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and has been used with equal effect
on his currant bushes. Two quarts of
gas-tar to pailful of water are the
proportions used, and the vines or
bushes are sprinkled by means of a
wateriDg-pot.
The value Of potash for the grape
has been recognized 10y cultivators. A
curious proof is reported to one of the
French journals. A variety of the
black musket has been found defective
in color where potash is deficient in the
soil, and the writer recommends that
one vine of this grape be placed in
every grape house, 70 show by its full
or by it's deficient color whether the
border for the roots has a sufficient
supply OF potash.
In Davenport, Iowa. during 1881
the five lumber-mils sawed 100000
feet Of logs, 18,140,000 lath, and 15,-
100000 shingles. The exchange sold
foots up $27 667, ,645 and the building
improvements $335.500. In Rock
Island the four mills sawed 70.774,77e
feet of lumber. The other manufac
lures are valued at $l.8S5,000. The
exchange aggregates $10,885,000. In
Moline the total manufactures are val
ued at $4,35} 900, and the exchange
sold at $4,90O,000.
Careful experiments have proved
that corn which is hilled will blow
down more readily than that which
has level culture. This can be account
ed for by the fact that corn roots run
very near the surface, and when hills
are made they are confined TO the
small space covered by the hill while
in level culture the roots run from one
row to the other, thus enabling the
corn to stand strong, as nature intend
ed, and in no way liable to be blown
down except by winds of unusual VIC
lence.
Disappearance of the SchooI-Master
Topics of the Time" in the February Century.
1t is the excessive amount of system
in our wholesale methods of teactin.
that prevents the best results in any
department. The pressure of quantity
does not give the teacher any time tt
mold character. DR.. Arnold himsel
could not have been DR.. Arnold if h,
had been required by board Cf edu
cation to teach the greatest possible
amount of arithmetic and geograph,
within given time. 1t is probable
that DR.. Arnold would have been con
sidered wanting in the requirements O
an American school-teacher of the pres
ent day. 1t is certain he would hav
found himself hopelessly trammeled
as many an aspiring teacher finds him
self trammeled, by the expectations o
his employers. The teacher wh
: would like to take time to do som
thorough training, and to develop tn
men and women of the future-get
no opportunity. He must bring tn
largest possible crop of arithmetic an,
+, geography at the end of the year; al
his better work in building characte
= will count for nothing with tn
2 Board Then there are hobby-riders
seeking to drive into the already over
: crowded course some special study
= The arts of design are often useful i
a business way; therefore, DRAWN
= shall be universally exacted of the pu
t pills. Music is charming at home
therefore, the vocal teacher must hay
J place. In one considerable city,
: wealthy merchant in the board of edu
{ cation, who found telegraphy valuabl
{ in his own Office, has succeeded in put
? ting every boy and girl in the town t
) clicking telegraph keys.
4 But, no matter what is put into tn
! course, it is rare that anything is take
out. The school-master finds no plac