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Domestic EcopopY'
Facts About Flour.
The Boston Journal of VhemUlry, in a well-con-Btdered
article on the effects of fine flour, says,
At the present time it is the practice to a
large extent among millers, to grind the finest,
soundest wheat into fine flour, and the poorest
into what is called "Graham flour." This
term, "Graham flour" ought no longer to be
used. It is a kind of general name given to
mixtures of bran and spoiled flour, to a large
extent unfit for human food. What we need is
good, sweet wheat flour, finely ground, and
securely put up for family use.
This article we do not find in the market, and
the Western miller who will give his earnest to school in shoes which,
attention to furnishing such flour will realize a
fortune speedily. The brown loaf made from
whole wheat is to our eye as handsome as the
white. It can be made with all the excellencies
of the white so far as lightness is concerned,
and it is sweeter and more palatable. With
this loaf we secure all the important nutritive
principles wMch the Creator, for wise reasons,
has stored in wheat.
This oontempt for the thermometer the
only trustworthy guide in fire-making is pos
itively perverse, and so is much of the popular
notion about "hardening." For the average
man or woman exposure to the weather may
have a bracing or otherwise beneficial effect, but
the loss is as great as the gain; and for the old,
for children and for persons of low vitality, is
probably greater. People will sit, not in the
air, but in drafts of the bad kind, drafts for
example such as come under badly fitting doors
in railroad carriages, with the utmost Indiffer
ence, and put themselves straight in front of a
fire which would not draw if it were not con
stantly replenished by a stream of colder air.
The same isnorance governs much of the
usual practice as to clothing. The anxious
mother will protect her child's chest with a
care which, if he is not consumptive and wears
flannel, he does not want, and then let him run
if they keep out
Srp 4fD Wool.
Angora Goat Breeding Association.
A Fashionable Becipe. Take a young
woman, and tarn her once in a breadth of
satin, twice in a gauze scarf, and three times
in a puff of tulle; add twenty yards of flowery
garlands, wherewith to season the whole. The
dish is then trussed up, but has not yet suffi
cient dressing. Something heavy in the
shape of a train is needed. It may be made
of matelasse, with raised flowers, or of bro
cade. Skewer it on well behind, and garnish
with gauze butterflies, lace birds, or gilt
beetles. Keep very warm at the base and very
cool at the top. Remove the dressing as much
as possible from the upper part, and pile it on
below. Season with diamonds and serve up
warm.
A New Delicacy fob the Table. The
French have recently devised a new delicacy
for the table, which is quite as expensive as
trollies or palis defoie yras. it is called "been
amel." In its pure state, looks like frozen lard.
It is a jelly made from small fowls; they are
simmered over a Blow fire until cooked to a
semi-liquid condition, the bones are carefully
removed, and then'to two parts of the material
five parts of cream are added, and plenty of
mushrooms and champagne to flavor it. It
takes a great many small fowls, say twenty or
more, to make a single pound of this preparation.
the wet. do not when. he is seated keep out the
deadly chill aiising from the thoroughly wetted
sole. It is not water on the sole of the foot or
anywhere which barms people, but the chill
which the water induces, and which is as inju
rious through the sole of the foot as through
the chest or loius.
We are not, of course, arguing that a man of
ordinary health should be always watching the
thtrmometer, or should attempt to live by rule,
or should sacrifice to mere living the things
without which life is worthless. But he might
make his life more worthy as well as mure
comiortame by attending to a few broad rules
lor avoiding colds, which at present he habitu
ally neglects, and which may ba reduced to
two easily remembered principles: The secret of
temperature is even warmth, to be secured by
clothing and regulated fires; a' d it is chill, not
cold, general chill, or local chill, which encour
ages disease. Herald of Health.
Cooktno "Gbekns." Every housewife thinks
she can cook "greens." It is the simplest of
all dishes; and yet, in most cases, they are
sot well served, for much depends on the man
ner in which they are boiled. The water
should be soft, and a tablespoonful of salt
added to a large sized pot of it, whioh should
be boiling hot when the greens are thrown in;
and then it should be kept on the boiling gat
lop, but uncovered, until they are done, which
can be told by their sinking to the bottom of
the pot, and they should be skimmed out as
quickly as possible into a colander, so that all
the water will run out. Press them with a
small plate, then turn upon a platter, add a
large piece of butter, and cut up fine. Serve
while smoking hot. London Garden.
Suxfbub as a Fibs Extinguisher. Les
Mondta suggests that brimstone Bhould be car
ried on board every ship for use in case of fire.
Half a hundred weight (30 kilos.) of brimstone
would be sufficient to abstract the whole of
the oxygen from 3,531 cubic feet of air. thus
rendering it unfitted to support combust! n.
in a closed space, use a snip r Hold, I he sul
phurous gas produced by the burning of the
brimstone would penetrate where water from
the decks could i.ot be brought to bear, and
the density of the gas would prevent its risiog
ur Bjjinau.ug u uuiu were utucu iu ciuse mtt
hatches with wet sails, etc. It is suggested
that the brimstone should be made up in tin
form of large matches, the ends of which could
be passed through scuttles prepared for them
in the'dtcksor bulkhead in case of need. It
is asserted that $4 or S5 worth of brimstone
would be sufficient to stifle and annihilate all
traces of combustion in an air space of 35.000
cubio feet.
In connection with the above we may re
mark that chloroform vapor has been lately
found by a chemist in Antwerp to act with great
rapidity in extinguishing the flame of the vapor
of petroleum. Combustible gases mixed with
chloroform vapor immediately lost their ex
plosive properties, and even their combusti
bility. It is suggested that chloroform might
be advantageously employed upon a large scale
for extinguishing fires in petroleum stores and
and on board ship.
Oabbots fob Egos. It is not generally
known that boiled carrots, when properly pre
pared, form an excellent substitute for eggs in
puddings. They must, for bis purpose, be
boiled and mashed, and passed through a
coarse cloth or hair selve strainer. The pulp
is then introduced among the other ingredients
of the 'pudding, to the total omission of eggs.
A pudding made up in this way is muoh lighter
than when eggs are nsed, and is much more
palatable. On the principle of economy, this
met is worthy of the prudent housewife's at-ention.
Babbit Cutlets. Prepare the rabbits as you
would for a stew; out the different limbs into
the size of cutlets such as the shoulders cut
in half, also the legs, with the ends of the
bones chopped off, and pieces of the back, even
to the half of the head. Have ready some
bread crumbs and the yolk of an egg beaten up.
Drop each cutlet into the egg and then cover it
up with bread-crumbs,.as for veal cutlets. Fry
them a nioe brown, and when you dish them
pour round them some rich brown gravy, which
may be flavored with tomato sauce if approved,
and put round them rolls of fritd bacon.
Magnetization of Steel. The magnetic
strata are limited to a certain thickness, which
they can never exceed. This limit varies in
different steels. It is very great in those whioh
are soft, and diminishes as the proportion of
carbon augments and as the temper is harder.
For certain bars which the author has studied
it is0m. 4; but he has specimens where it is
below 1-10 m m. The latter only receive what
might be called a superficial magnetio coating,
the thickness of which it is not possible to aug
ment by increasing the intensity of the current.
But if the depth of the magnetization dimin
ishes along with the magnetic conductibility, the
intensity of the magnetism increases. It fol
lows that the quantity of magnetism is subject
to two causes of inverse variation the depth
which increases, and the intensity which les
sens, as the conductivity increases. M. J-Jamin.
New Imitation Silveb Obnaments. In sev
eral stores in Munich various objects of art
have lately been displayed, which are remark
able for their brilliant silver hne. It appears
Lemon Puffs. One quart of milk, the yolks
of six eggs, two cups of white sugar, two table- ,
spoonfuls of flour, three lemon. Beat the j
eggs, sugar and flour together well; beut the i wood, metal, or papier mache. 'ihe mica can
eggs first, then add the lemon juice; have your f,oe easily tinted in different colors, thus adding
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i paste
til you are ready to put it into the oven. Beat
up ine wmtts, add nne white snoar, a large tea
cupful, and beat very light; flavor to taste
When the custard is done spread the icing over
it, set it hack in the oven and let it brown
nicely. Eat as soon as cold.
Qood HKALTH
Taking Cold.
If any considerate medical man wants to
bring his name before the public, let him pub
lish a series of sound rules for preventing
those who will follow them from taking cold.
No danger is more serious; there is none that
physicians can do so very little to cure, except
of course by regimen, of which the sufferers
are impatient, and there is none against which
the population of all classes is more reluctant
to take precautions. They look upon colds as
misfortunes which must come and which do
not signify; and if urged to take precautions
regard the adviser, even if a professional man,
as slightly effeminate, or, as tbey express it,
very much given "to coddling himself. " It does
not strike them that a cold wave kills as many
people as a burst of cholera.
Because strong children survive daily bath
in cold water they think cold water "hardens"
children in winter as well as summer; and be
cause air and exercise are excellent things,
they assume that fog is air, and long walk in
drizzle beneficial. The very use of a ther
mometer to regulate the temperature of a room
seems to be unknown in most houses, and you
will tee sedentary men sitting in a room for
hours with fire which brings the temperature
up to seventy degrees, and then for hours more
with the fire nearly out and the temperature
at fifty-two degrees, or lower. They know, we
suppose, that a sudden fall of eighteen degree
will kill off men of low vitality In hundreds;
will give, perhaps, a third of mankind a "touch
of the liver," and will inflict one-half the re
mainder aa "influenja" nearly m annoying
ad sJaaost as dangerous aa fevar; bat one in
doors they fail to realise their knowledge.
to the beauty of the ornamentation.
How Dbains Act. The water which runs
into drains dug in tough clay soil, enters from
the sides and the bottom, and not from imme
diaMy above the drains. The toughest clay is
bufflcienily permeable to water to allow it to
&ass through rtadily, and after the drains have
een in operation some time, regular and per
manent water channels become established in
the Boil leading from above to the bottoms of
the drains. In digging drains in tough, com
pact clay, numerous small veins of wutt-r are
cut, which show very clearly how readily the
water will pass through such soil as soon as
outletB are provided. The advantage of the
deeper drains is thus explained, and it is readily
seen that their influence extends further in por
portion to their depth.
Tide Calculating Machine. At the last an
nual soiree of the Royal Society in London,
Sir Wm. Thomson's tide calculating machines
were exhibited and bore off the palm of the ex
hibition. By means of the first one observation
of the rise and fall of the tides is made daily
from the shore, and the facts so accumulated
are the constants, and form the basis for setting
the second or calculating machine, in which a
continuous wire passes over a series of wheels
placed at various distances, the result being
that of harmonic motion of different periods
and epochs by which the year's facts can be
ground ont by turning a handwbeel, and re
corded on the paper carrying drum.
To Behove Dints. A novel way to remove
dents from brass kettles is given by a lady in
the Houuhold: Set the bruise on soft snow,
and with a hammer pound gently on it until
the part recovers its proper shape. Won't loose
sand answer as well as snow?
Amexican Line or European Stiamibs.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin reports the
early construction of a fleet of trans-Atlantic
American-built steamers to be ahead of any
thing now afloat in speed and carrying capac
ity. The Band-Blast. The contractors who
have undertaken to furnish 340,000 headstones
for the national cemeteries cut the names, in
their works at Butland, Vt., by metns of the
sand-blast. This cut s a name la four minutes,
ad they complete 600 atonas dally.
(From the Paclac Rural PrcM.
Pursuant to invitation and notice a nnmhnr
of intelligent and public spirited residents of
mis city and adjacent counties met at the roomB
of the Superintendent of the "Gilmore Angora
Goat Breeding Association," and were much
surprised and equally gratified at the unmis
takable proofs whioh met their view from all
sides of the rooms, in the fine exhibition of
the products of the Angora goat, consisting of
buggy robes, mats, ladies' muffs and collar'.
sides of leather from the hides, etc; also, full
pieces 01 monair gooas lor lames' use, manu
factured by Hall & Turner, Jamestown, New
York, fiom mohair tiheared from animals
raised in this State by Mr. Gilmore himself.
The examination of the various specimens
removed at once any and all doubts that may
have existed in the minds of any of the gentle
men then present of the success of the erj'er-
prise, and of the many advantages that will soon
result to the State from its development. It
was a source of regret, however, that so few of
our capitalists availed themselves of so favor
able an opportunity of becoming more con
versant with a subject of so great importance.
and in which, in the course of a few years, they
will be necessitated to be interested. The
agricultural press was ably represented,
Colonel Warren and Cremony, of the Califor
nia Farmer and Commercial Herald, respect
ively, Colonel J. H. P. Wentworth, of the
Hesources of California, Mr Barnum, of th
Pacific Bubal Pbess, and Marcus D. Boruck,
Esq , of the Spirtt of the Times. The Alta was
represented by Mr. Murphy.
The President of the company, Mr. D. L.
McDonald, called the meeting to order, and in
a few remarks as to the objects of the meeting,
directed attention to the many articles on
exhibition, and paid a high comnfiment to Mr.
Gilmore, the exhibitor and producer, and ear
nestly invited capitalists to join with him in
assisting to curry out the plans of the associa
tion for a ful i nd grand development of the
enterprise, showing most conclusively that if
Mr. Gilmore, single handed and alone, had
carried the production of mohair to such a suc
cessful point, what might be done in the imme
diate luture oy a liberal investment and con
centration of capital under his management.
Mr. Gilmore then explained the object and
si'ope of the association, which are substan
tially as set forth in die accompanying circu
lar: The Gilmore Angora Goat Breeding Association.
Whatever tends to improve the mat 'rial welfare
of a community must be an object of solicitude
and anxious interest to all the members
thereof, and especially to those who are seek
ing profitable and safe investment for their
capital. It is for the purpose of directing an
intelligent publio opinion to a subject of grow
ing importance and manifest value, that the
following statement of faots has been prepared
for public consideration, with the hope and
expectation that it will enlist active co-opera
tion.
The breeding of Angora goats and the pro
duction of mohair is becoming a leading indus
try in this State, and has progressed to such a
degree that breeders from our State formed
themselves into a convention which met at
Sacramento on the 28th of February, 1872,
when Nathan Gilmore, Laurens A. Upson and
W. J. ProBser were appointed a committee to
report on the breeding, condition, etc, of
Angora goats on the Pacifio slope. That com
mittee, in the discharge of its duties, rendered
a full and exhaustive report, from which report
the following has been copied.
"1st. That the experiment of importing and
acclimating them has been crowned with suc
cess. They have proved both healthy and
prolific, many of them bearing twins. The
offspring of the pure blood goats are improved
in size, and bear heavier fleeces than the im
ported, with no deterioration in quality, fully
retaining ineir ncn, siuy ana glossy character,
a distinguishing feature over other textiles.
The fleece will range in weight from three to
three and one half pounds each from third
cross to pure blood, where they are in large
bands; but where they range in small bands,
properly sheltered and cared for, they will
average four to five pounds each. The whole
number of pure blood imported goats, including
their offspring, will approximate 240 head,
about 100 of which are owned by one party in
Monterey county, about fifty in the hands of
another party in El Dorado county, while the
remainder are scattered throughout the coast.
i The gain in numoer ana the increase in size
may be attributable to climatic effects, and the
superiority ol our pasturage over that of their
native region.
"2d. That the crossing of them with the
native goat (breeding the Angora buck to
the common female goat) has been equally
successful. Tne progeny is healthy and in
creased in size over both native and pure blood
stock. The fourth cross produces as heavy a
fleece, and of ns good quality as the imported,
while the flesh of the gradeB makes excelleut
mutton, which now commands a ready sale,
the foolish prejudice against the use of their
flesh yielding to goou ommon sense, it being
a well established fact that thev are far more
healthy than heep, being free from scab and
other cutaneous diseases; more cleanly in their
habits, with none of the rank, musky smell so
offensive in the common goat. Their flesh is
also as white as that of the finest sheep in
this greatly differing from that of the native
goat, which is quite dark. These qualities,
when fully known, will in time give them the
preference over all other meats for mutton.
"3d. That the arid plains, busby foothills,
and rough mountains of the entire Pacifio coast
are well adapted to their successful growth, has
been rully demonstrated by actual experience,
as they are now flourishing fn.m Oregon on
the north to San Diego on the south from the
shores of the Pacific to the sagebrush plains of
Nevada, numbering, from the best data now at
band, over 40,000; and that there is enough of
barren wasted land on our coast that is adapted
for no other domestio animal, except the goat,
on which millions of them could be raised free
of cost, except for the purchase of the goats,
the employment of a herder, the salting of the
animals and the erection of a cheap corral and
cabin, any intelligent person acquainted with
the character and extent of the country and the
habits of the animals will readily concede.
"4th. From the number of grade goats
given, one might without reflection conclude
that there should be a much greater number of
wcbl bearing animals than there really U. A
large majority of persons who first engaged in
the business were induced from various reasons,
principally from the scarcity of pure blood and
nigh grade animals, to use grade bucks (and
low grades at that), a great proportion of them
being leas than seven-elgbths. No fleece has
resulted from such crossing; neither is it possi
ble to attain that end so long as such bucks are
nsed. As well yes, better might the breeders
of horse expect 330 colts by breeding full
blooded mustangmare to half or three-fourth
blood stallions. This much, however, hss been
attained: A large number of grades have been
by this system of breeding, worked up to a
point that by now crossing with the pure blood
backs, a flock of valaable wool bearing goats
will be the iassedUte result; aad we eaaaot too
strongly urge upon all such breeders to at once I
uiat vu meir graue uuckh bdu replace wun tne
pure blood animal. And to those who are
thinking of starting iu the business from the
native female goat, we should earnestly urge
them to procure none but the pure blood
bucks certainly none of a lower grade than
fifteen-sixteenths, and to be sure and use none
of them on any grade ewes above the second
cross. We feel that this branch of the business
cannot be too fully understood by those already
in the business, or those who may Ihiuk of
engaging therein, in crossing, the ueece all
comes from the buok, consequently the blood
of the buck should be pure.'f
Since the time that report was made, the
production of mobair has been largely in
creased; but for sufficient reasons herein Bet
forto, not enough to keep pare with the wishes
and expectations of its inauguralors and friends,
nor with an over encer publio hope and destre,
that had been artificially excited by kindly, but
crudely digested atticles in various journals of
tbe State. The ardent efforts of practised and
intelligent breeders, have been sadly retarded
by the injudicious management of those who
wished to become too suddenly successful, and
persisted in the using of low grade bucks, being
induced bo to do by their comparative cheap
ness, and positive assurance of those ho
owned and wished to find a profitable market
for them. Furthermore, Angora goats of
superior quality are very far trom being in
numerical proportion to those that are inferior.
and for these obstacles the businei s has not
prospered as we could have wished, and had
good reason to expect. It is to obviate these
difficulties; consolidate the iulerest of intel
ligent breeders and capitalists engaging in this
enterprise, that the association proposes to
enter upon a more comprehensive policy, and
to this end it is necessary to purchase and col
lect all the small lots of marketable mohair
and pelts that dre now scattered throughout
the State, and render them available for sale
and manufacture, thereby directing attention
to our ability to produce these valuable articles.
Il is our intention to breed and maintain a large
band of mobair producing goats of selected
fine grade ewes, served only by pure choice
thorough-bred bucks, and likewise to keep an
other band of pure blood ewes, aud from time
to time make fresh importation from Asia
Minor.
This course cf aotion will enable persons
commencing the business to provide themselves
with a selection of choice grade ewea and pure
blood bucks, establishing a large and lucrative
industry, and defying and wiping out all com
petition from inferior stock. The business
orce established cannot fail to be very lucrative
to those engaged in it, and in the very near
future, will add millions of dollars to the an
nual income of the State. There are at present
immense tracts of land bordering our ranges of
mountains, that are entirely unsuited to cultiva
tion, but afford the finest natural pastures for
the Angora goat. While tending the flocks and
performing other duties connected with the
business of breeding, other occupations can be
found to give employment to thousands of
inaustrious persons.
Of the direct pecuniary profits arising from
the breeding of choice Angora go its, it is only
necessary to speak in general terms. It is now
universally admitted that those who eugaged in
the breeding of sheep, when oar State was
open to occupancy in large tracts, have in al
most every instance become very wealthy,
with only an average price of twenty cents per
pound, and an average amount of yield not ex
ceeding seven pounds. It is equally well estab
lished, that the average price of mohair in the
English markets for the last fifteen years, has
not been less than eighty cents per pound,
and at the present date it is ninety cents per
pound, while the average yield from pure blood
and grades crossed by pure blood bucks, after
the fourth cross, is from four to six pounds per
year, which shows the difference of value of
sheep and goat wool, viz.: sheep, $1.40; goats,
$3, GO; a difference of nearly three hundred per
cent. That the relative difference in the prices of
these two wools or hair must always be main
tained, is as certain and sure as that tho price
of cotton will never equal or approaoh the price
of Bilk.
The pelts of one-half, three-quarters and
seven-eighths wethers slaughtered for mutton,
will, with proper management, become a source
of increased revenue. The Angora goats breed
as fast as sheep, and require no greater amount
of care, while they are hardier and thrive well
in portions of the country where sheep could
not subsist.
Until mohair is produoed on this coast in
sufficient quantity to warrant the establishment
of manufactories, it must be exported to the
Eastern States and England; woollen, ootton,
silk and other manufactories are established
when the production of the raw material is in
sufficient quantity for tbe employment of ma
chinery. But with regard to expoitation it is
well understood that the higher the price of an
article, the better it will bear tho cost of trans
portation. The point selected and secured by the com.
pauy for its principal stook ranch is situated
in El Dorado county, four miles from Shingle
Springs, tbe depot of the Sacramento Valley
railroad, which will guarantee easy and regular
communication with all sections of the coast
for the transportation of stock; it contains over
lour thousand (4,000) acres, and can be en
larged as may suit our wauts; title, United
States patent and possession. A portion of
the ranch has tbe barns, fences, corrals, etc.,
necessary for the proper and convenient hand
ling of stock. A large traot of land of the oom
pany is situated near Lake Tahoe or Lake
Bigler, and while it is not necessary to change
the range, there is but little question that a
heavier fleece and of better quality can be ob
tained by pasturing on green feed in higher
altitudes during tbe hot months of summer.
The nucleus of the flock is of tbe pure blood
and high grades of N. Gilmore, El Dorado
county, representatives of which have been ex.
hibited at tbe different agricultural fairs since
1870, and always have bad awarded to them the
highest premiums over every other competitor
tn the State.
Mr. Gilmore baa been selected by the direct
ors to superintend and manage the business,
and will devote to it bis entire time and ear
nest attention. His acknowledged reputation
for integrity and energy, and the zeal and intel
ligence he has shown in all his efforts in con
nection with the breeding of Angora goats and
the production of mobair, entitle him to tbe
fornia, at 2935o; 300 do fall do, at 1623o;
125 bags scoured, at 5871o; 26.000 lbs Western
Texas, at 2728J.-ic; 6000 lbs Eastern do, pri
vate; 75 bags NWl pulled, at 2530o; 100 do
low super, at 40o; CO do, at 4560c; 30,000 lbs
Maine do, at 56c; 25 do blaok do, private;
25.000 lbs X and XX Ohio fleece, at 5455e;
5000 lbs fine unwashed Western do, at 67e;
3000 lbs fat sheep's, at 31o;alotof unmerchant
able, on private terms.
Boston. Mav 8. Transactions in the Wool
market have again been quite large, but there
is no improvement to notice, and holders are
still disposed to close up their stocks as rapidly
as possible. The principal transactions have
been in pulUd and California. Fine fleeces
still move slowly, and holders bave to shade a
little on both fine fleeces and Australians to
effect sales; but medium and combing and de
laine fleo.-es still command very extreme prices.
The stock of flue fleeces here is considerably
reduced, and mostly in the hands of one house.
Transactions in fleece include some 116,000 lbs.
Ohio and Pennsylvania flf ece. at 54c. for XXX,
53c. for good XX. and 5i57c. for low X and
No. 1. A choice No. 1 Ohio would sell at 58
60c, while XX fleeces cannot be forced off to
any extent at over 5253c Medium Michigan
has been sold at 52c. while X rancos from 4R
(al50o. ; and choice medium New York has been
sold at 63c, while good X sold at 49c. Me
dium, low X, and No. 1 fleeces are in fact the
only fleeces that can be disposed of at a satis
factory price, and fine Wools are at. much nra.
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i no ni, nuy uuie 1'ir Home weeas. xne
past scarcity of medium fleeces continues to
turn the attention of manufacturers to flue
supers, and this description is in demand at
about previous prices. X pulled is very little
inquired for, and low pulled is also rather dull.
There is still a disposition on the part of re
ceivers to kqep supplies of pulled sold up as
close as possible, as prices are rb high now as
they are likely to be for some time. Transac
tions in California have been the largest for a
long time, comprising 772,000 lbs. fall and
spring, at 1524o. for fall, and 213Go. for
spring. The highest price before obtainable
for new spring has been 35c, and this may be
considered au outside figure for choioe lots.
Good average lota will not bring over 2830c,
There havelieeu sales of combing and delaine
fleeces at 5456c; unwashed combing and de
laine at 3750o. ; scoured, C3J1.05, and super
pulled at 3557o. Call
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Roses and Roses.
fullest public confidence
Eastern Wool Market.
Boston. May 8. The Wool market continues
very dull, tboogb toward the close there was a
slight increase in tbe demand. The sales of the
week chiefly were of California. There appears
more disposition on tbe part of holders to meet
the views of manufacturers, though the change
in rates has not been great. New spring Is being
received in moderate quantities, but prices
realized are somewhat below what dealers were
led to expect. It has got to be a very choice
lot that will realize 35c; most of the sales
were made at 30332 or 33c. Fall California
has met with very liberal demand, and prices
continue firm. Both foreign clothing and oar-
pet material are quiet, but prices exhibit no
change. Bales for the week comprise 69 bales
iuatralian, at 61&62o; 36 do Cape, private; 30
do last India, at abort 16c; 181 do spring GaU-
From Pacifio Sural Presa.
Tho queen of flowers is holding her court.
Her real name is Bosa Lamaque, but her mani
fest royalty forbids any word but queon. She
is fairest, purest, sweetest, not girlishly but
full womanly, as befits a queen. But her mai
dens are also fair, royally Bhe rejoices in their
praise, these we can name, and we love the
nanus, even, of those we love well, so let us
look at Souvenir dJun Ami, pale, flesh oolored,
with a deeper tinted center, and at Rtlne
blanche, pearl colored, with the faintest blush.
It in a good time to get acquainted -with all
the peculiarities of roses. The budding time
is ' near at hand, and hundreds of ladies
who read the Pbess will wish to add to
their collection if they can only be persuaded
to take or steal time to attend to it at
the right moment. Mrs. Moore, who budded
roses as deftly and almost as fast as a profes
fessional, is over in Paris, where so many of the
finest fanoy roses had their birth, and as nothing
escapes her sharp eye for beauty, she will have
muoh to tell us on her return of new sorts.
Perhaps she will be able to tell us how to keep
away the mildew. Meanwhile, dear readers of
the Pbkss, notice the dark rioh crimson of Duke
of Edinburgh rose, of John Hopper, whioh glows
like a good deed in a naughty world, of Horaoe
Vernet, and above all, of General Jagueminot
Enjoy the creamy whiteness of the unspoiled
Cherokee, and bud its long runners with other
climbing kinds if your spaoe is limited. You
may bud in deep colors and let the lower
sprays run another season tho orop of new
roses will be spare but fine. General Jagueminot
is a glorious rose to burst out of a cloud of
white roses.
Again, it is time for tho amateur lady gardener
to experiment in hvbrldUina ruses. It in nl.
ways right to reach forward, and who knows
but tbe perfect rose is to flower fur us. Madamo
lianayisan honest old maternal rose, who is
always trying to run baok intj a sweetbriar;
try crossing it upon Cherokee, or the latter
with Marshal Neil. I used to raise iu the East
the finest moss rose I ever saw Henri Martin,
one of the deepest colored, most velvety and
abundantly mussed
I like copper colored roses, those that take tbe
metallio luntrex, aud are now bo much the
standards iu artificial flower makiug, Old
Itegulus is one of the boat of those. The
nomenclature of roses is a good deal awry on
this ooiist, or else in the Eist roses had out
grown the habits of their early years; I judge
this is bo, because East' ru experts speak of
iucorrect or varied nomenclature as well as my
self. The habits are very likely somewhat
altered with the chango of climate and con
dition, Banksia roses here aro truly "tho right roses
in the right place." Nothing could bu more
perfect for planting on the edgoi of banks and
ravines. They like to mako believe tbey are
wild raspberries or blackberries. Tbey live to
great age; tbey grow immense stoolm, there is
one at Toulon two feet fuur tnobeB in circum
ference, which covered a wall sevonty-nve feet
wido and eighteen feet high, and had Bixty
thousand flowers blossoming at onoe. I have
not seen the rose-oolored liauksla here.
Gather about your homes at liast a dozen
good roses, climbing, perpetual, teas and
mosses. Don t expect to get "every ding's in
one rose," as tbe Dutch gtrlener said. "I
bave so much trouble mitde ladies vot oome to
buy mine rose. Dey vants him hardy, dey
vants him fragrand. dey vants him moonthlv.
dey vants him doubles, dey vants him fine
color; and I says, I often seen dat ladies dat
vas rich, dat vas young, dat van vise, dat vas
handsome, dat vas good temper, dat vas per
fection in one ladies, I see her muoh not."
She is coming, though; but she will love a gar
den, aud so will her young man.
Jcammk G. Cabs,
We have not half enough "lily wisdom" on
this coast. I had tamed every wild lily east of
the Mississippi, before I came here to find the
most inagninoent wild lilies 1 ever saw. Suc
cess In growing these depends upon deep plant
inj, shade and water. We can have lilies from
the first of May to September.
I bave found tbe ants troubling my lily bulbs;
they contain sugar and starch, and these little
peats had discovered it. They will consume
bulb In an incredibly short spaoe of time, cut
ting off scale by scale. J, O, 0.
Doo fanciers may be interest! in learning
that the Treasury Department sequieeoee in tbe
iudicial decision that Geimau bUusmk are ex
empt from doty under the isjciai provision
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