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jWe hav/j before us ttte first' of the series &>M&'tf&Bt FMn^'Haridbooksi pub"fsSV & **** of McCartow, Bird & Co, of Mel .boarne, and is entitled " The Science and i/raiotioe of Bu'tter Making in __ustra-"ff-'VV- The* volume ' is' the production , of. r :f!nrfassor >'■ William ' Brown, fipw: J DiVtO&ot pfr.-thg Longer 'nohg Experimental. _?«jrm, Dooen, Vietoria. It appears to'be a most useful and- valuable -^ork for dairymen, as the btisiilefe^tt, de<^fftyl from thQ vpry ootamenoement. TB^6_q_, 119 ; doul>t, it will appear strange to leafri that to'obtain 1a- perfect pUfce.fcf ' butter ironies so muA. trti !l_Qd' spence,' and practice as Wjtte not'thought of years ago ; but where a good price* is needed, gdod arid intelligent w«4 ttlist' be- give*. I*'Oile1 * 'Oile book before ub gives all that ia kjiown to the present of the ßdtt»e and jpwictic^ln butter making., ■- t%% chapter ojh the condition's most suitable - for batt-iv' produotion, "Professor' Srowh ' writes:— < 4 We do net. sufficiently estimate tha valne of shade, arid .shelter—shade by hedging, single tree, and sheds as shelter breaking .storms, acid mellowing local cli- ■ n *H3 P or artificial belts and •ctenrwirl arid around pastures. Assuming, . that food and water together were perfeot ih quantity and quality for a ooy/ r but havinjg no shade or shelter at any time of trie jear, it is safe to say that the difference in favour of the Bimple shade tree even would on u. avong^ amount to pne+fourth of ;her , mux, 'ana as the average cow yields, or should yield, 45001% ~per seaaon, the ' ani^l^a«tu^.am(jufltet6ovt.t£4per i beaa, without nwgßpe .ioi.'her suffering, 1 and a poow quality iit milk." After de■oribiiig *ft«fSJf Jf*" l^ her^lood,; and thea ( leeewjand pastures, and .management, he 1 • . . lemarka ttwtf' '*h cbw'is' at her best form • from five to ten years old." The whole of the direotions are: given by one "who knows," and the right kind of dairyman .■BI enf^ttfcthe treatriient of the an mals. , *Cf fWfr hjpdle * cow ••roughly," never use a ffijgoefltfe|*^uqationi and avoid walking ' .-... gBpMlFw anairom jpaature^ are maxim,-? but very frequently ig-Bbraft'.'lllWlfaisto-y system, and systems ] ,MJttOl*-Jn. other oonn tries are all dealt • '.-itritfc,' ui faot a regular set of articles of MWriatfon-for a factory are given in full. Mtmo^. we,. commend to all our firming JMU > -Wisey 'Caffin't-ft 00, of fXtzMcbn, are the Newi2!eialatni , a(?entß, and tad thejmge is.ppt oattfef , the/ way, being ■^.felttlUogs-* , f "I

that there was something tbe matter with the road, I whistles .down brakes, .hut off steam, put on the air brakes, and stopped the train. Everybody was startled. The conductor ran forward and asked what was the matter. I told him and we started back to investigate. There •was nothing the matter with the road. There wasn't a house, within half a mile of the place, nor could any footprints be discovered in the snow to show that anybody had been in the neighbourhood. Now up to that time I had never heard of the ghost, but I noticed that the conductor, Georgo Wales, was strangely agitated, and the fireman looked scared. The Fiery Globe once mobe. My next 'rip was two nights later, and precisely the same phenomena appeared. I was scared this time That it was supernatural I had no doubt, and despite an inclina ion to brave the ghps.ly warning and keep the train going my hands, turned off the steam and. put ..on the air brakes, almost mechanically. The conductor came forward as before, j I explained exacty the same way, and we went on after failing to discover any reason why a danger signal should have been used at that particular point My . fireman then told me that the apparition, ghost, or whatever it was had been seou by four others, who had all got other, shifts.. They couldn't stand it. Neither could I — and here I am, laidioff A Piu?. tom Ploughman. .i * ■ In the north-western corner of LowAr Mei ion Township, Montgomery County, Pa., a great hubbub has been raised by a phantom farmer who is nightly seen ploughing in a field. Thie apparition was first discovered about the end of March by a farm hand who was returning late from, pourting. Emerging from a wooded pathway that skirted an old forest for miles, this rustic was startled to hear a sepulchral voice j commanding a team to halt. He looked in vain about the place for a moment or two, end was about moving on again when tfce same sound fell on his ear. a shiver crept over him as he heard the creaking of an unseen harness, and his terror was far from being allayed by the whinny of a horse almost direct y before him. At that moment the new moon stole over the neighbouring tree tops, nnd in its misty ight ' lie plainly saw the phantom farmer. [ It was clearly outliued against the dark background, and its two hands held in a steady grasp the projecting handks of a plough. Before it marched a » air of spirited horses, dimly outlined in* the misty light, their heads erect and their eyes flashing fire as they moved hastily along. The young man waited another moment' to reassure himself, and was about to take to his bee's when ploughman, horse, and plough suddenly vauished Then he, too, iled in wild alarm. Seen by Seven Men. At Filas Brown's corner grocery on the night succeeding this, the young man Albert Oooper by name, told this stewing story. 'I he crowd adjourned to the al'eged scene of the ghost's operations to verify or disprove Coooper's tale. They had not long to wait. Withont the noise that had warned Cooper ihe night before, the phantom farmer appeared before the eyes of the seven men who sat uron the fence, or, to be more accurate, who a mnst fell from it in tern v. is *<>Tig white hair and bea d streamed i.i the passing wind. No hat way upon his head, nor could any portion of his face be seen except the glistening eyes. These shot out from a height of more than seven feet from tbe ground, indicating the spectural granger was ta'ler than the average of human kind. About his body, which couldjiotwell be traced, tbere was a phosphorescent glow which dazzled the eyes of the terrified spectators and shone far ahead ofthe steadily moving horses. The plough he leaned on seemed of skeleton frame, but it tossed off the soft, moist earth as easily as a steamer turns the river waves. On he came, the hor-.es seeming to exhale fire, their heads ereot and arching, aud footfalls as firm and olear aB any the watchers ever heard. At tbe corner of the field they turned obediently at a word from their spectral driver, and again passed before the affrighted spectators, who thereupon fled in haste The Field Ploughed by the Ghost. On the following morning a crowd of rustics determined to go o tho fie d and see whether any trace of the farmer conld he found. As thev oame in sight of the » nclosure one of the number exclaimed in i»tonish> ment: •* Til be dinned if the thing do n't plough, sure enough. " He w -aright one-half of the field had been goue over, evidently by u*> novice. The furrows were not qui e so broad as those made by an ordinary ploughman, but thoy were less ragged aad more deep, nnd were as straight as the most experienced eye could maka thom* A day or two after the s mo group went out to view the fields again, and this time they found tha-" the '' phantom* liad finished the w rk. The owner oi tl e field w s one. ofthe number, and ho took a solemn oatu thtt. ho had I tabtnuravA » Mod tn ti • tmelesurei (