The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1859-08-02
Washington Correspondence Of the \. Y. Courier
Government Experiments in Agriculture

Government Experiments in Agriculture.
The Tea plants recently imported from
China By the Department Of Agriculture
connected with the Patent Office, are in
n very thriving condition. Some of them
have grown to the height Of fifteen inches.
Others are Just appearing from the seed.
The climate seems TO be congcnial to them
and the experiment is proceeding satisfac.
no; climate after all, but labor or rather
the insutlici"ncy Of it in the United States
is the impcdimcnt to the successful culture
of Tea. Much can be done by the ingenu-
ity Of our people in substituting machine
ry for hands, but the patient and unsklied
labor processes Of the Chinese, as applied
to tea making, is not likely to be initiated
in any part Of the United States. 1t may
not be generally known that not only arc
the tea leave picked by the hands, but
they arc also curlel up, leaf by leaf, by
Celestial fingers. Necessity however, is
the mother Of invention, and relation Of
that family, an accutc son of New Eng
land, has already set bis mind upon tea
curling machine which promises to do for
the American crop with few thousand
fingers of steel tho work which occupies
the digits Of million Inhabitants Of tho
FlJwcry Land.
Many o,her interesting experiments are
going forward in the tea garden, the results
Of which will be useful to tho agriculture
Of the country. Mr Brown, the Superiu
tcndcnt of the Department, has 1913 varie-
ties Of wheat growing and ready for tho
sickle. The yield 0: some of these sorts
has been ascerlained 70 be very far beyond
the average of any commonly produced in
the United SLatas Mr.. Brown is also nat
ualizing great numbers Of foreign grape
vine, as well rs collecting the slmost in.
numoraJlo varieties OF the American grape,
and testing their qualities. The wine pro-
ducing interests of the United States 10
lcsunel to become one of vast importance.
The cryicn which the DEPARTMENT of Ag-
Iicallure is now cndcavorIng To render to
that interest is worth more than the cost Of
It's entire maIulauancc since the fist ap.
plopr.a'ion f,r It's lurport smade.
4 RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT IN JERUsALM.
--Hhcrc are symptom, of the beginning of
a great rcligiou, u ovcmcnt in jerusalem.
We clip tie following from the London
Rec0yd of June l7rh. 1t is part Of a let
ter dated at Jerusalem.
"Ihc revival, in America have made
n vonieral impression upon our people
here. Brother Nal.ntner and | occas, on
ally make communications out Of papers
We receive, AMI it appears not to have
been in vain. We had several applications
for the arrangement Of siuilar prayer
meetings, but for long time We hcsitated,
as, however they were urged upon us per-
scyerngly, We a last Ggrecd, and We had
tho first moctiu. in the Mission library Oh
the LIST Of March. 1t surpassed all expec.
/ tatioa the room was so crowded, that as
, it would not contain at last all that came.
we were obliged to open the adjoining
room to accommodate the visitors. 1t was
most solemn hour, and the prayers offered,
though free from all excitement bore
very earnest character. Six prayers were
offered up by as many individuals, and
though not arranged beforehand, but left
entirely TO the direction Of the Spirit,
three were offered up by the Jewish broth
rem, and three by ;hc Gentilcs. There
was only one in English, and all the 9th
crs in German. We all felt that it was
GOOD for us to have been there, &c"
G5'A county Temperance Society bas