The Strawberry. This delicious fruit is so easily cultivated, so healthful, and so universally popular, that it is worth while for every farmer to raise it in quantities sufficient, at least, tó supply his own family. Indeed why should not all the small fruits receive greater attention in every farmer's garden? They ripen for the most part at a season of the year when other fruits are scarce, and their free use is unquestionably conducive to health. The old matted bed system, so common a few years ago, is now generally given up for better methods of cultivation. By that method, after the ground was thoroughly prepared, the plants were set out in rows about four feet apart and about fourteen inches in the row, as early in the spring as possible, or as soon as the soil was dry enough to handle. The weeds were carefully kept down till the runners began to spread, when the ground was levelled off, and the runners trained evenly over the bed, and they would entirely cover it by October. The next spring paths a foot wide were cut through the whole, leaving it in beds three feet wide, for con. venience of access in picking. After the crop was taken off the second year, the plough was run through, breaking up the whole bed. That method gave but one crop in two years, but that was a full and very profitable one, and it was claimed that it was less work to plant a new bed than to weed an old one. But it was very expensive keeping the plants free from weeds the first year, since after the runners spread it was mostly hard work. It is admirably adapted to such varieties as throw up but one fruit stem to a plant, like Hovey's seedling, and others that must be thick to get any crop. That is called the annual system, and has been exteusively adopted by the market gardeners of Belmont, Massachusetts. A modified form of this system is to plant in rows three feet apart only, and the playts allowed to cover a space only a foot wide. It is subject to the same trouble about weeding. Another plan is to set in hills in rows three feet apart, and a foot or a foot and a half in the rows, cutting off all runners, and throwing the whole force and vitality into the main stalks. With some varieties, like the Triomph de Gand, and similar growers, it does well, giving fruit of splendid quality Still another method is to set in rows two feet apart, and a foot apart in the row, cutting off all runners, and doing the weeding by hand culture. With high manuring the plants will bear two or three years without renewal, but it is all hand labor, and too expensive for field crops on a large scale. A method which has been adopted, and practised with great success by Captain Moore, of Concord, is to plant in spring in rows four feet apart, and twelve to fourteen inches in the row. Weed with horse-hoe and cultivator till the runners start about the 1st of July. The spaces between the rows are then levelled with a rake, and two runners from each plant, one on each side, are laid in at right angles with the row, and one foot from the original plant, and all other runners are kept cut off, both from the old and the new plants. When the new plants are well rooted, the strinys by which they are attached to the old plants are cut off. This leaves a bed with three rows in it one foot apart, with a space of two feet between the beds. The overhanging of the leaves will give a space but one foot for a path for the pickers. Perhaps the following diagram will give a clearer idea of it, where the large stars show the original rows of old plants, and the small ones the new plants taken from the runners and struck in a foot from the old rows: This plan gives ample room to cultivate with a horse, or to use an onion hoe between the plants. The weeds can be kept down ou four beds, arranged in this way, easier than on one in the annual or matted bed system. By proper care and manuriug it will give three or four good crops without renewing. Whatever method is adopted clean cultivation is essential to success, and without it no plan will avail to secure good crops. They should be hoed as often as twice in three weeks from the middle of May till the first of October. It is evident that about nine tenths of all the work they require comes in the first year, and the crops to follow will depend almost wholly upon the fidelity with whic that work is ne. FROM THE PERSIAN. Sheridan was once staying at the house Lord! who art merciful as well as just, of an elderly maiden lady in the country, who wanted more of his company than Incline thine ear to me, a child of dust : Not what I would, O Lord! I offer thee; | day, to take a stroll with him, he ex he was willing to give. Proposing, one Alas! but what I can. cused himself on account of the badness Father, Almighty, who hast made me of the weather. Shortly afterwards she met him sneaking out alone. “So, Mr. man, And bade me look to heaven, for thou Sheridan,” said she, “it has cleared up." art there, “Just a little, ma’ain,” said he, “ crough Accept my sacrifice and humble prayer. for one, but not enough for two." Four things which are not in thy treasury, I lay before thee, Lord, with this petition : SELECTIONS. My nothingness, my wants, my sing, and my contritiou. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Keats. their way, TABLE CONVERSATION. - A great deal 0, what a tangled web we weave of character is imparted and received at When first we practise to deceive. the table. Parents too often forget this; Scott. and, therefore, instead of swallowing your food in sullen silence, instead of We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, brooding over your business, instead of pot breaths. Bailey, severely talking about others, let the conversation at the table be genial, kind, Strongest minds Are often those of whom the world social, and cheering. Don't bring dis Heary least. agreeable things to the table in your con Wordsworth. versation any more than you would in How blessed is he who leads a country your dishes. For this reason, too, the life, more good company you have at your | Unvexed with anxious care, and void of table, the better for your children. Every 8trife! Dryden. conversation with company at your table is an educator of the family. Hence the Where men of judgment creep and feel intelligence, and the refinement, and the appropriate behavior of a family which | The positive pronounce without dismay. is giren to hospitality. Cowper. It is better to fight for the good than (Lince found under the pillow of a to rail at the ill. Tennyson. soldier who died in a hospital near Port I dare do all that may become a man, Royal, South Carolina.) Who dares do more is none. Shakespeare. The aids to noble life are all within. Matthew Arnold. A bowing, burdened head Time, that should enrich the noble mind, That only asks to rest, Neglected, leaves a dreary waste behind. Unquestioning, upon Cowper. A loving breast. Other men's sins we ever bear in mind; My good right hand forgets None sees the fardel of his faults behind, Its cunning now: Herrick. To march the weary march, Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, I know not how. And every grin, so merry, draws one out. Dr. Wolcot. Angry looks can do no good, And blows are dealt in blindness; Words are better understood If spoken but in kindness. Burbridge. Any one who can say " Shoes and ning, may claim a large reward. tin cups, FALSE FRIENDS-LIKE. THE EVIDENCE OF THE SENSES. sister, George Mamma. Where did she hurt you? hecause - because my back was turned, like; WHY THE PRESIDENT IS IXAUGURA TED ON THE ATH OF MARCH. -Congress the first Wednesday in February for those electors to choose a president, and the An' thank 'em, I do veel a little shy. first Wednesday in March for the govern. WILLIAM BARNES. ment to go into operation. The last pamed day fell on the Ith. Hence the Somebody who understands children 4th of Diarch following the election of a gives the following practical advice: president, is the day appointed for his Campbell's Concise School “ I expect,” said a worthy Quaker, “ to pass through this world but once. if, is capable of giving some chil. therefore, there be any kindness I can dren a great deal of pleasure. an show, or anything I can do for my fellowounce of party-colored beads, doled out a men, let me do it now, Let me not negfew at a time, with needle and thread to lect or defer it, for I shall not pass this or boys for many hours. Slate and pen- ONCE READING. PANJANDRUM. -So she went into the apple-pie; and at the same time, a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops ita A little girl sent out to hunt for eggs, head into the shop. “What! no soap ?" So he died, and canu back unsuccessful, complaining that she very imprudently " lots of hens were standing around do married the barber; and there were pres iný nothing." ent the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum Whenever you buy or sell, let or hire, himself, with the little round button at make a clear bargain, and never trust to top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots. SAMUEL FUOTE. WHAT KINDNESS WILL DO.- How the wheels of the old cart creaked! The Road was quite tired of hearing their came quiet, and went smoothly on, mak- no doleful . hall your load ?" No," said the Wheels, he hasn't done lows as coarse ones. One good turn - is as much as you can ") me.” READY FOR EITHER SIDE. ANSWER TO ARITHNETICAL PROBA countryman walked into the office of LEM. -- 442748} hours. a lawyer the other day, and began his ANSWER TO GEOMETRICAL PROBLEM. application. -178.6 feet. “Sir, I have come to get your advice in CORRECT ANSWER TO PUZZLE NO. 2, IN ALMANAC FOR 1870:- “Sue him, sir — sue him, by all means." CHARADE. A foreign city you must find; Take from it half a dozen; “But stop," cried the terrified applicant If you reverse what now is left, for legal advice, “it's I that have built She then may be your cousin. RIDDLE. A marble wall, a8 white as milk, Bathed in a flood of crystal tears : “It was a mill-dam." No entrance in, no gates unfold, " A mill-dam for grinding grain, is it? » Yet thieves break in and steal the gold. “Yes, it was just that." " And it is a good neighboring mill, is it?" PUZZLE. “ So it is, sir, and you may well say A father has a square of land. He reso ?” serves for himself one fourth in the form " And all your neighbors bring their of a triangle; thus grain to be ground, do they?" “Yes, sir; all but Jones." " Then it is a great public convenience, is it not?» "To be sure it is. I would not have built it but for that. It is far superior to other mill, sir.” “And now,” said the old lawyer," you tell me that man Jones is complaining just because the water from the dam happens to put back into his little spring, and he is now threatening to sue you! He divides the remainder equally among Well, all I have to say is, let him sue, his four sons in such a way that the sons' and he'll rue the day, 88 sure as my name shares are each of the same shape. is B - » PROBLEMS. A stirring housewife aroused her mald at four o'clock, with, " Come, Bridget, 1. Arrange the figures 1 to 9 inclusive, get up! Here' 'tis Monday morning in such order that by adding them to. to-morrow is Tuesday, the next day's gether they amount to 100. Wednesday - half the week gone and 2. Place three sixes together so as to nothing done yet ! » make seven. 6 bed CONUNDRUMS: ing? When do 4 and 4 not make 8? ANSWER TO PUZZLE, -NINE Why is the letter k like a pig's tail ? ANSWER TO CONUNDRUMS. – 1. One What word is that which, by changing 18 hard up, the other soft down. 2. Stone, a single letter, becomes its own opposite? 3. Quick. 4. A ditch. What is the oldest tree in America ? any .....1.00 UNITED STATES STAMP DUTIES. (Corrected Sept. 1871.) AFFIDAVITS, exempt. 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