Show rthrr ss a IUnl ll etopn TTnlted State Consjl Kirk of Copse hagen has forward to the elite he psrtnttnt the following translation from Itannebrog of a lecture delivered hy Mr Jobanncen at this agricultural iigh school recently on the rult ob timed > by the ethvrtilng method of de vloping plant earlier than In their nature by eipodog them to the Influ I Ill of ether fumes Hy exposing hl Iplbll plants to the Infloraco of oth r and chloroform the result Is obI inlnml ob-I that each plant after the treatment treat-ment with ether begins to shoot Tiny ho thu probably ben awakened n1r0 i their previous condition of sleep r inactivity Lilacs grow splendidly ttiti I placed In an nlrtlght com part UK MI and expoted fortyeight hours to I r i ffeit of IM or GOO cubic rentlme n re of ether and then nut In n hot 11 I > < e Just before Christina the I mm bad develop splendidly Then a The-n lng of the plhnt will cost 1 to 11 cents each The main xlnt Is I Ic n t the plants to shoot at any lime tiro Christmas oven In Heptember inj October It can be said that some ingress baa undoubtedly been made but no one can tell tn what astonishing iniulin this discovery may lend Tu Ml i lilacs etc can be developed much ruler and have a pretty color and lro it durability as the ether free tin 11nt of decomposable matter Toe To-e lrrise the plant they are placed In on alrtlght receptacle and extxxed tram twentyfour hours to ntntyalx hours generally fortyright boura to he Influence of the ether Cyllndrl nl glaaees are u ed for small plants and for large plants an olliMlntwl ton Ibe Interior of which IK lined with tinfoil tin-foil 4 feet high and lone and 24 feet broad On tho lid a small hole li made which Is closed with n cork and the ether Is conducted through Ihle hole As ether Is very IlInUII mahle treat care must bo taken not to bring candles or matches near It I The ether Is I dlmwlvcd l nt from IS degrees de-grees to 20 degrees ceullerado onadlen tale pnek 7ad Wrltlnn from Montreal n correspondent correspon-dent of tho Meat Traders Journal London old The export llvo ouch lemon for 1897 Is fait approaching and ihlppers have already cilmmonccd opcr itlng In the country considerable stall fell cattle having been purchnnd durlni the pat two weeks for May shipment it 4 rents 4H cents nnd 4H cents pet pound lltu weight Tho supply of thli rlsss of clock Is estimated to bo full ten pr cent larger this season than Hit which Is I duo principally to the fact that feed 1 ot nil kinds has ruled remarkably remark-ably low In price All winter conic luenlly tho farmers through tho west em part ot Canada huvo been well able to feed n larger amount of stock Th recent active demand from American buyers for Canadian feeder and stackers stack-ers has atrcnRlhcncd the market here contldcrably and It would not bo an itirprlfe to the trade If still hlghei prices than thoio quoted would have tc be laU for cllOlce cattle later on In the season Tho supply of distillery stock Is I fully 3000 head short of last senson making only about 4100 head fed ID Canada and none ot theo have changed hinds up to the present but some feeders feed-ers havo already commenced shlpplm them by way of Portland Tbora here loch no actual tngugrmonta of ocean freight but somo booking U I reported and tho rate to Liverpool will likely pca nt 4Ss without Insurance Aiiirneiii Ilse I < In Anilrull Tho minister of agriculture ol this colony conjointly with the minister ot agriculture ot New South Wales la I Importing from Trance aomo 50000 cuttings ol tho American phylloxorareslillng rape I vines for distribution nmongtt vlcncrons Them nppear now to bo 0 considerable local demand for tho cuttings < cut-tings and Mr Taverner has decided to allow private Importation but under strict regulations yet to be framed He Indicates Iho lines on which the rOII latlons will bo framed Tho vine must bo accompanied by an expert certificate that they nro exactly ns represented and on arriving hero will b < > taken charge of by tbo agricultural deport meat They will then bo planted In quarantine tho period of tho quarantine quaran-tine 10 be decided by tho departmental experts Mr Tnverncr has had n large number of applications for the cuttings especially from llcndlgo nnd Itulhcr glen nod foresees tint tho departmental department-al Importation will bo unequal to the demand Australasian Wet fiprlnga and Dry Bummers The talk nbout conserving the moisture that we hate heard for the last three years sounds out of place now There Ii I n superabundance of moisture Hut vo mint remember mat a wet spring Is some time followed by a dry summer sum-mer and that dry rather after a wet spring Is often more disastrous than dry weather after n dry spring1 The reason Is I that the roots spriud out rlnte to too surface In n wet aprlng and run down deep In a dry spring so tile shallow ra Idd plant ot a wet spring suffer grlotously during a dry spell 1111 u will lo no good tll spend onethird of our time In sighing for rain an1 another third In sighing for it 10 clear oft Wo must take the wmthcr as It runes and cult our BC lions to the weather wo have Some thero nro that may perhaps get rich this summer In sitting In a rocking chair and letting their cribs full of ten In prlceMx cent corn advance Rinnr noel In California Thn Ptn of thn Chino Ileol Sugar fao tltlea gthere wa Mary of California show that there ww 7000 acre of beets grown for thai factory last year This produced n total of 61000 ton of beets and gave an average of ZKO pound of crude r lien or a total nt about 8 sager per Mdtnns for the sson Tron this II Ml mntenl that the net profit of the u I SeSory wo about lltoooo Ths ave reiurn per acre tr p r a t of heels IUtv was JM76 |