| Show EDITORIAL NOTED the production of gold and silver allier in the united states for the fiscal year 1880 is given at of the one and of the other austria was the first country to adopt the postal card beginning in 1869 there are now eaid said to be sev enty three countries in which it is used during the past seventeen years there has accumulated in the new york sub treasury in unclaimed postal money orders mainly caused by misdirection the century scribners Scrib ners nors mrya mara magazine 0 for november contains an accurate portrait of the famous writer george eliot it has the usual amount of interesting and instructive treading trending eren Erea ding matter and splendid engravings it is said that there ia in in the bank of england about in gold deposited by the conrede confederate rate nate authorities during the rebellion but at the time of the collapse the united states claimed it but the custodians refused to pay it over and it is still uncalled for it is s this fact doubtless that has caused the demand for confederate bonds if you have a pond of water why not utilize it an acre of water may be made more valuable than an acre of the best farming land here is an instance in point A gentleman in sonoma bonoma county Call cail california fornias has this year sold sold worth of carp from a pond covering less than an acre he has had the nish fish but two years prof barfoot of the Deseret museum will give you points on nish fish culture the recent gale along the coasts of england and the continent was terribly destructive to shipping and life the total loss is estimated at of which england loses many lives have also been lost there were no premont premonitions of the storm storms and it terrific force along the coasts nam named ed no na precautions were possible and the damage is weil well nigh irreparable japan still has room for considerable agricultural neri aeri cultural development she has acres of tillable land mit but only a little over one fourth of it is under cultivation the product of the rice plantations last year was over bushels bu shelo when the acreage as increased to a reasonable proportion of possibilities as it easily may be and a proper system of fertilization introduced the rice yield of the island might be quadrupled an illustrated illustrated description of houghton farm farms belonging to mr lawson valentine in orange county new york is given in a supplement to the christian union for october the text is by lyman layman abbott bottand and the illustrations by F church while the best art of the riverside press cambridge has been bestowed upon the typography and press work readers of the paper will no doubt be surprised to learn of the existence of so important an agricultural enterprise near new york and will bo be Int inte ested in knowing of the various experiments in farming which are there in pro gress greep |
