THE'SIOCX COUNTY JOURNAL.
HABRISOX, :
KEBBASKA.
"Salt ia good for army worms," says
the New York Tribune. Now, what is
bad for them?
Philadelphia has decided not to filter
Ha city drinking water. If it can't be
Improved by filtration It should be run
through a gravel screen.
ia the new woman deficient In nerve,
after all? Statistics prove that wed
dings In this leap year are no more nu
loerous than they have been hitherto.
Learning is either good or bad ac
cording to him that has It an excel
lent weapon, if well used; otherwise,
l.ke a sharp razor In the hand of a
child.
The Peary expedition is reported to
be locked In the ice and unable to pro
ceed to the arctic regions. Hut we posi
tively refuse to feel sorry on that ac
count In midsummer.
Nothing equals travel as a means of
destroying local prejudice and eommu
ii'cating knowledge of the world. In
no other way can a man at ouce learn
much and enjoy much.
If Commander Frederick St. George
d: la Tour Booth-Tucker really wants
to become an American citizen he
should first run his name through the
condenser and uncouple the hyphen.
Others are affected by what I am and
s:iy and do. And these others have also
their spheres of influence. So that a
single act of mine may spread in wid
ening circles through a nation of hu
Cianity. A London journal refers to "L'ncle
Tom's Cabin" as a "lurid attack upon
t'ie Iniquities of slavery in New Eng
land." But this Is much nearer the
.Dark than the average English paper
usually gets.
Lillian Russell's contract for next
year contains a forfeiture clause by
which she Is to pay $50,000 if she mar
ries within the year. This is a pretty
severe handicap on Cupid, but Lillian
never did treat the little fellow right.
We can be thankful to a friend for a
few acres or a little money; and yet for
the freedom and command of the whole
earth, and for the great benefits of our
being, our life, health, and reaf ju. we
look upon ourselves as under no obliga
tion. From infancy to old aoe humanity
must have appreclatlvy Jwords from
time to time. They aKe ai'tilesome eiMl
stimulating; but to depend Vjpon praise
and flattery for one's happine?, to sink
Into gloom without them, to allow one's
cheerfulness to lapse when the outside
world seems to be unaware of one's
important presence this Is simply de
spicable. When we see a man deficient in the
special virtue which we hold essential,
v cannot believe, or, at least we do
not realize that he may be excellent 'n
many other respects. We have a single
type of character in our own minds
which we wish to approach ourselves,
and which we think every one else
ought to prize equally. But we forget
that this ideal Is only one of many, and
rhat those who hold another may far
excel ns In certain qualities which we
undervalue, but which to them are all
important Of all the recuperators of Intellectual
energy and freshness, there Is one
which is chief and has no second. That
recuperator Is rest. Let him who ques
tions the superlative value of rest try
to do without rest or sleep for a single
week. Rest, to produce Its full result,
must be absolute not merely the ces
ji t Ion from work, but the abandon
ment of care, the laying aside of re
sponsibility also, as of a coat whfch
is not to be worn for a period. The
man whose brain Is very tired must
gMre his body rest as well as bta intel
lect A weary brain will not supply
the muscles with energy for long walks
or fatiguing toils.
When a building Is begun which is to
lias nearly 400 feet In the air on one of
the buai jst street of New York one
may well ask where this sort of thing
to to end. This Is a great hlgbt, even
for a church spire or a monument; but
ttie worst of It is that there Is no tell
ing by bow much the next big struc
ture will exceed It In altitude. Of course
building like this Is supposed to be
made absolutely fireproof. No stream
of water from the most powerful of our
engines could be thrown to the upper
and If flames should start any-
above the first three or four
the occupants would be beyord
the reach of scaling or other ladders. It
to h the Interest of the owners, natur
aJty, to make such a structure as this
sparely safe, but this does not excuse
1m public authorities from relaxing for
ate moment their vigilance. The eon
sxraottaa of these blfb building should
be watched carefully, not only until
Cay are completed, bat afterward as
nveen remarked hy experi-
1 wpedsjia that hemlock
f
) 0 a atoe mttt, die
, to at off asd the bemloek ai
i ftetaad, Tfcto to aeeooateb for
y t y the mUlm n i of tress
1 txH Used la t2 shade aaosr
i t.itxri f Ca Cr growth of
irri ty tts sVTto of
the roots. The hemlock has a shallow
root system, and suffers severely when
the soil is dried by expisure to the sun
and wind. The name facts explain part
of' the injury which could be avoided
under forest management. It has been
supposed that these is a kind of affinity
between pine and hemlock, by whkh
one needs the companionship of the
other in order to a full growth and ma
turity. But the explanation here given
seems to do away with that Idea as a
pleasant fiction. It seems that hemlock.
In the instances referred to, needs the
protection of other dense forest growth
m order to conserve the moisture of the
roots.
There Is a very old and authoritative
saying as to what shall be the fate of
them that live by the sword. This say
ing doubtless appears peculiarly slgnill
cant to the Messrs. Moore, who are
suffering under an accumulation of
the fates which they have been metinq
aut to the lesser warriors of the bour:
at their leisure during the last flv-?
mocths. The collapse of their huge
speculation in the shares of the IM.i-
njond Match Company and the New
i ork Biscuit Company is a business
disaster of such wldespreading poten
tialitles that they must expect to take
a large share of public and individual
Uame. Their game in its failure In
'jives loss and trial to scores, perhaps
to hundreds, and a shock to the local
nonet ary fabric, which many Innocent
persons will feektbe stress of. The only
IKJSKible justification of a speculatloi
on any grounds resides in its success.
While the Messrs. Moore were dought
ily if very foolishly making a local
speculative market In defiance of the
general financial situation and were
showering golden benefits on the brok
ers and smaller gamblers who sailed
iu their triumphant wake they were a
counted benefactors of their kind an 1
were figuratively crowned with con
querora' bays. Of course all this Is sad
ly changed to-day. The program en
countered a fatal accident and the
Messrs. Moore have lieen suddenly
transposed from the top to the bottom
of the pack. Their attitude and expres-
fc'on are no longer typical of victory but
of defeat. They that live by the sword
shall die by the sword and the pru
dent man will not get himself in the
way of the retributive stroke.
There will be general relief that Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and Grace Wll-
ju are married at last, and the young
jxjople themselves must be glad to es-
caie from the glare of publicity with
which they have been surrounded for
several months. The annoyances
w hich have beset them are the penalties
of wealth and social position. If young
Vanderbilt had been a clerk on a small
salary and Miss Wilson the daughter
of a corner grocer or a street car con
luctor their troubles would have at
tracted no attention except from the'r
immediate friends and relatives. It
was the millions rather than the people
'nvolved that focused all eyes upon
tlietu. Aside from this fact, the woes
of the newly wedded pair were of the
rc.ost ordinary character. The father
of the bridegroom opposed the match
for reasons which never did and prob
ably never will appeal to the ardent
lever. He thought Cornelius was too
young to marry, and emphasized his
opinion with the threat of disinherit
ance, which, of course, only strength
ened the prospective bridegroom In his
determination, to commit matrimony.
As for the young woman, she seems to
have borne herself with projier dignity
and reserve under rather trying circum
stances. She neither hastened nor re
tarded the wedding, and fully answer
ed the Insinuations of fortune hunting
by marrying Cornelius In the face of
his father's declaration that none of
the Vanderbilt millions should go to
keeping up the new establishment. As
the father of the bride Is himself a
millionaire, It Is not likely that the
young couple will suffer for the neces
saries of life, but In any event Vander
bilt, Jr., will have the sympathy of ail
lovers, young and old. In his refusal to
give up the woman of his choice under
a threat of pecuniary disadvantage.
He has. at least, married an American,
and in this he will not suffer by com
palnon with other members of the
Vanderbilt family who have exchanged
their money for worn-out tub's, earn
ing only contempt on both sides of the
ocean.
Antiquit y of Burnt-Wood Decoration
It would be Impossible to state posi
tively when this art was first prac
ticed. Burnt panels have been found In
various parts of Europe, set into an
cient furniture, chimney pieces, and
wainscoting. In the museums of Eu
tope there are marriage chests, coffers,
end panels, dating from the fifteenth
century or thereabouts, upon which a
species of low relief woodwork,' not
unlike the so-called "fret-saw" work of
to-day, has been applied or chiseled out.
ihe flat surface being richly ornamented
with fine traceries unmistakably burn
ed with heated points. Some years ago
A New York artist, while wandering
through the seashore Tillages of Wales,
found In a peasant's hot a rare panel of
burnt wood work of the Italian Renais
sance (about the fifteenth century).
The fisherman had found H on the
beach, where It bad drifted from some
wreck. In the sacristy of the little
octagonal church of Sant' Ercolano at
Penvrla are some ancient chests which
were quaintly decorated with hot irons
same four hundred yean ago. On
tary. The reason why sponge cake Is tough
to often because It was baked too rap
Idly. Use the Juice of half a lemon
la It, and allow a quarter of an hour
loafer for the baking. Cheap water
sponge is generally tough unless It baa
lemon juice added to It, tod It should
be very carefully baked-
CHILDREN IN FRANCE.
The European Hepnblic Alara-ed by
It licensing Birth Bate.
A very remarkable campaign has
been started in Frant the object being
to Increase the jiopulation. The organ
ixrm are Ir. Jacques Bertillon, chief
of the bureau of statistics, of Paris; M. !
CbarUw Richet, professor of the faculty :
of medicine in the same city, and Dr.
Javal, memter of the Academy of
Medicine. For years these men have ,
noticed with regret that the population
of France was not increasing propor-
tlooaXely wlrb the iopulatlou of other
i , K , ,
countries, and now they come forward
with what they Wieve to I an infalli-
ble remedy for this evil,
That some drastic remedy is needed
iney inxirti, as omerwise r iiuit iuubi
soon sink to the rank of second-rate,
or even a third-rate, natiou. A hun
dred years ago the great countries In
other words, the great powers of Eu
ropecontained &H,nriO,000 inhabitants.
of whom2ti,0io,XiO, or 27 per cent., were !
residents of France. To-day thee same j
countries contain 3 0,O W.OOO iuhabi-'
tants, of whom 38,(ki0,000. or only 12;
per cent., live in France. These figures
sjieak for themselves, and the obvious
conclusion, according to Or. Bertlllon
and his colleagues, Is that if the births ;
continue to decrease at the same oinln-1
ous rate, Frau-e. which was once one
of the most powerful countries if Eu-1
rope, will soon be one of the weakest.
These gentlemen have begun their
novel campaign by founding a BoWety.
which is styled "The National Alliance I
for the Relief of the French Population.'
The defensive measures which they
propose to adopt are numerous, but for
the immediate present they will confine
their attention to three s,ints. 1. The,
will try to get the laws relating to In -
heritance greatly modified; 2, they will
try to get all direct taxes removed from
those families which have more than
three children; and, 3, they will try to
have the laws relating to succession
duties thoroughly reformed. As It is
manifest tliat the nation's treasury
would be seriously affected by the re
moval of taxes In the case of all fami
lies which have more than three chil
dren. It Is proposed to place a tax of
one-fifth of 1 per cent, on all families
which are childless or have only one or
two children.
There are snid to be excellent rea-
eons for these proposed reforms. The
larger a man's family in France, we are
told, the more he Is taxed, both directly
and indirectly, the result being that
thrifty parents do tiot care to have
many children. Moreover, thejareuta'
property must be divided among the
children, and If the children are num
erous and the property small, the disas
trous results can easily be foreseen. Irv
other countries the law ofntall I ,s
maintalnerl pretty rigidly aUl tlipugh
Its operation seems hardly equitable or
natural as regards younger children. It
certainly seems to act in some degrees
as a preventive o depopulation.
"Removal! f5urneoni taxes from
fruitful failles," say the members of
the National Alliance, "and let French
women and Frenchmen know that,
even from a monetary point of view,
It will be fortunate for them to have
many children. Then, as the national
treasury must be supported, let us tax
those parents who have few or no chil
dren. Parents who have no children or
only one or two children may reason
ably be required to contribute a goodly
quota toward the supjwrt of the sate,
whereas It Is Improper and unjust to
expect any support from those iarents
who have to provide for numerous
children. Oo this, and France will
soon be-oiue, as she was In the past,
one of the greatest powers hi Europe;
fall to do rhls and France will soon
sink to the level of Oenmaik, Belgium j
or Holland."
The members of the alliance intend
to hold several public meetings and to
publish several pamphlets setting forth !
their views. They offer memlx-rshlp to
all who care to assist them, lrreteetive
of creed or political opinions. Many
persons throughout France have al
ready announced their adhesion to the
program of the alliaiK-e, and it is con-
fidently expeWed that in the near fu
ture the necessary bills in regard to
succession duties and the abolition of
taxes will lie presented to the Freuch
Legislature.
Others, however, who know nothing
bout statistics, but who profess to
know a good deal alwut human nature,
maintain that this crusdae will pro
duce little result for the reason that the
opposing forces are not mainly econ
omical, but arc the result of old-time
habits and ways of thinking, against
wlrlch It will be Impossible to success
fully coinlwt. Taxes and succession
dudes, say these critics, have nothing
to do with the question. French fam
ilies are small, because such has king
been the custom In France, and this
custom no laws or regulations can do
away wKh. They point out many mor
al and other reasons for this custom,
on which it is not necessary here to lay
stress. One ingenious critic maintains
that French women become so Intoxi
cated with love and sd ml ration for the
first child that tbey never care to have
any more. He writes with some bitter
ness on the subject, and even goes so
far as to say that a French woman, as
soon as she becomes a mother, gradual
ly loses her love for her husband, and
becomes a slave to the child.
Under these circumstances, accord
ing to him, the husband and wife tacit
ly agree to live separate Uvea, the In
evitable result being that the family
tie Is sundered. However this may be,
all thinking men In France agree thai
the evil exists, and, while soms of
them are satisfied that It cannot lie
eradicated, there Is not one who Is not
satisfied that the National Alliance le
a step In tHe right direction. I on don
Times,
Hssior of a Hnaaortac
Harper's Mags sine contains a person-
"aalw w aa wa.awaB a ,
al sketch of Mark Twain, embellished j
with i he sort of aneedot'-f wLhu wtai
Burnt fitted to the life of a humorist.
Not long siui-e. goes the tale, a big. good
natured countryman called ujx.u him
and asked, after a few minutes' rhat:
"Now tell me for a fact, are you the
one that wrote all tbem books?
Truly 1 aja," was the reply.
"Of course you are! of course you
are'" agreed the honest fellow, "but, by
George! 1 shouldn't think It from your
looks"
In anticipation of Mr. Clemens' mar
riage, his prospective father-in-law
t.wrl, .,..4 nl.-...4 a K..itu, in Rivf.
, . ... ,,,.. ,.,,
falo. is a wedding gift for the young
e The ,
from Mf nd ,f w
only on tbe evening of his marriage day
; w,jj(.h
I was brilliantly lighted and filled with
I friends and kinsfolk.
He was conducted up and down
through the rocms, while he grew every
minute more and more mystified. At
lengt'i bis wife could Uar the situa
tion no loiiger, and broke forth:
"It Is our house, yours and mine; a
present from father."
All the fnends gathered dIhiiu Mr.
Clemens to hear what be might say. He
choked and the tears came into his eyes,
but llnally he managed to stammer,
two or three words at a time:
"Mr. Laiigdou, whenever you are in
Buffalo, if it's twice a year, come right
up here and bring your biijr with you.
You may May overnight If you waut to.
It shan't cost )ou a cent;"
It was while he lived In this house
that be chanced, one morning, to look
I across the way; there he saw something
which caused him to cross the street
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( m ,,,,.,.
mwi js M wlfp ,,,
J , tflVe ,ntt.J(1l!,K , , m you
m lu.qmhln,.e. We owe
now. I Ix'g your pardon for Intruding
on you In this Informal manner, and at
this tune of day, but your house is
aflrer
The meeting suddenly adjourned.
He Is surely gifted with the capacity
for saying a serious thing humorously.
One Sunday when he hud specially
liked the sermon, he detained the min
ister at the (hurch door, and said:
"1 mean no ( ffetice. but I feel obliged
to tell you that the preaching this morn
ing has been of a kind that 1 can spare.
I go to church to pursue my own trains
of thought; but to-day I couldn't do It.
You have interft red with me. You
have forced me to attend to you. and
nove lost me a whole half hour. 1 lcg
that It may not occur again."
Wonderful Power.
The power of imagination Is amusing
ly Illustrated In the story told of an old
lady who had never heard the celebrat-
ed violinist, Pagnnlnl, play, and one
day obtained permission to attend a
rehearsal of one of his concerts.
It so happened that I'agnuinl did not
w uio iiuiiu n nil mill "laE
Tiearsal that day, but hrro
w ThsVm
ne
from a member of the ur-sira, and let
stead of playing as Uhtialjsimply kept
tip a kind of pizzicato accompaniment.
After the rehearsal the old lady went
up to Mr. Cooke, the musical director,
and said In a burst of enthusiasm, "Oh,
dear! Mr. Cooke, what a wonderful
man he is! I declare I never knew
what musk; was capable of till this
morning."
"Indeed, madam, he is truly a mar
telous man," assented Mr. Cooke, with
a smile; "but this morning you are In
debted rather to your imagination than
to your ears for the delight you have
nad, for Paganlnl has not really played
at all. He has not even touched s
Ikw."
"Well," said the old lady, after a mo
IIM,nt-g astounded silence, recovering
Vrself, "then all I can say Is, he's even
more remarkable than 1 thought he
was! For If he can affect me lu such
, ilmnner wi,ilout pUiylng. what should
I do, how should I feel, when he reallv
d!d play!"
One Little Wor .
The little word "again" has appur
oUv nothing humorous about It, but It
once threw a large assembly Into fits of
laughter.
It was at a public meeting In New
York. One of the speakers, the Rev.
Mr. R., had the misfortune, when be
tried to take a seat, to miss the chair
and come down at full length on the
platform. The accident accasloned a
utile Buouura inntn, especially as the
unfortunate divine was very tall, and
seeined to cover the whole platform
!n bis fractic efforts to rise.
When at last It came his turn to
speak, the piesldlng officer Introduced
him In these words:
"The Rev. Mr. R. will again take the
floor."
Clapping, stamping and laughter
reigned for several minutes. The rev
erend gentlemen had never before met
with so enthusiastic a reception.
Weeds as Manure
A European exchange has the follow
ing: Put Into a ditch alternate layers
of weeds and lime, and after a year has
passed H will be found that the ditch
contains a blackish mixed matter pos
sessed of good fertilizing powers, lu
Switzerland they use as a manure for
the meadows a kind of vegetable Juice
prepared as follows from weede: Make
a large heap of from 375 to 575 pounds,
leave It to ferment, stir It every eight
days. When the weeds have turned
j yellow they are removed to a ditch.
where they are watered and mixed
with the following solution: Two and a
Quarter pounds of sulphuric aHd, two
and a quarter pounds of hydrochloric
add and 132 gallons of water. The
bulk Is turned about three or four times
a week and at the end of a month there
Is obtained a vegetable juice rich io
nitrogen, phosphoric add and potash.
If a boy consents to wear shoes In
summer, It la to tramp on the feet of
vuiMUiv:! V a v lisiuv VM
the boys who go bare foot.
THE FARM AND HOME
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM
ER ANO HOUSEWIFE,
Poiata for the Man Who Rents a Farm
Growth of the Swine lodnatrr
Cheap Machinery Ia Often the
Deareat-Rave Peed torn Early.
A Point for th? Henler.
If any man should le a gd farmer,
that man thould le the one who rents
lands us.n which to make his home
and grow cros. He does not like to
move from place to plaf any oftener
than Is iiec-esary. It is not profitable
to do this.
Every intelligent farmer understands
how neccjisary it is lu order to get the
most profit out of the acres of a farm,
that there lie some system observed
throughout a series of years in the mat
ter of crop rotation, hauling out uia
nun, keeping up farm reiciirs, and a
hundred odds and ends that go unlook
ed after when the renter expects to
stay on the place but one year. As the
country grows older It is likely that tills
IsHter KjHcy will hold in these matters
In the Interest alike of the owner of
the land and of the man who Is work
ing it.
According to the Nebraska Farmer,
the point uppermost lu mind iu this
connection is this: Fanners everywhere
complain, often justly, of high rents
and of the exactness of landords. etc..
but the landlord complains loudly also
of tax collectors, and of small returns
upon his Investment, and all this sort
of thing; and now here Is Ihe point for
the renter of lauds farm fewer acres,
half the iiumls r If you please, and dou
ble the yield.
If you can pay cash rent and are a
good fanner, pay It. nnd get the full
benefit of your H--wlor methods, but If
you cannot pay cash, f.inn fewer acres
any way and make the yield large and
your landlord will ls-g you to stay. As
suggited at the outset, the renter
should te the l.est farmer In his nelgli
liorhood. There Is scan-ely such a
thing as a limit to the Missibiliiies of
production within the reach of the
man who gives his n hole time and skill
to a reasonable number of acres.
The average com yield for. say. ten
consecutive years, is alsmt ','n bushels
per acre. Hut ."o or 00 bushels is not
an uncommon yield, and loo bushels Is
within easy reach where conditions are
right. Needless to say. that It Is In
these larger yields that the profit-making
conies lu.
Growth of the kwine In-1utry.
The statistical tables of the Covern
nient reports tell a story of marvelous
I rugrens of the swim- Industry of this
country, especially in the period slifcg
the close of the civil war. Note the
following figures giving the number and
value of hogs(ln the years named:
Yearj,
i;f Vi. . .. r
ZS7o
iHT5
l.sxo . .
1S.V)
1WM) ,, ..
1H1I2
iwt:$
ls;r.
Nil in her.
. .Vl..'il7,li.".s
.liH.7ol.4iHi
.lix.in;2.2isi
.:4.n:S4.1ixi
.4.".14Xi'k-.7
. .rii.in2.7Hii
. ..VJ.M'.ts.OHI
. ,4't.iHll,sii7
. .44,l;r..71i
, Vshie.
J110.7IHJ
1S7.1U 1.012
14!).HiH(.23J
1I.V7X1.-51.-.
22ii.4ol,ilS.t
2.Vl,41H.rn
241.0.(1,415
2V5.4i2,4!2
It will be seen that the high water
.nark was reached In 1K!I2, the number
of hogs being ."2,.'!!lf(M), an Increase of
over 28,XKj,(Krt) lu twenty-four years.
t!nee that high llgure was reached
there has lieeii an average decrease of
t;lout 2,m,( per year, resulting from
the depression of business, the exclu
sion of American pork from some for
eign markets, losses from hog cholera,
decline of prices, etc. The maximum
of value waa reached Jan. 1, IWiH, at
which time It amounted to the great
sum of $2!t5,0 i),000. The tendency of
Western fanners to engage extensive
ly In dairying and Iu a greater diver
sity of crops Is likely to prevent an
overproduction of hogs In future years.
The swine of the United Htates com
prise alMiut one-half tlie number and
nore than one-half the value of the
principal stock producing countries of
the world. Aud this country will easily
mi'lntaiii the lead because of Irs vast
atea of soil adapted to the production
of corn.
The number of hogs raised In the sev
en States comprising the corn ls-lt fur
nishes a striking Illustration of the
valuation of the swine Industry to com
production. Following ore the figures
showing the numlx-r of hogs In these
Htates In 1W2, the year following the
great corn crop of 1KSI1:
'owa 7.10.V120
Illinois .'4.KM.H15
Missouri 4,fl.'J2.214
Kansa 3,175,7)17
Nebraska 2,5H)l,f)52
Ohio 2.851,228
Indiana , .2,580 ,380
Total 27,87J.f(2i
From tills It will le seen that a little
more than 53 per cent of the hogs of
the country were raised In the seven
tates of the com licit, which produced
over (53 per cent of the iota! corn crop
In the United Stntes In tho year 1891.
Iowa raised over 7,000,000 hogs and
produced 35O,0OO,flOO bushels of conu
Col man's Rural World.
Cheap Machinery Is Hear.
Cheap machinery on the farm Is not
the kind to use. The strongest com
retltor the fnnner tins I bis neighbor
who uses pure-bred stock and the lat
est Improved machinery. A few cents
difference per bushel In the cost of pro
i, ctlon is the turning point between
pi oil t and loss, and the farmer who Is
well fortified with all the labor-saving
appliances can afford to accept prices
on whlcb his neighbor would suffer a
loss.
Ravins, head Corn.
Uegln saving seed corn early. Oo
Into tbe Held and mark la some manner
the best stalk which eon tain tbs best
ear. I'roliticscy. early maturity, depth
of grains, sixe of ears and vigor can be
l-oticed from now to maturity. AU of
i:e most popular varieties of corn were
produced in that manner, and every
farmer has It In bis power to Improve
on that which be has. It is better than
procuring some variety from elsewhere,
hat may not le adapted to the farm.
By careful selection every year a mark
ed Improvement lu the corn will be ef
fected lu a few years.
Tree for Waate I'iacea.
Valleys, ravines, sleep declivities or
rocky and broken surfac-s might often
1 given over to the growth of tre,
and serve au esthetic as well as an
i economic punsme. If land has been re
dmvd to lisrreuiiesK, or the soil ladly
washed, the fertility I tt and most
easily restored by a covering of trees.
i which restore a vegetable oil. Upon
! the farm the ot of division fences Is
often as great as that of the buildings.
I and rhe annual iiwt of realrs is great-
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er; moreover, ineir me
long. All this Is an argument for mov
able fences, that we may shift them at
will, and often divide our fields ss we
wish, which we cannot do with those
which are permanent. If your sur
roundings are not all tliey should le
ujH.n the fann. do your lst to Improve
them. If you are not quite as forehand
ed as yon would like to Is, try to make
your uelghliors think so by ki-epiiig ev
erything trim and shipshape. This ef
fort. If rightly directed .will do much to
make you so. American Agriculturist.
Origin of the hhfirthorn.
That the original Shorthorns were de
rived from the same source as the first
Herefords seems to admit of little
thxilil. It is equally clear that for ceu
liirles they were nut so intelligently
developed. So when, late In the eigh
teenth century, the Durham breeders
awakened to the Importance of Im
provement. It Is not surprising that
fhey had recourse to the "white-faces'
which had been so long esteemed the
"hrst breed of cattle in the Island."
It Is undeniable that a good many of
the early iMirhnins were whlte-facel;
Mr. Hales d"-HcrllH'S the noted Short
horn called Jacob Smith's bull as if
yellow nil. white fan-, white on back1',
ii till white legs to knees." This bull
was the sire of the dam of the ce!.
bratcd cow, I.ady Maynard, that Influ
enced so favorably the upbuilding of
the rollings herd, and thereby the ad
vancement of the entire Slwrthoru
breed.
1 he Xhrphcrd.
Mix lamp black with strong vinegar
to mark the sheep on the wool.
Sheep love a change as well as the
Siicplu-rd. and a change of feed as well
as of place Is a very good thing.
Sheep are Improved In every way by
a little pine tar taken Internally. S'lr
a tarred silik In the water trough oc
casionally. UiiiTs In the large centers want
moiv ripe, fat mutton than they can
H-t. Feeders should cater to the (le
insnd of the market, thereby making
more money for themselves and s.itls
lylng the consumers.
The wool clip of Montana Is placed
at O.oiiO.OOO pounds this year. As yet
but little of the wool has been sold or
consigned, and growers have stored
I heir product for prices lietter than
l'lit and one-half cents, which Is of
icreil. '1 here Is not a single farmer but who
may make 50 per cent every year out
of a flock of such a size as to be kept .
easily on the farm. .Many a good farm
ct thinks that the manure atone of :
voll-f-d flock Is sufficient to pay th.
cost of keeping.
Fiirra Notrn,
Salt will not destroy Insects in tha
sod unless used in quantities which
may do other damage. Some Insects
will not be affected by it at all, aud it
also lowers the freezing point In winter
vhen It may not be desirable.
Barnyard manure Increases the woo I
growth of nearly all fruit trees, while.
H.tash tends to Increase the fruit
growth. The former cannot be allowed
to suffer at the cxpeuse of the vitality
of the tree. Without a uew yearly
wood growth the prospect of fruU
would 1 greatly reduced.
Horses are no lower lu price than
other stock. Food Is cheaper than ever
before and stock Is consequently clump.
II Is believed that bottom price for
horses have passed and that In two or
three years thi-re will be a deficit In
them. Better horses have resulted
from low prices, and In the future thi!
i.uality will be superior to that of the
past. ,
The fanner who "holds for a rise"
does not always get It. He loses a dou
ble Interest, for the farmer who has
money lu hand can save twice tbe legal
Interest by buying all his needed win
ter supplies In bulk and by paying cash
for them. After stock Is ready for
market there Is a probability that tho
added cost of feeding will offset any In
crease In value.
Fanners should be thoroughly organ
ised In every community, and each Imli
ildual should take on active Interest.
In no other manner ran they resist In
sect attacks. It Is almost useless for
one or two farmers in a community at
tempting to prevent the ravages of the
army worm, cucullo, chinch bug and
other foes on their own farms as long
a their neighbors nre not Interested
in the work also.
Corn and cob meal shows up well In
the experiments at the stations. At
tbe Kansas station they tried It to find
hiw much It would take to make 100
Kunds of pork. The result showed
that when the corn and cob were
ground together It required 050 pounds
of tbe mixture to make a hundred
pound of gain. When tbe pure corn
meal waa fed 070 pounds were requir
ed for 100 pound sf gala.