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of your readers will go and do likewise? To lay out an ellipse or ovalr Set ,
The cost will not be great for an exper- three stakes in a triangular; position,
iment . WAKE. Around these stretdvjaroe;r5Talce ;a-
- , way the stake of the apex'of the trian-
. FWE STOCK, .., . . . gle, which will be where tfc6 side of the
Among the treasures which Mr. oval is to come move the stake, along
Troye, the artist,-brought from his re- against the rope, keeping it tight, xmd
cent explorations in oriental countries, it will trace out the oval. J?
is. a veritable Arab mare. This animal, A square, to contain an acre, or just
which was purchased for a stock impor- one hundred and sixty rods, should
ting company in Kentucky, is now in have each of its sides just twelve rods,
this citv. She is a loner, well knit, ten feet and seventecn-tenths loner. '
shapely creature, of a greyish color, a- To draw an oval of agiven size: :ThQ
bout the average size, with veiy largo long ana the sliort diameter being" giv-
ana muscular thighs, and a marvelous en say twenty teet-lor the shorter, ana
elasticity in every movement; Her va- one hundred for the longer divide the
liip is estimated at 10,000 dollars. This short diamter into any number of equal
isftiic,scqnd mare of tho desert which parts, say ten, and from each point
has been brought to. this country. . The draw a line parallel to the long diamc-
rfirat, also, imported by tfie Kentucky tcr; then divide , the , long diameter into
company, camo in by way of New Or- the same number of equal parts (ten,
leans. An Arab is extravagantly fond and from each point draw a line paral-
of such animals. lie would almost as lei to the short diameter. Then draw
soon think of selling his own child as a line from point to point where each
tho fleet and patient beast which has corresponding line cuts the other, on
been reared in liis own tent, is his tire- the outside, and this connectin or mark
less companion in desert journeys, and will describe the oval or the ellipse re-
hi$ most productive source of income, quired.
The best stock in the world come from
Arabia, and the importation of original For the Arator.
Arab mares to this country cannot fail Do our lands need lime? This is an
to improve the American breed of important question, and the farmers in
horses. N. Y. Jour, of Com. Xorth Carolina are deeply interested in
finding the true answer. It is under-
HOW TO LAY OUT SURFACES, stood that Prof. Emmons has given it
Tojay out an acre circle: First fix a as his opinion that the soil about Ra-
centre, and with a rope as a radius, se- leigh is wanting in lime and would be
ven rods, three links and three eights greatly benefited by liberal application
long, one end attached to the centre, of it, and ie is certainly good authority,
anukept uniformly stretched, the sweep Now, the land in the vicinity of Raleigh
of it at tho other end will lay out the a- is a fair specimen of much " of the
ere. same sort," in Wake and the neighbor-
For one quarter of an acre, a rope S ing counties; all of which would ue im-
rods and 14 links will be the right proved by lime. But another question
length. of equal importance is, can we alibrd
1 or one eighth of an acre, a rope two to use the lime, and where can we get
rods and thirteen links will be enough, it?' The answer to this is, we can af-
Triangles: If you wish a triangle to ford to use it, provided our railroad
contain just an acre, make each side 19 will bring it, as is its interest to do, at a
rods, 5 J links long. very low or nominal cost for transpor-
A triangle whoso sides arc six rods tation. Oyster shell lime may be had
long and twenty links long each, will in great abundance at Beaufort, our
contain one eighth of an acre. own seaport, which will soon be aeeeV