THE WISCONSIN FARMER



             Water-Lime for Pipe.
   31R. EDITOR:-In your next issue of thi
 FARMER, Will you be 8o good as to give wvhai
 information you can in regard to the use o0
 water-lime for water-pipes. I should like tc
 know if it has been much used for that pur-
 pose, and whether it is cheap and durable,
 and what amount of pressure it will sustain.
                           D. BALLANTINE.
  PATCH (GRovZ, June 21, 1863.

        Area and Population of exioo.
  Mexico is made up of twenty-one States,
three Territories and one federal district, the
names, areas, and populations of which were,
in 1850, as follows:
                         Square miles. Populat'n.
Chip            s1......................................6......16,80 144,070
Chihuahua.....................................97,015  147,604
Coahila.56,571                         75,340
Durango.,                     48,489 162,218
Guanajuat .    .....................  12,618  713,683
Guerrero .32,8003 270,000
Jalisco.....................4......5.......0........  48590  774,461
Mexico...........................................  190s34  973,697
Michoacan.........   .... 22,993      491,679
Nuevo Leon....................................16,688  1.33,361
Cojacca.                     3. 823   526,101
Puebla...........................................  13.043  580,000
Queretaro.                     2,445  184.161
San Luis Potosi.29,486                 3:6,120
Stualoa.23,. 33721                    160,000
Sonora.  ,   ..              1S3,467  1:19,474
Tabasco......................................... 15,609  63,608
Tamaoulipas...................................  30,445  100,00c4
Tera Cruz .................................... 27,511,  264,725
Yucaton ........................................ '52,847  680,948
/acateca.30,.47                      3&%,054
Tiaxcala (Terrtitory) ......................  1984  80,171
bottrna  (do) ..2................s204 d8,243
Lower Calriornia (do) ......................  60,662  1o,000
Federal  district  ......................  90  041 0o0
    Total ......................................   Jib,91.   7 ,G ,1 "2N)


 EDUCATIONAL.



the National Convention on the evening o0
the 8th ult. We can't say that we were par-
ticularly edified by the numerous bunoomb
speeches on that occasion, but as it was the
closing hour and the immense concourse of
people who crowded Bryan Hall to its utmost
capacity were in a remarkably patriotic mood,
we are disposed to make but small account of
what the Nmes considered as the mere vapor-
ings of a town meeting.

  The only two respectable speeches we heard
were those by Hon. Lyman Trumbull, U. S.
Senator, and Superintendent Pickard, of this
State-the former an eloquent and patriotic
statement of the great truth that the intelli-
gence and virtue of the people is the only
sure foundation of a republican government;
the latter, a sharp and exceedingly pungent
satire on the boastful and pointless speeches
made by most of those who responded to the
Call of the States.
We were informed that 1100 names had
)een enrolled on the list of regular attend-
ants and that a number of very able papers
vere read during the progress of the Conven-
tion. The heads of some of the most distin-
guished universities and colleges were pres-
nt, as were also a number of the State
Superintendents of Public Instruction.
Whether managed in the best possible man-
ner or not, it is, nevertheless, very certain



hat these reunions of the teachers of the



             -- ----- ~~~~~~country are calculated to promote the great
         The lducational Conventions.     I objects for which they were inaugurated,
and
  The meetings of the State Teachers' Asso- Wve rejoice to find that they
are increasing in
ciation at Kenosha, on the 28th of July, and interest.
of the National Association at Chicago, Aug.  We learn that Mr. S. Ii. Peabody,
of Fond
5th, are reported to have been, in respect of du Lac, President of the State
Convention, in
large and influential attendance, about the his address at the opening of
the Convention,
most successful that have yet been held. This discussed at some length, and
with ability,
argues well for the faithfulness and zeal of the question of the State Agricultural
Col-
the noble profession whose end is the molding lege, strongly urging its importance
to the
of the characters of the youth of the country.
It was our intention to be present at both State. We have not room in this
No. for even
Af these conventions, but sickness prevented, a synopsis of his views, but
shall take occa-
so that we were only able to slip down to sion to lay them before our readers
at some
Chicago in time for the closing exercises of future time.



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