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and competes with other sugars, when price 
will permit, for use iu manufacturing, as in 
the making of size. Most of the sirups now sold 
are a mixture of cane and glucose sirups. On 
the basis of last year’s production of grape- 
sugar, the annual bounty would be $5,500,000. 
The makers of maple sugar are also putting 
in claims for a bounty on their product. 
SAMPLES ANI) COMMENTS. 
Education an Insurance. Adequate 
ami universal education alone can make 
life aud property safe in our cities. The 
wealth and display of the rich are, as a 
writer says, combustible matter, and the 
neglected children growing up in vice and 
ignorance will become the incendiaries who 
iu some day of wild excitement, will com¬ 
bine to use the torch and the blast, unless we 
take them by the hand and by the heart 
while they are yet young, and lead them into 
safe and satisfying lines of life. We must 
have such education at any cost; it is indis¬ 
pensable to our continued existence as a pros¬ 
perous people In French cities the homeless 
children are oared for by the authorities, fed, 
clothed and schooled, not alone in book learn¬ 
ing but especially in industry and geniality, 
aud they borrow the money to do it. It is 
not a matter of benevolence so much as of 
self-protection. We are mad if we think that 
we are doing enough with the schools we have. 
A terrible future is before us if we go on in 
giddy pride amassing individual wealth with 
no adequate insurance against its destruction 
by future desperate mobs of our own induc¬ 
tion. 
Mt. Carmel is on a promontory which 
juts out on the eastern shore of the Mediterra¬ 
nean, in the Holy Land. A German colony of 
fruit-growers is established there. The situa¬ 
tion renders it pleasantly breezy and it is be¬ 
coming a health resort. A German lady who 
once recovered health there, left a large sum 
to build a pleasure-house and health-cure, and 
a good roadway, The monks of Mt. Carmel 
brought an action against the colonists when 
they began to build the road. This was de¬ 
cided at last in the Turkish court in favor of 
the Germans, but the costs consumed much of 
the legacy. The work will go on, however, 
and tne menus win soon see more light than 
they have for centuries. 
Prof. Hulst, at the last meeting of the 
N. J. H. S.,was asked how to destroy the 
cucumber flea-beetle. He replied that the 
“ ordinary poisons might be applied.” The 
Professor ought to read the R. N.-.Y. 
Mr. O. F. Brand, of the Minnesota E. S. 
(Faribault), says that he has planted an 
orchard of 900 Oldenburg apples. He believed 
this variety to be greatly superior to the 
newly introduced Russian varieties, and says 
that if any one will go through the country 
where 10,000 Russians have been planted, and 
then look where 10,000 Oldenburgs have been 
planted, he is confident from his observations 
that the observer will find 100 of the latter 
alive to one of the Russians. 
Mr. E. N. Mounter says that if you want 
a hog with an eye that will roll up at you. 
w ith the look of a maniac aud an expression 
of countenance that will make you shiver, 
breed to scrubs. But if you want stock that 
will carry the largest amount of corn to mar¬ 
ket in the way of pork—stock that will eat and 
be happy and if not fed will not squeal about 
it, breed Poland Chinas, and remember that as 
“eternal vigilauee is the price of liberty,” so 
eternal watchfulness is essential to successful 
pork raising. 
Most of us make a mistake by feeding at 
the wrong end of the hog’s existence. We 
don’t get down to business in the way of 
feeding until a month or two before we sell 
him for pork. This is all wrong. The main 
secret is in giving the piggy a good send-off 
duriug the first two or three months of his 
existence. During the first week of a pig’s 
life it is quite important to feed the sow' so 
as not to start too great a flow of milk, a 
handful of shorts twice a day iu less thau 
half a pailful of warm water being the best 
feed at the time. 
The American Florist is raising its voice, 
the R. N.-Y. is very glad to see, in a positive 
way against the exaggerated pictures of cata¬ 
logues. A man, it says, who publishes an 
illustration of a plant or flower which repre¬ 
sents that plant or flower several times better 
thau it really is,must be designated by the same 
name as he who sells goods from an extra sam¬ 
ple and then fills the order with fourth-class 
stock. We cannot object to any one represent¬ 
ing the best actual development that can be 
made of the plant or flower illustrated, but 
when that boundary is overstepped he who 
does it is dishonest and a swindler, for he is 
attempting to obtain money under false 
pretenses..... 
The New York Experiment Station says 
there is 12.29 per cent, less digestible album¬ 
inoids or flesh and-muscle-forming food, in 
hay that has been kept over one year as com¬ 
pared with new hay. 
The severe laws against “ green goods 1 ’ 
sharpers in New York and New Jersey have 
made Philadelphia, Pa., their headquarters of 
late, though they still frequently bring on 
their dupes to New York to finish the job. 
The Pennsylvanians now propose to get rid of 
the pests by the passage of a law like that 
passed in New Jersey last year. It provides 
that if any correspondence—letter or other¬ 
wise—be found on a suspected offender, it 
will stand for prima-facie evidence, aud on 
conviction the punishment is not to be less 
than one year in prison, or more thau five 
years, and not less than $100 or more than 
$2,000 fine, or both fine and imprisonment. It 
is expected the bill will pass soon. 
Just as many dairymen and other cow- 
owners cannot tell, with a reasonable degree 
of certainty, which of their cows are sources 
of profit, and which of loss, so many farmers 
cannot certainly tell whether they gain or lose 
by this or that crop. Would it not pay to 
pay a little more attention to this matter? 
Might it not be as wise to cull one's crops as 
to cull one’s cows. 
The general impression conveyed by 
remarks in all sorts of papers is that more 
horses will be sold at public auction this win¬ 
ter and next spring than ever before in one 
season. Breeders seem to take more and more 
to this mode of disposing of their surplus 
stock. 
Last year it cost 26 cents to produce and 
market a bushel of oats in Michigan, and 19 
cents to produce and market a bushel of 
corn. 
In talking about the' prices of wheat and 
other farm crops of late, it is wonderful to 
see how anxious the papers are that the 
farmer should not “ rob the poor.” If there 
is an advance of 40 cents a bushel in wheat to 
be divided between the speculator, the rail¬ 
road company, the middleman and the farmer, 
straightway there is an outcry that the 
farmer is lining his pockets with the hard- 
earned wages of the poor, although probably 
the farmer gets the smallest share of the ad¬ 
vance. Why isn’t as much solicitude dis¬ 
played about the margin of profits in other 
pursuits? How many of those who carp at the 
farmer’s profits, would be willing to work 
equally hard and invest the same amount of 
capital for returns so small?. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
-O. C. Farmer: “A dog has no business 
being away from home any more than has a 
cow or horse.” 
-Joseph Harris: “We all know that 
fermenting manure sometimes gives off a little 
ammonia; but it should be remembered that 
one pound of nitrogen in manure, if converted 
into ammonia, would produce 44,700 cubic 
inches of pure ammonia gas, and that each 
inch of gas mixed in the air of a room or barn 
would be readily detected by a good nose. It 
requires very little ammonia to make a great 
smell.” 
“ Can we use manure for a hot-bed without 
loss of ammonia or other valuable plant 
food ? This question is very satisfactorily 
answered by an experiment of the late Dr. 
Voelcker, Chemist to the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England. Five tons of good stable 
manure contain over 60 pounds of nitrogen. 
Dr. Voelcker found that five tons of manure 
(10,000 pounds) placed in a heap in November, 
and kept out of doors, exposed to rain till 
April 30, lost less than half a pound of nitro¬ 
gen or ammonia. The following are the re¬ 
sults: 
When put In Same heap 
heap Nov. 3. April 30. 
Total weight of Manure. 10,000 lbs. 7,188 lbs. 
Water. 6,617 •• 4,707 “ 
Soluble Organic Matter. 248 •• 305 “ 
Soluble Mineral Matter. 154 207 “ 
Total Organic Matter. 2,824 “ 1,678 « 
Total Nitrogen, in heap. 64.3 “ 63.9 " 
Nitrogen iu Soluble Matter. 14.9 “ 21.4 *' 
The heap lost by fermentation nearly one 
ton of water, and 1,126 pounds of dry organic 
matter that was slowly burnt up iu the heap, 
and which would give out about as much heat 
as half a ton of coal burnt iu a stove. This 
organic matter has no manurial value. There 
was practically no loss of plant-food. On the 
other hand, the heap of fermented manure is 
of more value than the raw manure from 
which it is produced, because the nitrogen aud 
min ral matter are more soluble and more 
readily available for plants. There s, there¬ 
fore, no loss in making a hot-bed.” 
-Garden and Forest: “ American plant- 
buyers suffer perhaps more than those ot eny 
other country, from exaggerated statements 
regarding new plants, which too often appeal 
iu trade-catalogues, becausejAmericans are, 
as a rule, more easily misled by glowiDg ad¬ 
vertisements than Europeans, and because in 
America, trade catalogues are too often the 
only sources of information about new plants 
and horticultural matters generally, with 
which plant buyers provide themselves.” 
-Presbyterian: “A man was once ap¬ 
pointed a committee of one to examine his 
own conduct. Later he reported progress, 
and asked to have the committee continued 
as it had found more to do than it expected.” 
-John Willcox before the New Jersey 
H. S.: “What we want, in my judgment, is 
a law forbidding, absolutely, under heavy 
penalties, the killing of harmless, innocent 
birds I may not see all the facts which lie 
at the foundation of this subject, but if the 
gentlemen present feel as deeply as I do, they 
must feel that it is our duty to memorialize 
the legislature lo enact a law sufficiently 
strong to cover the whole subject.” 
-1. J. Blackwell: ‘ Unless we try the 
new things that come up there will be no im¬ 
provement on the old, and there will be no 
progress made towards that time when the 
wilderness shall bloom as the rose, and every 
man sit under his own vine and fruit tree.” 
- Prof. P. T. Austen: “Let no man dis¬ 
regard the value of a new truth because he can¬ 
not see any immediate application for it. 
Truth is truth, and must always come of value, 
soon or late. Some one asked the great Fara¬ 
day what was the use and practical value of a 
certain remarkable discovery which be 
made, but which was totally in the realm of 
pure science. ‘What is the use of a baby?’ re. 
plied Faraday. So do not let us despise a new 
fact because we cannot see its value, for we are 
at best but too prone to be stupid, as the best of 
us are ready to confess, and when we see the 
new fact made of immense importance by the 
cunning of some other men, let us, when we 
cry out peevishly, ‘Why how simple! We 
could have done that,’ also add manfully, ‘If 
we had but known how to do it!’ ” 
-Prof. Shelton, of Kansas Agricul¬ 
tural College: “ We raised at the Station 
last year, a number of sorghums and several 
of their near relatives, including the Rural 
Branching sorghum and African millet. 
These sorts of cane have the sorghum’s ability 
to resist drought, and give a heavy yield of 
grain and fodder. Farmers living in the 
western and southwestern counties of Kansas, 
ought not to allow other seasons to pass with¬ 
out giving these sorghums a thorough trial. 
The seed is inexpensive (a bushel, costing 
$2.50, will plant a dozen acres), while the cul¬ 
tivation given corn or common sorghum is 
sufficient to make the crop.” 
-Puck: “‘Almost’ is the difference be¬ 
tween the conscientious man and the liar.” 
Life: “The fact is that New York State 
is governed by a lot of rascals and igno¬ 
ramuses. It is a serious fact, too.” 
For Seasickness 
l se Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. 
Dr. Price, of the White StarS. S. Germanic , 
says: “ I have prescribed it in my practice 
among the passengers traveling to and from 
Europe, in this steamer, and the result has 
satisfied me that if taken in time, it will, in a 
great many cases, preventseasickness.”—Adu. 
Dyspepsia 
Does not pet well of itself; it requires careful, 
persistent attention and a remedy that will assist 
nature to throw off the causes and tone up the 
digestive organs till they perform their duties 
willingly. Among the agonies experienced by the 
dyspeptic, are distress before or after eating, loss 
of appetite, irregularities of the bowels, wind or 
g:ts and pain in the stomach, heart-burn, sour 
stomach,etc., causing mental depression, nervous 
irritability and sleeplessness. If you are dis¬ 
couraged be of good cheer and try Hood’s Sar¬ 
saparilla. It has eured hundreds, it will cure you. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Made 
only by C. 1. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 
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