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MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
Sosae Up to Date HlaU About Caltlva
tloa of the Soil aad Yields Thereof
Horticulture, Tltlcaltare and Florl
culture. nilaols Horticultural CouTentloa.
The Illinois State Horticultural so
ciety herd its thirty-ninth annual meet
ing at Dixon, recently. The attendance
was large, and the. sessions were of
more than ord:nary interest
The committee on the revision of the
fruit list for southern Illinois reported
some changes. In commenting they
said that for a commercial orchard
they needed but a few varieties, and
such as will yield a supply through a
long season.
G. W. Foster of Bloomlngton read a
paper on gooseberries and currants.
Among other things he said: "Our
common garden currants all originated
from Kibes Rubmm, the native red
currant of northern Europe, a species
of which is also found in the swamps
of northern New England; and west to
Wisconsin. In its native state it is al
ways found red or black, and the white
or bronze varieties have been produced
by cultivation. To the Dutch gardeners
we are indebted for first endeavors
to improve this fruit, which they com
menced at an early date, but not until
the beginning of the present century
did their efforts attain much success.
Nothing is easier to cultivate than
the currant, and, we may add,
nothing more sadly neglected. The
common mode of culture in this coun
try is to plant along the garden fence,
hedge row or similar place, and after a
year or so allowed to grow up with the
grass and weeds, utterly neglected,
until fruiting time, when as a matter
of course, only a small crop of insig
nificant berries can be gathered, and
that with difficulty. The currant is
then pronounced unprofitable and tue
whole matter forgotten, till some new
sort is brought out before the public,
when the same routine is gone over
again with like results. Now, the cur
rant is one of the most profitable of all
our marketable berries, and while our
gardeners are crowding and over
loading the market with blackber
ries and raspberries, the grocers are
daily beseeching them for currants,
which they can not furnish. The cur
rant is very impatient of drouth and
should always be planted in very rich,
deep soil."
B. O. Warfield of Sandoval, 111., read
a paper on cultivating and marketing
strawberries. As to the cultivation of
the old patch he said: "After the ber
ries are picked, run a mower over the
patch, cutting close to the ground.
Let the vines dry and rake between
the rows; burn late in the afternoon.
This will kill many troublesome
insects. If you have not a good stand
of vines, then don't burn. Either rake
the straw in the dead furrows or haul
it off. Mulching should be done as
soon as it is cold enough to form ice.
Cover so as to hide the plants with
straw, after shaking out all chaff and
wheat. "
Prizes had been offered for the best
papers on planting and growing an ap
ple orchard in Illinois. Over twenty
papers were submitted. The first
premium was won by H. M. Dunlap,
and the second by G. W. McCleur.
R. M. Kellogg of Ionia, Mich., read
a paper on fighting the drouth. lie il
lustrated his talk by frames, con
taining sand held in place by
glass, by which he showed the capillary
attraction of different kinds of soil
and sand. His talk was of more than
usual interest, and excited a spirited
discussion. In part he said: "The
drouth of 1S94 was the longest and
most severe on record in Michi
gan. Not only was there no rain
from the last of May to near
Sept. 1 (except two or three pass
ing clouds, which scarcely dropped
enough water to lay the dust), but
there was an exceptional brilliancy to
the sun and accompanied by hot winds
for weeks, drew the water from the
ground with the greatest rapidity. I
have never seen vegetation wilt and
the ground divested of moisture so
quickly, and yet during all these
weeks there was not a day when, by re
moving an inch of the dust on the sur
face of our twenty acres of spring set
strawberries as well as raspberries,
blackberries and grapes, where you
would not find soil so moist you could
not only have moulded it, but it felt
wet in the hands. On these beds, if
you had dug a well fifteen feet deep,
you would have found the ground
moist all the way down, while if you
had gone away twenty-five feet from
the edge on the roadside or adjoining
grass land, and dug to the same depth,
it would have been as dry as a bone,
even dusty, all the way down. These re
sults were secured by a manipulation of
a few inches of the surface soil. The
conditions on the strawberry beds
were very different. In the first place
we had created a reservoir about two
and a half feet deep all over the field
early in the spring, which the rain
filled with water, and we kept it there
for summer use. We did not let It
come to the surface, and capillary
action would not let it go down deeper.
This is the all important point. In the
illustrations I have given you, you no
tice the water passes where the
soil orsand is vcrj' fine much faster
than when the particles are coarse, so
as to permit capillary attraction, there
fore we must have our soils very fine.
I began by going over the surface with
a spading harrow and cutting it up
six inches deep. This could be done
by shallow plowing or any cultivation.
Then we harrow and cross harrow and
roll until it is as fine as ashes. Now
we plow about ten inches deep, or as
deep as we can without bringing
up too much subsoil at a time.
This plow is followed by anoth
er iu the same furrow, which
acts like a huge ground mole about
twenty inches below the bottom of the
furrow. This breaks it up as fine as
can be, driving the particles of earth
apart, and making it so mellow you
can force your arm down the whole
length. This we call subsoil ing. We
now roll and harrow till we get it as
fine as dust, finishing by rolling down
hard. This rolling the land is very
important because we want to bring
the water up by capillary action, and
this it will not do if the ground be too
loose. There is another important
point I wish to make. This subsoiling
must be done in the fall or very early
in the spring. It requires an immense
amount of water to fill the large body
of loose earth. I believe a piece o"f
ground prepared in this way will hold
in suspension six or eight inches of
water, so you will readily see the ne
cessity of being on time to catch the
spring rains. But what would be the
result of subsoiling later in the season?
It would surely be very serious. It
wonld fail to fill the loosened subsoil
with water, and the ground would be so
"-r v mui me water coma not ie 1
drawn up from the lower strata to the
surface soil. It wonld be almost as
much of a barrier as if underlaid with
a wooden or stone floor. Bight here
we have the solution of much of the
varied results of subsoiling. In the
early subsoiling we catch the spring
rain, and not only store np the water,
but it settles the subsoil so connec
tion is made with the still lower sub
soil and capillary action comes to the
rescue, and brings np great quantities
of water from the still lower strata,
and nothing but months of the hottest
sunshine and drying winds can de
prive the plants of an abundance of
moisture, if we take the simple precau
tion to keep the dust mulch on the
surface. The question now comes 'jp,
'Does rolling hefp in retaining moist
ture?' Of itself it does not. It aids
in the escape of moisture. Land
rolled down hard will part with its
moisture with the greatest rapidity.
We want the 'water to come to the sur
face, but stop there for the use of
plants, and whenever land is rolled, it
should be at once harrowed lightly on
the surface to make the dust mulch.
Last summer I had a discus
sion with my' foreman. I di
rected him to have the men take
fine rakes, and with their hands break
np the crust between the plants. He
declared it was a mistake. He said
that the water came near to the sur
face every morning but at night he ad
mitted that it was two or three inches
below. That was the trouble; it was
coming to the surface and I wanted to
stop it. Some of my neighbors joined
him in the laugh, but they are not
laughing now. They let the crust re
main on their beds and the continued
drouth finished up their plants."
The election of officers resulted in
the following choice: President, T. E.
Goodrich, Cobdcn; vice-president, J. L.
Hartwell, Dixon; secretary,H. M. Dun
lap, Savoy; treasurer; Arthur Bryant,
Princeton.
The question of securing new fruits
from seedlings was the occasion of a
few remarks from the president, nenry
Augustine of Normal. He said he had
known for many years of an old pear
tree growing on the farm of a Mr.
Sudduth. The tree is yet living and
bearing, though its history is known as
far back as 1833. In fact the seed is
known to have been planted in 1820.
As early as 1845 the size of the tree
and its great bearing powers had at
tracted attention. The present owner
has been on the farm thitty-two years
and is confident that it has not failed
to bear a crop for forty years, and that
in some exceptional years eighty bush
els have been gathered from it. The
tree does not blight, nor do worms
seem to trouble the fruit. The original
height of the tree was 55 feet, but
some of the large branches have been
broken off. The trunk now measures 10
feet in circumference five feet from the
ground. Some trees that were grafted
from it fifty years ago show the same
characteristics as the parent. It maj
be that graftings from it would prove
as great a blessing as those from
the old Seckel pear tree of Pennsylva
nia. The question of changing the date of
the annual meeting was discussed, and
efforts were made to have the time set
for the second or third week of Janu
ary each year. The motions to that
effect failed, and the present date will
be retained.
The effort to'have the life member
ship reduced to S10, from 20, also
failed.
The location of the next annual
meeting caused a spirited debate, and
several ballots. Invitations were re
ceived from Kankakee, Alton, DuQuoin,
and Rockford. Kankakee was finally
chosen.
In a report on new varieties of ap
ples, II. M. Dunlap, the secretary, ad
vocated the mulching of old orchard
trees, said mulching to be with ma
nure. Prof.Burrill of University of Illinois
addressed the convention en the sub
ject of plant improvement. He be
lieved we had only just entered upon
the great work. He cited the cabbage
as a' sample of the possibilities con
cealed in any plant, and called atten
tion to the fact that from it we have
cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and even
the turnip. The time may come when
plants may be so developed and t rans
formed that human living will be far
easier than now, and every man may
sit under his own "cabbage and straw
berry plant."
Prof. W. G. Johnson, assistant state
entomologist, gave a very interesting
talk on the relation of bark lice to
horticulture. Mr. Johnson -has made
an extensive study of the bark lice, not
only in this section of the country but
also in California, where they caused
such destruction a few years ago. He
called to remembrance the time when
the cottony scale was imported from
Australia and got a foothold in south
ern California. They spread so rapidly
that large sections of orchard terri
tory were rendered useless, and their
ravages were only stopped by the in
troduction of the Australian lady bug.
The paper was probably the most val
uable of any read during the conven
tion, and we shall have more to say on
it in a future issue.
Other valuable papers were read and
discussed, reports of which will be
given as we have space and opportunity.
Culture ox the Farm. Why finish
our houses with white coat, when the
rough brown coat will keep out the
cold? WI13 paint the inside of our
homes, with so much expenditure of
treasure and labor? Why put large
costly windows in our houses, and then
cover them almost entirely with two
sets of curtains? Why put stripes and
figures in our carpets when it costs
money to put them there? Why have
carpets at all, if the floors and walls
be tight? Why keep a musical instru
ment in the house when we play so
poorly? Why get up at night and
build fires to save a few house plants
from freezing, when we can buy ten
times the amount with the money ex
pended for extra fuel? All these
questions may be answered by a close
observation of the difference between
a cultured and an uncultured youth.
We are largely what our environments
make us. Mo. Report.
A Mistake is Dairy Figures. The
following item is going the rounds of
the agricultural press: "Capt. W. J.
Wallace, living a few miles south of
the city," says the Indiana Farmer,
"kept account for one year of the
amount of butter sold from his sixty
Jersey cows, two of them with first
calf, and found that it footed up 2,151
pounds, for which he received 30 cents
a pound or 646.20. This was in addi
tion to the cream and butter consumed
by the family, and shows what may be
done with good stock and good feed.
He feeds liberally with bran, cotton
seed, clover, etc., and 'keeps the ma
chine going' in all kinds of weather."
There is a mistake in these fijrures,
as a yearly yield of thii ty-five pounds
of butter per 00 w i nothing to brajj
of. Farmers" review, j
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
flow Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Homestead Hints
as to the Care of tire Stock aad
Poultry.
Assist Not Fraud.
J. D. Smith writes as follows in
Hoard's Dairyman: I desire to com
mend the article of C. H. Everett in a
recent issue of your journal, condemn
ing the practice of some farmers'in
selling their skim milk at 12 and 15
cents per hundred pounds to be manu
factured into filled cheese. It'would
seem impossible in this day of dairy
information, to find any dairymen
who could be so short sighted. In the
first place, as Mr. Everett says, the
milk is worth at least 25 cents per
hundred pounds to feed to growing
hogs. If fed to thrifty" young pigs, I
believe it worth even more than this.
There is another profit to be made out
of skim milk that many lose sight of. I
met a small dairy farmer recently who
carefully looks after details, who said
to me that he believed the manure his
hogs manufactured was worth as much
to him as the pork. With proper facili
ties for making manure, I believe this
is not a wild estimate. Certainly,
then, here is a big leak in the purse of
the dairyman who sells his skim milk
at 12 to 15 cents per hundred pounds.
Back of this is a still greater leak.
Every pound of this miserable fraud
cheese which the farmer furnishes the
material to manufacture robs him of
the opportunity of selling a quantity of
whole milk sufficient to make ten
pounds of cheese. Now this may seem
like an astonishing statement, but I
have taken pains to inform myself, and
I am confident it is true. I have intro
duced the subject in dairy meetings,
have talked with hundreds of individ
uals, and have obtained figures from
dealers, and I say, without hesita
tion, that there is not one pound of
cheese consumed by our people where
there should, and would, be ten, only
for those abominations, filled and
skim cheese. We ought to be, and
would be, a cheese consuming people,
if we could buy a pure unadulterated
article of cheese when we call for it.
Mr. Everett utters a burning truth
when he says: "The consumer buys it
for full cream cheese, and pays just as
much for it as he would for good
cheese, and when he attempts to eat it
he becomes disgusted, declares he can
get no good cheese, and he declines toJ
buy." This sums up the whole mat
ter. I have been imposed upon
more times in buying cheese than
any other article of food. I can
remember when my mother used to
make home made or dairy cheese, and
what a delicious article it was. Two
or three nice large ones were always
made and sufiiciently cured for use in
haying, and then others made with
special reference to long keeping for
winter use. It fairly makes my mouth
water now to think of them. Fellow
dairymen of AVisconsin and elsewhere,
why not apply a little common sense
to this business? If my statement is
true, and I am borne out in it by such
a multitude of witnesses I do not see
how it can be doubted then, for
every dollar received for skim milk, or
milk sold to manufacture skim cheese,
there is a loss of 810 to the dairymen
of the country. I know scores of
farmers will read this and say "Oh!
bosh" but how many more years will.
it xaKe, witn oieo nootung our
' markets, and filled and skim cheese
on sale everywhere, while honest
dairy butter is begging a sale,
before farmers will open their
eyes to their own "bosh?' Why,
with the light receipts of butter which
have prevailed all the fall, do we hear
such complaints ot dull markets and
slow sales? Sirapty because honest
goods are being driven out of the mar
ket. I have repeatedly paid as high as
16 cents per pound for cheese that I
bought for full cream, that was nothing
but half or three quarters skim; in
three days after cutting it would be as
dry as a chip. My experience is that
of every one; we are constantly being
imposed upon until, as I have said, we
do not consume one pound of cheese
where we would ten, and I believe itmay
be placed even higher than that. Do
away with filled and skim cheese and
let our people know they can get a
genuine article when they call for it,
and at once the dairy industry will re
ceive a powerful impetus all over this
country.
Welcht and Yield of Kggs.
A correspondent of the Kansas Farm
er furnishes the following:
Geese, 4 to the pound; 20 per annum.
Polish, 9 to the pound; 150 par an
num. Bantams, 16 to the pound; 60 per an
num. Houdans, 8 to the pound; 160 per an
num. La Fleche, 7 to the pound; 130 per
annum.
namburgs, 9 to the pound; 200 per
annum.
Turkeys, 5 to the pound; 30 to 60 per
annum.
Game fowl, 9 to the pound; 130 per
annttm.
Leghorns, 9 to the pound; 150 per an
num. Black Spanish, 7 to the pound; 150
per annum.
Plymouth Rocks, 8 to the pound; 120
per annum.
Langshans, 8 to the pound; 150 per
annum.
Bramahs, S to the pound; 130 per an
num. Guinea fowl, 11 to the pound; 160 per
annum.
Ducks, 6 to the pound; 30 to 60 per
annum.
The above figures will be disputed
by many. Some of them certainly
should be received witli a good deal of
hesitation. The Leghorns and Ply
mouth Rocks appear to be far toxj low.
Farmers' Review.
Emptv the Cass. One of the argu
ments often advanced against dispos
ing of the whey at the factory is that
the cans will be harder to clean, by
the milk drying and sticking to the
sides of the cans, than if the sour whey
is carried home. This can be overcome
quite easily by having the milk drawer
put in a gallon or two of water before
leaving the factory. It is also claimed
j that this sour whey makes the cans
' easier to clean by loosening whatever
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the cans. The little good that this may
do is more than counterbalanced by
the bad effect of the acid of the whey
on the tin of the can. American
Cheesemaker.
Old Milk Cass. Don't use old bat
tered rusty tin milk cans. I noticed a
comment on this subject in a dairy
paper not long ago in which it was
stated that milk which has been con
veyed in a rusty can was analyzed and
found to contain considerable iron,
and it was further said that the butter
produced therefrom had a tallowy
taste. The experiment was tried after
the can was thoroughly steamed and
"spores" were destroyed. How many
have such old lusty cans now on the
farm? Agricola.
Feather Eatlaf.
Want of occupation is one of the
chief causes of hens learnlnf to eat
feathers. For want of something to
do they peck at the feathers on one
another, and soon develop a taste for
them. If the practice Is not stopped
it wiU, says New York World, become
contagious, . and will continue until
the weather is fine enough to go out
side. The best method of prevention
is to give the fowls plenty of occupa
tion. If the floor of the house is of
earth it should be dug over and made
fine, and the food scattered over it.
This will give the birds some work
to do to obtain all the grain
and food, and in scratching over
the ground searching for it
they will get plenty of exercise.
Where the floor is of cement or other
solid material, straw scattered over it
will give the poultry plenty of work to
scratch in it to find their food. Plenty
of vegetable food should also be given.
If cabbage can be spared, one should
be hung up in the house for the birds
to pick at. Where these are not forth
coming, turnips,mangels or clover hay,
cut fine, will do very well. Meat scraps
are also good. Close confinement and
overcrowding are other causes that
conduce to feather eating. The former
can not always be avoided in a pro
tracted and severe winter. Still there
are generally some days when the
poultry can be turned out for a run,
even during a severe Winter, for an
hour or two. Overcrowding, however,
can be avoided. It is better when
dividing the flock to keep the pullets
separate from the older hens. When
thus divided, if these latter have ac
quired any bad habits the younger
birds will not have the opportunity to
learn them, Which they probably would
if they were running together. When
once an old bird has learned to eat
feathers it is almost hopeless to at
tempt a cure, and the best method of
proceeding is to terminate her exist
ence. Every possible precaution, there
fore, should be taken to prevent birds
acquiring the habit. The habit may
be acquired among the fowls confined
in summer time as well as in winter if
they are not kept busy and provided
with plenty of exercise and greeD
food.
Datrr Farming.
A Michigan dairyman at an institute
summed up the reasons for dairy farm
ing in the following cogent manner:
1. That it is the business upon the
farm that permits the most absolute
control over conditions of production
and distribution of product: hence the
most profitable.
2. It is the highest art of farming,
because it combines all other lines
and gives greater opportunity for ex
ecutive and manufacturing skill.
3. It is most free from irresponsible
and destructive competition by ne
cessity of its character and by the per
sonal equation of the individual pro
ducer. 4. It is a more exact line of produc
tion, permitting gross receipts to be
forecast with greater exactness; hence
the greater possibilities of increasing
net receipts, either by lowering ex
penses or increasing volume of prod
uct. 5. It permits the employment of
labor at a season of the year when
farm labor is cheapest, if winter dairy
ing is followed.
6. Of all products sold from the farm,
butter takes the least fertility and re
stores the greatest amount to the farm,
and it is well known that most fertile
sections of the country are where but
ter farming is followed.
Egos Wasted. Just now, while the
price of eggs is high compared to last
summer, and steadily rising, the food
should be diversified. Corn alone will
cause masses of fat to form on the in
ternal organs and the egg supply will
be stopped. Corn fed, or too fat hens
can be detected by their slow, sleepy
and sluggish movements. If eggs are
desired, stop the corn, except in small
quantity at night. Feed grain, and
give a daily ration of meat in some
shape raw is best, and green cut
bone is still better. Farm, Stock and
Home.
Size of Flocks. As to the size of flocks
a writer in the Poultry Journal sug
gests that it is a great mistake in keep
ing too large flocks together. There is
no profit, he says, in keeping 100 hens
in a place hardly large enough for 50.
In fact, I doubt very much if 100 hens
should ever be kept in one flock. I con
sider fifty an outside number. They
will lay more eggs in the winter in the
same place than 100. To illustrate:
For several winters I kept from twenty
five to thirty birds in a pen 14x10 feet,
and got very few eggs. Of late win
ters I kept only half the number and
got more than twice as many eggs. If
you are keeping fifty hens, you should
raise twenty-five early pullets each
year to replace the twenty-five 2-year-old
hens which should be killed
in the fall, as soon as they begin to
moult. They will be in good condition
then. In this way you will always
have birds that, with proper care.must
prove profitable. Remember that be
sides small flocks your birds must have
plenty of room. They can not have
too much. Ex.
Duck Fabsiisg. It is worthy ot
note that the Chinese very, very long
ago hatched out their ducks by arti
ficial heat, and the incubators that
seem so wonderful to us at the poultry
shows and country fairs were an old
6tory in the east long before our great
grandfathers were born. It is likely
that we got the domesticated duck
from China so long ago that we know
not when, and the writers on natural
history content themselves with tell
ing us that ft is derived from the mal
lard, mixed in some cases with the
musk-duck and the gad wall, and per
haps the black duck. The domestica
tion of the duck has had an effect the
opposite of that usually produced by
civilization on man, for the mallard is
strictly monogamous. Waterton the
naturalist assures us, indeed, that the
wild duck is a most faithful husband
and remains paired for life, while the
domestic drake is raot notoriously po
lygamous. Harper's Weekly.
Wvasdottes. There are three stan
dard varieties of Wyandottes the
silver, golden and white. There is
also a black variety, which, however,
ic not vet recocmized as an established
standard breed. There is no differ
ence in the varieties except color; but
the silver Wyandotte is the original
from which the others were taken;
hence it is an older breed and more
vigorous, as well as being considered
hardier than the others. It is not a
large breed, but is larger than the
Leghorn. Its rose comb is an advan
tage against the frost in winter, and
its skin and legs are reddish yellow.
As layers the hens are considered
equal to any of the breeds, and the
chicks are plump and attractive in ap
pearance. Sea water is said to contain all the
soluble substances that exist on earth.
t
A Vigorous Swordflsh.
The Norwegian bark Lorenzo, which
recently arrived at Pensacola, Fla., had
a sample of the strength of a swordflsh.
Through the metal sheathing of her
hull, then through six inches of plank
ing and penetrating the inner ceiling
about three inches the fish had driven
its snout, or "sword," the result being
a leak which kept the crew at the
pumps for six hours a day. The sword
was about 2 inches in circumference
at the point and 5 inches at the end
where it had broken off, the piece be
ing about 20 inches long.
The Nicaragua Canal.
The project of the Nicaragua Canal
has been debated in thb U. S. senate
very vigorously. One thing should be
remembered about that climate, it is
death to almost every foreigner who
goes there, and laborers especially suc
cumb. It is said the Panama railroad
cost a life for every tie. What an idea
of pains and aches is in this sentence.
It is mostly due to carelessness. Every
laborer provided with "St. Jacobs Oil
would be armed against these troubles.
Men's muscles there are cramped with
rheumatic pain and they ache all over.
That's just the condition where this
sovereign remedy can do its best work.
The fearful malady is very much like
the break-bone fever in certain parts
of America.
It Came High.
I had often admired her complexion.
It was of that clear, soft whiteness
which women who make up strive so
hard for and never can attain. She
rides in the same car with me nearly
every night, and I always trj- to sit op
posite her, and I confess I have been
guilty of staring at her with unfeigned
admiration. It never seems to annoy
her, however.
Last night she was in her usual place,
and so was I. Beside me, though I had
not noticed him, was a small boy per
haps 10 years old.
1 was ogling her with all ray eyes
and was unaware of the fact that the
small boy was watching me till he
nudged my elbow and whispered:
'Say, ain't she a beaut', though!
She's my sister, an' she's just been
down to New York to get that face of
hers enameled, an' she paid 8150 for it
What d' you think o' that?" Buffalo
Express.
Before a Full Head or Steam
Is gathered by that tremendously destructive
engine, malaria, put on the brakes with llos
tetter's Stomach Bitters, which will cheek Its
progreis and avert disaster. Chills and fever,
bilious remittent, dumb ngue and ague cako
are promptly relieved and ultimately cured by
this genial specillc, which is also a compre
hensive familv medicine, speedily useful in
cases of dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation,
sick headache, nervousness, rheumatism and
neuralgia. Against the hurtful effects of sud
den changes of temperature, exposure in wet
weather, cloe application to laborious mental
pursuits, aud other influences prejudicial to
health, it is a most trustworthy safeguard. It
fortilies the system againtt dl-case, promotes
appetite and sleep, and hnstens convalescence
after debilitating aud ttesh wasting diseases.
Warned.
We know a certain judge who took
occasion recently to warn his people
irom coining 11110 111c cuuriruuui uruutt
in these words: "1 wisli to put every
body on notice that if they come into
this courtroom while I am sitting on
this bench drunk they had better look
out" Hamilton (Ga.) Journal.
The chains of a hal.it are too small to be
fe!t until they nro too strong to Le broken.
A Centre Corrective
is what you need when your
liver becomes inactive. It's
what you get when you take
Tr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets:
the3-'re free from the violence
aim tne gnpnisr mat
come with the ordinary
tiiil. The best medical
authorities auree that
in TCRulatinjrthe bowels
mild methods are pref
erable. I'or every ne
ratigcment of the liver,
stomach and bowels,
these tiny, sugar coated
pills are most effective.
They go about their
work in ait easy and
natural way. and their
good lasts. Once usd
they arc ulivnyxin fa
vor. Being composed
of the choices, concen
trated vegetable ex
tracts, they cost imich
more than" other pills
found in the market,
yet from forty to forty
four are put up each
spnleil elass vial, as
sold through druggists, at the price of the
cheaper made pins. .
"Pleasant TelletS " cure biliousness, sick
aud bilious headache, dizziness, costive
ness, dr constitution, sour stomach, loss of
appetite, coated tongue, indigestion, or dys
pepsia, windy belchiiigs. 'heart-burn"
pain and distress after eating, aim kindred
derangements of the liver, stomach aud
bowels. Put up in sealed glass vials, there
fore alwavs fresh and reliable. Whether
as a laxative, or in larger do-es. as a gently
acting but searching cathartic, these little
"Pellets" are uneqiialcd.
As a "dinner pill," to promote digestion,
take one each day after dinner. To relieve
the distress arising from over-eating, noth
ing equals one of these little " Pellets."
They are tiuv, susrar-coated, anti-bilious
granules. Anv child readily takes them.
Accept no substitute that may be recom
mended to be "just as good." It may be
better for the dealer, because of paying
him a better profit, but he is not the one
who needs help. . .
A free sample (4 to 7 doses) on ttat.i-
mailed to any address, post paid, 011 receipt
of name and address on postal card.
Address Wormi's Dispensary Medical
Association-, BttiTalo, N. Y.
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A Primary Battery.
According1 to the Glasgow newspa
pers, two younjf Scottish workmen,
sons of a mechanic employed in the
Singer sewing machine works on the
Clyde hare invented a battery which,
it is asserted, will rerolutionize elec
trical work, and a grent man of science
like Lord Kelvin thinks so much of it
that he offered to buy the patent rights
for $50,000. The inventors, aged 21
and IS years, have, it is said, made a
primary battery "in which, while the
decomposition of the zinc plates is ren
dered enormously slower and the chem
icals used are of trivial value, the
strength of the battery thus formed is
very greatly increased." The battery
has been put to some severe tests and
is said to have stood them triumph
antly. It is evident that these lads
have made Some sort of a discovery
which is likely to bring them fortune,
but general expert opinion discredits
the idea of an electrical revolution.
SOO FOR A NAME.
This is the sum we hear the Salzer
Seed Co. offer for a suitable name for
their wonderful new oats. The United
States department of agriculture says
Salzer's oats is the best of 300 varieties
tested. A great many farmers report
a test yield of -'00 bushels per acre last
j'ear, and are sure this can be grown
and even more during 189.". One thing
we know and that is that Salzer is the
largest Farm Seed grower in theworld
and sells potatoes at S2.50 per barrel.
Just the kind that do well in Texas
and the great South. Thirty-five
packages. Earliest vegetables, SI post
paid,
i It You Will Cut This Out and Send It
with 10c postage to the John A. Salzer
Seed Co., LaCros.se, Wis., you get free
his mammoth catalogue and a pack
age of above soo Frlzo Oats. W.N.U.
People who think wrong will le sure to
live that vny.
The money that brings us most good is
the money with which wo do good.
Billiard Table, second-hnnd. For sale
cheap. .Apply to or address, H. C. Aki.v,
511 S. 12th St. Omaha, Neb.
As soon ns gold was discovered somebody
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True hospitality is never a temptress iu
her own par.or.
Other remedies nmy
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Down Went the Light.
"John," said Mrs. Ilossman. "it is
the light down, the first thing you
know the baby will be awake."
"Pshaw,' said Mr. Ilossman, "the
light-won't wake him."
"No, but I'll wake hint myself."
The prospect was too appalling. He
meekly did as he was bid. Exchange.
'Worms In Horses.
The only sure cure for nln worm In liorse
known Is SteketceV. o'X Cholera Cure.
Never falls to destroy womw in hor-es. Iioss.
sheep, tloss or cats: an excellent remedy for
sick fowl-;, tend sixty cent In United
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Experiments With Oatt.
Of seven varieties grown at the In
diana station from one to seven years.
White l'onanza gave the largest yield.
In an experiment on thickness of si-ed-inir
4. .. t?. 7. S. t. 10 and 11 necks of
1 seed per acre were used. Kisrlit pecks
gave tne ninest average yieiu loreiiroi.
years, but ten peeks are recommended
when oats are sown among cornstalks.
I In Olden Timet
People overlooked the importance ot
permanently beneficial effects and were
, satisfied with transient action: but now
, that it is generally known that Mrun
of Figs will permanently cure habitual
constipation, well-informed people will
i not buy other laxatives, which net or
a time, but finally injure the system.
Mnn does not need one-tenth of tho syuc
he imagines he needs.
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It tho I!aly is Cutting Teeth.
Ftesuro and ne that cM ami well trleil rcmedr, f-A.U
Winslow's Sootiiix.. Bvnvr for Children Teething-
Every lie has a truth on its trne': that
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Piso's Cure cured mo of a Throat ami
Lung trouble of three years standfn. E
Cahv, Huntington. Ind., Nov. 12, ISt.'-t'.
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The Norfolk jacket is as popular to
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has the merits of lein-r verv neiierall
lecomint;. easily adjusted, comfortable aad
stylish lookintr. be-.ii"-s rein;f available for
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are fonneil in the Ironts and I ark. the unner
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