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THE BABY.
The little tottering baby feet.
With faltering steps and slow.
With pattering echoes soft and sweet,
Into my heart they go ;
They also go, in grimy plays.
In muddy pools and dusty ways.
Then through the house in track! ol maze
They wander to and fro.
The baby hands that clasp my nock
With toncbes dear to me
Are tbe same hands that smash and wreck
The Inkstand foal to see;
They pound the mirror with a cane.
They rend tbe manuscript In twain.
Widespread destruction they ordain.
In wasteful jubilee.
Uhe dreamy, murm'ring baby Toice
That coos its little tune.
That makes my listening heart rejoice
Like birds in leafy June.
Can wake at midnicbt dark and still,
And all the air with howling fill
That splits the air with echoes shrill,
like cornets out of tune.
MPOLEON'S WOOING.
Cooking his own supocrovcr a blaz
ing wood Are one hot evening in July,
Napoleon Crowe felt that he was in
deed born to misfortune like the
sparks that flew upward.
For forty years he had tilled the
6tony," stubby little farm which at its
best had never yielded its owner more
than a precarious living, and now at
the age of 60 he was alone in the
world: having a few months pre
viously buried his third wife.
Whether it was owing to an inher
ent delicacy of constitution, a lack of
appreciation and tenderness on his
part, or a too continuous diet of
stewed yellow-eyed beans and pork,
we are unable to determine, but for
some mysterious reason Napoleon's
wives refused to thrive on his hands,
and drooped and pined away, one
after another, until he was almost
convinced that in his case marriage
was a failure.
That he had been his own house
keeper for a period of seven months,
every room and closet in the dreary
old farmhouse bore evidence, and the
numerous scars on his hands and arms,
testified to the burns and scalds he
had received during his cooking oper
ations. For Napoleon was peculiarly un
fortunate in his culinary experiments.
If after serious reflection, he decided
that he could afford a small roast tor
the Sunday dinner, to which he in
variably invited his old crony, Jotham
Sparks, that roast so tenderly
watched and jealously guarded for
hours was in the end temporarily
forgotten, while Napoleon was grap
pling with the biscuit problem, and
burned to a blackened crisp.
lie baked beans without pork, for
got to put the meat in his soups, or
the salt and pepper in his vegetable
hash; left out the sweetening from
his apple pics, the salt from his but
ter, the eggs from his custards, and
wondered why he had no appetite.
After a multitude of disastrous fail
ures similar to the ones we have re
corded, Napoleon resolved he would,
from motives of economy and other
wise, confine himself exclusively to a
diet of flour biscuit hot from the oven,
alternating with such relishes as mo
lasses, fried pork fat, and the un
savory production which once in four
weeks he churned, and spanked and
patted with his big, hairy hands, and
designated as.,ubuttcr."
Three times a day regularly, Napo
leon produced a small wooden dough
dish, and after mixing together spur
milk, saleratus and flour, toiled and
sweated over the sticky mass until it
went into the oven huge, unsightly
lumps of spotted dough, and came
out the same.
It might have been the legitimate
result of eating his own hot fciscuit,
but within a few weeks he had devel
oped into a gloomy pessimist. lie
neglected the poultry and stock, al
lowed the weeds to flourish in the
garden, and seemed to have lost all
interest in life.
Everything went wrong with Napo
leon. The old cow went dry three
months earlier than usual, and the
two-year-old heifer choked to death in
her stall. As a natural sequence, his
groans and sighs became louder and
more frequent.
Thirty hens and two roosters cackled
shrilly from morn to till night, and
though he crawled under the barn on
his hands and knees at the risk of a
personal introduction to a skunk who
made his headquarters there, and
climbed ladders to the highest scaf
folds at the risk of breaking his neck,
not a solitary egg gladdened his anx
ious eyes.
One morning his friend and sym
pathizer, Uncle Jotham Sparks, called
before breakfast to borrow a rake.
'Jest hevin' a bite, hey?'' ob
served Uncle Jotham, his e3'es wan
dering to the bare pine table adorned
by a tin of steaming yellow biscuit
"Ya-a-s," answered Napoleon in a
dissatisfied tone, "I'm tryin' to heat
a drop o water to make a cup o' tea
to go with them ere biscuits. Won't
you hev a biscuit, Jotham?"
"N-no-no," responded Jotham with
alacrity. "Thanky, I've been to
breakfast an hour ago."
"I know it's late," sighed Napoleon,
but I've had a regular tussle to heat
this dipper o' water. I broke my tea
kettle by pourin' cold water in it
when it was red hot, and I hain't had
any tea-kettle to use all summer. It's
ter'blc hard for a man that hain't
never been used to putterin' round
the house to do their own cookin' and
housework."
"It must be, I vum," said Jotham,
and he edged away to an open win
dow to avoid an offensive odor that
arose from a bean not on the stove
hearth.
"Jotham," said he solemnly,
"Jotham, ain't jou seen, can't you
see that I'm fallin' from the crust?"
Jotham shook his head mournfully
as he stopped to light his pipe.
"Yes, Napoleon, I've seen all sum
mer that you've been failin'; you've
grown old, and thin, and gray, and
bent over, and don't look much like
the man you was a year ago."
"Do you think I'm pinted for the
grave, Jotham?" he groaneu.
"No;" said he bluntly, "but you
won't live six months unless you get
some woman here to cook your vittles,
and do your wash in', and keep the
house wholccomc. Why don't you
hire'a woman, and pay her so much a
week "
"I couldn't afford it, all the income
I git from the farm wouldn't pay her
wages. I think myself, not relishin'
ray vittles has something to do with
my onhappy fellins'."
I'Vnn mitrht, pit, married." stiff-
gested Jotham.
"Ya-a-s, I've thought o' that. I
know of a smart likely woman that's
wuth some prupputty that I think
would jump at the chance to get
me to-day. She's a widder that I
courted some when I was young, and
lives on a farm somewhere in Stough
ton. I'd slick up a little, and go up
and see if she would like to change
ber condition, if 'twasn't for neigh
bors talkin'. You know I hain't been
a widderer thit last time only about
seven months.1'
"I know, but circumstances alters
cases, and if you can't afford to hire
a housekeeper, you had better bunt
up a wife lively. Let folks talk if
they ant to. You hev a smart woman
come here, and scrub and scour, and
brighten up thiugs, ind cook you
three good temptin' meals every day,
and you'd soon begin to fat up, and
be as strong and ambitious to work
as ever you was m your life. Now, I
do hope Napoleon, you realize jest
how slim and peaked you are lookin',
and if you don't want to slip your
wind afore the snow flies, take my
advice, and merry that 'ere widder
jest as soon as she'll hev you," and
taking his rake, Jotham departed,
leaving Napoleon to his thoughts
which were not pleasant by any
means. r
For several days after, Napoleon
wandered around in a discontented,
absent-minded way, as though he was
uncertain whether to take Jotbau's
advice or not
At length, on this hot July evening
when we introduce him to our readers,
having nearly caused a conflagration
by upsetting a kerosene lamp which
exploded in the flour-barrel, Napoleon
gnashed his teeth, as he tore around
the room in his efforts to extinguish
the flames, and vowed he would have
a wife to cook his suppers before the
week was out.
"Ain't this a pooty way for a man
o' my years to be livin," he muttered
savagely, as he vainly tried so make
the lantern wick burn. "There the
danged thing has gone out, and I
might as well give up I've got to
set here in the dark, or else crawl to
bed without a solitary nibble in my
poor stummock, and I'm ready to
faint S'pose I'll put up with this
any longer? not by a jugful! If the
sun rises to-morrow mornin', it'll see
me streakin' for the Widder Spooner's!
Let the neighbors talk if they want
to, what they say don't put slab-jacks
into my mouth, or mend the big holes
in mystockin's. Ycs-sir-ee," and he
snapped his fingers defiantly, "let
'em talk; I don't give a dang if
Eunice Spooner will have me; we'll
be merried short-off; that's flat"
The Widow Spooner was in her
strawberry-patch, pulling up the
weeds, and she was about 4o throw
them over the fence, as little Kittie
Henderson came rushing round the
corner.
O, Aunt Eunice!" she exclaimed
breathlessly; "Mamma sent me over
to borrow some cream of tartar, and
don't you think the awfulest looking
old tramp has followed me way
through the woods, and he's sitting
down on the big rock in the lane
now! Oh, dear! I dar'st go home,
what shall I do?" and Kittie began
to cry.
"Tramp, hey?" said the widow
coolly, "that's nothin, new.
I've
been jest pestered to death with
tramps this summer. There was two
called here last night, and they was
jest as sassy as a lord, and wanted
me to give em some supper, but they
didn't git any, iest the same. You
wait a minute till I can look after my
bakin', and I'll go home through the
woods with you, Kitty. I never sec
the tramp yet I was afraid of."
With Kittie following close at her
heels, Mrs. Spooner proceeded to the
kitchen, where, throwing open the
oven doors, shcdisplayed a pair of beau
tifully browned chickens which sent
forth a most appetizing odor.
"There, Kittie, jest look at my
fowls, ain't they doin' lovely? I've
been doin' lots of cookin' to-day, and
I do wish some interestin' company
would happen along. I've had signs
of a stranger all the afternoon; two
chairbacks got together, and I
bumped my elbow ag'in the pump
handle "
At that moment there came a loud
knocking at the door. Kittie gave a
little shriek.
"It's it's him, auntie!" she
gasped, "It's the old tramp."
"Is it?" said the widow brusquely.
"Jest let me git my weapons ready,
and I'll soon start him goin'."
With a saucepan of boiling hot
water in one hand and a fire shovel in
the other, Mrs. Spooner advanced
boldly to the door.
In the semi-twilight stood a seedy
looking individual, wearing a slouch
hat covered with dust
Could you ahem give me'' he
began in a hesitating manner, then
hastily retreated a few steps as he
caught a glimpse of the war-like im
plements in the hands of the widow.
"Yes, I'll give you," cried fhe
widow, "a good whackin' with my
shovel, andu scaldin' to boot, if you
ain't off my premises before I can
count ten. You great, lazy loafer.
Ain't you ashamed round trampin'
and beggin' your livin'? Why hain't
you workin' on some railroad, diggin'
ditches, you shifless hulks?"
"I I hain't round beggin' no
livin'," stammered the man, his eyes
firmly riveted on the widow's
weapon's. "I ain't no tramp neither
I'll have you to know I "
"Oh, no, you're no tramp, none of
em' is, you're a bank president most
likely. Come, git; put yourself!"
"I won't stir a blarsted peg,"
he
spluttered.
You can't drive
me
you
till I've had a chance to tell
who
"I can't can I? We'll see about
that, you wretch. Follow me with
the tea-kettle, Kittie, I'll scald him
to death."
Mrs. Spooner's appearance as she
screamed out these words was more
that of a modern Amazon, than a
staid elderly widow, and with a
smothered shriek, the man fled pre
cipitately before her, never pausing
until he ignominously tupabled over a
rock-heap by the roadside.
"There, Kitty," exclaimed Mrs.
Spooner, as she come into the kitchen
flushed and triumphant "I've sent
him about his business. I've learned
by experience tha soft words don't
count with the tramp gentry, and I
guess this pcrtickler one won't visit
me ag'in."
"Why, auntie," said Kittie, star
ing hard outof the window, "he ain't
gone; he's sitting down by the barn
now."
"Why, how you talk. lias he had
the impudence to come back here?
Well, now you jest wait; I'll start him
out of my door-yard, or I'll know the
reason why!"
With hurried and determined steps
she took her way down to the spot
where a lorclorn looking figure was
seated on a huge bowlder, sorrowfully
rubbing his knee-joints.
"Come," said she, "wnat in ine
world do you mean by hangin' round
here? Why don't bless my soul this
ain't it can't beNapoleon Crowe?"
"Yes," it's me," said Napoleon
plaintively.
"Took to trampin' round the coun
try, and scarin' little girls? You!"
"It's a danged mistake," said he.
"I hain't trampin' round no country,
nor scarin' no little girls either. I
wasn't never in this place before, and
I didn't know fur certain which house
you lived in, and so I was goin' to in
quire if you could give me any idee
where Lhe WiAicr Spooner lived, and
you come at me with a fire shovel and
a bucket o' bilen water."
Why didn't you tell your namer"
"You didn't give jne no chance, did
you? I tried to tell you my name,
but I couldn't get a word in edge
ways. I expected a different wel
come from you, Eunice, bein's we
was alius seen good friends, and I'd
walked fifteen miles to ask you to
merry me."
A warm flush rose to the widow's
sunburned cheeks. If there was a
person on earth who had always held
a warm corner in her heart, it was
Napoleon Crowe.
"Napoleon," hazarded she, "it was
a dretful misunderstanding."
"I should hope it was; I swan,"
sighed Napoleon, still rubbing his
bruised knees.
"It was Kiltie's fault; she told me
there was a tramp at the door, and I
was that mad and excited I never took
a good look. You've no idee how I've
been pestered with thievin', sassy
tramps, Napoleon."
"I don't doubt it, Eunice. You
hadn't ought to be livin' here alone."
"You hain't goin', Napoleon? Do
stop and have some supper "
"Do you really want mcto Eunice?'
"Of course I do, Napoleon, and
we'll have roast chicken and cream
biscuits "
"And you'llhev me, Eunice?"
"I shouldn't wonder, Napoleon "
So Napoleon stayed to supper, and
after partaking of the roast chicken
and cream biscuit, was, in such ex
cellent spirits that he tossed Kittie
up and down in his arms, and pre
schted her with a nickel and two
pennies, a freak of generosity on his
part without precedent Yankee
Blade.
Hollers vs. fiurra la Floor Mllllae;.
The radical change in the method
of reducing wheat to flour seems to
have been largely the outgrowth of
necessity; one of the demands of a
progressive age. Of all mechanical
appliances for performing useful work
the millstone is probably the most
antiquated; it having been in use. in
one form or another, for thousands of
years. That it is an effective appli
ance there is no denying, but it had
become somewhat awkward and trou
blesome by comparison, and alto
gether out of harmony with the drift
and spirit of the times. Tbe produc
tion of the roll was a rather happy
conception, in that it so much sim
plified the process of reducing, as
well as laying the corner-stone of a
modernized system, the whole struc
ture of which is simple, yet grand.
The roller mill is not only simple as a
device, but also in action. It merely
touches the pro uct as io passes
swiftly through, while the millstone
keeps it wallowing in grooves and
over a large surface, for a measurable
period, during which there arc always
chances for more or less injury by
heat and chemical changes. The
burrs are continually changing their
condition, thus requiring much skill
and tedious labor to keep them in
perfect working order, while the rolls,
if properly and well constructed, re
quire no attention, other than to keep
them ac justed, until wear renders it
necessary to send them back to the
shop for repairs. Altogether, it has
been a change that was very much
needed to bring flour manufacturing
up on a par with other industries,
and to a state of greater perfection.
Many other innovations and changes
have been contemplated, looking to
methods radically different from the
present, but it seems extremely doubt
ful if anything else will be accepted
for a long time to come. True, modi
fication will follow, but the main
features are certainly of a permanent
character. '
ltears and lie.
Of late years a number of bears
have made a practice of living about
the hotels and camps in the park.
They arc becoming "parasites" or
bruin tramps, taking what they
want, making no effort for self-support,
and living on the table waste.
They arc '"hog-robbers," no longer
worthy a sportsman's attention. One
very large bear at the Upper Geyser
Basin Hotel is as regular about com
ing to his meals as a "star boarder."
Once, when the yard man was taking
a large piece of waste meat to the
pig-peti, Bruin met him in the trail.
The man, not at all frightened, held
out the meat. The bear walked up,
took it from his hand, went to one
side a short distance, and ate the grub
as unconcerned as though it was the
proper thing to have his meals
brought to him.
The bears get in the pens, cat with
the pigs, or rather drive them to one
side and cat what they want. I
believe but one hog has been killed
by them the past summer. At the
slaughter house in Swan Lake Basin,
at least nine bears live on the refuse
which Is thrown to the hogs. They
get into the pen, quarrel with the
pigs, cuff them ont of the way, often
making them squeal with pain, and
fight each other, the big ones driving
the others off. So far they have not
attempted to kill any of the pigs or
sheep that are corraled near by every
night The herder and butcher have
become so used to the bears that they
db noWear them much, except when
they meet them after dark; then they
are willing to give half the road.
There arc about twenty-five bears
who are living about this way during
the season; they are in color black,
brown, grizzly-gray and cinnamon.
Yfbea Travelins
Every Russian passenger carries tea
and sugar, usually in a little calico
bag. Bread and lemons arc bought
at the stopping places and every
steamer keeps a lubberly, unwilling
sort of youth, whose duty is xo pro
vide plenty of hot water. Teapot
and glasses are obtained from the
steward, and the Russian family by
means of these ingredients manage to
pass no small share of their time
drinking tea and sweetened water.
The Russian would probably rebel
against the insinuation of sweetened
water, but the straw-colored fluid
that is yielded by the unwilling leaves
after the teapot has been replenished
over and over again with hot water
is not to be converted into tea by a
mere politeness of the tongue.
Tfeey Become Expert Shots.
Engineers of railroad trains in
Texas and most of the Western States
carry revolvers, and often rifles, in
the cab for various contingencies that
might arise. They amuse themselves
by shooting at the telegraph poles or
anv other. mark while running at full
speed and attain a wonderful skill in
marksmanship. A few days ago an
engineer on the Denver and Rio
Grande railway shot and killed a
wildcat near Newcastle from the cab
of his locomotive. New York Sun
Circumstances.
Jones You didn't get out to the
meeting last night?
Brown No. Circumstances over
which I.had no control prevented me.
"That so? What were they?"
"Twins." Exchange.
"Ir nature abhors a vacuum," why
1 should she create a dude?
HOME AND THE FARM.
A DEPARTMENT' MADE UP FOR
OUR RURAL FRIENDS.
Disadvantage of Trying; to Accomplish
Tee Much Device tor Loading and Unloading-
Grmla Stunted rigs Net Worth
Feeding Orchard aad Garden.
Tee Many Irons In the Fire.
ALLING at the
farm of a resident
in one of the
towns in Central
Maine recently
and, while much
interested at tbe
evident signs of
good farming
that were every
where apparent,
1 could not help
being impressed
with the idea
that the farmer
was making a
vital mistake in
the course he is
following, writes
Webb Donncll, in the American Agri
culturist The farm was taken in a run-down
condition, with buildings small and
poor, and fields so poor that
they only yielded some twenty
five tons of hay. At the present
time the place cuts about one
hundred and twenty-five tons of first
class hay. The fields are a delight
to the eye in their fertility and
smoothness. The barn has been en
large to probably four times its former
size, with comfortable and convenient
quarters for about thirty to forty
hogs and pigs, twenty cows, and eight
or ten horses. A silo of eighty tons
capacity was put in last year. Butter
is made from the herd of grade and
full-blood Jerseys, which sells at
quite an advance on market rate. A
large orchard has been planted, which
calls for a great expenditure of care
and time. Quite a large area is sowed
to grain which, with the other crops
that arc raised, calls for a still
further expenditure of labor. A saw
mill near at hand has been leased,
nd business is being carried on here.
A beginning has been made in rais
ing heavy draft horses, by crossing a
pure-bred l'crchcron on heavy marcs.
I found the proprietor in a very
gloomy frame of mind, but hard at
work. He had about come to the
conclusion that farming docs not pay
that he had to work like a slave,
but received nothing for it. Even as
no spoke, however, lie would sandwich
jn the remark, as the conversation
turned to various things, that he in
tended soon to build a new barn, and
go into sheep-raising, or that he
nhould soon build another silo. It
was easy to understand why the man
was discouraged. I wonder that he
did not sec it himself. He has too
many irons in the fire, and is trying
to do too much on a small capital.
His dairy product must pay well, but
every cent that comes from it as
profit is put into some new scheme,
or spent in enlarging an old one.
This keeps the farmer cramped for
money all the Jjme, and also keeps
him worked to the verge of despera
tion. There is something very at
tractive about doing business on a
large scale, and it may be profitable
n certain cases where capital is
abundant so that advantage can be
taken in buying and selling, but it is
imply suicide for the average farmer,
of limited means, to spread himself all
over a 400-acrc farm here in the East.
The man of whom I write could
probably make a good thing by dairy
ing if he would attend to that solely,
md he would moreover then have
time to breathe and to inquire of
Himself whether it pays to make a
beast of burden of one's self through
Jife, getting only a living out ot it,
iimply for the sake of doing a large
business. He would much better
mark out a particular line of work for
which his farm is suited, and which
he knows will pay a fair profit, and
let his work all count for something.
The merchant who, with limited
means, tries to run a dry goods store,
a grocery stand, a book store, and a
boot and shoe emporium, usually goes
into bankruptcy. Farming will stand
a pretty serious kind of mismanage
ment, and still give a family a living,
such as it is, but the business won't
admit too much foolishness. The
man who tries to carry on sheep-raising,
horse-raising, orcharding, hog
raising, cattle-raising, dairying, and
the growing of field crops, in addition
to various outside schemes of money
making, attempting to do a large
part of the actual work by employing
his own waking hours and those of
his wife and children, is making a
serious mistake. He may keep from
going under with all his schemes, and
in some cases may even increase the
value of his stock, farm, and build
ings, but he does it at the expense of
his own and his family's well-being:
No man has a right, unless he is
peculiarly situated so that he is
forced by necessity, to work to such
an extent as to deprive himself of so
many of the civilizing enjoyments of
life, much less has he the right to de
prive his family of them.
Of all people in the world the
farmer and his family ought to lead
comfortable lives, but a good many
come, far short of it, and too often
through their own folly. They cither
farm ignorantly, or are striving all
the time to do more than their capi
tal, or their strength, will admit It
would be a good deal better in such
cases as the list mentioned to take
in some of the sail and pay more at
tention to the rfteering apparatus, so
that the craft won't wobble" about
so, and thus Iosj headway, to use a
figurative expression. Attention to
details is a matter of very great im
portance in agiiculturc as well as
elsewhere, and Ihis cannot be given
when one has too many irons in the
fire.
Spout Tor Handling Grain.
Take a beard 10 inches wide and
four feet long for bottom of spout and
part of hopper; also, two pieces, 10
inches wide and 18 inches long, to
s aSc c o m -
S H n 1 e t c
bottom
o f hop
p e r .
Then
fasten
together
well by
nailing cross-pieces to bottom. This
leaves feet for hopper, and 2 feet
for spout Put on end piece, then
side piece, 3 inches wide at small end,
then 7 inches wide at large end. The
middle piece to which spout is fas
tened, is 14 by 30 inches. For unload
ing, fasten chains to hopper, 8 inches
from end, and drive nails to hook up
per end to. As bin fills up, move up
by putting boards in place under the
hopper, and shortening chains. For
loading wagon, put hopper inside of
bin and fasten un with stick or board.
Use heavy tin pail instead of scoop!
And you will find that you can handle
a load of grain in less time, with less
waste and less muscle than anv way
you ever tried. Hopper can be used
at any ordinary granary door. Will
Zimmerman, in Practical Farmer.
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY.
Stunted rigs.
A pig tbat is stunted while young
is not worth feeding to maturity.
This is especially true of pigs far
rowed late in the fall, and with
which sufficient care has not been
taken to give them a good start be
fore cold weather. The feed that
will be required to keep such until
spring will be worth more than the
pigs. Much the best practice, and
one that is being more generally
adopted every year, is to breed the
sows in the fall so as to start the pigs
off on green food in the spring. This
is much more economical, and the
pigs are pretty sure to do better; but
if jou are in for the winter feeding of
a lot now, try and do it well. - It is
best to give some slop or ensilage, in
stead of an entire grain ration. A
slop made of bran with skim milk
will be good for the youngsters. As
they get a little larger give them
some soaked oats. Small potatoes,
boiled and mixed with bran, will also
give them a variety of food, and such
as will promote growth rather than
fattening. There is money in pigs,
but it requires good care to get it all
out Wisconsin Agriculturist
The Secrot or Success.
If butter makers had taken pains
to avoid the economicsof butter mak
ing they could not have succeeded
much better than they are doing now.
In using large milk cans to set milk
in for the creamery there is an addi
tional loss of 2 per cent, as com
pared with smaller vessels. The
breeds that give the largest fat glo
bules leave the smallest amount
of fat in the skimmilk and they are
the G,uernscys, Jcrscj's. By setting
the milk of cows that have been in
milk nine months, the best way pos
sible, it is impossible to get more
than two-thirds of the cream. The
only wa to get it is by the centrifu
gal system, which ought not to leave
more than one-tenth of 1 per cent of
butter fat in the skimmilk. By
churning sweet cream between 7 and
23 per cent, is lost Unpleasant
odors in milk can be taken out by
heating the milk to 1(0 degrees, but
it is better to heat the cream than
the milk and then cool it down to 50
degrees. If the butter will not come
raise the cream to 70 degrees by stir
ring it, placing the can in a vessel
containing hot water. But never
add water in any f6rm to cream, as
you lose in quality and quantity. As
a rule you cannot increase the per
centage of fat in the cow's milk by
feeding fat-formingfoods, but tho
quantity can be inrceased. Prof. J.
W. Robertson in Farm and Home.
THE POULTRY-YARD.
Drecft and Weight.
Although the Brahmas and Cochins
arc considered larger than the Ply
mouth Rocks, j-et the latter are but
little less in weight than the Asiatics;
the Plymouth Rocks, as a rule, al
ways weigh heavier than they ap
pear; we have known crosses of the
Plymouth Rock and Brahmas to
weigh as much as twelve pounds,
which is a weight not easily attained
by any class of fowls; just here we
will say to our readers that weight
docs not indicate merit in a fowl al
ways; for instance, it takes time to
make heavy growth and size, which,
of course, is a bar to early laying. (
There is some advantage in having a
pullet to come in early for laying, as
she will often lay enough eggs to com
pensate for lack of weight and if she
begins in the fall the eggs will come
at a time when prices are up. Ply
mouth Rocks fatten very rapidly after
they arc matured, and should be care
fully fed with a view to avoid such
condition, as an over-fat fowl will not
lay well, and, besides, they begin to
set after laying only a small number.
Exchange.
A Minnesota Egg Kecord.
A Stillwater, Minn., subscriber of
the Rural sends in the following
record of the eggs produced by forty
hens during 1S91.
Month Dozen Frice Amount
January U .25 SAil
February 9 .18 Ld
March. ... ............ 7, .18 3.36
April 315 .15 4.71
May 23 .12'$ iM
Jime 115-G .15 3.0
July ...... ..............187-12 .18 3.3c
August 102j .18 1.91
September. i .18 .81
October. 3.4 .20 .7(
November .s'a .28 .K
December. 9 .28 2.5i
Total 1CS7-12 $23.
I have sold fourteen chickens at 20
cents apiece, $2.80; total for eggs and
chickens, $31.46; my expenses were
$10; leaving clear, $21.46, and forty
five head of chickens on hand. They
are R. C. W. Leghorns and white
Wyandottes.
Poultry Tickings,
Bulk is a great desideratum in
grain fed to poultry. This is obtained
by mixing bran with corn-meal, and
feeding oats rather than much corn.
Corn-meal alone is far too heavy.
The digestive organs cannot extract
all the nutriment contained in such
solid substances. Mix the same how
ever with light bran and the case is
entirely different
A half dozen small "hen coops"
arc much more useful than one mas
sive structure affording an equal crca.
We all know thaL a coop of ten or
twelve hens is usually profitable
whereas multiples of the same are
rarely satisfactory. This is the great
secret of running a large poultry
farm. Divide up so that each in
dividual bird .niay have "as good a
show" and as much room as upon the
ordinary farm, where not more than
a score or two of fowls are usually
bred.
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
Late-Planted IMtatoe.
One of the advantages of late
planted potatoes is that it gives
chance for more thorough preparation
of the soil. One of the evenest and
best potato fields seen this year was
grown after corn. The field was
plowed three times, thoroughly mix
ing the soil and impossible those air
spaces under furrows, which, when
they come under a hill of potatoes,
are not often remedied all the season.
A poor hill occasionally greatly re
duces the yield. It cannot be avoided
except by most thorough preparation
of the soil before the potatoes arc1
Wanted.
Franlag I'ormant Growth.
All pruning done before the buds
start into growth stimulates those
that remain so that they grow all the
more vigorously. Pruning trees when
in leaf is, on the contrary, a check to
the whole plant, and does not stimu
late what is left It is quite apt,
however, with very vigorous trees,
to cause fruit buds to start, and may
thus be sometimes advisable to brinj
young orchards more quickly into
bearing. . i
The proprietors of Ely's Cream Balm
do not claim It to be a cure-all. but a sure
ren:cdy for Catarrh and Cold in the head.
I have been afflicted Kith catarrh for 20
years. It became chronic and extended to
try throat, causing hoarseness and great
difficulty in speaking. Indeed for years I
was not able to speak more than thirty min
utes, and often this with great difSculty. I
also, to a great extent, lost the sense of
hearing. By the use of Ely's Cream Balm
all dropping ot raucous ha) ceased, and my
voice and hearing hare greatly improved.
J as. W. Davidson, Attorney at Law, Mon
mouth, III.
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hard substance in his body which would
indicate that he possessed such a thing
as a bone. Even his skull "was of
about tho samo consistency as India
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A Brilliant Discorery in Dermatology.
It is said that superfluous hair can be
psrmancntly removed without pain. An
interesting and valuable discovery has re
cently been made by John 11. Woodbury, of
125 Wot 121 street. New York City. It is
a remedy for the permanent removal of
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which it applied to the hair fo-'llcle by
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he was there sixty undergraduates called
to consult with him on tirstions of reli
gion and morals, which is a larger per
centage than he knows of in any church
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Ho was a long time seriously troubled wi h
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and Dyspepsia. Has taken threo bottles of
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I was also broken down by overwork, so that I
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