Year: 1868

Professor Morton, of Philadelphia, has
been delivering a most interesting series of
lectures, illustrated by highly magnifed
photographs of the moon. We have before
US a view, reproduced-in the Scientific
Amerieaa-lrom the Journal of the Frank
lin Institute at Philadelphia, in which the
moon, whose face seems to US SO fair. is
scanned and SCARED, and blotched, and torn
The portion of the moon here represented
is the mountain of Copernicus. which has a
| crater ffty-fve miles in breadth, Its height
above the surrounding plains is eleven
thousand two hundred and fifty feet.
! 1t is a vast plain, surrounded by circu
lar wall, with central cones and huge bould-
ers scattered over It's surface. Mars, pro
portionately magniied, is seen above the
horizon, with masses of clouds floating in
his atmosphere, and showing the marks of
continents and seas. In the immediate
vicinity are seen lesser craters, their edges
illumined, and inclosing CULTS of vast depths
and proportions The rugged and mountain
Gus appearance of the mooN is admirably
shown, and the appearance of desolation
most trutbfully delineated IF any of our
friends wish to see this most interesting
view, and read the whole article, Of which
this is merely an abstract, we shall be happy
to afford them facilities for doing so.


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procuring drugs and chemicals of the finest
quality, at best rates, O'Hara is now offer
ing goods in his line to physicians at very
much lower rates than heretofore Call and
see


Insect B1es-When a noxious insect
punctures the skin, it deposits an atom Of an
acidulous fluid of a poisonous nature. Am
monia or boraz will instantly neutralize this
poison.


speer's fruit preserving solution at
OHaras.


WHy Cannot Fouls be kept IN Large
FIocks Pit is pretty generally conceded
that no one is successful who attemps to
keep together a large number Of fowls, and
that those who keep the smallest number to-
gether generally obtain the greatest proper
tiOnate number Of eggs. And this Is, we
think, not only true, but easily to be ae-
counted for.


Every one who has kept fowls knows that
I
! themselves In the dirt, and that evidently
not for the purpose of cleanliness, but to rid
! themselves Of verlniD. They prefer clean
/ light sand, because if in the sun it is gener-
ally warmer, and it is easily moved, but they
seem equally to enjoy, any soft dry earth, al
| though it may not be very sweet and clean.
! They are nOtOriously filthy In their cOOps,
roosting under each other taking no pains
to avoid -the drOppings, soiling their food
,, Il
| ing no act apparently towards cleanliness.
/ This is more manifest in the house where
/ they are confined, and where the air should
/ be as pure possible If they are at large
and few in number, they move around so
much that they cannot sour the ground.
! They are by nature clean, but by habit the
reverse, and the only way to keep them in
! the natural state, is to give them range
enough, so that they cannot soil their haunts,
or else cleanse their haunts carefully and
/. faithfully every day.


We once kept one solitary hen on our place
+ for several months. She was of the common
! barnyard breed. We never saw n healthier
fowl, or whose feathers kept so fresh and
! perfect, and she was a constant layer. No
care was taken of her, and we always attri-
buted her thrift to the fact that she had the
whole range of our place for exercise and
her quarters were always perfectly clean.





will find them crowding together and always
souring their haunts, if there are a sufficient
number of them to do It. You may do some
thing towards preventing this, but you can
not keep very large aocks very clean.


We have often seen it stated that no more
than fifty hens should be kept in hen-house
twenty feet by ten. Except with constant
care and cleaning, that number cannot do
very well in a smaller space. Close up such
/ aCl1 ,r-ba hqv
neglected to clean for a few days, and 90 in
from the fresh air in the morning, and you
will be surprised at the impurity of the air
therein Drive the flock out into the open
air, and you will see what q change it pro-
duces in them, ana how lively they viii be-
come in a few minutes.


The size Of the flock must always depend
upon the extent Of the accommodations, and
even then tho large aocks cannot be kept 50
cleanly and healthy as the small ones, and
therefore are not in proportion so profitable
-CUItigator and Country Gentleman.


The Poulterers Friend, sure cure foI
gapes and cholera in chickens, at O'HaFa's s


Holy to Make Vjnegqr.-Vinegar is made
from sweetened water. That tells the secret
The aaecharine principle turns to acid, and
we have vinegar. Sweet cider needs but tC
be put in a warm place-in the sun IN sum
mer-with a thin cloth over the bunghole
to make it the best Of vinegar. The mother
viii soon form a scum on the top, whicl
must be left in. Sour cider needs sweeten
ing when set away for fermentation. Tha
starts it on its way. It difficult to get vine
gar from sour cider alone. In the West
where cider is scarce, sweetened water Il


matters not how much or how little sweet
ened) is the thing. The water must be soft
Rain water is used. A barrel half fIlec
viii sour quicker than when full, so said


we have never tested it. Take out the bung
Stretch over the bdnghole a fine sieve o
cloth to keep out the flies. When vinega


s formed, corkitup tight, for exposure to tn


air hurts it.


Lemon sugar at o Hara's.


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