Hutfache,
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are caused by bad blood, and by
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Kood'S Pills arc en.lc, mild and effective-
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So we not rrttent rmilicg countenance t Wfaj sheuli
svesiGt? It is true we haie len overworked andetrn with
ca.1 greatly increa-ed facilities, haie 1 ad to work Eights, tc
aorrlythe demands marie upon us for Aermctors, tsnkssnd
lexers. This eirr increasing, neer ceasing demand for our
roods, eien in times of great Luiiness depression, makes cs
tired, lut hsrry, as wuifii the smiling countenance m
cur glittering Aenn&tor. V hile others Cinnct get work to
!o, we are overwhelmed with it. Vitiyl ecaoo we nuke
the test thin j that ca m I i to made, of the beet
Katenal that is l V eadr, at the lowest
rnee that erer - V Vt iJ made, and
lackltaUbytLo
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ever made for
knowing what
to 60, hew to
Co it and in-
-lariaUraceonv
pinning the re
sult. All the
that the Aerraotor
wotM kotwi
Co. a!on knoi
I ow to make V inl
and tanks. Orders
tafllt. steel towtrs
en cs from erery nooi
fcr litem Dour in no-
A business depression in
felt by cs. The world
fore, any wonder that
docUing our last year's
days cf depression'
tor premises, from ttej
and aorccrfcftht earth,
ny on locality is not
Is cur fM. Ii it, there-
ar bosy and aro
output, evtn in the
tyn on th JUrao
cftice Loy to th ownm,
srcilitj countenance.
Lusy, harpy work It
presents this well fed.
All are irmrenns, f
rlcctr. and xrostieri-
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ly attends u. oemta
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fe-ple hae no forelodinrs cf. diauter and fcard times.
Aermctor crnjloyes newr strike. They ere prcnpeious and
cemented. Lien in tho citil commotion and great uiheavaJt
recently raring in Chicago, the Aermotor 101 le were at work,
radiant with smiles and good cheer, and ready to help bring;
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FARM DEPARTMENT.
USEFUL INFORMATION FOR
AMERICAN FARMERS.
Ufa
Vatbods of Maaaclas; tko
Farm and Gardes Lira
Poultry, Dairy, Apiary aa4
Orchard.
Possibilities of Snb-IrrlcatloB.
In their report on sub-irrigation ex
periments the professors at the Ohio
station say: The first attempt was
with lettuce on a very small scale,
and the experiment has been enlarged
until now about one-fifth of an sere
under glass, is occupied in conducting
this experiment to a final demonstra
tion. It has been found that the let
tuce rot may be largely controlled in
this manner, but by far the greatest
benefit arises from the greatly accel
erated growth of the plants. By this
method of watering, a lettuce crop
comes to maturity from one to
two weeks earlier than by the old
method, and the crop is increased .0
to 100 per cent. Radishes respond in
a like degree and cucumbers to nearly
the same extent, but tomatoes are less
benefited. Smilax and carnations
thrive finely under this treatment.
Violets and roses have not been fully
tested, but the former especially seem
to ileligh in the abundant and uni
form sapp.y of moisture afforded by
sub-irrigation. It is too early to give
results in detail, but it will repay
interested parties to come a long
distance to see the plan in full
operation. The method is very sim
ple and easily folio wed by any one, as it
does not necessarily involve much out
lay. The floor of the benches must be
made water tight and an old bench,
in a fair state of preservation, can be
remodeled for tnc work by simply
nailing laths over the cracks and fill
ing the small spaces between the
boards and laths with cement made
very thin. If a new bottom is neces
sary, matched flooring laid in white
lead may be used, but a tile or (late
bottom is cheaper in the end. The
tile must of course be covered with
cement to secure a water tight bot
tom. This method of watering opens
up great opportunities in the ways of
vegetable forcing in midwinter. It
A PAIR OF
will not only make the work more
profitable to the gardener, but will
give employment to many throughout
the year, and in the end will so cheapen
production that many fcgetables will
be almost as common and cheap in
January as they are now in April.
Gardeners will receive the first ben
efits of the discovery, hut in the end
great advantages will accrue to the
whole people. Money that is now
sent south for stale, unwholesome
vegetables will be spent at home for a
much greater quantity of the fresh,
healthful products of northern green
houses. An Experiment In Mulching
Prof. i. II. Bailey of Cornell uni
versity has been conducting some ex
periments to determine the value of
mulch in retarding the ripening of
small fruits. He also obta'aed the
experiences of farmers on the same
point. One of them. Mr. C. E. Chap
man of Peruville, N. Y., writes to
Prof. Bailey as follows:
Because of late spring frosts and
the glut of fruit from near Cayuga
lake, which is ten days earlier, I was
compelled to grow late fruit or quit
'lhe first venture, ten years ago, was
to spread a thick mulch of wheat
straw over the strawberries during
winter, but as there was some timo
thy in it, next crop was badly dam
aged by the growing grass and weeds.
Next I used coarse horse manure and
that completely ruined them, as the
horses had been fed hay and the seed
all grew. Next I went into the swamps
and cut the long, coarse widc-bladed
grass. There is nothing in it that
will seed and grow on dry land.
Coarse corn stalks are best of any
thing I have used, but I can not get
enough of them. I have used the
swamp grass for five years, and cut
this year about five tons. 1 spread it
on after the ground is frozen hard in
early fall. It is thick enough to
completely cover the plants
from sight and cover the entire
surface of the bed. In spring, the
plants come up through the mulching
unaided, and the mulch is not dis
turbed or removed until after hardest,
excepting in such places as piove too
thick for the plants to break through.
Such places are stirred a little with
a fork, or rather loosened without dis
placing the mulch. I find spots which
have become uncovered during winter,
thaw out and the plants begin grow
ing about ten days quicker than those
covered. This time varies with the
season. A steady, cariy, warm spell
with warm rain, will thaw the soil
under the mulch quickly, while cool,
cloudy weather will thaw only ex
posed portions. After plants have be
gun to grow a few days under the
mulch, they must come to the light or
become white. I have kept plants
back two weeks under the mulch and
when uncovered ihcy were white
but had full grown leaves.
Such plants do not blos-
rom after turning grocn and arc
worthless. I should think from six to
len days is the limit of successful re
tarding of bloom by mv plan. Some
of this difference in time disappears
by the time the fruit ripens, as the
plant seems to make an effort in be
in season; but the heavier pickings
come several days later 1 have saved
three crops from frost by having three
days delay in blossoming, mid get.
always, better prices, as my first fruit
aasssaassPA9e-'w'"e5CS fjTLPAaPBssaaTaagaasaBsBTaff
comes in just behind Ithaca berries.
The unmulchcd portions have fewer
and larger berries but not so many
quarts per acre as the mulched, and
the latter stand drouth better. Usu
ally our last picking for market is
I July 4. This season first sales were
made June 24 and the last July 5. I
use all the mulching I can get on all
kinds of berries to save labor in keep
iag down weeds and conserving moist
ure, but as their tops are above the
mulch I do not think they arerstarded
much.
I'oultry 1'oints.
Waldo F. Brown writes in the Ohio
Tanner as follows: I have learned in
the last two years several things
which have brought success and in
creased profit in the management of
my poultry, and I think I can so
present them to your readers as to be
helpful to some of them. One thing I
have learned is, that it does not pay
to "monkey" with a home-made in
cubator. I filled twice, one holding
230 eggs, and my first hatch was
twelve chicks and the second two It
is needless to state that the incubator
is now in "inocuous desuetude."
KKGULAi: FEEDING.
Another thing I have learned is that
it pays to feed the hens regularly
every day through the summer even
though they are not confined, but
have the range of the farm. I have
done this and my hens have paid a
large profit, while tome of my neigh
bors who depended upon their hens
foraging for a living have not been
able to get from fifty hens enough
eggs for family use, while from 100
hens I have sold in the last ninety
days eggs to the amount of S-l S5, and
all at a lower price than has prevailed
for many years, the average being less
than 11 cents a do.cn. During this
ninety days we lost our incubator
eggs, used not less than fifty dozen
eggs in the family and hatched 250
young chicks.
The cost of keeping these fowls for
the three months has been SS, as we
have fed one ton of wheat screenings
for which I paid ST, and two bushels
of cracked corn for little chickens,
and the rest of their living they have
gathered from four acres of orchard
and pasture of which they have the
range. They are not confined, but on
the side next the garden and dooryard
EMBDEN GEESE. FROM FARMERS'
we have a fence ." or G feet high made
with a base board a foot wide and
common plasterer's lath, and early in
the spring we clip one wing, and we
have no trouble wich them in our
yard or garden. Many poultry
growers have fed wheat to their
fowls since the price has been
."0 cents a bushel, but this is
nearly S17 a ton, and after feeding
screenings exclusively for three years,
except that in cold weather we give
one feed of corn a day, I have found
that my hens lay well, and keep
healthy, and that the cost of keeping
is reduced fully one-half. I have
never paid, when I bought a ton at a
time, over S10, but did pay 00 cents a
hundred by the small quantity before
I got to buying by the ton. As I live
near the roller mills, I can keep watch
and select when there is screenings
that has but little chess in it. but is
mostly broken and shrunken wheat
We feed this to our young chickens
after they are ten days old, but usi al
ly give one feed a day of some other
food for variety, and furnish them
lettuce or some other green food.
SECURING FERTILE EGGS.
I have learned this year by a losing
expeiience that one must not have too
many hens to a ccck. Last year I had
seventy hens and three cocks and
nearly every egg was fertile, and this
year I Started with 113 hens to three
cocks and but r0 per cent of the eggs
were fertile. I conclude that from
twenty to twenty-five hens to each
vigorous cock is the best number, and
another year I shall not make the
blunder 1 did this. I manage my sit
ting hens better now than formerly. I
have rooms on purpose in which to
confine thein, when I wish to break
them from sitting, and Oitit. up from
ten to twelve together and keep them
up for about four days. I feed and
water regularly but let them get hun
gry the day I am to let them out, and
then open the door about sundown,
and they will forage until it begins to
get dark and then go on o the rcost
I have had as many as forty hens
wanting to sit at ence this season.
SETTING THE HENS.
1 formerly recommended setting the
hens in the poultry house in rows of
nests provided, and arranging to shut
them in and then have a regular time
to take them oil and feed them, but
while the theory is good it will not
work in practice, and I lost hundreds
of eggs in finding it out I have had
excellent success this season by re
moving the hens to rooms prepared
for them, and setting a number at
once. Four hens may be set in a
room live feet square, one in each
corner, and I set six in a room 5xS. It
:;iiou:u oe maae witn a door swinging
outward and a weight to keep it
closed, so that when you step inside
the hens can not get out Let your
hens sit two or three days without
;ggs on their own nests, and remove
them to the sitting room after dark.
Keep fresh water and food, gravel,
and a dust bath in the room, and let
the hens take care of themselves.
test the eggs.
One week after they are set test the
eggs and remove all unfertile ones. A
very convenient and excellent tester
can be made by getting a box of thin
lumber and cuttingan egg-shaped hole
at such a hight that it will come ex
actly opposite the 13 a me of a lamp.
Make the hole small enough that so
that the egg will not go through, and
in a dark room when you hold the egg
before the lamp yon can tell at a
glance whether it is fertile or not. The
unfertile eggs are perfectly good for
use, as they do not change at all in a
week, but if yon do not wish to use
them for any other purpose, they make
excellent food for the yonng chicks
for the first week after they hatch. In
most cases enough unfertile eggs will
come out from five or six litters so that
one hen can be sent back to the flock
to begin laying.
(lor Australian Competitors.
This high salting and coloring of
butter is fatal to any foreign business.
You do not know how they object to
it, says George W. Cochrane in the
Creamery Journal. We salt and color
higher than any people in the world.
Ninety per cent of the table butter
used in Europe is not salted over 1 per
cent; what they call high salted but
ter is 3 per cent, whereas our mildest
is G per cent, The coloring they claim
gives the butter an oily flavor, which
there is no doubt of. They can not
sell it on the counter, as consumers
will have it that it can not be natural
butter with so much coloring in it and
so high salted. They regard it as
butterine. Australia butter is going
to be a great factor in the future and
on this side they have got to take
notice and be guided so far as the
matter of any surplus. It is evident
to me that if we do not market in
Europe our surplus before the 1st of
November this year, we will have to
face at least a million packages of
butter of 50 pounds each on
the English markets from the 1st
of December, 1S94, to November
30, 1S95. They did last year bring in
their cows at different periods so that
they ship butter much later this sea
son than last. By next vcar they are
in hopes to make weekly shipments
the year 'round to Great Britain. Re
ceipts should have ended this year by
the first of March but it keeps coming
in. The day I left London there was
a steamer landing 28,000 packages,
and the advice of four steamers on the
way with large cargoes. I tell you old
American butter bad a black eye! The
make of this Australian butter aver
ages the finest in the world. They
went right in for pleasing the require
ments of the English consumers and
they have hurt Danish butter mure
REVIEW.
than any other, as it is almost as good
and brought Danish down from 1.15 to
110 Fhillings. They use no coloring
matter and salt :s per cent. Their
packages arc virtually air tight, the
box is enameled intide, wrapped in
parchment paper, no salt visible, but
they have a spraying of borax over
the surface between the paper .and the
butter; when it opens it glistens like
the morning dew, and I never saw any
strong or sidy cut of all I looked at.
They have made mo:c advancement in
the dairy industry in five years than
we have made in twenty-five, and can
give us pointers.
Tlio Itusslan Thistle.
The Russian thistle has become
abundant over a large extent of coun
try in the Dakotas, and has also been
found in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Nebraska and Kansas. It has not yet
been reported as found in Illinois, but
it is easily possible that it may now be
growing in the state. The most prob
able location would be along the lines
of railroads in northern Illinois, al
though the seeds may have been in
grain or grass seed shipped from the
infested region. The plant is said to
have been brought to this country in
flax seed sown in southeastern Dakota
in 1S73. Perhaps the expenditure of
one dollar's worth of work in 1S74
would have eradicated the now seri
ous pest It is now doubtful if it will
ever be eradicated. It is very desir
able that farmers generally should be
on the outlook and see that any plants
suspected of being thistocalled thistle
are at once destroyed. When mature
in September or October the plant
looks somewhat like the common tum
ble weed of the west It is often two
or three feet high and twice as much
in diameter. The color of the mature
plant la crimson The number of seeds
produced by one plant often reaches
many thousands. When the plant is
young it is readily eaten by farm ani
mals. While there is reason to hope
that this weed would not thrive so
well in Illinois as it has in the north
west, the prevention of its getting a
foothold in the state is a matter of
very great importance. The L". S. de
partment of agriculture has recently
published a bulletin quite fully dis
cussing the history and medes of de
stroying the weed.
Rasfrerrv Blight. There is a dis
ease now afUcting the Black Cap va
riety of raspberries, which, unless
energetically fought, will exterminate
the useful plant writes the Olenbeu
lah correspondent of the Sheboygan
County News. It is called blight and
may first be discerned in small dark
specks upon the bark, it spreads until
portions flake ff, the leaves darncn,
wither and drcop and the bush looks
as though it had been blasted by fire.
Spray with the Bordeaux mixture
The mixture is one pound blue vitriol
and one pound unslacked lime, powder
and dissolve the vitriol and also slacken
the lime separately, mix with enough
water to make twenty gallons: get a
J S 1 3 - I
goou sprayer, uae uiiiy jm nati or any
hardware dealer at $4.30. The canes
should be sprayed before leafing m
the spring; again after full foliage,
the new canes when G inches
high and again wheu fully
grown, again when the old canes
are cut out which should be
done at once after the crop is har
vested. Follow this course until the
trouble is mastered. With bashes
troubled with yellows, dig up by the
roots and burn.
HOME DEPAETMENT.
GEMS OP KNOWLEDGE FORTH!
HOUSEWIFE.
fjafal Iaforaaatloa About Slaoasrln; fas
Haasabold Beclpea and Instrnctloai
for Use la tfca Kitchen Tba Fatally
Oral
Home of Cholera.
India, the ancient home of cholera,
whence the pestilence usually spreads
to Russia and onward to western
Europe, is now the scene of experi
ments of great interest and importance,
which are being conducted by Dr.
Simpson, the health officer for Cal
cutta, and M. Haffkine, one of M.
Pasteur's assistants. The point which
they are seeking to establish is the
efficacy against attacks of cholera of
a protective vaccine which M. Haff
kine has introduced. By way of a
test, 116 out of the 200 inhabitants 01
a group of native huts were inoculated.
When cholera broke oat shortly after
ward, ten persons were attacked, of
whom seven died; all the cases, how
ever, were among the minority who
had not been fortified by the vaccine.
This result may have been merely a
coincidence, but it is remarkable
enough to justify the continuance of
the experiments for a time
long enough to give the rem
edy a fair trial. The discov
ery of a prophylactic against
cholera would be one of the most re
markable medical achievements of the
century. In India, where the coward
ice of the Hindoo renders him an easy
prey to the disease, and where the
sanitary conditions of native life are
still far below the European standard,
many valuable lives might be saved
by a cheap and simple precaution. To
Europe the consequences would be
still more desirable. The disease,
checked in its place of origin, would
discontinue its almost annual visits;
for, though the state of some European
ports is calculated to develop cholera
when it is once brought to them, there
are probably few recent cases of its
breaking out spontaneously in Eu
rope. How to Keep llread.
Don't sti ut bread in airtight boxes
to keep it moist Such barbarous
treatment of bread may be ellieaeious
in keeping it moist, but bread from
which fresh air is excluded always has
a disagreeable, clayey flavor and is un
palatable to people of cultured tastes,
who appreciate the nutty sweetness
that is a prominent characteristic of
all good bread.
The foolish notion of keeping bread
moist has its origin in bad cookery.
Most of the stuff made by bakers has
to be eaten fresh and moist or not
eaten at all. It is so light and woolly
that if exposed to the air a few hours
it grows dry and husky and is almost
as unsavory and innutritions as chips.
A large proportion of homemade
bread is similar in character and is
affected in a similar manner hy expos
ure to the air. But properly made
bread such bread as ought to be in
every intelligent home and on every
Christian table three times a day
grows sweeter by exposure to the air
and is not at its best until two or
tiiree days old. Bread should be kept
in a well covered box or jar, but it
should not be wrapped in cloths, and
the box or jar in which it is kept
should have small holes in the top or
sides, through which the fresh air can
have access. As soon as loaves of
bread are taken from the oven they
should be exposed freelyto pure air,and
at no time after it should they be ex
cluded from it Make good bread, put
it in a well ventilated box after it is
perfectly cool, and it will keep suf
ficiently moist at least a week.
Sweet nnil Sour I ream.
From a bulletin of the Iowa experi
ment station we take this summary of
results in butter making, under vary
ing conditions, between .Ian. 13 and
April S:
Each batch of cream was divided
into equal portions. One-half was
ripened and churned at 5S to HO de
grees; the other half was churned
sweet at a temperature of 30 to 34 de
grees. If the latter temperature had
been even lower, it might have been
better.-
The yield of butter from sour cream
was usually larger than from sweet
In nine trials it averaged .' per cent
larger.
Sour cream usually churned quicker
than sweet The butter from sour
cream usually contained less fat and
more water than did that from sweet
cream. In four trials the average
difference in fat was nearly 2 per cent
The butter from sour cream usually
contained a trifle more casein than did
that from sweet This was the case in
eight of lhe nine trials made. The
average difference was two-tenths of
1 per cent
The losses of fat in churning, wash
ing and working were less with sour
cream than with sweet cream. In nine
trials the average diffeience was
nearly one-half pound of fat per 100
pounds of butter made.
Five or 10 minutes spent every morn
ing during winter in rubbing the body
briskly with a flesh brush or piece of
flannel over the hand will do much to
keep the skin active and prevent
colds.
Laror Is Life. The late Sir Andrew
Clark. Mr. Gladstone's physician, made
USC Of the LhreC iulloTTin apVinric;rn.S
during a conversation with Miss
Frances Willard: '"Labor is the life of
life." "Ease is the way to disease."
'The highest life of an organ lie3 in
the fullest discharge of its functions."
There is a feast of food for reflection
in these three sentences.
Chocolate Pciiding. After a pint
of milk has come to a boil add one
large tablespoonful of corn starch, two
of chocolate grated and a half a tea
cup of sugar. Boil until it thickens
and turn into molds; set on ice. Serve
with cream and sugar flavored to taste,
Spanish Puddina. Put two ounces
of butter and a little salt in a pint of
water, and when it comes to a boil
add as much flour as will make it to
the consistency of hasty pudding.
Keep it stirred. After it has been
taken from the fire and has become
cold, beat it up with three eggs and a
little grated lemon peel and nutmeg.
Drop the batter with a spoon into the
frying pan with boiling lard and f ry
quickly. Sprinkle with sugar before
sending to table.
Milk in the Cellar, When it is de
sired to use a cellar or basement
room for the keeping of milk it should
be thoroughly cleansed of all other
farm products, the floor disinfected
with lime or land plaster, the walls
aud ceilings thoroughly covered with
strong whitewash, ample ventilatiDii
provided, and then a suitable loom
should be built above ground and the
cellar devoted to strong fruits and
vegetablea We never saw an under
ground room which was fit for a hu
man being, a horse or a cow to live in,
and so not fit to keep milk in. Ex.
1
Wild or Frlckly Lettuce
A late Illinois bulletin says:
A plant whicrx promises to become a
very serious weed pest in Illinois is
already weU established in different
parts of the state. As it spreads with
unusual rapidity, it is especially im
portant that the plants now growing
should be destroyed, at least that they
should be prevented from maturing
seeds. These are produced in great
numbers and are readily carried by
the wind. This plant is the wild or
prickly lettuce (Lactuca Scariola), a
vigorous growing plant, having a
single stem from one to as much as
four or more feet high. This stem
has many leaves, usually six inches or
more long, perhaps one and a half
inches wide, with irregular edges '
' and prickles on the edges and I
on the midrib. The color of the leaves !
is rather a light green. The plant has '
small yellow flowers which appear in I
July or August The writer has never ,
known a weed to increase so rapidly i
or to thrive more vigorously than docs
this in the vicinity of Champaign. It
grows vigorously in compact blue grass
sod, in cultivated fields, along road-
sides, and in shaded or exposed situa
tions. It is not a perennial and does not
spread from the roots. Cutting the
plant at or near the surface will some
times destroy it Cutting them twice
or three times will prevent the matur
, ing of the seed. There is always dan
I ger that some plants will be missed
I or that a few may send up seed stalks i
after even a second cutting. Wher- t
ever it can be done the plant should
l be pulled or dug up, or the ground
i plowed. Cutting close to the ground
I with a hoe will usually be effective;
mowinrr. unless repeated, is much less
( certainly effective. Farm animals
will sometimes eat the young plants. ;
In localities where the plant is still
rare its spread can be prevented with '
little effort In many localities only I
I concerted action by farmers, road
commissioners, and holders of village j
lots will prevent a still further spread j
1 of what has already been a serious
I trouble. In any case it may con- t
' fidently be expected that the time,
' effort and money required to get rid
, of the weed will be many fold greater
next year than this, if this year's crop
of seed is allowed to come to maturity,
j This lettuce, like many of our worst
, weeds, has been introduced from
Europe. The writer has not heard of ,
its having been noticed in any con
siderable quantity at any place in
Illinois until within the hist three or
four yearsj i
The Cows and the Hired Man.
Every discerning farmer who ha ,
kept cows knows in a general way I
that there is a great difference in i
milkers in the amount of milk they
will get from the same cow, says '
Hoard's Dairyman. As between '
two hired men in milking ten or twelve '
cows of equal flow, one man will be i
worth double what the other is in his !
influence over the cows. Until Dr.
Babcock made a special experiment ;
on this matter but little was really ac-
curately known as to the extent of ,
this personal influence in affecting
the profit of cows. How much we
have learned on old, old questions in
the past ten 3'ears! The doctor made
a careful test, which was published in
the Dairyman seme years ago, but ,
which should be mentioned frequently
on account of its importune;; to the '
dairy farmer. It is important that the
size and scope of the matter become
a living, vital principle with him,
guiding him in his own treatment of
his cows and in the education of the
men he employs. A hired man who is
well educated in the handling of cows,
who has a quick brain, a kind heart,
a patient manner, and a skillful hand
is worth double the amount that a
man of opposite character will cost
Dr. Itabcoek found that one milker
obtained fiom four cows 2i 2 pounds
of butter fat in seven days. From the
same cows, the week following, an
other milker obtained 21. S pounds
Here was a difference of nearly 31..
pounds of butter fat depending for its
value, of course, on the price of but
ter. Neither of these milkers were
abusive, and both milked the cows
equally dry. By this convincing ex- i
periment any dairyman can see how
important it is to take special pains to
educate the hired man, as well as
himself to au understanding of wh;t
he has at risk. The usual number of
cows milked by one person in a largo i
dairy. is from eight to fifteen. In Dr.
Bahcock's experient, if butter was 23
cents a pound, one man was worth, at
least, 2S cents per cow a week, more
than the other. Where a man is milk
ing, say, ten cows, this would amount
to S3. SO a week, or nearly $12 a month.
This is but one of the hundreds of line
points that throng the pathway of
dairy farming. It shows so clearly that
this unthinking, unreading, unskillful
way of handling cows that so many
farmers practice can not pay in the
nature of things.
Kngland and France.
A petition was lately presented in
the French chamber of deputies urg
ing that diplomatic negotiations
should be entered into between the
French and British governments with
a view to a consideration of the ques
tion of the proposed methods of com
munication between the two coun
tries, which include: (1) A tunnel
under the channel; (2) a bridge over
the channel; (3) a transmarine tunnel:
(1) a tubular railway; (3) a mixed pas
sage; (i) a steam ferry carrying a
train. This petition was signed by a
nu ni be i of bankers, njjineers and
tradesmen in Paris. The committee
to whom the petition was referred said
in its report that it could not fail to
acknowledge that it was very expe
dient that the government of the re
public should open fresh diplomatic
negotiations with Groat Britain for
the object indicated in the petition,
but that it confined itself for the time
to placing on record the pressing
sconomic interests which attach to the
construction of a permanent railway
ind the establishment of means of
transport between France and Eng
'and. Which Was the Bill? There is an
old story about an artist who got
down to his last dollar. There is
nothing unusual in the story so far,
as all artists are aware, but he made
a unique disposal of the greenback. '
He put a coat of paint and sizing en a
board, laid the bill down and turned
a corner or two, pressed it firmly
down and gave the whole a couple of
coats of varnish. He then placer",;. on
exhibition for a nominal sura in some
store, and finally disposed of the won
derful "painting" for a good round
sum. The Idler was reminded of this
legend by the exhibition last week in
a Washington street cigar store win
dow. It was a slab of wood, en which
appeared, one above the other, appar- '
ently two one dollar bills. Above
them is the legend running: "There
is only one bill. Which is it?" The j
most careful scrutiny failed to detect
the real from the painted. Boston
Post
A Marvellous Showing.
The U. S. Government, through the Agri
cultural Department, has been investigating
the baking powders for the purpose of in
forming the public which was the purest, J
most economical and wholesome. $
The published report shows the Royal fc
Baking Powder to be a pure, healthful g$
preparation, absolutely free from alum or any
adulterant, and that it is greatly stronger in jgJ
leavening power than any other brand. Wx
Consumers should not let this valuable m
information, official and unprejudiced, go
unheeded. $
ROYAL BAKING POWDER
Uses of the rotate.
In France the farina is largely used
or culinary purposes. The famous
gravies, sauces and soups of France are
largely indebted for their excellence to
that 6onrce, and the bread and pastry
equally so, while a great deal of the so
called cognac, imported into England
from France, is distilled from the pota
to. Throughout Germany the same
uses aro common. In Poland the man
ufacture of spirits from the potato is a
most extonsivo trade. "Stettin brandy,'
well known in commerce, is largely im
ported into England, and is sent "from
thence to many of our foreign posses
sions as the produce of the grape, and
is placed on many a table of England as
the same; while the fair ladies of onr
country perfume themselves with the
spirit of potato under the designation of
ean de Cologne. But thero are other
nses which this esculent is tnrned to
abroad. After extracting the farina,
the pulp is manufactured into orna
mental articles, snch as pictnre frames,
8iiuT boxes, and several descriptions of
toys, and the water that runs from it in
tho process of manufacture is a most
valuable scourer.
For perfectly cleansing woolens, and
such-like articles, it is the housewife's
panacea, and, if the washerwoman hap
pens to havo chilblains, sho becomes
cured by tho operation.
In the Depth of Misery.
Tlioimli ctKlotvoil with wealth "beyond tho
ilreani'. of avarice," the wretched sufferer
from chronic dyspepsia Is plunged in the
depths of misery from which lie or she sel
dom I'liii'Ws even for a day at a stretch.
There N a way to down the imp. Invoke the
alii of l!ostctters Momheh Hitters and he
departs. Keep tisin;; the medicine, mid the
relief yon promptly experience finally he
comes permanent anil a tlioro-ili cure is ef
fected. Heartburn, flatulence, uneasiness
ami sinking at the pit of the stomach, nerv
ousness, insomnia these are symptoms first
reiieted and tiicilly cured, with their cause,
ly this inelfahly re iah e spe itic. Ller
complaint and constipation, brother tor
mentors, of dyspepsia, are a No sent to limbo
!;, the Hitters. so are rlieumat ism. malaria
:i ud kidney complaint I'se this helpful med
icine systematically, not by fits and starts.
As to Music.
The word tenor, from tho Italian
tenore, signifies holder, a voice which
holds or sustains the song. This ex
prefsiou is applied chiefly to tho artist
whose voice holds tho best between tho
contralto and tho barytone. The tenor
is the rart avis of the ancients, lie is
seldom found (that is to say a good
one), and, if ho is difficult to find, he is
also difficult to preserve. The delicacy
of his voico demands constant care and
constant nursing. Rnbini, the former
tenor so dear to tho habitues of the The
ater den Italiens, dared not smoke,
hesitated almost to eat according to his
appetite, and for nothing in the world
would he go oat on the day of his per
formances, save to go to tho theater.
A good tenor easily earns 70,000 to
100,000 francs per year. Roger, now
lead, used formauy years to get 80,000
francs at tho Opera Nan.lm, specially
engaged in "L'Afncaino'' by a formal
clause in Meyerbeer's will had a salary
os 110,000 francs. And yet good tenors
usually mako moro money in othr
capitals, and St. Petersburg, Loudon,
Now York, Milan and Borlin render it
impossible for Paris to moke a serious
engagement with many of tho celebrat
ed singers at present.
Hall's Catarrh Cnro
Is taken internally. Price, 73c
Mixed.
Artemns Ward was in Louisville just
at the close of the war, and one day at
tho Louisville Hotel was introduced to
' a loud-tain ing Confederate Colonel.
"Let's see, Colonel," said Ward, as thoy
shook hands, "what Michigan regiment
did you command? ' "Michigan I" cried
the Colonel, fairly dancing with rage;
"I was on the other side!" "Beg par
don," said Ward, looking annoyed him
self; "but I have got this war all mixed
up, somehow."
Educational.
Attention of the reader is r-IIcd to tho
announcement of Notre Dame University in
another column of this kih.t. This noted
institution of learning enters upon its lifty
lirst year with the next session. Parents
and guardians contemplating to send their
lovsaud young men away from home to
school would do well to write for particu
lars, to the Fniversity of Notre Dame. In
diana, leforcmakingarrangements for their
(duc-ation elsewhere. Nowhere in this
In nan land are there to be found better
facilities for cultivating the mind and heart
.ban are offered at Notre Dame University.
living Werd$.
The last words of the great satirist
Rabelais were "1 am going to take a
leap in tho dark ; let down the curtain
the farce is done." Mirabeau's farewell
to life was thus expressed : "Let me die
amid the sound of delicious music and
the fiagranco of flowers." Keats' last
woids were a poem in themselves: "I
feel the daisies growing over me."
Burns' dying words were: "Don't let
that awkward squad fire over ray grave."
Chancellor Thurlow's: "I'm shot, if I
don't believe I'm dying." Holler slept
after the words: "The artery ceases to
beat," and amid the growing darkness
of mortality Goethe murmured the
words, "Let the light enter."
Crop in Ontario.
The yearly average of the crops for
Ontario for twelve years ending 1898
are given in the United States depart
ment of agriculture report for Decem
ber. The average per acre was for
wheat. H.2, for oats SLG. for barley
2.". 7, for rye 10.1, for peas, 19.2, for
beans 17.1, for potatoes 115 bushels,
fr r carrots 331, for turnips 417 bushels
respectively. The hay crop averaged
fo- hay and clover combined 1.79 tons
per acre. These crops excel those of
I nele, Samuel and bid him look out for
his laurels. It is easy to see how it is
that Canadian hay is sold on our mar
1 ets. Can we not equal their crops?
' llanaH'i Single urn Nalv.
Warr.intisi tix-.ir.r n.in-y refunded. Ask jour
JruEgi-sl fr it. 1 rite U.vnt.
.Maalcal Item.
'I want the music of O'P.ielly and
fie UK'," said a little boy, entering a
New Yori: music store.
For singing or the piano?"
I :out want it for either; I want it
for my sister."
Louisiana has found it necessary to pass
laws fcr the care o its lepers.
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CO., 106 WAUL ST., NCW-YORK.
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Never Arrrttnl llefore.
A Texas justice asked a dariicy otti
ciall: "Were you never arrcstod before?"
"No, boss, ebery time l'se been ar
rested de policeman grabbed me from
hind, and dey had a heap er troublo
doing hit, becase I kin run like a tur
key." Ksrl'n ClOTcr Hoot Tra.
ThrrratniipiinllTj:i-fr.-sliiissrnl-lsrrn
lolhoComplexiuu ami cures Constip.it tu. aV.JOo .JL
What is Cnniplfxlon.
"What a red face Colonel Yerger has
got';
es, his face is red, but that is its
natural color. Even when he is as pale
as a ghost his face fc the color of crim
son. You ought to see him when he is
excited and gets red in the face. Then
he turns purplo.
Ti t'lrnno tho .sjateni
Effectually yet gently, when costive or
bilious, or when the blood is impure or
sluggish, to permanently cure habitual
constipation, to awaken the kidneys
and liver to a healthy activity without
irritating or weakening them, to dispel
headaches, colds or fevers use Syrup of
Figs.
I.ose'ri Young Prraut.
Mcltinnis You were in love with
that beautiful Miss Jones before she
married old I Sold bug, weren't you?
(.Jus De Smith Don't talk about her.
My love for her lies buried in my
bosom.
McGinnis Well you might as well
resurrect your buried hive, for they
are going to plant old (nldbug. llo
died of apoplexey last night.
Make Your Own Hitters!
Stelcetee'H lry Itltter.
Ono package of SteUetee's Dry Bitters
will make one Cation of the best bitters
known; will cure indigestion, pains in tho
stomach, fever and ague. Acts upon tho
Kiilneysaiid Bladder; the best tout known.
Sold by druggists or sent by inaiI,osiag
inialil. Flirt' 3' I'M firlii;li' r two iiM-Lnifo. fur
0 ct'i. I' S rti'tii" t.iLrti In i!iTiiiftit. Aildit'i-t
GEO. O. STKKKTKK. Ilr.iml IE u.l.K Mlih.
A Coml .Multure Trap.
Rural New Yorker says that a good
manure trap can be made out of nails
ami boards by almost any one who ean
hold a hammer. The best form is that
of an open shed in a pasture. It may
bo temporary or fixed. Shelter ami
shade are the bait for these traps. In
hot or rainy weather the stock will go
there for rest and shelter. '1 he result
is that manure accumulates on these
spots. It is a first rate plan to put one
of these traps on the poorer spots in the
field. 1 hat is where you want to catch
the manure.
Ediirato Your Iiiughtors-
At this season of the year parents havo
to decide ujon and select the educational
institution which their daughters are toat
tend for the coming j ears. In this connec
tion we desire to call attention to the edu
cational announcement in our advertising
columns of the Academy of the Sacred
Heart. St Joseph, M. Tin h- huildius
ami-grounds are atti.ictite. Iix-ality health
fill, teaching in all branches, thorough, ami
terms reasonable Patents fortunate to
select this school for the (ducation of their
daughters will, we are sure. Im fully satis
fied For further information, addres..
Mother SujK-rior. Ai-adeiuy of the Sacied
Heart, St. Joseph, Mo.
Ono thousand carloads of ixx-ket llasks
for liquor were used in Cincinnati last
3" ear.
liegeman's Camphor Ire wit Is niyrerlne.
TlK'iiriKin.ilnintiiiilr genuine. t'ur'('li.iPMsl ll.unH
ssnd Face, Cold Sort-s.ic. CU.CUrk Co.,N.ll4Wii.Cl.
Sylvestek Gkaham, an American re
former, among other works relating to
diet in connection with physiology and
anatomy, published, in 18112, a treatise
on bread and bread making, in which
ho strongly advocated tho making of
bread from unbolted flour. Hence tho
the terms "Graham flour" and " Graham
bread.
Were You Ever South In Summer?
It Is no hotter in Tennessee, Alabama or
Georgia than hero, and it is jositively de
tightful on tho (Julf Coast of Mississippi
and West Florida. If you arj looking for
a location in the south go down now nn 1
see for yourself. Tho Ixiuisvillo it Nash
ville railrond nnd connections will s.U
tickets to all points south for trains of
Aug. 7 nt ono faro round trip. Ask your
ticket nRcnt nliout it, and if ho cannot sell
you excursion tickets write to I. I. Atmore,
general passenger ngent, Louisville, hTr.
Two or three centuries ago glovi-s were
made of much greater value than now.
Billiard Table, pecond-haml. For sit'i,
cheap. Apply to or address, H. C Akin-,
311 S. 12th St., Omaha, Noo.
The mother in a woman
tiful.
makes her 1 eau-
ALL THE YEAH HOUSD,
just as thoroughly
and as certainly ut
ono time as an
other, Dr Pierce's
Golden Medical
Discovery purifies
tho blood. You
don't need it nt
any sjieeiul season.
But when any
eruption appears-,
or you feel weari
ness and di'iiies-
sion that's a sign of impure blood, then you
need this medicine, and nothing else iho
ordinary "Spring medicines and blood
purifiers can't xmparo with it.
The "Discovery' promotes every bodily
function, puts on mund, halthy IWi, and
cleanses, repairs and invigorates your whole
system. In the most stublora Skin Diseases,
in every form of Scrofula even in Con
sumption (or Lung-scrofula) In its earlier
stages and fn every blood-taint and dis
order, it is the only guarameru. icuroy.
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