The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-01-27

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red netting. He knows at glance just
what it contains, just as well as if he
had ripped the stuff off and poured the
peaches on the table. The commission
man is lucky if he finds purchaser at.
lo cents per basket for such fruit. Even
retailers will not impose on their Gus
toners with such fraudulent packages.
what becomes of it? Italian vendors
Of cheap fruit get hold of it and retail
1t from push carts in the streets and
suburbs Of Chicago. They are about
the only kind of men who can dispose
of it. Reputable grocers and market
men will not touch it, much of it goes
to the garbage pile, condemned by our
health officers.
That Seed Distribution-The gov
eminent seeds. The Rural New Yorker
says: The free seed distribution is as
much of bugaboo as ever. Secretary
Wilson was inclined to distribute the
SEEDS according to the original design,
which was to import and distribute
new, rare and promising specialties.
But the comptroller Of the treasury has
decided that the language of the ap-
preparation as passed by congress is
mandatory, and that the only: course,
lett open to the secretary is to adver-,
Use Tor seeds all put up ready for dis
T1outlon, and the commonest kind of.
SEEDS at that He can't even buy the
seeds and have them put up for dis
trlout1on. The whole thing is a farce
1he writer received some of these
SEEDS the past spring, as he has for
several years, and among them were
varieties grown by market gardeners
Tor the past forty years. But the sys-
tenn must tickle the farmers, as it must
please the congressman who think
mat they can buy the farmers for a,
pinch of cabbage or onion seed.
Annual Rings on Forest Trees.-Iu
all the timber trees of the TEMPERATE
portion of our country the wood of the
stem is laid on in sheets or layers
"nlch, on any cross section, appear as
so many concentric rings. Generally
these rings are sufficiently we'll defined
TO he readily counted, and, since only
one is formed each growing season,
tney furnish very convenient record
OF the particular cross section, and, if
properly chosen, of the age Of the tree
Viewing cross section of the stem of
a pine, fir, cedar, ETC., these concentric
yearly rings appear as alternate mar
row bands or lines of lighter darker
color, the dark line, or summer wood"
occupying the outer portion of any one
ring and being sharply contrasted
against the lightest portion of the in
ner, lighter, or spring wood" part OF
the next ring.
Foreign View of American Agricul-
ture~-The French delegate Monsieur
zolla, who is investigating American
agriculture, is delighted with the in
telllgence OF American farmers and the
great variety and abundance of their
farm stock and agricultural products.
He praises our agricultural schools as
superior to those in France. He saws:
These schools are numerous and they
are conducted in splendid buildings.
with every convenience; that the an.
paratus for. teaching the best methods
of dairy work, of stock feeding, and
Of general farm economy are complete
and admirable. You spend so much
money on these schools. But then YOU
have it to spend, and we are compara-
lively poor. I have received every
where, from your minister of agricul-
ture at Washington, Mr.. Wilson, from,
your state officers, and from eyerv
farmer I have met, the most oblieing.
courtesy."-Ex.
Trees and Men.-A single tree, &C.
cording to computation in Knowl-
edge, is able, through it's leaves. ia.
purify the air from the carbonic acid
arising from the respiration of a CON-
siderable number of men, perhaps 2
dozen or even a score. The volume of
carbonic acid exhaled by human be-
ing in the course of twenty-four hours,
is put at about 100 gallons; but by
Boussingault's estimate, single
square yard of leaf surface, counting
both the upper and the under sides of
the leaves, can, under favorable cir
cumstances, decompose at least a gal
Ion of carbonic acid in a day. One
hundred square yards of leaf-surface
for one man, but the leaves of a tree
Of moderate size present a surface of
many hundred square yards.
Selling or Pasturing.-There is NO
question in the minds of those who
have tried it of the great saving made
by the practice of soiling. Expert
ments recently made at the Michigan
experiment station show that about
four times as much food is obtained
from meadow allowed to mature hav
as from field pastured. In soiling the
difference would probably not be so
great, owing to the fact that the grass
or peas, or alfalfa, or whatever is
grown for the purpose, is cut before it
fully natures, but even then from two.
to three times the number of animals,
can be supported by soiling as on pas
ture.-Ex. : -.. :. .
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