Connecticut western news., 1890-03-19

FAASo OA " CCAeS pCA POuuA, 0Au WAsA- es still further supply in order to continue experiments in the reeling of silk from the cocoon. All persons, therefore. who seek market for their cocoons, or desire any information re- garding the silk industry, should apply to the Department of Agriculture.
 A great deal of nonsense has been written about ladies in London going into business, as if it were fad on the part of some fashionable women who wanted something to do. The real cause is sheer necessity. The dis tress among the younger children of the landed proprietors in England has scarcely been realized in this country. The laws of settlement and entail have worked most cruelty against them, and Gas in all cases of pressure) the weak est have gone to the wall, and the weakest are women. No cause short of absolute necessity could have in- duced ladies of title to encounter the prejudice that exists in London society against trade, but they have had to do it.
 The annual session of the Massachu- setts Board of Agriculture was held recently. One of it's principal acts was the vote to petition the legislature to take measures for the extermination of the Gypsy moth. The annual report of the examining committee of the agricultural college was presented, showing the institution to be in a fourishing condition. The receipts for the year. including $45s4.78 cash on hand, were $50 O,811.72, and the ex- penses $6468.79 less. The cash and bills receivable Dec. 31 were $5832.9 and bills payable, $1452.27. The total value of real estate is $233, $40 ; personal property, $42,416.89. Prof. Shaler read very valuable paper on ssThe Soils of Massachusetts"
 A few years ago lady residing in a healthy part of St. Petersburg fell ill with malarial fever. There was no doubt as to the nature of the malady. Nevertheless, a mystery hung over the case, for the lady had not lately visited any malarial district, but had been living at home in locality purely non-malarious. The mystery was further increased by the fact that SC long as the patient remained in hel bedroom the disease yielded to the usual remedies; but on removing tc the sitting-room relapse invariably followed, and fever with all the char. acteristic symptoms set in once more For some months these alterations con. tinucd, until the doctors suspicious were aroused by observing that while plants were growing in the sitting. room they were absent from the bed room. Inquiring into their history, he found they had been sent direc from a district known to be malarious On getting rid of the plants comt tlete recovery followed and the mystery was explained Century.
 That immoral and impudent bird the sparrow, is in trouble again. He is bird of notoriously bad character, He is fighter, Q thief, and an in curable glutton. The indictment which the Chester Farmers Club has brought against him is enough to make more self-respecting birds thank their stars that they are not as he. The Cheshire farmers have been calculating that he eats one-tenth of all the grain that is grown in the country, and the cost o1 killing hlm is about 8 pound a thou. sand. If farmer wants to extermin. ate birds, he must expect to bear charges for the salt to put on theil tails-which in this case happens to be saltpeter. But the accusation of gob. bling up the grain which ought to go into the barns is more serious.
 In the winter, too, the sparrows ge into the farmyard and eat the grain in. tended for the poultry and feed at the pig trough with the pigs-which ii surely mark of great intelligence or their part. Still the Cheshire farmers must remember that all the world if not agreed as to the ingrained immo ality of the sparrow. There arc those who believe that they consume an enot- nous number of noxious insects when there is no grain to be had, and tha consequently they do as much good al harm. That the sparrow is too numer' ous is most likely; but we need moi have him exterminated. He is SC cheerful, so "cocky," and so generally irrepressible, that life-in towns, al least-would be appreciably saddel without him.-St. James Budget, Lon don.
 We are tired of hearing our country continually called "young," when it it old enough for many places to have been settled, flourish and go to decay In the eastern part of the United States the s'revival of our country towns" k more and more attracting attention We have mentioned the subject before "sub rosa," and are pleased to see il attracting such attention. The ques. ton is, what shall we do about it2 but no one tells us. Some write of the de- terioration of New England as being peculiar, forgetting that the old tobacce fields of Virginia arc barren of tho fortunes they once yielded, and tha the sea islands of South Carolina wan