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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1904)
8= Knitted Shavvls Again Popular. Not for many years have so many crocheted and knitted shawls been aeen at seashore and mountain re sorts as are worn by the summer firls of 1904. A popular pattern is a long scarf crocheted from saxony yarn In what is known as the rainbow pat tern. This shows all the pale colors of the rainbow—pink, blue, lavender, green and corn color, wita a large proportion of white stripes interven ing. When thrown over the shoulders it has all the effect of a fading, exquis itely delicate rainbow. Misses’ Eton and Skirt. Fancy Etons with skirts to match are eminently becoming to young girls and are to be greatly worn dur ing the coming season as they have been during this one. The very ex cellent model illus trated is adapted to a wide range of materials and can be made available for occasions of dress or for school wear as the trim mings are simple or elaborate. The model is made of golden brown veil ing, with bandings of fancy braid and yoke of ecru lace, and is exceedingly graceful as the material takes beeutirul lines and folds ana ior im mediate use nothing is better; but light weight cloth and the many oth er suitings in vogue are also appro priate. The costume consists of the Eton and skirt. The Eton is made with a deep pointed yoke to which the box plaited portion, forming jacket and sleeves, is attached. The skirt is cut with a front gore and circular side portions, the former being laid in full length plaits and the latter length ened by a box plaited flounce. The quantity of material required for the medium size is 8 yards 21 inches wide, 6 yards 2? inches wide or 3% yards 52 inches wide. Blue Serge Always in Favor. Blue serge costumes never seem to go out of fashion, and just now they pre very much in evidence. For gen iral seaside wear, and for yachting fowns, there is nothing to equal navy bine serge; but everything lies in its make and trimming. Combinations of blue and some other color are still idopted by the fashionable world, but blue and green have had their day, in spite of the fact that blue serge dresses, piped with bright emerald green velvet, have not yet finally dipped below the modish horizon. Navy blue, daintily piped with scarlet, is always in good taste, and navy blue serge trimmed with white cloth is the perfection of quiet elegance. It makes a chaiming gown as a standby ior the late summer and early autumn sea son; it is very useful for either sea side or yachting, and last, but not least. It makes an ideal going-away gown for an August or September bride. poudoir ^p ^Confidences Children’s sweaters fasten up the back. Dust coats have become quite an elegance. Flowered ribbons rival plain ones In popular favor. The fashionable hair net ties on with ribbon bows. Dainty lace is often a part of the pretty handkerchief. Very light weight broadcloths are promised for the fall. Some sash ends stream out to the very hem of the skirt. Inch-wide ribbons are used in place of the usual shoe lace. Big straw buttons form the only trimming on some frocks. Stiff linen collars and small era Tats are worn with morning gowns. Linen Costumes Seen Everywhere. No mistake can be made in buying finen costumes now if one’s summer wardrobe is running low. Colored linens in coats—Eton or long coats— in short skirts for walking or shop ping; trailing white linen gowns with Insertions of real lace for elaborate afternoon functions, and fine linen ma terials made up in dressy bodices and skirts and trimmed with fine lace are distinctly smart. Linens for alf sorts of frocks for all sorts of wear, or lightly embroid ered instead of being lace trimmed, are seen everywhere and anywhere. It will also be much worn next sum mer. so that the economical woman as well as she who has no necessity or ao desire to consult her pocketbook may cheerfully invest in the linen frock. Covering the Ironing Table. The housekeeper whose kitchen la large and who often needs extra ta ble space, will find it a good plan to bay a piece of white table oilcloth large enough to cover the ironing ta ble, and throw it over it when, through ironing. The oilcloth makes a good, clean place on which to set dishes, or for mixing and rolling bls enits or cookies, yet at a moment's notice is ready for ironing while the asaal cover has been kept perfectly dean. Meek for Black and White Costume. For the girl who likes the black sad white combination there are little stocks of black velvet ribbon two laches wide. A plain band of the vel vet runs around the .throat, and two graduated tabs falls down the front. and are finished with small ornaments in white silk cord or cut steel. Un der the tabs at the throat is set a smart cravat of white maline, which stands out on either side like wings. Boy's Bathing Suit. The one-piece bathing suit is by far the most desirable for boys’ use inas much as it allows of perfect freedom and all the activity j natural to youth, j This one is adapt ed to all the mate rials in vogue shown in light weight flannel with belt of the same. The suit is made with front and back portions and is shaped to fit the figure without un necessary bulk. The closing is made at the front and belt, which is slipped under straps at the under-arm seams, confines the fulness at the waist. | The quantity of material required for the medium size (10 years) is 2*4 yards 27 inches wide or 1*4 yards 44 inches wide. Walnut Furniture. The revival of black walnut furni ture, but in a modernized, improved form, is one of the features of the house furnishing world at present. Twenty years ago. when black walnut furniture was most used, the designs were not good. It was overornament ed and finished with a highly-polished, unattractive finish. The new pieces are along severely simple lines, in dull finish, with knobs and handles of solid dull brass. This brings out all the beauty of the wood and produces a very artistic effect. Many Reefer Patterns. In the reefer history is repeating it self with great emphasis. There is, apparently, to be no question as to the acceptance of this vogue. The edict has gone forth from fashionable quarters that it shall be in all its old time length, close-fitting back, and double-breasted fronts. Nor is there any question as to the certain popularity of the longer basqued Newmarket cut. This last, among the elite, will assuredly be ac counted of good "ton.” Potted meat, will keep longer if cov ered with mutton fat than if butter which has been melted is used. When stoning raisins rub a little butter upon the fingers and the knife; this will prevent the feeling of stick iness. A little orange or lemon juice put on the blacking brush after it has been dipped in the blacking or pol ishing cream will give a brilliant shine to the boots or shoes. To extinguish a chimney on fire take a large handtul of sulphur and throw it into the fire. When the sul phurous fumes ascend they will at once put out the fire. Cupboards infested with mice may be freed of them by the use of gum camphor. Put lumps of it on the shelves and the mice, which dislike the smell, will decamp. Keep a separate saucepan for cook ing all green vegetables, etc., in; do not allow it to be used for stews, etc. For no food material absorbs flavor more quickly than green vegetables. Pretty Color for Smart Dresse*. Poppy red linen fashions some very smart diesses for seaside and country wear, and though, perhaps, the color may be a trifle aggressive in the “dog days,” poppy red linen has much to Few combinations of color are more charming worn by young girls than the old blue and white shown in this very attractive waist. The founda tion is blue Swiss muslin with white dots, the yoke and cults are of all over lace finished with white puffings and the closing is made Invisibly at the back. The outline of the yoke It a peculiarly good one but can be ren dered simpler by omitting the scal lops when preferred. To make the waist for a girl of 14 years wiU be required 3% yards of material 21, 2% yards 27 or 1% yards 44 inches wide, with % yards of all-over lace. recommend it both on the score of be* comingness and economy. To be real chic it should be unrelieved by any appliques or insertions of white or cream lace, and rely solely upon much machine stitching for ornamentation. A poppy red hat should be worn. One of the most successful, though some what daring, gowns seen in this cheer ful tint was accompanied by a very smart toque composed entirely of pop pies, with trimming of tiny poppy buds, arranged to fall fringe fashion over the edge. Trimming for Silk Gowns. Quite a smart scheme it is in the new silken gowns to replace the usual hem with a broad bias velveteen fac ing. A clever idea is to use the vel veteen of the shade of the trimming, and let just the edge appear below the skirt to the width of a narrow pip ing. This not only makes quite a smart trimming, but adds wonderfully to the wearing qualities of the skirt. Newest Suit Costume. The “tourist” is the name given the newest suit costume, and in linens ot all shades and weaves it is immensely liked by those who can stand a three quarter length coat. In cut and ap pearance it is strongly reminiscent of the overcoats that the smart and ex clusive custom tailors turned out last season for masculine wear. In the new garment there is just the same lapel collar, extremely full underarm slope, and the shallow belt to adjust the fullness in the back. Even to the matter of pockets the novel tourist coat is quite the replica of what the smart girl’s brother was wearing last year. And the requisite touch of color contrast is usually supplied in a vel vet collar. Sometimes there are also velvet cuffs. Shirred Blouse. Full waists much shirred are among the most fashionable of the season and promise to continue their vogue for an indefinite time. This one is exceedingly graceful and takes excep tionally eood lines. inasmuch as the fullness is adjusted to give a box-plait ed effect below the bands of trimming. The model is made of pale blue chiffon cloth, with trim ming of string-col ored lace and is I charming in every way, but it is equal ly well adapted to all the materials soft enough to allow of shirring. The yoke and sleeves, with their continuous lines, give the broad effect that is so necessary to style, and the sleeves are mad'' in the three quarter length, which is ^uch an acknowledged favorite. The waist consists of the fitted lin ing, front and backs. The shirrings are made on indicated lines, so ad justed as to leave comparatively plain spaces where the trimming is applied. The sleeves are made in one piece, each with shaped frills joined to their lower edges. At the neck is a regula tion stock and the closing is made in visibly at the back. The quantity of material required for the medium size is 6% yards il inches wide, 5% yards 27 inches wide or yards 44 inches wide, vith 7% yards of insertion to trim a3 illus trated. Directoire Suggestions in Dress. Stocks, yokes and berthas of very fine lawn will be much worn in the fall. They are counted among the di rectoire suggestions. A favorite pat tern shows a scalloped edge neaded by bow knot3. with long, graceful streamers, all done in satin stitch with mercerized floss. Every girl should have one of these dainty accessories t in her wardrobe, as they will be worn with both cloth and silk blouses. Uses of Crash. Crash, such as is sold for dish tow els (the less expensive and more roughly woven the better) in its nat ural tint, fagotted together or joined by strips of eheap torchon insertion, makes very effective bedspreads or curtains. Crocheted lace Is also pretty and durable to use with it. This crash will take home dyeing beautifully, and thus can be made to match the color scheme of a room at little ex pense. THE REASON MADE PLAIN. j Awkward Man’s Dancing Accounted for by Accident. Capt. Spencer-Clay, who is to marry Miss Pauline Astor, is well known in the American colony of London. “Clay,” said a young American, “is an amusing chap. Going about from i place to place, he picks up a myriad j of odd and taking episodes. These he stores away, and during lulls in con versations he relates them with viva ■ city. “He described the other day a dance | at his place in surrey. He said two ; girls were there who were jealous of one another. The first girl danced with a tall and awkward fellow, and afterward she sat down beside her rival. Clay, who stood near by, then heard her say: “ ‘I have been dancing with Mr. Smite.’ 4 ‘Yes?’ said the other girl. “ ‘Mr. Smite,’ she went on, with a complacent laugh, ‘pays beautiful com pliments. He said that, till he met me, his life had been a desert.’ “ ‘Ah,’ said the second girl, ‘that it why he dances like a camel, eh?’ ” American Fighters Incomparable. “I have had the honor of meeting a great number of American officers both during the Chinese war and ir various parts of the Philippine archi pelago, and I was in most cases struck by the morally magnificent type of men who lead the American army fair. open-minded, business-like, hard working officers, combining patienct in tedious plodding through excessive office work with pluck and dash and above all, tact and accurate judgmeni j when in the field,” writes A. H | Savage Landor in the North Americar J Review- “It is not to be regretted that the American officer lacks the overwhelming love for wearing ap parel which characterizes military men of many European armies, and his simplicity of clothing is, Indeed well matched by his easy manly, sen sible manner. For all that roughness of speech which is almost startling a heart of gold is to be found in most j American soldiers. I have seen men in the field, on more than one occa sion, whom, from outward appear ances, one would put down as perfect brutes, gentle and considerate—al • most as gentle as women—toward ♦rounded comrades or fallen enemies.” j Soldiers’ Time of Suffering. Capt. Curtis, who has written a pop , alar story of Indian fighting, says in response to a boy's Inquiry that he never was captured, but on one occa sion, when besieged by redskins in a fort, he realized what he had read about wives having asked their hus bands not to let them fall into the hands of savages. “In that siege,” he says, “when it was exceedingly doubt ful that we should survive and all depended upon the swift arrival of a rescuing party, Mrs. Curtis asked me to make such a promise—to save one bullet for her should we be captured Relief did not come for forty-eight hours and during that awful time 1 suffered indescribable distress in try ing to contrive some way of conceal ing wife and child from a relentless and merciless foe." Miss Roosevelt at Bar Harbor. It will tend to the social making o) Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch wher Miss Alice Roosevelt visits them it Ear Harbor. It is expected the col j any there will outdo itself in enter ! ;aining her. The Damrosches always nave moved in the best element o) Bar Harbor society and Mrs. Dam rosch, as a daughter of James G Blaine, had a good social position be fore her marriage. But it is one thing to entertain quietly and another tc have a president's daughter as a guest Miss Roosevelt’s itinerary is arranged carefully and no matter how pressing may be her hosts, she must order hei maid to pack up her boxes and move along at a fixed time. Condensing Is Hard Work. Champ Clark said that before he began to write his notification speech he counted the words in Speakei Cannon’s speech notifying President Roosevelt. Cannon's speech contained 1,686 words. “I concluded that would not be as long-winded as Uncle Joe,” said Clark, “so I wrote l,48f words, and. honestly, it was the hard est work I ever did in my life. A correspondent of the London Time? once sent to that paper a letter five columns long and a note to the editor saying: ‘I send you a long letter to day because I did not have time tc write a short one.’ I now understand the note of the Times’ correspond ent.” German Scholar Honored. Kuno Fischer, the renowned phil osopher and teacher of Heidelberg among the most distinguished of liv ing professors and the last represen tative of a great school of German scholars, reached his eightieth birth day recently. In spite of the old man’s protests thousands of students who have sat at his feet gave vent to their reverential and affectionate feel ings by messages and otherwise Even the grave old senate of Heidel berg rose to the occasion and estab lished an honorary Kuno Fischer prize. The great old man is rapidly declining. A Foe to Comfort. When the tall woman with the bun dles sat down she sighed contentedly “This is nice,” she said. “Yes, it’s hard work standing,” said her short friend. “You got pretty tired, didn’t you?” ' “No, I didn’t get so tired.” said the tall woman. “That Is not the reason i’m glad. I am rejoicing on account ;>f all those men sitting down. They look so much more comfortable since [ got ofT their toes and their con science.” But the tall woman was mistaken. From then on to the end of the trip there wasn’t a comfortable man in the car.—New York Press. Desire. If I might touch her hair The Joy would be so great: A touch upon her lips would be A royal gift from fate. And I might have the gift— It makes my pulses start— If only with my love' I first might roucli her heart. —Grace Joy white. In Harper’s Bazar. f Forgetting the Salt. It is a very easy matter to forget to salt the cows, as every person that has had the care of dairy cows knows. Many a farmer realizes the need of the animals for salt and intends to give them salt at regular intervals. Frequently he does not awake to the fact that the cows are not getting enough salt till he notices a flat fresh taste in the milk, and he at once con nects this with the absence of salt. This flatness is supposed to be the only detriment to the non-salting of the cows. But tests made at different times show that the volume of the milk is decreased by this withholding of the mineral that every animal craves. At the Mississippi Experi ment station the experiment was tried of keeping cows without salt for a number *of weeks. Three cows were deprived of salt for four weeks. The first two weeks the milk was not weighed, as it was likely that the cows would not ft first notice the loss of the salt by decreasing their milk. During the two last weeks of the period, however, the milk was weighed and was found *o be 454 pounds for the period. The salt wras given to them again and the milk weighed for the ensuing two weeks, when it was found to amount to 564 pounds. This was a gain of 110 pounds of milk due to the salting. Doubtless the best way to give the salt is to place large lumps of rock salt where the animals can lick them at leisure. There will then be no dan der of the animals eating too much at any one time or of poultry getting at it and eating eaough to kill them. The love of all animals for salt is shown by the habit they have of fre quenting places where salt is to be found. In the early history of the country, when hunting was a busi ness as much as any other, the hunt ers used to lie in wait in the places where salt streams flowed from the mountains and left crystal deposits on the rocks, for the hunters knew that such places were frequented by animals from far and near for the purpose of licking the salty rocks. The processes of digestion require salts to assist them. They can be carried on without salt, but always at a disadvantage. Model Dairies. There are as yet few model dairies in the country, but wre believe that more of them win come into existence as the boards of health in the cities press the investigations that they are making into the conditions of the farms in the country that supply milk. The Chicago inspectors have been going out, as we have reported in past issues of this paper, and they have found a good many dirty dairies and a few clean ones. Reports say that in other large cities the Boards of Health are taking the same steps. Here and there they have found dairies that were models in every par ticular. The barns were high and dry-. The light was abundant in the stables. Cement was used wherever possible and water was supplied to every nook. The stables were washed out after each milking and the cows were kept in the cleanest possible condition. Seme of the own ers of these dairies even insist that the cows be curried before each milk ing, but most people will regard that as perhaps unnecessary. Absolute cleanliness does not require that un less the cows are shedding their hair. The appointments of a model dairy require that the ventilation cf the barns shall be of the best, and that the windows be large enough and so placed that light can reach to every part of the building. The feed troughs should be washed out daily. The lack in this regard is one of the causes of bad odors in the milk. On some farms they are never washed out, and at every milking the scent from them crosses the stream of milk that is falling into the pail. It later reappears as a disagreeable taint in the milk or butter. The Feed of the Cow. There are few of our farmers that follow the practice of feeding slops to the cows, as is the case in the towns and cities where cows have little pas turage. Nevertheless many of oar cows have access to weeds and oti ar herbage that taints the milk in c ae way or another. Some say the fla' or goes through the cow and others s iy that it is blown to the milk on milk ing. But in whatever way it comes it is found in the milk at milking time and later in the butter. The cows that have to depend on dry pastures at this time of year are the ones that are most apt to eat foul-smelling weeds. If they have fresh cornstalks or other cut feed they will not trou ble the weeds. But most of our farm cows are given no attention of this kind and simply have to make their living from the pastures the best they may. Wild onions have an oil that certainly passes through the cow into the milk and the same is said to be the case with wild garlic. If this is so regarding these two weeds that cows eat, may it not be so with some of the other weeds they eat, of which we know less than of these two. The weedy taste in milk is very obnoxious to some of the consumers of milk. If the farmer has not sheep enough to keep the weeds out of the pasture it will pay to attack them with a scythe. The Cheese Situation. According to reports from various parts Of the country, the condition of the pastures thus far this summer has been such as to favor the mak ing of cheese. The best quality was however made in the early part of the season, the quality of the milk deteriorating as the weather became warmer and the pastures shorter. The cheese that was stored was large ly of the early-made kind. Most of that being made in the middle of the summer is shipped directly to market, as there is no demand for it for stor age. The market is said to be slug gish and almost no cheese is being purchased to send abroad. Many plants “run out” because the seed has been carelessly selected from year to year. I poultry! Temperature cf Sitting Hens. A close observer of poultry says that hens differ greatly as to the tem perature of their bodies at brooding time. Some hens have a high tem perature. and such are good produc ers of chicks; as the heat is very necessary for the work of developing the chicks. A hen with a high tem perature will leave her nest for a con siderable time each day, and still the results of her brooding be of the best. There are other hens that have a low temperature and are very poor pro ducers of chicks, whether they stick to the nest all the time or not. We have not made a study of this mat ter and do not know how much truth there is in the opinions of the so called close observer. Testing a num ber of hens by means of a reliable thermometer should shed some light on the problem. Turkey House. In the accompanying cuts are shown two views of a turkey house, illustrat ed by the United States Department TURKEY HOUSE (FROXT VIEW), of Agriculture. In the front, near the top, is seen a ventilator, which should always be open except in exception ally cold weather. The roosts are placed near the front of the house and are on the level. The back view shows the slide door, which should be left TURKEY HOUSE (BACK VIEW), open during the day. that the turkeys may go and come at pleasure.—Uarm ors’ Review. Gtfese. T!e last census reported 5,600.000 geese in the country, and about forty times as many chickens. This shows the relative importance of the goose raising industry to that of the chicken raising industry. It is, doubtless, true that it would pay our farmers to raise more geese than they do. Goose raising has not largely passed into the hands of specialists, as has the indus try of raising ducks. The goose re quires a great deal of room to do well, and for that reason the farmer has the advantage over the specialist. Most of the geese in the country are raised on farms, but generally in small flocks. They use a large amount of pasture and this is one thing in their favor, as fields of clover and alfalfa can be turned into goose meat at little cost. The goose feeds very largely on grass, but needs water to swim in to do the best. The fact that the goose does not lay a large number of eggs, and that it requires a good deai of room, have conspired to render the goose popular with American farriers. In spite of this, however, the statistics show that tnere are more geese in the country than ducks. The goose could be used much more advantageously on some farms than any other domestic bird. There are on a good many farms marshy fields that are too wet for cattle or other farm stock that would make acceptable pasturage for geese. Some of these fields could not be drained without great expense and some of them lie sc low that it is doubtful if drainage would ever be effective. This is just the place for a goose run, the frequent pools of water giving them the places neces sary for swimming and hunting. Geese raisers declare that geese do not thrive so well in large flocks as do ducks. The "why is not explained. There may be no "why” except lack of care and crowding in too close quar ters. It is probable that it is due to decreased opportunity to find food, es pecially where the birds have to hunt much of it themselves. The larger the flock the greater in proportion will be the amount of food the farmer must give, for the number of bugs found will be less per goose. Geese do not require much attention, and that should make them popular with the American farmer, who has more area than available labor. After the gos lings are a week old they show a de cided determination to take care of themselves, if a good range is given. Perhaps this characteristic has been taken too much advantage of by some of our farmers, and accounts for the lack of success with geese in some instances. The geese of the country comprise a good many mongrels, the parents of which were imported so long ago that their breed names have been lost. The most profitable breeds are those that have been Introduced in compar atively recent years, such ;.-j the Tou louse, Embden, Chinese, African and Egyptian. Canada or Wild Geeso are being raised to some extent. The ' farmer that goes into goose raising will find it will pay him better to 1 grow the distinct breeds than to raise 1 geese of no known breeding. - i The man that raises poultry largely < for market will, generally, settle down i to one variety; but the man that wants to learn all he can about fowls will keep numerous breeds. < Chickens are like money; they can alwuys be disposed of at a fair ex- i change. The prices for fowls are quite constant. Eacteria in Soil. A bacterium is such a small thing that the human eye cannot detect it. It takes the microscope to bring out this minute form of life. It takes some thousands of bacteria to do the "oik that 13 done in a single tubercle i on the root of a leguminous plant. ^ Nevertheless, small as they are, bac teria are of immense importance to the farmer and often the success or failure of a crop will depend on the kind of bacteria there is in a -soil The kind of soil and its physical structure also have a great deal to do with the abundance of bacteria. It has been found that a soil that is rich in humus, that is, has much vegetable matter in it, is better suit ed for the development of bacteria than soil that has in it very Utile humus. It has previously been be lieved that the only advantages in having the humus was that it wa- a source of nitrogen and that it also held moisture and kept the grout I from drying out. The third good quality must now be added, that of making bacterial life more abundant. Whether this connection between the humus in the soil and the bacteria is important because the humus fur nishes food for the bacteria or whether it is important because the humus keeps the ground light and moist and lets the air work through it easily, wo do not yet know. Both are reasonable suppositions We are sure to understand more about them in the not distant future. It is now certain that we can introduce new kinds of bacteria into soils and that we can by doing this greatly increase the productive capacity of the farina for certain crops. Deep or Shallow Soils. Ordinarily it is desirable to have a deep soil, that the roots of plants may strike deep. The latter is a desldera turn for the reason that a deep root ing plant is less afTected by the droughts than any others. We see this in the case of some trees, which have tap roots and are seldom affe.' ed by the dry weather. The shallow soils are first to respond to drouth and sometimes they are the slowest to dry out, when the weather Is wet. The deeper the soil and the more it is loosened up the greater the zone of earth that will be subject to the op erations of the bacteria that add n. trogen to the soil. One way of dee: aning a soil is to plow it as deep as possible with a common plow and then put on a crop of deep rooting legumes. There are some legumes that do not send their roots very deep. I such as cow peas, and there are others that send their rotos to the greatest possible depth into the soil, such as the clovers and alfalfa. On multitudes of farms a soil will re* main shallow whatever the crop un less the land is drained. When this is done the drains should be as deep as three feet. Then the frosts will work in deeper than they otherwise will and the air will be present on the displacement of the water. Subsoil plowing is sometimes effective and sometimes not, but it should not be undertaken unless there is to be a considerable benefit received from the operation, as it is an expensive one. Too Much Water. The turning yellow of wheat is fre quently caused by too much water in the soil. This same effect is some times seen in house plants when the owner has been too attentive to them and has watered them too often. In the field of wheat or other crop this condition may exist when the surface soil appears fairly dry. The presence of too much water retards the ripen ing of the crop and frequently de creases Its yield. It may be that this is one of the chief causes why corn on low land Is caught by the froat when corn on land only a dozen feet higher is not injured. It has been assumed that it was a difference In temperature, the cold air running intc the hollows, but it does not seem like ly that so few feet would make all the difference. But the low land fre quently has in it more water than is good for the crop and this retarding the maturing enables the frost to find the corn on the low land more imma ture than that on land a little higher. The result is that the corn is injured more because it is immature than be cause the temperature there is so much lower than on the land a little higher. This is a theory, and we dc not know that it can be proved by facts. Irish Creameries Increasing. The number of creameries in Ire land is rapidly increasing. The in crease is among both the proprietary i and the co-operative. Of the former there are now 300 and of the latter 200. Last year these 500 creameries received over eighty million gallons of milk and produced over fourteen thousand tons of butter. Most of this found a ready market in various parts of Great Britain. The quality of the butter from these creameries shows a tendency to improve iu quality, which it must do, as it is brought into sharp competition with the butter from Denmark and from Canada, both of which makes are high in quality. These creameries make the produc tion of Irish bacon easy, and this has i high reputation in the English mar ket. Industry is not the only thing re tired on the farm. If it were a ?reat many men that fail would suc ceed. Keeping eternally at a thing ioes not always bring success, in spite >f the trite saying that it does. In elligent management is also required, md this kind of management often re^ inires a good deal of information ir leveral directions. Many a farmer has weakened the institutions of his animals by feed ng too heavily of corn. This feed nakes fat, but when fed in too great Lbundance deprives the animal of rigor and lessens the b reeding «jaali :ies.
