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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 9, 3 September 1874, Page 3

There are in America, upwards of ten mills, devoted exclusively to the manufacture of oil from cotton seed, and over 150,000 tons are pressed annually. The oil cake comes largely to England for' use as a cattle ailment. The oil goes mostly to Bordeaux. Barcelona, and other olive growing section-, of Europe, is there "doctored,*' and finds its way back to America, as tt pure 0 ive oil."

The Mikado took to Sydney, from Fiji, an extraordinary animal of the porcine species, for exhibit 'on. The peculiarity consists in its having ihe hind quarters of a second body, connected in a similar manner as the Siamese twins. The hair on the small or second body is very fine; in lace, in some part*, like wool. This small second body hangs down nearly to the ground, and its legs move as if trying to walk, but have not the power of dong so. The double- furrow ploughs are now gradually working their way into favor in England. Ten of these labor-saving implements were, on a recent occasion, engaged in one field io competition for prizes offered by various mariida.ci.urei.-.. The field was in sod, and the ploughing was said by judges to be equal in every respect to that done will: single-furrow ploughs. Tho result was to remove much of the prejudice formerly held against these doubters. The ploughing of one acre occupied six honr-j.

"The time is coming,'' says Mr. M. L Dunlop, Ci when educated labor will be more respected, but that day must be put off until the Agricultural Colleges are out of the hands of mete classical schoolmasters and theological professors."

The principal points by which to discern the quality of the flesh in a fowl are, says the ' Cottage Gardener,' the color of the feet and kind of skin. The yellow foot generally indicates a fowl with tough flesh, heavy bones, and yellow far. It is very rare that this color does not show itself in the skin. However, it does not exclude certain qualities of the flesh in the pure descendants of the two exotic races, Cochin Cliinp and Brahma Pooira. With the exception of yellow and green, which can never be recommended, all other colors from black to white are equally indications of an excellent flesh. When the skin, and *bove all, that of the sides and breast, is of a fine tis-ute, delicate, and easily extended, also having a msypearled color, one may be certain that the flesh is good and will fatten ranid.y. It is reported by the * N E. Parmer' tbat Mr B P. Ware of Salem. Mass, an extensive grower of the fragrant onion, saves his crop from its worst enemy by adopting* the following plan : — " He plants the seed as deep as it wdl bear, as the maggots, when first hatched, are too weak to go down in tbe soil, and by deep planting many wi'l die before reaching their natural food, or be so long working down that, the onion will have had time to make a larger growth, and thus yield food enough to support the maggots without obliging them to seek the nHxt onion in the row. Our contemporary also describes the practice of Air S. P Warner, of Sunderland, Mass, who maintains that the favorite breeding place of the enemy is in withered tops of last years crops. He therefore carefully turns over all refuse matter upon the onion bed late in the Autumn, dresses liberally with well-fined manure, leaving it upon the surface exposed to the an- el 'orating influence of tbe Winters frosts and the drenching rain of Spring-time j sows early iv thoroughly pulverised ground, and attends carefully to the after culture. With this treatment the crop usually gets an early start, makes a vigorous growth, and is able to withstand attacks of enemies and changes of weather. In his neighborhood the damage by the maggot would not amount to five per cent of the crop in the most unfavorable seasons.