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RrwSH??5 E? ' "''. "--"; - rt efr'?: --tf! tei? -ae rx -f-7"Tir: a swate -nr :-vP5eS 1 "' r a 3JJ f l V' --,sr - . . -. I? : li 4-" la . M : p !.- ti - . fee A FreStaMe Iareatlaa. While a great many inventors ara able to invent and perfect new ideas bat feir of them possess the basiness -i tact necessary to introduce their inven tions after they hare been patented. Occasionally, however, an inventor is enabled to devise a valuable invention and is at the same time able to realize .. a snug sum on the'same. . .One of these successful inventors is Thomas S. Ferguson, of Omaha, Ne braska, .who has invented a bit. within ' which is embodied a removable and r ' adjustable shaper so that oval, spher ical or irregular openings can be drill ed, the bit being arranged to automat ically adjust itself as it feeds forward. Inventor Ferguson further devised an ejrg carrier which is the simplest and cheapest egg crate yet invented and placed upon the market and both of " .these inventions he was enabled to dis pose of to a company with unlimited -" capital, the patents being procured and sold through Messrs. Sues A; Co., United . States Patent Solicitors, of Omaha, Nebraska. Clarence II. .Tudson, of Council Bluffs, . 'Iowa, has received a patent for an ex- ceedingly clever device, which can be . used both as a toy and an advertising . medium. The invention consists of a peculiarly constructed metal frame . 'which can be made for a few pennies and which is adapted to hold a square piece of card board such as an ordinary business card, and which when thrown backward will expell the card with a force sufficient to send if fully a hun . dred feet straight upward, the inven tion being practically a card shooting " .gun. Inventors desiring valuable free in formation as to the law and practice of patents, may obtain the same by ad dressing Sues & Co., United States Patent Solicitors, Bee Building, Omaha, Nebraska. A Summer Resort Hook Free. Write to C S Crane, general passen ger and ticket agent Wabash Railroad, St. Louis. Mo., for a summer resort book, tolling all about the beautiful lake region reached by the Wabash Kailroad. .4 Young Woman's Summer Wardrobe. Emma M. Hooper in answer to a cor respondent who inquires concerning a wardrobe for the summer (in May Ladies' Home Journal): "Havefour dancing gowns of net over silk, chiffon, white Dresden siik and a spangled net White and pale blue pique suits, sev eral fancy silk waists, a dotted Swiss, a flowered organdy, blue duck and bright blue outing gown of twill; then a golden-brown cheviot for traveling; black satin and white silk separate skirts; shirtwaists, and a tan mohair suit. 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U., OMAHA 24 1896 When writing to advertisers, kindly . mention this paper. D Bart Coat iijTaa, TawcsOood. QtH FAEM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. eem TJp-to-Data HlaU Aboat Calttva tlea ef the SeU and Yield Thereof Hortlcalture, VlUcaltare aad Flori caftan. G. HARRISON, in Journal of Agricul ture, says: The veil that has so It Eg en shrouded in mys tery the growing of ginseng by artificial I means has at last been torn asunder, and its dazzling possibilities laid bare. Like many other supposed mysteries, when learned and fully understood it is not at all diffi cult. In this connection I wish to quote the botanist in his letter of trans mittal of report to the United States Department of Agriculture. He says: "The report brings out the facts that the wholesale price of American gin seng has steadily Increased from -cents per pound in 1858 to somewhat more than $3 per pound in 1893, and that the value of the export for the past decade has amounted to between $600,000 and $1,000,000 per year. The report also points out the fact that the natural supply is now rapidly decreas ing and that its extermination, if pres ent conditions continue, is inevitable. At the same time, there can be no ques tion but that the cultivation of .ginseng is entirely practicable. Enough has been achieved in various parts of America to fully demonstrate the truth of the botanist's statement in regard to the practicability of its culture. The following statement is from a Chicago farm paper: Ginseng is scarce thi3 year in the Big Sandy Valley, Ky., from where much of the ginseng pro duced in this country comes. For some reason the mountaineers have neglected the industry during the last year or so. Ginseng is now worth $3.50 per pound, but the price is likely to in crease considerably very soon." I have studied the habits and growth of "this plant from boyhood, and am now grow ing it successfully in the garden. It can bo grown in the garden, orchard or forest. It can be grown in the gar den with very little attention and no expense after plantation is started, and where the plant grows wild, this ex pense can be saved. Every person own ing a few rods of land should engage in this pleasant and highly lucrative industry. A few beds in a farmer's garden will more than pay the farm expenses each year. Grpam for Alkali Soils. Robert H. Forbes, chemist of the Ari zona experiment station makes the following statement in bulletin 18 of that station respecting the use of gyp sum on alkali land: 1. The cost of gypsum depends largely upon freight rates. It may be gotten as low as two cents a pound. Arizona contains undeveloped supplies of gypsum. 2. It is said that a surface dress ing of gypsum will enable tender plants to make a start in alkaline soils. When the crop is large enough to shade the ground, evaporation and rise of alkali is retarded and the crop may be safely matured. 3. In the case of fruit trees as with annual plants injury most usually re sults from the corrosive action of the alkali Just at the surface of the ground. The soil, however, and its bottom waters, may be so salty as to injure the trees through its roots. 4. Gypsum improves the tilth of alkaline soils by acting upon and changing the sodium carbonate to which the lumpy character of these soils is largely due. 5. The water of Salt river contains small amounts of gypsum in solution. The use or this water for irrigation ought therefore to result in a gradual disappearance of black alkali wheiever it is applied. 6. Wood ashes contain considei.tble amount of potassium carbonate, a sub stance having properties similar to those of sodium carbonate. The use of ashes on land already afflicted with alkali is therefore not advisable. Prone tlrnirinc in Oregon. The prune industry has grown to be one of the most important interests in the stae. Already it has assumed great er proportions than all other orchard industries. As the favorite fruit crop of Oregon, it has much in its favor; the trees are sure to bear, there are no climatic conditions to overcome, the finished product is not perishable, and its insect pests and fungous diseases are less numerous than other fruits. The trees suffer, it is true, from several pests, but they are slight afflictions in com parison to the codlin moth and apple scab of the apple and pear, and, until we have curculio and black knot, which render plum growing in the cast almost impossible, we can say that prunes are free from diseases. Moreover, there is a growing demand for the product, dried and green, which promises well for the industry. There are about 26,000 acres devoted to prune growing in Oregon. Prunes are grown throughout the west ern part of the state and along the Col umbia and its tributaries in northern and eastern Oregon, hut the major part of the industry is comprised in the Will amette and (Jmpqua river valleys. In the Willamette Valley, there are abont 15,000 aercs of prune orchards. As yet most of these orchards are on the black alluvial soil near the river, and have not to any appreciable extent en croached upon the led hill soil farther away, though that this soil will produce prunes is certain. The second largest prune district is the Umpqua River Val ley. Here there arc about 6,500 acres of prune orchards. The valley of the Ump qua seems to be the most favored region for prunes, trees and fruit reaching their highest perfection there. The Petite or French prune especially seems to thrive; the Italian can be as well, and perhaps better, grown in the Will amette Valley. The Petite prune, and the Italian more or less, are grown very successfully in the Rogue River Valley also, where there are approximately 1,500 acres. Attempts are being made to grow prunes in Hood River Valley and along the Columbia in eastern Ore gon, but experienced orchardists say that these sections cannot well -compete with the more favored prune lo calities, and that their splendid fruit resources can be used to better advant age in growing other fruits. In these districts there are about 2,500 acres .U. P. Hedrick. TroBt la Tree Planting. In an address upon "Farming," pub lished in bulletin 17 of the Arizona experiment station, Tucson, Ariz., Gov ernor Hughes is reported as having said, most pertinently for Arizona: "There -Is profit in tree-planting. Nearly every farm has little nooks which cannot be utilized for farming. The ash, Cottonwood, perhaps the eu calyptus, and other fuel-growing trees Mgkt to be cultivated on the borders rJj JPA of canals, and the main laterals might be planted vith one or more rows of trees; they would grow here without irrigation, and would serve as a wind break, and thus aid in preventing the moisture of the field from being ab sorbed by hot winds sweeping over them. They would have a tendency to check evaporation from canals and laterals by shutting out the rays of the sun, and at the same time it would provide homes for thousands of the feathered tribe who would pay for their lodging many times in the de struction of insects, as well as by pro viding free concerts for the farmer's family." Dietetic Value of lloney. Probably most people consider honey as the equal in value for food of any sweet sauee no better, no worse. All should know that it possesses one great superiority ease of digestion. The nectar of flowers is almost wholly cane sugar. The secretions added by the bees change this to grape-sugar, and so prepare it that it is almost ready for assimilation without any effort on the part of the stomach; In fact. Prof. A. J. Cook once styled honey "digested nectar." It will be readily seen that honey is a very desirable food for those with weakened digestive powers. If a person is very tired, "too exhausted to eat," it is astonishing how a few tastes of honey will act like magic Al most no effort Is required to make it ready for assimilation. Persons suf fering from some forms of kidney trouble will find that honey is a much more beneficial food for them than is cane-sugar. In eating comb-honey, many strive to reject every particle of wax, fearing that, as wax is indigestible, nightmare and other troublesome consequences will follow an indulgence in warm bis cuit and honey. It is true that bread is more easily digested than warm biscuit, as the latter is inclined to "pack" in chewing, but it may surprise some to know that comb-honey is really an aid to the digestion of hot bread or bis cuit .The philosophy of the matter is that the flakes of wax prevent the "packing," while the honey readily dis solves out, leaving passages for the gas tric juice to enter the mass of food. The flakes of wax are indigestible, that is true, but when warmed are perfectly smooth and soft and will not injure the most delicate membrane; in fact, thej' act as a gentle stimulant, and are beneficial in some forms of alimentary difficulties. The unpleasant symptoms from which some suffer after eating honey may often be removed by drinking a little milk. W. Z. Hutchinson, in Country Gentleman. Itcseeiltn;; Clover Mcailorrs. The Ohio Experiment Station is now planning some experiments in attempt ing to get a stand of clover on fields sown last spring, but which failed to make a perfect stand, owing to the drouth. The bare spots in these fields will first be gone over with a sharp spike harrow, or vilh a disk harrow; crimson clover and common clover will then be sown side by side, and lightly covered in with smoothing harrow. A light seeding of oats as a nurse crop may be added on part of the land, for comparison, but we expect the best re sults from seeding the clover alone. L:ist season's experience demonstrated that the nurse crop may prove a rob ber instead of a nurse, by taking all the water from the soil and leaving none for the clover. i:o:any at Champaign. -The University of Illinois has recent ly been making extended improvements in its botanical department. Among these arc substantial additions to the herbarium, which has, for the Grst time, been placed in a room by itself, j.nd the erection of a building for the cultivation of plants needed in the laboratory. Arrangements have been made .for the cultivation of aquatic plants, and for carrying on various l:iud3 of experiments, both by students in their regular practice, and by inves tigators endeavoring to make contri butions to knowledge in a most inter esting but not sufficiently explored field of science. rrepir.ttioa or Spraying Mixtures. Too much care cannot be taken in preparing any mixture to be used on trees and fruits. If not properly pre pared, injury may follow. Bordeaux mixture, if properly prepared, will cot injure the apple; but if there is not a sufficient amount of lime, injury may follow, causing the surface of the apple to be russeted and rough. Also damage to foliage may result. Other fruits are susceptible to injury from the mixture, if carelessly prepared. This mixture is one of the most effective fungicides in use. The Orchard. If the orchard was seeded in the fall with rye, crimson clover or some other coop for a mulch and green manure, plowing will be necessary in order to get the crop un der and out of the way of the cultiva tors, and It should be delayed until the crop has made some growth in the spring but not enough to draw too heavily upon the moisture in the soil. One plowing in the spring will usually be found sufficient for the season, un less possibly another plowing in the late summer to fit the ground for a green crop to protect the land over win ter. The after cultivation should be frequent and shallow. If the ground is w;ecdy, once a week is none too often to run the cultivator, and in a dry spell it should be run as often as this. Later in the season once in two weeks is fre quent enough. As a general rule the cultivator should be stopped by August 1, in order to gh'e the wood a chance to ripen thoroughly. National Stock man. Soil for Strawberries. The ideal soil is where a clover sod has becft manured and a crop of potatoes raised the pre vious year. Corn stubble under same conditions is good if the strawberry rows are run between the old corn rows. If they are run on the top, the old corn hills are apt to be caught by the cultivator and the plats loosened. Clover sod is very good, but liable to be infested with grub worms; besides, if there are any clover seeds left in the ground they are likely to grow and prove troublesome. Whatever ground is used, it must be well manured and made ready to set in gesd mechanical condition. If manure is used, it should be well rotted and cultivated in the ground after plowing. Ex. Burning Potatoes. The report comes from some parts of the country that farmers have been burning their po tatoes for fuel, the tubers being worth only about $2 per ton. On the other hand, there are thousands of families !'. the great cities who are paying five and six times that price for the few potatoes they are able to buy. When will we learn that general prosperity is impossible so long as we have such a crude system of distributing the necessities of life? Ex. Most of the land in the republic of Mexico is held in almost feudal tenure by about 7,000 families. Jadfla Cattle. In a lecture before the Ohio state university, A. T. Dempsey amid: Judging cattle is one of the things that might be classed with the lost arts, and from the conflicting opinions of breeders and so-called experts so often displayed in the show yard, it is -safe to believe that the "art"' has never been found. The chief cause for this state of affairs is the (act that we have no general or acknowledged standard, but instead each breed of cattle has its scale of points, and the expert judge a type of his own. As long as this state of affairs continues to exist cattle judges, like all great men, will continue to disagree. For judging cattle we have two modes-4 by comparisons and the score card. Of these two methods we prefer the former, believing it to be the most correct and satisfactory. The score card is a dangerous thing even in the hands of an expert and Its popularity Is fast on the wane. Many points of the score card made essential to a good cow, such as escutcheon, tail, navel, withers, back, open jointed, ears, fore head, etc., 'have been exploded by the old cow by her practical demonstrations in the dairy. Many of our most noted performers among the dairy cows were partially or wholly devoid of these fancy points, thus plainly proving that you "can not always tell just what a cow can do by testing her with a score card." In judging a dairy cow the first thing to be considered is constitution; this is essential as the cow, no matter how good, is comparatively worthless without it. Her size should be normal of the breed that she represents: her from wedge shape, with plenty of ca pacity for storing food, and hide loose. The other important points to be con sidered are the loins, hips, udder, teats, milk veins and disposition. If she fills the requirements in these essential points do not pass her by if she should bo shy in head, short in tail, or lack ing in escutcheon. The position of a cattle judge is a trying one, and, un like the cow, his back'should be broad and strong. To the student aspiring to be an expert judge my advice is "don't." No matter how well and hon estly the judge pcrfoms his work he re ceives tho commendation of but one party (the man that gets the prize), and reaps the vengeance of all the other competitors. American IIorse In Aastrla. A Washington correspondent of the American Horse Breeder says: The American exporters of horse3 may be interested in some information that has been furnished to the state department by the Austrian minister, stationed in thi3 city, relative to the importation of horses into Austria Hungary. He states that, according to advices lately received from the im perial and royal ministry of the inter ior, many shipments of horses have recently been received at the Austrian frontier stations from Germany, and for which none or at best only very defective animal certificates were pro vided. While, of course, a part of these shipments have their origin in the German empire, yet a large number of them only pass through German ter ritory, and really are imported from otlier countries, for instance, draugh horses, both for breeding purposes and for use, aro imported largely from Bel glum; while riding, driving, and race horses, especially for breeding purposes are imported from England and the United States, the larger shipments re cently coming from this country, and about 1000 more are soon expected in that country. The mode of shipping American horses is usually by steam ship via Hamburg, from which point they are either shipped directly to their destination or are held in Berlin for a few days, after which time they are shipped to their ultimate destination-in Austria-Hungary, as a rule only ac companied by the certificate of a Ham burg veterinarian. It is more than pos sible that, under the above loose methods of shipments, American horses might be refused admittance at the Austrian frontier, and, in order to avoid this the Austrian government calls special attention to the fact that all interested in the shipment of Amer ican horses to that country should see that the same are accompanied by a cattle certificate, wherein their healthy condition at the time of their departure from their former permanent abode is certified to, as without this they will not be admitted. These animal cer tificates must be issued officially, and must contain detailed references as to their especial characteristics, and the certification of the fact that they were in good health at the time of their de parture, that they come from a place and neighborhood wherein at the time of departure, there was not disease ex isting that would be infectious to this class of animals. Horses declared to be suspected of contagious diseases are not permitted to be imported to that country. PlB Per Acre. J. E. Summers, speaking at a Mis souri convention, answered as follows tho question, "How many acres for ten sows and their progeny?" "To determine definitely it would de pend upon the number of pigs in lit ters. But, supposing each sow to have six pigs, making, with the ten sows, seventy head, we can approximate the number of acres required for their sup port from the time pigs are farrowed till ready for market at about ten months old. Before farrowing each'sow should have a good, comfortable place for bed, and a lot of about one-eighth of an acre. Here she should remain with her young till they are about three weeks old, or strong enough to follow her about. Then she should be allowed the run of a good grass lot in the day time. For early grazing a patch of rye of about five acres will be very good and will give the early pigs something green before pasture affords grass. From the rye patch they should go on to a good pasture of blue grass and clover, say of about ten acres, mak ing fifteen acres of pasture. While this amount of pasture will support 'the sows in litter, I would "much prefer to give them larger range, as the other feed stuffs that are of' great value as pork producers, but, as a general rule, the four feeds I have mentioned will produce a pound of pork cheaper than any other combination that we know of, with this advantage in their favor that we can generally raise an abund ance of corn, oats, and clover, and all we have to buy is the oil meal, which is but a small proportion of the ration for one-half of the year." Chinch Bug Eggs and Young. Each female deposits about 500 eggs, usually placing them about the surface of the ground on stems of grass, grains and in rare cases, other plants. The young are at first of a red color, later chang ing to brown-black, while the adult is black with white wings. The wings are net obtained until full development has been reached, and, hence in the most destructive period the insects crawl instead of fly, and the true cause of injury is less on account of numbers than of the habit of clustering in my riads on the plant attacked. DAIRY AND POULTRY INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. now SaceMafal Farmer Operate ThU DeaartMcat at tha Faraa A ew Biata as to the Cara ef Lira Stock aad raaftry. OS HAVE BEEN EN- gaged in raising poultry ever since the spring of 1890. I then purchased an incubator, and from that time I have given my entire at tention to poultry raising. I started in perfectly ignor ant of the buisness, and at the bottom of the ladder. Through many experiments and losses, successes and failures, I am gradually rising to the top. During the first three years my main object was to find out what breed would give me the largest profit per fowl. In this test I had twenty-one different breeds, giving them the same care and attention, and keePJg a strict book account of each breed. The breeds in this test were: Ligw Brahma, Dark Brahma, Black Cochins White Cochins, Partridge Cochins. Bun Cochins, American Dominique, Silver Spangled Hamburgs, Houdans. BlacK Javas, Black Langshans, Single Comb Brown Leghorns, Single Comb White Leghorns, Rose Comb Brown IS"18 Rose Comb White Leghorns, J"1" Minorcas, Barred Plymouth Rocks. White Plymouth Rocks, Red Caps, bu ver Laced Wyandottes, and White i v-y-andottes. The balance sheet would in variably fall in favor of the Single Comb Brown Leghorns. This breed is now my choice, and I breed them exclusively for three purposes: First, the sell ng of thoroughbred eggs; then the raising of early broilers, and last for eggs m the winter. There is in my opinion no other breed that excels them for cither of these three purposes. I nave at present a fine flock of birds. These birds have free range during the sum mer months, with convenient place for roosting at night. They are housed during the winter months in the main building, which is 20x80 feet, two stories high, containing eighteen pens 8X16 feet. In each pen are placed f rom ni tcen to twenty fowls, with no outdoor runs. The feeding consists principally of vegetables and grain, such as can be raised during the summer, namely: cabbages, turnips, sugar beets, potatoes, apples, corn, wheat, rye, oats, buck wheat and millet. I keep pounded oys ter shells before them all the time for grit and feed green ground bone three times a week. I consider these essential for the production of eggs. The mar keting is of very great importance, as I do not give my time to the business for the fun there is in it but for the money alone. I market principally in the city of New York. By feeding the variety of food above mentioned and grain fed in a litter of cut corn fodder F keep tho egg basket full of eggs and the incubators full to their utmoht capacity of eggs laid by my own hens, when the thermometer outside ranges from 10 to 12 degrees below zero. Dur ing the first few years of my experi ence I had some difficulty with dis eases, lice and predatory animals. But after finding the secret of cleanliness and of disinfectants and the value of a sood gunshot. I have often raised from jb to 9S per cent of the chicks hatched. In my earlier years I tried doctoring fowls and found it simply time thrown away, for if the same time were used in clcasing the coops and applying dis infectants, diseases would rarely oc cur. By careful breeding and always selecting the best laying birds and earliest matured pullets and cockerels. I have at present remarkable egg pro ducers and early maturers, the pullets often laying at four months old. IP any further knowledge of my experience is desired it will be cheerfully given. John Smoker. Cow Femls ami Feeding. (Condensed from Farmers' 'Review stenographic report of Wisconsin Round-Up Institute.) Thomas Convey spoke .on feeds and feeding. In substance he said: Most of us by this time realize the necessity of having the right kind of an animal to feed. In feeding ourselves we use a variety of food, and we do it by in stinct. Our animals cannot select their food for themselves as we can, but have :o depend on us for the variety of food they do get. Some foods, like whole milk, are neai ly perfect stock food, for they con tain all of the elements necessary to de velop the animal. But in many of the foods fed there is a deficiency of cer tain elements. The balancing of the elements of the food is necessary if we are to get the best results. At one of the experiment stations it took nearly 50 per cent more food to produce a cer tain amount of gain when the food was unbalanced than It did when the ele ments were'properly balanced. An excess of concentrated food should not he fed alone to any animal. Con densed foods should be mixed with bulky foods. Bulk is a necessity in the food of the cud chewing animal. The condition of the hay and fodder affects the feeding value of those foods to a very great extent. While the loss of dry matter may be small on account of the deterioration in quality, the loss in digestibility and palatability is very great. Q. Will you give us a good balanced ration for milk? Mr. Convey. For the grain ration you can make up a variety of formulas each of which will give good results. In Wisconsin we can profitably feed ground peas and oats and wheat bran, corn meal and corn in the silage. The ground peas and, 'oats are mixed half and half, and that compound fed with an equal amount of bran. We might make one good formula as follows: Two and a half pounds of corn, two and and a half pounds of the mixed peas and oats, and five pounds of bran. Q. Will type of cow control the ra tion to some extent? A. Well, if you have a cow that will not profitably use this ration, that is, that will turn it into beef instead of into milk, you had better fatten her and send her to the butcher. Q. How often do you feed per day? A. We feed coarse feed three times a day and ground feed twice a day. The coarse feed is fed morning, noon and night. Mr. Burchard said he believed that cows should be fed buttwice a day, and that there was no more reason for feed ing them at noon than at midnight. Laarshan Plymouth Rock Croat. About 25 years ago I began raising poultry on a small scale and have been at it ever since that time. For the last ten years I have been paying more at tention to the business. I commenced with Black Spanish, found them to be good layers but poor table fowl. Then I took the Brown Leghorns and kept them twenty years. I found them to be good layers and good table fowls. Then I tried the Black T.aafhaa ad the Plymouth Rocks separately. Their cross (Barred Plymouth Rock) I had bad luck with. I shall keep the Lang shans and the White Plymouth Rocks, their cross being the nearest to what I want for marketing. Their cross suits my customers as well as the white Ply mouth Rocks, and they are much more hardy. I have a comfortable place for them in winter, though it is not on the fancy order. I have separate houses and yards for the breeds I wish to breed from. I feed the chicks on wheat bran, middlings and cornmeal, equal parts with a little bone meal mixed in with milk, soon to follow with millet, wheat and cracked corn. The laying hens are fed soft food in the morning, wheat or oats at noon, and wheat or corn at night. I have a very fair market for both poultry and eggs, most of mine going to private families. In the winter I do not get many eggs before February. One year I lost a good many fowls by some disease, though very few any year by lice. I have lost none with lice since I kept them well supplied with coal ashes. Last year I lost twenty per cent from hawks and skunks, more than I have lost from the same causes in all other years put together. I have had good success raising broods and have al ways had a large per cent hatch. When I see a fowl sick I at once separate her from the rest and doctor, generally successfully. Wm. M. Smith. Danger la MUk Preservatives. F. L. Russell says that the statement is made by Forester and quoted in the National Dispensatory that boric acid greatly increases the faecal solids and the excretion of albuminous compounds even when given in a daily dose of seven or eight grains, and that these effects continue for some time after the suppression of the medicine. The United States dispensatory says that the practice of using salicylic acid for a preservative of articles of food is to be condemned. A commission ap pointed by the French government re ported that the prolonged use of even a very small amount of salicylic acid is dangerous, especially to very aged per sons. It is not difficult to see that it will be fatal to the permanent interests of the cream trade if dependence is placed upon chemical preservatives to keep the cream sweet. Such a practice is quite easily detected by chemical tests and a well-founded suspicion that it is commonly resorted to can only work injury to the trade, even in cream pre served by unobjectionable methods. Cream Trade Increasing. Bulletin 23 of Maine Experiment Sta tion says: It is an important feature of our dairy business that there is a growing demand for fresh, sweet cream, not only for domestic use, but for exporting to the large cities. Dur ing the past year this cream trade from Maine has considerably exceeded $150, 000 and each year finds the demand in creasing. It has come to be an impor tant question how best to foster this branch of our dairy business, and dur ing that season when butter is most abundant and cheapest for there is the greatest demand for cream during the summer months to find a profit able market for this commodity and so reduce the butter supply and at the same time increase the profit from the dairy. One important reason for foster ing the cream trade is that cream sold to be consumed as cream is in no large degree a rival of either milk or butter, but enlarges the demand for dairy products at a time when such products are most abundant and most cheaply produced. Palnlesne44 of Dehorning. Before the cow became domesticated and she ran with the wild animals, there was some use for the horn3 as a means of defense for herself and young. But to-day they have no possible use; on the contrary they do much harm. Then why not take them off? The faint hearted objector will say it is a cruel operation. I do not pretend to cay it does not hurt, but I do say it docs not hurt more than it does a person to have a tooth pulled, and I am sure the1 hurt of the two operations are similar in being painful only while the operation lasts. I have seen the cow come back after the work was done and clean up the feed she was first coaxed in with. E. N. Norton. Inflammation of Udder in Ewe. In flammation of the udder is even more common in the ewe than in the cow. and that fact considering that the lat ter animal is used principally as a mill ing machine, is testimony to its fre quency. It is, perhaps, the moie re markable since the ewe is not m this country an animal in which the secre tion is artificially maintained bejond its natural duration. The function of lactation is essentially intermittent, be ing active only during the parturient period, and ceasing when the lamb no longer requires milk, except, of course, in those countries where ewe's milk cheese is a staple article of manufac ture. There is another peculiar fea ture in mammitis in the ewe as com pared with the same disease in the cow viz.. the frequency with which it takes on the gangrenous form and end:; in sloughing of the section of the gland attacked and death of the animal. Ex. itlcli Priced Stock Abroad. We ar just now in the midst or great depres sions in beef cattle, draft and road ster horses, and sheep breeding indus tries, and since America is not now importing all these lines of stock from the old world, it would be expected as a result, that this class of stock would be "flat" on the market there as well. Not so. The reports through the stock journals of the old world show that the best specimens of the different lines of stock command as high figures as when we were importing millions of dollars worth annually. Ex. Progress of the Plow. The plow is not a perfect implement, and a reward of the entire globe might safely be of fered for any work of art that is perfect in all its relations. Now the plow, in cluding the first picked stick that was used for seeding" operations, is the old est implement used in agriculture, and in every advanced step of the industry it has not only kept pace but has really led in its march. Step by step in his growth may be read the relative condi tion of man from beyond the period o! the pyramids down to the latest elec trical plow, which is still leading in the van of the world's onward march. Ex. Ayrshire-Jersey Crosses. The Ayr shire has always been called a milk cow, and has never claimed to excel in butter quality, but as this becomes known she is sought for as a cross on the Jersey to strengthen the constitu tion of tie Jersey without injury to the butter yield, and many Ayrshire bulls are being sold to dairymen who manu tacture nutter from high grade and un registered Jerseys and so far the cross is said to produce satisfactory results in a cow of larger capacity and strong er constitution. C. M. Wiastow. , Tha Mslini B m ty Thrives oa good food aad saasMne, with plenty of exercise In the open air. Her form glows with health and her face blooms with Its beauty. If her sys tem needs the cleansing action of a lax ative remedy she uses the gentle and pleasant Syrup of Figs. Made by the California Fig Syrup Company. Freckle. Talk as you will, fteckles are no or nament to even a pretty girl, and on one who has no beauty to boast of -they are positively hideous. 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