The Portland daily press., 1869-07-26
Republican Nominations.
.a l4 FOR GOVERNOR
JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN,
isdl u OF BRUNSWICK.
Agriculip raj Items.

The Commissioner Of Agriculture says that
the ranie plant grows luxuriantly in all pats
OF thls country, but he does not encourage
iurth9r efforts Tor its production until manu-
facturers have devised some means by which
it can be made profitable use OF so as to create
a ademand for it.
A Jersey COW was recently sold 10 West
Newton Mass, for $6j0.-the highest price
ever paid in this country for a COW OF that
breed.
Some horses will not permit smith to
come near them in his smiths dress; put the
eroom's stable dless on him and the horse will
allow himse.t to be shod. a.
DR.. Holland, writing to the Springfield Re
publican, says English horses, without being
10 any respects better, accomplish tar more
work thin American horses. He attributes
tie difference TO the superior excellence of
English roads. Americans. he says, suppor'
hundreds OF horses to drag loads through holes
that ought to be filed, over sand that ought
TO be hardened, through mud that ought not
10 be permitted to exist. We have the misery
OF bad roads, and are actually or practically
called upon to pay premium Tor them. 1t
would he demonslrably cheaper to have good
roads than poor ones. IL Is so here. A road
well built is easily kept in repair. A mile OF
macadam is more easily supported than poor
horse.
We see a successful experiment stated In
in some OF the papers. perIormeo by ii. Day
tan, OF Alden, Erie Co., n. z. HIS orchard OF
two and halt acres, in grass ten years, which
had Produced wormy and sclbby iruit, and in
small quantity, was plowed very shallow u.
autamn, and harro aed and cultivated lew
times early the following year The result
was it bore tour hundIed and fity barrels of
fine apples last year, worth about six hundred
dollars.
THE WIN srRAwnrppv
- 49,
Ni AZ was once not uncommon 10 near the re-
mark that the wild naive strawberry, former
" so abundant. exceeded In favor anv of the
,,a., .,,a ;,,,,ro,,ed ,,.r;a,;o.. "a 80. .,,u
"--. "aN 9o..e Ss'i
utter WIN regret as over pass joys i never
expect to ca. such delicious berries as we had
in childhood. when we gathered them wild In
the fields" The exercise and fresh air of
lons ramo'es ln search OF tne berries snarpen-
dit,onaI m % zesr 70 the re,,sb % im,arisd M 10 hard
earned delicacies. We lately had an oppor-
tunity OF collecting wild strawberries from one
o,,a sae ss mnu ,ocn.eI s anu ;, .1s cTs,
larger cultivated sorts. that they bore about
the same relation to them that the Black
Mazzard cherry does to the Black Iartarlan,
Elton and ma, duke; Inc wiid stTa"perry,
compared with the IiiomPne Ge Gand. OF
even with the Scarlet, IS small, aeid ana
seedy put IKE tne Mazzaru enerry, becomes
mnch netter wnen iuhy ripe; II ~ were
newly introduced SORT, u Wouid ne thrust out
without ceremony rom tne company o. tue
larger, mllder ana more nesny improved va
rieties- 10 snow the nign navor impaired Dy
munger, we may, as an example, cl tne
case OF the delicious" wild grape discovered
many years since IN the iar west oy some OF
the men attached 70 ons 5 HxPediLion -lney
nad never tasted anything equal 10 y among
tue nnest exoucs. II was DrouSu' anu culu-
vated IN q lew gardens at tne east, wnere we
nad an opportunity OF testng us wonuerui
navof ana Iound IL as sour auslere and as
trlnsent as could wei be Imagined. II Is
safest m deciding quality ano navor, 70 taste