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J-iEW TAIjLOR GOWNS.
THE LATEST AND SWELLEST ARE
SEVERELY PLAIN.
KkirpCktoit from Ibc l'rofuke Klah-
bratioa Nun tioned in Recent Seasons
-Braid Trimming Htlll Frrmisalhle
-Tailor Skirts with Shirt Waisla.
Garbnf tbrTailor-Ma.le Girl.
York correnpoiirlenpe
' KK V new deipar
ture lu tailor
gow ns for the past
two year baa
Jbn'ii lowardgreat-
r elaltoratiou, but
this Spring will
s-e a sharp turn
toward first prin
ciples. There an
two reason for
1 bin. One is tljiit
lallor trimming
' has Increast-d un
til il can hwixlly
go fan her with
out a ruinous loss
of tailor charac
terisllcs; arid the
other that cloth
dresses in tho new
fitrtrclowed that the
fashions are ho
tailor if!rl la driven to make a stand for
alrsolute severity. This chant,". la Mt
iult as much In the materials as in
tut and finish. The clot lift deemed ad
mistslblo are series, camel's ha!r, wool
cheviots, broadcloth of the heavier
kind, covert doth, kerslcs, Scotch
tnlitunm and men- suitings, anil novel
ties are absolutely forbhlden.
Braid trimming Ik mIU permissible,
and l employed recklessly by some
makers. Judiciously used, very harul
eoni rigs result, but the first warm
days of spring promise to And out right
severity at a premium that will in
crease a the season advances. The
limit of ornanieulution Is shown by ihe
T1IKEK NEW TYPES
trimmed uiooVIs of the acconvjanylus?
akelche. In 111 the now modeU miiK
from blous looseiK-f of the sort that
haa held all winter, to the newer rid
ing JiaWt lit. The iirt umall jilcture
)rn.U a cut of lod!ce tluit will bi?
a.pproveiI by litany admirers of the
Moiwe, but mii h will not be kuIuith by
adht-rtn;; to the pacing moilo unlesti
their ftirurt are not adiiptexl to the
new cut. ThU dresa wan IlavaJia
brown Herce, the Bktrt aUsoluu-ly plain,
and the bodice braided as Indicated. A
newer departure from tight fit wai the
bodice In the center of the Illustra
tion. .Thin wa a bolero of blouse out
lines ornamented with tucking. Thin
la to be worn over a shirt waist, with
bodice belt of either black or white
tAVOItBU fOH WAhl'-I.IKK KIODKRK
attn. Womeu hare very giuerally
worn their Uttlor nklrts with ahlrt
raUta, and thla year'a Htylcn made au
thorlUtlve coucmmIou to thl Id a
JoUi aklrt of a ttoL'd i-oJor llnod with a
UrlKlit wllk worn with a wal4 of flan
ael (o harmonlM elthnr with th aklrt
or Its lining. The coat or jacket la lined
with silk to match Itttelf.
taltor aklrta are abtwlnidy
a tad k ovrr aJim and down
il l V.
VuBmi
front and aides. A lot of pleat are
bi Id right In lb middle of th lark,
spreading to allow generous width fur
ther clown. Another way of gaining
tb! spread li by Spanish flounce
Marting from the knew, and of tliift
i method each of these three models
wan lllus.rative. Maroon kersey wai
j the fabric of the left-hand model, nod
mode cloih u used 'or tin" right hand
one. Black braid trimmed eacn. ano
stitching marked the Inclining of the
DiHIiNCTI.Y TWO-P1KCJC RIGS.
I flounces. Braiding Is little used Dow
; on tailor skirls, and Is rare in the en
' ctrclliiK ways recently no commonly
seen, Braid like this on the right-hand
suit is siylish, ami any echo about the
hips of the patterns upon the ltodice la
acceirtable.
I'erhniih t.lie trlinine.st of the riding
habit bodices Is the sort of which the
third picture presents an example.
This tyK- doscK from waist to throat,
fastening generally at one Ile, and
much affected by women with extreme
ly slender wnlstx. Then; 'a no ques
tion but that it sola out tha-t feature
OK TAILOIt ODWNH.
of a woukiu's figure most conKplcuoua
ly. This dres wa gray clhevlot, trkn
riied with folds, stitching and a few
pearl button.
Of the lallor get upH that consist of
absolutely plain isklrts and ornamen
tal IkmUci'x. two contrasted nort are
pul In the fourth sketch. Such rigs are
well suited to the t:iIlor-k1rt-and.thirt-waist
combiiuiluon, and so are extreme
ly sea-, let-able, but they lack siuue of
the e?e!LtlalIy tnvaggcr chnrater!tlc
of the tailor gowns in which bodice
and skirls tine trimmed to mnttih. He
shleH the conluiHt of fit bi-tweejl tlM
two, there la tills outright iKfferenoe:
The left hand model Included a Jacket
to be worn over a shirt waist, and the
other must give away cntlrdy when
the shirt waist Is donned. The Jacket
wnu gray broadcloth, with tight back
and shield front. Bins folds trimmed
It. The other wfia dark gray covert
tlotu, trimmed showily with gilt and
blai'U braid. In encb ease thcKklrt was
of the snme Muff as the liodlce.
The bolero coat and the eton Jacket
are again In full foite. and an; the
prettiest K'.vle that can 1m selected for
slender and really young folk.
CopyrlKht, ISIiH.
A Sell' Siippoi tliiK Faruinr.
i Ireeiivi.le Courtly has one fur mot
'and doiib;h'--s many more) who liua
never l-ought Western flour and Wit
ern wheal. There Is lillje that this
farmer ami his family consume ihat li
lioi raised at borne. Not even dis:s bin
table rice conic from Georgetown or
Beaufort It Is a GiiftiMlle County
product and il Is said the low country
rk" la not superior to It. This geullo
ninn timkea his own sirup, lie makca
his own on I a and barley mid he pro
duce a large number of bales of cot
ton. The horses and mules that he
works are native to Ills farm. He has
been known to tw t'mls-r from bis
own fore-sit nntl send It to a factory, get
ting a jxirl of It back In the form of fur
nMure. This farmer is not a great pol
itician, lie reads the newspaper coro
fully. lie Is uot oor. He ! not de
pendent. But he la a ?ery busy man,
lie Is no pisir tluut he rarely had a day
to spend away from Ida own large
plantation or plantations. U Is on his
farm with the regularity that a cashier
la at Ida desk In a bunk atid aj many
dnye In the year and as many hoiira In
the day. There are farmer who are
able to indulfe in more leisure tlhan la
thla Greenville farmer, but In (Alter re
aueou Uiey are jwarer thaa h to
The Need I Kelt.
The growing sentiment in favor of
good roaib for Saginaw County, Michi
gan, asserted ltnett at a recent ses!on
of tike Board of Supervisors. Huperv1or
(Jerler, a good roads enthusiast, pre
entfd a resolution providing for the
adoitlon of the county good roads .yn
lem ;ts proK-.ed by the Slate Good
Roads League The measure, which
was finally laid upon the table, evoked
a Krcat amount of discussion, which
nhowed conclusively that a majority of
the supervisors are In favor of uiacnd
niiil'.lng the principal roads emanating
from Saginaw an soon as the county la
able to meet filch an expense.
The good effect of stone roads Is be
ing unfavorably fell by Saginaw mer
chant.. Since Hay (flinty constructed
something like twenty mik of s-tone
roud m-ar the border of Saginaw Coun
ty Into Bay City farmers In the north
ern towiifibips have abandoned the
Saginaw market anil are hauling all
their produce Into Bay City. The mads
enable the farmers to market their
goods regardless of the wet seasons.
Win. L. Webber and "Zed" Kust, two
of the wealthiest men In the valley, art
earnest supporters of county road Im
provement, ami offer to donate thou
sands of tons of chip stone for the
work in tht county. Aji effort will be
made to adjust the present road tax
so that Instead of being worked by each
farmer an equivalent In cash can be
placed lu a township fund to build
tone roads.
Wby Itroud Tired Wheels I'ny.
A wagon going up hill requires more
force to draw it than when it Is moved
on a level. When a wheel Rinks in soft
soil there Is an elevation of the ground
In froivt of It equal to the depth of the
sinking. When a narrow wheel sinks
three or four luche In the ground the
effect is precisely the same as If the
wagon was going up the same Incline
w hen the broad wheel Ls used, but If It
does not sink in the ground this obsta
cle dot's not exist. The surface of the
wheel does not interfere In the least
with the druft of a wagon even on solid,
hard ground, and It must be evident
that the broad wheel will not cut Into
a road as a narrow one will, and thus
on soft roads must be easier draft. By
the use of a broad-tlced wagon when
a new road Is being laid out, It will
soon be rolled hard and solid, so that
even a aarrowtlred wagon will not cut
In, but attempt to make a road during
the average harvest, winter or ftprlng
season with narrow-tired wagons and
the job will usually prove a failure.
Itov Stone.
Gootl Rondel Wanted.
There has been Introduced in the
New York Senate a good roads bill
which provides for the construction
through each of the counties of the
State a macadam highway that shall
follow Ihe leading market and travel
routes. The entire expense of the con
til ruction of sucti roads Is to be liorne
by the Suite and the work is to be done
under tlu dlrecilon of the State en
gineer. The only e.xMtLse to the coun
ties Lb the preparation of u detailed uur
vey of the highways selected.
Hnil Kond a Continuous Tax.
Favorable results are rcKrted from
all the States that have systematically
taken up the work of road Improve
ment. The subject Is one that will make
Its way If earnestly considered. No one
can say exac'Iy what a good road is
worth, but all who uw roads know
that a bad one is a heavy continuous
tax. St. 1ouls Globe-Iemorrat.
Indluna Activity.
The commissioners of Lawrence
County hare awarded the contract for
fourteen miles of gravel roads to Amos
Mnsselnmn & Co., of Anderson, at S."2,
5r. When completed Lawrence Coun
ty will have almut one hundred miles
of first-class gravel roads. Indianap
olis Journal
Furmera Aelt ite for Good Knndn.
Lajieer ('ounly, Michigan, farmers
are strongly in favor of the L. A. W.
movement for good roads. They are
agitating n plan for State aid, to lie pre
sented to tin next legislature. An L.
A. W. liook Is being mailed to each
farmer.
SELLING HIS MEMOIRS.
A Trumii's Itrillliuit Mciihn of Kuiainu
the I'rlec of a Men I.
The audacity and wit of the A inert
cun tramp are proverbial and undoubt
edly they often save him from harsher
treatment than his mt rlts or demerits
entitle him to. A country lionise near
Buffalo recently received a call from
one of the specie. The man was dirty,
unkempt ami uiunlstakably a tramp.
He also Isire the signs of addiction to
strong diiuk and general worthlehs-nis-s.
The humorous touch that finish
ed Ihe picture, as he came up with a
.jci'ia: smile and n good deal of man
ner, w as a round and fresh clerical col
lar, which hud evidently been lifted
very recently from the premises of the
neighboring college.
"Maibuti," he an Id, "I am a mission
ary but lately relumed from long
veam of service lu China and oilier
hiMithen InniU. For the aake of health
and relaxation 1 a in rent-wing my ac
quaintance with nature and my native
land In this unconventional manner,
To help pay niy way 1 am aelllrrg for
the merely nominal price of lifteen
ecttn this record of my missionary ex
perloncee." The fellow made hla atieeoh with a
look In hla rea that abowed hla enjoy
of tM gantav The rolame waa a
dirty caaiaway, reamed frm aa aat)
Uarrel. but t!ll 'The Life of th Bt.
So-and-Ho, Many Year MUslooary la
the Far East."
"Uear, dear" said one of the ladles.
"Haven't you a clean copy?"
'Madam, there are others, but they
are with my baggage. And they art
twenty-five cents a copy," he added;
'this is the popular edition I"
One of tlie company, charmed with
the Bt.yle and Impudne of the scalar
wag, went in to get the change. While
the waji gone the missionary and lover
of nature leaned against the veranda
post, wiped his brow with a snlnlnf
coaAlail and cheerfully remarked I
"Ladies, the Lord is giving us delight
ful weather. Is lie not?' Then he took
ids money, waved his dismantled derby
,'illably. and went on along the high
way. The Incident was happily clofid
by the purchaser of the "Life" of the
departed brother reading aloud, when
she could catch her breath, these open
ing lines of the preciutis narrative: "I
was boru of humble parentage In the
town of Glastonbury, Conn!, March IS,
17!)2."-Buffalo Commercial.
l-'ruil of die Grape,
We learn from liiny that there waa
In existence a famous wine made 200
years Is-fore. It was so thick that it
had to be dug out with a spoon and dis
solved iu water.
Scarcely a nation on the face of th
globe has not used ah-ohol In some form
or other. There seems to be an lnnarta
craving in mankind for Intoxh-atlDg
llijuors. The Greeks alone Becmcd able
to use the beverages and keep sober.
The strongest drink was natural wine,
containing no uiore alcohol than our
claret, yet they always added water to
It. The wildest diners never drank
wine that was not a third water, for
they drank for exhilaration, not intoxi
cation.
The Macedonians, however, over
threw Greek temperance. They were
heavy drinkers and were led by the
king himself. Once when a suit waa
being tried one of the contestanti
shouted: "I appeal." "To wham?''
asked liiilip, contemptuously. "I am
the king." "I appeal," said the man,
"from liiilip drunk to Philip sober."
The suit was retired tlie next day and
decided to the man's satisfaction.
The later Romans cared more for
their wine tlian for any other product.
There were 125 varieties In use, eighty
of fine quality. Common wine was very
chiiip, and It was u Joke that it was lesa
expensive than water. It was common
to mix honey and various spices with
the wine; a more surprising admixture
was that of salt, which was supposed
to Improve the flavor. Another, and to
us barbarous, habit was that of add
ing resin or turpentine. This is done
In Greece tip to the present day.
Among the Romans for a few hun
dred yetiiu people were temperate, wine
w as scarce and poor and was reserved
exclusively for the men over tarty
years of age. Women were forbidden
to use It, under pain of death, for the
alleged reason that It was an Incentive
to high living. Women were obliged to
greet all their male relatives with a
kiss on the mouth, so that. It could be
told If they had lioen to the wine cellar.
I'liny quotes tlie case of one who cudg
eled his wife to death for having sam
plisl his wine a,nd was pardontMl by
Romulus. Four hundred years later a
Roman dame was slnrved to death by
her relatives for a similar offense
Chicago News.
Sparrow l) ncllrd by Sw allow s.
A successful lynching took place on
a farm In Michigan, the other day. In
the barn a swallow's nest wm seen
clinging to the side of a beam, from
which was suspondtd an English spar
row, hung by the neck with a hair
from n horse's tall. While two men
were sitting in the barn they noticed
a sparrow go Into the swallow's nest,
from -which he began pitching: the
young birds. Three swallows, at
tracted by their outcry, Immediately
pounced upon the Intruder. After con
fining him to the nest for a few min
utes, they threw him out. lie dropped
about a foot, there was a Jerk, and Mr.
Sparrow was hanged as nicely ns
though an expert hangman had been
In charge. The hair was wound around
his neck several times, and, after a few
Ineffectual struggles, he kicked his last
Grand P.aplds Herald.
Tunnel I'niler the Duniibe.
The Itaniibe, like the Thames in En
gland and the Hudson In New York,
is to have a tunnel beneath Its bed.
The Hungarian Govt rumcnl has just
completed the necessary arrangements
lor the const ruction without deltiy of
a subway beneath the river at Buda-lY-ili
on the same principle as Unit of
the new Black well tunnel under the
Thames In London. There Is to be a
footpath for passengers and an electiio
railroad. The upper way will be re
ftenetl exclusively for vehicle traffic,
and ventilation Is to be provided by
electricity.
Had an Answer itendy.
By his ready wit under adverse t lr
ctiinslanccs a Western Senator recent
ly proved himself a modern Chester
field. Although ho rides n wheel, he Is
uot yet an expert. Recently he was
wheeling In Washington through tint
agricultural grounds, when he met a
man and two women whom he knew,
yulle propcrt.ly, the Senator raised one
hand from his wheel to lift his hut, and
the next minute ha had tumbled into
a lied of tlowers. "You did Unit Tery
graci-rul, Senator," waa the comment
of tho trio of blcycleru. "I always dis
mount In the presence of ladles," In
trtaitly replied the ftcnator.
Theater Chut,
lie In China a play la elx nionttthe
lmi.
8e Dear met What a lot of good
ahot leather you aave In not belnc ttbere
to 9 out betwaea the acta, Ietrow
rra PmTS
AGRICULTURAL NEWS
THINGS PERTAINING TO THE
FARM AND HOME.
After Prelim Inn Fine Fruit, Iearn
How to Sell it for the Mont Money
I'lyniuuth Hot k llcna Have Mao;
Point of Kicellence- Hritf Notes.
Frnit Growlnn-
An apple tree will nearly care for
Itself, but the man who wants good
trees In the future will thin his frutr.
If a tree bore one hundred apples I
should remove fifty. If the next year
It bore two hundred I should leave one
hundred to ripen, and the next, If it had
a thousand 1 should leave six hundred.
This will get the tree into the habit
of bearing. A peach tree that will set
a thousand peaches needs to nave six
or seven hutched thinned off. Thus
you will get more bushebs to the tree.
The more you throw away the more
you will have, and you will practically
gel $4 for $1.
After producing fine fruit learn how
to sell It for the most money. The
fruit which brings most is that which
is neatest, fullest and most honestly
packed. lick your fruit carefully and
In the cool of the day. Tack in a. cool
place and In tight packages, for the less
air that reaches the fruit the better.
Then put the crates In a cool place. In
packing grade your fruit; the finest
first, then medium, etc. The three or
four grades should be uniform through
out. Ask your dealers what kind of
packages sell best. Next get a good
dealer and tell him you have a good
thing. Have your commission man go
and see your place. The business side
of fruit growing means belief In your
self anil then making those with whom
you trude believe In you. Finally, do
not go into the business until you have
thought it out and made up your mind
that you will suceed. G range Homes.
Profitable Hen
In my operations iu the ioultry line
1 have never found any breed to pos
sess so uuiny points of excellence, with
I lie ordinary treatment of the average
farmer, as the Plymouth Rocks. They
pay me. I have had a flock of forty
Plymouth Rock hens average me $1.45
per hen for the year, with a country
market for poultry and eggs. They
had the run of the farm taul barn, with
an abundance of 'sour milk and such
grains a.s the farm produced. This
f-eemed to furnish all they ik-slred, ex
cept grit, which was supplied in plas
ter scraped from the walls of an old
house. Now, with a larger flock, I am
feeding buckwheat mostly, raking It
deep lido chaff and straw, with bone
and meat scraps obtained from butch
its. The hens have plenty of warm
water to drink, and they take lots of it,
too. My hens are kept In what was
once a hay bay, now fitted with win
dows and devoted to poultry. It Is
light, warm and roomy. Joins the main
barn floor by a sliding door, and the
hens are let out a w hile each day and
given the run of the entire bam, both
for exercise and to save scattered
grain. It works as well as a more cost
ly arrangement and keeps the fowls in
splendid vigor. Last spring there was
scarcely an Infertile egg iu all my
hatch. Maine Bulletin.
Straw Stuck Stuhlca.
Wherever grain Is largely grown the
straw left after threshing will make
a cheap anil warm stable for stm-k the
ensuing winter. All that is needed Is
to set posts In the ground close enough
together so that they will form a good
support for a tlat roof, ami pile the
straw over it and on at least three
sides. The side not built up against
may be used wholly as a door for stoek
to run In and out, or It may be boarded
up, and one or two board doors made.
Sometimes this straw stable Is made
against the side of a stack, and the ani
mals are allowed to eat iulo It. This,
however, Is a dangerous practice, for
late in winter stock may eat fur enough
so as to disturb the balance of the
stack, bringing it over on I hem, and
sniot lifting them. Whore the stack is
built over a stout shed there is no such
danger, it can Ik- easily madeas warm
as any basement barn, and without
miivh cost except of the straw. Ameri
can Cultivator.
Sowing (truss Heed.
One of the questions being dlseiiKse.il
at the farmers' institutes is whether
the old-time custom of sowing grass
seeii on grain is as beiieici;i of good
i t" oils as sowing the mms! alone. It Is
I. lie that the grain shades the grow
ing grass, but the stronger root growth
of the grain crop must to n certain e)i
tctit affect the young grass. Then
there Is the advantage, when grass seed
Is sown without using grain land, of
('"rough preparation of the soil for
the grass crop, which Is not Hie case
when grain is seeded in the fall and
grass In the spring. It Is possible that
if grass seed Is sown on land lii.ii is
line and ready for Ihe seed it will make
much greater growth than when Kown
on grain and llius escape (he effects of
Ihe dry season, which usually comes In
summer. On sandy soil clover and the
various grasses may be seeded down
In August, but on clay soil the frost
may throw the plants out during the
wlnler. It Is a mistake, however, to
Kiipose that a grass crop can not be
grown from spring seeding without the
old of a grain crop.
Golden Hod.
This native plant deserves n place In
all gardens, and enpeclally In those
Mining n collection of Amerlcn.ii plants.
It Is so hardy, so showy, and so easily
fiioii that It deacrven more attention
than It often gets. Each little shoot
broken away from the old plant In the
Miring nd planted In almost any way
or place will become quite a plant by
fall. A cluuip ef It llgbAa up the corner
in which U grows like a bonali-. Oats
of tlie chief merits of the plane Is it
'ate flowering quality. By its neve we
prolong the season greatly. Witt It
should always be grown a Tarlety or
two of our late native asters. The two
plants are boon coropa-nions, and on
setjiiis lonely without the other. Cer
'ainly the yellow glory of the goldeta
rod Is greatly heightened by the purple
haze of the less iwy but equally
beautiful flowers, and between these
there Is a contrast that is full of moat
harmonious effects.
tsiiilina Ifarn Doora.
There should be no toleration of that
old-fashioned swinging barn doom,
which winds will soon break from their
hinges, making it Inqiossjble to operate
them except by lifting the door and
carrying it arouud. The sliding doors
on iron rollers are easily kept in order,
and are worked so easily thai a little)
child has power enough to operate on
of them. They iiave also the advan
tage that the door may be slightly open
ed and kept In that position, which,
would be difficult to do with a door
swinging on hinges. The sliding door
came into use when basement baraa
were constructed. Ill such case tlie
doors on the lower side, where they
w ere 10 to 12 feet above the basement,
had to lie put on rollers. The conveni
ence of the sliding door now makes it
more lesirable on barns, however they
may be constructed.
Sowiiiic Grans Seed.
Clover seed on grain Is sown as early
as it can le done. It will be an advan
tage to go over the grain field with a
smoothing harrow, which will not only
bene tit the grain but prepare the
ground somewhat for the seed. Do not
try to seed by u&iiiig the hand, but soar,
with a seed sower, a wheelbarrow seed
sower being excellent. If the wheat
plants have been loosened by frost sow
ihe clover seed and run the roller over
the laud. The weather condition
must, of course, influence the matter.
Many farmers sow clover seed on the
snow, allowing the rains and melting
snow to carry the seed down; buit there
will occur a large loss of seed, which
will Ik1 eaten by birds, some will freeee
and become worthless, jiortioue win
not be covered by earth and the
"catch" will largely depend on s-pring
coiulitionf.
Potatoes After Corn.
It is possible to grow a good potato
crop after corn if the latter has been
planted on an old sod heavily manured.
In such case a good deal of the virtu
of the Bod was not secured by the corn
crop, and there Is besides a dressing
of well-rotted manure to be turned up
by the spring plowing. It is much bet
ter to plant early potatoes on such land,
and to plant them as early as a good
seed bed can be had. Without a freeth.
sod to decay and furnish plant food
and moisture in midsummer, the re
sult with late potatoes would be that
they dry up just at the critical time
for making a crop.
Varieties of Peac hes.
It Is believed that failures with
peaches In many sections are partially
due to the proper varieties for each
section of the country uot being select
ed. To learn more on the subject ton
work of testing the varieties has been
submitted to twenty-four experiment
stations, and it Is believed that the re
sults will be very beneficial. One of
the great difficulties in the way Is that
of procuring varieties true to name. It
is seldom that a peach grower succeeds
lu procuring the exact varieties order
ed unless he knows from whom to buy
or has evidence that no mistake will
be made.
The Itest TnrkeyH for Breeding.
It Is not surprising that turkey
should soon run out and become infer
ior in every way, when we remember
how so many fanners choose their
breeding slock. All the late birds
stunted by corn feeding while young
are saved, while those that are large
ami fine are sent to market. The idea
is that the small bird will be fully
grown, and as large as the largest by
spring. But It never is. Saving the
best birds for breeders insures earlier
laying of eggs, and an early crop of
turkeys next year.
Profits in Ithickbcrries.
Perhaps it is safe In asserting that in
proior!Ion to labor and capital Invest
ed no crop pays as large a profit as
blackberries. Growers who complain
that black Ih nics do not pay should
first estimate the expense. There are
blackberry fields that have lkirne crops
for tin years, which have never re
ceived a pound of fcrtlllwr or manure,
nnd, outside of culling awoy the old
canes, with rough cultivation in the
spring, have received no lalKir. What
blackls-iTics would do for the grower
If treated like si raw I terries Is et to be
demonstrated by some.
Stock tlint Giiiiis in Ynliic.
One of Ihe besl rules for profit able
farming Is to always keep ns much
young growing slin k as possible, and
to discard eaiiy that which been use
of age Is declining In value. Food that
makes growth Is always much more
pi-'Hlucllve than Ihat given the fully
grown animal which only requires to
be fattened. In n hog the first 100
xnitids cost less than the second hun
dred. A fier a hog gel to be 1100 weight
most of Its food goes to maintain its
present condition, nnd there Is very
little profit lo Ihe reoder.
nine of the Cow Pen,
Analyses made at tlie Colorado Kx
perimeiiit Sijitlon show llit pea vine
hay Is richer In protein than either clo
ver or alfalfa. The pea vines contain
materially more nitrogen than alfalfu,
and are valuable for green niamiting.
There Is a considerable amount of pea
vine huy made In Colorado Th vari
ety grown tw that pur-pone la know a
a the Mexican pea.
