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# Agriculture. Farm and Workshop Notes, ffiiladelpliia li<;u fancier boaata of [n’s egg that weighs 3i ounces. G. Reed, of Woodside, Del., bh that the peach ctop of Kent Ity is all right. Strawl erries Use well, and so do cherries and it. inada has become more emphati- ly a dairy country than the United Ltes. With a population of 5,000,()(hi fy manufacture annually 60,000,000 lands of cheese, equal to twelve funds per capita, while we, with 1,000,000 make 300,000,000, or six funds per capita. With a popula- }n not exceeding one-tenth of ours (eir exports of butter are about one- ilf as great as ours. fA good crop of red clover, when cut hay, removes a large quantity of trogen from the land, but it never, pless leaves the surface soil actually flier in nitrogen than it was befo; e, im the residue of roots and stubbb'. }om whence is this large quantity of trogen obtained? It must be pro- fed either from the subsoil or the Fmosphere. Dr. J. B. Lewes thinks le former seems the most probable, extended experiments have hitherto failed to prove that leguminous plants [like clover h ve any special power of [obtaining nitrogen from the air. The eye of a steer, when prominent, iright and clear, with a mild and pntle expression, is an indication of ilth, with a quiet disposition and Wl feeding quality. If the eye is il and sunken the capillary circula- m will be defective and the functions nutrition imperfectly performed, there will not only be a deficiency Fthe ability to fatten but a lack of Irength and constitutional vigor. A Istless and wild expression of the eye ldicates a predominance of nervous stion and an unquitt disposition that |\not compatible with good feeding (ality. le use of extra foods for milch Tiecrimination should be used in frportionment of varying quanta- to individual animals, according gir special requirements, their kg capacity and their condition , *5. Some cows will pay well ,ral allowance in increased supplies of milk and require more liberal diet to make up for the large drain upon their system, while other cows do not require and will not pay for forced keep. Heifers two and three years old, when milking freely, re quire some extra food to enable them to grow in siae, as well as to milk abundantly. Tor want of this many kimals which milk freely with their calves are checked in their growth never attain their proper size. Prussia spends two or three million \ars annually upon the State for- and Lrms. The farms of the i mited to practical fanners, ^nd by their leases to take lture, and to keep led stocTTTCfflUfc^ngthe breeds le surrounding commuhity, and troduce such machinery on trial ' recommended by the agricultural lister of the crown. No seeds are Itributed free, except in time of Jrcity, but railroads have to carry |e articles for exhiblion at agricultu- fairs. The highways are lined |th fruit or other trees, and the government supervision of jprests is btrict. In Cheddar cheese-making in Eng- ind acidity is systematically devol ved in the curd wnen the whey has been removed from it by keeping the curd warm and piled up in heaps. In other systems it has been more or less unconsciously employed as in the ^Cheshire, by warming the curd in an jn ; in the Derby, by leaving the fwly-formed cheese unsalted for a or so, or in some cases by leaving cd of one day to mix with and in the Stilton by drain slowly,with- [time. By a judi- ' acidity, Eugli^ |to secure a [and one^V&ose Ldevel^^ !d con- Feserving it of the of March T Samuel Timberlake, fe., took from his cellar a 115 barrels of Baldwins, [g about two bushels of rotten Jeokled apples, llis cellar is very aud contains many barrels [which, we think, assists |ig the fruit. Mr. Timberlake! full looked after the g (he ft 11. D. P. of Leeds, also had a very nice lot of Baldwins, which were kept in a simi lar cellar. We think if the farmers would get more water into their cel lars aud keep them damp their apples would keep much better.” The fine herd of Holsteins owned by William A. Russell, of North And over, Mass,, are good milkers. Haifa dozen of his cow T s have averaged for months a daily milk yield of nearly forty pounds each. These cows are fed high; but great yields cannot be ex pected without a liberal supply of the material of which milk is made. But few cows have the capacitj 7 and strength of constitution of tne Hol- steins to bear heavy feeding. Their winter feed lias been eight quarts cob meal, one-third bushel roots and such hay, corn-fodder and ensi lage as they would eat, being fed at about seven o’clock in the morning and again at three o’clock in the after noon. The animals were watered twice a day after feeding. Summer feed included three quarts of meal in addition to pasture, and after July 1st, a feed of hay or green corn fodder morning and night. Cows giving a heavy flow of milk are milked ihree times a day. Professor S. W. Johnson, Director of the Connecticut Experiment Sta tion, says : ‘‘It is, I scarcely doubt, equally true that ensilage is no more palatable, no more digestible, and no more nutritious than than the fresh corn from which it is produced. The rumor now floating in the air that ensilage is worth more, nay, much more, than the fresh corn-fodder has nothing solid to rest on. Fodder is on all hands conceded to lose nothing in the silo that can effect a concentra tion of ita nutritive matters. The analyses of Barral, which GofFari quotes in his hook, give both for fresh maize and for ensilage 80 per cent, of water. The main advantage of the silo plainly is to magazine green fodder. Whether in our climate the silo or the stook and shed are best experience must decide. Whether successful en silage is more palatable or more cheap than well-cured corn fodder experi ence must likewise settle. That ensi lage, once provided, may be a valuable accessory to dry feed is fairly to be anticipated, but evidently the enthu siasts are overrating it.” chances. Blackburn was like Monar chist— he could never be got to extend himself unless the jockey wore his colors. In his work it was next to impossible to get him into a canter; in a race he nearly pulled the jockey’s arms out, so eager was he to run aw:iy from his field. Hindoo is the very op- posite. He has no will of his own, but does just what is asked of him, no matter how much, but no more. Charley Gorham, another inmate of the Dwyer stable, is so attached to his home and companions that lie could not be taken away from it, an he and Warfield are the thickest of friends. At Saratogo two years ago he was sold, but he soon forced his way out of his new quarters, and in the morning he was found at his own stable, waiting to be admitted into the stall adjoining Warfield’s. He lias his own pail for water and will not use any other. Dates Worth Remembering. About Bees. Cotswold Sheep. A Kentucky farmer gives the follow ing advice about sheep: The common sheep of the country pay only a very small profit, while good high grade Cotswold yield a good revenue—a large interest on the investment. Let me illustrate the difference, so that it will impress Itself on the minda of those who are not using high grade or thor oughbred stock. An average farm in this section should keep one hundred sheep yearly, for our average farmer is not progressive, and believes in go ing slow. He buys the common stock of the country—100 head at $3 each, and a grade ram for $6. With ordi nary good luck he clips 400 pounds of wool and sells the 400 pounds at 25 cents, amounting to $100; raises 75 lambs, worth $3 each, making $225, to which add thr-aagjue of old ewes, $275, and we have a total of $600. Deduct the cost of keeping the sheep one year, $250, to which add the cost of ewes, $300, and deduct 6 per cent, for loss, $15, making a total of$565, which leaves a profit of $35, not estimating the value of the manure, If the same farmer buys 100 grade ewes at $650, estimating the keep of same for one year at $280, allowing_5 per cent, loss, $30, total, $960; per contra, the ewes are worth $600, wool ten pounds aver age, or 100 pounds, at $350; seventy- five lambs at $5 each, $375, ora total of $1225, showing a net profit of $265 and the manure besides. Peculiarities of Some Noted Horses. It is not necessary that an ordinary sized colony of bees should occupy the entire brood apartment of the hives. Indeed it is much preferable that they be confined on as few combs as they will well cover. So loisg as the queen has room to lay there is no danger from over-crowding, care being taken that they do not run short of stores. With the reduced space to occupy they can much better keep up the requisite heat for neces sary brood rearing. After the combs which they occupy become well-filled with brood more room should be given them by spreading the brood and in serting an empty comb in the centre of the brood nest. If on examination, the centre combs are found quite full, while those on the side yet contain room it is better to change position of the combs without adding more until all the comb in the hive is filled very close up to the top car. Just here we wish to caution you about spreading the brood too fast. So long as the queen has room in which to lay they do not require auv more room. Brood rearing proceeds very slowly in the early part of the season, and it takes them quite a while to fill the first four or five combs which they occupy witli brood, and the cluster increases very slowly, the old bees dying ofFquite as fdst as the young ones increase. Con fining the bees to a few combs necessi tates the use of a division board, and they should be kept covered up as warm as possible to assist them in retaining the necessary heat. It is very essential that all colonies be made good good and strong by the time the honey harvest begins, • nd tc do this it is necessary that operations be commenced five or six.weeks before that time. The first thing to be done is to give all colonies a thorough ex amination, ascertain the condition of the colony aud the amount of stores on hand, remembering that as soon as brood rearing commences the stores will be consumed very rapidly, a ;d unless they have plenty provision must be made to supply their needs, and when feeding is once commenced it must be continued uutil such time as they can gather a sufficiency to keep ttffem going. The eccentricities of thoroughbred race-horses are as peculiar as those of human beings. Springbok was a per fect savage, and would allow no one in his stall save his regular boy, to rhom he was as much attached as he abhorred outside company. Check mate is very fond of company, and likes to be made much of. He takes caresses with the sheepish manner of an overgrown boy, glad to have them, hut ashawd to be petted. Panje is a bit of a kl] for liau protrudi He deligl 1 who visl their olo; tomaniao. Heh rchiefs which [from gentleme too, in robhin m—for he lias’ or other wra Bassett hated barefooted stable boys so much that lie would make every ef- to bite their legs. Constautina fancy sees ckets. ladies ny—of Harry 1110—Glass windows first used for light. 1236—Chimneys first put to houses. 1252—Lead pipes for carrying water. 1590—Tallow caudles for light. 1297—Spectacles Invented by an Italian. 1382—Paper first made from linen. 1634— Woolen cloth first made In England. 1440—Art ol painting in oil. 1449 —Art of printing from movable type. 1488—Watches first made In Germany. 1516—Pine first used In England. 1550—Variations of the compass first noticed. 1603-Theatre erected in £tgland by Sbaks- peare. 1610—Thermometer Invented by Sanctorfous. 1590—Telescopes invented by Portlu and Jan sen. 1690—Jupiter’s satellites discovered by Jan sen. 1701—Tea brought to Europe from China. 1540—Circulation of blood discovered by Har vey. 1625— Bricks first made ol any required si*o. 1626— Printing in colors Invented. 1627— Newspapers first established. 1650—Shoe buckles first made. 1630—Wine first made of grapes In England. 16j0—Pendulum clocks Invented. 1641—Sugar cane cultivated In the West Indies. 1646—Air guns Invented. 1640—Steam engines invented. 1650—Bread first made with yeast. 1662—Fire engines invented. 1750—Steam engines improved by Watt. 1759—Cotton first planted in the United States. 1685—Stereotyping invented in Scotland. 1788—Animal magnetism discovered by Mes- mel. 1832—The telegraph Invented by Morse. 188J—Telephone invented by Bell Cesspool Fever. The nuts were first used in the south by the*negro cooks who came from Africa and San Domingo. Old Phila delphians will remember with satis faction the San Domingo ground-nut cakes which were sold at the street corners by negro vendors, and travel ers in the South before the war times may recall the pea-nut soup of some ebony colored culinary expert. Many a castor bottle is filled with pea-nut oil without its owner knowing it, and ground pea-nuts, we are assured, enter into the composition of some excellent European chocolates Sir Godfrey Kneller’s Dream. A Golden Deed. It was during the wars that raged from 1652 to 1660, between Federick III. of Denmark and Charles Gustavus of Sweden, that, after a battle in which the victory had remained with the Danes, a stout burgher of Flensborg was about to refresh himself, ere re tiring to have his wounds dressed, with a draught of beer trom a wooden bottle, when an imploring cry from a wounded Swede, lying oh the field, made him turn, aud, with the very words of Sydney, “Thy need is greater than mine.” he knelt down by the fallen enemy to pour the liquor into his mouth. His requital was a pistol- shot in the shoulder from the treacher ous Swede. “Rascal!” he cried. “I would have befriended you, and you would mur der me in return. Now will I punish you. I would have given you the whole bottle ; but now you shall have only half.” And drinking ofF half himself, he gave the rest to the Swede. The king, hearing the story, sent for the burgher and asked him how he came to spare the life of such a rascal. “Sire,” said the honest burgher, “I could never kill a wounded enemy.” “T^m meritest to be a noble,” the king said, and created him one im mediately, giving him as armorial bearings a wooden bottle pierced with arrow! The family only lately be- e extinct in th^ person idea lady. This is the fever that wrought so much mischief in one of the Washing ton hotels a few years aeo. It is said by good medical authorities to be fatal to many persons every year in New York. The fever is not severe. There is but little headaches and no pain or tenderness in the abdomen, as in the case of typhoid fever. Still the tongue is covered with a white fur, and the appetite is bad. . Its chief characteris tics is diarrhea, acute in some cases but more generally chronic, and last ing months or even years. The pa tient dies of simple exhaustion. The disease is lound wherever the contents of cesspools and outhousesfind their way into the drinking water, or their emanations into the air of sleep ing rooms. It is quite apt to prevail at the summer health resorts, the ig- norauoe of proprietors more than neu tralizing the abundaut hygienic pro visions of nature. Oases occur even among the White Mountains and at the most famous watering-places. At Martha’s Vine yard last year a friend stopped at one of the most acceptable houses on the island. He states that two of the guests were seized with summer sick ness soon after their arrival. It was found on examination that the privy and well were only twenty feet apart, and the well was quite a deep one. The contaminated water was probably the cause of the sickness. The son of a physician was taken with the disease in virulent form at a boarding school, and died on the third day after his father was summoned. The young man’s room was large and high, aud everything about it seemed favorable to health. But it was found that one of the windows opened into a vestibule of a water closet, used by from seventy to one hundred persons, its only ventilation being through a pipe about six inches in diameter, which emptied into the chimney of the young man’s rdom. He was un doubtedly poisoned and killed by the foul air. Sir Godfrey Kneller, the celebrated English painter, once related to Mr Pope a dream. “A night or two ago,” said Sir Godfrey, “I had a very odd sort of dream. I dreamt that I was dead, and soon after found myself walking up a narrow path that led up between two hills, rising pretty equally on each side of it. Before me I saw a door, and a great number of people about it. I walked on toward them. As I drew near I could distinguish St. Peter witli his Keys, with some other* of the Apostles; they were admitting the people as they came next the door. When I had joiaed the company I could see several seats, every way at a little distance within the door. As the first, after my coming up, approached for admittance, St. Peter asked his name, and then his religion. ‘I am a Roman Catholic,’ replied the spirit. ‘Go in then,’ says St. Peter, ‘and sit down there on those seats on the right hand.’ The next was a Presbyterian; he was admitted too, after the usual questions', and ordered to sit down on the seats opposite to the other. “My turn came next, and as I approached, St. Peter very civilly asked me my name. I said it was Kneller. I had no sooner said so than St. Luke, who was standing just by, turned toward me and said, with a great deal of sweetness, ‘What! the famous Sir Godfrey Kneller, from England?’ ‘The same, sir,’ sa3 r s 1, ‘at your service.’ On this St. Luke im mediately drew near to me, embraced me, and made me a great many com pliments on the art we had both of us followed in this world. He entered so far into the subject that he seemed al most to have forgot the business for which I camo thither. At last however he recollected himself and Haid,‘I beg your pardon, Sir Godfrey; I was so taken up with the pleasure of convers ing with you ! But, apropos, pray, sir, what religion may you be of?’ ‘Why, truly, sir,’ says I,‘ I am of no religion.’ ‘Oh, sir,’ says he, ‘you will be so good, then, as to go in aud take your seat where you please! ’ ” The Home Pea-nut Crop and its Uses. Twenty or thirty years ago our pea nuts came chiefly from Africa, where they are largely used as food, and one house could handle them ; now there are a dozen or more wholesale traders dealing chiefly in American nuts, aud the bulk of the African product goes to France, whence the oil is exported a* “pure olive.” The East Indian crop is divided between France aud Eng land. The African nuts and those grown in the Carolinas from African seed are smaller and of poorer flavor than the Virginia nuts. To realize the value of the American pea-nut crop, it must he remembered that in addi tion to the business done in the nut* in the first instance, amounting last year to over $3,000,000; large quanti ties of the expressed oil are handled by wholesale druggists, the cake is used for cattle food, and even the shells are utilized as horse bedding. The yield of oil from the nuts is from 40 to 50 per cent.; as it keeps sweet a long time and has a delicate flavor. It is a good substitute for both al mond and olive oil; it is an excellent and also burns with a dear, little smoke. Choice. When death consents to let us live a long time, it takes successively as hostages all those we have loved. Great men like great cities have many dark alleys and pitfalls in their hearts and to know them is safety. To an Oriole. How tails it, Oriole, thou hast come to fly In tropic splendor through our northern dry? At some glad momeut, was It nature’s choice To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice? Or did some orange tulip, flaked with black, In some forgotten garden, ages back, Y earning toward heaven until its wish wa* heard, Desire unspeakably to be a bird ? If you would be known and not know, live in a village ; if you would know and not be known, live in a city. It is man’s belief that when woman was made jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous. Good Night. Good nlgbt—the little lips touch ours, The little arms enfold us; And oh, that thus through coming years They might forever hold us. Good night 1 we answer back and smile, And kiss the drooping eyes ; But in our trembling hearts the while The wistful queries rise. Who, in the weary yoars to come, When we are hid from sight, Will clasp these little hands and kiss These little lips "Good ulght 1” Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents whioh is prosperous eircum- stauces, would have lain dormant. Many people wish they might live their lives over again ; in nine case out of ten they would only repeat them.* True bravery is shown by perform ing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world. a There arfl how to hence b<j pie. \