THE WiSCON9IN FARMER.



out weariness you have climbed, until you
stand upon the topmost peak of some mountain
range where stretched out a magnificence of
prospect worthy the rapture of the enthusiast
axd the band of the artist.
  When I hear said, or read, as I sometimes
do, that there are parts of this region of coun-
try that will never be cleared up, but stand
forever clothed in the depths of primeval for-
ests, I thank God for such refuges in this world
of mad improvement. It does me real good to
be able to report that of a county I did not
have an opportunity of visiting, a Federal offi-
cer, whom I know to be loyal and truthful, told
me that the first time he camped in Webster he
thought he would have to stand up all night,
there not being level room enotigh for him to
safely lie down!  This is a county that does
not appear on the maps. ha.ving been, within a
quite recent ilLte, inarh up of the southern part
of Randolph, a bit of lI'-chalontas, Greenbrier
and others adjacent  In justice to the county
I ought, perlhnpi, to state that the person re-
ferred to is tall, requiring something over six
feet to be altogether comfortable.
  It is well, that in all parts of the world, there
are visible anti indestruictible smybols, such as
the Alps, Niagara and great Forests to remind
us of the presence and brooding of the Infinite.
  In regard to the climate, resources and scen-
ery of Western Virginia we find many who
have reached widely different conclusions from
these so briefly sketched; the cause seeming to
be that they have either not seen whereof they
judge, or merely looked at it from the lines of
public travel, ot which, as before said, there
are few, and. as is often the case, through the
least inviting portions.  The first decade of
years, after the war is fairly over, will render
it a juster verdict than could now secure a fair
hearing. Of the people, and their institutions,
a word hereafter.

  Bow FLAX .-Every farmer should sow a few
acres of ground with flax-seed. Cotton is be-
coming so scarce that some article must be sub-
stituted for it. Our fathers and mothers form-
erly slept between linen sheets, used towels
and table cloths, and we must do the same.-
Besides, an immense quantity of bagging,ropes:



&c. wil also be wanted. An acre of good land
will yield about ten bushels of seed, and a ton
and a half to two tons of straw. The former
is now selling at 83 25 per bushel1 and we un-
derstand that it is in contemplation to erect
mainaery in our State that Will make a market
for the straw. The farmers threw away great
quantities of straw the past season, thus mak-
ing a great waste. Theland shouldbe prepar-
ed the same as for oats, and the seed should be
sown about the first of April.

     The Great International Exhibition.
                 NO. VII.

         GREAT BRITAIN, CONTINUED.
  With the view of studying the Exhibition in
the most natural order, we have crossed the
Gardens from the Eastern Annexe, where, at
our last visit, wea saw the vast colliction of ag-
ricultural and horticultural impIebtents and
macl ines, to the Western Annexe, which in-
cludes all
        hEFAVY 3tACIINERY IN MoTleN.
  Standing at the entrance and looking down
the length of this mighty hall, we behold a
spectacle such as never before greeted the eye
of man.  This Annexe is two hundred feet
wide and nine hundred and seventy-five feet
long; thus affording a surface upon the floor
of one hundred anl ninety-five thousand
square feet, economically packed with power-
ful and beautiful machinery adapted to every
conceivable use, all Moving at the top of
their speed, and executing each its predeter-
mined work for the inspection of thousands of
curious admirers a ho throng the avenues, or
crowd here and there, in wondei ing groups.
  Listen a moment! Was there ever on earth
such a blending of dissonances, making har-
monious music of a ceaseless whirr, and hum,
and hiss, and clank, and click, and rattle, and
thundering roar, which would turn one's brain
and fit him for a mad-house, were it not that
they all speak so eloquently of the Progress of
MIan?
  British machinery occupies that portion of
the Annexe adjoining the main body of the
Exhibition Palace, and fills about five-eighths
of the entire space.  Beyond Great Britain,
France, Austria, Switzerland, Denmarli, Bel-



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