O SICDI COUNTY JOURNAL
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mm mull) Job at present la giv
14 India mighty Interesting flour
This is the wiwn of the year when
ttae defectire flue cause the insurance
sompanle to become overheated.
A Havana dispatch uri that W ey
as's column is again in Havana." Bel
ter there than in the American news
Ira Th new comet i only 33,000.000
mllea away from the earth, but It is a
gnat deal nearer than some of the
office seekers are to the office.
Halifax has a man who falls asleep
every winter and does not wake up till
spring. He is a wise "blue nose." By
so doing be escapes attending to the
furnace.
A California man is attracting con
siderable attention becauMe he can
sleep standing. Merely for informa
tion we would like to inquire if that
fellow ever was a policeman?
It is announced that the revenues of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany show a material decrease this
year. That is the case with a great
many smaller firms which do business
aa tick.
A leading literary critic of Itidon
"favors shorter sentences." In th!ft
matter bis position will be heartily In
dorsed by a well-known literary aes
thete who is now doing the State some
service by picking oakum.
The young women attending the Kao
saa State I'nirersity have adopted a
new fad rather vaguely described as
"the bear walk." To keep fully abreast
f the times now the boys of that intl
tation should adopt "the ursine hug."
Mary J. Holmes, the novelist, has
been granted an absolute divorce with
alimony on the ground of cruelty iud
infidelity. Mary seems to have had
a rare chance to study the work of the
"heavy villain" without going outside
her own family circle.
Youth's Companion: The interval be
tween a presidential election and an
inauguration affords about four months
for entirely profitless newspaper specu
lation as to the make-up of the incom
ing President's cabinet. Coming imme
diately after the seeming hysteria of
partisan appeals to voters, this variety
of newspaper folly amounts almost to
a public offense.
An Ohio magistrate has refused to
unite in marriage a young woman with
a convict Just beginning a teu years'
term of imprisonment, on the ground
that the man would not be able to sup
port and protect a wife. This ground
of refusal U so reasonable, and so evi
dent, that the wonder is that it is not ft
long-established precedent instead of a
novelty of judicial view.
Greece mourns the lose of her first
militant anarchist, Mr. Mntsati. a
ahoemnker of Patras. who has estab
lished a standard his follower will find
It hard to lire up to. After stabbing to
the heart with a kuife SI. Franopoulos,
a rich banker of the place, and wound
ing with a revolver another banker, as
a demonstration of the wickedness of
wealth, he partook of a dynamite cart
ridge, which seems to have formed part
af his outfit, In the cell where lie was
confined.
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When Russia. France ami Great Brit
ain unite to compel the Sultan to yield
to the demand for a reform of his poli
clea it will lie appropriate to frame fe
licitous praises for their Joint purpose
to protect the Armenians f roiu outrage.
Bnt that union lias not yet been signal
hied by any diinonstration of force liy
the allied powers and I still in the
flhry sails slate. The unvarnished truth
iff hat the European powers are so
Jeajoua of one another that !t would he
little abort of amazing if any concert
mf action could !c agreed noii.
A writer in lbe Bowdoin "Orient"
aaya that four of tlx fire living tneuj
bera of the class of 1S.T5, Bowdoin Col
lege, and all but one of the six snrviv
an of the class of 1834. are ministers.
None of these venerable men are under
eighty. Their uuited ages aggregate
even hundred and forty-four years.
These facts furnish additional evidence
Ml favor of the familiar conclusion that
clergymen are long-lived men. It Is a
moderate aud reasonable statement
that religion has not a tendency to
aaorten buman life. These survivors
m4ght be called as witnesses.
la "adveoturer'anhare'' In the New
Kiver Company-wan arid- -recently In
London for tlx hundred and twenty
fvt ft wand dollars, "The ' company
waa started In 1 by lr Hngh Myd
Acta M suppl' JJonlw with water
ftwa tSte, Hertfordablrf ,'.UlUt. forty
Oss away. Half , iIm abaraa, went tc
Jsaasa tt First a 4ka Clag moiety,
C warn to tha tkwty-O fliaestar
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..naCDCMwi
a mall-arm drummer is quoted as say-
Ing In the New Tork Sun. "Is less afraid
f that same weapon in another man'
hands than he Is of a ruder weapon.
An Italian padrone once said: 'If an
Italian ever attacks you with a knife,
don't attempt to defend yourself with ;
a knife. He knows all about knives. '
U used to them, and la not in the least ;
afraid of tbeiu. I'se a club. Almost
any Italian will run from a club, even -after
be has drawn bis knife. And
even the toughest characters in the
wilder parts of the South and West,
expert as they are with the pistol,
would rather face a leveled revolver
than a drawn bowie-knife.
Mr. Frederick Saunders, the ninety-year-old
librarian of the Asior Library,
New York, has retired from his more
active duties in connection with the li
brary, although be will retain his deck
there and will continue to receive his
full salnry. Mr. Saunders Is an En
glishman by birth, but he came to this
country nearly sixty years ago, and
was prominent among the band of dis
tinguished men that Include William
Cullen Bryant, George Bancroft and
Washington Irving, who made a vigor
ous struggle for international copy
right. It was through Mr. Irving's
warm friendship that Mr. Saunders
was appointed to his present desk in
the library, which he has held since
18T9.
Not many years ago, when million
aires were more numerous on the Pa
cific sloe than they are now, a man
named O'Toole accumulated an Im
mense amount of money and played a
somewhat prominent part for awhile
In the rivalry between the California
Bank group and that which took its
name from Nevada. While at the
height of bis prosperity O'Toole built
a magninVeut palace at Mllpitas. iu
Santa Clara County. Now the palace
has been turned into a poorhouse and
its builder, whose fortune hag disap
peared to the last dime, is working
near by as a hostler, with more than an
even chance that before long he will
be an "Inmate" of the building where
he was once master.
Youth's Companion: Great Britain
and the United States have come to
an honorable agreement as to the Ven
ezuela affair. It is to be regretted that
so large a number of newspapers In
this republic have greeted the an
nouncement with the cry, "England
back down!" England docs not
"back down;" indeed, she has so much
of that Kturdy self-reliance which Is a
characteristic of the Individual En
glishman, that It requires the best of
arguments to convince her that she 1
partly wrong. If she has yielded a
point to this republic It is not only be
cause she feels herself so great and
werftil that she can yield without j
po
loss of prestige to a nation as great
aud powerful as herself. It is a good
omen when two governments, each be
lieving Itself Invincible, come together
having for the paramount considera
tion, "peace with honor."
The story of Theopulle Ie Blanc, the
man who starved himself to death In
New York that his wife might have
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was a graduate of a college la Can-t
ada. had a thorough technical learn
ing as an architect, and was a very
fair artist. He at one time received a
large salary. For the last six years
his life had been full of misfortune.
He had been unable to pay rent and
had seven! times been dispossessed.
He and his wife were turned out of
the house in West 32d street last win
ter. A proud man. he would ak no
one for aid. He refused to eat, say-
iug that he did not feel well or that j
he was not hungry. He took no food
because the larder was scant and he '
wanted his wife to have enough to cat "
His mind became affected and he wit
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vuu Hospital. It was found there that i
he was d.rlug from starvation. Ills
wife, who U as proud as be was, Is a j
Iteaiitifttl wouiau. She was educated
at a convent in Montreal.
I'eople who have followed tbe evolu
tion of football into Ingball, and tbe j
continuous advance made by alugball i
towards a "certain death" climax may !
have woude:ed whether human Ingenu
ity would be able to deviae tirntalltteit
fast euottgh to keep pace with the ardor
of tbe slugball enthusiasts. The prob
lem seems to be on the point of solu
tion through an Invention which for
the present la to be devoted to the uses
of the more Innocuous game of baae-
A Princeton professor ha. fixed'
bnll.
up a "short breech-loading cannon,
twenty-four inches In length, and pttuv
ed upon a two-wheeled carriage," which
will discharge tbe baseball at tba bat-i
ter and provide tbe sphere with all the
curves known to the moat expert hti-'
uian t wirier. It la obvious that me
chanism of tbia kind must not be wast
ed on baselkall. There bave been hun
dred of Instances daring tbe last sea
son In which the young men Injured In
slugball did not die or were not maim
ed for life, and something like this can
non is needed to correct this present in
arieit'iate extent of fatalities. The
rtataa of the exhibitions must be chang
ed, of cMme, to admit a cannon Into
the field. Perhaps It could be arranged
that a cannon should be bandied by
Mft eleven and that It should discharge
a fiathsll made oat of wood. Thus tbe
taM eon Id line np back of their re
apartive weapons aad. after tba explo
atsa, proceed to malm and kaek each
other In tbe usual way If any happen
la escape annihilation by tbe wooden
baJL At stated Intervals tba shooting
conld be repeated until one team bad
baan entirely exterminated. Magbalf
rasa reached a point whara sanM aneb
mnaratioa la aeeassary If tba "fHsa" m
Prairie Pimple.
Southwestern Louisiana is bordered
along the roast with broad sandy and
gravelly plains to which the name of
"pimpled prairies" has been giveu. Tbia
curious title comes from the circular
mounds, arranged In zones and aloug
Intersecting lines, with which large
areas of the plains are covered. For
merly these mounds, which average
fifty feet in diameter and attaiu occa
sloually a height of ten feet, were U-
posed to have becu made by ants, with
whose nests they abmiud. But recent
ly Professor Clendenin, of the Louis
iana State University, bus found rea
son for thinking that the mounds were
formed through the blowing up of mud
by gas escaping from veuts in the
ground. The arrangement of the
mounds In zones and lines is accounted
for by aupiKising that the gai vents
existed along the fractures radiating
from an earthquake center.
Ancient Jaarcta.
Recent discoveries In the coal mines
of Central France have furnished by
far the greatest advau-e that has ever
been made In our knowledge of the In
sects which Inhabited the world mill
ions of years, as geologists believe, be
fore the time when man made his ap
pearance upon the earth. In that won
derful age when the carboniferous
plants, whose remains institute the
coal beds of to-day, were alive and
flourishing, the air aud the soli were
animated hy the presence of flies, grass
hoppers, cockroaches, dragon-flies, spi
ders, locusts and scores of other sie
cles which exist but slightly changed
at the present day. But the insects of
those remote times attained a gigantic
size, some of the dragon-files measur
ing more than two feet from tip to tip
of their expanded wings! The remains
of these insects have been marvelnusly
preserved In the strata of coal and rock.
A Kite a M1U Hlali,
Since an account was given In this
column of the high kite-fly In experi
ments at the Blue Hill Observatory,
near Boston, ail previous records haver
been eclipsed there. Iu 1M)"i tae great
est elevation reached by a kit was '1,
Zt) feet above sea-level, or X.'.fUl fet
above the summit of th
lie bill. During
the past summer half a dozWi times a
kite was sent up more than a mile
above sea-level, and on ou" occasion
the height attained was 7,.!.!. feet
above the sea. lielug l..7 feet more
than a mile alxve the hilltop. The
experiments are marie wit.'i the so
called "tailless" or Eddy kites, nnd the
"box" or Hsrgrave kites. The highest
flight was marie by an Eddy kit. The
j purpose Is scientific, as the kites crvy
j self-recording instruments by means
i of which the temperature aud humidity
self-recording instruments by means
of the air at great ck-vatlo;; can -measured.
Sometimes the kites .ass
through clouds, the thickness of which
is revealed by the record of tlw in
struments. The Wonderful I'hsgucrtea.
When a drop of human blood ut plae-
j ed between two plates of gbwa a d tx-
mined with a microscope it is seen
to contalu, tieside the mluutt disks
which give It Its red color, littl whit
ish grains called "white corpuscle."
If the glass la warmed to a tempera
ture equal to that of the iiuma'i body
these corpuscles, or ptuigucytes, as th-r
are otherwise called, will be seen to put
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whlch, as If acting the part of feet.
l enable the Dhanocrteji to -rn wl over
tbe surface of the glass. The Russian
naturalist, Metchuikoff, baa discovered
that the phagocyte Iu our blood fcl
upon tbe microbe of Infectious dis
eases, when such microbe are Intra-
duced Into tbe system. Sir Joseph
Llater, president of the British Asso-
elation for tbe Advancement of Science,
believes that this action of tte pha
gocytes, which is scientifically Bam.d
"phagocytosis." "Is tbe main defensive
means possessed by the living body
against Its microscopic foes." When
ever a wonnd Is made In any irt of
tbe body the phagocytes, Ilka weil-
t"Md "nkllnl rrh to b- ''
make war upon the putrefactive mi
crobes endeavoring to enter the system.
Iron Quarrica.
Very Interesting facts, not generally
known, about tbe Iron mines of Spain,
were discussed at a recent meeting of
tbe Iron aud Steel Institute of Great
Britain. It is from Northern Spain,
In tbe neighborhood of Hllboa, that tba
greater part of the Iron ore imported
for the use of British steel makers Is
obtained. Steel Is made by tbe basic
process from Iron ore containing phos
phorus; but for the beat qualities of
steel, which la made by tbe open hearth
process, a pnrar ore must be used, aud
It Is that which England Imports from
Spain. "Nature," says tbe English sci
entific Journal Nature, "seems to have
designed tba hills of Norther Spain
especially for tba use of tbe steelmak
er." Until recently practically no ef
fort baa been made to nsaanfaetiire
steel In Spain, and moot of tba ore baa
bean exported to Kngiand. Tba Iron
mines of Northern Spain are described
as being rather quarries than mines in
tbe ordinary ens of tbe word. Tba
mountains themselves are Just baa pa
of Iron on rorarnd natnrally with but
a tain hirer of sarth. This la lamorsd.
and It ooiy twifii Wmm no tba aw
aad load It lata flttiag reorptur l.-s.
when It la conveyed dowtt to tba water's
dfe by its own gravity.
The Great Gas Indaetry.
The artificial gas interest of this coun
try u au excwdiugly Important aud
extensive one. There are In the neigh
borhood of l.JUO cities and towns of the
United State lighted Iu large part by
nianufsctured gas. In addition there
are thousand of boui-s Iu wbh-b gas
la being Urgeiy. If not wholly, employ
ed for cooking and beating pun""
About ItJUO.iXXi.tsJO U Inverted iu gas
works property in this country, and rhe
gas interest is perhaps second In im
portance ouly to tbe luvtinea: !u rail
road proiertles.
Tbe gas Industries prooae to bold au
exHition at Madisou Square Garden.
New York City, oieuiug on Jan. 27.
1M7. and holding for two weeks. At
this exiositiou will lie hown every
practi.-a! apparatus aud appliance
which enters into the uiauufar-ture or
distribution of gas as an Illuminating
or heating agent.
One of tbe features of the exxltion
will be cooking demonstration both
afternoon and evening, two co:iueteut
demonstrators harlug been secured
for this work.
A gas tower of Urge dimensions hits
been arranged for and will be one of
the great curiosities at the fair; con
sist lug of an extremely ornamental and
most brilliantly illuminated sjiectacu
lar piece, tbe dimensions of which will
lie twenty feet at the base, and running
to a height of fifty-five feet, on which
will tie artistically arranged about 2.WK)
gas Jets.
Evidently the gas people proKte to
demonstrate to the puliltc that their
product Is capable of producing equal.
If not suierlor lighting effects to those
claimed for the electric light.
Americana as Musicians.
Madame Emma Calve contributes a
paMr u the "Conquering Race In Mu
sic" to the Ijulles' Home Journal, In
which she specially addresses students
of vocal music. She tells of the train
ing required for the operatic and the
coni-crt stage, the Imixroouatlou of
charai'ter, the value of suggestions, etc..
and pays this trulmte to Americans:
"The American bave. It seems to me,
in tbe field of inutile, and especially In
the field of vocal music, all the charac
teristics of tbe runquerlng ras. They
are possessed naturally of the uuwt ex
quisite voice, which, when properly
cultivated and trained, are almost un
rivaled; they have Indomitable energy.
-rsevera.u-e and pluck: they (Mop at
nothing, are deterred by no trouble and
preven'isl by no olwtacle. Poverty,
wuariuww, exertion, hard work - none
of these living spectre which affright
and terrify the average art worker has
terrors for Ulem. Their physique and
their temperament seem marie for toll
and to surmount diwouragemcut, aur
t he sui-ee which they are dally achiev
ing. In the field of both operatic ami
concert singing, Is tHMtimony In their
natural fitness for accomplishment, aud
to their ability to excel. They seem.
In fstr-t, to be must lavishly fitted by
nature for the parts they are assuming.
To them gifts of voice, energy, pluck J
and ei-iverance they frequently add !
a beauty of face and graiv of form and ,
movement which the public recognizes j
sm must important factor Iu tbe sue- j
cms of the singer's career. They have, j
ttsi, rhe temperament which makes
great artiats and great acini-, the
artistic feeling which has for its stand
ard. MrfectIoii, and which is satisfied
with nothing leas."
ou te I'lslsi.
A coroner iu Nevada recently run
soiled out a verdict that was more sen- j
slble thau half the verdict usually I
found.
A certain Irinhmiui, conceiving tbal
a little powder thrown upon Home wood
would facilitate Its burning, directed
a small stream from a keg upon the
burning plect, but not pomaswlug a baud
MUttlcleutly quick to cut this off lie win
blown Into a million piece. The fol
lowing was tbe verdli-t, delivered with
great gravity by Lbe official:
"Can't be called sulWde, bekaae he
didn't mean to kill himself; it wasn't
rksitntlou of trod, befcase be WnMi't
struck by lightning; be didn't die for
want of breath, for be didn't have any
thing whatsoniever to breathe with;
it's quite pialu be didn't know whs 4 ua
was about, and ao I aball bring in died
for want of itminKMi ai."
One Way ao Break Glass.
It Is scarcely crediWe, but l la s fact,
that a glass can be broken by tb voire.
If you strike a U1U1 wine. ginsM while
you bold it by tbe stem It will emit a
certain note to mswt cases a pretty
deep one. Ou appmsjciitng tbe glass
ntridly to your uiooth, and snouting
into It the seune uo4e aa loudly as possi
ble, the vibrations of the glass being
thereby extended, It will be shivered
Into fragments. This used to be s fav
orite experiment of lavbdM-be, the re
nowned singer, wtto would thus break,
one after the other, aa many g basses as
were handed to him.
Kyea.
Artificial eyes were beat mad In
Kgypt. They were of gold aud silver,
and subsequently of copper and Ivory.
Hundred of years Inter, In the six
teenth century, when they were made
In Kiirope, porcelain waa tbe substance
used, and tbe maker aaually stamped
bis address 00 the White of tbe eye.
Our Idas of somettdtig awful wonkl
be to become s great must Han w4rh
long nalr, and then art bald.
When woman oppose a candidate, u
la usually becaitas of some grndge they
feel against tba woman folk.
Hwedas batlevs that rhe dsaii baa
nowar svar a rbttd aatfl 11 is
AGRICULTURAL NEWS
Things pertaining to
farm and home.
THE
Tba Wl-trr - ra.ua a riood fiaie to
Kcbai U tencea-Parmrs Advis
to Mick to the Fa run - Procuring the
Wiatcr lr ucl -Storing rotators.
ltemak the Old Pence.
There are uiauy farms bearing old
rail fences that their owners have felt
for yeur would be better torn down
and rebuilt UmiU the same or other loca-
I il, .n -si a Rural World. They bave
ls-eu built llsU aud added to until they
contain at least enough good rails to
fstiiKtrurt s irood straight feuce. The
undertaking is not a big oue, and when
it Is finished the satisfaction of seeing
the milt, newly constructed fence. In
addition to the firewood, will repay the
fsrmer for time and new wire. There
Is no more favorable time than Just
after the ground ba frozen ami liefore
snow come. A pair of bobsleighs can
be usisl. even if there is no snow, when
the site of the new fence is to lie some
where else than that of the present one.
If the ground should be too much froz
en to break the crust to act the stakes
or pot, everything can Is? got In readi
ngs to rebuild in the spring, and that
will lie found a great advantage when
the building time come. The sorting
of. the rails, cuttiug and shancu!tig
stakes or preparing pints aud sawing
un the "done" fence tlmls-r Into tire-
wood, call nil lie finished In the shir k
season, and the putting up of the fence
will lie as nothing In the spring before
seeding operations coiiiineur-c. when
the ground will lie so soft that the
stake can all lie driven with a sledge
hammer. If possible, do not put this
work off. Tbe commencement of such
Jobs that have stared one In the face
for years, probably, is more than half
the undertaking. The old snake fence
Is an eyesore and a bnrlor for rubbish
aud weeds, while the new straight one
will save land and give tbe farm a tidy,
prosperous apcaraiii-e.
Stick to the Paras.
History proves that pnvtperlly Imim al
ways followed times of great di-prr-slon.
and history will repeat Itself. No
matter what iubi, let us stick to tbe
farm. We may work a few years for
nothing, but what mutters II so long as
we retain Iu our possession the old
farmhouse? We shall not always re
main at the bottom of the wheel. In
time, matters will adjust themselves.
Then let us bave a firmer determina
tion than ever to know the details of
our business, and make tbe coining
year conspicuous for having made prog
ress In reducing tbe timt of production,
tbe curtailment of unnecessary cx
pensiw, and, above all, let us never fnr
get that ours Is one of tbe noblest call-
'fc" S',T MM-u, njiij I in iiriie i-.mii
of ground we occupy Is part of t bid's
green earth, and let us manfully ami
hopefully till aud care for It, that those
who shall sur-ceed as uiny point with
pride to the work of our bauds.- New
York Tribune.
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The Winter Fuel.
Kvery farmer who burns wood even
partially for beating anil -ookltig
should, as early In tbe winter as n:.-.-slble,
cut aud pile enough wood to last
a whole year. This will save many
complaints during the summer, and lie
much easier done now tb.-iu la warm
weather. Besides, dry wood burns
without the waste of best, always lost
In turning Its sap Into strum. When
using green wosl, chips ami small
limbs will dry out more quleklr than
will the liody of the tree, esper Ullr If
the small limlw are split
Storiaa Potatoes,
Strictly apcaking. no one should sioi
potatoes in tbe bouse cellar. But as
hundreds of thousands do every yrar,
aud will continue, to do so. a word may
not prove amiss, First, potatoes should
lie sorti-d while iu tbe field. It saves
the housewife much work, saves stor
age room aud the work of extra han
dling. Potatoes for the cellar are best
barreled, as they are lho movable
wheu the accldcuis of time bring frost
or water. Above all. they should be
kept dark. Canvas sacks iuk good
curtains to ant off a portion at lbs eel
tar, and also good covers for tbr Isir
rrla. Ugbt will ruin tbe flavor, and
half-light will r -sitae them sprH.
Heat Pood foe I'oaitrr.
The very liest use of shrunken wheat,
ome of which will lie fouud In every
crop, is as food for poultry. Tbe grain,
being shrunken. Is deficient In starch,
but II hits all the greater pi-oportlon of
gluten, which ta tbe chief element of
tbe egg. while the outside busk, or
bran. Is rich In phosphate, which uslps
to make the eggshell. Tba poultry
dealer nil usually buy shrunken wheat
at a lower price thau the perfect grain,
while for fii-dlug fowl It la really better
for Mug shrunken. C.erniaufciwn Tel
egraph. A nptea for Cows.
j I do not think there Is any better food
for milch cows tbsn ripe, sound apples.
! I sin aware that tbe prevalent opinion
Is that apples have a tendency to make
cows sick and dry them np. As con
firmatory of this I have heard of nu
merous instant where cows hare
broken Into orchard aud eaten their
Oil of apple and have born made sick,
ami in a few Instance have died as tbe
reatiH. I alas knew a ease where a
man ate an tmreaaonable owaatlly of
baked Iiciiiw. and it killed kliu. Now.
the one esse no more proves that rips
apples are not good cow food tbsn that
baked besna are not food buman food.
Tbe proper way to food applaa la eowa
M to have nieia ripe and sound. Oram
ar rotteu applaa ara not good food for
anything. Tba 00 wa abonld never bs
firm rn raaw af Ibaai at
giveu ibem on sn empty stomach. At
tbe first tbe cow should have po mora
than Iwo or three quarts unoe a day.
Rural New Yorker.
Tae Cow to tba Acre IMaa.
Can the dairy be made to pay? Wa
believe It can, but It most be done oa
the cow to the acre plan better and
fewer cows, better and more feed to the
aero, and cow better looked after.
There are men making money to-day
rroin their dairies. Hjw are they doing
It? Condensed dairying. As fast aa
cows are demonstrated not to be mak
ing a profit they go the way that alt
poor things should, and leave their food
to tbe cow that hath from two to five
talent already. It doe not pay, nor
did It ever, to feed a cow fM worth of
food to get $15 worth of milk, let alone
her drying off soon after tbe county
fair, let the time of year Ire what It
may. Think this matter over. An acre
of corn fodder, another of oats, and a
third of mixed crops, will keep two
cows a year. Can corn, oats and tbe
like le a well sold oa to a good cow,
her produce sold, and the fertility re
turned to the farm? Cor. Practical
Farmer.
Fosae Oood Ideas. !
Judging from the enormous produc
tiveness of our common field corn, it
anyone should ask me what I beat to
grow to (ill a silo, 1 would say the beat
thing to grow is corn. The second best
is corn, ami the third choice In the -tiou
would be torn. Like the cow, ev
ery part of It is useful, and It Ua forage
crop, the l iry man's crop, the Ignorant
mans friend. On hillside or valley it
brings a profitable return. It will do
well with half a chance, even on a hard
seed-lx-d. or with roots torn and bleed
ing it U a great forager, and when
nursi-il it re)uds with great possibili
ties. We luive only half appreciated Its
wt alth of helpfulness In the jsist. Tbe
silo a 'id fodder machinery are giving a
double value to It with a meaning of a
larc profit ou our season's effort. E. C.
Chestnuts.
The American chestnut baa tbe sweet
est kernel, but Is smaller, aud the
trees must be some fifteen or mure
years from the sesl before they bear.
Tlx- Kuropenu, or Spanish chestnut, has
nuts nearly double the size of tbe Amer
ican, hut tamer In flavor. But the
s'-ed will licar at about ten years from
tbe seed. The dwarf Chluqiicpin Chest
nut will often bear tbe second or third
year from seed, but the nuts are so
small that they are uot in general use.
Tbe Japan chestnut is a comparative
dwarf, though a stronger grower thau
the American Chiquepin but the nut
are a large aa tbe European chestnut.
with about the same taste. Like lbe
Cblnqucpln, they licar early. But all
the kinds bear early when grafted from
Is'siring trees. Median's Monthly.
The Advsntaaea of fiber p.
They are profitable.
They weaken the soil least, and
strengthen It most.
They are enemies of weeds.
Tbu care they need is required when
other farm operations are slack.
The amount of Investment need not
be large.
The returns are quick aud many.
They are the quietest and easiest
handled of all farm stock.
Other farm products are made more
largely from cash grains, while those
from tbe a beep are made principally
from pasture.
There is no other product of the farm
that has fluctuated so slightly In value
as good mutton.
By comparison wool cost nothing.
for do uot tbe burses and cvw In shed
ding their coats waste what tbe sheep
saves?
Working Ratter.
The object of working butter U to rid
It of the surplus moisture, to distrib
ute the salt, and to unite the granule
itnd give tbe butter consistency; ,uid It
should nut bare any more bau will ac
complish this. One of the advantage
of salting In tbe churn aud allowlug
the butter to staud until the aalt U
wholly dissolved la, that much working
Is not naquired, as tbe butter only re
quire to be worked until tba color
uniform, or when lbe streaks oaaJ
by the salt disappear.
K lltns Whits Ornb Worm.
bWdow mods infested with wbite
grubs nlMiuld lie plowed and thorough
ly cuhlvail lu tbe fall, then planted
to some crop that reouire thoruurh
ultivatiou she next sea sou. Tbe fail
cultivation will tkaitroy many of the
Inaects which are then In a very ten
der stage Iu Utlla earthen cell In tbe
ground, aud tbe thorough nnd frequent
cultivation of the following crop will
soon dtacvuruge the grubs Rural New
Yorker.
Poultry Taad.
Broilers shritik about a half pound
each when dressed.
Ducks average teu doaen eggs iu
about seven months' laying.
Forty dressed ducklings are packed
In a barrel for shipment.
Feed chickens frequently, but uuly
what they will partake of with keen
relish. Never surfeit them unless at
the last feed In the evening, then they
may be allowed to have about all tuey
want
Ixtok to the cUk-keti lnmse windows,
for a draught is deadly. This ques
tion of proper distribution of air f an
Important one. Ut the bouses be pt
rvery sonny day. Keep them sosy,
eksan and comfortable, and tae reward
will surely follow.
Tba fowl's roiub Is au iudlcator of
good or III health, and can always be
rolled on. A full, bright red comb de
notes health; a withered, faded or
black oonib la a sure sign that the foul
Is sick. The ban that lays tba iiioat
la a year la always tba one vl J
terfa, brbjM rod aosjb.