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j-r' "-' "''a- i i - - .''' . .ssa;a,',a1,?i"l,,J,SSfS??SF5n5JMyTrMT -rSFSSfeSB? , ; J. iSCTJJHUgaitaWJ3te!3 JPH J MP 4BU- l&gm&&& vmsx&'ir'r 73Smtra&3ftf?&S?3& " - ' . K.- aat dt aa mf I J 9 J fr 9 " c t tea '"""'-n.n.aa.mZ tK ." - -. .. . -'. --.- Iavoatwra. AaoBst.the TraaMiauM.ppi ia- '" TcntoTB who received patents dariag; past week were Joseph J. Bnrke, Wil- .bnr, Nebraska, lawn-mower knife sharpener; Emil R. Draver, Alliance, Nebraska, sifting apparatus; Richard Evans, Mitchell, South Dakota, cntter . 'bar for harvesting machinery; James D. Wiltiong', Glenwood, Iowa, bedstead . ' 'brace and mattress support; Frederick (i Weeks, Lyons, Iowa, railway time , and station indicator; "William H. Scott, .' What Cheer, Iowa, pick; and Joseph A. :. .. ttekcnthaler, dishing; Iowa, shield for ." corn cultivators. ; Amongst the noticeable inventions are found a combination fuse block and , . .; lightning' arrester; a perpetual calender for watches; a safety pin; a beefsteak tenderer; a toy balloon; a gear combi nation to propel bicycles; an apparatus to produce moon effects unon stages; a walking toy; a pueumatic cushion for '-. crutches; a racing sulky; a tack ham . iner provided with a magazine feeding , . -the tacks to the hammer head; a aim- pie milk can cleaner; a tool for packing pisto'a rods; a sounding' post for music- al instruments; and a campaign hand ' ' kerchief. Inventors desiring free information . relative to patents can obtain the same .. in addressing Sues & Co., United States Patent Solicitors, Bee Building, Omaha, Nebraska. DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. fat T, Departawat of lata m to raaltrjr. n Opeiata the WmwrnA Car at i A Few Ura Stack Hew to Keep Pies. When pies are to be kept over until the second day after baking, it is a wise plan to brush the under crust with a beaten egg, then to put the tin .or dish on the ice for half an hour. . After that put in the filling of the pie and bake quickly. This will keep the crust from getting soaked. A Story of Colorado Gold. The most unique and instructive book yet published about the gold and other features of Cripple Creek District has. just been issued by O. W. Craw ford, publisher. Masonic Temple, Chic ago. 111. Every page is illustrated with original pictures in three colors, . made for this work by Mr. E. .1 Rice, the sketch genius of the Rockies. It is a complete exposition of Cripple Creek Gold, telling where it is found, . how it is found, where it is milled, . how it is treated, how it is paid for; all about mines, titles, camping in the mountains and Cripple Park's wonder ful Appolinaris Springs, which the Jndians called Quleeka and of which they said,. "If you drink the waters "always, you will live always." In ' printing and illustration it is a work of high art We are not surprised to learn that the second edition is in . press, for it is a book from which the oldest miner may get information and entertainment as well. Price, 50c., but if you will send fivo names and ad dresses of friends and 25a, stamps or silver, to the publisher, it will be sent postage paid. How to Grow 40c Wheat. Salzer's Fall Seed Catalogue tells you. It's worth thousands to the wideawake farmer. Send 4-cent stamp for catalogue ami free samples of grains and grasses for fall sowing. John A. Salzer Seed Co., LaCrosse, Wis. iirrKi' Jal Fo ly I reakK out in a new j ear; it can't le cured. place every Best Results prove Hood's Sarsaparilla the best blood purifier, appetizer and nerve tonic. Intact Flood 5 Sarsaoarilla I the Otic True Iilood purifier. AH drtiCFint. fk Hood's S:iis ciir.iall l.er 1113. 23 cents. Drink HIRES Rootbeer when yoire hot; when yoiHre thirsty ; when callers .come. At any and all times drink HIRES Rootbcer. Ma4 at hi ThdiM! R. Hirr C, Iila1.'l M. A!jc acta main J sOjd. 5v U evrrjafcae. The Greatest ftedical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY'S MEDICAL DISCOVERY. DOMAID KENNEDY, Cr ROXBURY, MASS., Has discovered in one of our common pasture weeJs a remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a common Pimple. He has tried it in over eleven hundred cases, and neer failed except in two cases (both thunder humor). He has now in his possession ocr two hundred certificates of its value, rail within twenty miles of Boston. Send postal card for book. A benefit is always experienced from the first bottle, and a perfect cure is war- - ranted when the right quantity is taken. When the lungs are affected if causes "shooting pains, like needles passing through them; the same with the Liver . or Bowels. This is caused by the ducts . being stopped, and always disappears in a week a'ter taking it Read the label. I - If the stomach is foul or bilious it win cause squeamish feelings at first . No change of diet ever necessary. Eat the best ou ca-i get, and enough of it .Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed- time. Sold by all Druggists. " N an address to Kansas farmers A. E. Jones said: The farmer that Is iso lated from markets and is obliged to barter his butter at the store for 8 and 10 cents a Dound will never get wealthy, and the best thing he can do Is to Join with his neighbors and try to induce some one to put in a creamery. The cow worth from $50 to $75 and given $30 worth of feed in a year, if Judiciously handled, near a good market, will make a profit for her owner. She should produce f.OOO pounds of 4 to 4 per cent milk, which, sold to a creamery at the aver age price of 80 cents a hundred, would return $48 to $54 a year. Besides there would be the skim-milk, the calf and the manure. Twenty dollars to $25 Is considered a good profit on a cow after paying for feed and labor, 6aying nothing about the by-products. The cow that produces 300 pounds of but ter a year will do so at a cost of 10 cents a pound, if she is well managed. The average cost, however. Is about 12 cents a pound, based on the price of feeds from year to year. The cow that produces only 200 pounds a year would ao so at a cost of 15 cents a pound, ana the 150 pounds a year cow at a cost of 20 cents, taking it for granted that the feed is the same in either case. The pleasant feature about dairy ing Is the profit If the profit is not found, there is no pleasure in the work. This is a general law, but it applies with a special force to dairying, be cause profitable dairying is a fine art, and success is won by strict attention to business. Tho man who looks upon a cow as a necessary evil, can never be a decided success as a dairyman, any more than a slovenly farmer can make a success at farming. The price received for butter depends chiefly upon the taste of the consumer. The intelligent butter-maker studies the tastes of those people who are willing to pay well for what suits them, and then he learns how to make that kind of butter. It is the only way he can get their money. It is not the expense of manufacture that fixes the price. The consumer cares not that the but ter perhaps cost untold labor on the part of some one who churned and prepared it for market If inferfor. it sells for an inferior price, regardless of the' cost of production, and if it is superior, it sells at top prices, though made with ease and little expense. And the beauty remains that the cost of producing the best butter need not be greater than that of producing goods of a poorer quality, in fact the bad article is generally made at the greater cost Ignorance is expensive. I think it will make every one who owns cows a better dairyman to sit down and compare the prices of dairy goods with those of other farm pro ducts. If your cheap grains can be converted into 20 and 25 cent butter and 10 cent cheese or $1 to $1.15 per hundred for milk, it will pay better than selling the raw material and rob bing the farm of all the fertilizing material that much of the land is al ready in need of. EDUCATIONAL. ' THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME. KMrr'Baat, aadlana. liCrwMlnruln. Utlm, tiwt, l, OR, f .. eaaalnl ant CMrinl Faxlavrna) Taanaa rnfmnUtj and tiiMiuUl Cam. Kotm taw to all tudeatc.-irh JutrcvniplHrl lbrtudiciriilred Tor admission iato .. the Junior or St-rior Yrar. of any of the Collegiate 1 . Curc. a limited nmaber of Candidate or the . KTlclaftlcal tate will he rrcelred at cprrial rate. .. M. MsarTa Ka'l. ortwysnroer 13 rear is unique In runip'itriieiiatf ts equipments The MM Tent 111 .. 0"-n CeateaWr fitfc. ISM. rmlipn tent trr on ar.nl l- ation to BT BIT. A. MXUMtl, C S. ., fvidliat. ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART r. JttotHraT, ao. The ronrxt of instruction in this academy, coadacted .. - 1 the ltellffious of the Sarred Heart, embrace tfc. -...-rnKVO, soDjecu necosaiy tr-tRsfltiteall4 and teilnrd education. .Propriety of de .ortrocat. pan. aonal neatntx and the principle- of msrallty are 6l 3eet-. of unerasing attention. Eltcni-ireround. af- V ford the pupil ercrr facility for useful Sudl'y exer :!: their health Is an ol.Ject or constant solicitor. Vt . lcknn t,M,y " attended with maternal care! ., Fall lrm opens Tuer. Sept. 1. Terms for aessioa fl. .' '"I"?"'? In rn-e.IS. this includes tuition, board, wasalnc, cour. in French. German .or Latin. u of llarary and phTticUn- f.e. For Tor. thrr particular a!fvs- THESFrKallUBt. Setoctlof; Cheeses The department of agriculture ha3 issued a very valuable circular on "How to Select Good Cheese." In speak ing of the composition of "filled cheese," it says: Instead of the natural fat of milk, or cream, which is extract ed for buttcrtnaking, there is substitut ed what is known as "neutral lard," made from the leaf fat of the hog. This article, claimed to be exceptionally pure and good of its kind. Is used at the rate of two or three pounds to every 100 pounds of skim milk. The cheese resulting carries about 30 per cent of (lard) fat, which is rather less than the average of (butter) fat in good whole milk cheese. The casein and other components of the two are practically the same in kind and proportion. From this statement of composition one can judge for himself whether this filled, or lard cheese is a legitimate article of food, whether it is "wholesome," and whether he desires to use it in the diet of himself and family. It is made of comparatively cheap materials, costing from one-half to two-thirds as much as good, full-cream, factory cheese, and its market price, wholesale or retail should correspond. At its best this is a cheap, inferior article of cheese; it is almost devoid of flavor, oily or greasy when warm, and never attains the dry, crumbly consistency of a well cured cheese. It 'is sold when only a month or two from the press, in imita tion of mild, immature cheese. It is claimed that it docs not keep well, es pecially if subjected to a temperature above 60 degrees. There is much of value in the way of advice and sugges tion in this little pamphlet, which may he obtained free, by addressing the chief of thedairy division, department of agriculture, Washington. A writer la Poaltry Keeper aaya: I am led to believe that the life of the chicken raiser la from aeaceforta aid forerer to be ose centiaual aomrce of extreme happiness, as between Carbo leneum. Dead Easy. Lee, Lake, and Lambert, we have solved the question of lice. Palat your houses with the first four, or either of them, and dost the last over the house and hens. The plague of poultrydom Is forever gone and we can sleep easy and dream of the money to be made. Lice are exter minated and the one thing that has reduced the profits of poultry has de parted forever. I like Campbell and love to read his articles, but how about those lousy hens, and particularly the roosters that the lice were eating up. I think there must have been a little carelessness somewhere. These reme dies are good, but good, Ine, clean, dry dust has done the business be fore, and so it will do right along if the birds are supplied with It as they ought to be. .The first poultry house I ever built was made of rough hemlock boards, cost me eight dollars, and was the most expensive house I ever owned. I. like many others, thought corn, and a shed that did not leak, would shell out the eggs, but one thing it did shell out was lice. That house was the most costly in money, for it cost a whole sea son's work, thirty-two dollars for chickens and about all the young ones I raised. The lice ate them all up. If I could have sold those mites at one cent a thousand I think I could have bought the state of New York. I am sure I could have bought New Jersey. My" houses how are constructed with as much care as my dwelling. They are lathed, plastered and hard finished. Do not say I am too nice, for no hen house ever made can be so nice that lice will not get there with all the feet they have If there is not the strictest care. I fed lice on chicken meat for one year and think it the most foolish waste of money in all my life. Lice don't trou ble me much now, for I keep on the watch for them, and success in new beginners is made difficult by lice. Whatever you build, build as near vermin-proof as possible, make your houses as warm as yod can, take time to exterminate the lice, feed enough, but avoid fatness, give plenty of clean, pure water, and the poultry business will pay more money on capi tal invested than anything else I know of. the roosts require the most care, and let me tell you how I do: f have two sets of roosting poles six feet long, a water tight box 6x6 feet long. 12 inches wide and 8 inches deep; the roosts are placed on wires, and every day they are taken down and dipped in the box containing enough kerosene emulsion to cover them. I let them lay in the box fifteen minutes, take them out and let them dry for putting up next morning. If there are any liv ing lice on them after that I will pay you a ccut apiece for them. "Little hoy.- said the meditative aid '- " laatlamaa who had jmt hoacht a pa- M per, "why ia it yoa alwaya say, 'Horri- ,'-L hlemardaroataa North Side. or oa rmm a 'm aW. imasiT w . -M m Before the MlehJgaa State Beard at Agriculture a member said: By the way some sheep are kept it weald look as though the aotloa that "something could come of nothing by the gracious aid of sheep" is still believed in. and I cannot make my ideas any plainer than by quoting the remarks of a prac tical sheep breeder, who says: "We frequently see absurd statements that the sheep's foot turns all to gold, and there is no steadier or surer way to fertilize a barren field than to put a flock of sheep to pasture upon the bri ars and weeds In it; that, in effect, sheep will live upon the poorest kind of food and make the richest manure, and are thus the best stock a farmer can keep on his farm. But those who have been there know better. There is no other domestic animal that seeds better care or food for profitable thrift than sheep; that out of their finely-grinding manure mill comes nothing that is not first put into the hopper; that yet, with proper care and skill, a well selected flock of the right kind of sheep, in the right place, can be made to pay one hundred per cent on their cost every year. It is true that a flock of sheep will clear a field of weeds, briars and rubbish, and will enrich 'it. but it will not live upon these. To relish this rough herbage, the sheep must be fed liberally with some supplementary food, such as bran, cut clover, grass, or green corn fodder, or some' grain food. Then with this alloy the sheep's food may take on the golden tinge and will edge with gold the fanner's pocket by making nis poor lands rich; giving him. at tne same time, a lamb or-two and a fleece every year. The fact is. sheep are manure spreaders rather than manure makers. We feed them with the ma terial, they take their pay out of it and give us back the remainder, trans formed into a substance of equal value (because it is more available) with that which they receive, and they get fat meanwhile in doing It" FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OP INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS. Cata-Dat attat Aktat Calttva- ttoa the Mt Ttolds Thmnmt HawtteaUaM, Tttlealtara aa Vtort emltmr. I Bat oftea the peda are a iry that they readily break epea and spill the ripe la that case they an hauled at ace to the ban, a cloth being pat 1b the bottom of the wagem to preveat any of the seed from being lost, which is very likely to be the case. The greatest daager 1b curing la the wet weather, which oftea Injure the crop to the extent of rendering it malt for market Coatlnao to ItaU lleer Cattle. By studying the market reports of the press we get but little information as to the retail market prices. Take a dollar and go to the butcher stalls and see what you can get for it Looking at your steak after you have bought it it will look small, and, weighing it, you have about four pounds or less of meat, and that's all, except that you are pretty sure you have nearly a pound of bone. In cities of from 10.000 to 20,000 inhabitants the butchers have to buy their stock of meat generally only the hind quarters of the beef, from the great slaughtering and packing com panies. Have to? Exactly so, because, if you sell dressed beef of your own killing the companies will send you word that if you continue to do so they will set up an opposition shop, under sell you and break you up. They have the power to do so. and will do it re morselessly, for they have no con science as regards business, as they call it Now, what is to be done? Shall the farmer quit raising beef cat tle? By no manner of means. Keep on raising stock, and hold them till you can obtain their real value. This may not be quite up to your idea, but it is the best you can do until the farmers can bring to bear such pressure upon their representatives in congress as will make it a felony, entailing fine and Imprisonment when such threats as above stated can be proven against an individual or a company. Journal of Agriculture. St.JCWBfc.Bj, PATENTS, TRADEMARKS rues.1 tUm andjldvW nt Patentability r t reailsa. Send forlnrcmoiV Guldr Haw to Oct a latent n-rannrr.T. jt-ksiv r..n. . . - . '' v. .. .wiiiium U. V. WE PAT CASH WEEKLY and want men errrnrhere to SELL STAMHttScTr-TolU "absolutely bet."RnporlnntflU. tic system. STARK MtOTHERS. LonstaXA. Ho-. BocsroBT. 111. STEADY WORK MTTbTC y'pTini.8iaktciirprd. fflUHlw. li.-u. (l-lX'De.llo inn.eramirierU.S. I'.aL.OaV.c) DeajecWeater,HcOiuntdA:WaULlli.U Xfr4SrtwKalTiMBtaawBA?M Wmtmr . W ' W"JW wsaj WHISKY FBBC. &.. WMUXT. aTLalTa, tu. UBDSEY OMAHA - RUBBERS I W.lf. U.. OMAHA-30-1890 When writ inn to advertisers, kindly mention this paper. mnamwamtmVlKnBEBr asaa a, . ci tj aa m Ajw Taaat saaaj BBjaaKODaSBUJIaUa. TWSaWWOOaj. amiBisBHBM&rrMjiaBamBBBmBl BBaamaaammammmaaWaamammaaaam roaltry Tard rolatarm. Watch the young chicks. If any of them appear sleepy or 'drowsy, look for vermin. Use insect powder on the mother hen, and put it on in the even ing after the hen goes in, the coop with the brood. The ideal floor for a poultry hfuse ts'acement one. Keep two to three inches of clean, dry sand on it. and replenish as conditions may make necessary. Every man or woman who is making a specialty of one breed in dividually considers theirs the best breed. Special attention to any breed will generally bring out its merit Fur nishing the poultry with a good dust ing bed of fine, clean earth road dust is excellent under cover, Is one of the best mediums to keep away vermin pests. When you see the hens eagerly trying to scratch a hole in the ground to dust In, it's a reflection on your method of caring for your flock. Under such conditions do not blame the hens if they seem to think there is no place on earth so enjoyable as the onion beds or melon hills in the gar den. Lime in the poultry yard should be considered an indispensable acces sory. Its use in the summer time will keep away deleterious odors, and is a means of keeping down insect pests. It is cheap. Scatter it freely and frequent ly. A practical poultry woman recent ly said: "I always take a peep into the chicken bouses the last thing before re tiring, to eee that all is right By doing this I am enabled to discover if any of the flock is ailing, and if I find they are I attend to them at once. Early attention in the case of sick fowls I ;ind Is about the only way to cure them. A delay of even a day or two will often cause diseases to become too firmly established to effect a speedy cure. Fowls- that an sick a long time are never worth much afterward." Ex- -. I Sore Shoniders la none. The best way to prevent them is to have a good clean leather collar that fits tight There is such a thing as getting a collar so tight that it will choke a horse, but a large amount of soie shoulders is caused by having the collar too large. I keep in the barn a smooth round piece of hard wood about 12 inches long, and just as soon as I find a patch of chafing or swelling I pound the collar right over the sore place. If you tend to them in time thoroughly you will not be troubled much with sores. Tou must take the draft of the collar off from the sore before you can heal It up. One of the best remedies I have ever .found for a sweeny or big swelling is hot water. As soon as you find a large swelling, lameness or bruise, take very hot water and wash it thoroughly, then wipe dry and rub for all you are worth for not less than 15 minutes. Don't forget that hot water and lots of elbow grease well applied in time will cure the worst case of sweeny, or swelling. It should be applied not less thun three times a day in bad cases, then grease it to pre vent white hairs from coming in. I use salt butter, lard and kerosene melted together Ex. Uvlat; OS the Cow. We believe that most farmers do not fully count the profit received by the family from the cow. We count the butter made in a year and what it will sell for as about the only thing that is to set off the item of expense or be counted for profit But with the man of only one or two cows a much greater credit is really due them. The fact is that the milk used in the family could fairly be credited to the cow at the price city and townspeople pay for it, because it is an item of food of great value, probably worth for that not less than five cents per quart Now we have frequently heard It as serted that half the cows In the coun try are not paying expenses. At first sight this seems to be so, especially when the Wisconsin dairy experts get down to figuring and prove, or seem to, that the cow that will not make 150 pounds a year Is really running the farmer into debt But like many start ling estimates, there are a few prem ises under them which are not abso lutely sound. For Instance, it is taken for granted that she pays her way only so far as the cow can put butter onto the market or onto the farmer's table. If this were so, then it Is evident that half of our cows should be disposed of. The fact is that a very large proportion of the cows of any state are kept in twos or threes, or even singly. The families of the farm ers use all the way from two to ten quarts of milk per day and think noth ing of it That alone would pay for the cost of keeping a number of good cows on every farm. In other words, the farmer with a large family that uses on an average from two cows five quarts of milk per day, is using a value of 25 cents per day. or over $90 worth per year. This is enough to pay for keeping three cows, and what butter is sold is clear profit (Farmers' Review Special Report) ROFESSOR TAFT spoke on pests new and old. During the last few years we have had brought In, at least to our notice, a numer of new In sects and diseases. The most danger ous of these is the San Jose scale. I do not know of any In this state, but It may be here In large quantities, for it is not usually discovered by the ordinary farmer till the third year, when the tree Is drying from its effects. Then the or chardist begins to hunt for a name. A single scale on a tree in the spring will develop millions before the season is over, and so you see the dlfficutly of fighting it If any of you have bought trees from New Jersey, you had better look them over. The trees, it infested, will look as if they had been sprinkled with coal ashes, and when these specks are examined it will be seen that there is a depression near the center of the insect and in that depression is a little yellow speck. If a tree is found with them on the trunk, you had better cut it down and burn it; if on the branches, you may be able to save the tree by burning the branches. The plum scale is in our state, but It Is doing little damage on trees that are growing properly. The only remedy for all of the scales Is whale oil soap or kerosene emulsion, some- ining that will kill by contact and not by being eaten, as the scales live by sucking. uunng tne last few years many Peach growers iu New Jersey and some I cents. The timid, and those who have "Sears Talk." The following well illustrates the "scare talk" that is being circulated by city dailies: We are unable to state as to how much truth there may be in the assertion, but it is plain that the effect must be detrimental to the dairymen's interests in no little de gree, and something should be done. Here is the quotation: "The danger of introducing pulmonary consumption Into the human system by using milk from diseased cows has been so often demonstrated that no city should per mit milk to be sold except from dairies where the cows are regularly examined by a competent veterinarian. Last year, and the year before, whole com munities were stricken with typhoid fever, the germs of which were traced to the water in which the milk cans were washed. Thousands of deaths from this source have been attributed to something else, and now that we are aware of it repetition must be avoided." The dairyman is the party interested in this matter, and should invite in vestigation. Ex. VOTiAft ITvnfif T.iaa Tliii hvaAi. I.. j i, arc,, vui uivo. a uc uuu III I dairying depend, first, on the kind of cow that we start with, and the next thing is the matter of feed and atten tion. If there is any profit at all, it is from those cows that are well bred and well fed. If the demand for good but ter and cheese continues and other farm products rule at a low figure, we must devote more time to dairy mat ters. Remember, it Is no easy job to pick up a herd of good cows at random. The safest plan is to get a few good ones and then buy a registered bull and breed up. Exchange. Good rallot ta Braed Froaa. A writer in this department this is sue tells about a pullet that laid 21 eggs by the time she was five months old. The pullet should be kept by her self and her eggs used only for breed ing purposes, provided that some valu able male could be used with her. There is little doubt that close selec tion for a few yean would wove: as great wonden with our poultry as the same process has with our swine. Such an opportunity should not be al lowed to slip. It too frequently hap pens that exceptional layers are al lowed to go with the flock and their eggs are put with the others, and so the opportunity to get a more than or dinary valuable breed of fowls is al lowed to go by default Effect of Salt on Sheep. A curious instance as exemplifying the action of common salt Is recorded. On the table lands among the. Pyrenees mountains, sheep flocks of 3.000 to 12.000 are driven up from the valleys to feed down the herbage during the summer: the soil is characterized by a total absence of sodium, and the 6alt breezes from the Bay of Biscay do not reach such high latitudes of nearly two miles. The sheep are invariably divided into two groups, the one for fattening, the other for breeding. Now, both are fed on the same land, yet oae group is ever lean, and has to be maintained ao for productive ends, while the other group is invariably fat. The latter are sup plied with salt, the other not, and that makes the whole difference Ex. Populatlonand Cows. According to statistics population in the United States increases faster than dairy cows. There are in the state of Iowa nearly 800 creameries and her farmers are better oft than the same number In any other Western state. Kansas should have 1,000 creameries, located wherever feed can be raised; and, if managed as well as some we now have, there would be no trouble about their getting the milk, and the condition of the farmers in the vicinity of these creameries would be much improved. Exchange. Relative Dairy Profits. If there is little profit in dairying now, there is some comfort to the dairyman in know ing that there is also little in other lines of farming. .At least the dairy man is not losing the fertility of his farm if he is not getting fair pay for his labor. The wheat raiser Is sending away in each bushel of wheat about as much fertility as he gets paid for his wheat Not so with the seller of butter and meat. The exhaustive ele ments are restored to his land, which becomes more fertile from year to year. To set the. color and prevent delicate colored cambrics and dimities from fading when washed, dissolve 5 cents' worth of sugar of lead in a pail of cold water and soak the garment in it two hours; then rinse and wash. other states were troubled by what mey thought was the yellows, but on investigation it wag found to be due to the black aphis swarming on the roots. Trees that have been brought to this state have been found infested In a number of cases and generally the trees have died. When these insects are found on the branches they can be killed by the whale oil soaps, or to bacco water or kerosene emulsion. But on the roots it is more difficult Some apply kainit over the roots; but in applying, one should not dig the earth away so the kainit will come in direct contact with the roots. Q. When we bring oranges from California and they have the scale on them Is there not a danger that they will introduce the scale into this sec tion? Professor Taft I certainly think there is. We should have a law to keep out those insects whether they come in stock or fruit, though it might be hard to stop it on the oranges. R. D. Graham of Grand Rapids spoke on the New American Fruit Growers Union. He described the meeting at Chicago, which was for the organizing of an association of state and provin cial (Canadian) associations. The Michigan association had not yet seen a reason for taking part in the move ment He took up the question of uni formity of packages advocated by some. He did not think it was advis able to have a uniform package for dif ferent markets have different ideas about this; but as to capacity he thought there should be uniformity. A bushel basket should contain a bushel, and others should contain what they are represented to contain. We already have a law to that effect that should be enforced. S. H. Comings. We should have that law enforced, for a good many snide packages are being put on the market from this state, and it is hurting the fruit trade. There are two forces that are working for the reduction of size of packages: first, the manufacturers want a smaller package for then they sell more of them; and the transporta tion companies want smaller packages, so they can get more for carrying them. Mr. Morrill spoke on the transporta tion of fruit We are approaching a time, we'll be in it within 30 days, when the state will need better trans portation facilities for fruit than at present There should be organization in selling fruit, to prevent the many losses in various ways. The state is full of men who have lost consignments of fruit sent to men they know nothing about They do not even look in Bradstreet's to see if the man has any standings or that he exists at all. If we have a strong association we can sell to better advantage and induce the package manufacturers to make pack ages according to law. Mr. Ruth. We have too easy a way of selling our fruit We pack it and take it to the dock and that ends it So our ability to sell has withered as any other ability withers when not used. Now I want to see an organiza tion, but how can we go about it? Mr. Munson, of Grand Rapids, told of the fruit sellers' association of that vicinity. They have a membership of several hundred members who pay $1 per year membership and $1 extra for every 1,000 bushels of fruit sold. They send out circulars to all the great fruit-buying centers and so licit buyers, stating what fruit they have on hand. The plan has proved very successful, as buyers now come and purchase the fruit either in the market or in the orchards. They do not ship to commission men in other cities, as do the fruit men in St Joseph. What The essential thing la caring for bees is the right kind of hive. Not that the bees will gather any more honey in one hive than another.' This is a fake of the patent hive vender, but some hives are more convenient than others, and enable the bee keeper to so manip ulate them that he can get his honey In marketable shape. Some of the es sentials of a good hive are ease of ac cess, every part movable and inter changeable, freeness from all super fluous traps, drawers, etc., and a sur plus arrangement holding boxes which may be taken out one at a time. There is no patent on anything of value In the construction of a beehive and any one can make a modern hive if he wishes to do so. Competition, however, has so beaten down prices In. these goods that in most cases they can bs bought in the flat, cut ready to nail. for about what the lumber would cost in small quantities. After the hives, come a few simple and Inexpensive tools, which facilitate the work of handling bees. Chief among these is what is known as a smoker. The fact was recognized long ago that when bees are disturbed or alarmed they at once fill themselves with honey. When filled with honey they seldom sting, unless hurt In some way. They dislike smoke of any kind very much, so that when a stream of it is thrown into the hive they at once fill their honey sacs. After this they may be driven from one place to an other simply by blowing a current of smoke upon them. The smoker is an implement for generating smoke, so constructed that the current may -be di rected to any point the operator wishes. A very fair smoker may be had for 50 The pleasant favor, gentle actlea. ami aootalag effect of Syrnp of Figs, when la need of a laxative, aad If the father or mother be costive or bilious, the gratifying results follow Its nee; ao that it is the best family remedy known aad every family should have a bottle. Kaaa ! at Haaa. Mrs. Yeast: "I wish I coald think of something to keep my husband hoi at nights." Mrs. Crimsonbeak: "Get bim a bicycle." Mrs. Yeast: "That would take hia oat more than ever.' Mrs Crimsonbeak: "Oh, no, it wouldn't. My husband got oae day Deiore yesieraay ana tee doctor says ne won't be oat for a month." Yon kers Statesman. a number of colonies to manipulate. and want to work rapidly, will find it convenient to have a bee veil to pro tect the face, as a sting about the head or near the eyes is apt to cause some inconvenience, to say the least There are other tools, such as au extractor, a drone trap, a swarming box, a bee escape, etc., which will be found necessary by those who carry on certain phases of bee-keeping, or conduct it on a large scale, but the farmers can manipulate a few colonics without any of them. E. T. Abbott in Nebraska Bee-Keeper. Thirty-two states in the anion now have laws prohibiting the sale of oleo margarine when colored la Imitation of butter Growing Matard. The mustard family includes not only that what we know as mustard, but cabbage, turnip, radish, horse-radish, water-cress, and even the nastur tium. For field cultivation the white and black or brown varieties of mus ter J are used. The seed of the white mustard is nearly white, and of the black mustard the seed is brown or nearly black. The mustard of com merce consists of seeds of both of these varieties ground together. The black mustard seed is the strongest Mus tard is grown both as food for cattle and sheep, and for turning under in the green state. Some object to it for the reason that once on a land it is hard to eradicate, but the best way of getting rid of it is to allow it to come to the blossoming stage and then turn it under. For growing mustard a soft loamy soil is preferred. The seed may be sown broadcast at the rate of one peck to the acre, or in drills at the rate of six quarts to the acre. The latter is preferred when the seed is to be used for commerce, as the weeds can thus be kept out, and the mustard seed will be pure when threshed. Such drills are usually put la about two feet apart, this giving room for cultiva tion. The harvesting begins when the pods turn brown or yellow. The crop Is cut with a reaper or scythe. If the pods are yet in that state where they need to be dried, the mustard is piled ap ia the epea field for a day er two. Potato Experlaneats la MUaoarL The Missouri station publishes the result of its potato experiments, and from them draws the following con clusions: 1. Missouri soils are well adapted to profitable potato growing. 2. Drought and extremely hot sea sons, whenever expected, demand the planting of only early varieties. 3. A mean temperature irom April to September of between 60 and 75 degrees F., the maximum not reach ing higher than 85 degrees F.. the min imum not lower than 50 degrees F.. with a monthly rainfall, evenly dis tributed, of about 6 inches in spring. gradually decreasing to 2& inches in fall presents the best climatic condi tion for a sure and profitable potato harvest 4. The crop yields are Increased nearly proportionately to the amount of chemical fertilizer used, up to about 900 pounds of sulphate of pot ash and superphosphate each per acre. 5. This amount of fertilizer will cost between 130 to $35, and Increase the crop 100 to 150 bushels per acre. 6. The harvests in the variety tests for 1895 were obtained from 300 pounds of superphosphate, costing about $3 per acre, and amply paid for the outlay. 7. The harvest depends: a. Upon the quality and texture of the soil and this, in large meas ure, upon the character of the sea son; and b. Upon the fertility of the soil. 8. It s proportionate under favor able conditions to tlte number of vig orous plants and not to the mode of planting. 9. Planting by eyes, quarters or wholes, by stem or by seed, influences but slightly the yield per acre; under, the diverse and not to bo foreseen con ditions of soil and climate for our state the most generally suitable planting Is probably by quarters. 10. Keeping the growing crop free from weeds, blight, and potato bugs, and the soil loose, are, of course, pre requisites for a good harvest 11. The amount of small, i. e., un merchantable potatoes in the crop de pends not upon the mode of planting and subsequent cultivation, but upon the fertility of the toil, the favorable ncss of the season, the vigor of the plants and the nature of the variety. 12. When seed potatoes are high in price it is advisable to consider the output per acre, as given in table VI. viz.: 3.3 bu. in Experiment 1 249.7 bu. in crop. 4.5 bu. in Experiment 5 219.7 bu. In crop. 2.2 bu. in Experiment 16 250.2 bu. in crop. 2.2 bu. in Experiment 19 yielding 282.3 bu. in crop. And, bearing in mind the cost of the fertilizer in the two last experiments, of, respectively, $10.50 and $25 per acre, make a solution of the mode of planting most suitable to the conditions. yielding yielding yielding A few simple rules which will assist ingiving one a good carriage in walk ing are: Always lift the heel first Do not throw back the shoulders in your efforts not to stoop, and never walk or the heels, but use the ball of the foo Instead. Do not swing the arms noi the shoulders, and let the hands bang by the sides with the palms turned backward so that the backs of youi hands will be presented to anyone meeting you. This is much more grace ful than the commoner practice of let ting the plms hang against one's sides. Remedy for Bloat As a remedy for bloat caused by alfalfa, clover, etc., Director Devol of Arizona considers puncturing the paunch from the center of the hollow in front of the haunch bone the surest remedy. Prof. Guiley saysa wet blanket on the cow's back Is the best remedy for bloat A suc cessful stockman says that bloat can be cured by palling the animal's tongue out as far as possible, or by placing a stick as large as a wrist crosswise in the mouth, or by making it stand fif teen to thirty minutes with front feet up hill or on a box, considerably higher than the hind feet Prevent bloat by giving full feed of dry-food before turning on green clover; turn them on clover but a few minutes'at a time till used to it. and never turn them on clover when dew or rain Is ea it Ex. Ball'a Catarrh Care Iatakea internally. Price. 75c My doctor said I would die, bat Po's Cure for Consumption cured me. Amos Kelner, Cherry Valley, Ills., Nov. 23, 85. It is very easy for aa aa'ucky maa to arm into neglect to pay bis bills. FITS fnppil free ami pnBtnentlT enr-d. Ko ft after fflrat daj'ai of Dr. Kltat'aGrrat Nerra bimiii. msnirti Dottle ana it east atarr. toaacarca. Da.EUSK.mArchSurhLadalpala.ra Appendictis is getting old fashioned. The lartuers are getting it- It tka ataay to Cattlag; Xaata. tfcaara aad as that oM aad watt-tried uiaadj, Maa Wbsmw's Sooiano Sracr for CkUaram Tula lag Kdaratloaal. Attention of the reader is called to the announcement of Notre Dame uni versity in another column of this pa per. This noted institution of learn ing1 enters upon its fifth-third year with the next session, commencing Sept. 8, 1806. Pammte and traaxdiaas contemplating sending their boys and younir men away from home to school would do well to write for particulars to the University of Norte Dame Indi ana, before making arrangements for their education elsewhere. Nowhere in this broad land are there to be found better facilities for cultivating the mind and heart than are offered at Notre Dame University. the Boats Side, or oa iha Wrt Sis,' oaiwaea aomeaoay kiuai sever say what sW' it happesaH ear "'Caaee everybody knows its sai cida," answered the dirty .f seed aews boy. "MoraiaiB paper! All 'healths hor'ble murder oa the North Side!" Traval WKa a Friaa Who will protect you from those eneralea aausea, tadlgestloa. saalarla and the alck aesa produced by rockiajc on the waves, aad sonetlaaes by Inland traveling over the rough bed of III laid railroad. Such a friend is Ilostetter's Uotuach Hitters. Ocean mariners, yachtsmen, commercial aad theatrical agents and tourists testify to the protective potency of this effective safeguard, whIchcoaue also rheumatism, nervousness aad billlousness. loa't expect a lamp to act right if it is sat MMinarnr .Tsuanswl ItwnbraakaaCoUoalan. tafalwarrJlaBtf. Try. 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Why pay 10 cents for other brands when you can get " Battle Ax"- for 5 cents ? $lS?13cc 19 Years of Columbias The Bicycle of experience. A hundred dollars' worth of cer tainty. The "bicycle of doubt" price saves you little and costs you muck Hose Gatalofae, Free at Golamfcia Afcncks bf mail for two 2-ctat tama. Pope Mfg. Co., Hartford, Conn. j aaaaa COT PIKES MPIIPST Evarrtataa- n lataur sans u law. i dUtomrftakaaa? We nave reoeatedir refused to ioia. and. therefore, defeated windmill combi- aaa oare. since oa. reaacea iw coat Of wind Dower to ene-sixto wnat it was. We believe ia low prices, blub grades aad large tales. No oa kasws Sat tascauara er arices eatM he kaaws Mrs. We make short band aad loaf power stroke pomps, witn oest seam- less Drass tuoe crunaer. tower tnaa Iron ones a a54 x lb iccnatw.il. Tell Teardealer. Buynocoother. Aaatoraricriaal Maa are always aass. 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