The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-01

Sir William Thompson at the late
meeting of the British Association of
Scientific Men, declared that he had OBJ
served the moon at all its stages, and
could find no relation between its course
and the variation of the weather.
If the Yosemite produces the trees of
largest circumference in the world Aus
trallan trees grow to the greatest height.
An Eucalyptus tree measured 435 feet in
ength, and another was estimated to be
$50 feet from the ground.
The reports of Estienne, well-known
5tatlstican of France, show that the har-
vest is almost everywhere above the
average. No serious deficiency has &C.
Cured In any quarter. In every coun-
try In Europe, except perhaps Spain, the
labors of the husbandman have been
crowned with success.
An association of Chicago and New
4ork K butchers is now building great
refrigerator in West Washington market
to receive. dressed meat from Chicago.
The beef will doubtless be sent in re-
trigerator cars, and thus be as fresh as if
1T came from the Jersey City slaughter
houses, and it is to be hoped will be in
some respects better and sold cheaper
than that brought there on foot, for the
following reasons: LIST. 1t will be much
cheaper to send the marketable meat of
an OK than to send the OK itself. ID 1t
will be much more merciful to kill the
OK IN Chicago than to send it through
all the dreadful experience of Journey
hlther by rail. Sd. The meat is likely
to be less bruised and more wholesome
and to weigh more than that of animals
brought through alive, which often in
jure each other, or are injured by harsh
treatment, and which get into a high
fever with the excitement, thirst, and in
jpries of the journey.
A vessel lately arrived at Liverpool
with cargo of fresh meats from New
Zealand. She was loaded with 1000
carcases of sheep, weighing from 90 to
100 pounds each, besides large quantity
of fish and poultry. The passage oc-
cupied lO2 days, and the cargo is re-
ported to have been in excellent con-
dition on arriving. A part of the
voyage off the African coast was during
the very hottest weather, the tempera.
A"Ai S5iitS AiOhl O1 uSSIe6S L dnreQlelU
in the shade to 100 degrees in the sun.
An even temperature of Is degrees below
the freezing point was maintained in the
hold, where the carcases were suspended.
This was accomplished by means of a
refrigerating apparatus, which was run
by a seventy-horse power engine, con-
sumin1g one hundred and eighty tons of
coal during the voyage.
The ounce is probably the most pro-
6table fruit in exceptional localities
where it will thrive. For some reason
there are many places where pears, and
even peaches, can be grown which will
not grow ounces. The tree is an early
and sure bearer, and a young ounce
orchard will pay for itself in less time
than either apples or pears, at the same
time increasing in value for many years.
Some OF the young trees will bear a little
the third or fourth year after setting, and
until that age the spaces between the
trees can be occupied with potatoes or
some hoed crop. After bearing begins
other cropping had better be discontin-
ued; but the surface must be kept mel
low either by light cultivation or mulch
ing Deep ploughing is Objectionable, as
ounce roots are very tender.