Destroying Sorrel

Among the best methods to r!d the soil of sorrol is to plow the land in inidsumincr. llenes a erop of buck wheat sowm in July i-. vcry effeetual. A erop of ruta-bfiga, ücwn in tho sanie month, and kept clon wiïh tho hoe, is, fferhápg, still a better destróyer of sorrel. Plowing the ground early i-i tho spring or late in the fall luis not much effeot in ojring sorre), beaatiiö then is the time of its flctife rowth ; and if its long Btringy roots, just growirig under tbe süifaoe of the grouod, le cut witfa the plow and ooattered about by the harrow, it will have a teodeney to spread r:ithcr than to bubJue. Lime" is rfputed an effeetual destróyer of sorrel, whk-h ino dc:ubt correct; but wheu the re(Ju red quaniiïy of linie'iáspplied ijthe so:l to kiil swrel, will it not destroy other vc-tret, .tion and injtire tho lund for raismg subsquent ernp ? Sorrel will grow luxuriautly through inohes of linie und lime seemingly fias little to do ia destroying (his pest to food farming', if spread on land ir oidinary quantitien, whicli creates a doubt in the niinds of maDy farmers Whether chemists may not bo mistaken in presoriljing linie as a destróyer of this wcod. Many hnve no belief in the actual existeoce of sour soil, for sorrel wil] grow in common garden sou in the tnidst of other planta, which rendar3 the presumption almost poaitive, that it is not the absence of lime whidi permita its growth. But thase Dice points and chemical discussiona T?e farmers should leave for chemists to decido, and depend upon thorough cultivation for the destructiou of thi pest, the same as we do for other noxious weeds ind planta. The best plan we know to ill sorrel, is to stir the ground, harrow )ut the roots, and exposo them on the iurfaoe in hot, dry weather in mid sumner; and if farmers will try this experment, and put lime on the land when t s neoded to raise cereal erop, thoy will earo that sorrel ii liko all other weeds ind useless planta, and will succumbot mperior cultiTation. - Car. Journal of he farm. A conceited stuiieut of Andover ODca preseuted a tormon to Prof. Park, whioh was so groesly defeotive that i receired no critici at all. This fact led the writer to Buppose the sermón to be ono of great merit, and some diys after, walking with the professor, expre6sed big alight tbat he bad been ablc to furnish a discourse go faultles, and asked Prof. Park to euggest a guituble hymn to acoompany its public delivery. The professor replied, he thoupht of none so appropriate as that well known lyrio, " Now I lay rae down to sleep." The student disappeared. To Keep Ice. - BelPi Messenger says : Make a doublé woolen pocket of trong woolen clotb no matter how coarse and ftided it ig. Have a spaco of two inohes or 10 betwen the inner and outer pookets, and paok this epace as full ai posible with featbers. You have no need to use guese ieatherg; hens' feathers re just as good. With a pocket thus conetructed Rud kept cloeely tied at the mouth, a few pounds of ice may be kept a weck. The bankg in Benver shipped in the rnonth of June 8127,00 in old bullion. The buBiuegs of the Unitod Statos branoh mint for the fiscal year endiog Juno 30th, 1870, was 8100,576,706, an in creuso of $1G 537,205 over 18G9. The United States Land Offioe io the month of June oíd 14,338 acres of land.' The business if the geoond quarter, eodiug June 30th, was 48,368 acres. The publio debt statement shows a reduetion auring June of S20,'202,77'2 04. The ooio balance is 3112,770,084.83 including 828,945,0137.19. The total debt, le-s tbe amouut ia the trasury. is 82,:ï:iG,3ö8 699 74. The last spiko iu the Denver Pacific Kailroad was driveu by lion. Joho.Evans ou Friiiuy last. The spike was of roliii silver, presented by a oitizeu of (ieurgwtown, (Julorado.