Mr. Shephard, of Galveston, Texas, it is announced, is perfecting a valuable invention by which he can produce oil by compressure from cotton seed. One hundred pounds of seed yield from twelve to fifteen pounds of oil, which, when properly clarified, is equal to sweet oil for machinery, and is superior to ordinary lamp oil, while it can be sold at one half or one third the cost of either. Another source of income is the cake formed of the seed when the oil is pressed out It is said to be valuable for feeding hogs and other farm stock. Cotton seed has heretofore been regarded as entirely useless.

Wine-Making is getting to be a profitable business in Lower California, where the vineyards are extensive. One proprietor last year had twenty-five thousand bottles of wine from his vineyard, and this year he expects a greater yield.

The above we clip from a newspaper. No doubt but the climate is entirely suitable for the manufacture of wine in California as well as here. In a little trip through Chester County in this State lately, we observed a large number of vines in growth in large fields on the European plan, no doubt intended to supply this market, or for wine making. Will some of our correspondents inform us?