| Show IVRY orcha RIDS 1 4 truit pruit trees like ilke every thing else eise whose u sustenance nanco is derived from the earth are subject to deeny decoy but by ampro improper 11 management they are ofin hilled killed before their natural productive power powen is half exhausted this Is not the faulton fault of the variety planted the locality nor of tho severity of the weather westher hert heri except in rare ansta instances pees nees but of those who have the tho care and culture of them the thet troubled generally arises from the tho ganv of thought of the ow hief hlee ile he plants an orchard the trees twenty feet apart in a fow few ears if it they grow well their brunce branches s will cover a largo large portion of tho the intervening space but some ground ia is abill and the thinks it ft a pity that this tills should lie waste the P plow I 1 0 w is introduced and what ia is tho 1 S U 1 t simply this hundreds and hun huu hu 11 1 deeds of the small fibres fabres reaching oti dol rol from flom the main roots in search or of sus suse zt i tenasco forthe for the trunk arg severed their a absorbing and conducting ab power r ir hi destroyed nud and the treo tree and bran branches branche bhe sustained by their active functions V wither ceases to yield its wonted burden of fruit and after a few years sears ot or languid life prematurely dies the truth is the farmer asks ask too much of ills his so soil wants wanta it to impart vigor aud and fruitfulness to from fifty to eighty trees to the acre besides giving hini him a crop of corn or potatoes a annually dually n to secure the last lie he cuts the thousands of fibers of his bis trees with the plow and then wonders why his orchard decays and ani dies prematurely this is bad policy and poor practice Dono task tash too much from the soil goll give it a chance to nourish alid and sustain one product to a full fall development rather than by a multiplication of them to secure stinted samples of immature ones the earth properly and tilled is munificent in its gifts to man but when overtaxed by a multiplicity af of exactions its ita response to his labors will be feeble ai an d unsatisfactory niti biti ermar edmar al nem new acm dorler till tin STA STATURE turn or AMERICAN so got f delis diers diehs dr 11 A goulds paper on the stature of american soldiers read before the national academy of sciences at northampton contained some curious and interesting facts his statistics related toone to one million of men and were obtained from the facts collected by the sanitary commissioner Commiss loner ioner from adjutant generals odthe different states the stature of the earlier troops who aie ape are believed to have been a sturdier class of men could not be obtained from the tho figures obtained it appears that the time of reaching maximum height is very much later than is generally supposed in men born in america the average age P for attaining this height is 28 again ain aln it is found that the heigh h height e ht of men a at t 35 33 is not so greatus great as at 29 9 or SO BO T the he attempts to indicate a rate of growth have not been found very satisfactory the age ago for maximum stature comes earliest in states where the height is found fo to be greatest the denof men of foreign birth were considerably shorter than those of American nativity yet the stature seems to depend moreon more on tile the place in which they were reared than on oil that in which they were born A A massachusetts man reared in iowa is an inch taller the average height of U the first 50 of the new york troops was 1 inclines in inches ciles clies of the second and of the third an investigation showed that two thirds of the men M leh ieh comprising this third count were enlistments in then theu the navy avy so that it seem ed as ds if the shorter men preferred I 1 to be sailors an examination of the books of the navy department confirm this result showing that eliat the sailors are two inches shorter than the tha soldiers while v the landsmen landsman lands men enlisted in inn the nave navy were werd found to be of about the same hc helg heig blivas litas the soldiers the only explanation of these facts which is at at all satisfactory is that the early life on shipboard i hin h 1 i nl n l ders growth stature fou found nd in tile the books was G 6 feet 10 inches ake number of men above 6 feet 4 inches reached several hundred but men did not weal wear so well as the shorter 0 ones o n Cs by a great deal tim THE woodbridge gc cal cai cal gal s says mys that never before in the tho memory of L that very respectable personage the 0 oldest idest 1 habitant inhabitant il atas has t that section of the country been visited to such an ex cx 4 tent with chills and other billious billions complaints as at present the tho live dive oaks of san an Joaquin joaquia county have generally general lyt iye been noted for the extraordinary good health herlth of bf their citizens but the tho present suu sub summer lilier appears to be an exception 11 tue THE cattler cattier running at large upon the commons below belov portland ry n arb dying IS I 1 D I 1 g by A scorer orm oro The disease has conle conic come epidemic epidemic and there are buffed bufo buff ew families who haxe have iti iri not bt lost valuables valuable 1 animals c st lat ear tar |
