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the cattle kings are monsters of cruelty, says 
the N. O. Picayune... 
Pakt of last year’s work of the Washington 
Department of Agriculture, according to the 
N. Y. Tribune, was the distribution of 168,395 
packages of tobacco seed for which the people 
were compelled to pay, including those who 
disapprove of the wood and do what they can 
to discourage its degrading use. 
We must appeal to law to stop the slaughter 
of birds. A writer i.n Farm, Stock and Home 
does not think a law agaiust catching birds 
would do much good, for it would not lie en¬ 
forced; but a law prohibiting milliners, both 
wholesale uud retail,from handling these ghost¬ 
ly ornaments would have the desired effect,and 
with such a law we might, in time, have our 
birds as plentiful and useful as they were a few 
years ago, before tins bloody war on them be¬ 
gan.... 
Goon advice of the Farm Journal is that we 
should not spend money in buying trees or 
wash* labor in planting them unless wo intond 
to care for them afterwards. 
Unless we now, during the dull farm sea¬ 
son, study over and select our grape-vines, 
fruit trees, small fruits and select our seeds for 
the vegetable garden, we are not likely to do 
it when spring opens... 
The Farm Journal gives good advice when 
it suggests that we live as much as possible on 
the sunny side of the house. 
Petek Hkndkuson says the English mar¬ 
kets demand red kinds of celery for the most 
part. Though red kinds have been ignored tu 
this country, there is now a growing demand 
for them as they are more solid and hence 
keep better in Whiter. They also have more 
of the nutty flavor than the white kinds. 
HOWELLS says that the imagination fed 
upon gross unrealities always responds readily 
to fantastic appeals .. 
With Mr. Jabez Fisher, a successful grower 
of grapes in Massachusetts, Early Dawn color¬ 
ed Aug. 11; Early Victor, Aug. 12; Walter, 
Aug. 13; Lady, Aug. 15; Delaware, Aug. Id; 
Moore’s Early, Aug. 13; Eumelan, Aug. 15; 
Cottage, Aug. Hi; Lindley, Aug. 18; Brighton, 
Aug. 20; Worden, Aug. 21; Wilder, Aug 23; 
Lady Washington, Aug. 26; Pockliugtou, 
Aug. 27: Jefferson, Aug. 27; Martha, Aug. 28. 
The above is compiled from thi; Garden. 
Mr. Fisher says that the Worden ripens a 
little earlier than the Concord, certainly not 
10 days as claimed: and also that it is not as 
good as the Concord in quality and is more ten¬ 
der as a keeper. Those who have criticized 
the Ri.'RaL’h report of the Worden as it l*e- 
haved last year, do not seem to have allowed 
sufficiently for the variability of this grape iu 
different places... 
Mu, Fisher says that Lady Washington 
never ripens with him; that Pocklinghou did 
not ripen sufficiently to show its quality; that 
Jefferson did not ripen sufficiently to be eat¬ 
able... ... 
C. W. I dell contends, in the Ameri¬ 
can Garden, that gift packages are iu the 
interest of growers. Thus the fruit can 
be sold to distant markets. The fruit, of 
course, must, otherwise pay all the expenses 
connected with the return of the packages. 
The commission merchant must now look 
after and return the empty packages, which 
involves much labor and time. 
Mr. Idell says that the indifference of 
freighting lines to the delivery of packages is 
excused on the grounds that if they got no 
pay they cannot afford to be correct or to pay 
for them if lost. Is not this pretense of deliv¬ 
ery free of cost a mere pretense f Is not the 
cost of returning added to the freight when 
shipped 1.. 
Agaix thousands of packages are not re¬ 
turned. If, iu fact, the railroads can afford 
to do so much work for nothing, Why do they 
charge so high a freight on the fruit ?. 
Mr. Idem, believes that if the packages were 
sold with the fruit, theeost of freighting and 
carting would be reduced more thau the cost 
of the packages. Besides, the sale of the fruit 
would average higher. He refers forcibly to 
the popularity of the gift grape eases aud bas¬ 
kets of the past season. 
If grapes can be marketed iu gift cases to 
advantage, why not peaches pears, berries, 
otc.?|..... 
Sm John B. I.awes says the German ex¬ 
periments upou cooked and uncooked food for 
stock do not show any clear evidence in favor 
of the former, and the process of steaming and 
other modes of converting dry food into suc¬ 
culent food have never become populur among 
practical farmers iu England, aud he is iu- 
PiocxtLtneous tiding, 
The Second ( February) Number Now Ready 
uuu very muen re taming successful impreg¬ 
nation. On the other hand, juicy and succu¬ 
lent vegetation is very favorable to breeding. 
Earl Spencer says the worse bred the fe¬ 
male is,thegreater the influeucoof a well-bred 
male upon the offspring, aud Professor Mauly 
Miles says this accords with the experience of 
practical men generally . 
“Stonehenge” says the purer or less mixed 
the breed, the rrioru likely are its characteris¬ 
tics to bo transmitted to the offspring. Hence 
whichever parent is of the purest blood will 
be generally most represented in the offspring; 
but as the m lie is usually more carefully se¬ 
lected and of purer blood than the female, it 
generally follows that he exerts more influence 
than she does, the reverse being the cose when 
she Is of more unmixed blood than the sire... 
It is not an uncommon error to suppose that 
animals that eut but little are the most profit¬ 
able. So long as an animal is capable of di¬ 
gesting aud assimilating it, the greutor the 
amount of food it consumes the more profit¬ 
able are the returns; for the proportion of the 
food that goes to supply the waste of tissue 
aud run the animal machinery is loss when a 
large than when a small amount is eaten. 
The great advantage of all improved breeds 
of live stock over the common or “scrub" sorts 
is that they convert a larger proportion of the 
food they consume into animal products— 
milk, meat or wool—aud these are usually of 
a better quality.1. 
Heredity is the principle in accordance 
with which the normal characteristics, the 
constitutional diseases aud sometimes the ac¬ 
quired habits of parents are transmitted to 
the offspring. .. 
Atavism— from atoms, 
UR MORRIS. SOCIAL LIFE AND CHARAC 
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uu ancestor—is 
that form of heredity in which any peculiar¬ 
ity of an ancestor, more or less remote, wheth¬ 
er of form, color, habits, mental traits or pre¬ 
disposition to disease, makes its appearance in 
the offspring without having been observed in 
the parent. Darwin calls it “reversion,” and 
farmers have known it by several names, such 
as “throwing back,” “harking back,” “breed¬ 
ing back,” otc. 
It is this tendency to “breed back” that ren¬ 
ders cross-bred animals as breeders of little 
value for the improvement of stock; for the 
tendency is found to bo very strong, and gen¬ 
erally towards inferior ancestral qualities, 
probably because the superior qualities of the 
bettor-bred parcut are more artificial. 
The benefits of cross-breediug, according to 
Mr. Spooner, are most evident in the first 
cross... 
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According to Thury’s theory, sex depends 
upon the degree of maturity of the egg at the 
moment of feeuudation; that which has 
reached a certain degree of maturity produc¬ 
ing a female, aud that fecundated after that 
point has been passed, producing a male. So, 
if females are served during the first half of 
the period of heat, female offspring should 
largely predominate; but if they are served 
durlug the last half, males should be more 
numerous. Like many other theories, how¬ 
ever, this appears to be unsupported by' ex¬ 
perience........... . 
What is calk'd the Btuyvesuut theory of 
breeding is that the sex of the offspring de¬ 
pends entirely on the female, and that every 
altermite egg, or ovum, presented for impreg¬ 
nation, is female. Accordingly after a cow 
has produced a heifer calf, Mr. 8. would uot 
allow her to be served when first she comes 
in season; but. he would wait till the first part 
of the second heat, if lie wanted another heif¬ 
er calf. Should she not “catch,” he would 
again wait till heat number four, passing over 
uuuiber time, and so on till she did “catch.” 
If she has produced a bull calf, however, and 
a heifer calf is wanted, she should bo served 
the first time she comes iu heat. 
“Fancy points” are peculiarities of form 
or color, that do not represent auy valuable 
qualities. The solid color aud black points 
of the Jerseys, and the red and dark roau of 
the Short-horns are cases iu poiut.“Solid 
colors” are uniform colors in contradistinc¬ 
tion to mixed or mottled.. The blaek points of 
the Jerseys are, a blaek nose and switch and 
black tips to the horns..... 
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