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THE ALL I A N C !v INDEPENDENT. Two Bee-Feeders. A writer in May Gleanings describes two home-made feeders as follows: The first is a'quart basin of cheap tamped ware withal-incliholecutin the bottom, into which a tube is soldered. The top of the tube comes to within inch of being even with the top of the basin. Now open the hole in your honey board, or remove packing and cut a small hole in the quilt, over which place the basin so that the bees can come up through the tube. Make a tube of coarse pa per and push it into the tin tube to aid the bees in climbing up. Fill the basin with syrup as far as the top of the tube, place a iloat of cloth or anything to keep tho bees from drowning. Now cover the basin over with paper and make it as warm as you please with packing. The bees will come up and take that feed in cool weather, and no openings have been made to allow the much-needed heat of the hive to escape. The other feeder is made in this wayr Take a Mason quart jar. Break the porcelain lining out of the cover; punch a dozen or.inore small holes in tho cover with an awl. Now get a piece of pine board, x4inches square; with an extension bit bore a hole through it large enough to receive inch of the top of the jar. When tne cover is on, fill the jar with thin syrup. Screw the' perforated cover on tightly, E lace, the mock over the hole in the oney-board or quilt; insert the jar and insert in the blocfe; replace pack ing, etc The bees will euck the con tents out of the jar ' in one or two days, thoush'of itself it will not run out. I think this is an improved method of using the Mason jar as a feeder. Of course they are cheap, as you spoil only the covers, and every one has empty Mason jars not in use it this season of the year. ,. '' Beets for Milch Cows. A bulletin of the Ohio agricul tural experiment station gives the re ults of experiment in feeding sugar eets to milch cows, made during the past winter, with a summary' of two eimiliar experiments, one made by the station in 1889 and one by the farm department. In the last named experiment eight cows were kept un der the test for eleven weeks; in 1889 twelve cows for eight weeks, and in 1890, twelve cows for nine weeks, the cows in each case being weighed daily, as well as their feed and milk. In each of three experiments the cows ate more hay and more total dry matter when feeding on beets than on other foods and in each case more milk was given from the beets than irom the other foods, but it is not yet demon strated that the increase ot milk was produced economically. For twelve years records have been kept on the farm now occupied by the station, which shows that the aver age yield of beets over this period has been nearly sixteen tons per acre, against an annual yield of about fifty-five bushels of shelled corn per acre. But a crop of fifty-fiye bushels of shelled corn with its fodder, will contain nearly twice as much dry matter as sixteen tons of beets, and these experiments indicate that, whether fed dry, as cornmeal and dry fodder, or as corn ensilage, the dry matter of the corn crop will be found as effective, pound for pound, as the dry matter of the beet crop. It is possible to raise much more than sixteen tons of beets to the acre. One crop of two acres is reported at thirty-seven and one-half tons per acre, and smaller areas have given still larger yields, but such crops re quire very rich land and thorough culture. Whether it is possible to pro duce a pound of dry matter in beets as economically as it can be done in - corn .is not definitely settled but it. the probabilities are ng.n:n Picking Geese The picking should be done in a close room, as every breath of air will scatter the feathers and down. The bird having .been taken up, a long stocking should be drawn over its head and down upon the neck to pre vent its severe biting. The wings must either be held or secured in soma way, as they are power ful organs and , capable of leaving black and blue marks where they fall. The bird might be secured to a table, as is recommendod in fastening chickens undergoing the operation of coponizing The small feathers should be removed, and all the large ones except four or five un der each wing, which must be plucked to keep the wing from drooping, should be left. The down should be removed only in very warm weather. The number of times it is advisable to pick geese will depend upon tho clim ate, some seasons being morn tavovauie than others, but will average about three. When the quill of the,feathor is ripe that' is, clear, not filled with bloody matter picking may be em ployed, but at no other times." From three pickings about one pound of feathers will be obtained, and these will bring from fifty to seventy-five cents a pound, not a small item of profit wnere geese are kept in large numbers. The goslings may be picked when about nine weeks old. At the first picking all the -feathers on the back and shoulders, and the large ones on the hips should be left. In about six weeks they may be picked a second time and more freely. Per sonally we should prefer not to pck them more than once before arriving at a marketable age, and that once when thev were about three and ft half months old. Poultry Yard. Tapeworms In 0eo. Col. Q. M. Littler, Secretary of the National Butter, Cheese and Egg As sociation, says that: "Anybody who says that butterine is healthful and wholesome, either does not know what he is talking about or else lies. Why are there so many tapeworms and so many cases of Bright's disease since butterine came into use? The embryo tapeworm exists very freely in leaf lard. This lard must be cooked if you want to destroy the animalcule. It is not , cooked, it is only warmed in the manufactories of butterine. lean show any one, by the use of the mic roscope, the animalculse. When a hog has them bad, it is called measly. No matter how carefully it may he pre pared, butterine contains acids that are not to be found in butter. There is a very easy way of proving this. Put calomel into butterine and you have corrosive sublimate. The Lord Only knows how many people have been mysteriously poisoned by taking a dose of calomel after they have eat en butterine," A great flax and hemp industry is growing in Minnesota. Over 400,000 acres were devoted to flax last year. At Huron lake, in southern Minneso ta, $60,000 have been invested in a hemp and tow millthe owner of which grew 60 acres of hemp last year to be worked up in the mill. It pays to give every sow full pos session of ft roomy compartment or of a pen when- she farrows, and she should be placed in it two weeks be fore the event, that she may become aeetjatcumed to her surroundings. Oth erwise at farrowing times shev will be nertoufr-the thing to be avoided. The Alliance-Independent till after election for 25 cents. D 1. ; Steel Harvesters and Elowers. When D. M. Osborne built the first all steel Harvester and Binder in 1835 it marked & new departure that left all our competitors far in the roar. They have all complimented us by imitation. The New Oiborno placed upon tho market this year is alto a Ions stride in advance that places us at tho head and proclaims us the leaders in all that per tains to cutting and binding grain. . .. THE NEW OSBORNE IS THE Lightest Strongest and Simplest Machine Hade. WHY? BECAUSE its frame is all ms.de of angle stceland put together with steel bolts. No round or square Iron pipe about it. BECAUSE it has the steepest deck, thus insuring a quick delivery to the packers, and avoiding all trouble from packing1 and choking. 'W BECAUSE it has the widest drive wheel, being ' over 10 inches tn theface, thus avoiding all danger of sliding in dry or sinking in wet weather. BECAUSE you don't have to elevate the grain so high. BECAUSE all its parts are steel and malleable Iron, thus Insuring four times the strength at half tho weight of cast iron. BECAUSE its chain drive, front cut and straight pitman apply their power direct. No lost motion V " BECAUSE, it is the easiest adjusted, easiest handled, and best built machine on earth. Don't buy a machine until you have seen the New Osborne. Two horses can handle it. Its use on a farm is proof of an intelligent farmer. Osborne H94. No 4 The Number Four Mowers; 41, 5 and 6 feet cut stands at tho head of the list. Ask any one of its hundred thousand users and the same roply will be made. "It is good enough for m?.n AN ALL STEEL RAKE can only bo bought of an Osborne agent. Farmers, tho best Is none too good for you. WE ARE NOW fighting the Harrow trust on your behalf. , BINDING TWINE. We offer you 11 the best graces of Binding Twine at fair prices, and arc not in any way interested in the great Twine Monopoly that is trying to squeeze the last cent from the already overburdened farmer. For terras, prices, etc., address CEO YULE, Lincoln, Neb. T. J. ROS3f Ohviha, Neb. D.M. OSBORNE CO., Chicago, Illinois . ... , I JiUhiiiwivhh.