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TAL MAGE’S SERMON. “STARTING FOR HOME” LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. OoMm Taxi **f Will Art.a and Uo to Mf Father and Will lajr to Him, Fatbar I llata Binned Again.! ■MTia *» HERE IS NOTH lag like hunger to take the energy out of a man. A hun gry man can toll neither with pen nor band nor foot Tbero haa been many an army de feated, not eo much for lack of ammuni tion aa for lack of bread. It waa that fact that took the fire out of tbla young man of the text. Storm and expoaure will wear out any aaan'a life In time, but hunger makea Snick work. The moat awful cry ever beard on earth la the cry for bread. A traveler telle ua that In Aala Minor there are treea which bear fruit look ing very much like the long bean of our time. It la called the carob. Once In a While the people, reduced to deatltu tlon, would eat theae caroba, but gen erally the caroba, the beana apoken of bare In the text, were thrown only to the awlne, and they crunched them with great avidity. Out thla young van of my text could not even got them without eteallng them. So one day, amid the awlne trougba, he beglna to aollloqulze. He aaya; "Theae are , bo clothea for a rich man’a non to wear; thiala no kind of bualnexa for a Jew to be engaged In, feeding awlne; I’ll go borne; I’ll go home; I will arlae and go to my father." I know there are a great Btany people who try to throw a faacl nation, a romance, a halo about aln; but notwithstanding all that Lord Byron and George Band have said In regard to it, It Is a mean, low, con temptible business, and putting food and fodder Into the trchighs of a herd of Iniquities that root and wallow In the soul of man Is a very poor business for men and women Intended to be sons •nd daughters of tho Lord Almighty, •nd when this young man resolved to go homo It was a very wise thing for him to do, and the only question is, whether we will follow him. Batan promises large wages If we will serve him; but be clothes bis victims with rags, and be pinches them with hunger, stnd when they start out to do better be sets after them all the bloodhounds of hell. Satan comes to us to-day and be promises all luxuries and emolu ments If we will only serve him. Liar, down with tbee to the pit! "The wages of sin Is death." Oh I the young man of the text was wise when he uttered (be resolution, "l will arise and go to my father.” In the time of Mary, the persecutor, a persecutor came to a Christian woman who had hidden In ber bouse for the lord’s sake ono of Christ’s servants, and the persecutor •aid: "Where Is that heretic7’’ The Christian woman said: "You open that (runk and you will see the heretic." The persecutor opened the trunk, and on the top of the linen of the trunk ho saw a glass. He said: "There is no heretic here." "Ah!" she said, "you look In the glass and you will see the berettc." As I take up the mirror of God's Word to-day, I would that, Instead of aeelng the prodigal of the text, we might see ourselves—our want.our wan dering. our sin. our lost condition, so that we might be as wise as this young man was and say, “I will arise nnd go to my father." The resolution of this text was formed In a disgust at his present circumstances. If this young min hurl hern bv his emnlover set to culturing flowers, or training vines over an arbor, or keeping an account Of the pork market, or overseeing other laborers, be would not have thought of going borne. If he bad bad bis pockets full of money, if bo hod been able to aajr, “1 have a thousand dollars now of my own, what's the use of my going back to apologise to the old man? why, ba would put me on the limits; he would not have going on around tho old place such conduct as 1 have been engaged in; I won't go home; there la no reason why 1 should go home; I bsve plenty of money, plenty of pleas* ant surroundings; why should I go borne?" Ah! It was bis pauperism, it wsa bit beggary. He had to go home. Borne man comes and says lo ms; "Why do you talk about the ruined state of the human soul? Why don't you speak •bout the progress of the nlnettenth century, and talk of something more aahliarattng?" It Is for this reason: A man never wants the Uotpei until bs realises be is In a famine-struck •tala Suppose I should corns to you la your bums, sad you are la good, Bound, robust health, and I should ba* glu to talk about medicines, and about bow much better this medicine is than that, sad some other medicine than •mbs other medicine, and talk about this physician and that physician Af* las awhile you would get tired, and you would any I "1 don't want to hsar about medicine* Why da you talk to ms of K- y skis as? 1 nettff b»»* » doctor." I suppose I same lato your house and I Pad you tovoroly etch, and I know the medtelaos that will cute you, and I hawo tho phyalstaa that le ekiiifot enough to meet your ««•«. Vue oayt "Mr lag oa that modtrtae. hi tag ea that physician 1 am tortlhi* sub, had I •eat help ‘ if I non to you sad you Bsoi you are ail rt«ai lo body, sad all right hi miad had all right in mm!, rm hero need of hutblag hut suppose hare persuaded >>■<* that tbs iepioay of ala Is upon you the worst uf all glsAeassi <»h* th»o you say, "Bring ■so that balm of the <»<*ap*I bring me BM ta*4toam> *<. t,i*g «*• j»«us Cbitol.* Mil **«e -as la the audience, "how do you know that we are In a ruined condition by elnT" Well, I can prove It In two ways, and you may have your choice. I can prove It either by the statements of men or by the statement of God. Which shall It be? You say, "Let us have the etate ment of God." Well, he says In one place, "The heart Is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." He says In another place, "What Is a man that he should be clean? and be which Is born of woman, that he should be righteous?" He says In another place. "There Is none that doetb good—no, not one." He says In another place, "As by one man sin entered Into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all had sinned." "Well," you say, "I am will ing to acknowledge that, bnt why should I take the particular rescue that you propose?" This Is the reason: "Ex cept a man be born again be cannot see the kingdom of Ood." This Is the rea son: "There Is one name given under heaven among men whereby they may be saved." Then there are a thousand voices here ready to say: "Well, I am ready to accept this help of the Gospel; I would like to have this divine cure; how shall 1 go to work?" Let mo say that a mere whim, an undefined long ing amounts to nothing. You niunt have a stout, a tremendous resolution like this young man of the text when he said, "I will arise and go to my father." "Oh,” says some man, "bow do I know my fathor wants me? bow do I know, if I go back, I would he received?" "Oh," says some man, "you don't know where I have been; you don't know how far I have wandered; you wouldn’t talk that way to me If you know all the Iniquities I have com mitted.” What Is that flutter among the angels of God? What is that horseman running with quick dispatch? It Is news, It Is news! Christ has found the lost. Nor angels can tncir joy contain, Hut kindle with now Are. The sinner lost Is found, thfty sing, And strike tbe sounding lyro. When Napoleon talked of going Into Italy, they said, "You can't get there. If you know what the Alps were you wouldn't talk about it or think about It. You can’t get your ammunition wagons over the Alps.” Then Napoleon rose In his stirrups, and, waving bis bend toward the mountains, ho said, ‘‘There shall be no Alps!” That won derful pass was laid out which has been the wonderment of all the years since —tbe wonderment of all engineers. And you tell me there are such moun tains of sin between your soul and God, there Is no mercy. Then I see Christ waving bis band toward the mountains. I bear him say, "I will come over the mountains of thy sin and the hills of thine Iniquity.” There shall be no Pyrenees; tbero shall bo no Alps. Again; I notice that this resolution of the young man of my text was found ed in sorrow at bis misbehavior. It was not mere physical plight. It was grief that he bad so maltreated bis father. It Is a sad thing after a father has done everything for a child to have that child ungrateful. How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it Is, To have a thankless child. That is Shakespeare. “A foolish son Is the heaviness of his mother." That Is the Bible. Well, my friends, have not some of us been cruel prodigals? Have we not maltreated our Father? And such a Father! Three times a day has bo fed thee. Ho has poured sun light .Mo thy day and at night kindled up all the street-lamps of heaven. With what varieties of apparel he hath clothed thee for the seasons. Whoso eye watches thee? Whose hand defends thee? Whose heart sympathizes with thee? Who gave you your children? Who Is guarding your loved ones de parted? Such a father! So loving, so | kind. If he had been a stranger; If he ' had forsaken us; it he had flagellated us; ir no nau pounuea us anu lurnt-u us out of doors on the commons. It would not have boon so wonderful— our treatsovent of him; but he Is a Father, so loving, so kind, and yet how many of us for our wanderlugx have never apologized! If we say anything that hurts our friend's feelings, If we do anything that hurta feelings of those In whom we are interested, how quick ly we apologize! We can scarcely wait until we get pen and paper to write a | letter of apology. How easy It Is tor any one who Is Intelligent, right-heart ed, to write au apology, or make an apology! We apologize for wrongs I done to our fellows, hut some of us per i haps have committed ten thousand | times ten thousand wrongs agslnst Uod , and never apologized. I remark still further, that this reso lution of the test was founds' In n feel ing of hotne-elrknrsa. I do not know how long this youug man. how many months, how many years he had been i away from hla father's house, but there la something about the reading ot my teal that make# me think he was home ilek. Home of you know what that feel ing la Far away from horn* sorne llmco, surrounded by everything bright and ptenaont plenty of friends >* u have Mid **i would give Ike world lu ho howto tonight" Well, this y man *ao hom«*t-b for hts father s house I have au doubt when he thought of hie fltthsr a house he sold "Now, perhaps father may net ho It* lag ' We ; rvod nuthlog In this story- this Mirth | founded on every'dor IM* »• rood oath lag shoot the mother it soya nothing about going beat* le hot I think oka om dead I think aka had died of a broken kmft at hte wonder logo, or. perhaps h# had gone Into dm •tpottun ltom the fact that h* <ssW not remember n twins and »*(opslhette moth** A man never *«*• over having kal hla mother Nothing Mid about hot, but he tg homeotvh top hi* talker t house lie tkoughi ks would fort like to g« and noth around the old plnso. He thought he would Juit like to go and •ee if things were as they used to b% Many a man after having been off ■ long while has gone home and knocked at the door, and a stranger has come. It is the old homestead, but a stranger comes to the door. He finds out that father la gone, and mother l» gone, and brothers and sisters all gone. I think this young man of the text said to him self, “Perhaps father may be dead.” Still, he starts to find out. He Is homesick. Are there any here to-day homesick for Ood, homesick for heav en? A sailor, after having been long on the sea, returned to his father’s house, and bis mother tried to persuade him not to go away again. She said, "Now, you had better stay at home. Don’t go away. We don’t want you to go. You will have It a great deal bet ter here.” But It made him angry. The night before he went away again to sea, he heard his mother praying In the next room, and that made him more angry. He went far out on the sea, and a storm eame up and he was ordered to very perilous duty, snd he ran up the ratlines, and amid the shrouds of the ship he heard the voice that he had heard In the next room. Ho tried to whistle it off, he tried to rally bis cour age; but he could not silence the voice ho had beard in the next room, and there In tho storml and darkness he said, “0 Lord! what a wretch 1 have been? What a wretch 1 am! Help mo Just now. Lord Ood.” And I thought In this assemblage to-day there may be some who may have the memory of a father's petition, or a mother’s prayer pressing mightily upon the soul, and that this hour they may make tho same resolution I find In my text, say ing: “I will arise and go to my father." A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe; went out Into tho sea, went out too far, got beyond his depth and ho floated far away. A ship bound for Dublin came along and took him on board. Hallors are generally very generous fellow*, and one gave him a cap, and another gave him a jacket, and another gave him shoes. A gentleman passing along on the beach at Liverpool found the lad’s clothes and took them home, and the father was heartbroken, the mother was heartbroken, at the loss of their child. They had heard nothing from him day after day, and they ordered the usual mourning for the sad event. But the lad took ship from Dublin and arrived In Liverpool the very day the mourning arrived. He knocked at the door, the father was overjoyed and the mother was overjoyed at the return of their lost son. Oh, my friends, have you waded out too deep? Have you waded down Into sin? Have you waded from the shore? Will you come back’ When you come back will you come In the rags of your sin, or will you come robed In the Bavior’s righteousness? I believe the latter. Go home to your God to-day. He Is watting for you. Go home! But I remark the characteristic of this resolution was, It was Immediately put Into execution. The context says "he arose und came to his father.” The trouble In nine hundred and ninety nine times out of a thousand is that our resolutions amount to nothing, because we make them for some distant time. If I resolve to become a Christian next year, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve to becomo a Christian to morrow, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve at the service this day to become a Christian, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolvo after I go home to-day to yield my heart to God, that amounts to nothing at all. Tbs only kind of resolution that amounts to anything is the resolution that Is Immediately put into execution. There la a man who had the typhoid fever, he oald: "Oh! If I could get over this ter rible disease; If this fever should de part; If 1 could be restored to health, I would all the rest of my life serve God.” The fever departed. He got well enough to walk around the block. He got well enough to go over to business. He li well lo-rinv—ah well as he ever waa. Where la the broken vow? Not far Out of (lie War. A young woman from out of town went to a tea among the literary set lust week, say* the Washington Post. Nile win Introduced to a whole room ful of people, and afterward* site went about trying to call everylnxly by his right name. She remembered an tuiat ing number of names, but when she came to one distinguished looking man she paused ill despair. "1 know every body else's name, she said, "hut when 1 try to reitteinl-er yours i aui completely at sea. " ‘■Thru y ou’re not far wrong," said the distinguished looking man, "my uame Is Atwater." FASHION NOTES. A superb costume was recently or dered for one of the coining White House receptions at Washington, The material Is the new «arp dyed ails shout which the fsshtonabt* world haa been quite enthusiastic It Is In Ivory white with roans shading from pink la dark maroon Tke drew Is lavishly draped witk Vale act* a nee lace and U made with V shaped neck tilled In with etukruidered tulle, the sleeves ore put* of silk an I lsee, and are kuiahed at th» etbe** with lace m n The tanm edge of the b*m ef Ike skirt has thick tucking mad* of white pink and wa t«M silk, ptuked out It the edges an I pUn, I tngetbsr the white ruMn bslu* mil h» ikn shut. Ah events* slunk la made of net. brvande. It kaa a deep yoke and kigl felting cellar ef embroidered velvet from Ik* lower edge of ike yekw fait (asset (rings* el Sne |et. These ate ai h-**t half a yard la depth The skmvea are very lerge v ftem ak-alder* it • I he we. with Vtie-I itli edged with en hie The lumsl (alt* te ike fee* and la Aulvked dew a Ike ImeI and arena I tke hem with fur tke ««lhi la (w-ilwk and may he warn •tending u» tuttted keck upon Ike |«ke. FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Sflma rp-tn-l>ata Hint* Ahont Coltlaa tlon of tha Soil and Ylaldi Thereof— Horticultural TUIsultaro uud Flort ealtare. (From Farmers’ Review Special Re port.) HE Round Up Farmers' Institute, of the Michigan series, opened at Grand Rapids, Feb. 11, with a full at tendance, largely composed of dele gates from the va rious county Insti tutes and other so cieties, and contin ued until Friday night, February 14. The exercises of the main section were divided between fruit, stock, and general farming, one day be ing devoted to each. In addition there was held a women’s section, upon each afternoon, and a mechanic’s sec tion was open each evening, at which topics relating to mechanical engineer ing were discussed. Uurlng the noon Intermissions the exhibit room was thronged. Here, In addition to a large assortment of spray ing machinery, orchard and garden tools and sends, was a complete work ing dairy, whero 1,000 pounds of milk was each dny separated and made Into butter. The dairy operations were un der the Immediate charge of G. H. True of the Agricultural college. The leading papers presented at the Institute were by gentlemen who had attended the county Institutes. About one-half of them were from the Agricul tural college, and the others Included some of tho most successful farmers nno mm grower* or mo aiaie. • discussion* were led by local speaker* largely. The first topic upon the program of the third day of the Michigan Round Up was on "Water In the Soil," by A. C. (Hidden, of Paw Paw. He has a the ory that the water In tho lower depth* of the soli becomes vaporized and In that form rises to the surface, where at night It Is condensed by the soil, which Is generally several degree* colder than that of the lower depths. Thl* Idea was disputed by R. M. Kel logg, of Ionia, who ascribed the up ward movement of the water In the soil to capillary action and the ad hesion of tho water to tho surface of tho particle*, in thl* way passing from a moist particle to one that 1* drier. Prof. F. 8. Kedzle then talked upon "Commercial Fertilizers: Is Their Use Profitable for the General Farmer?" After explaining tho nature of the three element*—nitrogen, potash and phos phoric acid—that are likely to bo need ed by plants, ho showed the amount* and value* of tbeso clement* in stable manure, and the average commercial fertilizer. The manure Is rich In nitro gen and contain* but comparatively lit tle phosphoric acid, while the reverse is true with commercial fertilizers. The value of one ton of stable manure, based upon Its analysis and the com mercial valuation of nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid, I* about one dollar and twenty-flvo cents, while tho value of the average commercial fertilizer, estimated in the *ame way, is about twenty-flvo dollars. While they might be profitable for the fruit grower and market gardener, the speaker was of the opinion that commercial fertilizers could not be profitably used upon the general farm. To substantiate this view he showed by a chart the amount of fertilizers used in various counties in the state in 1883 and 181)3 as given in the census. Except In Kalamazoo county, where they are largely used by celery growers, the amount of commer cial fertilizers used was from two to four limes as large in 1883 as in 1833, which indicates that they have not been found profitable for ordinary farm crops. Secretary I. it. uutterneiu, or tne Stute lioaril of Agriculture, spoke upon “The Present Stuuillng of Ensilage as a Food for the Various Kinds of Stock." He spoke In general upon the advan tages of the silo and the merits of the different forms. The value of ensilage tor different kinds of stock was then considered and the amount that could be fed to advantage. The pap«r was discussed by H. J. Martin, of Vermont vllle. The first paper of the afternoon was by I. U. Cowdrey, of Ithaca, upon "(.•rowing Potatoes." He preferred a light, sandy loam, although a well drained clay loam would answer. After plowing deep and thoroughly pulver ising he planted about the Brut of May. Caution was given about leaving the teed uncovered after It la dropped, for any length of lime Within a week he govs over the Held with a smoothing harrow, and after that uaea a wseder. The cultivation la kepi up at frequent intervals aa long aa puMthte wlttmut disturbing the tops, lie uses a one hurso digger and picks Into hoaea that hold one bushel The Freeman is his favorite variety fur bums use, as It Is of tvrilent quality, hut when some other •on will produco i"*> bushels psr acre II only y Is his UW bushel*. He advised planting at the lull of the »•*«, be cause you ran tee to work longer si • Ighi lu punt, but had no faith in ■cum iksvirica" tvuaate# Arete trees I owIHe It tko issue of February II, u* page Ilk. an Inquiry aa to budding •ppts trees. Take a swell braa. h d ■a apple tree and *ut Ike hark truss ways, a mile above Iks bud, then eel downward back of Iks bud about three quartets of aa inch and cut ll e# Htyape It pointed like a writing pen Cars •boetd bo tabes so the sdgee ate smoothly rut with a sharp knife Then I .at the hath of tko htonelt, where the bud is to be placed, crossways, and also lengthways. Just a trifle above the crosscut and enough under said cut, bo as to be able to shove said bud under the bark, which has to be looaened from the wood carefully so as not to Injure or tear It. Then push the bud under the bark, and cover with wax so no air can get at the bark. For the was. take three part* bees wax, two parts rosin and one part tal low. Put all In a kettle and boll till all Is melted. Then pour the wax into a pall of cold water, where It will cur dle. Then rub your hands with a little lard or oil, so as to keep ihe wax from sticking to your hands, and take it out of the water, and work it like dough or putty, so ns to take the water out. This wax will not crack In frost nor run In heat. The heat time for budding trees Is from March 16 to May 1, according to weather. If an early spring start about March 15. and keep on. If a late spring, the way the weather will allow.—W. E. Thiemann, In Farmers’ Review. Selling Horn*' too r»i«»p'y. A gentleman told us last week of a large draft horse (weight 1,700 pounds), w’jlch was sold for about $30. It was at an auction and the animal was disposed of under the Impression that he would have to lie sold for what he would bring. The onlmul was said to he all right and only six years of age. The report seems incredible, and we can but bolleve that we huve not heard all of the story. It does not seem possible that a horse of this kind would be parted with for uny such figure, unless there was some good cause for It. This Is Just the kind of horse of all others that Is In demand now and probably always will ho. He Is a kind with which the market Is not glutted. When buyers from the great teaming com panies are trnvcding through the coun try paying $180 each for heavy horses of pure blood a men should hesitate be fore ho lets go of a really good horse for almost nothing. Til* Coming Apple Crop. The apple crop of the past year has proved a valuable one for the apple growers, as well as for the merchants. Wo. are Informed that the men that bought apples Inst fall and slored them In cold storage at a cost of 30 cents per barrel have mnde from 50 cents to |1 per barrel. The question now arises, what Is to he the apple crop for the coming year? We wish as many of our readers as are engaged In raising ap ples would examine their trees and see If the fruit buds ore strong and well developed. This would show whether cr not the growth after last July was enough to ripen tho fruit and develop the buds for tho coming crop. We hope thoro will be a general response. Will the Plum Return?—We remem ber with a feeling of sorrow mingled with pleasure the plum orchards of our youth, before the black-knot had made Its appearance. Kvery little hamlet in the eastern and middle states had Its plum orchards. There were many va rieties and' all seemed to thrive. It was a delicious sight In the morning to see the great purplo ones glistening with dew. The little black ones on the big trees, and tho green gages on their smaller trees were a constant, delight. Will those days and those orchards return? With the better-understood habits of the black-knot and with the assistance of the spray pump, we hope that our children will see what wo have seen In our youth—tho plum trees In all orchards laden with the most delicious of fruit. Churn Often.—Churn once In two or three days In summer and once In three or four days In winter. I'ao any good churn that is easily washed In winter warm the cream before churning to sixty-five degrees by setting tho can of cream In n deep dish-pan of hot water (neft boiling), stirring the cream with the paddle; secure the right tem perature by holding a dairy thermom eter in the cream. Color the butter in winter if it needs It, by putting carrot Juice in the cream at time of churulng. : l otion tc« cl oil linn upuuo uimcr coiur Ing la more convenient, but customers are liable to d( tcct it flavor In butter so colored Unit does not belong to pure butter, which they will iiot do when carrots are used.---Ex. Tuberculosis In Illinois.—The ques tion whether or not there be tuber culosis In Illinois seems to hive arisen. One party claims that the disease Is widespread, and the other party seems lo desire to prove that theie Is prac tically no tuberculosis. Hoib sides pre tend to fouud their opinions on the re ports of the state veterinarian. The fact Is. (here Is a good deal of the dis ease In some localities, where herds have been slaughtered, n large per cent of them being fouud affected. On the other hsud. taking the stale aa a whole, theio la cumpa'atlvely t»itlt, when compared lo arena ol like stti tu Ihe TTtl Free heeds We hear a great deal ab« it free seeds from the department of agriculture, but we have yet to hud a farmer that haa any Interest in the matter. Moa' uf the horticultural «> tittles condemn the evpeedlture aa a 'taehne waal* of the people's mousy. The seeds being distributed do n it ad ( vance the Interests of agriculture tn i the teaal. se far aa anyone can eve. , The money could he tar heller spent. If It must be spent tn tending chilled berth ulturtela te foreign lands to tn i veettgat* hath their protle.iiene and 1 the methods there employed. the ('stealhm Tbit the ratnaimn In n popular faver lie van nut he guew ttuned Muletlea eaiat with ee ether object hut the development and lat i pruvement uf this beautiful lower Ihe American t'amaimn society o ! neatly held lia annual eon vent dm tg New Toth t*tty This ahoaa the line uf nwetern pregieee n nsiism) dtvid t mg up ef the great work nf Inveatigg | Iren Growing Boot*. (From the Farmer*’ Review.) Chae. C. Cornett, Jefferson County, Indiana.—Beets grow w?ll on any good garden soil, and the richer the better. The land should be plowed deeply, and If It be subsolled, so much the better. This puts the soil In good condition for the drill. Drill In the seed In rows ae early In the season as possible. Stable manure Is our general fertiliser here, and we cultivate as we do almost any other farm crop that Is drilled In. We are unable to give the name of the writer of the following: Beets should have a deep, rich, sandy loam, with clay subsoil. The land should he plowed In the fall and harrowed In the sprlng. For winter beets, we sow the first of June, about nine pounds of seed to the acre. We fertilize with barn yard manure. We plant In rows and occasionally cultivate between the rows. The rows are two and one-half feet apart, and the plants nre thinned to six Inches apart In the rows. Wn harvest In October, digging with n spade nnd then cutting off the tops. The greatest obstacle In raising the crop Is harvesting them. It being a good deal of work to dig them with the spade. W< utilize the crop here by feeding It to cattle. Beets should ho thinned when young nnd kept free from weeds. Soul: the seed for twenty-four hours In luke warm water before planting. C. R. Steward. Jasper County. In diana. Reels should bo planted on deep loam, with grnvcl subsoil, or on land that la well drained. The bind should bo well manured In the fall nnd deeply plowed at that time, but not harrowed down. The hurrowlng should be done In the spring. When the crop Is to h< usod for the full market the seed should bo put In about the 15th duy of Muy, but where the beets are to be used for feed ing purposes. June first la early enough. In planting, drill In the weeds about j three Inches apart, and thin as the plants grow. We use no fertilizer _it.. ._ — J i.. In cultivating, wo use n garden horse plow, and a small harrow at first. Ah to time of harvesting, (hat will depend somewhat on the stock to which the beets are to he fed. If the/ arc to go to the sheep wo do not harvest till late In the fall, and then we plow them out, Tho greatest trouble with growing beets Is to get them started and then keep them free from weeds. We raise our beets only for feeding to stock. 1 ho variety wo raise Is the large dark red, and we consider It good, p. J. Barry, Polk County, Wisconsin. —BeetH do well on a light, sandy loam, well manured. Plow in the spring early, dress with good stable manun and plow again We sow the seed the IIrat of May, We cultivate with a gti den plow, We are not troubled with drouth to far as this crop Is concerned. Wo pull the crop by the first of October, lay them In windrows for eight to ton. days, and then put them in the root house, in boxes covered with sand very dry. We have good crops here, hut they are not planted In large quantities. T. W. Stanford, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota.—Beets do well here on it clay loam, with clay subsoil, 1 have tried no other soil. I plow deep In the full and harrow In the spring. I plant the seed from tho first to the 10th of May, or as soon as tho soli will work well. 1 have bad no experience sowing more thun enough for family use. For fertilizer I uso well-rotted barn-yard manure. In cultivating I uso one horse on a cultivator that runs about one Inch deep, und cultivate all of my garden vegetables at the same time. There are no drouths here that injure tho beet crop, but there Is a small bug here that Injures them when It is very dry. As I only raise beets In a small way. In har vesting 1 pull them with my left hand and cut ofT the tops with a knife held In my right hand. Our greatest obsta cle here is the depredations of Insects while the beet plunts are quite small, in selling my beets, what 1 nuve to sell. I put them iu sacks and take them to a market, which, however, is limited. N. Itlchurdson, Morrison County, Minnesota.- Beets to do best should he on a ctuy subsoil^the top soil to be a mixture of sand and clay. The luud .,•(11 I.#, rmiwl h/iofn if if » , : nn firs t seeded to clover und timothy, uud used for u pasture tor two years at least. Then let sheep run on the pasture In place ot cattle. Turn over the sod and pulverize well before planting In the spring. Maui the seed In the sprtug us soon us danger from frost Is over. We do not use (nrtlllser on beets here, hut use old pasture. We put the seeds In rows elghteeu Incites apart and from lour to sis lueheu apart in the f rows. They are not effected by drouth If planted In proper soli, suelt as men tioned above, but uu suuuy land without a clay subsoil drouth affects them ban ly. Old land that ha* become exhausted and is very weedy Is totally unfit tu grow beets uu. We harvest shout October first, and use the crop to le«d to cattle. Ital»e Hi me Celery. livery termer that has the prop* i soil should raise a «uall patch of tclery fur the u*« of hts faintly. It would u»t be advisable fo. s great tusuy 1st m« rs to go Into twising It fur market because It isitutrea special condition* t« tusk* It s lutamen iwl suc cess If you are not anustumed to raise It, s’udy the matter up The fam ily wlU fully appreciate the detune) this till Variation In H u Hnvto The ttstv l‘- vis appto varies In sppesrsncu anil in snlxhilHy se ending to the hrslliy in wkteh It la grown. This fruit when produced tn Mtstou.dk sod Iowa p not so >ie*ireMe an the market ns when , trows tn soutnern Missouri. Illinois and Indian • It seem* to requite n lunge* o**ss sod more host to grow It to p* *li tine than sutue etk*r ssriw ties tilse tke g*ks sumo oil me vt «nhe imp *»» whole Hovered It wtli h* In then to pose m safety the season * b*t green h» 1 te stare*. Me I.-■!.•*» I be litre i f s good many hens at* tweed tn this wa»