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TOPICS OF THE TIMES. -A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. Cwacili aa4 Criticiama Based L'poi tha MapiM-aiagt of the Kay Mia lorical aad awa Natea. Woman may laugh in Li-r sleeve 13 ore comfortably tiiau ever, but she anaot look over her shoulder any we. The one-legged bicyclist ban appear d n Kansas City's streets. He seems tu lie much more at home on his wheel than on bis "pins." Mrs. P. T. Baruum says that she "doesn't think he will marry just yet." Hut it will uot be denied that she has -a pretty good show. Kmperur William was astonished by the superiority of the American men-of-"war at Kiel. William hiuiself might have built a better uavy if he had had Citaipt. The 8t l.ouis Post-Dispatch takes f its morning contemporaries to for alluding to a book published ta 1819 as a new one. Well, almost any book is new in St Ixmis. The esteemed Toledo Wade says edit orially: "This finding of Isidies of ordered men and women in Toledo la becoming too common." Still we teu't think they should be overlooked. A Denver woman has started a pajier rUJ the Kiss, and a Peunsylvauiau -baa started another called the Kick. Tate frmer will probably take the best bat the latter will be the most tievat- Hayos Plugree, of Detroit, may be a -ramk. but he certainly moves things. lie has giveu bis constituents a ;$-ceut treet car fare and no other city In America can equal it. Score another point for the caehblov major. It Is possible that the African prince who bt going ti) Central Africa with a akcea Chii-ugoese may sell them to the cannibals. Hie fact that the Goveru awjul meat inspectors have not passed a tlieiu is uo assurance of their safety. Stufus Watcrkouse, of New York, left :. 3W0jX to establish a ward for con sumptives in St. Luke's Hospital in that aty. The penniless victims of pulmo auuy disease will offer fervent tbanks . fit lax a for the dead man's thoughtful truly philanthropic bequest. The 'emperor of China lias conferred aapuu joau vt. rosters private secre tary the Order of the Double Dragon. IMr. "Foster himself has asked for a looey order for $100,000. Mr. Foster's cooiuiercial instinct leads him to place "a low estimate on dragons, single or 4ouble. A .-A special dispatch says that "George CMatrm. of Heaver Dam Brook, Pa., . saftUJU Hll illOWJO WOUl. csieiuaj UICU wan eigai 1 moots long, uu maun ol a ilvy Utm white eyes with blue 1 B6iK. '.uraaspareut fins and flesh of a wp -sutoon color." Later advices abow ttiat Mr. Adams used no bait but snch as the average angler carries In a flask. The Inf;inta dined," says the head Doe over on item of telegraph. Prob ably slie did. May It not reasonably h ncludod that previous to this Im portant achievement sbe had break fasled and lunched, and that thereafter he slept undisturbed by nightmare and unaware that her gustatory feat had been flashed to the waiting west- world. Klew In Russia is a grain center and has adopted a curious system of con- tracts for future delivery of grain. If tile price advances five copecks beyond the price agreed upon the advance goes the1 buyer. The next five copecks .advance goes to tbe seller. The ad vaace. If any, over this fs divided be tween buyer and seller. We presume purpose of this arrangement Is en tirely commendable; but it remains to be.ween how it will work out in prac tice. It Is not too much to say that in the rrrnrxr vf t welve months any one of the metropolitan dailies publishes more xnod literature and more matter of lrnci1cal Importance and usefulness than any half dozen magazines in the ointry. Their improvement in this fept Is one of the wonders of the rjeriod, and one of the notable gains of ' "Civilization. They have made them arfres Indispensable, not by providing 3 pm witii a convenient way to waste thaua, lint by presenting an abundance af the 1st obtainable information up ''4m all subjects. ' While the man condemned to death " aXywl lustily for respite, and the man seems to be in a position to enjoy the world blows out his brains, dls ealon of the question whether or not Hfc to worth living keeps up Its accus ' tooted gait, with disputants apparently tied. Now a Philadelphia girl of four .teau complicates the situation by hang tag herself because she wanted a shirt vahtt and did not, get It If life with a hart waist Is worth clinging to, while muM of a shirt waist It becomes some thtaa; W be cast away, the adjustment f the problem is even more delicate ' fhaa had been rapposed. Oae of the leaders of tbe new woman Ida says that she Is "riding to suf- 011 a bicycle." Tbe wheel Is 1 sating a revelation In the feminine mmii In more wars than one. A valu ed tip cornea from El Pasu, Tex. A 1, .mt mtwpmvtm rviu uwi yvtm aa a that Miss liemie Ijoadouderry, of Bos ton, who has been visiting Texas friends, rei-eutly decided to make a bi cycle tour throughout the West She says she has already received 150 offers of marriage and presents worth $1.5o0. And there you are! Oh, ye disconsolate spinsters of one-sided Massacbuseu buy a wheel and ride Into matrimony Come to the bounding West and round up a husband on your wheel. t'nder the heading, "A Disagreeable Experience," a paiier makes record of the kissing of a young lady by a burg lar. Such analysis of human feeling is not properly part of Journalism. As suming the experience referred to to be that of the young lady, who knows that It was disagreeable? But possibly it was the burglar's experience, the analy ist having seen the young lady, in which case the verdict Is most ungal lant The important matter cannot well be decided by the principals, for the burglar absented himself with his lips still honeyed, and the young wom an would be bound in all modesty to say the experience was disagreeable, even while cherishing the Joy of it and hoping for another osculatory burglar. The statement of Mark Twain made under oath in proceedings in court that he is practically penniless will occasion universal regret. Few writers have given so much pleasure to so large a circle of readers. It was supposed that his literary labors had brought him a generous fortune, which, now that he is approaching old age, would have given him the opportunity to rest and enjoy the reward of bis toll. This proves not to be the case, but, undaunted by the situation, the genial humorist Is going to work again, and, In addition to his writing, proposes to make a lecture tour. If every one w bom he has cheer ed aud delighted with his sunny, clean, anil Inspiriting humor will attend the lectures there need be little doubt Mark Twain will soon recoup himself. Why do thousands of bicyclists "scorch" aloiijf with gloom on their handsome faces? Why do they look preoccupied a ml sad? Why are they never seen to smile except when coast ing with legs held proudly lu the air? Is it right that a smiling bicyclist should be as rare as a dead mule? We sup pose that the gloomy bicyclist is a relic of the days when bicyclists were few and much stared tt When a man is much stared at he is self-conscious, and when be Is self-conscious he prefers to wear a gloomy expression. Man be lieves foolishly that a gloomy expres sion is dignified. But bicyclists are not stared at now, and there Is no reason why they should not smile. If they would smile the streets would be more cheerful and the bicyclists would be better men. Besides, they would be healthier. Even Schopenhauer the Gloomy said, "Cheerfulness is the very flower of health." If bicyclists wish to be healthy flowers they must be cheer ful. What Is said here of gloom among bicyclists applies exclusively to male bicyclists. When the whcelwoman has mastered her wheel she always smiles unless she thinks her hat isn't on sTa!gh. During a recent debate In the French Chamber It was observed that several socialist deputies had lu their bauds copies of a Judicial order which, legal ly, should have been kept secret . The event excited much indignation, and angry Inquiries were made regarding the faithless official who had thus be trayed his trust No one seemed to know who was responsible for the leak, but a few days later the socialist leader, M. Jaures, publicly declared that his party was In the way of getting secret intelligence from every department of the Government He went so far as to affirm that he and his followers had a perfect understanding with the police, and complacently referred to several police rejwjrts on suspected anarchist and socialist meetings, which had been thoughtfully submitted to the socialists themselves before being transmitted to the Government Various prefects throughout the republic, under strict orders from Paris to keep an eye on the socialists and report their Incendiary harangues, had quietly gone, M. Jaures said, to the very agitators whom It was their duty to restrain, and begged to be allowed to help along in the overthrow of the present social regime. Doubtless there is some exaggeration about this, as the socialists would be glad to have It understood that the public service Is completely honeycombed by their sympathizers and adherents; but the es tablished facts are serious enough to de mand prompt action by the Govern ment Thought It Was a Wife Market. Orrin Holt, a robust Canadian fann er, called at the mayor's office yester day, and, saying he wished to get mar ried, was directed to the marriage bu reau, where be repeated his desire to Mr. Van Pelt "Bring in the lady," said Mr. Van Pelt. "I thought you had them here," said Mr. Holt In surprise. , Mr. Holt then explained that he bad read about Mayor Strong's Krfonn ance of marriage performances. "I thought" added he, "that yon bad glrla who wanted to get married wnit lng here. I want a good-looking, heal thy, nice tempered New York girl, and I can support her In good shape," New York Herald. AppaaJs to the Public. In London there Is a street collection for one benevolent Institution or an other on almost every Saturday In the year.. Half tbe wickedness In the world is gossip started by good people, A Wiae Twenty Tbouaand. A prominent real estate dealer says In the New York Recorder: "I believe that within the past three years not less than ten thousand families have removed from New York aud Brooklyn and taken up their residence lu New Jersey solely on accouut of the many miles of superior roads which have been built between the suburban towns of the Htnte under the road improvement law." Holling Va. Harrowing. An Ohio correnpoudent sends the fol lowing clipping from a local paper: "An exchange throws out a few timely hints on road making, as follows: The road grader will grade the dirt from tbe sides to the center, but leaves It lu ridges and uneven. A good finish is to put a few heavy harrows on tbe grade and harrow It even and pack It down some, then when the first rain comes it will either souk Into tbe dirt or run off at the sides, and not lay lu small pools aud make chuck holes. A heavy roller after harrowing would make the road almost Impervious to rain, but if the rollers are not at hand the harrow should be used." The suggestion that If a roller is 'not at hand the barrow should be used" is interesting, to say the least, but this is not the only harrowing thing about some of the country road repair lug." Electric Power for Country Hoods. Iu an article on "The Need of Better Koads," by Martin Dodge, lu the North American Heview, the following very clear statement of fact Is made: "I advocate an Important and far reachlug change In the manner of build ing country roads. My plan Is to ex tend the street car tracks from our cities out into the circumjacent terri tory a distance of thirty or forty miles, so that all the territory between centers of population sixty or eighty miles apart would be reached- Let these tracks be so made and laid that wagons aud carriages profiled by horses may go upon them, as well as cars propelled by electricity or other inanimate power. It la already demonstrated that only one-eighteenth of the power is required to move a vehicle over a smooth steel track that would lie required to move it over a gravel road, or one-eighth of that which would be required to move It over the Is-st pavement. When this important fact becomes generally known to the farmers, they will realizt that It Is a poor policy to promote the building of macadam roads when an equal outlay would provide a gixnl steel track. When the track Is once pro vided o that cars aud carriages pro pelled by horses can also go upon the same tracks with cars propelled by elec tricity,' the superiority of inanimate power will be ho apparent that, horse power will be quickly abandoned. And what we have seen In Cleveland and Columbus and other American titles we will see upon the country roads, namely, a complete substitution of elec tric power for horse power wherever the rails are laid." MODERN DENTISTRY. Bound Teeth Can Be Readily Substi tuted for Old Ones, The practitioner of to-day Is no lon ger a destructive, but a reparative agent Extraction Is no longer the logical remedy for an aching molar, and If you care to pay the difference In coat, the vacancies in your gums can be filled not by teeth set on a celluloid plate, but by tbe natural article trans planted from another's Jaw. This work of transplanting teeth is something which, while entirely famil iar with the higher grade of practition ers, the general public knows very little abont. Like many otlier so-called dis coveries. It Is really nothing absolutely novel merely an elaboration and Im provement of an old system abandoned years ago because of conditions then existing which rendered lu practice dangerous. These conditions having been removed, tbe rejected method was revived, with eminent success, and It is now recognized not only by Individu al practitioners of high standing, but by all the leading dental colleges. Nearly a century has elapsed since Sir John Hunter, an eminent London anatomist, discovered that healthy teeth extracted from the Jaws of one person could be transferred to those of another. He based his operations In this direction on the supposition that the transplanted tooth should always be made to fit the socket, and In the majority of his experiments It Is believ ed that he inserted the new tooth In the still unhealed wound left by the extraction of another. Valuable as Hunter's general contributions were to medical science, his method of trans planting teeth was not destined to en joy uninterrupted popularity. He him self recognized its great fault and oth ers were not slow to apprehend what the discoverer of the system was ready to acknowledge. It was found that cer tain blood diseases were liable to be transferred along with the troth, and so this particular line of dental surgery waa abandoned as too dangerous for pursuit When the system of antiseptic snr- parr waa evolved, Dr. Younger, of Ban Francisco, conceived the Idea of apply ing It to Hunter's oid method of trans planting. He very properly argued that a tooth thoroughly cleaned and sub jected to a bath of antiseptic fluid was no longer a medium for the transfer of d!-aje. Moreover, Instead of dealing with the matter on the line adopted by lU discoverer, that Is. that the tooth should be made to til the socket or cav ity. Dr. Younger worked ou tbe princi ple that the socket should be made to fit the tooth? His exierimenta under the new conditions proved eminently satisfactory, and it upeedHy became evi dent that the art of transplanting teeth had become a recognized branch of dental surgery. To-day the system la pursued by all first-class dentists in New York and by many In Brooklyn. It is uot popular In the most correct sense of the term, be cause it costs more than ordinary peo ple can afford, and, beside, it can lmrd ly be carried to the exteut of giving a man or woman a whole set of Ivories that once belonged to some one else. Still it is practiced in many cases and will be continued. Nearly all the lead ing dentists In New Yotk nowadays devote their euerglv-j tj jjv:u' teeth. With all the conditions now militating against the development of perfect teeth, this is no easy matter. It gives them enough to do without devoting valuable muscular tissue to the extract ing of big grinders with roots like an chor flukes. When they have a patient whose I Uxilh rually tuuot como out they pack him off to a certain doctor who makes a practice of doing such things. If the extracted tooth is not decayed, this practitioner puts It away In an anti septic bath, where It remains with some score of others until a dentist has a patron whose Jaw 1ms a vacancy that could be flihd by transplanting. A de mand Is then mode UKn the individual who keeps 1eeth in stck, and the order is filliil with regard to the requirements of shape, size, etc. It is no longer neces sary, as In the days of Hunter, to have a newly extracted tooth. A skillful dentist will make an Incision in thegum. If necessary ,nud therein Insert the tooth which has lain perhaps for months In Its bath of disinfectant. The tissues heal and lu a short time the transplant ed tooth Is as firmly rwrtcd as any of Its neighbors who have been grown on the soil. Ordinarily, where It Is deter mined to replace uu extracted tooth by transplanting, it is customary to keep the cavity open until Its new occupant Is Introduced. The length of time the cavity Is open has nothing to do with thesuccess of the transplanting process. A prominent New York dentist re lates an lutftani-e of a woman who lost a transplanted tooth soon after its In sertion In her gum. She was out of town at the time and her dentist was inaccessible. She filled the cavity with cotton wool aud so kept It open for sev eral days. Then she fell sick and pass ed through a long attack of typhoid fe ver. When she realized that she was seriously ill, and consequently liable to delirium, she InstructHi the nurse to keep the cavity In the gum still open, and those.dlrectioiiM were Implicitly fol lowed, when the sick woman was no longer able to attend to the matter her self. When she recovered and re-' turned to town the cavity was in a con dition to receive another tsth. In some cases, where the roots and base of a tooth remain Intact Jour modern dentist will fit a new top and fasten It to the old foundation with a neat rivet of gold. Brooklyn Eagle. Whittier Haw Little or the World. Whlttier was the only one of the loading American authors who never crossed the Atlantic. Not only did he never go to Kurope, be never went south of the Potomac or went of the Aileglieiiles. When the farm at Haver hill was sold lu IK'A part of the price wits used to buy a small place at Ames bury; and that house was Whittler's home for more than half a century After his return from Philadelphia, In IS.'!'.), he was rarely absent from Ames bury for more than a month or two at a time, although he did once reside the better jiart of a year In Lowell. He made visits to Boston ofteu, and some times even to New York; and frequent ly he spent his summers elswhcre; but until his death his home was the little house at Amesbury. St Nicholas) , Reeds of I he Mushroom. The spores (seeds), composed of a two coated cell, are borne on the gills or tubes under the cap. One plant ofteu produces ten million sKres. To see these tluy spores you must cut the top of a toadstool off and lay it right side up on a sheet of black paper. After a few hours, remove It carefully, anil an exact representation of its shape will remain on the paper, formed by the thousands of sKires which have fallen out If the spores fall on favorable soil, they germinate and send otit great numbers of tiny threads. These, be coming Intertwined and woven together cover the ground like tbe finest web, and this Is known as the mycelium, or "spawn." The threads absorb nour ishment and carry it to the quickened siore. St Nicholas. IWsult of Forestry Tesu. Nearly -lo.ooo tests made by the for estry division of the department of ag riculture have established these facts: Seasoned timber Is twice ss strong as green, but weakens with absorption of moisture; large and small timbers have equal strength per square Inch If equal ly perfect; knots weaken a column as well as a beam; long-Icafcd pine Is stronger than average oak; bleeding does not impair timber. .The 'Three Fatca." Three goddesses, who, according to Grecian mythology, controlled the des tinies of mankind. They were Clotlio, who spun the thread of human life; Lachesls, who disposed of destinies, twirling the spindle on which the thread was wound, and Atropos, who cut the. thread of life. TOPICS FOR FARMERS A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. bay of the Small t'arra Hui Co mo Value of a fcapld Walking Uorac Marketlng Garden eta blea-How to Fatten Cattle Quickly. Tbe Small Farm Weat. Even lu California, the laud of great ranches and vast estates, they begin to see that the day of the small farm has come. Indeed, the San Francisco Chron icle says that it has for years preached the gospel of the small farm, well di versified, as the keynote of California's future prosjierlty. It means more homes, more good citizens and greater general good than rich mine or vast fields and orchards can afford. The thrifty small farmer Is the last to feel the pinch of hard times. He may never be rich, but he need never be poor. He can earn leisure and learn how to en Joy it and his children will have the home influence all children are entitled to. The Santa Rosa Republican notes an increasing inquiry for small places In the country, more especially to rent There is now a tendency from the titles, instead of toward them. Wage workers are seeking small farms to work for themselves. We should have ten of these small, well-worked places where we now have one. The single-crop man Is rich one year and poor the next five. The man who has cows, hogs, poultry and vegetables, as well as fruit Is the man who Is the most prosperous and has the best home. Rapid Walk inn Horaea. At the present time there are, of course, nothing like iu many long Jour neys made by the aid of a horse as In the days of our forefathers, but never theless It Is still a welcome attribute lu a driver, the ability to keep up a smart pace and to do It cheerfully when uot forced into a trot, says Wallace's Monthly. Men who have the initial handling of colts are. In a great meas ure, responsible for the rapidity of their walk, and it should be the aim of such men to see that the colts are taught to walk five miles an hour, and do it without urging. Once acquired, the possession of a rapid walk will be of benefit should the colt as a matured horse develop Into a trotter, and should he prove fit only for farm labor or busi ness purposes, the fust walker will sell quickly where a "pokey" animal would be a drug on the market. Marketing Garden Vcgetabiea. The work of growing garden vegeta bles Is only a small part of the labor required before they can be turned Into money. They are all very bulky, and for this reason the market garden must needs be near a city or large village, or at least near a railroad station, where the crop can be shipped. Land that has these advantages Is worth many times as much as otlier laud of equal fertility that is not near to mar ket. The gardener must also have large amounts of manure, and these cannot bp secured except near cities or villages. In market gardening, how ever, .where there Is a near market for the product It will pay to use com mercial fertilizers, especially the nitrates, which ute much more easily applied than stable manure, and do uot dry out the soli as the. manure does. To Fatten Cattle Quickly. To fatten cattle most rapidly at this season of the year provide a pasture with at least one acre of grass for each cow or steer. Begin, s.iyH the Agricul turist with five pounds of corumeal aud one pound crushed oil cake for each animal. Increase the feed by add ing one pound of cornineal and one half pound of oil cake dally for two weeks. If corn Is ground without the cob, make a mixture of throe parts meal and one part bran or mill feed by weight A ration of twenty pounds meal and bran, eight pounds oil cake with grass, water and salt will fatten the animals as rapidly as heavier feed ing. I would use nothing but old pro cess oil meal. Sterilizing Milk. Provide six or eight half-pint bottles according to the number of times the child Is fed during the twenty-four hours, dlrecls the Ladles' Home Jour nal. Put the proper quantity of food for one feeding in each bottle and use a tuft of cotton batting as a stopper. Have a saucepan that the bottles can stand In conveniently. Invert a 'per forated, tin pie plate lu the bottom, anil put lu enough water to come above the milk In the bottles. Stand bottles on it. When the water bolls, draw the saucepan to a cooler part of the stove, where (he water will remain near the boiling point, but not actually boiling. Cover the saucepan And let the bottles remain In It one hour. Put them In the Ice box, or a cool place iu winter. Relative Vuluca of Manure, At the Connecticut Experiment Sta tiou four plots were selected and plant ed In corn, put the same distance In row and hills apart, and cultivated the sume way four years. To one plat ten cords of cow manure were given each year; to the second plat hogpen manure at the rato of thirteen and a half cords; to the third plat fertilizer chemicals at the rate of 1,700 pounds, and to the fourth none. At the end of four years the cow manure had averaged OH bush els per acre; the hogpen, m bushels; the fertilizers, SO bushels, and the un ma nured land, 'Mi bushels. If we look, however, at the available plant food left In the soil at the end of four years for future crops, the account will stand thus: Cow manure left KM pounds nitrogen, 8NN pounds phosphoric eld and 407 pounds potash; hogpen, 807 of nitrogen, 1.713 phosphoric acid and 57 pouuds potash; fvrtlliiert, fclH pounds nitrogen, 47i phosphoric acid and 17 pound of potash; whil the un-mautm-d was short !. puuiids nitro gen, 37 pounds of potash, and lu excess 37 miiiii1s phosphoric acid- Cow ma nure has Us-u estimated lo lie worth $.'1 ier tou, aud swine $;l.l".t per ton. Mildew on Horn. For rows, the mildew may Is? con trolled by sulphur, either dusted ujku the foliage or heated utiou the green house pipes. The black sjot has been checked by Bordeaux mixture, aud the auiuioulucal solution of carbonate of copper, says the Philadelphia Ledger. Tbe formula for Bordeaux mixture is five pounds of lime and live pouuds of sulphata of copper in fifty gallons of water; each may be prepared and kept In stock, to be mixed as needed for spraying. The formula for ammoula cal solution of the cartmnate of cop per Is five ounces of carlonate of cop mt dissolved In three quarts of strong (4F) ammonia, to be afterward added to fifty gallons of water. These two fungicides are the chief compounds that can be recommended for fungous diseases in the greenhouse. A solu tion of potasslc sulphide (one-half ounce of sulphide to one gallon of water) bas proved a successful remedy iu carnation diseases. Good results have followed the use of Bordeaux mixture for fungi on violets and many otlier plants would doubtless be bene fited by Its use. Fowls in Uardena, On the vineyards of France poultry are kept In large numbers and permit ted to wander at will for ten mouths In the year, with benefit to the vines, to themselves and to their owners. Best assured, says The English Planter, If fowls can get plenty of grubs, worms aud insects, whose room Is usually bet ter than their company, they will not do much damage, to fruit of any kind, though a little tax In this way will be paid for in another. As to corn crops, I came across a striking proof of the value of poultry some time ago. Vis iting a large farmer, who keeps several hundred poultry, he told nie that last year he had two houses with fifty hens in each In a pasture field, adjoining which was a large field sown in oats. His bailiff wanted the fowls removed, as they were wandering all over the oat field, scratching everywhere. Final ly, he beiume rather afraid of the effect himself, and one day went down, dug up the ground In several places, to find that not an oat had Ik-cu Interfered with, and he never had a better crop In his life. The fowls were feasting upon the natural food in the solL Shelled Fbb Snl pped In Bulk. A consular reiKirt tells of large quan tities of shelled eggs being sent to England from Russia and Italy, for the use of pastry cooks, bakers, hotels and restaurants. The eggs are emptied from their shells Into tin cans holding a thousand or inure, and ater being her metically sealed, are packed with straw Into wooden cases, the taps, through which the contents are drawn, being added by those using them. Greut care Is necessary In selecting the eggs, as a single bad one would ssdl the whole lot lyower prices and saving of time and greater ease and less expense and hss In handling tire named us the ad vantages of this system. Thus far the Russian product has been uniformly gisMl, whereus the Italian shipment have so frequently been Risilled that analysis of the Russian supply has len ordered to determine If preservatives are used. The Hurley ilurveat. No kind of farm animals excepting poultry will attack a head of barley. Fowls will peek at It to get out the grain anil then eat that, but the strong beards are repellaut to all other kinds of stock. With the self-binding har vesters now generally used for barley harvest very little of the grain Is drop ped on the ground, and there Is not much use raking the field after It to gather what Is scattered. In the olden time, when barley was cut with a reaper and gathered In cock like hay without binding, there were always a great many takings. Usually these were badly stained and could not be sold with the main crop, but they made good feed when threshed by themselves and ground, Many barley growers still prefer the old way of har vesting, as the crop .can Ik; cured In less time If allowed to lny a day un bound before being put Into cock than if bound In a bundle as soon as cut as It must be when cut with the harvester. Cultivation After Rains. Every time rain falls all tilled land should be cultivated. There are many light rains through the summer, which wet only the surface of the soli, and If this Is not cultivated under, the mois ture speedily evaporates and is lost This cultivation has also another effect In developing nitrates lu the soli. What ever vegetable matter Is In the soil needs only to be brought Into contact with oxygen to be decomposed and lis mnnurlal elements set free. There Is also on soil that Is cultivated frequent ly a deposit of moisture by the atmos phere which It contains, and this, being really a dew, always contains more ammonia than does ordinary rain water. Cae the Fmnnthlno; Harrow, Make good uso of the smoothing har row In the corn and other cultivated fields. No tool in use will kill m many weeds as tills, If used at the right time. It will keep down the weeds and keep the surface mellow, the two prime ne cessities In the culture of any crop. The Berry Huali. Berry bushes will bear longer If ihe fruit Is picked off clean. If you should have more than you want to use, give some Kxr neighbor a chance.