Show varieties Apples of beirs pea rs and peaches most profitable to raise J pa A at the late meeting of the fruit growers association gocia tion of western new york fall of 1857 each member was requested to prepare in the form of a ballot a list of welve twelve I 1 best apples for fr marketing ar exclusively twelve best pears and six six best peaches jn in accordance with this ibis rule twenty one ballots were wend were handed banded in to tha the secretary and the following lowin table shows the varieties voted vote d for forand and ana tie number of votes each receive recoiled dt APPLES R I 1 greening 19 golden sweet 6 baldwin 18 IS gravenstein 6 roxbury russet 17 17 golden russet 4 red As astrachan tchan 14 14 yellow bellflower 4 king xing of tompkins cola 3 talman sweet 13 jonathan 3 northern spy lq iq 12 rambo 3 I 1 esopus spitzenberg 12 seek seik no further furthers 3 fall pippin 9 duchess of Olden burghS 2 sweet bough 8 pecks pleasant 2 primate 7 porter 2 1 cayuga red streaky Streak 7 amer summer 2 early harvest 6 2 the following varieties obtained one vote each calvert early joe early edily Simmer Summer Hawley hawles princes harvest fall fail orange sops of wine kiels seedling green sweet autumn strawberry coopers market golden pippin red canada benoni Be melon pound sweet swept wagener jersey sweet newtown pippin ribston pippin mammoth pippin spicy sweet I 1 non such large yellow bough maidens blush coopers seedling rears PEAKS bartlett ig lg 19 theo van mons 4 louise bonne de jersey 18 3 duchesse duches se de 18 18 beuree beurre lie lle 3 white doyenne dorenne Do yenne lt it 17 ste 3 easter beurre bearre lg ig 16 bloodgood Bood good 3 lawrence IG brandywine 3 I 1 beurre bearre giffard 3 vicar of Ot winkfield 12 beur beune e clairveau 2 flemish beamy 11 II 11 bierre bosc 2 beurre bearre deanjou de aej ju 9 OLlOn onondaga daga 0 beurre bearre diel 8 Rosti Ros liezer ezer i 3 tyson 8 stevens genesee 0 2 sheldon Sh edon 6 Os bands summer 2 buffam 5 ananas dee aee 2 belle lucrative 5 the following varl vari marielis elis ells oafa obtained ined one vote each howell ontario le cure dearborne Dear borns seedling bierre de amarilis Ama amt tilis bierre gris chiver dH iver lver brawns s autumn Com CocTiS stocks tocks beauty Com stocks mani mam moth winter TT neild nelld eli ell jaloudi Jd lousi fontenay doyen nouveau boiteau Poi pol tean bergamotto Berga motte lucrative PEACHES crawfords Craw fords early 15 15 od mixon clicc c 2 1 Crawford crawfords Craw fords sLate late 13 13 george fourth 2 old oid alexon free flee 10 erly purple 0 3 early york 9 white Imperl imperi dl 2 morris white 5 red cheek Mela meia coton 2 Coo ledges favorite 4 smocks freestone 5 large earl eari early york 4 Walt walter walters waiters ers ets early 2 honest jhn jihn ji hn 3 the following varieties received one vote each wards late free farly early barnard bernard jaques yellow alberg early tillotson lemon cling Columbia Columb ii ilfe ilfe life life illustrated LAUNCH PF OF THE LEvIA levla LEVIATHAN TUAN A third and j ve we are happy to 0 o say successful attempt was made on sal saturday arday partially to launch h the we le lev V lathan uthan which abich is la now considerably advanced on her way to the water the intention to effect the launch was waa kept a closer secret than the second and last at tempt and not even the workmen in the yard v were ere scarcely aware of the intention until the ship had moved to some extents the operations commenced about a quarter i past ten under the direction of mr dir brunel the I 1 s eno engineer mineer lineer and capt harrison harrlson Har their first 1 efforts were directed to get the head of the i abia in in a line with the stern the fose forepart part being about twenty five inches in advance of the abern towards the water the hydraulic presses were applied 1 and in in i less than a minute she began blegan gradually to move and in in course of half an hour she had got into a straight position having moved rather more than two feet forward themore difficult task of forcin forcing her down the ways or launching her was then commenced and the strengthened buttresses for 1 the hydraulic rams proved fully equal to the pressure brought to bear upon them the four powerful hydraulic presses were simultaneously fyr put into action ami awl a train put upon the j chains i the ship almost immediately obeyed the immense imi itai mense power which bore upon her and began to move gently down a little more than an 1 inch a minute one of the mooring chains chabina gave way at an arly period but it did not in the least affect the progress of the ship the pressed and evains were kept in full play plays and the ship cons linued her mb movement down town the ways at two iwo she had moved bodily seven i feet two in inches ches in addition to the two feet sho bho bad progressed forwald at her bows the tha operations were continued until half i past four by which time tune the ship had moved altogether 15 feet 4 inches forward and 33 13 3 feet aft having traveled equally svein stem and stern after the vessel had passed a short distance the iron ways were carefully examined an and d it was ras found that on the spot 0 on 11 ll which the ship i had llad reeled for bolong so long iong the metal had not nob bej vae bla cae eia e ia n the leant laminated I 1 and that the sup posed friction of the two 0 opposing p p 0 sina iron surfaces had been greatly exaggerated X e at by many persons the entire distance to he be traveled on the ways is about feet and it is expected that 0 haq on tuesday edday evening or wednesday morning next the leviathan will be safely moored off deptford depthford Dept ford dockyard the ope ape operations rations will be resumed on dron DIon monday day and will be continued without intermission until the work is com coia plated plead liverpool albion nov 30 1857 the following happy hit at sectarian priests is clipped from the sacramento age of jan 17 OR THE TWO LEGGED GRASS EATER the editor of the shab shasta ta courier nas has read dr scotts discourse on the hebrew hercules or the giant judge judged but however much its perusal pleased and ened him he get enough of that kind of fodder therefore be he prays the learned doctor for a discourse on the transmogrified king of bovine proclivities or t be the rip Herble rous browser and great vegetable feeder the golden era feels a similar yearning in its intellectual stomach and says the conduct of the grass gross eating monarch needs explanation it wishes it told whether the browser was protected from the assaults of galli nippers in the chaldean swamps or whether he was denied the luxury of mosquito bars and was turned out in a condition as defenseless as a short tailed ox in fly t time ne no one knows what important physiological phenomena might be developed by a cir clr circumstantial e um relation of what might have befallen th the eroyal royal vegetarian during his researches after grabs grass how bow he might have got snake bit bow how he might have got mired down and been lassoed by some vagabond izing cattle stealer how he might have been exposed used to the assaults of steers without vit mit hout being ein eln endowed with physical strength to tomain main maln tain hla hia bovine dignity by a corresponding rebuttal |