Mississippi. Itasca Lake, Mino Rocky Mountains, junction of Jefferson, Madison, Gallatin Rivers, Mont. Mississippi River. Gulf of Mexico... Highlands, W:s Tablelands, N. C.... Junction of Alleghany and Monongahela, Pa.. Osage P-nobscot Potomac Red Red (of the North). Rio Grande RosDoke Rock. Sebine Sacramento. 8.ginsw. St Croix St. Francis. St Jona St Joseph San Joaquin. Saptee Tallapoosa Triany Wabash Wasbita.. White Alleghany Mountains, Ga Osage County, Kan East Seboels Lake, Me.. Alleghany Meantatas, Md Llado Estacado, Tex. Pine Lake, Minn Rocky Mountains, Col.. Dan and Stanoton, Va.. Koshkonong Lake, Wis Highlands, Tex... Junction of North and South Forks, Sierra Madre Mountains, Cal. Willamette WISCO SID.. Yellowstone Ontonagon Ridge, Wis Junction of Coldwater and Talisbatchee Rivers, Miss. National Park, Yellowstone Lake Eastern Alaska.... Opening and Closing of Navigation ON THE HUDSON RIVER AND THE ERIE CANAL, AND OPENING OF LAKE ERIE NAVIGATION. Mar. 25, 1884. Dec. 1. 209 April 25, 1884 May 11, 1883. May 2, 1885 Mar. 30, 1896.. April 9, 1887. April 8, 1888. Mar. 19, 1889.. Open all Winter. Mar. 22, 1891 April 1, 1892. April 1, 1893. Mar. 18, 1894. April 2, 1895. April 17, 1896. April 29, 1897. Mar. 14, 1898. Mar. 99, 1899 April 9, 1900. Mar. 28, 1901. Mar. 17, 1902. Mar. 14, 1903. April 4, 1904. April 3, 1905. Mar. 22, 1908. Mar. 29, 1907. Mar. 23, 1908. May 1, 1886. April 26, 1886 May 7, 1887 April 17, 1887 May 10, 1888. April 10, 1888 Open all Winter, April 10, 1889 Dec. 3, 180 916 March 31, 1890 May 5, 1891. April 13, 1891 May 1, 1892. April 14, 1892 May 3, 1893. April 15, 1893 April 28, 1894 Doc. 9, 1895.. 252 May 3, 1895. April 4, 1-95 MAY 7, 1897. 223 May MAY 1, 1896. April 19, 1896 April 6, 197 March 25, 1898 April 26, 1899 April 27, 1899 April 25, 1900. April 22, 1900 Dec. 1, 1901.. 248 May 7, 1901. April 20, 1901 266 April 24, 1902. April 9, 1902 May 2, 1903. April 6, 1903 May 10, 1904 May 4, 1905. April 22, 1905 May 2, 1906. April 15, 196 6, 1907. 253 May 1, 1907. April 6, 1907 Dec. 18, 1908. 271 May 5, 1908. April 25, 1908 April 22, 1909 May 15, 1910. Nov. 15, 185 April 15, 1910 Nov. 15.. At Buffalo. The record in the above table is kept by the State Superintendent of Public Works. May 15, 1911. 185 April 15, 1911 May 15, 1912. April 28, 1912 78 Seed Planting in the United States. (Compiled from reports of the Department of Agriculture.) Tobacco. Cow peas... May 1 to July 15. Sandy loam... 6 qts.. 16.20 2 bush 40 42 2 to 3 bush 12-14 2 oush. 11-13 1 to 2 push. 35-40 1 to 2 bush 10-12 1 busb 12 15 to 10 tons..... 5 to 10 bush.. 10-20 1 to 6 lbs. 10-16 (1) The standard varieties of seed planted in the several sections of the United States are as fol lows Corn-New England, leaming, sanford, flint; Middle States, leaming, white dent, yellow dent; Central and Western States, leaming, sanford. fint, white dent: Southern States, hickory king, goard seed, Cox proufic. Wheat-Middle States, fuitz; Central and Western States, fultz, poole, nie; Southern States, fulcaster Oats-New England, white; Middle States, white, black, Central and Western States. gray Norway, stiver mine, Russian: Southern States, Texas rustproof. BarleyMiddle States mansbury; Southern States, Tennessee Winter. Rve- New England, white: Middle States, white Winter: Central and Western States. Winter: Southern States, excelsior Winter, Buckwheat-Middle States. silver hull; Central and Western States, silver bull. Potatoes-New England, green mountain, carmen 3. rose: Middle States, rose, carmen 3. rural 2: Central and Western States, bebron, rural, early rose, early Ohio. Tobacco-Central and Western States. yellow prior, Spanish, white buriey. Hav, clover-Middle States, mediam red. Sweet Potatoes-Middle States. yellow Jersey; Southern States. yellow Jersey. Cotton-Southern States, Texas stormproof. Spring wheat is to some extent grown in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and many other States. It matures in eighteen to twenty weeks. (2) In Texas the black loam is a good soil for cotton, corn, wheat and most other field crops. Metric System of Weights and Measures. THE METRIC SYSTEM has been adopted by Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, etc., and except Russia and Great Britain, where it is permissive, by all European nations. Various names of the preceding systems are however. frequently used: In Germany, kilogram-1 pound; in Switzerland, 3-10 of a metre 1 foot, etc. If the first letters of the prefixes deka, hecto, kilo, myria, from the Greek, and deci, centi, mult, from the Latin, are used in preference to our plain English, 10, 100. etc., it is best to employ capital letters for the multiples and sinall letters for the subdivisions. to avoid ambiguities in abbreviations: 1dekametre or 10 metres 1 dm. ; 1 decimetre or 1-10 of a metre- 1 dm. The METRE, unit of length, is nearly the ten-millionth part of a quadrant of a meridian, of the distance between Equator and Pole. The International Standard Metre is, practically, nothing else but a length defined by the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar at 0° Centigrade, deposited at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, Paris, France. The LITRE, unit of capacity, is derived from the weight of one kilogram pure water at greatest density, a cupe whose edge is one-tenth of a metre and, therefore, the one-thousandth part of a metric ton. The GRAM. unit of weight, is a cube of pure water at greatest density, whose edge is one-hundredth of a metre, and, therefore, the one-thousandth part of a kilogram, and the one-millionth part of a metric ton. The Metric System was legalized in the United States on July 28, 1866, when Congress enacted as follows: The tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts, and in all legal proceedings, as establishing, in terms of the weights and measures now in use in the United States, the equivalents of the weights and measures expressed therem in terms of the metric system, and the tables may lawfully be used for computing, determining, and expressing in customary weights and measures the weights and measures of the metric system, The following are the tables annexed to the above: |