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AGRICULTURALISTS.
TO
Some Up to Date nints About Cultiva
tion of the Soli and Yields Thereof
Horticulture Viticulture and Florl
ralture. Fall Flowing: Sabsolllnr;.
Once more we confront the arduous
task of plowing land so dry that it is
full of deep fissures, so hard that it
breaks up into huge lumps instead of
flowing freely in furrows after the
plow. Just what to do with such soil
is often a perplexing question, and too
frequently the solution is to let it
alone until sspring, with the result
that a good mellow soil is not ob
tained. The Fakmers' Review has
taken the position that no matter how
dry and hard stubbles may prove in
fall they should be plowed as soon as
possible after the crop is harvested,
and no matter how unsightly the job
of plowing may leave it Slow, hard
unpleasant work it is, to be sure, this
tearing of dry stubble soil, but better
put four horses on one plow than
leave the work undone, no matter
how small an area is daily turned
over. It is not really turned over,
rightly speaking, for the field looks
as if an earthquake had caused a
simultaneous eruption over the entire
surface, but the soil is exposed to
the weather, and that is the main
thing, no matter how unsightly the
field may appear to the farmer that
likes to see neat work. Were it possi
ble to explode a dynamite cartridge
upon every square yard of stubble
land that has been plowed and cropped
year after year, the result would
doubtless be marvelously good. Old,
worn farm land requires a vigorous
shaking up, rnd it would be well
could such an active agent as dyna
mite be used for the purpose. Down
south they plant apple trees in holes
blown out by dynamite, and report
that trees so planted make twice as
rapid growth as those planted in holes
dug with a spade. The reason for this
is simply that the subsoil is thorough
ly shattered, so that the roots may
ramify easily in every direction in
search of food. The fall plowed
stubble broken up when the soil is
dry appears a mighty aggrega
tion of huge hard lumps, but
by spring these have disappeared,
having been "weathered" down
SU.SSEV HFLL. OWNED BY
by the action of frost, thaw, rain, eta
The soil is now in a condition for
spring work that could in no other
way have been obtained, and so wp
say by all means plow stubble in fal'
no matter how dry it may be.
The fact that dynamite has been
found useful in preparing stubborn
land for the reception of trees in the
south is merely an argument in favor
of subsoiling and it seems probable
that subsoiling will have to be done
sooner or later on many of our prairie
farms. The reason that subsoiling
has not been much practiced in the
west is doubtless that land has been
cheap and plentiful further west upon
which crops could be grown without
much work or expense for fertilizers,
while the new buyer of the worn
land, by thorough cultivation and
lavish use of manure, has staved
off the day when subsoiling
will be necessary. To-day there arc
many old worn farms which would re
spond more quickly to subsoiling than
to manure and the benefits from the
former would be noticeable for years,
yet the expense of subsoiling is so
great that little of it will be done for
years to come. Before subsoiling,
western lands need tile draining every
where, and lime freely applied would
also do the old farms a world of good,
but sooner or later we presume that
subsoiling will have to be practiced.
The following letter will be inter
esting in this connection:
subsoil n.owixo is xi:;;kaska.
The following letter, giving the re
sults of experiments with subsoil
plowing, was recently received by the
secretary of agriculture from Mr.
I'eler Youngers, .Tr., of Geneva, Neb
and is deemed of sufficient interest to
warrant its communication to the
agricultural press:
Having practiced subsoil plowing ex
tensively on our nursery grounds near
Geneva in growing fruit and orna
mental trees with gratifying results,
we concluded to experiment with
grain and vegetables. The ground
was prepared by subsoil plowing in
the fall of 1SJ2, and the crop of 1SH3
consisted of corn and potatoes. Corn
tlmt vear being only a very moderate
crop in that vicinity (maximum forty
bushels per acre, and the average not
exceeding twenty bushels), we har
vested a crop of seventy-five bushels
per acre from a strip of ground that
had been subsoilcd. The potato crop
was practically a failure in
this vicinity; the result of our
experiment was a good crop
about 12o bushels per acre. This
season (1S94) the crop consists of rye.
oats, corn and potatoes. Rye har
vested indicates a yield of thirty-five
bushels per acre, while rye. in an ad
joining field the same seed, planting
and harvest, but not subsoiled will
yield ten bushels per acre. Oats on land
subsoil plowed in fall of 1S93 will yield
forty to forty-five bushels per acre;
oats on land subsoil plowed in fall of
1S92 will yield thirty to thirty-five
bushels per acre; oats on land adjoin
ing, under ordinary cultivation, will
yield ten to fifteen bushels per acre
(the average crop under the ad
verse conditions that prevailed),
in each instance the seed, soil and
planting being the same. The super
iority of subsoil cultivation is es
pecially conspicuous in the length of
straw and stand on the ground. The
results of experiments with this year's
corn and potatoes can not at this time
be determined. With a continuation
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of the present favorable conditions
we will have the largest yield of corn
we have ever had. Even under these
favorable conditions the corn on sub
soil plowed ground seems to possess a
special element of strength that will,
in all probability, exert its influence
in demonstrating the value of sub-soil
cultivation. Farmers' Bcview.
Building a Silo.
The Wisconsin experiment station
at Madison gives the following direc
tions as to building a silo:
The cheapest floor consists of solid
clay, raised a few inches Above the
surface of the surrounding ground.
The foundation should be of stone or
brick, though this is not absolutely
necessary; concrete formed of gravel
and cement is equally good, especially
up Kj the surface of the ground. The
wall upon which the sills rest should
be at least six inches above the floor,
and eight inches above the ground
surface. The sills should be anchored
to the masonry by means of iron rods.
They may be made of two pieces of
2x8 or 2x10 inch stuff, spiked together;
these should be painted with coal tar,
and bedded in mortar with the ends
crossed at the corners and well spiked
together. Studs smaller than 2x3 are
seldom used even for small structures
Experiments carried on at tbo Wiscon
sin experiment station, with a view to
determine the pressure which was
safe to allow on all the sides
of a silo, showed that to insure
against bending, the studs should
not be less than 10 inches
wide for a silo 10 feet deep, and not
less than 12 inches for 18 to 20 feet
deep, and wider in proportion as the
depth increases. In these tests the
uprights were 18 inches apart. To be
secured against lateral pressure, the
studs should be mortised into the
sills. Strength in the walls is most
essential (the pressure being very
great) in order to prevent spreading,
which admits the air and spoils the
ensilage. The usual lining consists of
two thicknesses of boards, joints
broken; a thickness of tarred paper
should be used between the layers of
boards. There is much difference of
opinion in regard to the advisability
of painting the inside of silos with
coal iar or other material for the pur
pose of preserving the wood. Some
prefer an ordinary ccat of paint. The
officers of the Wisconsin station ex
amined a number of silos, both painted
and unpainted, and found but little
advantage in the paint. If the silo is
built inside the barn, no lining on the
outside will be required. As a rule,
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JOHN
PALMER OF
REVIEW.
HORSHAM,
the ensilage settles badly in the cor
ners, especially if tramping has
been necleeted. This allows de
cay to commence; almost invariably
the worst ensilage is found in the cor
ners. Sharp corners may be avoided
by nailing a vertical board with bev
eled edges in the corners. The aper
ture behind this board may be filled
with sawdust or some other suitable
material. Instead of boards the cor
ners may be filled by using a three
cornered piece of timber made by
splitting, say a 0x0 inch scantling,
with a saw. The doors may be contin
uous from top to bottom, thus form
ing a chute through which the ensilage
may drop to the floor of the cattle
stable, or there may be a space of sev
eral feet left behind them. The form
er method is more convenient for feed
ing, but the latter adds strength to
the silo, and prevents the walls from
spreading. If outside doors are used
they shduld be hung on hinges The
best method for arranging the inside
is to place short boards across the
doorway, which will be held in place
by the weight of the ensilage, and can
be built up as the height of the ensi
lage increases ice house fashion. By
the use of tar paper the air can be ex
cluded. Mill ton.
That farmers as a class should use
more mutton can hardly be disputed,
says Wool and Hide Shipper. It is
palatable, cheap and nutritious, and,
when sheep are kept upon the farm,
affords an opportunity of having fresh
meat at a less cost and with a less risk
of loss than almost any other class of
stock. During harvest and at thresh
ing more or less fresh meat is neces
sary, and with a little planning a head
of mutton can be made to supply all
that is needed, but it is not only on
these extra occasions that mutton can
be used to a great advantage. On too
many farms too much dependence is
placed upon fat bacon or pickled pork
for the meat. During the summer the
constant use of fat pork in this way is
at least detrimental to health, if not
positively injurious, and fresh meat
would be healthier as well as more
palatable. Many farmers are so sit-
uatcd that they can not depend upon
the butcher, while in reality the
mutton is so much cheaper
that
the average farmer can better
afford te kill a good fat mut
ton than to purchase fresh meat from
the butcher, even though it be brought
to the door reasonably regular. One
advantage of mutton over other kinds
of fresh meat is that it will keep
I longer than either beef or pork. But
to have a supply when needed and to
have of a good quality it is nearly
always best to commence in good sea
son. Mutton to be good, should be
reasonably fat, but with plenty of
grass and water this would not be
difficult to secure. There are nearly
always wethers or ewes that have not
proven good breeders that should
either be fattened and marketed or
butchered, and when fresh meat is
needed it will be more economical to
butcher than to market, as selling fat
mutton and buying fresh beef and
pork is paying a good profit for con
verting animals into meat, while it is
very qestionable, all things con
sidered, if the quality is as good. The
average farm family will readily eat a
good mutton before it will spoil, and
do this much more readily than they
would a pork or a beef, and this is
quite an item.
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itiBi ii ii waa ii
Cultivation of Flax la Holland.
Although flax in the Netherlands is
raised on almost any kind of soil, the
best adapted for flax culture seems to
be the light, clayey soil reclaimed from
the sea and rivers, says Nebraska
Farmer. The seed used here is, in the
first instance, specially selected Riga
(Russian) which produces a weighty,
coarse fiber. The second crop yields a
finer fiber, with better spinning qual
ity, and consequently of greater value.
The seed saved from this crop can be
used on light soil, and is also taken
when no trustworthy Riga is available.
It is likely to produce a rather "wefty"
article, of comparatively high value,
and the seed of this crop is exported to
Ireland, Germany and France for sow
ing purposes, being better adapted for
the heavier soil of those countries.
The Riga seed is generally sown,
weather permitting, in the latter part
of March; all other kinds of seed dur
ing April, as soon as the soil shows
symptoms of working. Before Bowing,
the seed is carefully cleaned. This is
very important, as the flax fields are
apt to be overrun with weeds. The
sowing is done by hand, pains being
taken to spread it evenly as possible.
From 80 to 100 quarts of Riga seed and
less than seventy-five quarts of Dutch
seed are spread to the acre. The germ
inating capacity of the seed is tested
before sowing. This is done by the fol
lowing simple process: The seed is put
between two thick sheets of wet brown
paper or flannel, with a thin layer of
damp earth under and over this cover
ing, and placed in a moderately warm
room. In four or five days the per
centage of dead seed can be easily
ascertained, and its character thus de
termined. In Holland the owner of
tli. land, us a rule, only prepares the
soil and sows the seed. Then the
land is let or the growing crop is sold
to the so-called "Vlasboer" (flax
farmer), who weeds, pulls, winnows,
ripples, steeps and prepares the flax
for the market Thus there is jn Hol
land a large body of skilled laborers
who follow the secondary occupation
of flax farming, above described, as a
distinct industry. The flax is pulled
as soon as the seed is fully developed
and the plant shows signs of ripening.
After having been pulled it is tied
loosely into sheaves and exposed,
standing, to air drying until fully
cured or dried, after which it is placed
in ditches to steep, being weighted
down so as to be entirely submerged.
When the straw can stand the test of
being drawn clear from the fiber, it if.
SSP5
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;SUSSEX, ENGLAND. FARMERS
A Disinfection for Swine 1'lngue.
Thorough disinfection of premises
visited by the dreaded swine plague
is regarded as one of the first duties
of the farmer, in order to prevent the
spread of the disease. The United
States department of agriculture
recommends the following disinfect
ants: J. Slacked lime in the proportion of
half a pound to a gallon of water.
2. Equal parts of crude carbolic acid
and sulphuric acid, mixed together
and added to water in the proportion
of two ounces to the gallon.
3. Sulphuric acid in the proportion
of an ounce to a gallon of water.
4. Boiling water.
5. Corrosive sublimate in the pro
portion of one ounce to a gallon of
water.
We would also, advise moving the
hogs at once into new quarters. If
the attack comes in warm weather
the herd should be removed to some
j4ict.tnt nqcliivA onl lr.t A.tiwi1t
W.9t,.UU piM3I.UIV UUU IkVH OL41ICJJ
away from former quarters. Then
' promptly burn all dead hogs and keep
the feeding and sleeping places scru
pulously clean by raking and burning
j all litter every few daya In the mean
time me aismiection oi ine iormer
quarters can be done vigorously and
completely.
Clean Culture and Army AVornm.
A United States department of ag
riculture report says: There are many
localities in which the army worm is
never seen, or, rather, is never known
to be injurious, and these localities
owe their exemption undoubtedly to
the unconscious use of preventive
measures. Clean cultivation, rotation
of crops, cleaning up fence corners,
close pasturage, the burning over of
waste grass land in spring or fall, are
preventive measures of great value,
since, where these methods are
in vogue, the army worm will
never be able to get a migrat
ory start, or. in other words,
it never becomes so abundant as
to necessitate migration. Bearing in
mind the fact that the insect breeds
normallv in rank grass, such as is
usuallv found along the edges of
swamps (not in swamps, for the insect
must have comparatively dry earth in
which to pupate) or in accidentally
over-fertilized spots in pasture lands,
and that it feeds normally only upon
the true grasses, the farmer who has
once suffered from army worm attack
may easily prevent its recurrence by
winter burning or by rotation and
clean cultivation.
Ir.niGATios nv Wind Mills- Irriga
tion is attracting more attention each
year, and the benefits of it are becom
ing more apparent. In many parts of
the country where it has not been at
all necessary 1o irrigate in the past,
it has become desirable through the
lessening rainfall to resort to partial
irrigation, and windmills are being
use I for this purpose very suc
cessfully. Wells are sunk on the
higher portions of the farm
and reservoirs built into which
water is pumped and kept for
the dry time, when it can be used for
partial irrigation. It is estimated
that the total cost of a plant of this
kind is not far from $250, and the
benefits are said to make it profitable
to have such reservoirs.
DAIRY AND P0ULE&Y.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS
OUR RURAL READERS.
FOR
Bow Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Homestead HLcts
as to the Care of Live Stock and
Poultry.
Poorly Located Creameries.
One of the most serious hindrances
to the success of dairying in many
sections is the multiplicity of cream
eries within a small radius. We have
watched, says Iowa Homestead, this
matter for ten years and noted the
evil results of crowding creameries
into too small a space in advance of
the dairy education that is needed to
make any creamery a success. Ten or
twelve yaars ago, when the creameries
outside of what was then considered
the dairy belt, were started, the im
pression was created in the minds of
many business men thtft there were
fortunes in the business and when one
creamery was started others seemed to
think that there was am opportunity to
start one or two more in the same ter
ritory. The result was that cream
wagons for two or three creameries
were driving over the same territory,
bidding against each other and offer
ing more than the cream was worth,
and the final result was the crippling of
every creamery and the failure of the
majority. It may be well to under
stand, first as well as last, that
the way of the creamery is not
the way to sudden and vast wealth;
that a creamery well conducted and
with a sufficient amount of raw mate
rial in the form of milk within easy
reach furnishes a good, profitable
business, but that the creamery can
not be run to advantage on a small
amount of milk. For instance, if a
township or any other section of
country has cows that will furnish
5,000 pounds of milk a day, with farm
ers willing to milk them, it is possible
there to establish a creamery that will
do a paying business. With this
amount of milk it will pay to secure a
first-class butter maker and this will
pay the farmer a fair price for the
milk. If, however, there are but
2,500 pounds of milk, the owners will
feel that they can not afford to pay the
price that will secure a first-class
butter maker and the result will be an
inferior product and inferior price and
also a larger proportion of cost per
pound of butter, all of which must
come eventually off the man who
furnishes the milk. Farm
ers then become discouraged and
quit and the result is that the cream
ery fails. Ten thousand pounds of
milk a day can be utilized at a
smaller expense than five, and
twenty than ten, for the reason that
one expert butter maker, one or two
assistants, who are learning the busi
ness, can be emplo3'ed and the result
will be that the farmers will receive
a better price for their milk and be
encouraged to increase the quantity,
and thus the foundation of prosperity
for all concerned will be established
on a solid basis. It is much easier
to avoid this mistake at the be
ginning than it is to correct it after
the creameries hac been established.
Communities that are now thinking
of establishing creameries should first
see that there is an abundant supply
of milk within reach at a small per
cent of cost for gathering and thus
proceed on thorough business princi
ples. The creamery business is essen
tially a manufacturing enterprise and
the important considerations in all
manufacturing enterprises are, first,
an abundance of raw material, and,
second, the most economical way of
converting it into the finished pro
duct, and then making a good use of
the by-products.
Suggestions As to Kggs.
An egg is a thing of suspicion at this
season. Stale eggs and nest eggs have
for years found their way into the
baskets, not intentionally always, but
it is only by care and the greatest cau
tion that buyers can be taught to have
confidence, says Mirror and Farmer.
It is lack of confidence that lowers the
price, and in selling eggs the farmer
or poultryman must largely depend on
Ks individual efforts to establish a
ready custom for his eggs. This may
require time, but by offering only the
freshest and most attractive eggs and
aiming to establish a reputation for
reliability, customers will be attracted
and will remain with you. When once
the producer convinces his customers
they will receive nothing but the best,
he need not govern his prices by the
market quotations, but may confi
dently expect something more, as cus
tomers will willingly pay an extra
price for that which they are assured
is first class, and especially when they
have had evidence of the reliability of
the seller, than to take risks elsewhere,
and perhaps thus pay for something
which may not come up to expecta
tions. When one undertakes to make
a specialty of fresh eggs he should
keep his own hens. One of tho diffi
culties heretofore met with is in buy
ing eggs from neighbors to help fill
orders, but such is too risky. If your
trade is so large that you arc com
pelled to buy, it would be safer
to keep more hens. One point
should be kept in view, and that is,
when you make a business of eggs
(not chicks) do not allow a rooster on
your place. The hens will lay just as
many eggs if no roosters are with
them, and the liability of stale eggs
will be materially lessened. Start
right and you will get extra good
prices both in summer and winter, and
if the market is overstocked with eggs
yours will be the first to be sold, leav
ing the careless persons to get the low
prices. There are poultrymen who
sell eggs all the year round at 50 cents
per dozen in New York and Boston,
and they have built up these prices by
establishing confidence. If it is im
portant to collect eggs frequently in
winter in order to prevent them from
being chilled, it is equally important
to collect them in summer to avoid
having them exposed to the hatching
temperature. When an egg is left in
the nest over night and is covered by
a hen that desires to sit, the egg will
be subject to the incubating tempera
ture, and of course the germ is started,
which is a sure step to fermentation
if the heat is removed. When the
poultry house is covered with a low
roof and the summer days are away
up in the nineties, tho. temperature of
the house will sometimes reach 105 de
grees, which is more than sufficient to
start circulation in the egg, as the egg
will undergo all the stages of incuba
tion by simple exposure to heat, with
out the aid of a hen. Such eggs can
not-be sold as "strictly fresh." The
remedy is to ue no males, and collect
the eggs twice a day.
Turnip for Cows.
From the Farmers' Review: Scores
of the best dairymen ot Sheboygan
county, Wisconsin, arc feeding all the
turnips they can ra'se to their milch
cdws. Occasionally some butter is in
jured, but they know it's their own
fault or an accident. I have used dy
namite for years to blow out stumps
and stones, but I have useft caution. I
have handled it carefully; I could
easily get blown to pieces. I can feed
fifteen pounds of turnifs to a milch
cow and injure her milk, or I can feed
her thirty pounds in the same time
and get nice milk. My whole milk
went daily to Chicago during October,
1893, when I was feeding large rations
of turnips, and the expert who received
the milk said; "No taint there."
Give me forty bushels of oats and
twenty of turnips to feed a milch cow
in winter, rather than sixty bushels of
oats, yet one bushel of good oats fed
alone is worth two or three of turnips.
I can raise from ten to fifteen times as
many turnips on an acre as I can oats,
and except harvesting, for about the
same cost, and the tops go far toward
paying for harvesting. Tho loss of
one good cow by death and damage to
several others every year from garget
and so forth, take off the profits.
I have been taking statistics for years,
of dairies about here that are fed
roots much of the winter, compared
with those that get silage and those
that are confined to dry feed. The root
fed dairies, when the roots are
fed with intelligence, have few afflic
tions. Take my case: One case of
milk fever and one of cversion of the
womb in twenty years. About 2 in 100
retain the placenta; garget, stopped
teats and damage from inflammation
rarely known. Twenty years passed
in succession without my losing one
cow. Do I think turnips do all this
for me? I think it one great factor. I
like oats and clean wheat bran and oil
meal Silage? No! Silage is not pure
food as well as I do turnips. All
have their proper place as a cow food.
Turnips, I say, fed with intelligence,
turnips nearly ice cold, fed to cows
standing in cold stables or ex
posed out doors,give cows a wonderful
appetite for something to eat and
that is about all the good they do. It
is j ust as easy to learn to feed cows
turnips without scenting the milk as
to multiply one by two. And it is a
very simple thing to raise great crops
of them with just a little hand weed
ing. I have a great preference
to turnips over weeds in my corn
fields; if my cows and sheep, etc.,
do not need them, they are worth
more to plow under. I am sorry I am so
old. Just as I am beginning to know
how to grow feed and appreciate the
root crop I've got to go hence. If I
had my life to live over I would show
how to grow roots in America. I will
tell you more next time.
A. X. II v ATT
A Donkey Dairy.
In an important thoroughfare in the
West End, London, is the only dairy
in and about the city where asses'
milk can be procured. This fluid, as
is well known, is a valuable remedy
in certain complaints, but only the
rich can indulge in it very freely, for
it costs 75 cents a pint, says New
York Times. The reason for this, as a
London reporter found out on visiting
the milking stables, is its slow
production. In the stud of milk
asses nine animals were counted, and
though they arc milked four times a
day each animal yields only two pints
through the twenty-four hours. The
milk is very thin and slightly sweet,
with quite the flavor of cocoanut
milk. Consumptive persons and deli
cate infants are its chief consumers.
It is both nourishing and very easily
digested. A feature of its therapeutic
use is that when prescribed for adults
it has to be done in an underhand
way, as a natural repugnance exists
with most persons against its use. It
is told that one fashionable London
woman su ffered an actual relapse when
told what medicine she had been
drinking in ignorance. "The winter
is our busy season," the manager
of the stables is quoted as
saying, "especially during the foggy
weather, but unfortunately it is ex
tremely difficult to obtain the milk
just then. Sold outright to a customer,
any of the animals you see hero would
realize over S-"0 and would probably be
milked by the patient's own servants,
who do not like the job, in nine cases
out of ten. Many consumers, how
ever, prefer to hire an ass at
a guinea a week and get all the
milk they can, and I have sent
several as far as Colchester, Brighton,
Exeter and even Scotland, the custom
er paying all the expenses. Persons
put the costly fluid to curious uses.
One lady had two quarts a
day
regularlv for nearly six years, and we
could never find out what she wanted
it for until after she went to America, '
when it transpired that the milk was I
used as a face wash. We have also ,
n military rantleman on our books who
orders a pint every morning, and this
appears on his breakfast table for or
dinary use, while a certain famous
dandy has been known to instruct his
valet to mix the milk with blacking,
so as to impart a more than usually
brilliant gloss to his shoes. Trie
orders are always given in advance,
and after the first milking, at 0 o'clock
in the morning, the milk is put up as
required into glass bottles, which in
turn are put in wooden cradles and
carried by a strap, so that the risk or
breakage is very small indeed."
Cotton Seed IIuIN for Stock. I
Cotton seed hulls are fed to steers I
quite commonly in the south in con- J
ncction with cotton seed meal. The
ration ordinarily fed to a steer of TOO j
to 1,000 pounds is from fifteen to I
twenty pounds of hulls and from four J
to eight pounds of cotton seed meal
per day. An experiment made at the j
Texas station (B. 0, It. JSS9. p. 11!) in
dicated that hulls had a higher nutri
tive value than corn silage. In an- '
other experiment at the same station
(B. 10) the addition of silage to a ra- -tion
of cotton seed meal and hulls in
creased the total gain, but did not
change the cost of gain per pound.
As compared with hulls, steers fed on
silage gained 2.54 pounds per day and
on hulls 2.20 pounds, cotton seed meal
being added in each case. The cost ,
of food per 100 pounds of gain with
hulls at S3 and silage at S2 per ton,
was S3. 83 on silage and S3.73 on hulls, '
indicating that silage causes a more ,
rapid but a more expensive gain than '
hulls. The addition of hay to a ration
of cottonseed meal and hulls increased
the total gain and also increased the
cost per pound of gain. A half pint
of molasses per day caused an in
creased consumption of cotton tseed
meal and hulls, and consequently a :
more rapid gain.
Lyonxaisk Potatoes. Cut cold
boiled potatoes into irregular shapes
and for one quart of potatoes take one
tablespoonful eacti oi cnoppea onions .
and chopped parsley with three table-
spoomuis oi Duuer. rry inc onion in
butler and when yellow add the po
tatoes seasoned to taste with salt and
pepper; stir with
as not to break
when hot add the
a fork carefully so
the potatoes, and
narsley. Cook for
about two minutes
hot in a hot dish.
longer and serve
THE U. S. Government Chemists have
reported, after an examination of the
different brands, that the ROYAL Bak
ing Powder is absolutely pure, greatest
in strength, and superior to all others.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER COMPANY, 106 WALL ST. NEW-YORK.
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Bringitig Up Children.
Few mothers know just how to govern
their children. If a neighbor calls in to
have a chnt, she don't like to be inter
rupted every fow moments by the noiso
of half a dozen children. "Give mo
some bread and bntter, mother." " Jnno
has broken my doll, mother." "Jim
has snatched my bread and molasses,
mother." " Say, mother, can't I go out
nud play a little while ? " These, and
other such questions, mingled with cries
nud boisterous laughter, aro not very
entertaining to company. Some moth
ers allow their little ones to draw their
chairs up to tho table as soon as they
begin to spread it for a meal, and they
will spat the plates with their hands,
claw the biscuits, finger the sugar-bowl,
make landscajes on tho butter-ball, put
tho knives and forks in their mouths,
etc. If the' aro allowed to do so when
no ono beside the family is present, rec
ollect you will have an unpleasant job to
keep them from doing so when company
is at hand. And, if j-ou succeed in ac
complishing the task, the feat is about
as thin as to drop in suddenly npon a
lady at 10 o'clock in tho forenoon, and
find her rushing about tho room with a
broom in her hand. It is a sorry thing
to hear children calling out at tho table :
"Givo mo some more meat; I won't
have that! give mo a piece liko Tom's ;
I want some bread ; not that old piece
of crust ! why in thunder didn't yon givo
me sonic tea!" etc., etc. Who is to
blame for such unmannerly procedure?
Of courso it is not for me to say ; but
any ono can guess right the first time,
without stopping to think a great while.
Some children will be suro to run into
tho houso if a visitor calls, in order to
hear what is said ; and frequently wo
meet with children that take tho lead in
conversation. What a shame, to bring
children up in such a manner, when it
would bo just as easy to make little la
dies and gentlemen of them.
Hall's Catarrh Cure
Is a Constitutional cure. Price, 73.
The rianct Mars.
Professor Lockyer is of tho opinion
that human life on tho planet Mars may
bo very much liko human life on tho
earth ; tho light cannot be so bright, but
the organs of sight may bo so much
more susceptible as to make tho vision
quite as good. Tho heat is probably
j less, as the iolar snows certainly extend
lurther, hut by no means less in propor
tion to tho lessened power of tho solar
rays. The professor agrees with others,
that several remarkable seas including
inland seas, some of them connected and
some not connected by straits with still
larger seas are now definable in tho
southern hemisphere, in which, as is tho
case ulso with the earth, water seems to
be much more widely spread than in the
northern hemisphere. There is, for ex
ample, a southern sea exceedingly liko
tho Ealtie in shape ; and there is another
and still moro remarkable sea, now de
fined by tho observations of many as
tronomersone near the equator, along
straggling arm, twisting almost in tho
shapo of an S laid on its back, from east
to west, at least 1,000 miles in length
I md 400 in breadth
" Ilansun'ii Magic Corn Halve.
Warmntiil ti-iirir inonv refunded. Ask your
tirufi.st for it. Trio- 1.1i-f:it.s.
Americans send $l2."i,000 interest annually
to England.
A unique feature of tho September
number of the North American I'cvicw
is tho leading artielc entitled "The
Late Lord Chief Justice of England,
Some I'ennni.scences." by the new Lord
Chief Justice, the Bight Hon. Lord lliis
sell of Killowen, better known as Sir
Charles I'ussell, who relates many in
teresting incidents in the life of his
distinguished predecessor including
some amusing anecdotes of their joint
visit to the United States in 1.VS3.
Iiillinrd Table, second-hand. For sale
rhenj). Apply to or address. II. C. Akin,
all S. mil St. Omaha, Nob.
Keligions Aotions.
Notions about religion may grow np
in people's heads as hair grows on them
without any feeling.
Much that we cannot ask of man. we
j are, O ! so glad, if any wise and lriend-
ly man will offer.
Whosoever examines and enjoys a
Scripture story feels that he is brought
nearer to God thereby,
Whatever, innocently interesting the
mind, fills the heart with pnre afieo-
tionate feeling serves for edification.
Christ has both to make Himself de
sired as a gnest, and to persuade those
who already desire Him that He is most
willing to come.
It is quite natural and very useful
that there should bo much homely and
simple narrative in ihe Bible. This
makes ns feel that "salvation" comes to
tlio hori.se; and does not merely wait
in the church till wo go to it.
The Evangelic narratives domexlicate
the "Gospel" in our souls; the dignified
truth becomes affable, yet remains dig
nified; and we lovo what wo revere,
because it is so familiar with us. Rev.
T. T. Lynch.
KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement nnd
lends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the world's best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
It-s excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative ; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has pi ven satisfaction to millions and
Jnct wUh th(J approval of the medical
profeas;onf because it acts on the Kid-
iievs. Liver and Bowels without weak
1 ening them and it U perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all droj
! gists in 50c and'$l bottles, but it is man-
u factu red by the California Fig Syrup
I Co. on 1 v, whose name is printed on every
packmre, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
K&f&C
To Keep Butter From Getting Strong.
A Bristol farmer who, having been a
tiller of the soil thirty-two years,
might be expected to know a thing or
two by this time, remains as unsophis
ticated in the ways of fin dc sicclo
rogues as if he lived beyond the bounds
of civilization, and never read a news
paper. He does not get any Philadel
phia newspapers, but chance brought a
copy of a New S'ork journal under his
eve recently, and lie eagerly noted tho
tempting olTer of an advertiser to dis
close upon receipt of 10 the secret of
"How to keep butter from getting
strong. Visions of largely increased
profits from his dairy prompted him to
mail the money, for which he has re
ceived the advice: "Eat it." Philadel
phia liecord.
Mothers, ?ave Your Children!
Steketeo's Pin Worm Destroyer is tho
only sure euro known that effectually do
stroys the pin worm, the most troublesome
worm known. It also destroys nil other
kinds of worms. There is no remedy that
can expel the worms from tho stomach or
rcctcm as does Steketeo's Pin Worm IX
troyer. For mIc by all druggist; ent by mall on
receipt of ;c. 17 S. o.Ut:e. Address OCO. O.
8TKKETKE. (irand Uapld. Mich.
Anchors.
Some ascribe the invention of an
chors to tho Tyrrhenians; others to
Midas, the son of tiordius. Tho most
ancient are said to have been of stone,
and sometimes of wood, to which a
great quantity of lead was usually
fixed. In some places baskets full of
stones, and sacks filled with sand,
were employed for the same use. All
these were let down by cords into the
sea, and by their weight stayed tho
course of the ship. Afterward, anchors
were made of iron, at first with only
one fluke, but iu a short time a second
was added by Hupalamus, or Auacharis,
the Scythian philosopher.
Karl'n Clorcr Root Tea.
Th frrrat lilixni purltlT,Kir frMiliiifo and rlramr
Ut tlieCuuiplexinu uuU vun-s Constipation. ;5c5Uc..tL
Uilllanl on Koaril the Ironllc.
The gunners en tho Ironsides at
Morris Island had a neat way of ex
ploding their projectiles within tho
boat. It was impossible to drive them
the sand and cotton of which tho work
was made, nor could the gnus be so
elevated as to toss them in as from a
mortar. So the pieces were depressed,
and the shot, striking the water about
fifty yards from the beach jumped in.
In nearly every instance this manner of
making the missils effective was suc
cessful. "Those are what I call bil
liards," said the captain watching the
firing, "they carom on the bay and
pocket the ball in the fort every time!"
Con'! Coagh Itslaitm
Is tb- oM-t nnil l-.t- It will I.n-.ik up a Cold rinlck-
eriban anything else. It U always ri-iUbI. Try lu
The Cratlle of I.ilterty Unsafe.
Boston is uneasy because the superin
tendent of public buildings has pro
nounced Faneuil hall unsafe. The room
used as a kitchen when public dinners
are given is dangerously exposed to
fire from the ranges, besides which the
public market in the ground tloor of
the building has saturated that part of
it with grease, making it particularly
inflammable. The tower, too, leans
twelve degrees from the perpendicular.
The city council has been impelled to
consider steps to make the historic
"cradle of liberty" safe.
It tho Utiliy Is Cutting Teeth.
1 mire ami irtettintoM and H1 trii-d rrnK-dy, Mrs.
WiNSLOw'sSooTiiiNii SiniT for Children TecUilns-
Beeswax and ttirtHmtiuo make a pood
polish for floors.
3 Ilomeseekrr Kvruralonw Smith via tho
Wahaah Itallroail.
On Sept. 11th. ."ith nnd Oct. Oth tho
Wnbtish will soil tickets at half faro phis $2
toa'l iMiints in Tennessee, (except Memphis)
Missis;ii, Alabama and I.niiisann. (except
Now Orleans) Arkansns ami Texas. For
rates, tickets or a homeseeiors guide riv
in7 full description of lands, climate, etc.,
or for steamship tickets to or from nil
parts of Europe, call at Wabash olliie, 1WW
Farnam street, or write
O. N. O.ATTOV,
N. W. P. Aj;t, Omaha, Nob.
Ono-hnlf of the wealth of England is held
hj- 1,000.
MILLSTONE
About a young
man's neck to be a
sufferer from ner
vous exhaustion, ner
vous debility, impair
ed memory, low
spirits, irritublo tem
per, nnd tho thousand
and ono derangements
of mind and body
that result from,
unnatural, pernicious
habits, contracted
throuch ignorance.
Such habits rult in
loss of mnnlv power.
wreck tho constitution and sometimes pro
duce softening of the brain, epilepsy, pa
ralysis, and even dread insanity.
To reach, re-claim nnd restoro such un
fortunates to bcjilth und happiness, is tho
aim of tbo publishers of a book written in
plain but cliasto language, on tho naturo,
symptoms nnd curability, by homo treat
ment, of such diseases. This book will be
sent, sealed, in plain envelojie, on receipt of
ten cents in staiiijis, for postage. Adores,
World's Disfieasary Jtnlical Association,
6titf Main Et, Buffalo, N. Y.
DEE
Pt. Band,
Iron Hoop
OAK BASKET.
A Eajkrt Yon Cn Watrr Your Horps Wltlr
no Mure Than Any Other Kinds, but Will
Costa
.stand AMrrmua
HARVEST
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SEPT.IIth, SEPT. 25th, 0CT.9th
On these dates Round-Trip Tickets will be sold
from Chicago. Peoria. St. LouK and other sta
tions on the '. H. j tj. 1L K.. to the principal
cities and farming regions of tho
Northwest, West and Southwest
AT LOW RATES
5fany connecting railways will aIo sell Harvest
Excursion Tickets, on same terms, over this
route. The iinderslimed or anv nirent of the
lSurllngton Koute.aml most ticket agents of con
necting railways eat of the Mississippi River,
will supply applicants with Han est Excursion
folders giving full particulars.
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