396               THE WISCONSIN FARMER.


  To the Growers and Xanufactarers of IA New Seedling Blaokberry.-We were
Flax and Hemp.-Congreas having, at its recently favored with a box of large
fine seed-
last session, placed in the hands of the Conm- ling blackberries, produced
by ex..LieuL Gov.
missioner of Agriculture an appropriation of E. D. Campbell, of L4 Cross..
Unfortunately
$20,000 "For investigations to test the prac- they arrived during our
absence and had auf-
ticability of cultivating and prepaning Flax fered considerably from the
hot weather be-
and Hemp as a substitute for cotton," the Coin- fore they fell into
the hands of competent
missioner, after consultation with members of judgee. It is believed that
this blackberry
Congress and with manufacturers, determined will prove a valuable acquisition,
and we
to place the whole matter in the hands of three thank the Gov. for his kind
effort to afford us
Commissioners, and accordingly appointed an opportunity to prove its merits.
Ifon. J. K. Morehead, of Pittsburg, Penn.;



John A. Warder, of Cincinnati, Ohio; and
William M. Bailey, of Providence, RI. 1. The
Commissioners met, at the Department, on



Thursday, September 3, 1863; chose Hon. J.
R. Morehead Chairman; appointed 0. A. Staf-
ford, of the Department, their Clerk ; and
passed the following resolution:
  "1Resolv'ed, That the Commissioner of Agri-
culture be requested to issue an advertisement
by circular, or otherwise, calling upon manu-
facturers and experimenters to scud to this
Department, on or before the 20th day Qf No-
vember, samples of the fibres and fabrics pre-
pared by them, to be accompanied in all cases
by precise state pents as to the various pro-
cesses, a nd3 ith estimates as to the probable
expense per pound of the preparation of the
material and of the proportion of fibre that
may be produced from a given quantity of the
stalks or straw of flax and hemp."
  All packages of specimens or samples, and
all letters on this subject, should be addressed
to the Commissioner of Agriculture, with the
endorsement "1For Commissioners of Flax
Culture.            ISAAC NEWTON, CosRI'.
  Dept. of Agriculture, Was)**igon, Sept. 1868.

  The University Commercial School.-
We are pleased to learilthat this excellent in-
stitution continues to flourish notwithstanding
the hard times. The course of instruction is
full and thorough, and the expenses are about
one-fourth less than in any other similar in-
stitution of which we havc knowledge. Geas-
tlemen or ladies desiring to acquire a mnastery
of the science of book-keeping and its coils-
terals can hardly do better than to attend the
University Commercial School.
  For full particulars, address D. H. Tullis,



Returns from the Wheat Crops were
scarcely ever more encouraging. The crop
in this State was but little damaged by in-



sects, and though harvested in some counties
with great difficulty, owing to its lodg'ed con-
dition, the catchiny weather and the scarcity
of laborers, still there is reason to believe
that it will fall but little short of the great
crop of 1860. Tife aggregate may possibly be
greater. hut the average per acre has not been
so large.


PrZOS.-WV hat is the reason newspaper men
all offer prizes to induce new subscribers to
take their publications, and none to keep the
old ones on the track?"             R. C.
  [Because they know that the subscriber gets
his money's worth in tha paper alone; and be-
ing honest themselves, they are slow to believe
that any who have once read and profited by
their teachings would wish to get more than
they pay~ jar.-ED.]


  "The Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Xa-
chine IS constantly gaining in popularity."
All right; it deserves very great popularity.
The sale room of Geo. R. Chittenden, Esq.,
General Western Agent, at Chicago, is one of
the finest establishments of its kind in the
United States  The machine which it repre-
sents stands first in Europe and America.

    Chester County White " Hops.-Who
has them to sell? Enquiries are frequent, and
yet no one advertises. Do men who keep stoek
to sell understand the value of the FAaisiza



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