Michigan Salt And Lumber

Tlio first aunual report of the State, Inspector of the Salt Manufacture of Michigan shows that in the nine districts of the salt producing territory of Michigan, there are C9 companies, witb. 110 blocksof kettlcs and 4,354 solar covers, and with an aggregate oapacity of inar.nfacturing 1,392,500 barrels of salt. The report shows tbat during 1869 there have been inspected of fino salt, 512,8(39 barrels ; packers' salt, 12,918 barrels; solar ealt, 15,2u'4 barrtls; solar salt, second quality, 19,117 barrels, and refuse salt, 8,üSÜ barrels, giving a total of 509,358 barrels. The other great interest of the same regions íd Michigan, the . luniber trade, reachcd, last year, it is reported, the vuluc of thirtyfour uiijlions of dollars. The lumbercut amounted to 2,029,872,255 feet, valued at $3,293,325 ; to thia is odded S3,5U0,ÜÓ0 worth of shingles, Iath and stares, uiaking the sura above meutioued. lt s estimated tbat, up to tho close of 18G9, there have been manufacturcd in Michigan, ssveu thousand two kundred million feet of lumbsr, and that to obtaiu this quantity there have been stripped oue million nine hundred and twenty thousand acres, or threo thousand square miles ol pine land. It is calculated that four million ncres of land still reniiiin uijstripptd, which will yield lifteeii thousand million feet of lumbor. Tlie total valuo of tho future product in luniber, sliingies, Iath, etc., is placed at SoOÖ,OCÜ,000, and it is thought that fifteen or twcnly years will bc required to eut and send to market the treas now standing. The Mark Zant Jíxpresa has an articlö on the " MaBQTl Importauco of Concentrated Food," coutrasting tho crops oo two fields - oue treated by coarso manurt-, aud the other by enriebing material, d which corn and oil-calto foimed the main food of the animal. The formcr was slow in starting and elow ia maturing, whilo the other starled at itQ a healthy groxth, and came early to a full vigorous maturity. The cost of these applications was about the caine. ui mm in - - - ' " IIov eould God uiako o womae ou,t of a rib, ]apa ':" "I dou't kiiow, my ohild ; it was a miraule." " All Iho questions you can't answer you call iuirack'6, dou't you, papa V'