AGRICULTURAL. R.1.i.l tltHt. Among the improved breeds of sheep now being so extensively raised in this country, the Downs, so called from a certain portion of England from which they have mostly emanated, the Oxfords hold a high rank in their native homes, whilst here the Sonthdowns and the Shropshiree are more of the favorites of the Downs families. According to Bandall, the Oxfords were first in troduced into the United States by Bichard S. Fay, of Lynn, Mvss., and William C. Rives, of Virginia, who selected and imported their sheep together, some twenty-five years ago. Though good reports have come from such importations as have been made, the Oxford does not seem to have taken a strong hold upon the fancy of Ameri can breeders. This has more likely reeulted from the fact that admirers of the long-wool, as well as the admirers of middle wool animals, prefer the more distinct varieties of those breeds; for certain the Oxford has many character istics commending it to the favor of American breeders, ft has size of car cass and a prolificacy that insures lambs for an early market, as the weights given below fully testify. It has a length of fleece that insures for the wool dip the attention of buyers who require long wool. The body is well rounded, legs short, and, in its native locality, evinces a hardiness and adapta tion for profitable feeding unsurpassed by any of the English types. Good English authority gives the following statement of points: 1. Dead weight of an average lot of lambs at three months would be from 32 to 40 pounds; at six months, from 48 to 56 pounds; at seven months, 64 to 72 pounds; at twelve months, 80 to 96 pounds. 2. The weight of ewes at 18 to 24 months, 80 to 104 pounds; cf wethers, 88 to 112 pounds; of rams, 150 to 200 pounds. 3. The weight of full-montbed ewes, 80 to 100 pounds; two and three-sbeer rams, in working elder, 160 to 200 pounds. 4. Wethers are generally sold to the butcher, shorn, twelve to fifteen months old, weighing 80 to 112 pounds—the average about 88 pounds. 5. Ewes produce their first lambs at 24 months old (some few breeders put ting them when nine or ten months old). They are prolific and excellent mothers. 6. The mutton is superior and com mands a high price in the London markets; there is a large proportion of lean meat as compared with tho fat, comparing favorably with the mutton from any other bleed of sheep. 7. The weight of fleece of twelve months’ growth of ewes is 7 to 8 pounds; of rams, at 15 to 18 montbsold, 10 to 15 pounds; of wethers, 13 to 18 months. 8 to 14 pounds. The Lae of the Para Between Netnhbam In answer to a correspondent, the Boston Cultivator gives the following views upon this subject, which we be lieve ale equally applicable to this State: “Two persons own land separated by a line fence, which is common property between the two parties. One has an apple tree on the side of the fence, whose limbs overhang the fence on the side of the other. Apples fall on either side. The question often asked is, do the apples that fall on one's land belong to one or the other, or to both? This subject has been several times discussed, with seme contradictory decisions and judgments, but the rules are now pretty well established. If the stem or trunk of the tree grows so close to the line that parts of its actual body extend into each, neither owner can cut it down without the consent of the other, and the fruit is to be equitably divided. If the stem of the tree stands wholly * within the boundary line of one owner, he owns the whole tree with its pro ducts, although the roots and branches extend into the pre party of the other. There was an old rule of law that the latter might claim from the yield of the tree as much as would be be an ofiset for the nourishment it derived from his estate, but this is now obsolete. The law gives the land owner on whose soil the tree stands the right to cut it down at his pleasure, and to pluck all the fruit from it while it stands. In New York State the courts have decided that tresspass for aesanlt would lie by the owner cf the tree, against the owner of the land over which its branches ex tends 1, if he prevented the owner of the tree, by personal violence, from reaching over and picking the fruit growing upon the branches while stand ing on the fence dividing the lands The owner of the land over which the branches extend may lop the branches close to his line. He may dig down and cut the roots square with his line if he so electa. In plain terms, if no portion cf the trunk is within his line he may refuse all trespass of the tree on his premises, either above ground or below it But if he giv< s the tree license either to extend its roots under his soil or to hang its branches over his premises, be does not thereby gain any right to its fruit. He cannot pick it for himself nor interfere with the picking by the owner, as long as the latter remains in the tree or on the fence which divides the property. This right to the fruit does not. however, permit the other owner to come upon the soil on the other aide of the line to gather the fruit, and all the fruit which falls without violence to the ground on that side may thus become the property of its owner. Wesley’s Tact. The following aneodote of the founder of Methodism has, we believe, never been published. It reaches us from a ■ trustworthy source, and it illustrates in a remarkable manner the mingled taoc and piety of that eminent man. Althongh Wesley, like the Apostles, found that his preaching did not greatly affect the mighty or the noble, still he numbered some families of good posi tion among his followers. It was at the house of one of these that the incident here recorded took plaoe. Wesley had been preaching, and a daughter of a neighboring gentleman, a girl remarka ble for her beauty had been profoundly impressed by his exhortations. After the sermon Wesley was invited to this gentleman’s house to luncheon, and with himself one of his preachers was entertained. This prekfcher, like many of the class at that time, was a man of plain manners, and not conscious of the restraints of good society. The fair young Methodist sat beside him at the table, and he noticed that she wore a number of rings. During a pause in the meal the preacher took hold of the , young lady’s hand, and raising it in the ; air, called Wesley's attention to the j sparkling jewels. ’ ’What do yon think of this, sir,” he | laid, “for a Methodist’s hand?” The girl turned crimson. For Wes ley, with his known and expressed aver , eion to finery, the question was a peon ' liarly awkward one. But the aged evangelist showed a tact which Ohestor ! field might have envied. He looked up ; with a quiet, benevolent smile, and ' simply said, “The hand is very j beautiful.” The blushing beauty had expected something far different from a reproof wrapped up with suoh felicity in a | compliment. She had the good sense to say nothing; but when a few hours ! later she again appeared in Wesley’s : presence, the beautiful hand was strip ped of every ornament except those which nature had given. How It Bains in California. The peculiarity of a California rain storm is that it makes no “fuss” about it, but attends strictly to business, and accomplishes more in a given time than would appear possible from any amount of observation. One feels a sense of dreariness, and looking from the win dow sees that it is raining ; the quietest rain in the world, the drops being very small and falling with no appreciable weight. Bnt step ont into it and it is almost like stepping into the bay, the wetting is so rapid and so thorough. It very rarely happens that any wind ac companies a rain.storm in this locality, and thunder and lightning are almost unknown. The average length of a rain storm is about forty-eight hours, the water coming down steadily and resolutely, while from the hillsides an unbroken sheet an inch or more in depth rushes rapidly to tho reservoirs below, until every 'stream becomes a river, every valley a lake. Sometimes it continues to rain—though not in this unbroken way—for weeks. Bnt this is a rare case. As a rule, after about two days and nights cf solid deluge, it clears off, the farmers go to work, and the weather is too beautiful to be described at all. Such blue depths of sky, such acres of brilliant wild-flowers, and the woods ablaze with oolor, all form a picture which, if an artist should repre sent truthfully, would be at once pro nounced gaudy, unnatural, and out of taste. This style of storm (with the intervening sunshine) about once a month for five or six months makeß an average California winter. Essay on Promptitude, John was noted for his promptitude, which was the chief cause of his snocess in life. When he was a small lal he was always prompt to take the best seat in the room or the especial delicacy at the table; a few years later, it was remarked that whenever he broke a window in any part of the neighbor hood, he always sped rapidly home ; ward to obtain the money to pay for the j damage done. To be sure he generally oontrived to get away from the tcene of ; the breakage before he could be identi fied, and was never known to return I with the monev, probably through for getfulness. But we digress. When he had become a man, he was prompt to fly into a temper upon the least provo cation, and upon one occasion he promptly killed the man who offended him. and was promptly banged in con sequence. The man who is prompt is always bound to occupy a prominent position, and that position may some times be the gallows. The girls of the Sunny clime describe this world as one of “bustle, toil and care.” We agree with them—the women have all the bustle, and the men men have the toil and oare. The Toledo (O.) Rea says: CoL J, Dorse Alexander, editor Barnesvilln (f a.) News has been ebred cf rhenma tiem by the use of St. Jacobs Oil. The Free Italian Church is doing evangelical work among the villages on the island of Sardinia. The people are eager to obtain oopies of the Bible. Mr. W. A. 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