MORE BRAIN-POWER ON THE FARM.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1995, 21 April 1885, Page 4

MORE BRAIN-POWER ON THE FARM.

Vhoitt the best use a farmer can make >t himself is to devote the pieMJiit long *\ iut«'i evenings to an inue.ise ot his nental activity. Farms differ in their nodiu th euess, mainly aceoiding to the i nount of intelligence that is brought to •heir cultivation. Bi.un-power may be .11 leased \>y a thoiotigh knowledge of the ,ii(R(iit condition of the farm, and its voitli as a machine for making money. Vn.it ciops have paid, and what crops 'i iv c been rais>ed anil sold at los 1 -? What poi cent lias it paid on the capital invest ••d ? In the case of the gain, what secured it ? WaR it the manure applied, or the iiequcnt tillage, ortheextia amount of i.unfall? In the case of loss was it the »vantof feitiliseis, was the crop choked l>y weeds, or was thu seed poor, and the crop damaged by late planting ? This accounting for failutes id as ptofitableas biagging over big crops, without making record of the process of obtaining them. Brain power may be increased by planning improvements. There nny be several acres of peat-swamp or bog meadow, producing only brush and bog hay hardly worth cutting. Theie is a good out let, and it can be drained three feet or mote deep. Cipher out the cost of iliaiinge, and of making it produce three tons of clover or Timothy to the acre. Whould not the sight of the waving Heads of the crass be moie pleasing than the catt.iil\ flags, and skunk cabbage, that now waste their sweetness upon the ileseitair' There may be an acre of •^vale, underlaid with haul-pan, over which fens, weeds, and aquatic grasses tun riot during the whole bummer It is not time the bottom was knocked out of it, by tiles laid three or four feet in the giound, and the supeifluous water corn pelled to go out through these instead of creeping lazily over the surface ? It can be made the best gra^s land on the tarm. Why not make it so, and handle the dollats that come from maximum crops? Biain powei can be increased by leading and digesting the instructive contents of agricultural pa pets They ,ue full of facts, showing just how to do it, and the process is made so luminous with lllustiation, "that the wa> fating man, though a fool, cannot en therein " \ reader of the "American Agriciiltunst" of thirty years standing, estimate* his yearly dividends in improved garden ciepsas better than a hundred doll.us in the Savings Bank. Read up in your business, and digest what you read.

A Wiwrso Hurt. — The ace. Lici-NShi) Vktuallkks. — Husbands. Snuvc Covri'Mi:. — That of Mister Ilailequin. How to "Do Without (Jl\s.sks."— Dunk out of a tin mug. Con* — What is the remedy that ought o bo applied both to an old shut and a ti uai.it schoolboy ? Collar him fust and cud' him afterwards. Brilliant Dialogue. — Two Americans met on the deck of a steamer in mid ocean. Said one — ' Are you going acioss ?' ' I am,' replied the other, ' aic you ?' Nkw Calkiionia. — A recent visitor to New Caledonia gives a shocking account of tl.e state of society in that island. It appears that the number of criminals living there amounts to about 10,.")00. The mortality is very great, and there are numerous escapes. During the last ten years ns fewer than 247 con\icta who have managed to smuggle themsehes on board ships have been discovered in the Australian colonies. The grievances of the colonists ate therefore by no means remote or imaginary. In the first instance no attempt is made to classify the piisoners, and the results arc often disastious to those who nrc only pmtially depraved. The convicts arc ultimately divided into five classes, ranging from men who are kept to severe labour, u lth out any relaxation or indulgences, to men who, owinp to their good conduct, enjoj comparative freedom, and are restoicd to family life. Many of the convicts, howe\er, employed their conditional libel ty in preying upon the free settlers and the natives, and the state of things in the colony has in consequence become intolerable. Such being the condition of New Caledonia, is is not surprising that there bhould be a strong feeling in Aus traha against the proposals to establish a Fiench penal settlement in the New Hebrides. — Daily News. Tke Alleged Dynamitard. --James Gilbert Cunningham, the alleged dynamitard, was born twenty-two years ago at ttchull, county Cork. His father, a labourer, died 14 years ago, leaving his wife, the Tower prisoner, two elder sons, and five daughters. The elder sons and thiee girls went to America. The pi i soncr ceased attending the local National School In 1877, and became a f.irm labourer. In the spring of ISSO his brothers paid his passage to America. Till then he boro a good character. In New Yoi k he was engaged in the do.'ks and railway yards, and when heard from, early in the winter, on a river steamer. His mother, an old decrepit woman, had one letter ftom him in Londau without stating his business thcie. Since his ai rest he has not written. The police scan lied her house and seized all the letters from him. She says it must be a case of mistaken identity. Strange Scene at a Covvknt.— On the 11 th February the Roman Catholic Convent of St. Benedict, East Uergholt, Essex, wns the scene of thr wildest excitement, in consequence of the escape of one of its inmates under somewhat extraordinary circumstances The mother and two sisters of a nun known as Sister Bapt^te visited the Convent, and on being granted an interview with her locked themselves in her room and refused admittance to the Lady Abbess. They shouted " Murder " and "Help" from the bedroom window, causing a large crowd to collect. Sister Baptiste then let herself down to the ground by the aid of sheets tied together. She then ran across the open country, followed by a large crowd, whom, however, she speedily out-diitanrrd, leaping hedges and ditches. She was ultimately caught and handed over to the tare of the Rev. Canon Woolley, and subsequently left with her mother for London. Hersistcis had previously paraded the sheets of the village in a most frantic mannei, crying out that they had been forcibly ojected from the Convent and roughly treated.

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