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c" A' *' V ' - FOR THE FARM ASD HOME. Hot Corn for Fowli* A correspondent writes: "If you want to make your fowls feel good and thankful give them hot corn for supper?just as hot as they can eat it. To fiud out how hot it should be pick up a handful and hold it tightly in your closed hand; if it burns, of course it is too hot, but if after holding it a minute it makes your hand feel warm and nice it is just right. Tn hnfit. fhn nnrn nut it in nn iron nan or kcttlo in the stove oven and stir it occasionally. If your wife lias biscuit in the oven you better put the kettle on the back part of the stove and stir the corn often. Mind now, I don't mean that you are to put water in with the corn; I mean hot, dry corn. If some kernels at the bottom of the kettle should get scorched, or even charred, the hens will eat it, and it will do them good, too." Manure For Plants. Manure in a liquid form I have never found to bo of any benefit to young plants till after the turn of the days, say "the first of February, when it should be given out sparingly, as the plant will not take it in large quantities ; as the plants get older they will take more in proportion. Auy good mauure is useful for making it. Fresh cow droppings, one peck to fifty gallons of water, thorough ly ciissoivea, ama let stand tm cicar oo* fore using, is good. Let the plants be fairly dry before applying it. Sheep and chicken manure are also excellent for the same purpose, but must be used in much less proportions, say three-fourths less than cow manure. Guano and blood manures are also good by the way of chauge, for plants of nearly all descriptions, particularly roses. Under artificial cultivation, these arc greatly benefited with a change of food after the plants have absorbed the food which ..he soil naturally contained.?American Florist. How a Pasture Is Made. In Great Britain, Holland, and in some of the best dairy district in this country, land is selected for a pasture as it is for any particular crop. Regard is paid to its adaptability to produce a large amount of fine rich grasses. The soil or sod is prepared to receive the seed, which is selected with special reference to the production of grass to be eaten while it is in its green state. Great bains are tukcm tn rnndnr t.Vin ?nil na r?rr?. ductivc as possible. Water is supplied or drained off as the wants of the land require. Weeds and bushes are exterminated or kept in subjection. Fertilizers are applied as they are to land devoted to cultivated crops. Loose soils are rendered more compact by the use of the roller, and very heavy soils are loosened by the employment of the harrow or Bcarifier. Most farmers in this country, howevor, neglect all these things. Land is not selected for a pasture. If it is too rocky, broken or difficult to cultivate; if it is too wet or dry to produce good crops of corn, grain, potatoes or roots, it is devotod to pasturage. Land is selected for other purposes, but the land for , pasturage is what was rejected as unsuited for any other use. Sometimes a piece of land originally productive is de% voted to pasture purposes. If this is the case it is generally after it "has been cropped to death." It is first planted to corn for several years, then sown to grain for a period equally long, and then laid down to grass suited for mowing purposes. After the crop of grass becomes so light that it scarcely pays for the work of cutting, the farmer concludes that the only thing ho cau do with the land ia to dovote it to supporting stock during the summer, which he expects to make the most out of them. There are no evidences of beneficent design in most of the pastures in this country. They are the work of chance or neglect. Vitality of Seeds. The vitality of seeds is an important question nowadays, for it is unprofitable and discouraging to plant seed, which do not grow. Some of the Agricultural Department seeds in years past, and -mar%-rr fliAOA lrnni- awa?. 4-1%^ ?-j " ?wrca from year to year, are too old. The life of garden seeds is not like that of< a grain of corn or wheat. The smaller seeds often germinate and perish before the plant lias developed stalk and roots to gather norisliment from the earth and air. Thou, too, the shallow planting allows the seeds to perish for want of moisture. The more delicate the seeds the finer must be the soil and the greater the care in planting. The rule is to plant and then pack with the foot or a board, so that the soil will not dry out before tho seed has germinated and struck root, ao wno is carerui about planting l and having the soil warm and fine, will not have, to complain so much about "rascally seedsmen." Seedsmen, as a class, arc honorable men. The multitude of men dealing in their seeds, who . X know nothing about the nature of seeds, ' play tho mischief with the seedsmen's reputation. Some of the grocers and grocers' boys who handle seeds don't know that seeds are ruined by getting damp and mouldy. They don't know that a beet seed cannot be kept as long ";v as an ouiou seed, or that one seed may not be kept as long as another. Every package of seed should have the date of $ its production, and every catalogue V-;"' should have a table telling the number oi years each kind of seed may bo safclj kepi. Buyers would thus have means o] knowing saðing of the valuo of seeds offered them. The seedsman who will adopt the plat of selling his seeds in packages on which is printed the year the seeds were grown, also state "good for" one, two, five or ten years, will \)o a public benefactor. U protects his own reputation and the pockets of buyers of his seeds. The middlemen may object, but gardeners, farmers and honest seedsmen would all bo gainers.?Cultivator. The Care or Horse*. A Massachusetts farmer recently said ' at a stock raisers' institute in Boston: As a rule the horse requiros about two .pel cent, of his weight in food daily, a 1000pound horse eating twenty pounds, which should bo about half hay and half grain, lessening the quantity when standing idlo. The horse's stomach being the smallest known to comparative anatomy he should have his three meals a day Do not feed a horse as you would a cow with her series of large stomachs de signed for storing away surplus food Oats are too little appreciated by horse owners. Corn is not a natural food for the horse; it is too fattening, and a fat horse is not a useful horse. The street car horses of Boston are well fed, and last better than the average horse on the frtrm Tlnrfnon milnaio nKnuf flm ovfonf of a day's work for a horse that is in harness seven days in the week, and the car-owners have learned this, and do nol try to exceed it. Any man who attempts to make his horse do more than this and follows it will fail. In driving on the road it is speed that kills. Driving five miles in ten minutes less time than il ought to take gives pain and shortens life. Somo horses eat like some men? too fast. He had an unpatented method for curing the habit; keep a peck of cob ble stones in the manger among which the oats are poured, and the horse will require time for separating the grain from the rocks. He had tried to induce Boston millers to introduce rollers into their mills for crushing oats, but thus far without success. Crushed oats make the best feed in the world for a horse, would be in demand if procurable. Watering immediately before or immediately after eating is bad for the horse. Before eating cold water chills the stomach, and unfits it for the digestive process, while water poured down upon a full stomach washes the contents along too fast, causing waste of food, and if followed by immediate driving, that most disgusting camplaint, scours. Water should be given little at a time and often. Most horses drink more than they need, because they are allowed to become too dry or too tired. A tired horse may be trusted to eat, but not always to drink. Queen-Rearing. Mrs. L. Harrison, in the Prairie Farmer, gives her views of the modus operandi of queen-raising. Persons who have kept bees for any length of time have noticed that some colonies whose condi xl.. " - uuua aic uiu 3ULQO as tno remainder ol the apiary, produce more honey than others. These colonies are the ones to breed from, if honey is the object in view. If a colony is deprived of ite queen, in six hours the bees will be constructing cells to raise another. Worker eggs, or larvae not over three days old, are used for rearing queens. Some breeders claim that the best results follow when the bees have access to eggs only. Bees seem to prefer to raise queens on new white combs; such a one should b 2 given to the breeding colony, and placed in the centre of the hive; holes might bo oilf. in if mnlrinrr nnnnnninni -J * - - .?} WUVUMI^UI; CUgUS iur the bees to attach their queen cells, so that they can be easily removed, if desirable to do so. On the third day this comb should be given to queenless bees, and they will immediately commence enlarging cells. On the twelfth day, if it is desirable to preserve the queens, all cells should be removed but one, as the first one that emerges will destroy all rivals. Those who make a specialty of rearing queens removo the frame to an incubator and examine it, often removing the queens to a nucleus as fast as hatched. Those who have not a convenience of this kind can cut out the cells, and givo them to nuclei, previously formed long enough to have cells of theii own. We have had cells destroyed by giving them to newly formed nuclei, but novftr losfi them if thp.vhnvn ^ollo nf !??? "j ?*?< w ww?.0 VA VUliU own. To save tlio time of inserting cells we often wait until the bees have eaten off the outside covering, showing that the queen will soon be out, and then remove the cell Vith adhering comb, so that it will fit between the frames of honey, placing point downward, and in a short time the queen is out. We preserve cells with variations; sometimes wc place them over cages, similar to a covei of a tin pepper box, only the tops are ol wire cloth; and again cut out cells and put them into cages (made of wire clotl by rolling around the broom handle, with stoppers at each end), and placo them ir the cluster. If young queens are intra duced when they are only a few days old they are generally well received. Silver has been discovered and minei partially worked in twenty-one countiei of Texas. I / [ Household Hints. r The great secrct of sweeping without I making n big dust, is to have a damp ) broom, take short sweeps and keep the broom near the floor. i By rubbing with a damp flannel dipped in the best whiting, the brown discolora5 tions may bo taken out of cups in which i custards have baked. A teaspoonful of borax put in the last 1 water in which clothes arc rinsed, will i whiten them wonderfully. Pound the bo' rax so it will dissolve easily. [ Back window sills are made more attractive if painted a soft green or red and and filled with some plant. An oblong L box of live-forever or creeping Charlie i will grow luxuriently and require but little care. Great attention should be given to tho l piano co*cr, the mantel and table drapery. They may not be placcd near cacli other, but a green piano cover, a garnet valance and a blue table scarf will spoil the harmony of color in any room. An inoxnnnsivn ninnn r>r>*rrrr nrwl rmr? +Vinf. will be found really pretty, is made out of a dull gray horse blanket of light quality. The edge is embroidered in a. run ning vine of nasturtiums. Recelpes. Codfish steaks arc palatable cooked in i this way: Dip the steaks in beaten , eggs, then in yellow corn meal, and fry . them a rich brown in pork fat. Before L serving sprinkle the steaks with a little , salt and pepper and lemon juice. ; Potatoes to be served with fish are cxi cellent prepared in this manner: Peel raw potatoes and cut them in balls with . a vegetable cutter. Mince half an onion and fry it brown with plenty of butter or ; lard; add one gill of hot water, seasoni ing to taste, aud cook the potatoes iu tho . mixture. ! Sometimes the hindquarter of lamb or young mutton will be found to be of rrui- t U *11 1 * ouuug uiivm. x ins muii win not dc discovered until the loin chops have been i broiled. To overcome the defect, bcforo s baking the leg parboil it. When nearly > cooked remove it from the water, dredgo } it with flour and bake it until done. ' Fried chicken is always relished and is especially nice with a cream sauce. Clean a young chicken, divide it in quarters, season the pieces with salt and pepper and sprinkle with flour; place two ; .ounces of butter in a frying-pan on the fire, and, when quite hot. put in the pieces of chicken and fry a golden ' brown; arrange the pieces on a dish, pour around them a sauce mado as follows, and serve hot: Mix a tablespoonful of flour smoothly with a gill of cold > milk and add half a pint of warm milk; ! melt one ounce of butter and season it with a little salt and pepper; turn the ! milk into the butter, beating all the time, and as soon as it is thick pour it around the chicken.?New York Commercial. Fastest Shaving on llocord. * Talking about quick shaves, said a . passenger on a Rock Island suburban , train, "I came down to the depot the other day just four minutes before train time. I ran into that shop across the way, kept by Mrs. Whatshernamo, and i said, 'Gimme a three-minute shave. 'AH right,' said she; 'sit down.' And I'm i blamed if she didnt go over my face in . good shape in just three minutes by the . watch, and I got brushed off and caught my train nicely." This stirred up the story-tellers. Ono man had been shaved in two minutes, another in a minute and a half and so on. just wait tin you near irom me," said a low-browed, tough-looking passenger. ' *For seven years I shaved in a shop where one barber run the same razor over . an average of sixty faces an hour. What do you think of that?" "Impossible," exclaimed several listeners in chorus. "No, it isn't impossible," continued the low-browed man. "This barber didn't do anything but use his razor. The men lathered their own faces while waiting their turn, and a boy handed him freshly honed razors. Seven or eight slashes was a shavo, and the customers wiped their own faces after leaving the chair." i ' 'How much did the barber charge a head?" "Nothing; and ho got no wages. He was the barber in Jeifersonville Prison." ChifJinn TT#rnlA His Regular Wash-Day. "Isn't this train about two hours late?" asked a passenger of the conductor on a branch Dakota road. "Yes, I rockon 'bout that much." <fWell, what's the trouble?" "Oh, it's Monday." "What's that got to do with it!" "Why, you see, I can't never get as good a start Monday morning?have to 'tend the baby while my wife gets out [ washing, you know. Just you wait till to-morrow morning and I'll pull out before sunrise."?Estdline (Dakota) Bell. 1 An Irrepressible. 1 Mamma?Well, Bobby, what do you 1 say to the lady for giving you the cake? Bobby?I dunno. 1 Mamma?Oh, yes, you do. Come, now, gay what I have taught you to say; real pretty. ^ Bobby (after a struggle)?Gimme some more of that cake I?Tid Bits, t. ' ' * y\) -7 Y' jf jft'R.' \ . I \t i* .i:W .* .* ,-V . I'l" ". ? > " yV V. 1 ' ' j RARE COINS. Q?g Prices that are Paid for Some Specimens. I An American $20 Gold Piece that Brought $20,000. "Coin collecting is not a matter of fashion or style," said a Chicago dealer to n Keios reporter. "It is not a transient crn/.e. Rare coins cannot become plenty, I and as they find placo in collections, one j by one, the increased difficulty of secur ing them cnlmnccs their value. Then the supposed scarcity of some coins causes industrious searching and they become a less exclusive article. For instance, United States half-dollars of 1852 and 188G have decreased 25 per cent, in price because cf the number which have been brought to light and the Maximilian dollar has declined from $2.50 to $1.25. The decline in silver has resulted in a reduction of about 25 per cent, in all foreign coins of that metal and in many of the United Slates pieces." "What is most wanted now in collecting?" "Pieces of different dates to fill out the scries of large United States coppers, from 1793 to 1857 iuclusivc. The few pattern pieces of the 185G nickel ccnt gave the cumbersome copper its deathblow. While these cents were of limited issue in tho year of their experimental introduction, tlicy arc not worth as much as many people believe. I buy them at $1 in good condition." "What is the rarest and most valuable coin extant?" askcrl the -ZVcirs. "The $20 United States gold pieco of 1849. There are understood to be but two of them?one in the possession of the United States, and the other owned by the King of Sweden, who is an enthusiast. FTc paid $2,000 for this specimen. The $5 gold piece of 1801 is quoted at $25, and that of 1822 is about as valuable. The 1873 2-cent piece?the last of the series?is worth $1. "Some very old coins come far from bringing fancy prices, even when in good condition," and the coin-dealer displayed a lot of Roman coins of the early centuries, which were green from the corosion of time, several of which could bo had at from 60 cents to $1. About the oldest coin was that of Metapontum, belonging to a period between four and five hundred years B. C. It sells for $3. The more rare United States coins arc the dollars of 1836 and 1839, which sell at from $40 to $50; the half-dollars of 1796-7, selling at from $50 to $75; the quarters of 1823 and 1827 bring the samo price; the dime of 1804 worth $10 to $12; the half-ccnts of 1836 to 1849 inclusive, each selling at $13 to $15, and the colonial coins of 1786-7, worth from $30 to $50. "Here are some women's coins," continued the numismatist, as he threw down one bearing the bust of Faustina, wife of Marcus Aurelius, whoso reign began in 161 A. D., and of Agrippina, wife of 1 * ? v^iusar \jrermnnicus, reigning in 50 A. JD. To the unappreciative critic devoid of veneration for the relics of other peoples, hallowed by tradition and smelling of the must of centuries, there was ono leading feature which stood out on the embossed surfaces of those old coins?one opportunity for modern comparison. It was the graceful disposition of the back hair of Faustina and Agrippina?these royal women fresh from tho boudoirs of tho first and second centuries?in contrast with the twists and snarls, bunches and braids exhibited by the womankind of to-day. It cannot bo seen that fashion has wrought any improvement in back hair during sixteen or seventeen hundred years. Faustina's smooth tresses reach erraccfullv to the neck, where thev am gathered in a simple, bewitching knot. Divine must have been the era when crimp and bang, paper and puffs, waves and switches were not. "Agrippina's hair falls lower before it 's gathered, but is not less attractive in appearance. No matted masses mar her chiseled forehead?no twists of paper ever decorated her cranium. She was a best girl of whom the frisky Cresar in his early day might well be proud, as side by?side they mingled with the elite in the old Roman skating-rinks, or in the gaily lit saloon she scooped in the vanilla ice cream." Fourteen Mistakes or Life. Somebody has condensed the mistakes of life, and arrived at the conclusion that there are fourteen of them. Most people would say, if they are told the truth, that there was no limit to the mistakes of life; that they were like the drops in the ocean or the sands of the shore in number, but it is well to be accurate. Here, then, are fourteen great mistakes: "It is a great mistake to set up our own standard of right and wrong, and judge people accordingly; to measure tho enjoyment of others by our own; to expect :< in ,i.'i. uuiiuriuii'jr va u|juuuii nt bins wuimj iu look for judgement and experience in youth; to endeavor to mould all dispositions alike; to yield to immaterial trifles; to look for perfection in our own actions; to worry ourselves and others with what cannot be remidied; not to alleviate all that needs alleviation as far as lies in our power; to consider everything impossible that we cannot perform; to believe only what our finite minds can grasp; to expect to bo able Ut understand everything. j -w . ; . . . ; v v t PEARLS OF THOUGHT. He who forsccs calamities suffers them twice over. If a life will bear examination in every hour of it, it is pure indeed. If we did but know how little some en joy the things they possess, there would not bo much envy in the world. True honor is that which refrains from doing in secret what it would not do openly, and where other laws are wanting imposes a law upon itself. One unquiet, perverse disposition distempers the peace and unity of a whole j family or society, as one jarring instrument will spoil a whole conccrt. Livo on what you have; live, if you can, on less. Do not borrow, cither for vanity or pleasure; the vanity will end in shame, and the pleasure in regret. If wo could only give ourselves half an hour's serious reflection at the close of ovcry day, we should every week preach to ourselves seven of the best sermons that could be uttered. To feel always more disposed to see the favorable than the unfovorablc side of things, is a turn of mind which is moro happy to possess than to be born to an estate of ten thousand a year. There is one special reason why wo should endeavor to make children as happy as possible, which is that their early youth forms a pleasant or unpleasant background to all their after life. SorriTing Terrible Wonnds. Mr. Puxton tells us that a trapper j named Glass and his companion were one day setting their beaver traps in a stream near the River Platte, when they saw a large bear turning up the turf close by, searching for roots. The men crept to 4.1.. iL: _i_-t- us 1 i * "? 1 liiu uucivut, nrcu at mm, ana wounaca him severely. The animal groaned, jumpod up from the ground, and snort- j ing with pain and fury, charged towards the place from whcncc came the smoke of the rifles. The men rushed through the thicket, but their speed "was impeded by the underwood, so that the infuriated boast soon came up with them; at that moment Class stumblod and fell. When lie rose, the bear stood before him on its hinds legs; he called instantly to his companion to fire, he himself sending the contents of his pistol into the bear's body, which, with the blood streaming f.ora its noso and mouth, knocked the pistol away with one paw while it stuck the claws of the other into the flesh of his antagonist and rolled with him on the ground. Glass managed to reach his knife and plunge it several times into the bear, while the latter was tearing his flesh with tooth and claw. At length, blinded with blood and exhaustion, the knife fell from Glass's hand, and ho fainted. His companion fled to the u:_ *_ -r 11 J * * t.auij; uuu iuiu 1113 JJilllJr U1 LUC SUU 1ULU of their companion. Assistance was instantly sent. Glass still breathed, but the bear lay dead across him. The trapper's ficsh was torn away in slips, and lumps of of it lay beside him; his scaty hung bleeding over his face, which was much torn. The men, thinking he was already dead, dragged the bear oil his body and took away his hunting-shirt, moccasins, and arms, and returned to the camp, saying they had completed his burial. Months clasped, and some of the party were on their way to a trading port with skins, when they saw a horseman approach them with a face so scarred and disfigured that they could not distinguish his features. Tho stranger accosted one of the party, exclaiming in a hollow voice, "Hurrah, Bill, my boy, you thought I was killed, did you? Just hand me over my horse and gun, lad. I'm not dead yet, you see. Astonishment and horror seized the party, some of whom believed him both dead and buried. Glass told them that he know not how long he had lain insensible, but when lie revived he was obliged to subsist on the j bear's flesh. As soon as ho had strength i I to crawl, he tore off as much of it as ho could carry, and crept down to the river. He had suffered tortures from wounds, cold, and hunger before he reached tho fortress, eighty miles distant, living meantime chiefly on roots and berries.? The Moon. A Regular Philnntroptilst. 1 'I don't see why you regard Jones so highly. He seems like a very common fpJIow tnmc " "There is where you arc mistaken; ho ia tho most generous man alive. lie is passionately fond of music. He loves to play the violin and to sing." "I presume he plays and sings for his friends. That isn't so unusual as to call for all this eulogy." "I was just about to say that in spite of his love for these amusements he restrains himself, and no ono ever heard him sing or play. I toil you, old man, he is more than generous; he is a regular philantrophist."?Puck. A Friday Year. Persons who have a superstitious dread of Friday will not be pleased to learn that this is a thoroughly Friday year. It camo in on Friday, will go out on Friday and will have fifty-three Fridays. Thore arc four months in the year that have five Fridays each; changes of the moon occuj five times on a Friday, and tho longest and shortest day of tbo year falls on a Friday. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. It has been demonstrated by Mr. J. W. Slater that caterpillars are affected by magnetic currents, which hinder their development and even kill them. Those species of birds like the ostrich, which have not developed the ability to fly, but use their wings mainly to assist in running or swimming, have flat breasts while the species marked by great power of wing, have developed a keel-shaped breast for a particular arrangement of the muscles. Photographs have lately been made in Philadelphia by light afforded by a flash of lightning. The durations of a lightning flash varies between one onc-thousundth and one ten-thousandth of a second and the fact that a fair picture was obtained shows the wonderful sensitiveness of the photographic plate. From reccnt experiments by Dr. Parson on tlio disinfection of clothes and bedding by heat, the conclusion is reached that the germs of the ordinary infectious diseases cannot withstand an cxposuro of an hour to dry heat of 220 degrees F., or an exposure of live minutes to boiling water or steam at 213 degrees. One of the curiosities of light and heat is the fact that rays of the sun should I pass through a cake of ice without melt ing it at all, as is the ease when the thermometer stands a little above zero. That the rays of heat actually penetrate the ice is shown by the fact that a lens of ice may be used for setting lire to in flammable substances. A startling condition of things in Russia, so far as the prevalence of blindness is concerned, has been disclosed by the publication of statistics showing the number of persons examined for military service, who proved to be disqualified on account of blindness. Theratioof total'y blind recruits in Russia is about one to 125; while in England there are 1015 persons to ever}* one who is totally blind, and more than 1400 to each totally blind person in Saxony and Denmark. It was M. Pasteur who some years ago saved the silk worms of his native country from a disease that was fast destroying them. The late President Thiers , said that Pasteur's services in that matter saved to France more than the immense sum which that country had to pay to Germany as indemnity after the war. M. Pasteur has also been warmly thanked by the sheep-breeders of France for his ruiccessful efforts some years ago in staying an epidemic which was rapidly destroying their floocks. According to Dr. E. Bonavia, a correspondent of the Gardener's Chronicle, tho lemon is much more valuable as a febrifuge than is commonly supposed. Ho thinks it ought to be more extensively employed in medicine, especially in India, where, when compounded with an extract from the Khatta orange, lemon juice is as effective as quinine in tho treatment of simple intermittent fever Just at present the demand for lemons is so small in comparison with the crop that much of the fruit has gone to waste in Sicily. How to Choose an Oransre, The very sweetest orange and the richest is the black or rusty-coated fruit. Pick out the dingiest oranges in the box, and you will get the best. Another way to choose oranges is by weight. The heaviest are the best, because they have the thinnest skin and more weight of juice. Thick-skin oranges arc apt to bo dry; they either weigh less because of having so much skin or because of the poverty of the juice in these particular specimens. A slight freezing on the tree causes this condition in otherwise fine fruit. The "kid-glove" oranges are the two varieties of small fruit grown in Florida from stocks respectively brought from China and from Tangiers, They are called "jHanuarin" ana Tangerine." They may be eaten without soiling a kid glove, because the skin is loose and the little "gores" or pockets of juice come apart very cleanly and without breaking. All the above applies to Florida oranges * The Jamaica and Havana oranges are much paler yellow, and their juice ii usually of more acid quality than tho home-grown oranges. ? Calling Mahogany In Mexico. In Mexico the season for cutting mahogany usually commences about August. Gangs of Indian borei-s arc employed, consisting of two to fifty each, uad?ir the direction of a captain. Each gang haa also a cazador, or ''huntsman," whose dutv it is to search the trackless forest for suitable trees to bo felled, and to guide the wood cutters to the places. The felled trees of a single season are scattered over so wide a spaco that miles of roadway havo to b e made to reach them, and numerous rude bridges coi.? atructed over the rivers that lie in the' way. All the larger logs havo to b? "squared" before they arc brought away on rude wheeled trucks along these forest roads. Each truck requires seven pairs of oxen, and the work could be much more expeditiously done by oui portable railway and plantation engines. Ths implements used by tho Mexicans in this trado aro rude and insufficient, large | quantities of timber being often spoiled ] by their insufficiency, combined with the I | ignorance of the workmen employed.?- | Boston Budoat. y"*AiVA?..V? S&i' wi.~iiV.vVy!.'. ? '..