The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-30

vania, Brevard Yes. there ought
to be something good from that
happy valley" the finest summer
land IN a dozen States, such Is
might have tempted Rasselas from
his tabled paradise. And 1T was
found by a very poor man, on ms
farm near this" 1t Is Il treat TO
write the answer to this letter, and
tell the owner he has made a valu-
able find"
Another:-Wants a test for mari,
has several sorts on farm and would
like TO have simple and ready
means of a~scertaining which is best.
That is sensible and enterprlsing,
and deserves encouragement. Hes
a doctor. That's what's the mat
ter. He has a pair OF scales then,
and can do it. lie can weigh out
100 grains, pulverize in mortar,
digest with muriatic OF nitric acid,
filter, dry the residue and weigh
again. ard this latter weight will
he the per centage of sand, the re-
maindcr Will be the amount of cal
areou matter, within a few per
cent, quite near enough Tor his
purpose. 1t is so written.
Mississippi comes next. Well
what is it, all the way from the
center. All, wants to know how
the silk experiment OF the Centen-
NAL year turned out; has noticed
the reasons | stated IN favor OF It's
introduction here, and Mississippi
has same sort of soil. climate, etc..
and can't make cotton any longer
profitably on uplands. and has
great bodies of land useless for 9TH
er agricultural purposes, &c. Wants
to know best kind of soil for mul
berry and of silk worms, and how
to manipulate them etc. All right.
Glad to see Mississippi looking out
for new paths. VIE tell him all
about it, how we made and put on
exhibition in six weeks time, as
fine silk as France or Italy had to
show at Philadelphia, and without
a mishap; and how our neighbor
Fasnach, has just repeated the ex-
pertinent this month with equal
success, and write him where to
get pamphlet with full instructions
&c. SO the Vienna experiment
still lives in results and bears fruit.
Notwithstanding the legislative dis
avowal and rebuke and refusal to
pay expenses, etc.
Once more. Here is Pittsbure;
wants Il pamphlet and reports
about North Carolina, (have sent
one before to that address,; wants to
send emigrants to North Carolina.
Well. Here goes the Vienna pam
phlet. and the report of the Board
of Imigration:-which that Board
got up with much labor, and sub
mitted to the Legislature to be pub
lished redistribution far and wide,
that people of distant States and
countries might be informed Of the
glories Of III native land. and lie
induced to come and of which.
said Legislature, with great liberal
itv. ordered 600 copies to be pub
lishcd, far the use of tie membprs :
after which the Board aforesaid ad-
journed without day. But that's
/ DEPRESSION. Another from Scot
land; same subject, send more
pamphlets.
Here's No. G:-What is it ? wait
ing: this from Arkansas: contains
six bits of mineral, all numbered.
|, :, ), ETC.; wants to know what.
and value. Let's see, No. /, only
decomposed grantee: bad beginning;
No. ,, trap, no better No. 8, "a
little pyrites, .fool's gold;-get tons
Of that, BY letter, and express, and
freight and personally and circuit
ously and enormously and contin-
ually:-but here's al the way from
Arkansas 4. iron ore, that will do:
fair quality:-rcst all rubbish.
NeNt,-clergvman, BROOKLYN. n.