Show steam cultivation we ve heard a gentleman connected with the sacramento beet sugar company remark the other day that theom pany lost one hundred and alid nifty fifty acres of beets heets this season in conr conn consequence bene e of not having facilities sid Tid acl cultivating the soil soll th the e sai oli dried up so rapidly after it was in waldon toworu to work that before be foro fore the las lorie hundred and fifty acres were planted it became too dry ory ry to seed anea and hence the loss 11 op a similar loss in the future from aike alke cause the company have determined to import this tills maiori an one of fowlers patent steam aldis one of the company intends vilt visiting fiig england this tilis falej fall fali and wil wll will purchase aud and ship the machinery in time for work in inputting putting in next yei yeary crop aygard Wy we res reg sard gard this tills as a moat most 1 import adem ment ut agriculturally and th j ins ing of a revolution in th tile u of the soil soll in this state lead to many very vers finst first among hese bese improvements we ive anticipate the adoption more general generally ly of the summer fallow liow system and ana deep plowing vve ave believe belleve tiou tion of the tiie steam plow will lead to this for the reason that the expenses of cultivation will bo be reduced and hor for doing the work rapidly being farmers ivill glye more attenson atte nHon to a it better system if all those farmers who lose 1646 crops raps this year from the fact that wi ld their planting was waa done ba sa laev late would like tile the beet sugar hugar company determine de to remedy thi g culty in the future by preparing im the facilities for more rapid a and fia fid better bottei work the state would soon bo be compensated for the failure of the tho crops this season realizing 11 binnin dinnin the tho necessity of this im lm rov allaf and the peculiar iian lian ad adaptability ipp tabi lity of our wheat linz lanz lands to steam cultivation many of our mitor miter p risi n g ra rm ex 4 I 1 and mechanics have been gli experimenting with direct traction steam plows for years past but it is greatly to be regretted that billat illat they have had so little success and av so I 1 little encouragement for the wealth of brains bj ains and means expended mille our people have been tle ile A aing 1 their time timo and m mon 0 n e eyon von yon ane t traction ration system gitil without out success th e mechanics of england nt by directing their gochis gonhis geni goni usand and means in th direction of stationary machinery 1 have havo been successful beyond their thur brightest anticipations in 21 a speaking of the of fhe steni A camper i bell an agricultural engineer of considerable experience says direct traction machi ea ha 0 BO tar sar been beon I 1 un successful nor does there seem any reasonable prospect ol 01 their ever successfully competing with wiro wire rope engines insurmountable difficulties stand in the way ways which cannot well bo be overcome their beav eavy cavy y weight tor for the rough work they have to a do car cau cardies carries r es with it a train of 0 fatal to economy durability and food good work and I 1 am cont confident ident it one tenth of the mon byj ey i ingenuity and time had been spent in trying to tor improve the wire ampe rope sets gets ot of instead ot of tho the disastrous falli failures tres that have haipt happened ned nod time after time f from rom the building oi of these cumbrous masses ot of perverted reverted in ingenuity there would bae hae baver haver been plowing machines in this country equal ual ft it not superior to aay any of the productions ot of england englana in speaking 0 ot the progress of steam plowing in england mr campbell sas gas says gays the tho last and greatest steam plowing 1 9 competition took place at u in 1871 1 making eleven eleven years of progress froni from the canterbury trials the utmost that a plowing machine was able to do at the canterbury anter bury trials was about one acre per er hour on light land or one acre in u two hours on heavy land at the wolverton trials a set ol 01 john fowlers tackle went into the field and cultivated three aeres acres to a depth of eight and a half inches in forty one and a half minutes doing its work to perfection jn order to show the extreme simplicity and handiness handl handi ness nees of this i tackle I 1 will describe the work as it was actually done on tuesday june at barnhurst the two tw ene gines conveying their implements left the depot field traveled T ried died for a quarter of a sc mile curnin turning through two gateways and were in position ready for starting in seventeen minutes after the trial was concluded the whole of the machinery was out of the field in fourteen minutes from the cog com completion lc of the thelast last bout the breadth taken taker was at first ten feet ten inches wat vat after one bout a cou con couple coupie I 1 e of tines thies were taken out because of 1 their air tendency to muffle in the grussy grassy clover leaf the reduced width heing being nine feet two inches and the average depth of work eight and a ahall half inches the power of the cultivator was shown during the last bout by the se yering severing of several tree re e root sone of them thein being eight inches round the time occupied in boiu doing 9 the three acres was forty one and a half minutes and at that rate forty one acres three rods and ten perches v would be bd cul in ten hours the advantage of economy and tind rapidity having been settled in favor of steam plowing for this country it remains to speak of the results in the direction of better and mote certain crops all who believe in deeper and more perfect pulverization alvenza ion lon of the ie soil soll will readily ad nil mi t great advantages bub but direct statements s tate ments of practical results in other countries amount to strong arguments in favoron favor of introducing the system in california we give the following an extensive english farmer who has used the steam plow from ats earliest time bays says that on two fie tle fields be c has grown fifteen 0 crops of grain wh wheat and d beansie ns in succession OvIt without hout a fallow fallo and last years 3 ears crop 0 of wheat was 40 b bushels els eis to t tho 0 acre cia cig on two other b he e has grown fifteen successive crops of wheat wheaty tho the last crop quite bite equaling equa ling linx 40 bushels per acre under hohe hone cultivation the average crop ot of those fields was only au W bus bushels helff to the acre in loui Loul louisiana slana siana mr Lawr lawrence otice eilee also testifies as ta to his experience in equally fa favorable orabie terms he says gays my experience fully Ju justifies stifles me in saving saying that the yield of caneon cane on the steam plowed and steam cultivated bandstand lands land stand and with less than half halt the laboid will bow bo how W 60 per cent cents greater that can possibly be obtained by any other mode of cul cui ti A sugar planter in cuba writing to the tilo department of agriculture says that steam plowing has doubled the value of its land it is useless to present any more statements aa as ail all the tho reports are eju equally ally aily favorable on the banks of the nile mo more nore than are working nearly night and day in IVL the theP thop aslia asila of a prize of a gold cup at the t e royal noyal A A ke fair in england for the best stean steam plow ho ln introduced the most successful machines nes nos and experimented with them eventually civill giving orders sufficient to keep deepa a machine shop going for two years and dud employing about a thong thousand M d men now we find theste tile tilo steam plow vorin working alongside ilie the timeworn time timo worn monuments of egypto ancient grandeur and idak irda iria k king klug ug a sami strange contrast in their useful and ilfe life IN giving work to her relics of misguided ene energy rg and skill yae sae ra a n record 0 this is t the tho lie ilo way the modoc business strikes the new now york evangelist touching the expensiveness ai si veness of missions the late futile campaign against A the tho bodocs has probably cost pur government more than all the nii nil missionary labor devoted to tho the indians for the last ten years and if jr as now appears a 9 general beneral hostility has been aroused the outlays of the t e summer will wili probably exceed all that the entire american church has given to lo the tile indians in n a half cantu century ry ip pi tue TUB QUESTION the attention of thome those ticklish individuals finst first badly wanted whon when they obtain edit badly a d woman in U utah dahis is ctr fully invited tuaato following aman aa a 14 an fact in lit Eng landL every woman who mccu pies es a delU dein nelu any city pity or town pt en land ud ii ireland band calev of r sc scotland ba has haa 4 a voice olee for alder aider maan raan and V towa town dwek ba but t in lif Bien eral crai under mr act ace a I 1 in nw rn england widows andi and Apin steg stem who PAY Y rauma ramus shavo hard hayd vote 4 ln la tha ea election ec tion tiou 6 of f school boards in ireland every woman jhb any sum bum as poor rate has haa a vote ilithe la the aleci Itil sald bald dim that phe the be women ise these rights hoa pt a and in inmane ca ft rs 1 1 tented the h wards of cities eltien in i municipal 1 poi noi po i I 1 ivera signally am 4 yue aye A of t |