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AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
PRACTICAL . INFORMATION . : FOR THE
FARMER AND THE ORCHARDIST. ..
.{This Department Is prepared for the Sacraxikto
J&kooko-Ukiok by IU Agricultural Editor. All
matter relating to the agricultural interest will be
found under this head.] . -_>--
Diversity of Crops and Home Markets.
In the above caption are two things greatly
needed in California to render her farmers
and the State truly prosperous. - The great
agricultural staple of this State is wheat, and
has always been, since we had any agricul
tural staple. This is not altogether because
we have a good and constant foreign demand
for wheat. .'. It is . more because we have not
good and constant home j markets for other
agricultural products. We raise wheat then
because we know we can always sell wheat — •
not to our own people but to the English, the
Scotch, the Irish, the French, and now and
• then to other people on the Eastern conti
nent. Every farmer, and every other think
ing man, knows that raising so much wheat
and so little of other crops will one day,
if continued long enough, , bring great in
jury to all our lands and tend
generally to check and retard our
general prosperity. But there is no use in
reading long lectures to the farmers because
they raise so much wheat and so little of other
crops, bo long as they can find a constant re
munerative market for wheat and cannot
find equally as constant and remunerative a
market for other products. If we could sell
beef either at home or abroad at prices that
would iy us as well to raise beef on our best
wheat lands as it pays us to raise wheat, is it
not reasonable that many of ub farmers
would raise less wheat* and more beef We
would certainly make the change just as soon
as we could, for the very good reason that we
know that raising wheat so constantly is im
poverishing our * lands, while by raising
some beef and some wheat we can
keep up the fertility of our farms.
So with mutton and wool and corn and pork
and every other crop. .We raise wheat be
cause we can always sell it, and we do not
raise a diversity of agricultural products be
cause we are not always sure of a market for
this variety of crops. This is a fact that
cannot be disputed, for all farmers have more
or less proven its truth by a more or less
-dearly bought experience. We often hear
good business men berating the judgment
and good business sense of farmers, because,
as they Bay, the farmers take all the chances
on one single crop, and if that fails all fails,
and the farmer cannot pay his bills. Is it
not an indication of good judgment in the
farmer to raise what be knows will sell at a
paying price rather than to raise what
he knows will not sell at such price?
Why has the business of raising vegetables
and garden truck generally in this State been
abandoned to Chinese and other foreigners ?
We all know that it is because there is not
money enough in the business to pay our own
people to enable them to raise and school
their families in the style that Americans
want to do. The truth is that very few
things the farmer can produce from the soil
in this State, that there is not a foreign de
mand for, will pay a satisfactory profit. In
other words, there are but few things upon
which the farmer has to depend exclusively
for a home market that a good business can
lie made in producing ; and right here is to
be found the reason why so many
farmers depend so constantly and en
tirely on one crop — wheat. If
a merchant finds that he can always, or
nearly always, make a good profit in buying
and selling a single line of goods, and that if
he invests his money in other kinds of goods
he is most sure to be obliged to keep them on
his hands, or to sell them at a loss, would it
not, be a mark of good business judgment in
that merchant to deal in the article that in
sures him good profits ? The thing needed in
this State above all others to render a diver
sified agriculture possible and profitable is a
home market for the products of such an ag
riculture. And what is needed to make or
create this home - market ? Do we need
more merchants? We have already too
many of this class of men - for their
own good. Do we need more lawyers and
doctors ? We all think we have too many of
them for our own good. There is one class of
people we do need, and the State need*, to
bring home markets for all the farmer can
produce and pr sperity to all classes of busi
ness and employment to labor of all kinds.
This class needed is the manufacturing class.
The men and women employed by manufac
turing establishments consume the food pro
ducts of the farmer — not the wheat
alone, but the potatoes, the vegeta
bles, the milk i and butter and cheese,
and eggs and chickens, the beef and mutton
and — while the machines that these men
and women run and attend and direct con
sume the textile products of the farmer, such
as the flax, the cotton, the wool, the silk, the
mohair, and both together consume all the
products of a diversified agriculture. If,
therefore, California would have a diversity
of crops she must have home markets for
these crops, and it is impossible to have home
markets without first having manufactures to
employ the people and the machinery to
consume the crops. So long as we make
wheat the great and almost exclusive agri
cultural staple, so long we shall ship that
wheat to a foreign country for its principal
market, and so long as we do this so long we
shall continue to rob the soil of its fertility
and posterity of its rightful legacy.
Concert of Action for the Preservation of
Orchards.
There are some things which the farmers
of this State want legislation upon, and about
which they should have an understanding be
fore the meeting of the Legislature, to the
end that concert of action may be secured.
One of these things is the destruction of the
codling moth. It is but a few years since
this little insect appeared among us. When
it came, and for twenty odd years past —
since the first planting of orchards in this
State— we had enjoyed absolute immunity
from all fruit pests. We had every prospect
of a continuance from such immunity
in the future, and with a climate no
equaled for the . production of *■ fruit
of every description, and a location between
markets east and west that would want an
unlimited quantity of our products in this
direction, our prospect was very flattering for
an extensive and profitable business in the
production, drying and preserving of fruit
for the demands of- commerce. Orchards
were being planted extensively by those who
contemplated making orcharding a main
business, and family orchards were being put
out in town and country by all who desired
to enjoy fruit fresh and crisp from their own
premises. Indeed California had gained a
world-wide reputation as being the Eden
garden of the world for fruit culture.
Though :we have a climate for all the
' hardy fruits of the temperate zones,
as well as for those of the semi-tropical climes,
we were depending for much of our fruit
business upon our crops of apples and pears,
.specially the latter, which grow here to
greater perfection and in greater quantities
than in any other country. But the codling
moth has come among us, and has for the last .
two years destroyed more than half our crops
of apples and pears, and if ' left undisturbed
will continue its work of destruction till,' dis
couraged . and disheartened, the ' owners [ of
the ! *■ extensive . apple ' and X pear ' orchards
throughout * the "'. State will dig them ;up
and burn them for firewood, i>nd ," all
the collection of choice varieties strictly for
family use will become useless to their own
ers, and if allowed to remain standing will
only serve as nurseries for moths and worms,
instead of serving the ' purposes for which
they were intended. The codling moth does
not live upon or disturb any other fruit than
the apple and pear, and, so far as is known,
cannot subsist in a country where these fruits
are not cultivated. Hence some have pro
posed to have a ' law passed requiring
the destruction of the entire apple and
pear crops in the State for two
or three years in succession, and thus
starve out the pest by destroying all
its food. To make this expedient ■ suc
cessful, all the fruit in Oregon and
Nevada would have alse to, be destroyed in
like manner, because the moth exists there as
well as in our Stats. We could not control the
subject in these States if we conld in our own
Others propose having a law passed for the
appointment of orchard inspectors in each
county, whose duty it shall be to examine all
the orchards in the county, and have the fruit
destroyed, or other measures adopted for the
destruction of the worms wherever they are
found to exist. It is evident that without
Borne plan adopted that contemplates
a complete destruction of the pest .in
all orchards, aud on all trees, there is
but little use in doing anything, for
there will remain worm nurseries in every
neighborhood and in every community.
My neighbor, who has an orchard of ten
thousand trees, and who may spend a thou
sand or ten thousand dollars a year for the
preservation of his fruit from the worms, will
spend his time and money to little purpose if
my five, ten or twenty trees, standing over
the fence in the next field, are allowed to go
uncared for, and to remain as a breeding
ground for the moth. Not only the farmers
1 and fruit-growers are interested in this sub
ject, but every lover and consumer of fruit in ,
the State is deeply interested, and should aid
in the destruction of the common fruit one
my. Let us have a concert of counsel and
agree upon concert of action.
A Short Sowing Season
The indications now are that the grain
farmers will have another thort and hurried
sowing season. The summer fallowed land
is quite generally already seeded, and the
lands that are to be volunteered are also
ready for the rains and growing weather, but
nothing is yet done to * the great wheat crop
that is to be put in on lands that were in
tended for winter plowing and sowing, and
nothing can be done for this crop till there falls
a con-iderable rain. The surface of the soil
is now very dry, and it will require more rain
than we are likely to have before Christmas
to wet the soil sufficiently to start the plows
successfully. This will give the farmers a
short and hurried seeding season, and will be
a great temptation to slighting the work We
would therefore repeat the old saying, that
whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing
well. Particularly is this old maxim true in
winter-plowing and winter-sowing of wheat.
Let all the weed seed and foul stuff that is on
the surface of the soil be well turned under
and so deeply buried that the wheat will get
the start, and it will be more likely to
keep the start throughout the season.
If we had had a wet and warm autumn,
this weed seed would have started, and plow
ing it under after that would have killed the
young growth, and thus assisted materially
in keeping the wheat crop clean ; but now
there will be no time to start the weed seed
before sowing the grain, and the only way to
give the wheat the advantage of the weeds is
the one suggested — covering the weed seed
deep beneath the soil, so that it will have a
bad start in the race with the wheat.
Manufactures the Great Need of the State.
. This subject needs only to be mentioned to
secure the concurrence of every thinking man
in the State. The want of manufactures
compels our farmers to grow wheat when
they should be growing a diversity of agri
cultural products. In a remoter degree, but
just as surely, the want of manufactures is
and must remain the cause of the prema
ture exhaustion of our wheat lands and the
reduction of the annual yield from SO to 15
bushels to the acre. The want of manu
factures, and the employment they would af
ford, must also be charged with the idleness
and hood!t*mi6m in our towns and cities and
tramping and beggary in the country, to say
nothing of the crime and wickedness that
prevails in both city and country, and the
over - crowding of our jails and prisons.
Would it not be well for the State to offer
special inducements for manufacturing indus
tries, and pay more money in premiums for
manufactured articles and less for convicted
criminals? -'.'"■ *.«.-*i:-'/?-*i..
Shorthorns and Herefoids.
■ The Mark Lane Express of August 2d
makes a concession as between shorthorn
and Hereford cattle, which will hardly be
i relished by breeders of shorthorns, either in
this country or elsewhere. An American
breeder of Herefords claims that these cattle
" are better graziers than are the shorthorns,
whether in England or America ; that a
Hereford steer will always Bell for the
most money to the feeder ; and that
he is . always worth more money as
a finished steer in the London market."
The Express concedes these claims. ,1 1 says :
" These are points on which ; we agree
with him." and adds : "He goes on to say :
' If these premises be true, as the best grazier
he will make a better weight on the same
grass. If the same weight off grass will Bel!
for more money to the feeder, it must follow
that he is the best feeder. If, when fed, he
will bring more money in London to the
butcher, it must follow that he is of better
quality and will cut to the better profit.
These would, in this country, cocstitute the
best beef steer.'. All this (continues ' the
Express) is true enough, but it does not
prove that the Hereford is as useful an
animal as the shorthorn. All of the con
ditions mentioned are j those pertaining to
f razing— -conditions j which : exactly suit the
lereford. The question is whether the
Hereford, which is acknowledged to be the
better butchers' beast, could be put to the
uses and bred under the conditions which be
long to the shorthorns. We think certainly
not ; except by altering the character of the
breed, in which case all the gain would be
likely to prove a loss." If these concessions
of the Mark Lane Express are to be taken as
correct, or if it is admitted that the Hereford
is the better butchers' beast, the question of
relative value, so far as this country is con
cerned, is dcci led. Let it be given up that
the shorthorn is not equal to the Hereford as
a grazier, and . that the former will not
make as good or better weight on the
same . : grass, - and further, * that the
same . i weight - of * grass in a ? shorthorn
will not sell for as much money to the feeder
as the Hereford will, and when fed will not
bring as much money as the latter,' because
the butcher cannot cut his ; carcass up to so
much profit, then i our shorthorn breeders
will do well to make a note of it ; for it is as
certain as death that the mest profitable c it
tie will eventually take the lead, and usurp
the great pastoral regions of the- West, 'as
well as rapidly come into favor with feeders
everywhere. We _ presume, '.' however,' '.; the
shorthorn breeders will take issue at once
with our English coteraporary, : and vehe
-1 mently claim, as they have always done, that
shorthorns are, in all respects, equal and
, superior to any other breed of cattle. "Would
it not be well to inaugurate tests looking to
' ' the settlement of these important questions?
[Prairie Farmer.
THE WHITE HOUSE.
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THE SETriNG AND THB RISING PRESI
DENTIAL SONS.
Some Account jof General Garfield and
Els Family— The Incoming Ad
" ministration— Etc ;■•'.
Washington, Nov. 8, 18S0. i
The President and family arrived here
at 8:40 Saturday morning, after their long
journey. . They went immediately to . the
White House. Besides cleaning and paint
ing, a few changes had been \ made there,
which were projected before they left,
such as the conversion of the former bill
iard . room, connecting with the state din
ing room, into a compartment of the con
servatory. It was old and decaying, and
had to be refloored and otherwise renewed
in any case. Also the vestibule, or ante
room, into which the north door — the main
front door — opens, and which was covered
with a shabby • carpet, underneath which
was a decaying floor, is now tiled in patri
otic designs, the central figure being a
large red', white and blue star. Several of
the rooms were decorated with Hags and
flowers in honor of the President's return.'
At 10 o'clock he was in his office, a room
on the second floor — the same room where
the Cabinet meetings are held — and wus
valiantly demolishing his formidable pile
of accumulated correspondence. Secre
taries Kvarts and Sherman came in in
formally soon after, and at 12 1 o'clock a
special Cabinet meeting took place. I The
regular days are Tuesday and Friday, but
there had been no meeting held since the
President went West, and it was deemed
expedient to call this. The Secretaries
filed quietly in with their portfolios under
their arms, some walking, some riding,
some gloved and some bare-handed. Carl
Schurz and Attorney-General Devens are
the only two who are sure to be gloved on
a formal occasion. It is just as it hap
pens "* with the others.
THE PRESIDENT
Is looking fleshier and browner than when
he started. He says his trip was pleasant
throughout, and that if he had time he
could talk hours about what he heard and
saw that the scenery was magnificent,
and the contact with the people along the
route was interesting and pleasant. He
particularized Mount "Shasta with much
enthusiasm. Mrs. Hayes does not | look
worn from her journey. She is a woman
of fine powers of endurance, and with the
exception of occasional sick headaches her
health is quite remarkable. She is forty
nine years of age nine years younger
than her husband — and has been . the
mother of eight children. Three little
sons are dead ; one of these was named
George Crook, after General Crook, U. S.
A., an intimate friend of the Presi
dent. Fanny, the only daughter, is
twelve years old, and looks like
her father, but has her mother's manner.
Of the same age is Mollie Garfield, the
next President's only daughter. By a
farther coincidence both Mr. Hayes and
General Garfield have each four sons also.
The two sons of the former that accom
panied their father and mother on the late
trip were the eldest and the third in age —
Burchard and , Rutherford. Webb, the
second, is the best-looking of the boys,
and Scott, the youngest, is two years
younger than Fanny.
GENERAL GARFIELD'S FAMILY.
General Garfield's four boys are Harry,
aged 16; James, 14; Irwin, 10, and
Abram, 8. They are good and bright
boys ; little Abe is affectionate in his way.
Harry and "Jim" are away preparing
for college, at Concord, N. H. Last
summer Harry took the . prize
there for declamation. Mrs. Garfield
is a rather intelligent-looking woman of
about 45. . She was a country girl and has
never lost the rural look. She is abso
lutely without that undefinable quality
called "style," and is almost "pathetically
thin, but she has traces of a girlhood pret
tiness of feature. She has borne seven
children. As to costumes, she generally
confines herself to black silk for an even
ing dress, and wears a very high, full ruche
of tulle close under her ears. - She has a
good education for a country academy
where accomplishments are not made much
account of, and is a neat and economical
housekeeper. She did not entertain much
company during the General's Congres
sional career, and has a strong sense of
personal dignity, with a reserve of manner
that borders on asperity. '" She is fond of
reading, and enters largely into the stu
dent life of her boys a second nature to
one : who was a teacher before marriage.
After studying at Hiram, where she became
engaged to Mr. Garfield, she went to Cleve
land as a public-school teacher, while he
went to "William's College to graduate.
Her name was then Lucretia Rudolph.
She has a business head, and planned not
only the plain - but commodious _ red
brick house which is their Washington
home, but the improvements on the little
one-story house at Mentor on the farm
which the General bought there in 1878.
The daughter of a plain farmer, she is a
remote descendant of Nathanael Greene of
Rhode Island. -''*- *'■•"*.
Ipn: ■■ GARFIELD'S MOTHER.
Mrs. Eliza Ballou Garfield, 79 years of
ago, ii a bright, keen, old-fashioned little
woman,' and makes her home with her suc
cessful son.' The General is not only fond
of her, but a little fond of displaying his
filial devotion. In this he reminds one,
not unpleasantly, of Lawyer Wemmeck
with his "aged parent" in Dickens'
"Great Expectations ;" and " Grandma "
Garfield, as the Aged P. of the administra
tion, will be by no means a lay-figure in
the home life of the White House. Judge
Jere Black, < who, ■ like the General and
family, is a Disciple, lor "Campbellite,"
and has known . the Garfields for many
years, said of her . recently : "She is a
sterling, admirable old lady, who has done
her j lite-work well under very disadvan
tageous circumstances. ! She has heard it
thunder a great many times in her life."
General Garfield has much
SELF CONSCIOUSNESS OF HANKER.
It !is a manner that seems to say, "See
how admirably I do this," yet is so full of
good ' nature that it does not repel one.
He is a man of towering ambition. His
best friends best know this, and those who
are making up a slate for Grant in 18S4
strangely overlook the fact that General
Garfield will work for four years unremit
tingly to be his own successor, and will be
satisfied with nothing less. That he will
work in* laudable ways 'we all may im
plicitly believe. This justifiable ambition is
one of the strongest guarantees we shall
have for a "-, good . administration. .-", It will
not, however, be a "Sunday school ad
ministration, as : the present one" is often
called, '; from : Mr. Hayes' peculiarity of
speaking, as if he were addressing a Sun
day school, and for other reasons. He is,
however, not a communicant, but, like a
great many other nice men, takes bis piety .
at second through . his wife. Gen
eral Garfield, per contra, is not distinct
ively a religionist, though from his boy
hood a church member. He takes his old
mother on one i side and I his wife ': on \ the
other, on a Sunday morning, and attends
the little brown frame Disciple Church on
Vermont avenue, which is now called " The
Little Church round the Corner,' and the
children :go to the church and " the Sab
bath school. But probably ■ the ' General
finds it a good time to let his busy mind
lie fallow, under the ministrations of the
zealous young pastor, for his eyes have
often a far-away look, and his part J in the
service seems passive rather than active.
Under the spur of the ': late election the
Disciple denomination here are ' talking of
building a new, $50,000 church,'* . with
means to be contributed by their member
ship ■ throughout ; the " country. * But let
them take warning ■ from i the costly, debt
laden discouraged "Metropolitan" M. E.
Church, where President Grant attended,
and "go ! slow." The :. little', brown box
where they now worship * is a dozen times
more ' picturesque than a more imposing
one woulu[be,and the local church represents
but limited capital | Its attendance , num
bers three or four feminine \ worshipers to
one masculine, and '■■ the number is not
large even then. 1 It is "a . good working
church and has established a i mission on
Capital Hill. General Garfield is not a
man to whom any church seems necessary
for his development. | He is a microcosm
in himself. :■ In -temperament | he is strik
ingly like Henry Ward — eloquent,
ardent, . impulsive, | sometimes erratic ;
capable of -profound repentance for a
wrong. S This last trait is the key to much
that is not - wholly understood in his up
ward career. Ohio knows that
-* HER KOH-I-NOOR
Is not flawless, but a Koh-i-noor he is not
withstanding. If charged with a giving
defect he will indignantly deny it, but he
will go straight to work and make his
denial true for the future. This flexibility
makes infinite growth possible. He is
broadly and grandly intellectual, a splendid
theorist ; l how practical he is in executive
action remains to be seen. He might not
have framed and carried out a resumption
policy like that we now have, but few men
on. the planet could. It takes a grand
fixedness to one idea to accomplish such
a ; scheme, and the General keeps too many
irons in the tire for that.
The incomiug administration will have
a great deal of what the j theater people
call "stage business." It will be a brainy
administration and an interesting field for
an observant correspondent. General Gar
field himself is an interesting study.
There is
To the culmination of his career in
our national history. A member .of
the House of : Representatives, a Sen
ator-elect and President-elect all at once,
and he not 40 till the 19th of this month.
Yet there are men before the public j to
day whom' I conscientiously consider
greater than he ; men who had more truly
earned the golden apple which wily Charley
Foster at Chicago shook down into this
man's lap ; but none, perhaps, who could
have so solidified the party, or whose can
didacy would, on the whole, have been as
auspicious. ■•--.'.*:■
. It is a matter of profound congratulation
that the House of Representatives will
again have a Republican majority, but we
shall miss such men as Chittenden of
Brooklyn and Davis of San Francisco.
Mr. Davis has done strong work here. He
is a fair-minded man, of high standard and
steadily increasing influence. You have
seldom so good a member from the Pacific
coast. California has disappointed her
friends in the narrow margin she has given
upon the Republican side. We did not
expect her I wide-awake people to take
stock in that silly Morey letter.
Tomorrow three Government transports
convey the Secretary of the Navy and his
invited ' guests to the naval review at
Hampton Roads. The President goes
down with the Secretary, and a goodly
force of dignitaries, among . whom your
correspondent, who is an invited guest,
also will figure as a fly on the elephant's
ear. Emma Janes.
THE QUIET HOUR.
THE "TANGLER'S" PARADISE OF CHA-
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' Charming, previous things, and famous birds.
1 870." Double diamond for Rose, by
Trinity : '••-;■*;■' ■■"';' : •'*.
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wig ; a tumor ; in Sybil. ,
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to confine ; iv Sybil. i * ■ ■•
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* 872. Puzzle, by Trinity :
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from a victim.:' (Guess who): *
Whole lam certainly odd. -
Beheaded I mean to utter, or speak. C - ■" yy
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\ Restore this last, behead and I am fair.
j Curtail, and lo ! a woman's name is there.
: Prefix a letter and I'm beloved, dear. :
: Affix and see an open space appear. .
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; 874. Hour glass, by Hermit :
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Centrals —Far away. Diagonals — sprinkle and
sums again.
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(1) i fie. * (2) i al. :. (3) 1 1. (4) I 2 (something
once sacred). : (5) Has x. -. '. .'.■;• .• ; . yyy
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..- Solutions. ■':*-''.' jXf
i Utah Bays :: "Thanks to Rose for her
charade. I give it up. She is ahead by
40,000 majority." r ■■.■-•r-X .-'.-. •:..;:..
•Hattie Heath— Bs6, 857, 858, 860, 562,
864, 865, 866, 867, 868. , She . adds : "If
F. M. S. would like to know who gave
away his name he can ascertain by inquir
ing of H. H." ;.-.-;
-. H. 11. also says : " Please say to Trinity
that he has, I think, a rival as well as an
old friend in Utah,'- and we shall all have
to ' look well Ito I our laurels or he will
eclipse üb.' Wonder if he is not Ajax come
to life again. His 866 jis one of the best
charades that has ever ■" appeared in the
- Quiet Hour,' ■'■ I think, and 861 ■is j too
much tangled to be unraveled." &
' Trinity— B63, 864, 865. _As to 866 Trin
ity says * "Tell L. F. W. (Utah) I can't
solve it. -Thanks to him."' 867. 868. .
X Hermit {you had credit)— B64, 1 865, 866,
867, S6S. '. Hermit adds :'; "I don't under
stand , Hattie * Heath's a * Hour-glass ;'.', it
seems rather a funny affair. I - inclose an
original '-' puzzle, v ' one which I consider ' a
regular hour-glass. ** • Bad idea to admit
Welsh words. .- 5ee563." ..->■
■y F. M. 5.— 857, 858, 859, 860, 563, 864,
865. p\ "" . :ry.X:y :..:..' ■,:.
.: Mr. \ Barnum ' has :' entered . into a circus
partnership which is limited to ninety-nine
years.' V' If the j people \ were S only sure he
would quit : at \ the end of that j time I the
j world would not be so dismal after all.
OUTDOOR AMUSEMENTS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE LOVERS OF
FIELD SPORTS.
[In this department, as the head indicates, we pro
. pose lo make record of current sporuuj- events.
j [ Communications to the paper coucemint* such
matters should be addressed to the " outdoor
" Amusement Department "1
Foot Ball.— At* the recent Foot-ball
Convention of Harvard, * Yale, Princeton
and Columbia, held October 13th, at Spring
field, Mass., these changes in the rules of
the game were made : Match shall i be '. de
cided by a majority of touchdowns.' A
goal shall be equal to four touchdowns ;
but in case of a tie a goal kicked from a
touchdown shall , take precedence over
touchdowns or a goal kicked from the field.
A scrimmage takes place when the holder
of the ball, being in the field of play, puts
it down on the ground in front of him and
puts it in play (while |on side) by — lit,
kicking the ball ; 2d, by snapping it back
with the foot. The man who first receives
the ball from the snap-back shall be called
quarter-back, and shall not then run for
ward with the ball under penalty of a foul.
If the ball either fly, bound, or roll in
touch from a kick-out it must be brought
back ; but if it touches any
player it need not be brought i
back. In case of a pant out, the players
of the side to which the ball is puuted-out
must be at least fifteen feet from the goal
line. The opposite side may line anywhere
in goal provided the punter-out has five
feet clear, extending from his scratch in
the direction of touch. Punter-out must
not be in any way interfered with, A
punt-out must be a kick from the toe. If
auy player purposely foul an opponent or
ball when such opponent is about to try
for a fair catcb, the opponent's side may
either have the ball down where the foul
was made, or take a free kick, which free
kick cannot score a goal. Penalty fur fouls,
when judged intentional by referee (except
as before provided) will be a down given
to the opposite side. The game shall be
played by eleven men on each side.
Holding the . Rifle. The following
bit of fun is decidedly a good hit at the
fancy styles of shooting : In good shooting
nothing is so important as the position of
holding the rifle. I All of our noted national
marksmen recognize this cardinal principle
and devote days and nights of ceaseless,
unrelenting study in devising new and
unique, aud at the same time graceful
methods of holding * the r rifles. After
many years of practice, during which time
we have tried every style known, we have
finally adopted the following as that prom
ising the greatest accuracy, and certainly
the most graceful. Stand with the feet
slightly apart— say about four feet. The
knee of the right leg should come directly
up under the chin at an easy angle, the
head should then pass obliquely around
the body and rest upon the calf of the left
leg ; this makes one secure in obtaining a
good, steady aim. The rifle should then
be placed between the toes of the right
foot, thus forming a "natural" rest. When
a proper bead has been obtained, cock the
rifle with the right eyelid and by a dexter
ous flop of the right ear pull the trigger,
and you will not fail to hit anybody
within a radius of 1,000 yards.
TiieThp.ee Hot* Walking Champion
ship.—About 600 people assembled at the
Lillie Bridge track October lltb, to witness
the contest for the Astley three hours' cham
pion belt. The starters were Thatcher
(holder), Hancock and, Johnson, and when
the pistol was fired at 2:44, Hancock went
off with the lead, closely followed by John
son, who had Thatcher at his heels. They
kept these positions until a mile and a half
was reached, when Thatcher took the lead,
and was never afterward headed. He
lapped Hancock on the * last lap of the
ninth mile, and overtook Johnson at nine
and three-quarter miles. Hancock retired
soon after traversing ten and three-quarter
miles, at which point Thatcher lapped him
and Johnson a second time, and the latter
quit at thirteen miles, leaving the cham
pion alone in his glory. He changed his
cotton Jersey, which was drenched by the
rain which had been falling, for a woolen
one, and, going steadily on, covered 21
miles 255 yards in three hours. The belt
now becomes his property, it being the
first Astley belt that has been won out
right. .- ;•■,.? ; l "-:'i>'i>.__-;;c-,'-,.- : '.
I State Association. — The report of the
reorganization of the State Sportman's As
sociation at San Francisco on the 13th has
already I appeared in the Record Union,
and further reference to it in this place is
unnecessary, except to say that it now ap
pears as if the Association may be made of
practical value to sporting interests in the
State. There is a broad field for it. "If it
will direct its energies jto the ' protection
and propagation of game, the preservation
of natural preserves, and the enactment
and enforcement of game laws,' it will be
able to accomplish much. If, however, its
chief work . is to be confined within the
bounds of pigeon-shooting matches it will
fail to be of benefit to the State. yyx,
New Lake. — The reservoir created
by the new Yuba dam just completed is
eight ' and ■ a half miles easterly from
Marysville. It is two I miles : wide and
seven miles long, and will become doubt
less one of the best hunting lakes in the
country. | Its situation and the surround
ings all conspire to make it an inviting re
treat for wild fowl by next year.
: Dr. Ruth. — Dr. . Ruth and wife, the
sharp shooters, have returned to California.
They say the summer at the East was so
hot it broke them down. They waited
till fall and then it was too cold, and they
concluded California was the best place in
the world to come back to.
NOTE.-",
. Riley's earnings this season amount to
nearly $5,000. He is now his own backer.
; Mr. Gretton, owner of j lonony, is pre
paring that " animal to ' meet Robert the
Devil next year for the Ascot cup, 'in two
and a half miles.
Wallace' will shortly challenge the
Swede for a match j for the pool billiard
championship. He is in the hands of Tom
Foley, of Chicago.
W. H. Griffin, the well-known quarter
mile runner, has assumed the directorship
of the New York Roller Skating Rink,
which was opened to the , public October
26th. ■ *•-■-■'».,.-
Cornell College has decided -to send a
four-oared crew., to row the Steward's cup
in the Royal Henley • Regatta, which
will ; be rowed on the Thames next June.
The Cornell students and the townspeople
of Ithaca, N. V., are quite jubilant over
the affair, and recently held a meeting,
when ample funds were promised. yp :-**;,
. The officers of the Harvard Boat Club
for the ensuing year are : i President, S.
Hammond, '81 ; Vice-President, William
Chalfant, '82 ; Secretary, C. P. Curtis, '82 ;
Treasurer, F. M. Stone, ; '81. At a recent
meeting of the club, W. R. Thayer, Treas
urer for last year, read his report, which
showed that the total expenses of the year
had been $4,42S 65, all of which had been
paid out, and that the club had a debt of
$104. •'.'■" •• • - ' ':' - ; " : . ;:; yy
The negotiations which were opened on
the 14th of October, between George Slos
son and Maurice Vignaux, for a match at
the j champion's game of billiards, to take
place at Paris sometime in December, have
been concluded. Slosson at : first cabled
Vignaux's representative,"", Alfred John
son, of the Parisian; to know if Vignaux
would play him a game of 4,000 points at
the ! champion's j game, for $500 a side, al
lowing I Slosson * 3250 for , expenses. j . The
answer was that Vignaux would accept the
challenge for any j amount Shut would not
allow any expenses. ;■ Slosson . replied that
he would play, for $1,000 a side, and made
good his challenge by depositing $250 for
feit *, with [ agents of Munroe ;&", Co. ':;' Vig
nanx also deposited the necessary forfeit,
and the match is assured. v The game will
be played i on ': the : same style of table as
that on which the match of last spring was
played, and the game is to commence De
. ■ ..... ■-
cember 7th. Slosson will pay hia own ex.
penses, and : it is : generally thought : will
have the advantage in playing at the cham
pion's game. -.': 'r'- :':':-- ""■•■;' ' "l\ ! -
The following thoroughbreds, the prop
erty of C. Mulkey, Montana, were gold
October 20th ; Patsey Duffsy, eh. c. (1877),
by Leinster, dam Ada A., by Asteroid, out
of Lorette, by imp. Sovereign,' tor $2,000;
Joe Howell, b. :g. (aged) , by imp. Bonnie
Scotland, dam Eva Shepherd, by imp. Sov
ereign,' ont of Lucy, by Mingo, for $1,000 ;
Premium, eh. . m. (a_*e.i), v by Castor, dam
by Flying Cloud, for 1,500. and Nerva
Winters, pedigree not stated, for $1,500. \
•' Boccaccio, the fine young ' California
trotting stallion, has beeu sold, to go to
Australia.' He is a large, fine-looking
horse, and can trot close to 2:30. He is
by : Woodford (son of Woodford Mam
brino), dam by Gage's Logan (son of Kyß
-dyk's Hambletonian) ; second dam, Old
Jack (sire of Abe Lincoln). - The purchase
was made by 11. P. Gregory & Co., of San
Francisco, for J. A. * .Roberts, of Mel
bourne.
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