The Oasis, 1893-10-12

crop alfalfa. I he plant has been ex experimented - perimented experimented with for a number of years and is a pronounced success. It belongs to the vetchling class and is described as an everlasting pea. It is an improved species of the veches found growing wild in that country and is found to be particularly adapted to meadows. The (rovern (rovern-ments - ments (rovern-ments of the several (lerman States have directed their agricultural schools and experimental stations to devote particular attention to trie culture of the plant botanic'illy termed ''Lathyrus silvestris." One. of the agricultural papers thus describes it: "This plant," it says, "has all the valuable traits tf red clover or lu lucerne, - cerne, lucerne, without showing any of their effect isueh as causing bloating in cattle when fed green carelessly, or the heaves in horses when hay i given dusty i, and surprasses them in every valuable essential as a fodder plant. It will enduresix'ty or seventy years on the same spot without seed seeding - ing seeding anew. It grows on any soil free from stagnant water. Where no other forage plant will live it nour nourishes - ishes nourishes with undiminished vigor and ex exuberance, - uberance, exuberance, scarcely needing rain after it is once well established the second year. After that time it. needs no further care except mowing and gathering. "It produces heavy crops, averaging about (.mi quintals to the hectare i four tons per acre) of cured hay. Its nu nutritive - tritive nutritive properties twice exceed those of alfalfa, weight for weight: careful investigations, made at several cxier cxier-imental - imental cxier-imental stations showing that the two

Should br I tllUcd More for Ornamental l'nrii. li-oiii 1 lie scientific Ami't lt'.-ui. The display made by Arizona nt the World's Fair is unsurpassed fwr lieauty. Tin specimens of petrified wood from Apache county are nut llnor 1 han t hose Tiffany lias, hut I lit great fragments trunks reassure (mciilxiiu the vast extent, of the for forest - est forest chaii)ii(l iiitu this triuyoiis mass nf color, wliich no artist can :i ppio.u h in mosaic. There Very interesting crystals, n il ami yellow, of sulphur and arsenic, formed in the process of roasting ore. One cubical mass of a.nrite weighs ."t.iiiio Munls. and as assays - says assays thirty-five per cent, of cupper. The crystals of bolh a.urite and mal malachite - achite malachite are maKiiitlcent. Many of them are tlrusy. and the effect N that of t he richest velvet , Such specimens are too rich lo he reduced for metal. Let us hope that j

Hy John S. C'ttlklii. Dr. A. K. Osborne says: "It stands unrivalled as an element of natural food. It Is a remedy for all wasting disea.-'es. It assesses a direct altera alterative - tive alterative effect in constitutional diseases. It exerts;' distinctive effect upon the liver." Ir I!. ('. Karly writes: "Olive oil is a sure cure for gall stones if given freely. I use it with good results in my practice, for piles of long standing. For snake bites I have never known it to fail of a cure, and I have had a large practice in a section where rattlesnakes and cop copperheads - perheads copperheads abound, employing no other remedy." It can hardly lie expected that, oil will wholly take the place of the popular remedy for snake bites usually taken, as well as taken along, on camping trips. The following is from Ir. P. C. Ilemondino: The Olive has been a food producer of the

produce watery insipidity and loss of flavor, and it needs no prophet to foresee t hat if this practice is per persisted - sisted persisted in in California large fruits will go into a decline, while those watered by nature will hold their own." Tli whole subject of the proper ir irrigation - rigation irrigation of fruit, is now so well under understood - stood understood in irrigating regions that over over-irrigation - irrigation over-irrigation is practically unknown. The old idea that irrigated fruit was not eiual to the unirrigated was long since exploded, and now no distinc distinction - tion distinction is made between them. Even t he fruit growers in hitherto unirrigated regions recognize the value of a supply of water, and in many cases are providing for it. The apprehensions of the journal referred to are entirely unfounded and are about ten years behind the times.

Adapted from linki t-licUl Ciiiirnnilaii. A prominent eastern horticultural journal has had it-i attention drawn to the subject of irrigated rruits. doubt less by some one who did not know what, lie was talking about, and remarks as follows iiHin the subject: ''It is a common complaint that the California fruits and vegetables sent to the eastern markets are insipid: fair to see, but not nice to eat. The fact is. that t he !cst fruit of semi semi-tropic - tropic semi-tropic regions is the very best in the world, and its worst the very worst. Such fruits are often insipid, but not necessarily so. When they are so.it is because t he ground on which the fruit is grow n is over-irrigated. The semi-tropic fruit grower lias learned that the purchaser usually judges fruit by its size, which is, no doubt.

I ' 1 1 i 1 1 1 s In Tree 1 '111 n I lujf A careful writer in the Florida Ag Agriculturist - riculturist Agriculturist sas: "In transplant ing a tree from a nursery a mark" should be mado on the body so as to set it out precisely in its relation to theeardinal points of the comjniss. as it originally stood: Ik'causo the structure of the luirk ainFllbre differs very much from the iiort ii to the south side. The 1am 1am-niferoiis - niferoiis 1am-niferoiis concentric rings are nearer each otlu r on the south side and are more durable and hardy. However, it is a paradox to observe that a young tree that has been iujuru! by excess excessive - ive excessive cold weather always shows split bark on the south side: the north side

a provender is also said to afford a pre ventive or cure against murrain or spleen diseases." We are not prepared to inform our readers where any of the seed of this great pea can be secured, imr to vouch for the truth of the .statements made in the Orman publications. If. how however, - ever, however, the plant i as represented, it would be valuable for the arid lands of the west. and. we will endeavor to learn more of its culture. Out fea feature - ture feature above all others which commend it is the power to withstand drouth and last for many years without re re-seeding. - seeding. re-seeding. -

greatest, value, and .Palestine, in its palmiest days, received the major part of its regal revenues from the product of its olive groves, the oil being then exported into the coun countries - tries countries to the north, where it came to form a large part 'of their dietary. Tyre was a large consumer of olive oil, as we may well infer from the fact that King Solomon furnished to mechanics sent him by King Hiram, I.Vi.imh) gallons of that article for their food supply. Among the ancients, olive oill entered largely into their fare.