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Improved aud Tniuproycd Pigs.

What do we mean 10y an improved
breed of pigs! Usually we mean a
breed that has fine bone and little otial.
\ breed that is very quiet, and will turn
the food it eats into flesh and fat. 1t Is
breed that will eat and digest stum-
ach-fuu of rich food and assimiate it.
As a rule the weak spot in all high bred
pigs is that their digestive powers are
not as good as their assimiating powers.
They can assinilate more food than
they can digest On the other hand,
our common coarse, unimprovcd hogs
can usually eat and digest more food
than they can Qssimilate. They are ac-
customed to forage for themselves.
They have plenty of exercise and com
paratiyely little food. Now, then, If
YOU take such a breed Of hogs and Ell
deavor to push them rapidly forward
with rich food, it is easy to see how
their blood could be poisoned by the
excess of material which the animal is
not able To- convert into flesh and fat.
Ny remedy would be to raise better
class of pigs. | would raise such pigs
as would stand high feeding until they
were fat enough for market, and then |
would dispose of them without delay.
III You take pigs that are not accustomed
to mature before they are three or four
years old, and endeavor II SO feed and
force them that they shall be ready for
the market at twelve months old or less,
what can you expect but hog cholera
On the other hand, breed that is ac-
customcd, and has been for generations,
To mature early can be pushed forward
rapidly without injury.
| should expect the best success from
pigs raised from large, healthy, com
mon SOW, sired by the refined thorough
bred boar, OF breed distinguished for
its gentleuess, tiuencss of bone, little
oflal, early maturity and fatta nirg quail
lties. The mother would furnish the
digestive powers and the sire the as
sinilating powers. These qualities,
combined with early maturity, tincuess
Of hone, ana high qualities of meat,
would give you precisely what a good
feeder wants.-,JoSeph Harris.
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inches thickness the roots of plants will
not acquire their natural growth, and
Will greatly suffer by the inclemency of
the weather. An abundant rain will
flood the plants, and when the water
escapes over the surface of the field, it
will carry away the soluble and more
fertllIzIng substances. BY drying, the
damp earth will become compact, and
will compress the roots, the develop
ment of which Will thus be hindered
After a long drouth the plants which
nave their roots near the surface of the
soil, finding no dampness, remain sta
tionary, or even perish.
On the other hand, and in arabic lay
ers, twelve to sixteen inches thick,
plants are able to penetrate and grow
properly, and are protected against
drouth and the inciemency of the wealth
er. An arabic layer of this thickness
easily absorbs water; during an album
ant ram, water penetrates and is drain
Ell through the bottom, without carrying
away any earth or manure.
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

EHfHihG t2ES 10 snip.
Mary q. West tells IN the Mobile
Register how to pack eggs for ship
ment:
" Wrap each egg 10y itself in several
thicknesses Of newspaper, and then
pack them nicely in cotton, being care
full to fiji the spaces between them,
When the eggs are thus nicely packed,
the box, if it is not yet full, can be
filed with chopped straw or sedges, but
never with sawtiust, and particularly
pine sawdust. The turpentine in pine
sawdust would almost invariably ruin
the eggs for sitting purposes. The
lid should never be JAILED on a box in
tended for sitting, as the jar conse-
quent is apt to iuiure them. 1t should
be put on with screws.
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FiueHess of Fiber in Crossed Eeep.

Prof. Freshman, of Germany, in al
article on fine wool husband
ry, gives the following as the length of
time elapsing IN working native sheep
to a requisite fineness of fiber, and the
slowness with which this was approached
when crosses We're made with the com
mon sheep of that country:
At the fourth generation the fleece
consists of twenty-five per cent. prime,
fifty per cent. Seculld0, and twenty five
per cent tertia wool. The nature of
the wool is still coarse. There are
Is, 900 wool hairs in a square inch. In
the tenth generation the fine wool pre-
dominates. A fleece yields from sixty
to seventy per cent. priDa, twenty to
twenty-five per cent. secutld0, and ten
10 fifteen per cent. tertia wool. In the
twentieth generation the fleece, by
regular crossing and careful manage
ment, has twenty per cent. ekecta, fifty
per cent. 21riHta, twenty per cent.
Secuada, and ten per cent. tertid wool.
There will vet be sometimes found
Stjckcf, or coarse hair. At this period
q, 900 wool hairs grow upon a square
inch. Thus even at the twentieth gen
Grafton, with the constant use of regen-
orators of the pure blood, the wool falls
short of the fineness OF the original, or
perfectly pure blooded animal, which
has from 10. to Is, 600 wool hairs on
a square inch.
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fr1E tit New YORK sun.
Col. James Beecher. who sat beside
his brother on the platform of Plymouth
Church, yesterday morning, vas origin
ally a sailor. While in China he came
under religions influences, and return
ing home studied for tie ministry. and
was appointed chaplain In a colored
regiment In the rebellion. In one az
ton all the officers in bis company were
killed, and he took command and fought
CALAMITY throughout the day. For the
remainder of the war he was IN active
military service, and AT the close re-
ceiyed a commission as colonel. When
peace WIS restored he resumed his cler-
zeal duties, and finally accepted the
passionate OF one of the largest churches
III Poughkeepsie, which he now holds.
He Is not In the least like his brother,
being apparently many years younger.
His features, too. are heavier, and his
bearings less elastic. He is more like
the Rev. Thomas X. Beecher. Pastor Of
the Park Congregational Churcl in FL
mira, but his beard and whiskers are
coarser, and his appearance by no means
SO prepoSsesslng.
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May.
JANIS GATES TEBCIvAL.

feel a newer life in every gale;
The winds that fan the flowers,
And with their welcome breatldaSs fill the eail.
Tell of serener hours.
or hours that glide unfet away
Beneath the sky of May.
The spirit Of the gentle s1uth-vind calls
From his blue throne of air
And where his whispering voice III music falls
Beauty is budding there;
The bright ones Of the valley break
Their slumbers and awake.
The waving yerdure rolls along the plain,
And the wide forest weaves
To welcome back its playful notes again.
A canopy Of leaves;
And from its darkening shadow floats
A gush Of trem ding notes.
FaIrer and brighter spreads the reign Of May
The tTesses of the woods
With the light dallying Of the west-Wind play
And the full-brimming floods,
As gladly to their goal they run,
Han the returning sun.
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Flowing aud Preparation of the soil.

As relating to this important subject,
tie following, based upon careful ex-
periments made in France in connection
with the Public Agricultural college
there, Viii be interesting:
IN the BIAS Rhin. and doubtless in
many . her departments, blowing Is but
superficial. ana uotdcepcr than three to
Eve inches. This thickness IS evidently
insufficient, ana should be increased to
twelve to sixteen inches. in order that
the plants may thrive. The proportion
Of mineral substances in the soil is in
the ratio of the thickness of the tillahle
layer and VIII be doubled or trebled by
deep blowing. \ system of rotation of
crops becomes Mt the same time more
easy. The great majority of aCucultur-
lists who persist IN superficial blowing
do So for fear uf bringing to the surface
sterile soils. II Is mistake since a
good subsoil blowing allows of the
simple stirring and gradual incorpora-
ton 81 the under layers, without bring
ing them to the surface. Experience
has, however, demonstrated that deep
blowing is alwaps advantageous and
without the faucied Inconvenience.
We shou q fight such preiudices
The arabic layer. when its thick less
Is no greater than frem three to six
inches. Is insufficient for the develop
ment Of the roots Of plants, and does
not protect them against the influences
Ut an excess Of dryness or dampness.
IS the tendency Of plauts Is to grow as
l4uch below As above surface, 1t is eyi-
cent that they cannot expand properly
IN thin layer Therefore, the principal
condition of a deeply-tilled soil is sell
dom mot with for plants sending their
roots deeply into the ground. Even
cerealla, which are believed to vegetate
at the surface Of the soil, VIII have deep
roots IN properly prepared ground.
With an ar0ble layer Of three to SIX
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4 Plague of Rats.


A Rangoon correspondent of the
London Times writes to that journal as
follows: while Bengal has lately
struggled through famine crisis, the
Kurens country, lying on the confines
of Burmah proper, has narrowly escaped
crisis of the same kind, but in this
instance, rats, and not drought, were
the cause of the scarcity. 1t appears
that certain parts of BHmah are peri
odically visited by a plague of is.
Hosts of thesn march across the country
and attack the roots of the crops and
the grain in the villages, and actually
drive out the populace, and cause
whole villages to be deserted by the
depredations Such a plague had APP
peared near Tounghoo, and some suffer
ing had arisen in consequence, but the
Government appear to have provided
food for those IN want of 1t, and ali fear
of famine IS now averted. A forester
but few weeks since. as he was going
to visit the teak forests, rented 10y a
large firm in Bombay, witnessed the
passage of an army Of rats as they
crossed the Sittang. He was at the
time gliding down stream in his boat,
and the bo1tman called his attention
to Il large black mass swarming down
the high banks. These turned out
to be rats, and as they swan
across the river they kept kind of mil
itary formation. He represented their
numbers to have been myriads. They
passed close to the boat, and were
large tield-rats. The late DR. Mason,
in his book on Bsrmah, mentions the
plague they were to the country. but
until their depredations had spread to
such large extent as they did last year
their pre- ence was ignored. 1t appears
that they generally keep near hilly
plains at seasons when the nuts or
fruits in the hills fail them.
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THERE Is TO be a Telegraphic Con-
gress II Paris, at which Russia Will urge
the naturalization OF teIegraphic wires IN
time Of war, between belhgsrent coun-
tgi1S
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Asa BIGELow, Of Wood county. O..
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hundred and two times. and through
the entire Bible forty five times.
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THE BoLLANDIsTs.-The great work of the
" Bollandists," as the compilers of the "Acta
Sauctorum" are called, is slowly, but quietly,
but surely, progressing at Brussels. At pres
emit, says the Times, this huge work consists of
about sixty folio volumes, which bring the
student down to within three days of the end
of the month of October; but large stere of
materials is being utilized in order to complete
that month forth with, and further stores have
been accumulated towards " The Lives of the
Saints" for November and December, about
1000 of such biographies being still to be &C
tually written. Out of the six Jesuit Fathers
whose names appear on tho title-page of the
last instalment of the work, issued from the
press in 1867, four are already dead, and one
more is disabled by illness. The editorial work
is now being carried out by the survivor
Father de Buck, assisted by another Father,
DIR. van Hoof, with whom others, it is expected
will soon be associated. The Bookseller for tn Q
current month contains an account of q visit
lately paid by an enthusiastic correspondent
to the College at Brussels which serves as the
"officinR" or workshop of this gigantic under
taking, which was commenced in the reign of
Charles l. of England, and has since been
issued at intervals as q serial publication. The
bookseller states that "the difficulty felt by the
work Is greater than ever, since the Belgian
Government, yielding to q party cry for re-
trenchmenC, withdrew it's subsidy of f240,
which it had for many years contri bpted in
aid of their labOrs." Other nations and private
individual however, have stepped in, and set
of the series of State Papers, published under
the auspices of the Master of the Rolls, figures
on their shelves. Still, the writer doubts
whether, even if the work is allowed to pro-
coed without Interruption, it can possibly be
completed by A. d. 1000, and even in that case
it is clear that large supplement will have
become necessary, as the process of beatifca-
ton and canouizatiOn is going on from time to
time at Rome,
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Art Schools.

In n speech made by Mr.. Cole in London, not
long ago, concerning the origin of the Kensing-
ton Museum, that gentleman presented in o
paragraph the Importance attached to this
subject by the English government and the
progress made in that country:
"In 1947 there were only twenty local art
schools, most of them oppressed with debt and
difficulties. There was no elementary drawing
taught in the schools for the poor, and no
public attempts were made at scientific in
struotion. There was no training schools for
teachers in either art or science, and the total
number of pupils in all the art schools did not
exceed 5000. There were no museums of an
came in 1851. The exhibition made
Prince Albert alive to the urgent necessity in
his adopted country for better technical in
struction. At the close of the exhibition he
persuaded Lord John Russell, the prime minis
ter, to authorize an attempt to reform the
schools of design, and in 1852 Earl Granville
Trade) invited him (Mr. Cole) to try for one
year what he could do with those schools. In
a month or 80 Lord Derby came into Office and
Prince Albert enlisted his sympathies One of
made to his immediate chief, Mr.. Henley, was
that the artisans of the country should be
offered help in learning geometrical drawing.
Adam Smith had made the same suggestion
hundred years before, but it had never
been acted upon. So little was the subject I'M
derstood that Mr.. Porter, the eminent statisti-
clan, then secretary of the Board of Trade, OPP
posed the advice. He did not think it the
duty of the State to help carpenters to learn
geometrical drawing. Mr.. Henley decided to
the contrary, and now there were thousands of
artisans who had to thank Mr.. Henley for his
segscity. South Kensington be-
came the centre of science and art instruction
throughout the United Kingdom, and it would
interest the meeting if he contrasted the work
ing of the department of 1852 with that now
going on. In 1852 there were only twenty art
schools. with 5000 Students paying 1900 in
fees; now there are 122 schools, with % 800
students, paying E24, 800 year in fees. There
was then no teaching schools for the poor
now l94,5OO children were taught drawing
There were then no night classes for artisans
now there are 535 classes, with II 200 students.
In 1872 the South Kensiugton Museum was
visited by upwards of 1,l56,O00 persons; it's
art library used by 10 $50 students, and it's
educational library by 1880 persons--clergy-
men, teachers and others, Interested in ele-
mentary education coming from all parts of
tho country to consult it. The museum has
circulated, without accident, through local
exhibitions, upward of 400 paintings, dia-
grams, etc, which were visited by more than
GOA 900 persons. 1t has lent to local schools of
art for study upward of 300 objects, aud 3, 100
books, prints, etc, relating to fine arts.
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press Augusta sent TO him one OF her Ia
dies of honour with the assurance OF her
good wishes The Prince Imperial of
Germany, famous as the Prince Fritz OF the
last two dreadful wars-that OF $500
against Austria, and that of 1870 against
Frauce-paid the Soldier Statesman the
honour OF offering him, by word of mouth,
his congratulations. Countless addresses,
cards, letters, kilograms, poured In at
Prince Bismarck's residence all that live
long day on the Ist of April. Here, in
truth, was clearly one of those good great
men whom not only Hinge, but Emperors,
and whole races delight to honour-men
who 4" wade through slaughter" to what
this world esteems as immortality, ana VINO
never hesitate for an instant, when IL
serves their purpose, to " shut the gates OF
mercy on mankind"
Since this affecting anniversary of All
Fools Day at Berlin, another and still
grander gala in its way has been opened
in the most fairy-like city in the whole
world, once the brightest gem in the dia-
dem of Austria, now one among the most
treasured spoils of the Robber- King of
Italy, his Majesty Victor Emmanuel. For
the wonder of after times it he's now to be
recorded that within these last few days
the Emperor Francis Joseph has been to
friendship at Venice to the very man who
robbed him of Venice, as he robbed the
Pope of Rome, and the King of Naples
(vicariously through Garibaldi) of the Two
Sicilies, and the Grand Duke of Tuscany
of the Florentine dominion, and 80 on with
all the lesser principaiities, down even to
the little ideal Republic of San Marino-in
n word, Victor Emmanuel. Evidently, in
the worlds estimation-again and again
we say it-nothing does succeed Ike sue
cess. Might is Right. Justice, truth,
honour, are all by words. What people
are expected to do nowadays is to be cap
in hand to the most ruthless of the perse-
cutors and SPECTATORS.