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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1899)
TOPTPQ nP TH V TI If ITQ A CHOICE SELECTION Of INTER ESTING ITEMS, Cssssaeote mad Criticism Baaed Vpmm She IUnlip of lae Bar-Hies t el u4 Nawe Notae. It's a poor farm that can't acquire a mortgage. Money talk, and the nation of the earth are listening to the United State a never before. Referring to that kissing of General Shafter, it' a sure bet that none of the girls succeeded in embracing him. lot of colored folks holding up and robbing a coal train doesn't uei-cssarily mean the African is not In the woodpile oa occasion. Why does it not occur to some dull folks who comphiln that others sit down on theiu right along, whether they don't make them tired,? Carnegie' giving SiTjO.onO for a Washington library carries the moral that in making a big collection of books a good one to start with Is a check book. It takes nearly all a conscientious Citizen's spare time to solve the geo graphical pronunciation puzzles which the government evolves out of the an nexation problems. It is now said that the celebrated Keely motor was run by air. The won der Is that there was enough air left to run the machine after the inventor got through with the stockholders. To some people the sight of that 5-year-old negro "exhorter" wabbling and twaddling on a church platform would lie quite as distasteful as the brutal exhibition in the prize ring. While waiting for the curtain to go up on the peace conference jierforin .nce Great Britain Is passing away the time building two more 14,000-ton battleships at a cost of ."),ooo,000. ' One of the London Journals asks Frenchmen to sink their differences and subscribe for a submarine lioat to guard the channel. Sinking differences In a submarine boat is an admirable conception. Insurance men will be surprised to learn that there is such a thing as an Sfcfc.-endiary microbe. M. Jean de Ixjrer . do & the scientist who makes this sur .prisinj; discovery. The microbe causes , annntjineoita ffiniluiutUm lifli-iiu fi-,.u la the genuine and original "firebug." 1 A monster locomotive was constnict- .al III ti forme vl i-ti n f i urta,r, ww.roit I ir In twenty-one hours aud thirty minutes. iwo locomotives or ordinary size were jt . , , , " - 'A '-'- '- " ' "-, '' ' " aa : I,, t...,., ..I... - Vtw-IIIIUK .-'Kin; IU n. -5 uiuu m v- Our powers of destruction silll surpass those of construction. The president of the New York S. I'. C. A. rt cently read a, paper admonish ing Ills Hocieiy no i iu in; imi jiim. iiiiii7 In trying to establish reforms in Cuba and the l'Uilippiues. His idea seems to lie that to stop all the cockfights and bullfights at once would be an inhuman proceeding. Paradoxical as it may aeein, he is probably right. Among the differences between the army and the navy, none is more funda mental or produces niore obvious and Important results than that relating to promotion from the lowest to the high er grades of the respective services. The private soldier can aspire to any rank and, with ability, industry and a fair share of luck, he can easily enough attain the pay and power of a com manding officer. The man-of-war's man has no such privilege. No matter what he knows or does a commission la beyond his reach. Which of these systems Is the better hi not a question for lay decision. "The United States," s.iys Mulhall, "leads In agriculture, with products greater than Russia and the Fnited Kingdom combined; in manufactures, with a product greater than the aggre gate output of the manufactories of the tTnlted Kingdom, France, Austria -Hungary and Belgium combined: lu ma chinery, with a steam power greater than the United Kingdom, Austria, Hungary and Italy combined; in min ing, with a product greater than the United Kingdom and France combined or nearly one-third that of the entire world); in railroad transportation, with m mileage forty per cent, greater than that of all Europe; in forestry, with products greater than that of all Eu rope, and nearly one-half of the total prod nets of the world; In fisheries, with M greater product than the United Kingdom, Russia and Oermany cora tined." The Judge who has established of ficially the proper hour for the cessa tion of sparking may have done well, bat the boar will not be acceptod by the young people, nor will all young feeo. leave Just as the dock strikes 11. Titers Is a power higher than the judge, tHl, the ok) gentleman who appears at the Dead of the stairs occasionally with remark to this effect: "Daughter, are you sMU up?" or "Is that the mllk ffMa at th back door?" He can otsw ale a Judge, and if be says 10 'stork, 10 o'clock It Is, in spite of all C judge la ahs Mate. After all, 11 eelsek appears on the face of things few proper hour for the front door Cft k closed. A youag man who n r:.t say all his lovs speech la three t rm, twrimg tan or four Bights In i 3 ecX Mstfa stla.laat If this ism b) few looked upon as taw, t; ars ywa fet ea fores It? Arc ape rS rmmtm be entptoyed, me C33eMJ urfonBatlss) as totks house where sparking at in progress ajld erv in iina-etaom mriilmit tma "Break a way 7" Or la he to arrest the I violators, one and two, and rail a pa- , troi? It will not do. This business i cannot be regulated exempt by pa, and what pa say goes every tliue, and If ' not, the young man goes, ami rather rapidly. The judge is secoud to pa every time when the duration of spark lug hours U up for discussion. This may not Inappropriately be called the age of copper. Time scemi to have turned backward In Its flight, and the metal which pave its distinc tive character to one epoch in the his tory of primeval man has been elevated ouce more to a place of supreme Im- Iortauce. The renewed distinction has taken place because this Is also the age of electricity, and copjier is the best metallic conductor of electricity which the earth yields in sufficient quantity for modern uses. One of the remark able industrial developments of the age is the increased production aud em ployment of the metal. The United States alone, which supplied but one seventh of the amount required in the markets of the world a few years ago, now produces much more than one half ;and that half is double the world's gross production at that time. Immense fortunes have lieen made by the men who have developed and own the cop per mines of this country. There are at least three mines which are to-day valued by tens of miUioiis of dollars, and one of them has paid nearly sixty million dollars In dividends. For months past there Ijhs been eager, at times al most frenzied, speculation in the Bos ton stock market In copper mine allures. It Is based on a more solid foundation than are most speculations, because there seems good reason to think that for a year or two to come the demand for copper will lie larger than the supply, and that the price of the uietal will be maintained. The Loudou Spectator has an Inter esting article on "Catching Cold," evl deutly written by a physician. In con clusion he asks himself. "Shall we ever be able to avoid colds altogether?" That is a conundrum we would all like to hear answered authoritatively lu the affirmative. This writer is optimistic and says: 'Trobubly we shall; proba bly ere long our bacteriologists, hav ing discovered the hostile microbe, hav ing learned his habits, traced his life history and tracked him to his lair, will be able to show us how we can get the better of our foe, so that in the oft reenrring struggle he, not we, will suc cumb, and we shall soon cease to fear him." But while we are waitlug for this mueh-to-lie-dcsired deliverance from the cold microlie what cau we do to abate tills all-iervading disease which men. horses and cats appear to be esH'cialIy heirs to. There are places where it is iniH)Rsible to catch wild, for the simple reason that there are no colds to catch. For three years Nanseu , nnd his men were exposal to all sons i of conditions favorable to calchlmr - i old This led VaiiKcn to tell tli -Hteeffiniilng districts to avail tbetnselve of 4 In the Spectator that "of course there is no doubt that told Is an infectious disease. We had none durinu our iour- ; hey. aud we all got it (very badly too) at the very moment we reached Nor way." Some isiiplc believe that the majority of illnesses tgiu with a sim ple cold, and the doctors say that some js'ople are more or less correct. Cod- tiling will not prevent colds. It only lenders Ihe cod.li.xt more susceptible to infection when the Inevitable exposure to the frost v irerni comes. No one ran lie made immune from colds so far as medical investigation and science has proeeded. But everyone can render himself or herself less susceptible to In- fectlou by the hardening process to- wlt. sleeping in cold bedrooms, keeping i the tetni-erature of our houses below rather than atsive 0 degrees, dressing uuruily, eating blood-making food, aud taking plenty of exercise in the open nir. But no matter what precaution you take the cold microbe will catch you even "If you do watch out." PATTI'S FIRST ADMIRER The Iiva Had an Offer of Murriaae when Twelve Veara Old. Fattl Is writing a book. It will be ber j memoirs, and so far she has got only , to the end of the tirst chapter. This first chapter contains (he following In teresting information-. ".My first admirer, M. Jose de Rlos, declared himself In 18G5, at Puerto Kico, where, at the age of 12, I waa giving concerts. I was sitting on the balcony waiting for my turn to slug, when this tall, handsome young fellow first came under my notice. "I don't know why be should have found any attraction in me, for I waa a plain little girl, with sallow skin, two black plaits banging down my back, and eyes that in anuncanny way seem ed much too big for my face. He was most kind to me, and In those days, when we had little of tbe world's goods, his consideration made a great Impression on me. I had by this time lost my mother, and when M. de Rlos asked my father for my band I had little idea of even the meaning of mar riage. On account of my tender years bis offer naturally met with a refusal. For five years I lost sight of blm. and then, when I was 17. be came to Bath, where I was giving a concert one even ing, and renewed hla suit In propria persona, when I refused for myself." Married Mea's Watches. Tbe Newburg, N. Y News says dial a local jeweler has invested hi a stock of "married men's watches." The pe culiarity Of these watch. lies In the fact that tfaey art furnished wtbfc an alarm aMaehnteat wtilch a man's wife can set at the exact lumr wtoen she wishes him to shut for home. The alarm going off at that Hme wft rs atlnd Mm mat Ms wife saneet. fej a. Minnesota Hectare for Mate Aid. Complete returns of the Minnesota State election show that the State aid amendment to the Constitution has been passed by the ieople by a vote of 70.043 to 38,017. The returns have only recently been completed, owing to the unsettled condition of the norlhern anu eastern irtions of the State. This is the tirst time that a js.pular vote has even been taken in any State upon tbe good roads quct-tion, nud the result hi a most emphatic indorsement of State aid as a solmlou. The Fanners' Na tional Congress, which met at Fort Worth, Texas, early in llii-einlwr hist. passed strong resolutions in favor of State aid. and commeudlng the efforts of the Icugue of American Wheelmen toward its Introduction. The Minne sota vote Is another notable Indorse ment of the work of this organ iaatiou. The constitutional amendment was Introduced at the lhil" session of the Minnesota legislature by A. B. Clioate. of Minneapolis, as the representative of the L. A. W.. and lis passage by that IkkI.v was the result of his persistent and diplomatic work In behalf of the measure. This left It to be submitted to jsipular vote for Its final passage. A strong educational campaign for good roads was carried on by the I,. A. W. throughout Minnesota during the past summer aud fall with the active assistance of ihe Bureau of Road In quiry at Washington and the press of Minnesota. A large edition of pam phlets, explaining the State nid system of road-building and its advantages to formers, was distributed, and numer ous articles and editorials upon the sub jeet apjieared in ihe papers In various parts of the State. The resulting vote for the amendment is alone two to one iu Its favor. The Minnesota legislature will now lake the necessary steps to put a sys tem of State aid into operation, such as is uow iu force in New jersey and In New York. Farmers, especially, will appreciate this, as it will enable them to obtain durable highways without be ing obliged to bear the entire expense, as they do at present. In New Jersey and New York, the cost of roads built by State aid is divided between the Suite, the counties aud the local tax payers in the towns. Many towns availing themselves of the New York law are securing funds for road build ing purposes from outside sources, equal to four or five times that, which they raise themselves. Country tax payers have learned that State aid to roads privities a menus by which the large city taxpayers and corjioratioiis owning valuable franchises from the s,n,p :ir'' 'n'"1'' lo K!ll,r,? 1,1 ,u' Ml'"", ""d tlmt 11 remains optional with the 'ilis "Stance, or not. as they may '"""' Thin explains the popularity ,,f f!UlU ai(l in Minnesota and the large ! vote In its favor. L. A. W. Bulletin. A City Vuyu MnJ DnmaitcN, The following, from a West Superior (Wis.) paier, tells its own story, which, by the way, is an Interesting one to taxpayers ami city ramers: "At U"' l"st I'fe-vluuK Council meeting Mike u ,,,",m'1 a1 a 'llll np-'lnst the '" f"r "m amount Is-lng claimed by Mr. O'Donnel for hav ing bis horse mired up to its neck on 18th street near the normal school. The Aldermen rather laugh.il at the claim j nnt presenting a bill to the city for hav- '" nor mired, and the Council TO"HI 10 "Bnl " am" rough ail the courts if ueceaaary. "The case was brought to trial this morning iu the Municipal Court A jury l consisting of Stewart Kobinson, Frank Felker, James Scott and James Sej.Jer was impaneled and after hearing about ten minutes' testimony on the case a erdlct was brought In for Ihe plaintiff In the sum of $.'t0, which is 1." more than be offered to settle the case for. Besides this the costs In the case amount to $18.87, making a total cost to the city of S53.87. The horse is all right now, notwithstanding the fact that It took two others to pull It out of the sticky red mud. Coder the direction of the Council the case will be appealed to the next higher court." ftabber la Bcar:e. . Assuming that the United States will subsidise a company to lay a cable from tbe Philippines to Ran Francisco, the first landing place would be iu the Hawaiian Islands. The next posses sion of the United Slates is the Island of Guam, In tbe iJidroiies, which Is about 3,100 nautical miles west of Hawaii. From this Island to the main land of Luxou, in the Philippines, is about flfiO nautical miles. The longest cable now operated is that from Brest to New York, which is 8.080 nautical miles In length. Tbe cost of cables Increases with their length In a geometrical ratio; tbe difficulty of working them Increases about as rap idly. Itemembering that the cost of tbe New York-Brest cable waa greater than that of any other cable ever laid. It Is readily seen that tbe construction of the American transpacific cable, In volving tbe link between Hawaii and Guam, may well be approached with caution. The solution of the difficulty Is In tbe acquisition of an island of the Caroline group. In connection with tbe Pacific cable a very Interesting question arises. Whence Is tbe gutta-percha for this gigantic cable to come. Every whisper of the construction of a transpacific line sends the gntta market at Hlnga pore up by leaps and hounds. The ruling price of the gum Is tbe highest that has ever obtained. It is stated, on what authority It Is hard to say, that the visible supply of gutta la Insuffi cient for the task, and that If this csble is laid It will be the last-tbe last with a gutta-percha insulation, at least Engineering Magazine. DOUBTS AS TO EXACT DATE, Difference of Opinion to When Ohio ilrcame a Hate. There is some doubt as to the exact date unvn which Ohio became a State. Ohio never was a separate "territory, being a part of the Northwest terri tory. In 1K01 the people living in the isirtion of the Northwest territory now embraced In the State of Ohio culled a convention to frame a State constitu tion for the district which had set up a claim to statehood under the provisions of the fifth article of the ordiuauce of 177. That convention met In Chilli cot be on Nov. 1. ltr aud on Nov. 2i completed Its work. The constitution thus framed was not submitted to the iple, but was declared ratified by the convention Itself. On Feb. 17. JKtfl. the Fulled States Congrif passed an act admitting Ohio into the Fnion as a State, said act be coming oH-rative upon the assembling of the first State legislature at Chilll cotlie. The tirst State legislature met at Chillicothe at 10 a. m. Tuesday, March 1, lsu.'i, and both houses imme diately organized. Thus there are three dates alKiut which opinions may uiffer as to the ex act initial period of Ohio statehood. Thcv tire Nov. j!t, IMC, when the con stitution was perfected and ratified'; Feb. 17, lo:!. when C-iUgret-s passed the act admit ting Ohio, aud March 1, ISO.'!, when the Legislature ascnibled aud organized. The latter dale appear to have the greatest claim, iu view of the language of the act of Congress and the organization of the legislature. The two houses of the legislature met In Joint session tit 11 a. m. March .1, 1803. to ojs-ti and declare the result of the ballot f. r Governor. Kdward Tlflln was declared elected, receiving 4,."rii4 votes. There w. re no ballots cast against him. At 1 o'clock p. m. the same day Gov ernor Tittin was sworn in at a joint session of the two houses of legisla ture by Judge Melgs.Cincinuatl En quirer. New I'se Tor Cattish. In Fort land. Oregon, according to the Oregoiilan. the fuuiilUir catfish figures as a hardy plonitr and n valued ad junct to the street department, all te cause the terra cotta sewers and drains, especially those In the lower part of the city, frequently get choked. If the sewer Is not broken, it can lie cleaned by passing a roie through It, to 1 pulled Imckward and forward un til the olwtnicti.m Is loosened and re moved. The deputy superintendent of streets lias had a great deal of such work to look after, and the worry con nects! with getting the rope through has gone far toward thinning his hair. He has at last discovered a quick, sure and easy method. He goes to the river, alrhes iiTcaT fish, tics a string to its tail, drops it down a manhole Into the sewer, and It at once starts for the river, and forces its way through any oinstriictlon not as solid as brick, dragging the string after It. Then the deputy goes as far down the sewer as he d.-cms necessary, and picks up the string, which he uses to draw a wire through the sewer, and with this a rope Is pulhil through, and the scwit Is soon cleared. So'oinun In All H s filory. A donation party was given to a good country clergyman In part payment of J his small salary, the principal result being !wny -seven bushels of beans and a large variety of second-hand clothing for his five children. The patience of the clergyman's wife finally gave out. On the next Sunday she dressed all her five children In the dorm led second-hand clothing, and under her direction they marched up the aisle just as the good pastor was reading that beautiful passage, "Yet Solomon In all his glory was not ar rayed like one of these." Tbe next donation party was of a different char acter. Iw Valuation. A few words will sometimes express a man's opinion of his nclgblxir quite as well as a much longer statement. "Do you regard Silas Woodruff as one of the Importunt people In Canbyf ' asked a summer visitor, referring to a member of tbe State legislature, whose borne was In tbe little town. , "I bear be can talk up to the folks on politics," answered tbe Can by farmer, to whom the q newt ion had been ad dressed, "so I reckon he's some use to the State, mebby; but In Canhy ws don't count blm of any more value than a couple o' rods o' side-hill." Youth's Companion. Tbe Koihschllds. A curious thing it is that In every country the Rothschilds Assume the typical appearance of Its people, says the New York World. Ixird Rothschild of Itogland much resembles Lord Salis bury, Baron A I phone de Rothschild of Paris Is a perfect FrenWiman In ap pearance. Walter Rothschild, son of Lord Rothschild, Is a fair haired young giant (the original Mayer Anaelm wss redheoJiedi. Wllhelm Karl Rothschild of tbe Frankfort bouse, son of that Charles or Karl who went to Naples for tbe bouse, Is a typical German, Fanioaa Scotch Cripples. Two of toe most famous living Scotchmen are cripples Lord Kervln, who Is the greatest living Scottish dentist, and Dr. James Margregoiof Edinburgh, who Is said to be tbe great est living HoottWh preacher. In baseball circles the npper ten co prises tbe winning alne a ad the urn plre. THE FARM AND HOME. MATTERS O FINTEREST TO FARM ER AND HOUSEWIFE. Bosa Bcaaoaa Why the Boya Leave the Farm -When to Helu with Vegetable in the Garden-Always Be l-'p with Ihe Market. The following Is extracted from a paper read at a Farmers' Institute re cently: "How few real homes we find on t la farm. How often what we call home is a place to bang tip Jour hat, get three meals a day and lie down to sleep; a place where father and mother and children stay. How few of these stopping placi do more than satisfy our daily physical wants, and utti-riy fail to supply our mental and Is'tter necessities. I it any wonder our boys and girls make coiniarisoiis with the homes they Imagine exist iu the towns and cities? Home In its real sense Is an Inspiration to all boys and girls. If it exist mi the farm It is an inspira tion to a nobler, Is-tter manhood. If it is not on the farm, there grows up with tlie Isiy a resolve to get away from his crude environments and try to find what his Into! and heart so yearns for. Home must lie where love and con fidence predominate. A boy is a qu-er study. His prattle and rattle are evl- deui-es of enterprise. In Indicate a want of judgment and a n-il of kin dergarten Inquiry to dl-ov.-r the In herent abilities of the Isiy and guid ance into those lines. It is the general practice to curb all ebullition of the vigorous mind and hands of the boy, and make him do a.s we do whether he wants to or not. The twenty-one years to his majority Is a tedious term to a farm Uiy. The farm Iwy Imaglm from what he sec of city young men that they must have a very much let ter time, and he is temptnl to try It." Wl.rn tn Begin the Garden. The iH-ginuiiig with a garden should be really In the fall, as such plants as spinach, kale, salsify, dandelion, crei-s, etc., can be seeded down In the fall, covered with mulch and ls brought on the (able very early in the spring. A patch of turnips left In the ground In the fall will provide the licst kind of early "greens," ami the same may be done with cabbage stalks, which, if planted In the fall In a compact led, will take up but little room iiinl throw out sprouts early In spring, before any otlrnr green crop comes. Later on rad ishes, lettuce and rhubarb will lie In order, as they are hardy and can lie had ls-fore summer crops are seeded. Asparagus comes almost by the time frost is out of the ground. Half an acre In a garden which has been heavily manured will provide an enormous supply of vegetables. Teas and onloss, as well ns early potatoes, may ls had with but little difficulty, If the ground is snndy and warm, but to secure early cnqjsJjiejMliJxJiilo deep and TTioTolTgTi-!!!!.! ihe land well drained, not by having a heavy surface flow, but by the water going down quickly. Warmth is secured by :he air following the downward How of the water Into the soil. Ite Up with Ihe Mmkrt, It would U-of advantage to our farm ers If they were to visit the market of our great cities ami acquaint them selves with the requirements of the trade, they should become acquainted with the methods of business, and should study the reasons for the adop tion of particular systems of handling produce. A system Is the result of growth. It Is not a special creation, fully developed and orgsiuized, and thrown Into being without some good cause for its existence, it may have grown to an abuse, but even then there Is some reason for It. Farm and Fac tory. I'ualncaa Tact in Farming. While It docs not pay farmers lo sud denly change their crops whenever prices go loo low for profit, there ar often ways of overcoming the, low prices, and twrhaps manufacturing the crop Into something that will give a good return for all the labor expcinh-d upon it. When there was everywhere a superabundant apple crop, the farm ers who had evaporators hired enough help to put up their apple crop In the very best form for a period of scarcliy. Hence when there v.-as a light apple crop through the country the result mas that die evaporated apples were disposed of at a profit, There art- often times when grain damaged by harvest ing, or w hich for other reusum. sell lie. low what It costs, can be marketed by feeding it to slock. It is In such ways as this that business men learn to change losses into gains, or at least to mitigate their losses, Knt Karatlnc The farmer that allows himself to fall Into what Is termed rut farming will fall of the greatest success, because a rut farmer does things In the same old way, simply for lack of energy or knowledge. Kaeb position affirms the fact of bis negligence, hence he falls under the ban of natural law and must to a grester or less extent, as the case may be, fall behind. Tbe law of the survival of the fittest wss never more evident than when applied lo agricul ture. Successful agriculture will not sdmlt of trifling. Rural World. Floors for Henbonaea. A henhouse floor should uever be msde of board. There will lie sure lo be some cracks bet ween Ibein, and they make the U-t possible breeding place for Hoe, Ra t her I hs n lis re s rd Doors ws would have oue with earth, under laid with stone to secure drainage snd covered with sifted coal ashes. The most setlefsctory of sll floor U one of nnml Tku u-iii ... .. . .., ., ,,, u, r, ,MII H(lt B , board or plsuk plow, snd It will not j fear cracks to sacoursge the breeding j of vermin. On a cement floor saafaf the roosts no litter should be aUowad. Thus tbe excrvtlous may be kept free from matter that cannot bs rotted1 daw n, and if put into a Urge box with sifted coal ashes sprinkled over them tliey will le rotted down by spring, so as to be In good comb Hon for drilling with grain or for sprinkling In the row a where early peas are planted. There Is nothing Is-tter to give ieas s vigorous start early. It will nlo make tbem several days earlier, and thus secure fur them a U-tter pri.-e. To Keep A pules. To keep apples sound, laying them on a dark, dry shelf is one method. But when so kept many will 1m- found to lose their lieauty mid shrivel; If packed in Isixes or barn-Is with dry sand, "bow ever, the flavor and soundness are not only preserv.-d. but their original U-au-ty and firmness are also maintained. Sawdust or bran are liable to get damp or moldy, and thus Injure the fruit. Fears may also lie preserved In this way, but as these undergo a slight fer mentation, after becoming riH, the ef fect of which Is shown III a kind of greasiness on tbe skin, they should be left a week In the storeroom before the Method of preserving here pointed out Is commenced. - London Journal. Management of Manure. The sooner tbe manure spread on tbe land Is decomistse.l the sooner the plants can utilize It. When a large mass of undecoiiiposed straw or corn stalks arc hauled to the Held they are lu a condition lwyond the reach of the plant roots. When the manure heap is well managed, and all the ingred'.en's "rotted," one-half of the tiatlle Is won. It is n saving of time because the fanner who desires a quick start for his corn In the spring cannot afford to wait for the manure to rot In the fields. ;iod management of the manure heap means that tho manure must be de composed iu the heap without losing any of lis advantages. Kvery farmer knows how lo do so, but the majority allow large jsirtions of the valuable ammonia to slip away from them. now in the Foreat. In a dense growth of tree snowfall lies more evenly than It can anywhere else, and even to this day the depth of snow in the woods Is iu country dis tricts the only recognized measure of the depth of the snowfall. There Is a great advantage to the trees hi having this iitiilonn depth of snow all around them. It prevents .1. ep freezing of thu soil, nnd lu many caws prevents it from freezing at nil, us there Is always a lunl of more or lens dwayed leaves under the snow. In most i-ases when a forest liecouicH so thinned that wind will blow the snow In heaps, some of the older tr.es will begin lo die out. The ground frr y.i n deeper and they ue longer get water enough. Plucr for Itie Int-uli .tor. A cellar Is an excellent place for an Incubator, Uirtose It Is usually of an even temperature. esMclnlly If the cel lar is one that will preserve root and fruits; but the ntmnp!iere khould be pure, which will be the case In winter. Any plai-e will answer for the incuba tor that Is of a u even and regular tem perature. If the iin ubator Is In a room where the temperature changes in harm will result, provided the operator watches the lamp iitlnuie, and does not allow too in mil beat to accumulate. The hot-water incubator luo lamp! must lie operated lu a warm place. If pc.st.lble, in order to avoid loss of heui at night.-Poultry Ket-sr. I arty Clilcka. F.arly In the spring the hens will l gin to sll and young chicks hutched. It Is Important to keep the chicks warm until they are feathered. They are hatched at a temperature of KKI de grees, and when excised to an atmos phere at a temperature of ."Vl or W de grees become chilled, from which they seldom reitiver. Itowel disease, which Is ascribed to faults In feeding. Is mors frequently ihe result of lack of warmth. Ijite In spring, when ths weather Is warmer, the chicks can have more liberty, but lu winter, when the early ones are hatched, shelter and pro tection from mid draughts will lie uec esssry to prevent loss. Oil from Hun flower Seed. In 1H42 a Russian farmer named Rokareff conceive! the Idea of extract-' lug oil from the wed of Ihe sunflower. His neighbor told blm It was a vision ary idea and Hint he wouli", have his lulsir for his pains. He M'rscvercd, however, nud from that humble liegln nlng Ihe Industry lias expanded to enor mous prosirtlons. Today more than 7,000.'") acres of laud lu Russln ore devoted to the cultivation of the sun flower. Two kinds are grown-one with small se.-ds. which arc crushed for oil. and the other with larger seeds, Uiat are consumed by the poorer peoplr In enormous quantities. Clover and Corn for llosjj. When wheat was low In price a large proportion of the crop was used for f.sHl. Now the farmers have gone bock to corn, but the quality of tlie jsirk Is not equal to tlmt whMi was made from wheat In feeling corn some farmers claim Unit wheu the com I ground and mixed with clover whioh has licen cut One and sealed more pork and Is-tier srk coo lie made by the comblnailou Uisji wiuh com. The Hi rep and I'o, Problem, There has lieen legislation enough lo protect sheep. The problem Is how to keep ihe dogs In check. og .an casl ly go through a barbed wire fence, or will dig under II. hence there Is no lu -exH-uiv way to protect sheep. As sheep grsxe In the evening, sfter the suit goes down, ss a protection a gn I list best In summer, they cannot Is- con. fined st night In a building, sod t will not pay to employ a watchman, uultss lbs floc k Is r- 'arg.