Willamette farmer., August 06, 1875, Page 3, Image 3

WILLAMKTTE FARMER.
DofdESJIC EcOftOfllY
Luncheon in the City.
The two most common subjeots of complaint
with wiveB and mothers of limited income in
this and other large cities are, first, that thoy
are debarred from society by the expense of the
ordinary methods of hospitality; and secondly,
that the habits of city life separate them from
the oompanionship of their children. The wife
of a man in moderate circumstances tells yon
that she cannot afford to give balls, kettle
drum", or even dinners to her friends; that ber
boys and girls sourry off to school after a har
ried breakfast, and dine at noon alone; for, be
ing a woman of sense, she will not allow them
to eat the heaviest meal of the day at six or
seven p. M., the hoar when their father comes
home to dinner. The family dinner at midday,
and the evening tea of , inland towns, at which
parents and children gather abont the table and
learn to know one another through the inter
ests and feelings of every day, are almost un
known in the same grade of Bocial city life.
Now we suggest that luncheon is a meal of
undeveloped opportunities to the housekeeper
and mother. We do not by any means refer to
the elaborate state lunches given by leaders of
fashion duiing the last two or three years,
where the floral decorations alone cost a liberal
annual income. Hut there is no reason why
any housekeeper should not, with a little per
sonal trouble, convert her children's dinner
into a delicately served savory meal to which
she could invite informally two or three of her
lady friends. It is emphatically a woman's meal ;
and husbands need "not hint cynically that the
chief dish will bo gossip. There is no better
talk than that of three or four cultured, clever
women, alone together; none which would be
more civilizing aud effeotive on children.
How is a child to acquire good breeding if it
is not brought socially into contact with well
bred people? American children in cities are
crammed with all kinds of knowledge, but they
are left to the companionship of servants and
of one another; who can blame them if they too
often betray the ideas and manners of the
kitchen and the ball ground?
The dishes on the lunoh table should be
light but prettily served. A meal of cold
meats, pickles, creams, fruit, thick chocolate,
with dry toast, etc, can be more easily made
attractive, as every experienced housekeeper
knows, than the heavy courses of a dinner. It
is advisable, too, for this noonday meal, to
color the table warmly. The majority of eco
nomical housewives buy tho plain white china
for every day use, but it has, to us, a chilly and
meager air in conjunction with the ordinary
napery. There are equally cheap sets of both
English and French china of delicate and rich
colors, which, nnder skillful handling, convert
an ordinary meal into a picture. The most
beautiful and (where there is any garden room)
tho cheapest table decoration is, of course,
flowers. A little care and trouble will provide
this without expense. Morning-glory, Oobea,
wild ivy, and Learii will grow each in a foot
square of the back yard, and bestow themselves
skyward thereafter, and with a few boxes of
Coleus in an attio window, will orown your
board with splendor like jewel-", until the snow
comes.' This daily lunoh requires, perhaps,
time and care; but our reader will find her re
ward at the end of the year, if she have estab
lished the custom in her house of a wholesome,
unhurried, dainty meal, where she can meet
her children and friends cheerfully and with
little cost. Scribner.
How to Keep Meat Fresh a Long Time.
We have for authority the Inter-Ocean for
saying that the following recipe is worth the
subscription price of any newspaper in the
land:
As soon as the animal heat is out of the
meat, slice it up ready for cooking. Prepare a
large jar by Bcalding well with hot salt and
water. Mix salt and pulverized saltpeter in
the proportion of one tablespoonful of saltpeter
to one teacupf ul of salt. Cover the bottom of
the jar with a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Put
down a layer of meat, sprinkle with salt and
pepper, the same as if just going on the table,
and continue in this manner till the jar is full.
Fold a cloth or towel and wet it in strong salt
and water, in which a little of the saltpeter is
dissolved. Press the cloth closely over the
meat and set in a cool place. Bo sure and
press the cloth on tightly .as each layer is re
moved, and your meat will keep for months.
It is a good plan to let the meat lie over night
after it is slioed, before packing. Then drain
off all the blood that oozes from it. It will be
neceBsary to change the cloth occasionally, or
take it off and wash it first in cold water
then soald in salt and water as nt first. In this
way farmers can have fresh meat tho year
round. "I have kept beef," says the writer,
"that' was killed the 12th of Febrnarv. until
cream, if" you have it; let it boil fiyo minutes
and ponroyertbe dish of meat.j it t
Qood HelTH-
Milk Diet in Typhoid Fever.
Dr. Ii. R. Rogers,- of, Albany, sends to the
Ifedioal Record the following account of his
management of a' severe case of typhoid fever
on the milk diet principle:
The point to which I wish to call attention is
the diet part of the- treatment. As soon as I
felt sure that she was going to have a regular
"run" of fever, I commenced to give milk
fresh, raw, cow's milk, from one cow, and not
more than twelve hours old at any time. I
gave, during the hight of the disease, from one
and one-half to two quarts per day; every hour
at first, then every half hour, and for over two
weeks every quarter hour, without any water
or other food, except a few times when I tried
beef tea and other dietary preparations. The
latter in every instance raised her pulse and
fever, and thickened the for on her tongue.
Her bowels gave no trouble, moving by injec
tions once in four or five days, the dejections
like those of an infant. Quinine and stimu
lants made her worse every time when tried,
and the severe pain in back and limbs, which
came on everyjday about six p. u., was quieted
in ten or fifteen minutes by a mild current of
Faradie electricity from the back of the neck
to the sacrum of the feet, which was continued
twenty or thirty minute.
This treatment I used for thirty-two consec
utive days, giving each time a good night's
rest, free from pun, without anything in the
shape of opiates. I had the best counsel the
county afforded, and the ease was conslckred
by all who saw it one of the most severe.
Small doses of the sulphite of soda were all
the medicine she took that did not disagree,
and I gave this simply to prevont decomposi
tion in the milk.
There were many fatal cases in the epidemic,
but all who bore milk w ell reoovered. In this
case, although she had the nourishment in otio
and one-half to two quarts of the best milk,
she continued to get weaker ami weaker for
over four weeks, which shows very plainly that
any other diet would have tailed to meet the
emergenoy.
Milk contains all that U needed to nourish
and keep up every part of the system, nearly,
and is always the same; while our beit dietary
mixtures are wanting in many things needtd
by the economy, and cannot be made twice
alike. I have since that time used milk very
freely in all stages of various diseases, and
have had reason to be well satisfied with it as
the best diet for both adults and children.
I do not put forth this case as one to copy
from in the particular treatment, but simply to
show that the best article of diet that the woild
contains, either in disease or in convalescence,
and one always obtainable, is too often neglect
ed, and complex dietary compounds used in
stead. The patient in this inotance was con
fined to the house over eight weeks, and made
an excellent recovery. She was thirly-six
when it occurred, and is now forty-three, and
has never been sick since.
Death Indoors.
Multitudes of persons have a great horror of
going out of doors for fear of taking cold; if it
is a little damp, or a little windy, or a little
cold, they wait, and wait and wait; meanwhile
weeks and even months pass away, and they
never, during that whole time, breathe a single
breath of pure air. The result is, they become
so enfeebled that their constitutions have no
power of resistance; the least thing in the
world gives them a oold; even going from one
room to another, and before they know it they
have a cold all the time, and this is nothing
more or less than consumption; whereas, if an
opposite practice had been followed of coine
out for an hour or two every day, regardless of
the weather, so it is not actually falling rain,
a very different result would have taken place.
The truth is, the more a person is out of doors
tno less easily does no tako cold. It is a
widely known fact that persons who camp out
every night, or sleep under a tree for weeks
together, seldom take cold at all.
Very many of our bad colds, and those of a
most fatal form, are taken in the house, and
not out of doors; taken by removing parts of
clothing too soon after coming into the house,
or lying down on a bed or sofa when In a tired
or exhausted condition from having engaged
too vigorously in domestic employments. Manv
a pie has cost an industrious man a hundred
dollars. A human life has many a time paid
for an apple dumpling. When our wives go
to work, they become so interested in it that
they find themselves utterly exhausted before
they know it; their ambition to complete a
thing, to do their work well, sustains them till
it is completed. The mental and physical con
dition is one of exhaustion, when a breath of
air will give a cold, to settle in the joints, to
wake up next day wiih inflammatory rheuma
tism, or with a feeling of stiffness or soreness,
as if they had been pounded in a bag; or a sore
tnroat to worry and trouble them lor months;
or lung fever to put them In the grave in less
than a week.
Our wives should work by the day, if they
must work at all, and not by the job; it is more
economical in the end to see how little work
they can do in an hour, instead of how' much.
It is slow, steady, continuous labor which
brings health, and strength, and a good diges
tion. Fitful labor is ruinous to all. Hall's
Journal.
Avoro Protracted Toil. The work of the
day should be conducted in the best manner.
Thorough, careful, intelligent work during
seven or eight hours is much more profitable
tnan ten hours or hurried work. In cities,
merchants and business men seldom apply
themselves more than six hours a day, and
probably the greater part of the best work done
in that city is performed in less than five hours
each day. There is no reason why farmers
who create the wealth of tho world should
labor more hours than they who manage this
wealth. Formerly, oonetant toil was required
to support dfamily, because all work was
done at a disadvantage, tools of all kinds were
poor, and labor saving machinery was un
known. More actual work was -required in
the last generation to make the clottiing of a
family than is now required to buy the cloth
ing, and the food added, and every year the
farmer has new advantages and powers in this
direction. It is for this reason that the
farmer should seek to enlarge his means for
acquiring information, and of rising to new
dignity. This he can only do by having more
leisure, and uy avoiding protraoted toil. There
is no good reason now why he may not unite
culture and elegance with rural pursuits.
Jficaiooer.
I Applyino toe Stomach Pdmp. In the Glas
uow Medical Journal, Dr. McEwen reoommends
'.hat in the uss of the stomach pump the head
Should be bent forward on the introduction of
he tube, instead of backward, as is generally
aught in books. When the head is thrown
ackward. he savs the snine becomes convex
anteriorly, and a the tube is passed along it
bass tendency to impinge. upon the larynx;
but when the head is bent forward then the
mouth, 'pharynx and oesophagus form a curve
along which the tube glides gently into the
esophagus, and at the same' time is directed
away from tho larynx.
A species of dysentery or approximation to
light cholera has been prevalent in Uhiah and
vicinity, for a short time, assuming, tho charac
ter of an epidemic. In the cases of " several
children and adults the attacks have proved
speedily fatal.
Parasite:, on Wasp Stinos, A correspond
ent of the Scientific American says : "The other
day while I was dissecting a wasp, I took out
his sting and found upon it a parasite. It was
oval in shape. Its legs bad hairs around the
joints and around the feet. Its head was small
compared with the body. Its antennas, two in
number, consisted of two joints ; from the end
projected two hairs as long as the other part of
the antennaj. Its color was white. If among
your readers there is one who can inform me
concerning this parasite, I woald be very glad
to hear from them."
The Atmosphere or Venus. The atmos
phere of the planet Venus was distinctly vis
ible during the recent transit, and was seen by
the astronomical party stationed at Thebes, in
Egypt, as a pale white circle around a part of
the planet's edge, totally differing from the
brilliant sunlight. "The general remark,"
says one of the observers, "was that it re
minded us of moonlight." It is the opinion
of many astronomers that the atmosphere sur
rounding Venus Is muoh deeper than the at
mosphere of the earth.
It is reported that thirty-five bridges were
destroyed by the recent floods in the south of
Franoe,
TlE 01 rY'
Different Types of Milk.
Jersey Milk.
The Jersey milk sepirates its cream more
completely than either the Ayrshire or
Dutch milk, and its cream usually churns into
butter more readily. The variat ons between
the time occupied in churning, is determined
Dy ine mtiK giouuie, uuu wu uuu tutu uih creuui
with the largest glubule takes less time 10
churn. The globule varies in siz, according
to circumstances affecting the same cow, and
we thus have an individual as well as a bretd
variation, but. as far as I hive determined.
within defined lituits. Should milk be drsired
for the supply of families, the Jersey milk,
from theso qualities which give it valnu for
bntter, is unfitted. The cream finding its way
to the BUiface so speedily and completely, al
lows a different quality of produot to be fur
nished to consumers out of the same can. If
each customer received the same quality each
day, this would make less difference, but he
who receives a quart of cream to-day, is dis
satisfied with the quart of blue milk received at
another time, and is apt to talk mysteriously
about "trout" and "presumptive evidence."
This featnre of delivery, perhaps, can bo ob
viated by Increasing core on the part ot the
man who delivers, but this trouble is present,
and is a necessity.
Again, this quality would seem to render the
milk of the Jersey cows unsuited for the cheese
manufacturer. As I gather from tho conversa
tion and writings of these people, there is a
difficulty experienced in retainiug the oream iu
the cheese. A certain quantity rising to the
surface in the intervals of manipulation, will
not again mix with the milk, in the ordinary
process of making, and is accordingly lost to
the cheese. A milk whose globule rises quick
ly and completely, would seem to aggravate
this trouble, whenever used.
For butter the Jersey milk is well suited.
The creamSises quiakly to the surface, and
churns with great facility under favorable cir
cumstances, and little ot the butter remains in
the skim milk. The Bize ot the globule, how
ever, allows a large amount of nitrogenous mat
ter to remain entangled with the butter, and
theoretically this would affect its keeping qual
ities, as ordinarily made. The butter is usually
of an orange-yellow color, and a judgment can
be formed of the depth of color the cow will
give to her butter, by examining the wax se
cretion of the ear. This secretion, it will be
remembered, like the bntter, changes color by
exposure to the air, and is probably atlected
by the " feed " of the cow. Some experience,
and a knowledge of physiological reasons, is
required to interpret this indication correctly.
Ayrshire Milk.
The milk of the Ayrshire cow is habitually
used in Scotland for the manufacture of either
butter or cheese, or both. Tho effect of this
on her breeding has been to build up ono class
of cows which' aro exoellent butter makers, and
another class better suited to the production of
oheese. The cow which oooupies a place be
tween these two extremes, is valuable both for
the production of butter and cheese, although
not equal to the typal extremes for the produc
tion ol either product alone. This division is
not only indicated by experimental practice,
but also by the appearance of the milk globules
under the microscope. The butter family of
Ayrshires are large milkers, and their milk
shows a globule not equal in size to that from
Jersey milk, yet large enough to indicate ex
cellent butter qualities. The butter is of a
yellow color, olton deep, yet not possessing
that peculiar orange oolor which is otton char
acteristic of the product of the Jersey cow. Its
quantity is large at the period of greatest flow,
and as lar as our facts indicate, the cow of this
division yields a large annual product.
The cheese family of Ayrshires furnish a
large secretion of milk, containing a small
globule and more numerous granules than
does tho milk from tho butter family. Tho
cream rises to the surface less completely, and
mixes again more readily. A practical differ
ence between the milk of the two families being
the greater uniformity of constitution of the
milk, after standing, in the one case than in
the other.
The predominant feature of the Ayrshire
milk from all the unimals of the breed, is the
occurrence of abundant granules or extremely
small globules, which gives a white rather than
a blue appearance to the skim milk.
Holstein Milk.
The Dutch milk has a small globule, smaller
than in the Ayrshire, more uniform in tboir
sizes, and a far less number so small as to be
called granules. The cream accordingly rises
somewhat slower than does the Ayrshire
cream, and leaves a blue skim milk. The
cream seems to mix with the skim milk quite
readily by agitation.
Our statements in regard to this milk may
seem paradoxical. The cream rises quicker
than does the Ayrshire cream, when consid
ered with reference to the whole amount ; for
there is always a larger number of granules loft
in the Ayrshire milk, for which there is not time
between the setting aud coagulation for the
gaining the surface On the other hand a cer
tain amount of the Ayrshire cream rises to the
surface quicker than does tho Dutch cream.
When the two milks are placed in percentage
glasses, bide by side, the Ayrshire milk will
throw up five per cent, while the Dutch milk
is throwing up four; while the Dutch milk will
have thrown ten per cent, while the Ayr
shire milk has thrown up eight ; while
perhaps if both milks are left to the last
moment before coagulation, the Dutch milk
will, show ten per cent., while the Ayr
shire milk may show twelve. This statement
is not exact, but a suppositious one for the
purpose of illustration, being founded on im
pressions of mine rather than on proof. The
butter family of Ayrshires will throw up the
same percentage of cream quicker than will
the Dutch milk I have used in my trials.
From a single experiment, the butter made
from this millc was of a pale yellow, deficient iu
orance. It was of a firm, yet not waxy texture,
and displayed great keeping qualities. The
milk was a long time in churning, as would be
expected from the size of the globule. The
quality of the globule fits this milk well for the
cheese-maker, yet the absence of the granule in
numbers, as indicated by (he blue skim milk,
renders it inferior to the Ayrshire ulilk for this
purpose, E, L. Sturtevant, Jf. D,
A New Application or Teleobaphy on
Railways. An English journal says: "A de
cidedly novel invention has been suggested
during the last few days. It is to affix Lamps
to the telegraphs by the side of the railways,
and enable the telegraph clerks at the nearest
station to light them by electricity whenever
there is danger on the line, the idea being that
as soon as the driver of a train saw these Tights
burning be would bring his engine to a stand
still, and remain standing until he received in
structions to proceed."
A fatxnt for the Canon del Aqua land grant,
confirmed to Jose Bcrafin Ramierz, and located
in Monterey county, New Mexico, about fifty
miles from Santa Fe, has been signed by the
Commissioner, The grant contains 3,601 acres.
ffllSCELUEOdS,
' Points in Hop Growing.
Hop culture presents its claim, with other
department, for information through tho col
umns of the Rural Press. A subscriber in
Vnllejo, Solano county, wishes to know what
is the best soil for bops, stating that he has
some rich adobe land which he Intends to use
foi this purpose.
If an experienced hop grower could have an
unrestricted
Choice of Land
He would take just such soil as the tobacco
grower would select for his crop rich, mellow
loam, with a fair capacity for retaining moist
ure. There are tome grades of our adobe land
well adapted to hop growing, and there is
probably none of this class of soil that cannot,
under a proper system ol cultivation, be brought
up to the requirements of these exacting crops,
tobacco and hops; but with our present agri
cultural surroundings, it would be impractic
able to fit the more stubborn qnalities of this
adobe land to these crops. And, it must be
borne in mind, hops are poorly adapted to the
subduing of soils. The ground must be well
prepared for them before the roots are set We
would, therefore, advise our friends who are
preparing for hop planting to avoid, for -the
present, the confirmed stiff and stubborn adobe
soils, but if they have any of this class of land
that has been properly subdued, is easily pul
verized and otherwise favored, they will prob
ably have no difficulty in growing good hops
thereon.
Profits per Acre.
The party mentioned above desires also to be
informed as to "the profits per acre of a fair
average crop." Hops during the years 1874
and 1875 have averaged about thirty cents per
pound; during this period, however, prices
have been unusually steady for this product,
for it is acknowledged to be most unsteady,
bith in yield and prices. The hop yards of
Wisconsin and Central New York produce
from 1,000 pounds to one ton per acre, while
in California, we are informed, the yield ranges
from 800 pounds to 1,800 pounds. We find
that the cost of growiug hops in California
varies but little from the Eastern estimate,
fifteen cents per pound bting accepted by the
growers of both sections as the average cost to
the producer when ready for delivery. It will
be seen that with a yield of only 1,000 pounds
per acre, costing fifteen cents and rolling for
thirty cents, the profit per acre would be $150.
But we are not over fond of estimating
profits, and our acquaintance with hop growing
causes a special reluctanceto embark in suoh
estimates in connection with this crop. We
have known cases where small yards have pro
duced a lull ton to the acre of hops that sold
before they were harvested at fifty-five cents
per pound, costing the grower otly fifteen
cents; and the next year these same yards, with
a yield of about three-fourth tons per acre, and
costing fully fifteen cents per pound, were sold
at seven cents per pound, the grower being
glad to get rid of them at even that price.
This, of course, is an extreme caso and is
not likely to occur again. The Bubal Press
will be tho last to throw oold water on hop
growing; for we are firm in the faith that it is
destined to be one of the most profitable of our
agricultural products and that our present
growers will make money if they stick to it, but
we wish, at the same time, to impress the con
viction upon our readers, that with the pros
pect of large profits in some seasons thoy must
take their chances for actual losses in others.
Self-Supporting Vines.
All who know anything about hop growing
are aware that furnishing poles for the yard is
one of the most prominent items of care and
cost connected with the business. In soirie
localities, where everything with tho exception
of noles favors hop crowing, the difficulty of
obtaining these is bo great as to forbid enbark
ing in this enterprise. But necessity, besides
giving to the world its most useful inventions,
sometimes teaches us how to dispense with all
inventions; and the absence of pole material in
some of the hop growing districts of California
has induced the growers to try the experiment
of dispensing with poles altogether. Iu any
other country a proposition of this kind would
be hooted at as preposterous, for the heavy
summer rains would beat me vines to tne
ground and the hops would be spoiled with the
dirt that would spatter up and mix with them;
but we are assured by those who aro familiar
with this system as being now practiced
here, that the hops are as clean as those grown
on notes. It is to be boned that this is really so.
and that our growers will not rosort to this as a
makeshift, and from a false notion of economy
allow a depreciation of the quality of this crop
in order to save the expense of poling. We
confess to somo doubts- on this score; but
at the name time we freely admit that there are
more favorable points mado apparent than we
had supposed possible. The vines being self
supporting will naturally grow stronger than
thise that are tied to poles at several Btages of
tboir growth, and will not necessarily become
matted and uncontrollable, for, in ju.ticoto this
system, they should receive tho samo attention
that is given to those grown on poles. If they
are properly handled, trailing all the vines in
one direction and keeping a clean spaoe bo
tweeu the rows, the system may prove strictly
practical.
We are called upon to record another
New Departure in Hop Growinq:
The practice of drying hop by tho Aldon pro,
cess. The California Alden agency are about
fitting up an estat'lishinent at rit. Helena, Napa
county, for the purpose of drying this season's
crop for Abraham Clock, ono of the most suc
cessful hop growers in the State. Mr. Clock
has already achieved an enviable reputation for
bis hops, and he is not the man to risk this
reputation by subjecting his crop to a doubtful
process. All parties engaged in this new de
parture undoubtedly know what they are about,
and the result of this season's operations will
be looked for with much interestby all who aro
Interested in the success of this valuable pro
duot. It is claimed that the Alden cured hops are
superior to all others in three essential points,
namely, unbroken blossoms, brightness of
color and strength of aroma; and it has been
demonstrated to be more economic than kiln
drying. Rural Press,
Fire Proof Boors and Staibs. If you will
have wood floors and stairs, lay a flooring of
the thickest sheet iron over the joists, and your
wood upon that, and sheath your stairs with
the same material. A floor will not burn with
out a supply of air under it. Throw a dry
board upon a flat pavement, and kindle it as it
lies if you can. Prevent drafts, and, though
there will be fires, no houses will be consumed.
To Take Observations Dpbiku a Foo. A
correspondent of the Udentlfic American sug
gests that observations might be taken from a
captive balloon allowed to ascend above the
strata of a dense fog.
Wages in England.
Agricultural laborers are in demand in this
State just at the present time. Farm hands
are receiving, during harvest time, from $1.75
to $2 50 per day and board. A comparison of
these rates with what is allowed agricultural
laborers iu England will show a wide difference.
From the Chamber of Ayricullurt Journal we
glean tho following:
Devonshire Constant laborers get 2s. per
week, with cider, and generally a cottigo and
garden or Is. per week. Jobmen get 2s. 6d. to
3s. per day. Time of working, eight and a half
hours. Devonshire South Hours of labor,
nine; and wages, 15s. per week. Hampshire
Day laborers, 12s. to 14s. per week ; stockmen,
16-t. to 18s.; hours, from 6 a. m. to 6 p.m.
Norfolk Wages, 13s. to 15s. per week; piece
work in proportion. Stafford Wages, 16s.
and 18s.; hours, from 6 a. m. to 6 p. m. York
shire Dent men, 18s. per week; inferior men,
lGs. Gel.; hours, from 6 a. m. to 6 p. ii., with
au hour allowed nt noon, no beer. Hands em
ployed in threshing, 4s. per day, with two pints
of beer. Lincolnshire Wages, 2s. 9d. per day.
Berkshire Wages, 13s. per week of ten and a
half hours a day. Somersetshire Wages,
average, in South Somerset, lis., with three
gallons of cider per week, for ten and a half
hours' labor a dsy. Essi x Wages, from 14s.
to 17s ; hours, from 0 a. m. to 5 r. k. Wages
from 13s. to 15s. per week at piecework; some
times mnch more.
We don't think our "immigrants" ought to
be dissatisfied with California wages when they
compare them with the above.
Interesting Experiments. At a late soiree
of the Royal Sooiety of London, several very
interesting and instructive experiments were
performed illustrative of the new and remark
able phenomena in relation to heated iron
one, the lengthening of a bar of soft iron within
a helix of wire by heat ; another showing the
remarkable and anomalous changes which take
place iu the heating and cooling of iron wire.
Thus, while thejiron is first healing thero is a
sudden contraction or cooling. And so again,
when the heat is cut off, the wire cools a little,
and then suddenly reheats and glows, after
wards quietly passing down to a blackness.
Now, tho notable points of these jerks or
changes are that the iron, in the first instance,
loses its magnetism ; and in the last jerk or os
cillation regains it
This was the same meeting at which the re
cent discoveries of Mr. Crookos in relation to the
impact of light woro shown, and which have al
ready been described in these columns. The
meeting was one of unusual interost, both to
those present and to tho cause of progressive
science.
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