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in covering over all the parts of the sheep— 
forehead, jaws, legs—and grown thicker every¬ 
where. Does this look like degeneration in 
America?. 
Mr. Salzer, the La Crosse, Wis., seeds¬ 
man, emphasizes in his new catalogue the 
beauties of the vine Cobcea srandens, which 
is not planted as much as it well deserves to 
be. Seeds started now or later will make 
plants that when set out next spring will sur¬ 
prise people with their rapid growth—from 20 
to 30 feet during the season. Its flowers are 
large, bell-shaped and purple. There is also a 
variegated variety bearing greenish-white 
flowers. 
Mr. Carroll D. Wright, says the Cen¬ 
tury, has most acutely pointed out the fact 
that the introduction of nickel-plating into 
the manufacture of stoves in this country has 
“made work” for 30,000 additional operatives, 
and crowded no one out. It is in this way 
that thorough manual training is to help the 
workingman in the future, by making possible 
branches of work which did not exist before.. 
It is better that we should have manual 
training in our public schools than that all our 
public-school boys should want to begin life as 
clerks in brokers’ offices, or in any position 
which is not smirched with manual labor. ... 
One of the funniest remedies for malaria or 
chills and fever we have ever heard of—and 
it is seriously recommended by some Western 
papers—is a live spider of medium size. The 
spicier is to be caught, wound up in bis web 
and swallowed or w'ashed down with water... 
The Farm Journal of January gives the 
portrait of our friend and contributor, Ex- 
Governor R. W. Furnas, of Nebraska. 
As to the word “science,” remarks Science 
News, it is, as is well known, derived from the 
Latin scio, to know; science, then, is simply 
knowledge , and a scientist is one who knows 
any subject thoroughly. Sir William Hamil¬ 
ton gives the following definition of science: 
“A complement of cognitions having in point 
of form the character of logical perfections, 
and in point of matter the charactei of real 
truth.” The only object of scientific inquiry 
is to learn the truth; and the nearer we ap¬ 
proach to the actual truths of nature, the 
nearer we shall be to the establishment of a 
pure and perfect scientific system. 
“The newspaper is gratified to be able to 
state that it is now prepared to smile at all 
rivalry, to outstrip its esteemed contempor¬ 
aries at every point, and to enatdo mankind 
to dispense with all other journals but itself.” 
So says Harpers’, alluding to the little hum¬ 
bugs of journalism. How much we see of this 
talk uow-a-da 3 T s—and the farm journals are 
the worst of all; or, at least, as bad as any. 
We wish that all our contemporaries were as 
prosperous as they claim to be. We wish 
there were such a thing as each one of them 
“having the largest circulation of any paper 
of its class,” if they were but worthy of such 
a distinction. We wish that the circulation 
of a journal depended upon real worth—not 
upon bluster, brag and humbug, or the en¬ 
gravings offered for nothing with the journal 
advertising them thrown in. 
The Kaffir Corn (Sorghum) so much adver¬ 
tised last year has nothing to commend it 
where Indian corn will grow. It easily ma¬ 
tures its seeds, but the plants are rather short 
and when cut back do not make a second 
growth of any account. Thus, at any rate, it 
behaved last year at the Rural Grounds, and 
we gave it a careful trial. 
William Warfield, of Kentucky, a noted 
Short-horn breeder and writer, says, accord¬ 
ing to Hoard’s Dairymau, that he never tried 
anything that compared with sorghum as a 
flesh and milk-producing food. The richness 
of the milk is very marked and the cream very 
thick. 
Professor A. J. Cook, of the Michigan 
Agricultural College, prefers the Nixon spray¬ 
ing nozzle to the Riley for applying liquids to 
trees. He prefers the Field force pump 
worked by the wagon wheel. 
Now that ensilage is being talked of so 
much in the West, we respectfully urge our 
friends to try the Rural Thoroughbred corn 
for the purpose. We are quite disinterested 
iu giving the advice. We have none to sell 
and do not ever expect to have. It will pro¬ 
duce a greater amount of leaves from a single 
seed than any other variety we have ever 
used. 
Every year’s experience confirms Professor 
Shelton, of the Kansas Agricultural College, 
in the view which he has urged in many 
reports that corn planted thickly in drills 
and shocked when the ears of corn, of which 
it will bear a considerable crop, have fairly 
passed the milk stage, is, in Kansas, the best 
and cheapest fodder within reach of the farmer. 
Colonel Parkinson’s report of the Fort 
Scott (Kans.) Sugar Company states that they 
worked 450 acres of serghum averaging 
tons per acre of cane, and that the profits ty 
the Company, which included two cents per 
pound, State bounty,amounted to over $13,000. 
Two dollars per ton were paid the farmers for 
growing and delivering the cane to the fac¬ 
tory. 
ABSTRACTS. 
Quoted from “an exchange” by the Live 
Stock Indicator: “Those cattle pools, those 
cattle pools, how many a tale they tell of 
fools! Who trusted in the charming plans, 
unfolded by Chicago clans. Those pleasant 
hours have passed away and suckers who were 
blithe and gay, are sent by mamma back to 
school, and do not heed the cattle pool. And 
so ’twill be when we are gone, those dizzy 
schemes will still ring on. While other sharps 
find ready tools, to sing your praise—sweet 
cattle pools.”-The above paper speaks of 
a man in Missouri “who dishorned about 150 
cattle two weeks ago, aud reports that the late 
storm did not have any effect upon them, and 
they are able to utilize much more economi¬ 
cally the shelter, two or more now occupying 
the space required for one before the horns 
were cut off. He is now a tnorough convert 
to the new idea.”-“They are beginning 
to recognize the fact that this is the proper 
time to buy, not the time to sell,” says the N. 
W. Live stock Journal. “We could name a 
a number of persons who want to buy, but 
none who want to sell, at least at present 
prices,” says the Kansas Live Stock Indicator. 
“Eastern people,” it adds, “are beginning to 
think better of the cow business.” * * * 
“The sun is coming up in the East, and soou 
his effulgence will be shed over the broad 
plains of the West! There’s a good time com¬ 
ing, boys—wait a little longer.” 
The Londorp Ag. Gazette, commenting upon 
the above, says: “Bravo! U. S. A. You, 
too, are suffering agriculturally, but you, at 
auy rate, will never say die.”- 
“I will try to be kind aud merciful to all liv¬ 
ing creatures, aud will try to persuade others 
to be the same.”-Bell’s Messenger (Eng¬ 
land): “The time has come when the great 
mass of our inhabitants are able to think for 
themselves, aud the agitation now raging for 
the protection of British industries against 
foreign competition is based on principles of 
necessity and painful conviction. Nor is 
the agitation confined to auy one class of our 
population.”— 
Uncle Ezek’s wisdom in the Century: A 
busybody is an individual who goes about 
stealing other people’s time aud fooling away 
his own There is truth enough in existence 
for a dozen worlds like this, and there are lies 
enough for fifty_Pity and water-gruel are 
much alike, and a man will thrive on one just 
about as fast as on the other.... If a man acts 
natural he is sure to act honest; his conscience 
never made him dishonest .. The brain thinks 
but the heart decides... Forms and ceremon¬ 
ies are just as necesf-ary as law aud gospel; 
without them mankind would be no better 
than an organized mob Happiness is an art, 
and we have to learn to be happy, just as we 
have to learn how to be good To the wicked 
all things are vile — There are . ew animals 
that you can trust with absolute liberty, and 
fewer men-Uniform politeness is a species 
of godliness; it may not make a saint of a 
man, but it makes a lovely sinner. 
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