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ll'lalM,aaTaaiaaaT5aaagaSsS zjflBa M as i? m i r bfs I B V .. . - .. f 5". "! " tf as " . ' :? . . ' . - I- ft --. tl- EI . ! - .. t . csjresiy tho of ta goo. TIbm's chisel deepen the stark ererjr time there is a Crows apoa the face. . For Last; sad chest diseases, Piso's Care is the best saediciae we hare wed. Mrs. J. L. Northcott, Wiadsor, Oat., Caaada. Things aronad as Trill look better if we first look overhead. TIM revtvtae pmnh rrarkafsGlaasr Teaie reader It iaatsaaable la every boss, tttemaea troaMea, cold aad every form of hniMleM tolu Coadact will sever be right while cos viction are wrong. Oct taatnaraa m awe It if you want to realiis the contort of Mas wltaoat corns. It takes Uieai oat perfectly, lie. at druaxt a. Women have usually better eyesight than roes. An elephant's skin, when tanned, is over as isch thick. Spring Medicine Year blood is Spring is almost certais to be full of imparities the accumula .tion of the winter months. Bad ven tilation of sleeping rooms, impure air in dwellings, factories and shops, over eatisg, heavy, improper foods, failure of the kidneys and liver properly to do extra work thus thrust upon them, are the prime causes of this condition. It Is of the utmost importance that yon Purify YourBI Now, as when warmer weather comes and the tonic effect of cold bracing air is gone, your weak, thin, impure blood will not furnish necessary strength. That tired feeling, loss of appetite, will open the way for serious disease, raised health, or breaking out of humors and impurities. To make pare, rich, red blood Hood's Sarssparilla stands un eqoalled. Thousands testify to ita merits. Millions take it as their Spring Mediciae. Get Hood's, because Hood's Sarsaparilla IsUieOneTnie Blood Purifier. AH druggist, f I. l'rcKued only by C I. Hood & Co.. Lowell. Mass. . . are the only pill to take HOOd S PlIlS witaHood-.SarMp.riUa. Insist On a good (the best) skirt bind ing as strenuously as on a good cloth for the skirt Ask for (and take no other) the $fc && Bias Velveteen Skirt Binding. Iff yw dealer will not supply y will. Send for samples, showing labels and materials, to t he S. H. &. M Co . P. O. Bos 699. New York City. CANCER CURED ! A new era is dawning1 in medicine, and the strongest evidence of it is the fact that cancer can be cured without the use of the knife and without dread of any painful operation. Mrs. Oliver Chapman was relieved of a huge cancer of two years growth and is now rejoicing' in pood health and ex cellent spirits. The scar left on her breast from removal of the cancer is not larger than a silver dollar. Mr. A. I. .Tones, one of the first settlers of Omaha, has been entirely cured by the new treatment. Mrs. liarrell of South Omaha. Mr. Martin of Council Muffs, and many others in these towns have been relieved from cancer, and are en thusiastic over results. The mode of treatment is not pain ful and in nearly every instance pa tients can attend to their business, while under medical care. The Omaha Cancer Cure Sanitarium has been established by V. L. Crabtree at 2423 Dodge street, with II. C, Wheel er, M. I)., as attending physician and (ieorge W. Roberts as manager. A cure is guaranteed in every case, and mem bers of the institution will be glad to give visitors any information desired as to terms and testimonials. All consul tations are free. IcuFslashI t SMOKING TOBACCO, ? f 2 oz. for 5 Cents. f I CUT-SLASH i f CHESOOTS-3 far 5 Cant, f f Give a Good. Mellow, Healthy, f A rieasant Smoke. Try Them. m lt c. mitt wus, fen, i c. m It is the Direct Line. The difference between the Buraagton and all other lines to Montana and the Pacific Northwest is the difference 1-etween a dire-t line aad a line that isn't direct. The Eur.inton is the dire-t line. It is from 50 to 3-S miles shorter than any other line to Helena. Butte, Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma. A fast train for those and all other northwestern points leaves umana at 4::io p. m. daily. Go west on it if you - want to reach your destina tion quickest and most com fortably. - Time-tables and information atout rates will be furnished oa application by the local ticket agent or by addressing J. Francis, Gcn'l Fass'r Agt, Omaha, Neb. KafOTOK CO. I KM r Se 1 . was K amt Bt kas i riaeAisirBaek. with aktesarnv. .. Goat Heavy OnckrvMb Baekles. ). Seat prepaid oa teeriptef arte.. Seaaciaeef koeaadaaeasuieef asii of MB- u. . at un zimazua m sun, van "W. N. U.f OMAHA 11 1896 When writing to advertisers, kindly mention this paper. - f the creoeM .BBBBBBBalBSBBBBBBBV'- BBtBBSSW BWfaBABr fl aV & taSSSSB BaaaaaaaavBI aeafsagsr' ssWSauB? nnr Sea atanjnnjnj gnnnj BBBBBVBBBBBBBBBBBBBBaBQsafaBnaL SbbMbL AatifffaBBalrBfaBfafW BBC3HMlBtlBSSK WtataafJlatW THtsK HW arMBtn 8sMl TMMcV 9tMa MnUB 8MK& wyFisaMn. SMei Mas canets ant Ifees nBarftBttr. Oa ass Hrattaa K win aaaw . at aaaat arMctea that St wall fiiralia aattl JssaaSTlstaSM the assal fries, ataawaaasss M mmSE nlsBBBSBm g&VanljL BmaBBBtsssssal " "THE WOODEN HKN9 tBHI Hatesm chickeu front hw' VT- Hi lOzlUS Inches: will Uke caro of 2egtr. Writeio Mr. Geo. II. Stahl,'atfr.,Qu!ucy, I1L. for a copv of his lklot "W," descrlb iag the "wooden Hen." also largo cata logue. .Both sent free. Mention this paper. Almost a ColUatoii. "Speaking of narrow escapes," ob served Mr. Chiigwater, reaching for his second cup of coffee, "did I tell you I was on a train the other day that camo within three feet of being run into by another train going at full speed?" "For mercy sakes. no," exclaimed Mrs. Chugwater. "How did it hap pen?" "The train that came so near run ning into ours," he rejoined, buttering a biscuit, "was on the other track and going the other way." It was several minutes before Mrs. Chugwater broke loose, but when she did she made up for lost time. Catarrh Can Not lie Cared With local application? as they can not reach the seat of the disease. Ca tarrh Is a blood cr constitutional dis ease, and In order to cure It you must take Internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, and acts di rectly on the blood and mucous sur faces. HalPs Catarrh Cure Is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this coun try for 5rears. and is a regular prescrip tion. It Is composed cf the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on th mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients Is what produces such wonderful results In curing Ca tarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. Sold by druggist?; price. 75c Hall's Family Pills. 25c. Saloon-Keepera' Harvest. A great manufacturing company in Massachusetts recently paid their workmen, on Saturday evening, 700 $10 bills, each bill being marked. By the following Tuesday 410 of these bills were deposited in the bank by the saloon keepers of the town. Four thousand and one hun dred dollars had passed from the hands of the workmen on Saturday night and Sunday and left them nothing to show for this great sum of money bat headaches and poverty in their homes. He who minds his own lmsiness walks head and shou'ders above JK) er cent of hi? f e lows. MILLIONS Or DOIXAK8 ANNUALLY. And more could bo made by the farmers if they would plant Salzcr's big crop ping seeds, because Salzer's seeds eprout. grow and produce, giving you from 4 to 6 tons of hay per acre, over 200 bu. of corn. 116 bu. of barley, 1.200 bu. of potatoes, 209 bu. Silver Mine Oats and the like per acre. These are pos itive facts, all of which can be substan tiated by oath. Now, the editor asks why sow poor seeds and get poor yields, when such big. bountiful yields are pos sible? Salzer's catalogue tells you all about it. Iff yon wUI cat thl oat aad aead it with 10 cents postage to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., you will receive their mammoth catalogue and 10 samples of grain and grass seeds, worth $10 to anybody to get a start from. Catalogue alone, 5 cents post age, w.n. Artists ply their vocation with diffi culty in Constantinople. Sketching is forbidden except under the strictest regulations. When F. Hopkinson Smith sought to transfer to canvas some of the charming views in the neighbor hood of the Golden Horn, an official from the ministry of police was in con stant attendance upon him. He has written an account of his experiences for the March Century. "A Personally Conducted Arrest in Constantinople." and it will be illustrated with repro ductions of some of the water-colors he made. Notwithstanding their vigi lance, some of these pictures escaped the scrutiny of the police, as Mr. Smith confesses. Farmer Make Sara Of an abundant yield of grain If they use the Campbell Sub Surface Packer, manufactured only by the Sioux City Engine and Iron Works, Sioux City, la. This Packer will put the bottom of the plowed ground in condition to gather and retain moisture to such an extent as to assure a crop. This machine com pletely firms the bottom and leaves the surface loose and covered with small lumps, actually foices decomposition of all stubble or foreign matter turned under and in every instance has shown a gain of 75 to 200 per cent, over ordi nary yields. We suggest to all our farmer readers to write to this firm for their pamphlet, containing many valu able pointers on prairie farming, and full particulars in regard to the Camp bell Sub Surface Packer. The March numLcr of the North American lleview opens with an im portant paper on "America's Interest in Eastern Asia," by the lien, .lohn llarrett. United States Minister to Spain. The conditions which have served to retard the development of American-Asiatic trade in the past, are ably set forth by Mr. Karrett, together with sonic timefy and valuable sugges tions as to how American interests may best ' avail themselves of the "Asiatic Opportunity.' Yon can do more for youie!f than any man can do for vou. Gladness Comes ! With a better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys ical ills, which vanish before proper ef forts gentle efforts pleasant efforts rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual dis ease, but simply to a constipated condi tion of the system, which the pleasant family laxative. Syrup of Figs, prompt ly.reinoves. That is why it is the only remedy with millions of families, and is everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness without debilitating the organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to get its bene ficial effects, to note when you pur chase, that you have the genuine arti cle, which is manufactured bv the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by all reputable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, laxatives or other remedies are then not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be eommended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, one should have the best, and with the well-informed everywhere. Syrup of Figh stands highest and is most largely asedaudgivcswotitgeneralsatisfaction. ' BBBBBBBBBBBBsRHaaBamV bAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Maw Karcassfal Deswrtsaaat at Htats as to th aa roattry. era Operate w Stack Car f lira OR twenty-five years we have been raising poultry of some kind. How ever, I have not been engaged ex clusively in that line, but have kept the breeds pure for fancy. I have handled at various times Light Brah- mas. Buff Cochins, Silver Laced Wyandottes, Red and White Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks. The Barred Plymouth Rock is the best all around chicken we have tried. It is quiet, matures early and is a good layer of good sized eggs. Wyandottes come next. In the winter they are housed, but id the summer they take to the apple trees for roosting. We think they are healthier this way. We feed corn at night and wheat in the morning; they also get some lime, boiled potatoes and so on for change. We are feeding at this time cooked ap ples mixed with ground wheat. Our market is St. Louis. It is usually glut ted with poultry and eggs, great quan tities of which come from the South and West. We see by the market reports that the market in Chicago is much better all the time than it is in St. Louis. In winter we get a fair supply of eggs, but do not make a specialty of winter eggs. We seldom lose fowls from disease, lice or predatory animals. We have always adhered to the hen while brooding, and have been as suc cessful as we expected to be. The main point is to give the broods good care while they are young. We have never tried doctoring poul try. If a chicken is seen to be ailing we cut off its head. We use crude carbolic acid in the drinking water. White Leghorns are best for eggs and early maturity, but I had to discard them on account of their flying into my hot beds, as the products of my hotbeds bring me much of my returns for work. We believe that the Cochins or feathery eh &r-' BLACK SPOTTED legged fowls have no business on a farm. Their feathers are a great nui sance in muddy times. On town lots the' may be all right. The Egyptian Poultry association of Southern Illinois held their second an nual show in Marissa late in Decem ber. They had a grand show of poultry. There were G46 birds exhibited. Among them were threo Buff Cochin3 from England of past year's hatch. Mr. Hem licb, of Litchfield, Illinois, was judge. J. B. Matthews in Farmers' Review. How f Win Eggs. Every poultry keeper now wants eggs, because they are scarce and bring a good price. Of course it is impossible to get as many eggs at this season as in summer, simply for the reason that winter and cold weather are not the natural times for birds to lay, but yet, given good stocks and conditions as nearly approaching summer as may be, and the hens will prove fairly prolific. A warm, light, sunny coop is very es sential. The house must be snug, yet have ventilators that may be opened in mild weather, for bad air ifi a very bad thing indeed for any species of animal life. Be sure also the coop is dry. A damp house means colds, roup, and no profit. Grain is cheap, so feed the best and a variety also. A good morning mash is mad'- as follows: Take 4 parts bran, 4 parts ground oats, 3 parts corn meal, and 1 part linseed meal. Then combine with the grain mixture just as much boiled potatoes, turnips, or car rots as you use of grain. Mix all in boiling water, salt and pepper lightly, and finally add a little meat scraps or green cut bone. This makes a royal winter's breakfast for poultry and will bring the eggs if anything will. Scat ter a few handfuls of whole wheat and oats about the coop a few times a day to keep the hens scratching. Feed lightly on whole corn at night. Remem ber a cabbage once in a while. W. P. Perkins in Farmers' Review. EncMah View of tilage. To obtain a supply of suitable food all the year round is not always an easy matter; therefore, a few suggestions on this important subject may be useful to dairy farmers who plan out in their minds a possible food supply to carry their stock through another year. Ow ing to unforeseen events taking place which may seriously reduce the amount of food expected on the arable land, it is certainly advisable to have a reserve supply of food ready for use at all sea sons of the year. In the case of a late spring, a supply of silage will be found of great service to the dairy farmer, who would otherwise have to consider ably increase the amount usually paid for foods purchased; and if drought were to follow in summer this amount would be still further increased, thus reducing the profit derived from the dairy herd and other classes of live stock on the farm. Silage is about the best basis for forming a ration for all kinds of farm stock that the stock-owner could wish for, as it supplies the place of grass in the winter food of stock, and can partly, or entirely, replace roots and hay. It would not be necessary to reduce the area under crops or pasture, but sim ply to reduce the area of meadow land and grow leguminous crops instead. The food supply would be thus in creased, and a reserve supply provided in case of drought or failure of crops. Silage would be given in the long state, thus dispensing with long hay or straw, and both sweet and sour silage could be made. Sweet silage would be used for all classes of breeding stock and sour silage for all classes of store and fat tening stock, and either kind, when properly made, will keep for years. Silage increases the quantity of milk when given with discretion, and butter from cows fed oa good silage has the J MM SBBBBBBBBBBBhTcT V BslaTSBTsV ' saaaaaaTaU ."' 4 IIIIIIIHrt" ass-T - BSsssW'bKfcv-aV If Bs93sBMSBBaw'' EaaVTaflP'if- sbbbbbbbbbV 'A LnBflsaaHssawtillirpP ,-'-' --'?:- A'- 17-1 I . -."-- ,-. -. . aTaf; t... :.vi.i.- -ilA I- i?-j:t lit 'J. 5.. i' "" lA-r ' "- --r - -"- lJi I - 'ri:-'TFl "- PR quality, color and flavor taat aertalB to it in onuner. By practising this system of easlluf fodder crops, the clay-laae farmer i able to provide winter food far his tWck on land otherwise requiring to be left tallow in summer; and the llgat-laad fanner is able to winter a larger sheep stock when he is solely dependent tfpoa his root crop for food. The Dairy, (London, England). black Spotted Frelbara CatUa. This is a Swiss breed. The United States consular report says of it: There are several off-shoot breeds de rived from the pure Bernese, known as the Freiburg, the Frutiger, the Illiez, and Ormond breeds, but they are all more or less inferior to the pure original race. As a principle, cross-breeding has failed in Switzerland, and the best results have always been obtained from in-breeding from the pure original stock. Of these minor spotted breeds, the only one that deserves notice here is the Freiburg, which originated in the can ton of that name, and is still bred there in great purity, although even there it is gradually giving way in the best herds to the light colored Saanen and Simmenthal variety. The distinctive mark of the Freiburg cattle is found in the fact that their spots are black. Many examples are seen in which the entire animal is black, except perhaps the head and a stripe under the belly. It is fully as heavy as its Bernese rival, but has larger, heavier bones, coarser flesh, and is in other respects Inferior to it in the technical points that characterize a per fect stock. As working animals and as milkers the Freiburgers rank next to the Bernese. Poorly Supplied Creameries. We receive a great many complaints from farmers where new creameries hare been established. In most in stances the creameries are not to blame. The farmers have not yet furnished the conditions whereby they can make the most profit out of the creamery. They are furnishing half the amount of milk they should furnish. There are thousands of farmers with 200 acres of land, who are keeping not more than 10 or 15 cows. The making of the milk from these few cows costs them nearly double per pound what it would if they made four times as much. Then they blame the creamer) for not giving them a better profit. They say the creamery FREIBURG BULL. is charging too much for the making of the butter; when it is hard to see how the creamery can live with the small amount of business there is to be done. There are thousands of these no-profit creameries all over the land. The farm ers about them keep two acres to do the work of one, and two cows to produce what one cow should produce. Every thing in and about that creamery is marked by a lack of good, intelligent, dairy sense. How can such men expect figs from thistles, or profits from ig norance of sound dairy conditions? Hoard's Dairymin. One Cause of Low Prices for Batter. Dairy products arc very low, and dairymen are inquiring the cause. Some say it is an oversupply of good butter. Others say that it is because the con sumption has been cut off. The latter is certainly one of the great causes that have operated against the good prices that have pre railed for some years. Very likely it is the most important reason. We know that thousands of men have lost employment, and that myriads have had their wages reduced. The result is. they are consuming less butter than formerly, for it is a thing they can get along without. We have known families in the depressions of past years that have substituted mo lasses and syrup for butter. The chil dren no longer asked for bread and butter, but for bread and molasses. When a million families get to apply ing the rules of rigid economy, the mar ket feels the result and the demand is lessened. What was before a supply sufficient to the demand, now gives a surplus, and this surplus acts as a dead weight on prices. A 10 per cent sur plus thrown on the market becomes a bear influence of the first magnitude. This is all the more true of butter, be cause it is a product that must be sold quickly. Dairy Instruction at Linaiag. Last week a representative of the Farmers' Review visited the Michigan Agricultural College at Lansing. The college is certainly doing a great work in its various branches, but the appli ances for dairy instruction are very lim ited. The dairy students certainly do not have a fair show under such condi tions. There is no branch of agricul tural science more needful than that of the daiy, and it seems a great mistake not to at once enlarge this department of the college. It may be that some plan is on foot to better matters, but if so we have not heard of it. The pro fessors that have the control of the dairy work there must labor under great disadvantages. We can only hope that conditions will soon change for the better. The Heos Shift for Themselves. While many of our people are en gaged in raising poultry, yet it is a sec ondary consideration, and we have no one here who makes it an exclusive business. No special breed is raised, some farmers preferring one breed and some another. Most of the flocks arc poorly provided with shelter, and are largely compelled to shift for them selves. Wheat and corn are the usual feeds. Vincennes, Ind., and Chicago are the principal shipping points. As to eggs, generally we get a fair supply as early as January. We lose some fowl6 nearly every year from what is known as chicken cholera. Salt and Gypsum. Professor Iiob eits in one experiment found that -in sowing one bushel of salt and one bushel of plaster upon an acre of ground, that there was in solution with in four inches of the surface, fifteen tons of surplus water, which is a won derful sight to be upou an acre of ground in the first four inches, and that is our- reason why we i-uu take salt aud gypsum and sandy soil. catch FARM AND GABD&N, MATTERS : OP INTEREST tb AGRICULTURISTS. Bass tratbte Mtatt Akaat Calttira t tsssi f IM aU aa iriaUas Tkaraaf HleaUsu VKIcaltara a4 frfest- tmltaim S many of our readers will soon be selecting their po tato seed, we pub lish in full a recent summary of tes(s sent out from the Ohio station. It must be remember ed that the yields here obtained are probably larger than could be got under the conditions that exist on many farms. Upward of seventy varieties of po tatoes were grown by the Ohio experi ment station in 1895 at the central sta tion. The following list includes those in which there is the most interest at present: Yield Variety per acre- Banner 201 Carman No. 1 262 Carman No. 3 22 Columbus " Clay Rose " Craig 211 Early Norther 270 Early Harvest 290 Everitt's Six Weeks 202 Freeman 23 Forest Rose 30 Irish Daisy 247 Koskonong 309 Maggie Murphy 238 Maule's Thoroughbred S57 Nebula 266 Rural New Yorker No. 2 213 Somerset 248 Sir William 308 Salzer's Earliest 7 Timpee's No. 4 223 Victor Rose 2 World's Fair 266 Average of all varieties tested, in cluding those not reported here.. .259 The varieties which stood above the average in all cases are Sir William, Koskonong, Columbus and Irish Daisy. Following closely are Forest Rose, World's Fair, Early Harvest, Carman No. 1, Nebula, Rural New Yorker 'No. 2, Timpee's No. 4, Early Norther, Vic tor Rose, Clay Rose and Maggie Mur phy, in the order named. All of the varieties named are intermediate or late except Early Harvest, Nebula and Early Norther. Everitt's Six Weeks, which is the same as the Early Ohio, is slightly earlier than these, and less prolific, while Salzer's Earliest, another name for Bliss' Triumph, is still less productive. Banner. A good intermediate white variety. Resembles the Rural New Yorker No. 2 in both plants and tubers, but is of distinct origin. Carman Nos. 1 and 2. These are both valuable midseason white sorts. No. 1 seems to be more subject to blight than No. 2 The latter is quite resistant, but is not exempt from the disease. No. 2 resembles the Rural New Yorker No. 2 in tubers "and foli age, but is probably more vigorous and prolific. Clay Rose. An intermediate rose colored variety; very vigorous in growth, but only moderately prolific and not specially promising. Craig. Tested but one season. The yield was small because of suscepti bility to blight. It is a vigorous grower and no doubt prolific under fa vorable conditions. Columbus. This variety has uni formly given good yields here and at the substations. It is a good keeper and of good quality, but the general appearance of the tubers is not pleas ing, because of unevenness in size and irregularity, besides they arc not of a clear white color. Nevertheless it is a desirable variety. Early Norther. This may be de Fcribed as an improved Early Rose, Wing similar to that variety in form and color, but a better cropper. It has given the best results in our various tests of any variety of its class. Early Harvest. At present this stands at the head of the list of early white varieties. It ripens with the Early Rose. Everitt's Six Weeks. Not distin guishable from Early Ohio. Irish Daisy. Too large a per cent of small tubers to be desirable, but it is one of the most prolific. Maggie Murphy, a coarse-looking, pink potato and not of good quality un less grown on sandy soil. Maule's Thoroughbred. It gave a high yield when grown on a small plot and has been tested one season only. It belongs to the rose class and seems to be very promising, but more time is needed in order to fully test its value. Nebula. Similar to Early Norther. Somerset. A midseason rose-colored variety of considerable promise. Sir William. Some have thought that this variety has been overrated, but at the station and substations it has made a record second to none. It easily ranks with the most prolific va rieties and excels most of them in table qualities. AH things considered it de serves a place near the head of the list Victor Rose. A second early, rose colored variety, of considerable merit, principally because of the fine appear ance of the tubers. Wise. A very vigorous and prolific pink-skinned variety, from Ashland county, where it has a high reputa tion. It has been tested here one sea sononly, but appears to have more than ordinary merit. Farmers' Review. Michigan Hortlcaltaral Convention. (Condensed from Farmers' Review Stenographic Report.) Prof. L. F. Taft spoke on irrigation. In sub-irrigation, water has to be sup plied slowly. The tiles used are bent, and the joints do not thus fit closely. This permits the water to escape from the tiles more rapidly than it could through the pores of the tiles. In sub irrigation there is applied from 700 to 800 barrels of water per acre. They had tested the effects of these tiles on tomatoes when the tiles were placed at different depths. The results were about the same, but when sub-irrigation was compared with surface irri gation, the results were in favor of the former. With beans, the results varied great ly. By irrigating they had obtained 76 pounds of beans per square rod, while without water the returns were only 17!4 pounds. Besides that the returns from the 'watered portion were much earlier than on the other, and if they had been marketing them they would have been able to get a better price for these first ones. They picked 27 pounds off the irrigated lot before any were fit to be picked on the unlrrigated patch. They had tried the effect of irrigating the timothy field, and had put on water at the rate of 1.000 barrels per acre, the application being made but once. J At Uarvcst Ume the difference waa very J treat A leM that was irrigated three tlmaa cave stalks of tlmnthv 3 feet .. r t--; , - - tavan . v . icvi o lUCUea in height; the yield was at the rate of 5,36 pounds per acre. The part watered once gave 2,230 pounds, per acre, while without water the yield was 800 pounds to tke acre. The cost of pumping water was about 3 cents per 1,000 gallons. In sub-irrigation, great care must be taken to lay the tile very loosely, and too much water must not be put on. They had planted without regard to irrigation a number of rows of early peas, but when it came time to water the other fields, they managed to dis tribute the water over some of these rows. The slope was about one foot to every four rods. June 13 they picked the first from the irrigated peas. With water they had at the first picking 9 pounds, and without water 11 pounds. This did not seem very favorable, but they kept on, and the total harvest gave 54 pounds with water and without water 21 pounds. The irrigated por tion had yielded at the rate of 3,537 pounds per acre. The cost of watering had been at the rate of $1.75 per acre. They tried the effects of irrigation on cabbages, and got three times the weight with water that they did with out it. With water applied to the po tatoes four times, they got at the rate of 130 bushels per acre over the un watered lot. Applied three times the gain was 60 bushels per acre, and twice late in the season the gain was only 42 bushels to the acre. It is often said that it is advisable to' wait till the tubers form before applying the water, but no difference was detected at this station. If the soil be not moist at time oi sowing the seed, provide the moisture by applying the water in furrows four feet apart made by a plow. The seed may also be thoroughly soaked before being planted. Second, never apply water to start the seed after planting. In applying water as directed, use from 500 to 1.000 bar rels per acre. It was found at the sta tion that 750 barrels gave the best re sults. Again, in irrigating potatoes, avoid running the water over the surface of the ground, but have it directed into the furrows. Mr. Williams There arc several kinds of irrigation in use. This vaca tion of methods arises from difference of conditions. Some of our Michigan fruit growers will probably fail if they try to use the same methods that are in use in California and Dakota. I once lived in a Dakota town that had an ar tesian well. Water was struck at 1,145 feet, and the flow was strong. I had a hydrant in my front yard, and with a one-inch hose I could water my entire lot My cistern was nearly ruined from the seepage, and my present teuant there writes that the cellar is being flooded from a break in the main 25 feet away, while a neighbor's cellar is overflowed by the seepage from an open ditch on the opposite side of the road, 60 feet away. All this shows the char acter of the soil, the seepage denoting its intense porosity. Now, my experi ence in Douglas, Michigan, is that the soil is very different from that I have described, and the seepage is very slow. Sub-irrigation is good where it can be used, but for general orcharding it is too expensive, and I fear too that it would be found that the roots of the trees would penetrate the tile and fill it up. Draft Horse to the Front. The revival of draft horse breeding in the horse breeding states, after this unprecedented decline in breeding for three years, is simply the law of supply and demand. The revival of business and commercial industries calls for more big draft horses, while the supply of good horses is far short of the de mand, and must be until we can pro duce a new supply and mature them for the markets. Prices meanwhile must advance and the weights increase to 1,800 and 2,000 pounds, while in 1SI2 a 1,600 pound horse was a good draft horse. Farmers have about concluded that they will stick to the farm, and if they farm draft horses arc the most substantial, reliable and profitable branch of stock breeding. The revival of draft and coach horse breeding throughout the Western states means greater prosperity. Already these horses top the markets, and the many foreign buyers arc eagerly look ing for the best of them, while our own city markets complain of the short sup ply, just when they want more of them and a little larger and better than ever before. Live Stock Journal. Dairy Purpose The great principle of dairying for butter is this: For every ton of food used, produce the largest amount of butter at the least cost The nearer a dairyman attains to this idea, the greater financial suc cess he will achieve. This statement is as old as the hills, and yet but few seem to appreciate the importance of it. It seems to me that the first idea a dairy man should have is this: He has on his ranch a certain amount of food which he intends to convert into butter at the least cost, and he intends to buy some other kinds of food to be used for the same purpose. He must use some sort of machine, naturally, to turn all these tons of grass, hay, bran, etc., into but ter. What shall it be? A cow, or course, for the machine; and as many of these machines as his amount of feed will warrant. Ex. Should Be Tiled. Our garden plat was originally the wettest, coldest piece of land on the farm; by tile drainage and manure we have got it into good condition, but we have found that we can work it much better during the cropping season if it is fall plowed. If not plowed till spring, some times it is late before it dries out as it should, be fore being plowed, as it id clay soil heavily manured. Since we have been fall plowing, we are troubled by hav ing it pack and run together after hard rains. Doubtless many others similarly situated would be benefited by the like practice of fall plowing. Ex. Making Hotbeds. A hotbed, when properly made, will hold heat a consid erable time. Get good stable manure, and if it be scarce, mix some leaves with it. Stable manure and leaves make a splendid and lasting bed, providing the material is well packed down. Soil for hotbeds ought to be prepared in the fall. At this season, as a rule, everything is frozen up. A liberal amount of old decayed manure that is well rotted down is just the thing to mix in with the soil. Seeds will come up well in a compost of this. Am. Gardening. Best Fertilizer Professor Atwater says: "Chemists cannot prescribe for soils as doctors do for patients. Stable manure is a complete fertilizer. It con tains all the ingredients of plant food; and its organic matter improves the mechanical condition of the soil be sides. It is a standard fertilizer, and useful everywhere. To learn by what artificial fertilizer this can be supple mented in any given case, is, as I have often insisted, best settled by experi ence aud experiment." I A single swallow, according to an au- thority, can devour 6,000 flies in a day. . Mrtm clTrtMl4 w-lt;fc, it r0mm I n i v.. T, .. . i reopie woo Knew r ranees foiaeas as slight vonir achaol Hi-l anri ti.k enjoyed the privilege of seeing- her since are not altogether prepared for the development which has takes place since her marriage. Mrs. Cleveland has acquired additional weight almost im perceptibly, but none the less surely. It does not detract in the slightest de gree from her charming presence. Some of her most intimate friends have been particularly curious of late to know how much she actually weighed, but they were not altogether prepared for the statement Mrs. Cleveland made the other day to one of her friends that she now tipped the scales at exactly ISHi pounds. Chicago Times-Herald. Stop Thief! Stop a small malady, which is .tealins your strength, before it outrun-; your power lo arrest It. and recover what It took from yon. The safest and promptest recuper ator of waning vitality is liostetter's Stom ach Hitters, which renew vigor, Hesh and nerve quietude because it restore activity to those f mictions whose interruption inter feres with general health. U-e the Hitters for dvpcD-.ia. malarial, rheumatic and kid ney complaints aud.billloustics. If your friends don't treat you right eat ouions. FATTEKINO ZIUCS COSTS OSE CENT The editor recently heard of a farmer fattening hogs at less than one cent a pound. This was made possible through the cowing of Salzer's King Barley, yielding over 100 bu. per acre. Golden Triumph Corn, yielding 200 bu. per acre, and the feeding on Sand Vetch, Teosinte, Hundredfold Peas, etc. Now. with such yields, the growing of hogs is more profitable than a silver mine. baizei s catalogue is full of rare tnings for the farmer. irnlnir nn.l rlt- lzen, and the editor believes that it would pay everybody a hundred-fold to get Salzer's catalogue before purchas ing seeds. ir yoa will rat this ont and sand :t with 10 cents postage to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., they will mail you their mammoth seed cata logue and 10 samples of grasses and grains, including above corn and bar ley. Catalogue alone, 5c postage. . w n Sunflower stalks are now converted into rrer. liegeman' t'Manpbor leo with) OljrcariM. Curr Cha npl Ha n J ami F:ie Tender or n Keel, Chilblains, l'llZte. CO. Clark Cfc.NeT Haven. Ct. 1 he tuau who (niarre!s with his lot makes it harder. It the llaby ts Cattiag Teetn. Sesure ami uet hat ol'j and well-tried remedy, Mes. 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