October.
THE WEST SHORE.
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applied to the side of each other, and
arranged in two strata or layers, placed
end to end. Those intended for work
ers (Fig. 9) are hexagonal and horizon
tal, about an eighth of an inch in
diameter, and six times as deep as they
are wide; those for drones (Fig. 10) are
also horizontal, somewhat irregular,
and larger; but the royal cells (Fig.
1 1), or the departments for queens, are
circular, still larger, and arranged per
pendicularly in the comb.
Mr. George H. Brewster, of Boston,
is said to he the possessor of a copy of
the New Testament which was printed
in London in 1503, eleven years after
the discovery of America and one hun
dred and seventeen years before the lan
ding of the Pilgrim Fathers. The
book is of quarto form, three inches
thick and ten inches long, the marginal
notes and comments being printed in
large coarse Roman letters while the
chapters arc of old English type. It is
supposed to have been used by the Pur
itan Fathers at Plymouth.
It cannot be too deeply impressed upon
the mind, that application is the price to be
paid for mental acquisitions, and that it is
as absurd to expect them without it, as to
hope for a harvest where we have not sown
the seed.
Stove luster, when
mixed with turpen
tine, and applied in
the usual manner, is
blacker, more glossy,
and more durable
than when mixed with
any other liquid. The
turpentine prevents
rust, and when put on
an old rusty stove
will make it look as
well as new,
Aromatic Tooth
Powder. Take finely-powdered
prepared
chalk, two drams ;
pure starch, two
drams; myrrh, two
drams; ginger, half a
dram; cuttle-fish
bones, two drams;
flower of lavender,
and sugar at pleasure,
and mix well together.
In introducing a
gentleman to a lady
it makes no difference
which name is used
first.
A SHEEP CORRAL AND DIP.
Deeming that it might prove useful
to some of our readers engaged in sheep
raising, and who have not provided
themselves with any means for fighting
the only scourge with which their flocks
are annoyed, viz., the scab, we give an
illustration in this number of the sheep
corral and dipping apparatus built this
Spring on the Cotate Ranch, and which
can be constructed at a very small cost
compared to the immense benefits to be
derived from such an apparatus.
The large corral (1) tapers gradually
towards the race (3) which is made suf
ficiently narrow to prevent the sheep
from passing through two abreast. The
further end of the race is guarded by a
swing gate (3), worked from behind the
boarded race, so that each sheep, as it
runs through, may be guided iuto pens
(4 or 5,) as may be desired. This is
great advantage during shearing time,
when the lambs are running with the
ewes, as the latter are turned into the
boarded catch pens (5), whilst the lambs
run into pen 4 ,thereby avoiding a vasi
amount of unnecessary and injurions
jostling and crowding. Oregon shear.
era are not, as a rule, gentle handlers;
and, unless closely watched, are much
given to throwing and dragging the
sheep through thetlirt; for this reason
the catch pen (5) has been boarded, and
and is easily swept. From said pen the
shearers take the sheep into the shear
ing floor (6), and having deprived them
of their fleeces, turn them into pen 7,
whence they are driven into the small
and tapering catch pen (S). Here the
assistant dipper secures them without,
difficulty, drops them gently, one by
one, into the dip (9, 9). The shepherd
stands alongside of the dip and, by,
means ot the inside curve of the crook
('5) completely immerses the sheep,
who on rising to the surface swims for
the further end. A bar (10), placed
across the dip and on the surface ot the
wash, prevents its escape, and here it is
caught again and, by means of the out
er crook placed under the neck, dragged
or turned quietly back and agrin im
mersed. It is then allowed to swim a
second time for the bar, but just before
reaching it the crook is applied to the
back of the neck, and, with a shove
downward and forward, his woolship
takes a dive, to rise again beyond the
bar and find -his forefeet resting on
the incline (11), up which he climbs to
the boarded drip pen (12). As soon as
the first drip pen is full,, it is emptied
Our TRiBUTARiKS.-Someidcaof the
richness of the farming lands at the low
er end of the Sound may be formed
from the following points which we get
from William N. Moore, Esq., of Cen
treville. He says that Mr. McDon
ald's crop of oats on the Stillaguam
ish was 80 bushels to the acre. Pe
ter Wilkins had in twenty-five acres of
barley which yielded 100 bushels to the
acre. Calhoun got i.aoo bushels ofbar
ley from eleven acres of newly cleared
land. Loveland and Morgan, on the
Skagit river, have cleared 140 acres out
of 380. They will raise this year 2,100
bushels of wheat and about ,500 bushels
of oats. Mr. Olof Poison, hesays isthe
largest farmer on the river, lie will
raise this year 8,000 bushels of oats and
barley mostly oats. Olson and An
derson come next. They will raise
6,000 bushels of oats. These last men
tioned parties have a steam threshing
machine in operation. The soil about
there is very fair, but not so rich as on
the Stillaguamish, where there has been
a rich deposit of decaying vegetable
matter for countless years. Nearly all
the grain raised finds its way hither,
and the farmers of that section spend
large amounts here for goods during
every season. Pugct Sound Dispatch
Dairy Products.-TIic solid wealth
of opulent sections is always in the hands
of men whose maxim is, buy nothing
that can be produced on a farm. We
have seen farmers in California with
practical dairymen get hold of the bus
iness. Puget Sound Dispatch.
Mandarin Mung, the head of the
Chinese Embassy, which recently
reached Paris; entered a railway coach
with eight scats, at Marseilles, with
the six members of his suite, and found
a well-dressed Englishman ensconced
in one of them. Mung politely allowed
him to remain, and, being able to speak
English tolerably, soon entered into con
versation with him. The Englishman
was widely informed, and very interest
ing. In a casual way he carelessly spoke
of himself as the proprietor of both train
and locomotive, and dropped the sub-
jeet. Mung renewed it, and the Eng
lishman told him that the locomotive
and the coach in which they rode would
be very useful to himself and the em
bassy in rapidly traversing the Paris
streets. Having plenty of other loco
motives and coaches, he offered to sell
both for ten thousand francs. Mung
eagerly embraced the opportunity, and,
taking the money from his treasurer,
counted it out. The Englishman gave
a receipt, and at the next station dis
appeared. Reaching Paris the celestial
became a wiser man.
FP iinr 7 ttri
' tnnmne to.
SHEEP CORRAL AND DIPPING APPARATUS-Cotato Ranch.
into the second (13, to make room for
lather bathers. By the time that the
first is again filled, the sheep in the sec
ond will have shed about as much of
the wash as they possibly can, and may
then be turned into the paddock (14), or
a large corral, to await the rest of the
flock. The drip pens are, of course,
made with sufficient slant to take the
drippings back into the dip. (There
should be a fence between the dip and the
drip pens, but we omitted it in our sketch
to show the dip to better advantage).
If a sheep be exceedingly scabby, he can
rest his head on the cross-bar(io) and be
allowed to soak as long as necessary.
The dip in question is about 16 feet long
and about 28 inches wide. Some per
sons would probably consider a longer
dip more advantageous, but where econ
omy in labor is desired the short dip is
preferable, especially as the cross-bar
(lo)kecps the sheep completely under
the shcepherd s control, ana aocs away
with the necessity of his running back
wards and forwards more than one or two
steps to immerse each sheep several
times. The depth should always be suf
ficient to oblige the sheep to swim, and
to nrevent their touching bottom, even
when immersed. The crook proper is
made of half-inch iron; the handle
should be made of good tough wood, as
the strain when washing large sheep and
especially rams it at times very great.
hundreds of acres sown in wheat, buy
ing their butter, cheese and potatoes.
Your more practical farmer plants a
few turnips for his kitchen and feeds the
rest to a few nice mutton sheep. His
carrots arc more than enough to supply
his table and the surplus he feeds to his
horses in winter. He plants sugar beets,
not only enough for his own house, hut
a few fur the cows that keep his table
in milk and butter. We know of no
country better adapted to dairy purposes
than Washington Territory, yet sec the
quantity of butter brought here from
California by every steamer. The pe
culiar formation of our section is not fav
orable to Durham cattle which are good
enough for level prairie country. Hut
for the active Jerseys and Aldcrneys,
the best milkers in the world, this
Sound country is " just the cheese."
We have two months more of
green grass in the year than any portion
of California, south of Cape Mendocino;
and it takes green food to make milk
and butter. The Jerseys, Aldcrneys,
Dcvonsand Ayrshircs, are coming rap
idly into favor on the coast; and we
are anxious to see an importation of a
herd made, from one of these breeds.
Their small size and active habits adapt
them to hilly countries; and they keep
fat where shorthorns would starve to
death. We see no good reason, in the
way that our neighborhood is filling up,
why our farmers should not be able to
supply all the butter consumed here.
There is a M bar'l o' money" in butter
even at thirty cents a pound, when good
A young man in Jersey City was
urged to marry, but he replied; "I
don't see it; my father was a single
man, and he got nlong well enough."
A small piece of
paper or linen, moist
ened with the spirits
of turpentine, and put
into a bureau or ward
robe lor a single day,
two or three limes, ii
said to be a sufficient
preservative against
mollis.
A lady, in describ
ing to an irreverent
boy an occurrence
in which his father
figured, closed by re
marking: "I am sorry
to say that the thing
ended by your father
losing his temper,"
"Did father lose hii
temper?" exclaimed
the young scapegrafe;
"llicn I hope he'll
never find it again, for
it was the worst tem
per I ever heard of."
Advertising b the
bulls eye ol trade.
The successful busi
ncssteam is that which
advertises most.
Mother " Now, Gerty, be a good
girl, and give Aunt Julia a kiss and say
good-night." Gerty" No, nol If I
kiss her she'll box my ears like the did
papa's last night."
A boy has written a composition on
thcturtlc, in which he says: " A turtle
is not so frisky as a man, but he can
stand a hot coal on his back without
squealing."
A negro being asked what he was in
jail for, said he wai borrowing money.
"But," said the questioner, "they don't put
people In jail for borrowing money."
"Yet," said the darkey, "but I had to
knock the man down free or fo' timet
before he would lend it to me."
Four travelers crossed the Niagara re
cently by fern below the falls, and hired a
colored conuiman to drive them to the
Clifton II 'use. Sayi one: "Now, coach
man, v iu have behind you an Englishman,
an Iri.hman, 1 Scotchman and a Yankee.
V liich of us would you rather draw up the
hill " "The Yankee." "Why?" "Be
cause a Yankee if he tut only a dollar in
Ins pocket will spend it, while an English
man If he has a thousand will argue about
a quarter.4' The number of foreign visitors
at Niagara during the past season hat been
unprecedentedly Urge. The hackmen,
however, have a violent antipathy for Eng
lishmen, as a worrying, unpardonably dote,
and incontinently argumentive class.
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