Industrial Brieflets

President Adams, of the Cornell unlversity, says thcre is in the country more or less of dissatisfaction with the way in which the agricultm-al colleges have met the expectation that was formed coneerning them. "While I do not tlünk Ihis dissatisfaction is generally well grounded, I am inclined to believe that there are certain inherent dilïïculties in the way of the schools of agriculture that have not thus far been fully and fraukly met. In the first place, it is found that the farmer boys are not able, a a rule, to spend a sufficient time at college to enable them to gain a complete agricultura] education. Then a second ililliculty presenta itself. If a farmer' s boy takes acourse of somewhat prolonged instruction he is more or less apt to acquire a taste for other pursuits, and so allows h;mself to be drawn off into other vocations." A writcr says that the best way to feed u lloek of lambs after they have been turned to grass in the spring is to drive up ewes and lambs :tt erening into a yard adjoining a shecp-'iouse to wlikh the lambs have been atlached all their lives. Across the open door set a hay-rack on bloeks high enough to allow the lambs to run under but not the1 ewes. Around the wall on the inside have flat-bottomed troughs, the tops six inches above the groiind, with the feed soattered thinly in tiiein and very lightly salted. Let the floek go short on salt otherwise; then the lambs will swarm into the sheep bons : as soon as the lloek swarnis ÍDÍO the yard, and will consumo the feed readily, at first for thé ialt, but presentí; for the feed itself. Obscrvations have been made at the Ohio agricultnral experiment station on the hardiness of oung forest tree seedlings after severe winters. Seedings of green ash and yellow locusts eseaped without any loss; 1 per cent. of scarlet maple and of black ash was killed; 5 per cent. of red oak, 6 per cent. of white ash and wild i-herry, 7 per cent. of maple sugar, 8 per cent. of catalpa, 20 per cent. of red oak, 38 per cent. of cucumber tree, 50 per cent, of blackwalnut, 55 per cent. of cheslnut, and 81 per cent. of white oak soedlings were killed by severe winter, l'liere is no doubt that these results would vary with the soil, growth. eondition, and degree of ripeness of the plants, which would be controlled by external circumstances in different localities and seasons. A correspondent of The Southern Uultivator thinks he has a remedy that will cure what he calis cholera. It is his opinión that hog cholera is inostly worms, and when these are expelled the hogs get well. He uses tliis mixture: Five pounds of coperas, twelvo pounds of sulphur, four pounds of bieorbonate of soda, two pounds of blooü root; powder and mix this well and then add two bushels of lime and twenty-live to thirty bushels of slack coal. This should be dumped down in a dry place where the hogs can get at it, but not seattered around. The smaller the drove of hogs the smaller the quantity of ingredients used in making this mixture. G. S. McCann stated to the Elm'ra, N. Y., Farmers' club tl: at he found tbc limbs of the white oak mueh more durable for posts tlian the body of the tree. He had tried setting posts erect and invérted, but could find no diflV-rence in their durability. Posts were found to last longest when set in c!ay soil beatea compaclly about them to prevent thu passage of water and to keep them in a uniform state of moisture. In gravely soils, which perm.t them to become often water-soaked and again soon dry, they did not last long. Prof. Aughey found, by careful test, that prairie soil, which had been broken up by plowing, contained, immediately after rain, nine times as inuch moisture as adjoining unbroken soil, and this seems to explain the extensión of the rain belt westward. Let such broken-up soil become covercd with shrubs and trees, and annually niulclled by their falling leaves, and it will continue absorbent and retenlive of moisture without losing any of its substance and its fertility. A case is reported in the foreign papers of the dcath of cattle to whose coats a poisonous sheep dip had been for sume purpose applied. The persistent habit of licking themselves, characteristic of cattle, should not be forgotton whon it is contemplated to apply medicines externally for skin affections or the destruction of vermin. Mclons, grapes, and peaches are now receiving gfeat attention in South Carolina as market crops. They are much more profitable than coru and tobáceo. Some eounties in the state expect to sell three million watermelons this year. They are sent to eastern cities by boat, and to western towns by rail. They can be raised for 2 cents each. Prof. Long, of Kngland, sa}-s there are in every lierd cows that are mere manure makers or pickpockets. They have tlie gamo feed that the rest get, and vet they will not give one-half the milk. The cows aro in the hord, vet the trouble i.s to piok them out. They are generally (rauda in the fact that they are the best-looking cows of all. They give a good mess of milk for a short time and then drop almost out. It is reported that Germán steamera aro to be chartered to cali periodically at the various ports of soutlicrn Europe, laden with Germán merohandise. The goods will be stored so as to be easily accessible. The saloon will Ije used :is a pattern room. Importéis will be able lo make their cho:ce and have the goods landed at once, thus doing ftway to a great extent with the services of the mMdlernan. Cocoanut growing in Florida seems to be a success. In the región of Lake Worth there are about twenty tbousand trees growing, and part of them are fruiting. In 1878 a vessel loaded with these nuts was wreckod on the Dade coast, aud lloated ashore near Lake Worth, most of which wero gathennl and plantod. The trees begin to bear in ubout sevenyears froni planting, and the erop averages from one hundreil to two hundred nuts per tree. Members of the El mira, N. Y., Farmers' club, at a late moeting, asscrïed that innumerable tests have shown tlmt posts made of red cedar would lust ndelinit'ly, certainly a hundred yoars, for posts are now standing in that v:illey which have been set and reset niany times, covering a period of eighty yeais or more, and they are stijl sound.