Mark Twain As An Agriculturists

Mark Twuin, in the July Gafaxy, ays he was the temporary editor of an gricultural paper onco. His editoria's were marked !y his usual overlowins; humor, rather than by any ex libition of kuowlcdge of the subject. [hfl following extracta will serve as pecitnens of his style and matter in gruultural writinga : " Turuips should never bo pulled, t is muih better to send a boy up, and ■t liiiu shake the tree. " The guano is n fine bird, but great are is neccesary ia rearing it. It hould not be imported earlier thno 'une, nor later than September. Iu the winter it should b.e kept n a warm )lae, wlure it oan hatch out its young. 11 It is evident that we are to have bm-kward scason fr grain. There'ore, it will be wcll for tho farmer to be in setting out his corn atalksaud plantüs, his buekwheat cakes ia July iitead of August. " Concerning the Pumpkin. Thin )erry is a favorito wih the natives of he interior óf Niw-England, who preei' it to the gooseberry for the inakiti of fruit-cake, aud who likewiae give it he prefereuee over the raspberries for 'eeding cows, as being moro filling and 'ully satiafyiD(t. The pumpkin is the only esculent of the orange family that will thrive in the North, except the gourd aud one or two ïarietics of the quash. Uut the custom of planting it u the front yard witu the shrubbery is 'ast going out of vogue, for it is now generally oonccded that the pumpkin, as a shade tree, e a failure.