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European Agriculture.

&c. c. Fultons Letter to the Baltimore Americana
Tt will doubtless be q surprise to the
agricultural readers of the American to
be told that in our recent journey
through southern France, the entire cir>
cult OF Italy, through considerable
portion of Austria and Germany, through
Belgium and northern France, the dis
lance being nearly five thousand miles,
the much largest portion of the laborers
in the field were women. They were
not only making hay, but ploughing,
moving, hoeing, grubbing and planting.
They were not only doing the work of
men, but such work as men generally
depend on horses to perform. In all the
vast country we did not see horse rake,
a cultivator, or any labor-saving imple-
ment. The only cultivator was the
primitive hoe, and a line Of women,
mostly superintendent by one or two men,
bent their backs to the labor. The only
ploughs looked as if they might have
been modelled after the implements which
Noah landed from the ark. We did see
one threshing machine standing on car
at depot in. Austria, which was the
only labor-ssviug machine that attracted
our attention. But even in Italy, with
the exception of the Roman Campagna,
the culture was fine, and the crops most
promising of rich harvest. Every inch
of ground was made to yield to the ut
most, and wheat, corn, grapes and fruit
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milestone. on the Road 10 Health.

The recovery of digestion and the resump-
ten of activity by the liver, bowels and i'd
news are miestones which mark our progress
on the road TO health. They speedily be-
come perceptible when Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters is used by the invalid. Nothing so
surely and expeditiously consumes the dis
lance to the desired goal. AS no bodily
function can suffer interruption without i'm
pairing the general health Of the system, so
the system can never acquire perfect vigor,
health's synonym, until that function be
actively resumed. Take, for instance, diges-
ton, suspension of which is invariably
rectifed by the Bitters. If the organs upon
which it devUlves grow weak, biliousness,
constipation, headache, poverty of the
blood, and a hundred other symptoms SUI
pervene, which indicate Enthusiastically the
baneful general influence of dyspepsia. The
disappearance of all these sym ptoms through
the use of the Bitters shows with what thor.
oughness it removes their cause
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Treatment for sunstroke.

The treatment of sunstroke during the
period of Inconsistencies is as follows:
Wrap the patient in sheet, the temper
allure OF which is about eighty degrees,
and over this place sheet wrung out of
ice cold water Or the patient may be
wrapped in the first sheet and sprinkled
with cold water, or given cold bath in
any way that viii not cause a shock of
the nerves. Ice should be applied to
the top of the head and cold water to
the spine. The object of this is to
reduce the temperature as rapidly as
possible. When the body is reduced to
one hundred degrees there should be a
pause in the treatment. If the temper
atuTe again arises, again apply the cold,
and repeat this treatment until the tenn
perature ceases to rise. At the same
time stimulating injections may be used,
the bowels unloaded and the kidneys
kept in action. When consciousness has
returned, which it will do unless the
heat has been too prolonged, the patient
may be moderately stimulated. After
the second stage, which lasts from one
TO forty eight hours, the patient RECEIVERS
in two or three days. 1t is long time,
however, before the functions of the
brain and nervous system are restored,
It has been said that permanent disturb
ance of the reasoning powers and loss Of
memory have followed sunstroke. 1t is
certain, however, that patients are more
susceptible to heat after having expert
enced sunstroke.
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extremes Of heat or cold should be
avoided neither should the place where
they are stored be damp, nor the oppo-
site, too dry
An Oskaloosa farmer says: I" Glover
bloat. so fatal to cattle, may be cured by
fastening stick in their mouths and
compelling them TO hold their heads in an
elevated position, the poisonous gases
escaping. He says it never has failed.
The farmer should be student as well
as a teacher. The well regulated farmers
home should be shool-a manual labor
school, and should be made 50 attractive
that boys should love it above every
other calling.
The roots of clover have a natural
tendency to decompose after having pro-
duced the plant in perfection, and it is
the effect of this decomposition that rem
ders a crop of clover 50 good q prepare
ton for the growth of wheat. Decay
ever furnishes regenerative food, while
the roots pierce and divide the soil, loos-
ening the ground.
Cheese, as met with in the market,
varies greatly in composition. Good
kinds contain from 30 to IS, and inferior
kinds 80 to As per cent of water Itch
sorts Include from % to 80 per cent. of
fats and about the same proportion of
albuminates. Poor cheese often contains
only 6 per cent water. The amount o.
ash varies from TO 10 per cent.
Every year milk and its products are
becoming more aud more appreciated.
1t is demonstrated by scientific investi-
CATION that milk and flesh contain nearly
the same elements-or really milk con-
tains all the elements of meat, and as q
COW can and does produce more valuable
food by her secretions of milk tlan
steer by his flesh, the COW is risiHg as an
economical food producer.
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Killing Canada ThistIes

In relation to Canada thistles the
Prairie Farmer advises a summer fallow
as the surest and easiest means of sub
DUNG them when the field is clear OF
stumps. Alta late meetingof the Elmira
IN. " farmers club, where they have
to battle yearly with this pest, after dis
cussing moving and the various other
remedies in vogue, it was decided that
this was the most successful plan. Presi-
dent Hoffman said: "The method recon-
mended by the secretary is the only sale
one. Thorough summer following will
kill Canada thistles" Colonel Croker
remarked: g agree with him in the
estimate the secretary puts upon it IS a
means of cleaning our fields. L have
tried it for Canada thistles with full sue
cess. 4 certain field got so badly over
run with thistles that was nearly dis
coursged about subduing them, but l
tried q summer fallow and it cleaned
them so they have never troubled me
since, and thai was years ago"
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Equality in Protection.

Says the Kansas City Price Current
eWithin two or three years the south
will raise jute, as well as spin and weave
the fibre. A million acres of land in In
dia are devoted to the culture of iute.
One jute factory near Calcutta employs
4, 500 workingmen; Dundee, in Scotland,
has a hundred mills, employing 20, 600
operatives. The south can grow jute as
successfully as India can, and can man
ufacture it as successfully as Dundee
can. And this viii be done il the i'm
port duties on jute be allowed to stand
until our jute plantations and factories
are fairly on their legs. To some extent
the cultivation and manufacture of lutte
is an experiment. Unless there be a
prospect of handsome returns, the plant
ers will not turn their attention to new
crops, nor will capitalists put their mo-
nev in new enterprises. Yet it is pro-
posed, just as new plantations and facto-
ries are making a start to reduce the
duty on jute and expose 1.-THE south to a
competition lhaI ulu HOt exist ana was
not expected when the southern mills
were projected and preparations made to
grow iute ii the south. This is not pol
itic or just. So long as the protective
system obtains, the South is entitled to
be protected, at least to the extent that
duties shall not be so lessened as to stran-
gle her infant industries and thrust her
back into the helpless condition she must
bold so long as she merely produces cot
ton for New England and Old England
to manufacture.
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Prunine tomatoes

Many persons find much profit in
pinching back the branches of the toma-
toes; and it is good practice when jul
diciously done. 1t may be overdone,
however, and injury result. In the first
Place, it is no use to attempt it after the
flowers have fallen. The idea is to force
the nourishment into the fruit at the
earliest start; for it is at that time that
the future fate of the fruit is cast. A
few leaves beyond the fruit is an ad-
vantage. 1t IS only the growth that IS 10
be checked. AND then much damage is
done by taking off the leaves as well as
the fruit. The tomato plant needs all
the leaves iC can get. It is only the
branches that are to be checked in their
growth. No enc who has not tried il
can have sny idea OF hcw valuable the
leaves are to the tomato plant One
may for expt riment take of most of the
leaves o. a plant, and he viii find the
favor insipid, and every way poor. OF
course, it is the peculiar acidity of the
tomato that gives it 30 much value to all
of US but the acid from a tomato that
hos ripened on an Insufficient amount of
foliage is disagreeable TO most tastes.
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COACHING IN NEW MEXICO.
-ow Single Road Agops Robbed Stage
and Three Passengers.


-Ow Single Road Ageps Robbed Stage
and Three Passengers.
Ohe of the boldest robberies that has
occurred in this section of country for
long time happened this week. We in
terviewed the passengers, and gathered
the following facts: " The coach was
coming from Silver City 10 Messilla, hay
ing as passengers Maj. Willard, paymas-
ter; Mr.. Hathaway, his clerk, and
Lieut.. West, sixth cavalry, from Arizona,
with Samuel Eckstein as driver. About
$50 D. m, as the coach was on an open
plain, about mile and q half this side
| Os Deadman's arroyo, aud the other side
of Cooks canon, masked man suddenly
Jumped forward from behind some
bushes, which had concealed him, leveled
his rife at the driver and said Stop
and throw off that mail sack, or III blow
you to hel.'' Sans mules had Jump
one side, but he pulled them up and
stopped, and found looking down rife
/ barrel not a very comfortable position.
and, Notwithstanding Beecher says there
is 10 such place, he did not feel as though
ne cared to be started on the road just
at that time and in that particular man
ner, so he threw off the mail sack He
then said Throw off the express. box. d"
Sam replied: " 1 have none" He said:
+" Throw off the other mail-sack." Sam
! replied: have no other" He then
changed his gun sufficiently to bear upon
Major Willard, upon the back seat he
had revolver strapped to the side OF
the gun and a finger on the trigger of
each he was cursing at a terrible rate
most of the time he said, 90 I'm id
desperate; some of you may get me, but
| I'll get some OF you as sure as Christ; shell
out what you got, id quick throw it
out, and the first man that makes &
wrong motion I'll blow him to pieces ;"
Maj. w. said, g You say If I move my
hands you'll shoot; how can 1 get my
money!" He said, " You can move one
hand for that" So the major got his
money, $50, and threw it out; he then
turned 10 Lieut. West and said, Throw
out what you got; +" he threw out eight
dollars.
He now saw Hathaway on the front
seat, and said, Throw out what you
got" n. says: "I have only six bits -
He said, g That's too thin" Maj. w.
spoke out, That's all he's got paid
for his dinner at the last station" The
robber said, % Well, I'm not robbing
anybody; you can keep that you may
want to buy something on the Rio
Grande now go ahead; I'll follow after
the coach for some distance, and if any
one attempts to get out I'll riddle him. "
He appeared either very much excited
or half drunk, and, keeping his gun
leveled at the coach, walked after il
some distance, then returned, took the
mail sack and went to one side OF the
road Whether he rad horse or not
is not known. The coach came on To
Fort Cummings.
1t now appears that there were two
men, although only one was seen at the
time, and one had horse. They were
tracked several miles on their way to
Mexico Messilla IN. NJ News.
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Acreage Resuirsd e, a Cow.

How much land is required for the
support of 3 COW? This question de-
ponds for an answer so much on the cir
eumstances Of the soil as not to admit of
s very definite answer. In dairy com
petition in Jefferson county, n. Y, in
1857, the first prize DAIRY, of sixteen
cows, was kept on thirty sores OF land :
the second premium dairy, of eighteen
cows, on sixty acres; the third dairy, of
thirteen cows, On thirty acres; the
fourth, of twenty-nine cows, on fifty Ave
acres; che fifth, of twenty-eight COWS.
on ninety acres. Mr.. Schulz, of Little
Falls, New York, estimates that the land
in pasturage and hay requisite for the
support of COW is three acres, and this
is the estimate of Mr. Darlington for
moderately good dairy farms in England.
In Belgium ten acres of land support
two cows, one heifer, and one yearling
or calf; sbut when the calves are
sold OFF young, and cows in full milk are
only kept, the proportion is two COWS to
seven and one-half acres. Colman esti-
mates three acres of pasture as requisite
for COW in Berkshire county, Mass,
while in some towns two acres of pastur-
age are sufficient. Mr.. Harrington, in
the report of the American dairymen's
association, thinks that on the average
four acres are required per COW for sum
mer and winter keep, while A1r. K. A.
Willard thinks that in Herkimer county,
n. Y, enc and one>half to two acres OF
pasture per COW win answer, and in some
exceptional cases one acre.-[ScientiEc
Farmer.
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Rftchell's Flying Machine.

General Edward w. Serrell, of New
York, a corresponding member of the
British Aeronauticsl society, says of
Ritchelps flying machine, that it cannot
meet the demands of practical flying
device, because it presents too much sur
face to the air. Scientific men are pretty
well agreed on the essential points OF
such a machine. 1t is matter of math~
ematicai and mechanical deduction, says
Gen. Serrell, that " if steam engine or
any other motor suitable, can be made to
give off twice as much power, in proper
ton to its weight IS our best steam fires
engines now do, men and merchandise
could be carried on the wings, not of the
wind but of the steam engine, moving
against the heaviest storm just as the
eagle carries her young" Until the
problem of such a motor is solved prac.
tical flying machine is not to be hoped
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Facts or GREAT sn.sres. :. An--.TIme and


All families are interested in their family
physicians. They may take quack medicines
for slight ailments, but when true sickness
comes, then must come the family doctor.
All are interested then in this matter, and
every family newspaper should give them
valuable information and advice.
Every one knows that, in times gone by,
the great family doctors were educated in
New York and Philadelphia, but that in
these days such is no longer the case. The
great cities of the West, Louisville, Chicago,
Cincinnati, all contain medical colleges in
which the very best education is to be OBJ
tanned
The cost of this education is far less than
it is in Eastern cities a fact of great interest
to parents and guardians, and to all inter
ested in medical students. Indeed, so i'm
portant is this money question to our
readers, that we must give them information
which will save for themselves and their
friends both time and money.
n the Atlantic cities a student as to paw
for two courses of lecture S155 each or $50
for the two. His diploma fee is $50; all fees
amounting to $40. His board for two ses.
sions is $3.50, or $40 for each. His fees and
beard costing $500. These facts and figures
are official.
In Louisville, Chicago, etc. where the
medical colleges are equally as good as they
are in New York, the student pays for his
two courses sos each, or $3.50 for the two.
His diploma fee cost $50. All fees amounts
ing to $3.50 for the two sessions. His board
for two sessions costs $16O, or $50 for each.
The entire fees and board costing $500.
These figures are also official, and show that
the student who goes to the great colleges
of the West saves fully $500 in the cost of a
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FARM AND HOME
How TO Tell a Rise ,watermeIon.,

When the melon begins to change
color inside, and its seeds to turn black,
a small black speck, scale, or blister,
begins TO appear on the outer cuticle, or
rind. These are multiplied and enlarged
as the fruit natures. a ripe melon Will
show them thicklY sown over the surface.
A partial development only indicates
half ripened fruit. A ;ull crop of bhsters
reveals its perfect ripeness. When hun
dreds OF melons are strewn along the
sidewalk, you will have to look pretty
sharply to find one that exhibits a salts
factory " escutcheon," to borrow term
from NJ. Guenon. But it is unfailing when
found, and by following this guide you
may walk away with your melon with
the most entire confidence. The blister
is only to be seen upon close inspection,
but is plainly visible when thst is given.
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SUNDAY READING.
A Year

Lar, inst a year in heaven
she nA s nv vhite moon or gold sun,
y hiI na of clock or elang OF ell,
~ 81 $3.50 frightening on the way
~ s snA t,,Il noon and perfect Day
IN 9s s',,!5,v hours have sped, have run
ne nnp at IN peace, all pain forgot,
a W, tlrr, We love- her W h1te soui shIiNeH'
S Cue ~H st the thought and wonders not
- heen lust q year alone
" u hose calendar is signs,
a - ,iI perpetual wishfulness'
~ o;ias each covert or lear -
~ sl.a,ndarirs thoughts, bali there nan hete'
III rr.essTifII attempts TO guess
. "a ~ 'ae-et Of the hidden skies,
Tbs soft memorable blue,
VIZ Leaning hints Of glory so~n'
IA heaven behind, ust shining through
So AZ sad. 50 swift, so slow,
3 3 ss ~ sseer g1owth and light,
g t'-Ii ~ main which bliudly grows
. III III ~ thoughts which either way
~ ~ lu, sssed and crossed ana touched eacn day'
To n. 4 thorn, TO her rose
Tho vear 80 black, the year so Thite,
7 ne iis r;-erS twain their course have run,
;TtiiAs,artblv stream we trace and know,
B u9 mo shall paint the heavenly one
rs.rr We gather up our powers,
~ tap,ps We eousecrate and trim,
OTan al wi adOws TO the day,
- -elcor,,e every heavenly air.
lii ,,ress forward and will bear,
I9oving His word 10 cheer the way.
- Itorr,-tossed once, is safe with Him,
uestas eouforted, CONTEXT forgiven,
"a vhiIs we count these heavy hours
Has been year, year IN heaven
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all bore evidence of skillful cultivation.
In some portions of Italy the labor of
the field appeared like perfection, the
rocky lodges being cultivated wherever
there was earth to hold the vine or the
grain. In Austria we noticed fences
made of the stone taken off an acre lot,
five feet high and six to ten feet in width.
Wherever the earth could be got at the
stones were heaped up to make room for
cultivation. The laboreIs in the vine
yards on the Rhine were mostly women.
What the men were doing it would be
difficult to say, but we rather think they
were at the beer gardens.
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When to YentiIste Cellars

The Rural New Yorker SAYS: Some
OF our contemporaries advocate airing
cellars during the night and closing
them during the day to prevent damp
ness. The theory is that the hot air
during sunshine holds moisture that is
condensed in the cool cellar, while at
night, the temperature outside and IN
the cellar being more nearly alike,
there is less dampness. This strikes
us as bad advice, though true enough,
50 far as we know, as fact A damp
cellar is not necessarily unhealthy if
it is kept clean and pure. When
cellar windows are opened the
colder air passes out producing
a partial vacuum. This induces
the air which has been warmed by the
suns rays to enter, when, by cooling, it
is deprived of part of its moisture and
as before passes out and thus constan
change of air is maintained. But the
warm, moisture-laden air is free from
the poison of those malarial diseases with
which night air in valleys or low tracts
is infected. Carbonic acid also, the re-
suit in part of slow decomposition of
vegetable substances, is dissipated by
sunshine, while at night it accumulates
in all low places, its specific gravity be-
ing about LIS, while that of air is 10.
Fer the same reason therefore, that
people in what may be called miasmatic
districts should confne themselves to the
house from two hours or more before
sunset until two hours or more after SUM-
rise, they should close their cellars dur
ing the same time. And the cellars
should be opened and ventilated, no
matter how damp they may become in
co sequence, during those hours when
the sun shines brightest.
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ceptioD. Others surrounded the prisoner
as he was conducted to the place of trial,
bidding him be of good cheer that they
were his friends, and that all would be
well. Pale, agitated and trembling, led
by his daughter and his grandson, Pre-
vile entered the hall, when the
pest of cheers and vivas to ex-
press its sympathy with him. The pre-
siding Judge sternly commanded silence,
which was at last secured, and the trial
was begun in due form. Nothing was
Northumberland, testimony, cross
examinations, speeches, objections, ar
guments. The prisoner was breathless
with anxiety, and over his blind old
face, all wet with tears, coursed after
nations of hope and fear and emotion.
He wished 10 speak. The Judge per-
mitted him. 4" l guilty of breaking the
laws of the republic |" he broke out
excitedly. Gentlemen, if were, what
would the august Empress of All Rus
sias say If | were, the great Catherine
would take my marble bust, which is
always upon her dressing-table, and have
it dragged through the cutters of St.
Petersburg" No one laughed, no one
indicated the improperly of bringing
out an imperial souvenir before a
republican tribunal; on the contrary,
the Judge praised the prisoner for his
able defense; the lawyers made their
arguments, the JUICES summed up, and
the Jurors retired to consider their vir-
dict. During their absence the spec
tators crowded round Preville to felici-
tate him on the ability of his lawyers
snd the marked partiality the Judge had
shown in his summing up. He, affected
with tears, pressed their friendly hands,
thanked them for the interest they
had taken in him, and pressed
his devoted daughter to his
bosom. There were many more eye:
than his wet with tears in the crowded
hall.
But the Jury comes back; there is 8
great hustle of expectation; the officer:
of the court command silence; there is
/ hush; the jurors rise and return their
/ verdict, Not guilty % & He is acquit-
! ted Hurrah ~ breaks from all parts o
| the hall, men and women Chamber owe
| the benches and struggle to cOngratu
late and embrace BIN there are cheers
cries of joy and happy tears. PreVlll'
is lifted to a chair and borne hom
through the garden, where at every stel
he is hailed with acclamations OF delight
All Paris surely must have turned out
and his bearers have to implore the citi
zens to make way and not crush them t
death. There are flowers thrown AM
cheers given, and blessings are called on
as if from the windows. So they brin
the old man home to his family, cure'
forever OF the singular hallucination tina
had haunted him for two years an
caused him so much mental agony n
Y. World.