"  State. 
A  Natnrnl  Dliatakr.— As  a  result  of  tlie  ridicu¬ 
lous  fuss  which  the  English  people  jilways  make 
over  any'  of  their  royal  family,  the  poorlieathen  of 
India  with  whom  the.  Prince  of  )Valt>s  is  now 
visiting,  imagine  that  the  Prince  is  the  English¬ 
man's  God— or  at  least  one  of  them.  The  mistake 
Is  not  unnatural  for  heathen  accustomed  to  ivor- 
shlp  at  the  shrine  of  Jugghriumt. 
I)reer*H  Gnrdrn  Cnlrndor.— This lltllc manual 
for  the  Centennial  year,  published  by  Henry-  A. 
Urebk,  No.  714  Chestnut  SL,  Philadelphia,  Is  on 
our  table.  It  contains  a  full  list  of  requisites  for 
tho  tloxvcr  aud  vegetable  garden,  with  much  valu¬ 
able  Information  Wall  interested  lu  any  branch  oi 
horticulture, 
IlcMtriciiiiK  the  l>cbl-.)lakiiiR  Foyvit. — LckT- 
liig  The  door  oner  the  horse  Is  stolen  bus  passed 
nloa  prox'crb  for  uutimcLv  reform  but  hcrctsa 
proiYOsItlon  not  altogether  too  law.  Two  members 
ot  the  N.  V.  Legislai  ure— Senator  L.  B.  Prince  of 
Long  Island  and  Senator  YV.  N.  Embrso.v  of  tlie 
Monroe  District— have  atiempiAid  something  like 
tills  In  measures  designed  to  prex^ent  fiu-Uier  in¬ 
crease  In  city  and  municipal  indebtedness.  Sena¬ 
tor  Prince  proposes  to  restrict  Mie  debt  of  New 
York  city  lo  ten  per  cent,  of  its  taxable  property. 
Senator  F.mersok  ]jroposc-s  u  constitutional 
Arnendmeut,  prolfiblUng  all  localities  from  incur¬ 
ring  a  debt  greater  than  four  per  cent,  of  the  as¬ 
sessed  valuation.  Tills  would.  In  many  localities, 
compel  the  severest  economyln  local  government, 
a  lid  prevent  the  waste  of  a  gre.at  deal  of  money. 
Tl  Yvould  (Uso  haY'e  an  e-xcelleni  effect  Oh  Mie  credit 
CENTENNIAL  ITEMS. 
Retekdy  Johnson  lias  prepared  a  written 
opinion,  affirming  the  constitutionality  of  the 
Centennial  appropriation. 
Baron  de  Sant'  Anna,  the  Portuguese  Minister 
at  Washington,  has  been  nominated  to  be  Centen¬ 
nial  commissioner  for  Port  ugal. 
Flood  i  O'Brien  are  going  to  have  one  mouth’s 
yield  of  the  Consolidated  Virginia  and  California 
mines  exhibited  at  the  Centennial  Exposition.  It 
Is  expected  that  *10,0()0.H(H)  xvlU  be  the  figure,  aud 
In  3,.t00  sUx'or  bricks  xvelghlng  150  tou-s. 
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