For "Workinjr Butter. The correct method of working but ter is by pressure precisely the same is pie crust is rolled -with a rolling pin. Fold il over and roll again , and repeat until done. The reason this is nor practicable in hand working of butter is that more pressure is required with Tutter than can be done by the unaided band. F.ut one of the very be-st styles of butter-workers , known as the roller "butter maker , is exactly on this prin ciple , the roller being , on a sliding frame which is pushed back and forth over the butter , the handles being ar- r.ingo'l to give a leverage , as shown in the tirst picture. This style , says the j I IO.LKR : inVOKKEI : 'Onuge Judd Farmer , is not easy for tlie average farmer to make , and for a small dairy a simpler style gives satis faction. It consists in making a long aad large rolling pin. putting an iron pin in one end , inserting this in a hole lit cue end of the frame considerably lanrrr than the pin , taking hold of the handle at the other end and using it us both lever and rolling pin. as in the sex-olid picture. The roller can be round or six or eight-sided , and it is preferred to have it diminish in size toward the end Avhich is furthest from .Hie handle. Th" butter worker of this kind is 'sna.ik- triangular in shape , say about e > - - * 1 I.-VKI : : IUTTM : WOIKI-.I : . i t0 io 24 inches wide and oj ( inches long , j c as shown by the cut. It can be placed i I ou the kitchen table when in use. the point beiujr over one side , and the other end raised n little so tlie drip will run off ai the point. But it is much better to make strong legs for it and brace them , as shown in the cut. Unique Picket Fence. The cut shows a way of making a picket fence that is at once strong and -cheap. I\o heavy rails are needed. Two narrow strips of board at top and bottom hold the pickets securely nailed between them. The strips are "let in" to tLe posts. For a sheep fence this mode of construction has great advan tages. The pickets can be a foot wide ordinary boards sawed into picket lengths , and the strips three inches -v.-5t ! ; > . Such a fence can rapidly be put rurnjn t k e L ) U LJ c < GOOD PICKET Fl'Ch. . I ai : : ud will prove very inexpensive aiiu strictly sheep and dog proof. [ ot American Agriculturist. Where I'c Got His T ool. If you want to ask a sheep where he -ot his wool and why , take a dog into ors 41 mountain pasture land , and if the shfep are afraid of the dog they will CO Invariably run up hill rather than -down. You have your answer. The th suiccstors of the domestic sheep , like "wild sheep of the present day , lived .among . hlgli mountains and needed their woolly covering to protect them inst the constant cold of the high atmospheres. They chose the high and | lo ( o ivgion to live in because lb ' .v I'ouud the fierce. Uosh-cnting ani- irals oi the plains too stroni ? Tor them. A j rt ot" these facts is that rhe wool st jT. < : . " . - - > n a slicop the year roncd. Ch- sh Cultivation ior Penr Orchnr/1. The system commonly practical [ "or ssonje years ago was that which waste to the apple , but on account of jtlie destruction caused by the pear S ibliglir. and owing to the fact that the -pear blight nourished most in varieties ble \vliicli made a vigorous , rank growth in ; nnd produced a large quantity of Jsappy wood , it has been found to be : uot well suited. Pears with a lirm , de- 'terminate growth arc less affected fr < < thnn those of luxuriant growth. A isi sjtucly of these facts has brought about in ; ji revolution in methods of cultivation. fr < most successful and profitable ud pear orchards a * the present time arc those which are cultivated by sowing clover under the trees. The clover is not removed from the ground at any time of the year. It is cut and allowed to lie and decay upon the ground , and in this way to act as a fertilizer. When an orchard is being cultivated the practice is to sow the clover in July. By early autumn it has grown ten or twelve inches , and affords a covering for the ground during the winter. It is cut at blossoming time the following year. It returns to the soil a sufficient amount of nitrogen , which is so material to the healthy growth of the tree. Potash must also be applied in some form of commer cial fertilizer , or in wood ashes. The orchard is kept in a clover sod so long as the trees are growing satisfactorily. The value of many feeding stuffs is based ou their digestibility , but even when food is digested it is not all as similated , the larger portion being voided. Of the protein in clover hay nearly one-half fails to digest , and of the digested portion the manure heap receives a large share. If a ton of clover hay is worth $10 , enough of it goes into the manure heap to equal $9 worth of fertilizers. A ton of cotton seed meal , which may cost the farmer $20 , will return to him , in the manure , about $18 , and that , too , after the farmer has used these foods for pro ducing meat , milk and butter , though the estimates depend , of course , upon the market prices for plant foods. Tbe reason is that much of the food is com posed of fat and starch , which create heat and fat for the animals , but fat and starch come from the air and not from the soil , hence the real plant foods of the materials purchased for use on the farm are those portions which are added to the manure. In fact , at $20 per ton for cotton-seed meal , it can ( and is ) profitably used on the land as fertilizer , but in so doing tlie farmer loses some portions which can be utilized by stock and which are of no value as manure. By feeding all , foods to stock they are simply passed ' through the body of the animal and rendered more acceptable to plants , the animals being a machine for reducing - ing foods to a condition tit for vegeta tion. It may be several seasons before the whole of the materials are exhaust | ed from the soil , while every year the land increases in fertility and produces more than before. I Ho\v Often to Feed Cows. The cow is a ruminant animal , and this means that she takes time to digest her food in the most thorough manner. If fed liberally night and morning and y in sufficient variety she will eat more heartily than if three full meals are offered to her per day. As noon a few corn stalks or clover hay may be given. In feeding grain to cows it should be ground and mixed with enough cut feed to make it bulky. If cows eat sr whole grain or meal not mixed with thin cnt food it to their goes second stomach in ach and does not come up to be chew le ed in the cud. American Cultivator. lem R ots for Cattle. It I hardly know what I would do with e.i out the supply of mangels and sugar be beets that I have stored in my cellar , ac says a writer in the Practical Farmer. i It seems to have become a necessity to sr give our stock at least one daily mess he of succulent stuff. Even hogs , pigs th and poultry get an occasional ration ; ri and the Belgian hares are fed almost Tl exclusively on roots. Dl thai Poultry Notes. See that the ducks are in the house night. Hard-boiled eggs are a treat to young ai turkeys. if In stormy weather hens should be th kept in doors. PC o j Overfeeding and lack of freedom will pt cause indigestion. Eternal vigilance is the price of suc to cess with poultry. fle Exposure to bad weather will hurt CO any stock , young or old. CO Clean off the dropping boards every ze other daj * during winter. ca Ducks are heavy feeders and must have all they want to eat. Jv { Buy eggs iii season , only from breed- not , that you know are reliable. nic liens should have some corn , but nu corn alone will not do for laying hens. sh Xo fowl should be allowed to get po thoroughly wet except a duck or goo c. an anwe Gather a supply of leaves and store we them in dry places for your winter tO sera tching-pen. cd cdwe A little salt and pepper just enough we season is the right amount to add by morning mash. Dairy Tips. Cold | weather is obviated by a warm nu stable. ; ton ( i Jews v.'iih loLg horns usually have 1)0' ' short milk records. . in There is IGSS labor involved in caring cows properly than improperly. ' : ng' A lazy bull is usually an ugly one , tin : Creak him to work and he will become im gentle. 1111 Frozen compost heaps under the sta OK ( windows are a menace to dairying his the spring. fer The term "good milk" signifies a the : sreat deal. It means that it cornea air from healthy cows and healthy , nour ea : ishing feed , and that it is not contam md inated by the hands of the milker , or to : Croni other sources after it leaves the cal. adder. md AGEICULTURAL NEWS THINGS PERTAINING TO THE FARM AND HOME. Valuable Food for Cattle Successfully Manufactured from Corn Stalks- New Liijrht on Spraying of Fruit Trees Shipping : Potatoes in "Winter. . The new corn product , upon which investigations have been conducted at the Maryland agricultural experiment station to determine its value as a stock food , has been given much considera tion by the farming community in . many States. They have taken up the subject and are conducting experiments to ascertain its relative feeding value. In the process of the extraction of the pith , the blades and husk are first re moved and the stalks are cut up in small pieces. After the extraction of the pith from the stalk the balance is ground up into meal , which in general appearance resembles coarse bran. This ground material is termed the "new corn product. " The new corn product contains , eleven pounds per 100 more digestible matter and two pounds per 100 more digestible protein than the whole fodder shredded. Much has been done in the way of testing methods for preparing corn fodder for feeding , with most of the results in favor of some method of shredding the stalk. Shred ding possesses many points which makes it superior to the ordinary or old way of cutting fodder , the princi pal one of which is that the shredded fodder is almost wholly eaten by ani mals. The new corn product contains with in one pound as much total digestible matter as wheat bran , but less than one-third as much digestible protein , I consequently the nutritive ratio is wider. Animals fed with a fattening ration with the new corn product base made more gain in live weight and upon less feed than with a fattening ration of the same grain and corn blades. The keeping qualities of the ' new corn product are as good as lin-1 seed meal , cottonseed meal or Avheat bran and rations made up with this material can be fed with less labor and less waste of feed than when hay and fodder are fed separately , as ordinarily practiced. Baltimore Sun. New I/igrht on Pprayins : . At a recent farmers' convention Prof. Burrill , of the University of Illinois , gave to his hearers a piece of informa tion that he said had not yet got into the books. It was relative to the first spraying of fruit and trees for fungous diseases. It has been believed that in the case of most of these pests the spores lived over on the twigs of the trees. It was advised to spray before the blossoms were open , for the purpose - pose < of killing these colonies of spores. Fruit-raisers have been religiously carrying out instructions in this regard , and the experiment stations have been sending out spraying calendars year by , year < in which the fruit-raiser is ad- j vised to spray before the opening of . the blossoms. But now it has baen j , found that the theory of the spores . living over on tne twigs is erroneous. ' The spores live over on the leaves that ' fall to the ground and lie there till spring. With the first breath of spring these spores ripen sufficiently to float , the air , and as soon as the young leaf begins to expand they find a lodgment - , ment there and begin their life work. is , therefore , useless to spray at the * . earliest time indicated in most of our , .f books on spraying. This discovery will add much to the comfort of tha orchard- t , for it will decrease his times of spraying. It also adds greatly to his hopes , for if the spores live over on the dead leaves the proper way to get rid ( of them is to destroy the leaves. This may be done by clean cultivation , plowing under the leaves that escape , the burning. Live Stock. ce cem Sliippin&T Potatoes in Winter. qt Those who grow only a few potatoes a and : know how easily they are spoiled flc touched by frost , can hardly realise Hi the business that is done in marketing of potatoes from the places where they i re are grown during the winter months. tii Protected cars are used for this , the se protection consisting of an inside lining th the car which encloses a space of dc dead air. In its rapid passage through th cold regions the outside of the car be ou comes intensely cold , often down to ui zero or even below. Always with each no carload an attendant goes to watch the CO temperature. He has a stove and can v-l keep ? comfortable himself. If it were AVi for these protected cars , enabling CO shippers to send potatoes to distant 'lg markets in the coldest even Aveather , eg many of the city markets would run short of potatoes , and there might be potato famine in one place , while at mother. 100 or 200 miles distant , there Inwi would be thousands of bushels of potatoes - , . wi toes awaiting shipment. With protect- | if cars it is really safer to ship in cold weather , as the potatoes then lose less of ofmi rot and sprouting. mi miwi wi Protecting Orchards from Frost. All enlightened chief of the Government - | ment experiment gardens at Washing- > years ago insisted that the text- ' ks wort- wrong in teaching that le iieated air ascended that is , ascended an active sense. It was , rather , [ pushed up by the heavier cold air pressI I r ' against it. It seems a slight dis- thi inction , but it has immense practical an importance. For instance , those who ] .mderstand this , smile at the Florida ch range grower who builds fires around tin orchard to make smoke when he ; he < 'ears a frost is coming. lie lightens ate atmosphere at the same time th : ! imong the trees and makes it all the is jasier for the heavy cold air to push in ispn take its place. The modern thought spray with water is more philosoph- rJ . Water is a good conductor of heat tisi would add to tlie chances of ne : ing cold by the heat it would abstract from its surroundings. Horticulturists liaA-e long known that evergreens are quite hardy in a moist atmosphere when they would easily succumb under the same temperature in a dry one. Median's ilonthlj. Top Grafting Apple Trees. More or less grafting is always neces- saiy in the orchard. Even when the farmer has secured the varieties which he deems best , changes of fashion , and the greater productiveness or price which one variety has over others , will often make it advisable to regraft his trees , and thus put himself in line for getting the best results. If the farmer knows how to do this himself , and be an energetic man the work will be done. If he has to hire it done the work will cost so much as to take off his "profits , " and he will probably neglect it. The operation of grafting is very simple and is easily learned. The usual rate for grafters used to be a cent and a half for every graft that lived. With an active attendant to cut off the limbs to be grafted and make the clefs , an active grafter may be able to make $3 to $5 per day if he has the wax to ex elude the air spread on strips of cloth to bind around the graft after it is set. A good grafter should be able to make nearly every graft set live. By fall it may have a growth of one to three feet or more , according to the number of grafts set and the vigor of the tree. American Cultivator. "Why Not American Horses ? That there is a market abroad for good American horseflesh is evidenced in a letter received by the Secretary of Agriculture from United States Min ister William J. Buchanan , at Argen tina. Mr. Buchanan states that during the last year and the year before a royal commission purchased for tlie English army something like 3,000 horses in Argentina alone. Good prices were paid , the average being about $1530. The commission's requirements were as follov/s : For cavalry , well- bred horses , fifteen to sixteen hands high , from pure-bred sires and half- bred mares. For artillery , coarser-bred horses , with more weight , bone and substance , fifteen to sixteen hands js high. Cobs coach-bred ; - , weight-carry ing animals , fourteen to sixteen hands high , for mounted infantry. The col lection was made from horses only be tween four and seven years old. Some mules also were bought. There seems to be really no good reason why breed ers in the United States should not se- . I cure some of this trade. Argentina does not possess the combination of cheap grain and good pasturage that is found in the States where fine stock is raised. Gernmntown Telegraph. Clover in the Hull. Farmers who grow clover seed only for their own use often thresh it out by hand , and sow the seed , chaff and all. It is rather unsafe to do this , as it jg difficult to tell while throwing out the chaff how much clover seed is going with . , it. The better way is to clean up the seed carefully , sow that with a broadcast seeder , which will distribute , it much more evenly than can be done by hand , and then sow the clover chaff ; afterward ' with what seed may be in it , and make that also cover the whole surface if possible , though as this haste to be done , by hand , the hand sowing cannot probably be made to cover half the piece. But there is generally more or less clover seed lying in the soil on land that has once grown clover seed , and this may insure a fair catch even no clover seed is sown. It is such land of which farmers say , "It is nat ural to clover. " It is always good land , I but the clover does not grow on it spon taneously ; on the contrary , every clover plant comes from a clover seed left some time in the soil , possibly many years ago. n Warmth in the Henhouse. A small stove set on the earthen or d cement floor of a henhouse will do P much to keep up the warmth that is quite as necessary as feed in producing large number of eggs. Even if the floor be of wood there is little danger that the building will burn. The amount fuel burned will be much more than repaid by the eggs produced at the time of year when fresh eggs always sell highest. When the. weather is fine the hens should be left to run out of doors in the daytime. But cooping them up with enough fire to keep frost le out of the room is always advisable at 4 night. , This precaution is especially needed for the breeds with large P"g combs , which are sure to be frostbitten g Avhen freezing eather > conies. A hen Avith a sore head' from frost-bitten comb has enough to do to repair dam ages to itself Avithout trj'iug to lay K Poultry Pointers. a'tc Too much young stock is used for tcS breeding purposes. The young chicks S Avill he hardier and make larger foAvls SS from 2-year-old stock. 61 The poultry house should have plenty j windows , and if the foAvls are per ? mitted to roost in it in summer all the SI > windows should be open. SISI Kerosene and lard will prevent fur = ther loss of feathers and produce new growth on the head from which the CO : feathers ! are falling out in summer. th Better give your water troughs and j AV lishcs a thorough cleaning before it runs too long. It Ayill head off some of | T those numerous cases of drooping iniong the flock. ' -d For quickness of growth the young hick : is not in it with the duckling , but ha they should be hatched early to catch th high prices. It will not pay to raise ie ducklings for market any more han it will late chicks. With both it tic the early ones that bring the large J. profits. Kansas Farmer. The public at large is but an elevatoi na used to hoist the chosen few to promi- ; aence. f I lis Nerves Destroyed by Catarrh. , & # ru-na. - MR. ROBERT B. MANTELL , THE GREAT ROMANTIC ACTOR. ur. ilartman , Columbus , Ohio : Dear Sir The bottle of Pe-ru-na at hand. It is splendid and most iuvigoratins ; re- freshluj , ' to the nerves and brain. It is one of the bvst tonics I have ever used. It makes me feel like a new man. Yours sin cerely , It. B. Muntell. Catarrh and Nervousness. A nervous person nearly always hr ; catarrh. Catarrh is one of the ways in which a depressed condition of the nervous system shows itself. Catarrhal people are soon madp nervous. The relation between chronic catarrh and nervous debility is most intimate. Catarrh is chronic congestion of some mucous membrane. The nerves , which should guard the mucous membrane against congestion , are depressed and their func tion partly destroyed. The nerves that should control the circulation in the mucons membrane are called the vasa-motor system of nerves. Depression of the general ner vous system soon leads to depression of the vasa-motor system. Depression of the vasa- motor system of nerves at once causes chronic catarrh. Any remedy to effect a radical cure of chronic catarrh must operate directly Dr. V.in Dyke Saved the Day. At a banquet recently given in honor of General Miles a punch was served in which two tiny flags , American and British , were stuck in the ice at each side. side.The The object of the decoration , of course , was to typify Anglo-American good feeling. The prominent English guest of the evening , in replying to a toast to the two countries , looked at the punch , and said that there seemed to be a coldness existing between the two countries. The witticism was well received , but Dr. Van Dyke , who followed the Eng lishman , pointed to the punch and re torted that , no matter what coldness there seemed to be between the two countries , they were united by the same spiri Saturday Evening Post. In Winter Use Allen's Foot-Base. A powder to be shaken into the shoes. During winter your feet feel uncomfort able , nervous , and often cold and damp. If you have perspiring , smarting feet or tight shoes , try Allen's Foot-Ease. It warms and rests the feet and makes AAAA walking easy. Cures swollen and sweating feet , blisters and callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and is a certain cure for chilblains and frost bites. Try it to-daj" . Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 2uc. Trial package mailed FREE. Address Allen B. Olmsted. Le Roy. N. Y. Dcliubtfiil. , Mrs. S\vellington Oh , he's such a splendid preacher ! Mr. SAvellington In Avhat way ? 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