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LOring.

What puzzles us about DR.. Loring's
conduct is that when he took office as
commissioner of agriculture July l, 1881,
he had no sympathy with the sorghum
experiments, and only last fall, according
to the statement of Professor Beal, of the
Michigan agricultural college, expressed to
him his dislike of the sorghum enterprise E;
then in December went down to st. Louis
to the cane growers national association
and was full of praise of the sorghum in
dustry. While this was going on he was
playing fast and loose with the special re-
port of the national academy of sciences,
which fully endorsed Professor Collier
finally in his official report of November
Goth last, said this report of the academy
was valuable one, and would soon be
published but while the sorghum sugar
men have waited, and are waiting still
for that report, it has not been published,
though DR.. Loring's speech at st. LOUIS
December 18th was published as special
report No. 81, and No. Sc was out in
February. We see it is easy for Dr.
Loring TO get out his own speeches
promptly, but valuable report must lie
months. Now all this twisting of opin
ion and conduct in our commissioner is
what strangely puzzles US.
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BE Courteous.

If the Spectator were clergyman he
would always accompany the wedding
ceremony with brief exhortation, and
he would always take for his text, " Be
Courteous" According to his observa-
ton, more coldnesses and arrangements,
if not more absolute quarrels and separa-
lions, grow out OF disregard of the COM
mon rule of courtesy III married life than
from any other cause. The wife gets up
and goes off to give direction to her SER
wants while her husband is in the middle
of sentence if he were any other gentle
man she would at least say, Excuse me
moment" The wife comes into the
room, and the husband sits still in his
chair; if any other lady enters, he rises
and offers her one. Ii a guest Is coming
to the house, the lady OF the house Is
dressed and at the door ready to receive
him; if it is only her husband, she has no
welcome. If lady is at table as guest,
the gentleman brings some topic OF social
conversation to entertain her with her tea
and berries If the wife is the only lady,
he sits silent, or even whips letter or a
newspaper out of his pocket and reads to
himself. Madam no gentleman Is en-
titled TO such distinguished considera-
ton as your husband. Sir no lady is
entitled to such deferential treatment as
your wife. The truth Is, with most of
us, manner is like dress suit, put on
upon special occasions whereas IL ought
to be like our skin, put on from within,
and never to be taken OFF while We are
alive.-Christidn Union.
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Keep Your Thoughts Sacred.

A worthy wife of forty years standing,
and whose life was not made Of sunshine
and peace, gave the following sensible ad-
vice to married pair of her acquaint-
ance. The advice Is 80 good and 81 we'll
suited to married people, as well as those
who intend entering that state, that we
publish it for the benefit of such persons.
Preserve sacredly the privacy OF your own
house, your marriage state and your heart.
Let no father, mother, brother or sister,
ever presume to come between you two or
to share the joys or sorrows That belong
to you two alone. With Gods help build
your own quiet world, not allowing
your dearest earthly friend to be the con-
ident of aught that concerns your do
nestle peace. Let moments of alienation,
if they occur, be healed at once. Never,
no never, speak OF it outside, but to each
other yield gracefully and confess, and all
will come out right. Never let to-mor-
rows sun still find you at variance. Re
view and renew your vow it will do you
good, and thereby your souls will grow
together, cemented in that love which is
stronger than death, and you will become
truly one.-SeLected.
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alt was found that 270 lbs. of mixed
grain and 720 lbs. of early hay, produced
990.12 lbs. of milk, which yielded 52.9S
lbs. of butter, and the milk contained
1916 lbs. of fat. The same quantity and
quality of grain as above, fed in connec-
ton with 700 lbs. of late hay, gave 921.15
lbs. of milk, which yielded 52s5 lbs. but
ter, the milk containing 1913 lbs. fat.
C. In this test the comparative value OF
the early and late hay for milk production
was as 100 to 1884 or, the daily feeding
ration of 20 lbs. of early hay was equal to
21.42 lbs. of late hay for the same pur-
pose. There was practically no difference
in the amounts of butter obtained from
each fodder. 1t was feared that the appe-
titles of the animals might not be as good
for the late as for the early hay, but such
was not the case to any serious extent.
In only two of the six changes from early
to late, was there any dislike exhibited,
and this was overcome during the first
day of feeding upon it.
In one of the six changes from late to
early, there was nearly the same dislike
manifested. This was somewhat surpris-
ing, as the early hay was green and
fresh, while the late was evidently nearly
ripe.
"It must, however, be borne in mind
that the weather during the last haying
season was unusually favorable to late
standing grass, no rain of consequence &C.
curing after July 10th.
"These results show much less differ
ence in the nutritive value and palatabil-
ity of hay harvested at much later Pc
riod, than has generally been supposed to
exist"
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True Manliness.

Every young man considers it high
praise to be called manly fellow )" aud
yet how many false ideas there are OF
manliness Physical strength is not the
test. Samson was endowed with tre-
mendous bodily powers. He was a grand
specimen of humanity. See him rending
the lion as he would kid, or carrying
away the gates of GAIA But he was
weak creature after all, unable to resist
the wlles OF an artful woman. Great in
tellect is not the test of true manhood.
Some of the most intellectual men who
have ever lived were not manly. Lord
Francis Bacon was a prodigy OF intellect.
The sciences sat at his feet extolling him
as their benefactor; yet we see him led
down Tower Hill, prisoner, for swind-
ling. Fast living is not true mauliness.
Some men think that to strut, and puff,
and swear, is to be manly. To some the
essentials of manliness are to "toss off
their glass like a man." spend money
freely like man." "smoke like man."
"drive fast horse like man," forget
ting that virtue Is true manliness. Tenn
perance, chastity, truthfulness, tortitude,
and benevolence are the characteristics
and essentials of manliness. To be manly
is to be honest, generous, brave, noble,
and pure, in speech and lie. The higher
form of manliness is goodness. Some one
has said, eau honesJ man is the noDlest
work of God" but the man who is honest
toward God and toward his fellow-man-
in short, Christian man--is the noblest
work of God.-John b. Cough.
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fore coke, or charcoal, or ordinary coal,
after its bituminous matter has done its
flaming, should be used, and the steak or
chop may be placed in front or above
surface of such glowing carbon. In Or
binary domestic practice it is placed on a
gridiron above the coal, and therefore /
will consider this case first. The object
TO be attained is to raise the juices of the
meat throughout to about the tempera-
ture of one hundred and eighty degrees
Fahrenheit as quickly as possible, in order
that the cookery may be completed before
the water of these juices shall have had
time to evaporate to any considerable ex-
tent therefore the meat should be placed
as near to the surface of the glowing car
bon as possible. But the practical house
wife will say that if placed within two or
three inches, some of the fat will be
melted and burn, and then the steak will
be smoked. Now, here we require little
more chemistry. There is smoking-and
smoking-smoking that produces de.
testable flavor, and smoking that does no
mischief at all beyond appearance. The
flame of an ordinary coal fire is due to
the distillation and combustion of tarry
vapors. If such flame strikes COM
paratively cool surface like that of the
meat, it will condense and deposit thereon
a film of crude coal-tar and coalnaptha,
most nauseous and rather mischievous |;
but if the fame be that which is caused
by the combustion of its own fat, the de-
post on mutton-chop will be little
mutton-oil, on a beefsteak little beef-oil
more or less blackened by mutton-carbon
or beef-carbon. But these oils and car
bons have no other flavor than that of
cooked mutton and cooked beef there
fore they are perfectly innocent, in spite
of their guilty black appearances.-W.
Mattieu Wiliams, in Popular Science
Monthly for August.
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CHICAGO.
Continued from last t0eek.)
How Watch Cases are Made.

This process ofmanufacture was invented
by James Boss, who started in business in
1854, and the methods and tools used in
making these watch cases are covered by
patents This is the only wdtch case made
under this process. For many years the in
PRODUCTION of these goods was slow, owing
topopular prejudice against "plated" goods,
but gradually the public learned that the
James Boss Gold Watch Case was not a
cheap gOld-washed or electro-ptdted article,
but was made of genuine gold plates of
standard quality and thickness. Conscientious
adherence to the determination to make
the best watch case ever put on the market,
and the adoption of every Improvement
suggested, has made the James Boss Gold
Watch Case the STANDARD. -s,Dr y MARY
In this watch case the parts y
most subject to wear-the bow, crown, hinges,
humb-catches, etc, are made of SOLID GOLD.
Send cent stamp keystone Watch Case Factories, Phs
deIph Pa handsome Illustrated Pamphlet showing how
James boss and keystone watch Cases made.
ITO be cOntinued.)
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Early and Late Cut Hay.

The Maine State Industrial college,
with no larger endowment than that of
Vermont, has, besides educating goodly
number of farmers sons to the business
of agriculture, done much of practical
utility in the way of settling by careful
experiment some difficult questions in
connection with farming. The we'll
known test, made for several years on the
college farm with cooked and uncooked
food, clearly proved that there is no ad-
vantage in cooking food for swine. This
alone has been worth hundreds of thou
sands of dollars to American farmers.
The college has now gone practically at
the work of solving the relative feeding
value of early and late cut hay for dairy
feeding. 1t is well known to our readers
that Professor Sanborn, late of the New
Hampshire and now of the Missouri agri-
cultural college, denied the superior value
of early cut hay as feed for working oxen
or fatting cattle. There is hardly any
question in agriculture of more pecuniary
Importance to our farmers than this. The
Maine college grappled with it systematic
cally, and the results of one seasons tests
are given as follows:
GA field of grass of uniform quantity
and quality, consisting mostly of clean
herdsgrass, with very little white-weed
daisy, intsrmixed, was selected and di.
vided into plots two and one-half rods in
width and twenty rods in length. The
grass upon the first, third and fifth plots
was cut when in full bloom, July 18th
and the second, fourth and sixth plots were
cut twenty days later, August Sd, when
the seed had become hard, but not suffi.
GENTLY ripe to shell in harvesting.
"The weight of hay cut early, at time
of putting in the barn, was 1881 pounds
per acre. Weight of same February 14th,
1878 pounds; shrinkage, eight and three
fourths per cent.
"The weight of hay cut late, at time of
harvesting was $3.50 pounds per acre.
Weight of same February 18th 1862
pounds; shrinkage, fifteen and one-half
per cent.
"The greater shrinkage in the late cut
hay is probably owing to its being
weighed directly from the punches that
had stood in the field over night. The
amount of winter dry hay from each cut
ting was practically the same.
"Chemical analysis of the hay showed
the following composition:
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bed, the season is prolonged considerably.
Both the Crescent and Chief are pistil-
lates, and therefore require to be planted
near a perfect lowered variety like the
Wilson, to yield full crop. For growing
plants for sale, plot of each should be
planted separately, but merely for bed
to be picked from, little mixing Of the
plants is of no consequence, especially for
a near market. The Crescent is too soft
to ship far, but the Chief is as firm as the
Wilson. Strawberries grow larger, fruit
more abundantly, and bear longer when
planted on moist (not wet) land.
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Sand on Wet Meadow.

HI. w. writes " In answer to Young
Farmer as regards doubling his hay
crop, 1 would advise using sand as an
absorbent in the stable behind the cattle
and in the hog-pen. Much good manure
can be made in this way, and l think it
would work we'll on wet muck soil.
would not advise blowing it, but would
harrow it in, or top-dress with it. For
sandy land would use muck as an absorb
emit. Cows should be stabbed every night
in the year and the liquid saved. 1t is
worth as much as the manure"
NOTE BY AGRICULTURAL EDITOR. This
is very good advice, but Young Farmer :"
said he had no manure to spare. We have
an idea that an inch or two of fine sand
spread evenly alone on such meadow
would be of benefit to the grass. We
hope more of our readers will come to
Young Farmers" assistance, as the
subject is of general interest. We should
also like practical mems ideas about sta
bling COWS every night of the year. 1t &C.
cumulates manure in the barn for now
ing andcultivated crops, but how about the
pastures Is it not robbing Peter to pay
Paul, as the saying is ? Come, MIR. Arms,
Mr.. Pitkin, Mr.. Averill and all the rest
of you, take showery moment and give
us your views on these matters.
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HUSBANDS are SO stupid The story
in the June DraUer of man who went
TO town with his wife to do errands, and
was sorely perplexed at missing something
on his return; until he reached home and
found he had forgotten his wife, reminds
somebody of woman in Philadelphia
who gave her husband six commissions to
execute in New York. He telegraphed
back that he mad executed i've ana forgot
ten the last. 1t was an order for an IL
Illuminated sentence for Sunday-school
room. He was good deal astonished
when he received the reply; unto us
this day child is born-'two feet wide
and nine feet long."-Harper's MagaSine.
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GRAPE CATsUP.-Any variety will make
the catsup, and it will be nice, but the
tart is preferred. Let five pints of grapes
simmer till they are so soft that you can
rub all but the seeds through colander
with ease. After this is done add two
pints of brown sugar, one pint of vinegar,
two tablespoonfuls each of allspice, cloves
and cinnamon, one and half teaspoons.
fuls each of mace, one of salt, and half a
tea-spoonful of red pepper. Put all in a
porcelain kettle, let boil slowly till as
thick as you like catsup to be. The grape
must be picked from the stems, and be
washed thoroughly, or they will be gritty,
and the catsup be spoiled.
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Strawberries.

d. T. Averill, Mortified, Vt, writes:-
81 have just harvested good crop of
strawberries from plants set in May 1882.
This being the first crop, L desire to
secure another from the same vines.
From your experience, should you say it
could be easily done? If SO, should be
pleased to learn, through your depart
ment, how to proceed what to do, and
when to do it. The runners were not
disturbed, but did not fully cover the
ground last fall, but the vacancies are
now fast filling. l am told to spade up
the old row of vines and leave the rum
ners on the intervening spaces. l would
like to know the best process to get fair
second crop from the same vines. The
variety is Wilson,"
REPLY BY AGRICULTURAL EDIToR.-
We are glad to see and hear of our farm
ers engaging in small as we'll as large
fruit culture. The villages of Vermont
do not yet receive one quarter the amount
of such fruits that they would willingly
consume. We have every year, at least
four times as many orders as we can fill
for strawberries and currants. The only
difficulty we have is in getting pickers
Vermont is too rich state for women
and children to want to work at anything
away from home.
Regarding Mr.. Averill's question, we
may say that we have rarely found any
profit in running strawberry bed more
than one season. The seeds of dande-
lion, plantain, white clover, grass and
five-fnger find just the spots they need to
secure protection and growth under the
shelter of strawberry plants. In our beds
just picked there are ten young dande-
lions to every strawberry plant, and an
equal proportion of several other weeds.
To pull these all out by hand, and their
successors again and again, is very much
more laborious and expensive than to set
a new bed in the spring and keep it clean
with hoe until the plants cover the
ground. In the spring you will then, in
a new bed, find about as much wedding
to do as any reasonable man need ask for.
Nevertheless we have, occasionally, run
a bed two seasons. For convenience of
picking, the rows of a strawberry bed
ought not to be much more than three
feet wide, with two feet path between.
If Mr.. Averill will, when his bed is GOV.
cred with plants, spade in such path be-
tween such strips, digging in the old
plants preferably, as he has been advised, }
and will then carefully remove the weeds
from the rows and paths two or three
times between now and the time the
ground freezes up, he will provided we
have favorable winter) get very good
picking next year. At the same time, un.
less we are mistaken, he will conclude
that new bed every year is the cheapest.
The Wilson strawberry, which Mr..
Averill plants, is standard variety and
one very difficult to surpass, although it
has its defects. From our experience
during three years, we should advise the
planting, in alternate rows with Wilson,
the Crescent, little earlier, and the Chief,
later, so that with the three kinds in one
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"To test the comparative feeding value
of this hay, two COWS as evenly mated as
possible were selected, each being cross
bred, seven-eighths Jersey and one-eighth
Ayrshire. They were comparatively
fresh, having been in milk but a few
weeks. They each received three pounds
of corn meal, three pounds of cotton-seed
meal, one and one.half pounds of bran,
and twenty pounds of hay daily through
out the entire period of feeding.
"Bess was fed during the first period of
twelve days upon late hay, the first six
being in preparation and to overcome the
influence of previous feeding, and the
milk product of the last six days of the
period, was taken as the result of the late
hay. At the close of the first period, her
feed was changed to early hay, and she
was fed upon this during the second
period of twelve days, the first six to de-
stroy the influence of previous feeding as
before, and the last six, the milk produced
represented the result of the early hay
consumed during that time. The third
period her hay was the late cut, fed as in
the first. This feeding alternately on
late and early hay was continued through
six periods of twelve days each, or
seventy-two days.
"The cream was raised and butter made
from it under similar conditions during
each period, the butter being made from
the milk of one day, and calculated for
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the period from the number of pounds of
milk required for one pound of butter.
The total amount of fat contained in each
days milk was ascertained by chemical
examination.
"The same course of feeding and test.
ing was repeated with Pet, excepting
when Bess had late hay Pet had early,
and when Bess had early Pet had late.
This was for the purpose of equalizing
the influence of the variation of tempera-
ture that might occur.
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SAUCE FOR BOILED FIsH.-Put into a
saucepan one-fourth pound of butter and
the juice of good-sized lemon, with
pepper and salt to taste; beat up all to-
gether until thick and quite hot do not
allow it to boil. Remove it from the fire
and add the beaten-up yolks of two eggs.
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AN English journal (Pau Mall Gaxette)
says; "The whims of fashion are said to
be good for trade. They certainly speed
the circulation of money. But the sum-
mer of prosperity they create is nearly
always followed by very hard winter"
This is the view of the subject which we
have tried to impress upon the mind of
Brother Tinkham.
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The Best Fire to BrOil a Steak.

Now, let us suppose similar beefsteak
to be cooked by radiant heat, with the
least possible cooperation of convection.
To effect this, our source of heat must be
a good radiator. Glowing solids are bet
ter radiators than ordinary flames there.
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The WEALTHY APPLE.-We find the
following in the correspondence column
of the agricultural department of the Min
nsapolis Tribune;
Editor Tribune What is the season of the
Wealthy apple? | understand it originated In
your state. LUDLOW, VT.
From December TO March 10 1t originated
on the banks of Lake Minnetonka, through the
hands OF Peter NJ Gideon.
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IarirnHmaL
THE LEGEND OF THE ox-EyED DAISY
AND NARCISSUS.

Again the fair Narcssus blooms
within the gardens close,
Its tender flowers, like roses sweet,
And white as mountain SHOWS;
Again, along the dusty paths,
And DER the meadows green,
Braving the tread Of careless feet,
The daisy stars are seen.
They come when music fills the air,
And beauty robes the earth,
But sadly still they bring to mind
The legend Of their birth.
They were not of the Eden flowers
That crowned our mothers hair
When in her happy innocence
She walked the garden fair,
But when before the flaming sword
Our guilty parents fed,
Leaving the fair and odorous bowers
Where heavenly balm was shed;
Out from the home Of all their joys,
The garden rich and rare,
They bore the burden Of their SIM
Their shame and their despair.
The earth accursed, with sullen frown,
Received their wandering feet,
And not a flower in all their way
Sprang up their steps to greet.
Then deep repentance filed their hearts,
While tear-drops fell like rain,
And all the plying love of God
Was moved to soothe their pain.
He said, "Where tears Of Adam fall
Let ox-eyed daisies grow
With sunlit hearts Of yellow
And petals white as snow;
And when the wandering sons of men
These starry blooms shall find,
Let them remember, God is Just,
But pitiful and kind.
"And where the woman's contrite tears
Upon the earth shall flow,
There let the fair narcissus bloom
The solace of her woe;
And when her Borrowing daughters see
The pure and fragrant sign,
Then let them know that love and truth
Are graces all divine"
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FRENCH dresses are the adopted styles
for little ones. These neatly aud simply
made robes are especially favored where
wash material is selected.