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capri Tor male fig be transferred to the Smyrna Tor fe
mae). This is accomplished by the fig wasp, which
breeds in the capri In June it passes out of the capri
with its body and wings covered with pollen from the
male or staminate blossoms and forces its way through
almost closed orce into the Smyrna thus fertlzng
the female flowers.
For number of years nurseryman at Fresno has
made speciality of rearing fig wasps safely housed in
their native capri fig homes, and selling them to fig
growers all the State. Not long ago capri
fig trees Stockton found be literally alive with
fig wasps showing that the little insect with the big
is becoming thoroughly acclmated in California
George c. Roeding of Fresno has contracted for all the
fruit the Stockton trees will produce. paying
therefor the price of fig Of themselves capri
figs worthless but the presence of the Blastophaga
gives them their value; making them. in fact, ndispen
sable to the California fig producing industry.
The Farming of Animals
EVERYONE knows the high prices that shopkeepers
- demand for pocketbooks belts shopping bags suit
cases. and other articles made of genuine alligator
leather. 1t this knowledge that induced Fl. l.
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bees the fact that the bees would permit only
queen in hive. But the bee breeders of America have
beaten Nature at her game and breed as many
queens they wish. 1t is done by what is called the
feeding in artificial nuclei.
There three kinds of bees in every hive-workers
drones and the queen. These are produced from two
kinds of eggs fortified and unfertilized The unfertil
lied egg will produce nothing but drone; but the fer
zed egg may produce queen or worker this
the royal jelly reserved for queens upon the plebean
breakfast food of the working class. The kind of food
the workers supply to Larvae is determined by the kind
of cells they occupy.
If the Larvae in queen cells. they given royal
Jelly and no questions Here is the opportunity of the
breeder of queen bees to godbrck the denzens of the
hive and deceive them into rearing many hundreds of
queens when they have conceivable use for more
than one.
The breeder makes supply of imitation queen cells.
made with the greatest care in order deceive work
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particularly attractive to women. The work IS light
and interesting After the essential first principles have
been learned it is no difficult pheasants
than is for chickens any other kind of pou
try, and the profits far larger 1t is estimated that
insect pests destroy farm crops to the value of six hun
ncredible but they supplied by the National
Conservation Commission. Much of this drain upon
agricultural production could be prevented by the gen
eral stocking of the country with insectvorous BIRDS
most valuable of which is the pheasant every farmer
in America would lberate pairs of Chinese
ringnecks his farm, his crops would show i'm
provement, and he would find it in the long the
best investment of few dollars he made.
A Gold Brick for Bees
PEE farming-for the sake of honey-s as old as his
tory but the rearing of queen bees for sale
paratively new. America literally supplies the
world with queen bees. The queen bee farms of Ohio
England France Germany, Austria Russia, South
America Japan and every other country the globe.
In other days the great difficulty about breeding queen
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and Texas. The largest pigeon farm in
the world is at Los Angeles, and the
largest pheasant farm on the Western
Hemisphere is close to Denver. This is
conducted by w. F. Kendrick of Denver.
As this article is written, more than
thirty thousand pheasant eggs are in
process of incubation at the Kendrick
place, and several hundred of the little
birds are coming out of the eggshells
daily. The birds are sold to individuals
and game associations throughout the
United States, Canada, and Mexico,
either for breeding purposes or for liberia
ton to stock the country. Many vari-
cites of these useful insectivorous game
birds are reared; but the Chinese ring
neck is considered the most desirable.
1t is hardy in any part of the United
States. and it's insectivorous habits make
it true friend of the farmer.
Pheasant farming is an occupation
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tHe dOlna1n OF pottery. he 1mp1e-
ments used are of the simplest, it
might almost be said of the crudest. As
in the case of gold leaf, no machine can
be trusted to exercise the nice discrim-
ination necessary in dealing with widely
varying materials.
Machinery plays little part in the
glass trade. Visitors to glassworks have
time and again remarked upon the
apparent awkwardness and antiquity
of the processes employed. Inventors
have for a long time exercised their
wits to devise machinery calculated to
supersede the glassblower's lungs; but
to no avail.
In many parts of the world glove
maxine &c entire1v q hand +r,do II &c
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success. number of years ago large beaver farm
started in Canada, north of Lake Superior; but
operated island off the of Labrador, by
Revon Brothers of Paris where silver foxes reared
in large numbers. On of the Aleutian Islands blue
fox farm has been operated successfully for ten years.
and red foxes reared at smaller fox farms in Maine
and West Virginia
Skunk farms have been started at various places in
the West and of these have Welded satisfactory
profits OF all fur farming industries
peculiar than cat farming This is followed large
scale Holland where reared for their fur This
dyed and otherwise doctored imitation of chinchla,
the finest of all furs that from South America.
1t knowledge of what has been accomplished
in the way of specialized fur farming that has
aged the organization of the American Game Assoca-
fed fur and game farming large scale The farm is
located nine miles from Denver at Littleton, compris
ing twelve hundred of land which it is pro-
posed to beaver foxes, deer, elk buffalo, Rocky
Mountain sheep and goats antelope, and other wild
animals Some species will be reared for their furs
for the sake of their esh and some for both hides
and meat.
report of the Division of Biological Survey of the
United States Department of Agriculture says, GAS
civilization encroaches upon the breeding places of wild
animals the supply of fur dminishes and prices
respondngy increase. If furs articles of and
adornment not to disappear from general use,
methods must be devised for rearing fur bearing animals
in captivity Another official publication of the Biology
cal Survey contains the following statements Deer
farming may be made profitable alike the State and
the individuals engaged therein The raising of venson
is as legitimate business the growing of beef and
mutton
1t highly probable therefore, that game farm
ing and fur farming industries that have to
stay, of which will hear much in the future
Poultry and Pheasants
SPECIALIZED poultry farms are common Long
Island has scores of duck farms and few goose
farms and turkey farms in Rhode Island
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Odf1pDtIl, a lew Years ago, 10 Start t1lt
first alligator farm ever attempted in
the world. His initial experiment was
opened at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Not
long afterwards some one else started
one at Palm Beach, Florida, and a little
over a year ago Campbell opened a
third at Los Angeles. This indicates
that alligator farming is a success.
However, as rule it has been found
more profitable to sell live alligators
than to kill them for the sake of their
hides.
If ostriches can be reared for their
feathers, and alligators for their hides,
why not raise beaver, foxes and other
fur producing animals for their furs?
That also has been tried, with varying
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Poultry and Pheasants

SPECIALIZED poultry farms are common Long
- Island has of duck farms and a few goose
farms, and turkey farms in Rhode Island
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"Reminiscences THE ". M. by J. D.

space Is infinite, and a sphere with an
infinite radius becomes a plane"
The Major. welcoming his ally, said:
Mr. H.. you will have to give it up.
you see" Whereupon Fulkerson as
founded the Major and convulsed the
class by adding: But, Major, a circle
with an infinite radius becomes a straight
line"
II was too bad to have to sit helpless
in his chair and see his darling circular"
space dwindle into a miserable straight
line. and that under the inexorable logic
of analytical geometry,
But there Is a moral here. Tt is GER
tainly desirable that a professor of psy-
chology should know mathematics, how
ever far apart the two sciences may seem
to be-
On the 18th of June, 1864 the Virginia
Military institute, with all its buildings,
and with a library containing 10000 vol
umes, and all the apparatus and instru-
ments of the various departments of the
school, were burned by order of General
David Hunter" commanding the United
States army, at that time operating in
the valley of Virginia.
After the war the institute arose from
its ashes, in fairer and more prosperous
condition than ever, thus fulfilling the
prophecy of Gen. Robert e. Lee who
wrote on hearing of its destruction, The
good that has been done to the country
cannot be destroyed nor can its name
or fame perish. It will rise stronger than
before and continue to diffuse its benefits
to grateful people
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scared a hare. If the hare had known
them as well as l did. That the legisla-
ture of Virginia should have annually APP
propriated a considerable sum to guard
these antiquated arms sounds like red
tape gone to seed.
J. T. L. Preston had brains. and he put
them to work on the problem: why
This Waste? Soon the question arose:
"Why Not Establish Military School,
and Let the Boys Do the Guarding?''
His notion took the Idle soldiers were sent
about some other business and the school
was established accordingly.
The first board of visitors met in Lex
lngton In May, 1889. or this board, Col.
Claude Crozet, graduate of the Poly
technic School of France, a soldier under
Napoleon in the Russian campaign of
1S12' and later a profession in the United
States Military academy at West Point,
but at the time a citizen of Virginia, was
president
Gen. Francis H. Smith, a graduate of
West Point, and at the time professor
of mathematics in Hampden-Sidney col
lege, was made superintendent.
In 1854 this scribe was a cadet from
Orange county. / took the train for
Staunton, which was as far west as the
Virginia Central railway-now the Ches-
apeake and Oho-then ran. From Staun-
ton / went by the old stage coach to Lex
ington. The tunnel through the Blue
Ridge had not been completed, and We
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modern chemistry, perhaps the very
ablest minds in this new and practical
hemisphere were trying to feel them
selves equipped for study of things be-
You'd the border of physical science, of
what may be called the chemistry of the
soul.
Now what has happened? The same
conditions that once obtained in New
England have spread all over this land
The New England of hundred years ago
was a marvellous admixture of high in
grabbing with practical problems and in
venting all sorts of cunning, practical
tools-all this with classical culture for
every boy and girl determined to get it,.
massive strength developed in contest
with a ragged climate and an iron-bound
land, and an ignorance on the other
hand equally phenomenal. All the faults
of the 10th century mind were concen-
trated in that radical, rationalistic-super-
stitious mind of hard-headed, reyerep-
tial, scrupulous, law-abiding, intolerant
New England. Those dear people of
rural Massachusetts, so accurately por-
trayed in "Old Town Folks were the
children of an age almost unique in the
history of men. Yet the stock-root trouble
with them was that they combined with
theological prepossessions the conceit of
a. colossal ignorance and the acumen of
practical success They did not distin-
guish between what they could know by
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greatness when we say that while It
raised craggy front to heaven, royal
with rugged integrity and truth, it
eloped away into a sluggish and black
water, railroads.&c., confused. whose sur
face caught nothing even to a true re-
Election. The name of that water is
Mysticism. Emerson was a New Eng
lander to the backbone, conscience and
susceptibility alike!
Now had there been no New England
there had been no Philosophical society
and no Madame Blavatsky. 1t was Mas
sachusetts rather than Tibet that evolved
the Mahatmas. Strange, isn't it, that a
Russian lady, rebel against the Journalism
of the eastern church and full of personal
ambition, but without the New, England
conscience, should have drifted In the
same boat with a typical and benevolent
Yankee, Colonel Olcott, along the delusive
shores of oriental magic! But Russian
rebellion against unreality of form is not
so far removed from any other rebellion.
least of all from that which was sweep
ing around Jonathan Edwards while he
penned his sermon about SINNERS in the
hands of an angry God" The crowd
might gather and turn penitent. But the
few rebels Matched Unitarianism with
their heads or brought forth broods of
psychic theories from their hearts In
either case they confessed their need of
a God not according to Jonathan Ed
wards. After all his logic, so imperious
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IN POINT-By George Eaues d. d.

to attack was on too narrow a founda-
They looked for him especially in the
region where logic cannot climb At
least we may do them the justice of
recognizing the forces that drove them.
They moved with trembling In the direc-
ton OF least resistance Madame Ba-
vatsky was a high sort of adventures.
From the time she was 20 till she died at
the age of so she was getting before the
public. Like a certain foundress Of mys-
tical doctrine, her early life was not
recorded in way to distinguish it's facts
from romantic fctions, and it was not
always creditable, says Professor Pat
terson. But In 1875 she declared herself
the head of the Theosopical society, and
began to be talked about among the
Athenians of mankind. In 1879, however,
she went from America with Colonel OIL
colt, eo-president with her of the society
and developed an appeal to the Hindus,
who were even more ready for bam-
boozle than the heterodore Bostonese
She had acquired a smattering of Budd-
prejudices by appearing as the advocate
of THE Supreme WISDOM" which was
born not in Judea, but among the noun
tains of india To join that society of
hers one needed no spiritual cleansing
but an initiation into Secret Knowledge
of occult forces, which had been known
in India before Palestine was peopled
She told of certain long-lived masters of
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OW to write personal reminis-
cences without being egotistical is
4 4 a problem more difficult than one
in "Maxima and Minima' In the Differ
entail Calculus; and so the reader Is ad-
vised at the outset that this article VIII
abound in what W. w. Scott, librarian OF
the Supreme court of Virginia, calls 1.-THE
inevitable ego"
The Virginia Military institute, often
called 1.-THE West Point of the South,
was established under an act or the gen
eral assembly of Virginia, passed in 1888
and Its father was Col. ]. I. J.. Preston
the husband of the famous poetess, Mar
garet j. Preston.
Colonel Preston was not military
man. He was a distinguished alumnus OF
the University of Virginia, which he en-
tered at the opening session, and where
he was a schoolmate of Edgar A. Poe.
, The western arsenal of the state was at
Lexington. and a body of troops guarded
It, The maintaining of this guard lost
the state an annual sum of $1,000. have
been inside of the arsenal, in which were
stored 10000 muskets and a quantity OF
military material The arms were anti
ouated and there were no cannon Oul
guns were small brass pieces, presented
to the corps for the purpose OF drill and
7 never saw one of them in the arsenal
There were lot of rusty sabres and
some old rifles, which would not nave
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@NE of the striking proofs of our
modern rebellion against those
~ old authorities, Experience and
Tradition. is the ease and abundance with
which we make new religions Out Oh
the seething intelligence of New England
to which came all sorts of mystical WIS.,
ions. and whose grand transcendental
mirror was the eoquence of Emerson
arose the spiritualstic seance, through
the psychic susceptibility of the Fore
sisters 1t seemed to the New England
of the early 10Th century that the uni
verse could be recharted, old orthodox
les revised and the wisdom of the mys-
,sical orient brought to answer the
shrewd Investigations of the mysucai
Yankee. What ancient reverence sur
vived in that keen intellectual atmos-
lphere was reverence for the universe
rather than for either tradition or ex-
perience. Like ElizAbethan adventurers'
men stood on the shores of the in1nite
and said: LET us voyage forth! Others
have found little. We will reach the
furthest bounds of knowledge and pring
a new spiritual world to light
And so America began TO be known
as the cradle of the new mysticism.
which means not mystery, but the reach
nv occult study into the depths of the
unseen. While in Europe the ablest
minds were teening with new hope TO the
, mastery of scientific facts and creating
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had been breveted major in the Mexican
war, was professor of natural and exper-
mental philosophy and instructor in
tillery tactics in the institute. He took
1t into his head that his health was del
leate, though he was physically one of
the toughest specimens that this scribe
ever saw. One morning when there was
snow on the ground and one of his boots
leaked he removed the boot and held his
ton a number of cadets, encircling the
professor, asked for an explanation"
Fulkerson looked around for a chance of
mischief, and, seeing JacksonA boot
stole 1t and marched off When Jackson
missed his boot he took the class one by
one, thus, Mr.. H., did you steal my
boot?'' mo, sir" Mr. b., did you steal
my boot?" and so on. When he had ques-
toned the whole class and received a
negative from each one he said, dryly
i've made some one tell lie" He then
called for the officer of the day, and or
dered him to produce it. Fulkerson, not
wishing to get a classmate into trouble.
put the boot where he knew the officer
of the day could find 1t; and so the Mar
tinet Major" recovered his property.
Jackson and Preston were about as lit
tie alike as two sensible and pious men
both Presbyterians-well could be. Jack
son was stern. unbending and phenome-
nally silent. Preston was lovely and ge-
NAL. and nothing delighted him more
than a talk to and with his class. One
day when the lesson was hard and Ham
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brick knew little about it, he pretended
to be greatly interested in the then re-
Gently projected Pacific railroad. so he
put Preston on 1t, and he soon rode clean
away from the lesson, and Hambriek
missed Zero
Preston was teaching his class in psy-
choogy, and had occasion to discuss the
nature. functions and limits of the mag
nation In the course of the discussion
he raised the question, "Can we imagine
taste?" and after some disqustion,
decided it in the negative. when Selden
of Norfolk, upset the whole argument,
and also the gravity of the class with
the question: why Major, did you new
er dream that you were eating peaches =
On another occasion and in a different
class, the same professor asked his fa-
vorte pupil, who led the class: IF You
were to give a shape to space, what
shape would you choose?" The cadet
replied that he had never thought of
space as having any shape; but. after re-
flecting that. in divers directions, our
view seems to be bounded by circles, and
that body so bounded in all directions
is sphere. he replied: II should call it
spherical" and he gave the reason just
now mentioned.
Major Preston was a literary man and
no mathematician. and his pupils anal
ytieal geometry was beyond him. He
surprised the cadet with the remark; II
should call it circular At this point
Abe Fulkerson, the mischief maker of the
class took up the argument. Major,
Mr.. HIS view cannot be right, because
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wisdom still dwelling in the Tibetan
mountains one of whom, Koot Hoomi Lal
Siugh, had adopted her as his disciple.
These she called Mahatmas and she
tried to prove their wisdom by showing
that they had outdistanced the wisdom
of Jesus and could work miracles
through her, their chosen apostle. Those
who are interested may still find copies
of Isis Unveiled" Nine. Blavatsky's
chief work, a hotchpotch OF Egypt, Per-
sla India and Ceylon, in undgestible
chunks. What were the miracles
Broken cups and saucers. or broken jew
elry, placed In a locked cabinet, were
taken out so repaired that no trace of the
break could be found. Bells would ring in
queer ways; letters would drop from the
ceiling. And the credulous Hindus flock
ed by the tens of thousands to join the
new society, a Hindu religion for the
Hindus
But it was proved absolutely that these
miracles We're the cheapest kind of
fraud. New crockery and jewels had
been bought in the bazaar; the bells were
mere spirituaistic machinery, and the
dropped by a system of pins and threads
from the ceiling, wherever a disciple was
wavering in the faith. AS to Koot Hoomi,
none believes in his existence The Ma
hatmas were make-believes. And Colonel
Olcott could not deny the completeness
of the exposure. The Madames accom-
plices, French people named Coulomb,
had quite given her away.
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ecdote: When Longstreet was at West
Point, he never looked at his chemistry.
One day the professor asked him how to
make the carbonic acid of commerce.
Burn diamonds in oxygen gas" said
Longstreet. THAT would do 1t: but don't
you think 1t would be leetle expensive?"
You may be excused for calling this
phenomenal ignorance, but I can beat
General Hills story A member of my
class, after graduating on optics, was
Dragging of the fine examination he had
passed. | knew my man, and willing to
prick his bubble, I asked Buck, what
subject were you examined on?" "TIa1os,'
said Buck land what are halos? They
are rings made by light freezing up
around the MOON" said the graduate
in optics;' and he added, "and the reason
why there are no halos south of % de-
grees, north latitude, is that 1t Is not cold
enough to freeze the light"
Abe Fulkerson was the "scape-grace'
of my class. There is not the slightest
doubt that Fulkerson, as Bill Arp would
say 'laid awake O. nights a meditating
on how to worry the professor. With
all his mischief, however. he was a fairly
good student, and made his classes He
was a colonel in the Confederate army.
and was badly wounded, | believe at Fort
Donaldson. He was. I am sorry to say,
one of Mahone's smartest followers In the
"Readjuster" fight, and was elected to
Congress on that issue. Jackson who
was a graduate of West Point, and who