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The wedding of deaf mates, with a
deaf mate minister officiating, was eel
ebrated at Zanesvile. a, the other
morning. The contracting parties ware
Adelia Barker, sister of Ned Barker of
the Times Kecorder, and Biom Hoelof
Waynesville. The ceremoay was per
formed by the Bev. A. W. Mas, mis--tionarv
of the Deaf Mute mission of
(he Episcopal chnrch for the midwest-
fcni states, assisted by Rector Boye of
St Junes' church, and formerly of
, . CinciaaatL The services were nniqus
aBd impressive. Part of the ceremony
was spelled ont on the fingers and some
: of it was written. New York Recorder.
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Constipation. Iirer and kidney complaint
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contain an article oa the trolley system
of New York City and its environs,
. 'with a map showing the enormous de
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many pleasant routes for a day's or an
evening's onting will be outlined. The
contributor is Ernest Ingersoll, author
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. hull be a capital golf storv by V. G.
van T. Sutpbea, entitled "The Iloag
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Traaa-MlMlMlppt Inveatl
Omaha, Nebraska, July 31, 1890.
Amongst the inventors who received
patents last week were William S. Wit-
ten, South Omaha. Nebraska, feed
holding bin; Caylord C Wooster, Rulo,
Nebraska, scale beam; Jehiel F.
Wjukoop, Muscatine Iowa, rubber cap
"for axle ants; George P. Kistner, Low
Moor, Iowa, disk cultivator; Edward
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Amongst the curious inventions were
found an interchangeable toy and box;
a combination bloomer and bicycle
shirt; a non-puncturing pneumatic tire
. provided with a steel shield; a bicycle
adapted to be used on ice; a duplex bi-
c cycle tire comprising superposed flex
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Svr bicycles comprising a folding rod
that can be expanded and is provided
with a mirror adapted to be used on
ladies' bicycles so that they can ar
range their bangs while in transit.
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JDilBY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
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Operate
This
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the Varaa A
Cars of Iln
as to the
aa Fealrrjr.
late circular from
the department of
agriculture gives
tbe following on
filled cheese:
"It may be well
to state fn passing
that filled cheese
differs from the
genuine, old fash
ioned article in
hut one essential
particular, so far as its composition
is concerned. Instead of the natural
fat of milk, or cream, which is extrac
ted for butter making, there as neutral
lard, made from the leaf fat of the hog.
This article, claimed to be exception
ally 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 arc prac
tically the same in kind and propor
tions. From this statement of com
position one can judge for himxel!
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 cor
respond. At its best, this is cheap, in
ferior cheese; it is almost devoid of
flavor, oily or greasy when warm, and
never attains the dry, crumbly consis
tency of a well cured cheese. It is sold
when only a month or two from the
press in imitation of mild, immature
cheese. It is claimed that it does not
keep well, especially if subjected to
temperature above 60 degrees. No one
acquainted with first class full cream
cheese would ever accept the filled pro
dnctas a substitute, but it may be suc
cessfully passed as a genuine article
of second grade. There Is plenty of
good cheese still mate in the United
States, and it can be secured if buyers
will but make a little effort to find It.
The states of New York and Wisconsin
together produce two-thirds of all the
cheese made in the country, and the
reputation of the factories of these
states for high quality, full cream
cheese has been long established. The
product of these factories of tbe stand
ard or Cheddar form of large cheese
stands second to none in the markets
of Great Britain as well as in America.
The two states named, as well as oth
ers, absolutely prohibit the manufac
ture and sale of filled cheese within
their borders and the marking of skim
cheese to imitate full cream goods.
These laws are well enforced."
Conllnaona Income from I'oaltry.
F. A. Homann, of Effingham county,
111., read the following paper before a
farmers' institute in that county:
Eggs arc all tbe year round crop,
differing greatly in this respect from
hay, corn and vegetables, which are all
harvest time crops; and if not marketed
at once, expensive buildings have to be
prepared to store them in,aml not a few
crops such as potatoes, cabbage and
fruit, shrink in value by decaying
while stored. Not so with our poultry
product, which has an all the year
ready market, and with eggs as the
basis of a poultry business a steady all
he year round ineomc can be com
manded. It is the winter eggs that pay
the greater profit and bring up the
average price for the year. If the
greater part of the eggs are received for
spring and summer, when prices are
brought down by a large supply, the
average will be lower, but if fowls lay
in December, January and February
when eggs are 20 to 30 cents a dozen
the average price for the whole year
will be satisfactory. The whole story of
gotting eggs in winter can be resolved
Into three simple rules. First, hatch
the chicken early; second, keep them
growing so the pullet will come to lay
ing maturity in October or by Novem
ber; (hird, keep them laying by good
food and care. When I say hatch the
chickens early I do not mean too early,
because if hatched too early and go to
irlavtag In August and September they
will usually moult in December just as
the weather is becoming very cold, and
good-by eggs from then till spring.
For the heavier varieties, such as
Brahma and Cochins, the middle of
March is none too early. Plymouth-
rock and Wyandottes we would hatch
the first half of April if possible. If not,
April will do. The Spanish, Minorcas,
leghorns and Hamburgs should be
hatched in Way for best results. Set
three or more hens at a time and once
a week dust them well with insect pow
der, and when the chicks hatch give
them to two or more mothers. I gave
as our first rule for getting a good profit
from poultry to hatch your chickens
early. Equally important is the sec
ond, keep them growing so they will
come to laying maturity by November
first. The food and care has much to
do with the chicken growing.
Now for the first 24 hours do not feed
the chicks, for they need no food dur
ing this time, nature has provided for
that by absorbtion of egg-yolk into
their little abdomens, and it is neces
sary this absorbed egg-yolk be digested.
Much damage is done and many chicks'
lives are lost by disregarding this rule;
some people in their haste to get the
chicks growing hurry food into their
crops before the system has toned up to
take care of it, and the consequence is
.the bowels are congested and the chick
goes over to the majority. Feed often
but little at a time, every 2 hours say
five times a day, until the chicks are
five weeks old, and see that no food is
left standing in the sun to sour after
they have eaten. Remove it all, noth
ing causes more bowel looseness, and
dysentery, than sour food. The best
food for the first five weeks is composed
of one-third oat meal, one third corn
meal and one-third wheat bran; add a
pinch of salt, moisten with sweet milk
or water, warm it in cold weather and
.twice a week add some bone meal.
'Keep coarse sand by the coop at all
times, don't think the chick can find
this themselves, that is one of the
commonest mistakes in rearing chick
ens; a'tter they are five weeks old you
can leave out the oat meal and feed
three or four times a day. When ten
weeks old, at noon scatter wheat and
cracked corn in litter such as leaves
and cut straw, so they will have to
work for it, but not too much corn as it
makes them too fat, Green food must
be supplied. If the chicks are cooped
up on fresh grass this problem is solved
and they will help themselves to what
they need. If, however, they are con
fined ia a small yard, finely cut grass,
lettuce, or onion tops will make a good
eaol water mi
kept aoccMiMe so a driak cam betakec
whea waited. Sell the eeckerells
when they weigh two or two and a half
Bounds each, and doa't forget to dset
the pullets well with Insect powder, for
yoa do mot want to raise chlekea lice,
but if you are not careful yoa will.
Now with this food and proper care
they will begia to lay along in Septea
ber and October. Thea sell oa yoar old
fowls, clean the houses and whitewash
them and the pallets moved la, and
then on feed for eggs as follows: For
four days ia the week feed early in th
morning a warm mash composed of one
part-shorts, one part bran, one part
corn meal, and add cooked potatoes or.
turnips ana appie parings. Feed on
boards or in troughs, only enough to
crtinnlv mavt rf tTtola finnanm vlra nfivat
supply part of their hunger; give water
all round, then scatter wheat or oats
In the litter and let the aim be to keep
the hens busy every moment from
morning until night scratching lor
wheat and oats, which should be buried
in the litter. Let the noon ration be
green rye or a cabbage hung in the
pens just high enough to compel the
bens to jump to peck it About 3 p.m.
feed the whole grain, full feed, oats or
wheat, and in the very coldest weather
a little corn. Keep grit or granulated
bones so they can get at It all the win
ter, and charcoal, den't forget to give
them some. Clean pen, fresh water,
pure air and a system of feeding such
a3 is here outlined will bring .money
to the fanner every month in the year,
try it.
Size aatl Beaaty.
Says "Hark Comstock" in Rider and
Driver: "I have not had as good chance
to study the results of crossing the
hackney on trotting marcs, but see nc
reason why they should not be success
ful where the latter are large enough,
for the hackney is not so likely as the
French coacher to contribute size tc
the combination. Like our ' old-style
Morgans and Black Hawks of fifty
years ago, the handsomest specimens
are apt to be undersized. Some of the
attemptc to breed up the size of old
style Black Hawks were accompanied
by partial success, and their beauty and
action in a degree preserved, but gener
ally as the size went up the proud
style and fairly sparkling beauty cl
the strain lost their finest gloss. A
meat amazingly beautiful horse was
Vermont Black Hawk, 'the bantam
cock of the Green Mountains,' and he
bred so true to his own likeness that
breeding became a certainty. Two
thirds of his get were black, and any
two of them were mates, and such
mates! But the strain held to its small
size with great tenacity, or else lost
something of its beauty. This depar
ture of beauty with increased size in
dicated that the characteristic style ol
the strain was derived from some
source that was inherently small. 1
do not know where the hackney breed
secured its 'strut and swell and great
est pomp.' but it seeins to me that in
too many cases the criticism that 'its
little uns are its prettiest uns' points
to like conclusions. The hackney
strains back to thoroughbred founda
tions, but along with many crosses un
accounted for."
Seotbdowa WosL
The wool of the English breeds is
thus referred to by the Journal of the
Royal Agricultural Society of England.
"Lastly, there is the pure Down, a
wool which is still unequaled for
hosiery purposes, and which will al
ways find a market of its own, some
times quite independent of the general
course of prices. Of this wool I should
like to say keep to the old-fashioned
style; keep it as short and as fine as
possible; let no suspicion of a long
wool strain get into it; and if I am not
mistaken, pure Down wool will take a
respectable place in the future as re
gards comparative prices. With such
ends In view, breeders of Southdowns
may well abstain from trying to imi
tate in length of staple and
superfluous covering of the face with
coarse wool any other breeds of sheep,
and be content to let the Southdown re
main what its best friends have always
tried to make It i. e., a producer of
quality before quantity.
Qaallty In lloraca.
The European countries prefer to im
prove the quality more vigorously than
to increase the numbers of their horses.
England has only 1.529,000, while we
have in the United States 16,000,000
horses, a very small per cent of which
arc suitable for city market and ex
port, Russia has 30,000,000 horses of
still more inferior quality, unfit for any
market and too small for farm work.
The Russian trotter has had the en
couragement of the government Now
the peasants are urging the govern
ment to furnish them with draft horses
suitable for their farm work to haul
the heavy farm machines. Small horses
in large numbers Will Impoverish any
country, and it is well fw America that
the ranch horse and the little trotter no
longer pay for their feed, while there
is such great demand for high-class
draft and coach horses at high prices
because they are so scarce. Ex.
Sheep Less Numerous. Th2 east
ern farmers seem to be going out of
the sheep business. They are, as a
rule, very small holders, and when
their small herds seem to be a losing
proposition they do not hesitate long
before letting them go. It is the sum
of these small holdings that make up
the great aggregate, and when the
farmers begin selling their small flocks
the number of sheep in the country
speedily decreases. -There is no branch
of the live stock business that can be
so readily adapted to changed condi
tions as the sheep business. Since
1S93 tbe number of sheep in the United
States has been constantly decreasing i
until. now tbe total number Is less than
at any time during the past twenty
years. Meanwhile the range of prices
bas been very low. It will not be long
before there will be a change and sheep
will be in demand again at good prices.
Ex.
Butter. Butter is a condensed pro
duct Nothing can be made or grown
on the farm which brings as much per
pound. Farms remote from the market
and communities far from railroads,
can send butter from the farm or
creamery with the least possible ex
pense. The dairyman can condense
tons of fodder and crops grown on the
farm into dairy products and send
them to market in compact and port
able form. Ex. .
Eggs from Russia. Russian hens are
progressive. They laid 11,000,000 eggs
for export in 1870, 235.000,000 in 1885.
and 1,250,000,000 last year. The eggs
are sold in Russia at from 6 to 10 cents
a dozen. They are exported to Hun
gary, then sold to Germany as Hun
garian eggs, and finally to England as
German eggs. Ex.
Luxuries for Prisoners. It costs $600
a year to keep prisoners in the Denver
jai! in clippers.
It is hard to believe that a sin will
bite if it has geld in Its teeth.
Mtetitate.
Shtta WaaaaaSry.
In the opinion of seme of the heat
aathoriti
Mve
stock in the country the recently pah
lished oflclal estimate ef the namher of
sheep in the country Is largely in ex
cess of the actual namher. and this
notwithstanding the fact that the num
ber Is' less than for a great namber of
years. The official figure Is given at
SS 008,000. This is a fact pregnant
with meaning for every farmer. No
country has made permanent progress
in agricultural prosperity without
sleep. Even on the high priced lands
r f England and France it is found
profitable to keep large flocks, indeed
more profitable than the keeping of
isny other kind of live stock. Great
UJritain has today over 30,000,000 sheep
.. .....
on her small area, whilst France has
over 20,000,000. These two countries,
with an area together of less than one-
tenth of the United States have one
third more sheep and better ones. The
consumption of good mutton is increas
ing rapidly all over the country, and
this Increased consumption is here to
stay and grow. Wool also must in
crease in value. The clip in Australia
will be very largely decreased this year
as she has lost over 9,000.000 sheep
from drouth, and this will undoubtedly
affect the markets, as Australia pro
duces more wool than any other coun
try. Buy a few sheep and buy them
grod ones, and put a good buck with
them. The lambs alone will pay well
on the outlay if the sheep are prop
crlr cared for. and tbe wool and mut
ton will add to the profit, Southern
Plarter.
Sealing; Frlcca for Cow.
The North Carolina experiment sta
tion has evolved an idea that is wor
thy of adoption. It is that cows
should be bought and sold at a price
based upon their milk production.
-Many a northener has thougnt that
far, but how to apply in fixing a scale
of prices tallying with the idea has
been farther than they have gone.
This is what the tar state professors
have undertaken, however, and the
scale formulated Is as follows: Pay
for the cow $12 for each gallon of
three and a half per cent milk that
she gives a day. To this add or sub
tract a dollar for every fourth of one
per cent fat which it tests above oi
below three and a half per cent.
Suppose the cow gives two gallons
a day of three and a half per cent
milk. She would be worth $24. If it
tested three and three-fourths, she
would be worth one dollar more for
each gallon, or two dollars more. If
she tested four per cent, she would be
worth two dollars moreTtor each gal
lon, or four dollars more, making "her
value $28. If she gave three gallons
a day of three per cent milk she would
be worth $36, less tbe deduction for
being below standard. The deduction
would be two dollars per gallon, or
$G, and subtracting this from $36 would
fix her value at $30, or $2 more than
the cow giving two gallons of four per
cent milk. This rule recognizes the
correct idea, but whether it is just
right is more than we can say. It cer
tainly is in the right line, for the value
of the cow depends upon the amount of
butter-fat furnished. Waverly Repub
lican. Derllae ef British Farmtaf.
The British Board of Agriculture has
just issued its official figures for 1895,
which tell an interesting and signifi
cant story. Incidentally it appears that
the extent of woodlands in Great Brit
ain is 2.726,000 acres, of which 132.000
acres have been planted in the last
fifteen years. During the last year
there has been a gain of about 30,000
acres. The most striking figures relate
to the shrinkage in the amount of land
under the plow, which was increased
by the unpropitions character of the
autumn seed time of 1894 and early
spring of 1895. More than 510,000
acres less of wheat were grown and 57.-
000 acres less of minor .grain crops, rye,
beans and peas. One-fifth part of the
surface withdrawn from these crops or
from wheat was devoted to barley and
oats; but the corn land of 1895 was less
by nearly 455,000 acres than that of
1894, while weather conditions, check
ing the preparation of the 'customary
area for turnips and other green crops,
caused a further reduction of 112,000
acres under this cultivation. The sur
face under potatoes, small fruit, lu
cerne and flax was larger by 45,000
acres, and the acreage left under bare
fallow was extended by nearly 100,000
acres.
The net reduction of arable land was
197,000 acres, and the net addition to
the permanent pasture a little over
145,000 acres. The actual loss of arable
area in the last two decades is 2,137,
000 acres. The reduction of wheat
growing alone accounts for most of this
loss. Under this head there was a total
diminution of more than 1,900.000 acres
between 1875 and 1895. More than a
third of the decline In the arable area.
ana more tban half of this reduction
In wheat acreage, occurred in the last
five years of the twenty.
The Check Keln.
The old, cruel check rein has stiffen
ed up the fore legs of more livery
horses than all the work they have
done. So, too, of many track and driv
ing horses in the country. The check
rein injures the muscles of the neck,
and the fore legs are affected. Often
the shoer is blamed when it is the
check rein. The humane societies have
the co-operation of the city horse own
ers who have taken off the cruel check
rein from the carriage horses and work
horses. Aside from the cruelty, this
affection of the usefulness of the horse
should induce the thoughtless, .kind
hearted people who drive horses to for
ever banish the tortuous check rein as
a savage relic that is painful to the
horse and painful for most people to
see. In behalf of the horse, we entreat
you to abolish the check rein If you still
thoughtlessly torture your horse with
it Ex.
Watering the Cows. In watering see
that each cow has a liberal supply, and
if she does not drink enough, look after
her and ascertain tbe reason. If the
cow does not drink freely the supply o
milk will soon begin to fail. As for
her winter rations of food, one can not
do better than to feed her night and
morning fifteen pounds of ensilage ant
three of shorts, with five of clovci
hay at noon. Ex.
Pure Water. An abundant supply ol
pure water within reach of the hogs
at all times is indispensable, but ihc
water can be in the yard to which
the hogs have access. Shade is alsc
essential in the summer, and nothing
excels a tree for this purpose. But in
the absence of trees a building ol
some kind should be provided and t
floor is Just as essential as a root.
consider a bed among fine dust highlj
injurious to swine, for, unlike othei
animals, the hog, when he sleeps, lies
with his nostrils close to the ground
or floor, and it becomes aX important
that in bi eathing there is no dust thai
can be inhaled. Ex.
Don't have colored shades 'on the
lamps; use white or ground glass.
as on the numbers of
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OP INTEREST TQ
AGRICULTURISTS.
Ua-ta-alata SUata AWat CalH
ftlaa f ta SMI aa Ylataa Tfc
Haeticaltare, YlUealtafa aa
HERE is no grain
crop that thrives so
well or pays a
larger profit on
poor, thin land as
buckwheat N o
grain reaches ma
turity in so short a
time, and perhaps
this may be a good
reason for calling it
a "lazy man's crop."
But If any one Imagines that no care is
necessary in the preparation of the
ground and in harvesting this crop, he
is mistaken. Buckwheat thrives best
on old sod, well rotted. To have this.
It is a good plan to plow the sod tbe
last of May or as early as other work
will permit I follow the plow wttn a
plank drag and then harrow lightly,
being careful to turn up as few sods as
possible. Between the 20th of June and
the 1st of July, the ground is thor
oughly harrowed, and when dry and
dusty I sow broadcast one bushel per
acre of seed and follow with a harrow
set to dig about two inches deep. This
is followed by a plank drag that com
pacts the soil and leaves it smooth.
The idea is to cover the seed as shallow
as possible and have it germinate.
Many prefer to drill this grain, but I
have never been able to get as good re
sults as from sowing broadcast. Be
tween the 10th and 20th of September,
owing to tbe season, this grain will be
fit to cut and set up In the field. I have
always used a reaper, but some prefer a
self-binder. Buckwheat is seldom fit
to thresh In less than two weeks after
cutting and oftentimes it requires a
much longer time to cure, especially if
the straw is large and green. The
yield varies, according to the soil and
season, from 1,000 to 2,000 pounds of
grain per acre. Much larger yields are
aSw&a3
Vl;
sometimes obtained, but theyioa41jnifarfiIa,,u,'-cu"J v , . V m
exception and not the rleMt$3sSeT ? .ltlons a? F" '"
about $6 to raise and thresh one acre
of this grain, so anyone can see that it
is not more profitable than some other
branches of farming. I prefer the silver-hull
variety of this grain, as it
seems to give better yields, one year
with another. The Japanese variety
was raised several years here, but has
been discarded. Laying aside the use
fulness of buckwheat as a food for
man. It ranks with the other cereals as
stock-food. It makes a good feed for
sheep and poultry, whole, but for other
stock I prefer it ground with some
other grain. It used formerly to be the
custom to let the straw rot down in
the stack, but of late years the more
carefulfarmersareutilizing it more and
more as a stock food. A carefully con
ducted experiment proved that sheep
did just as well on buckwheat straw
with the same amount of grain as did
those fed on oat straw under the same
conditions for a period of five months.
This straw also makes a good food for
horses and cattle if fed in connection
with grain and roots. Although buck
wheat Is more sensitive to extreme
heat or cold, and the yield of grain is
greatly governed by the seasons yet
there is no grain crop raised in this
section that brings the farmers more
money. Chas. Chapman In New York
Farmer.
Seed Bed far Cam Crop.
A corn crop does not do its best when
the soil Is either too wet or too dry,
says a writer in Farmers' Guide. It
must have moisture in sufficient quan
tity and within reach of the fibre roots
to produce a large yield of well ma
tured ears. The soil also must have in
it the fertilizing elements that the corn
plant can feed on and assimilate, and
it must be prepared in a manner espec
clally suited for this crop. It is a raven
ous feeder, its extensive root system,
stalk and foliage are the index of what
the farmer should prepare his soil for.
In my farm practice a clover crop pro
ceeds a corn crop. All the manure that
can be made on the farm is put on
the sod before plowing, the plowing is
done in tbe fall if possible. My rea
sons for this practice are, viz: First,
the soil is looser than it possibly can
be in the spring, thereby saving horse
power. Second, the frost action on the
soil does a better job of pulverizing
than I can do and conserves soil mois
ture, because there is less frequent
stirring in preparing seed bed and
thereby less opportunity for soil mois
ture to escape. Third, It is a great
saving of time and gives better seed
bed for depositing tbe seed in and in
sures a more uniform depth in planting
the seed. Fourth, it gives a more uni
form stand of young plants, because
in each hill tbe seed being nearer the
same depth each grain gets the same
benefit from heat and sunlight and will
germinate quicker, comes through the
ground quicker and all nearer the same
time, and thereby grows rapidly and
keeps ahead of the weeds. Fifth, it
has stood the test of time and all ad
verse criticisms. It saves time, labor
and horse flesh and this saving gives a
cheaper bushel of corn than spring
plowing can possibly do. The prepa
ration of the seed bed should be thor
oughly done and as deep as the plow
can run. Tbe corn plant cannot grow
as it should when three or four inches
in the bottom of the furrow remain un
pulverized. All the clods should be
broken up as deep as plowed so that
the particles of soil moisture touch
each other. The circulation of soil
moisture will be uniform. The corn
roots will have no obstructions in
reaching out after their food 'supply.
DwcBwalaaa ISwaai fsa afaisai aaialW !
nf a tree be properly pruned during
lilt? 9UIU1UGI ocaouu IUC1C JO lOUIJ ICIJ
little for winter pruning to accomplish.
It is the strong, vigorous growth of
trees that takes the nourishment away
from the weaker growth. In ordinary
garden language, strong snoots or
sprouts on trees are robbers," and they
should be pinched back or pulled off;
the vigor of the tree is then thrown
into the weaker shoots. In this way
any part of a tree that is naturally weak
can be made strong. This point can be
illustrated by the way In which street
trees are trimmed. They are usually
cut in the winter time, the chief reason
being at the time there is little work for
men to do. and it is natural to recom
mend as the best time that in which
they can find employment, but it must
be within the experience of everyone
that the branches shoot out all the
stronger at that point where the tops
are cut away, by reason of the cutting
away of these tops and the lower
branches that we wish to strengthen
become still weaker. This must be fre
quently experienced, but if after a tree
has been trimmed in winter in the man.
ner referred to, these strong sprouts,
which in summer follow tbe cutting,
were palled out after they had grown
a few inches, the sap would then be
thrown into the lower branches.
latklawaythewiataT
not ho aa iajaiieoe; oath eeatrary. It
might la
hrinc ahoat what
fatso and. desired namely, a strength
hag of the lower shoots. This summer
pruning te especially elective with cob
if eroas trees. In the case of place, we
know that In the springtime three or
four branches posh ont at the end of
last year's sprouts, looking like gaa
burners. The central one Is very rig
orous and those on the sides are weak
er. If we pinch out the point of the
stronger one the sap a once flows into
the weaker ones, and they become
strong, and new buds form at the place
where the strong one was pinched off.
Next year this bud continues the
growth of the branch almost as straight
as if it had never been pinched back.
We can pinch off the terminal bud of
the main stem a new bud forming a
leader without any bend. One who un
derstands this business of summer
pruning an evergreen can so manage
that trees form an absolutely perfect
specimen from the ground to the top,
no one branch being any stronger than
the other. Tbe chief thing to remem
ber is that in summer pruning tbe
weak branches of the shoot should not
be touched; it is only the stronger ones
that require checking. Mehan's Month
ly. Mnieed Meal for Cows.
In our feeding we have found that a
ration must have other qualities besides
being simply "balanced." With our
methods of feeding, watering and han
dling cows, it is necessary to keep their
bowels in such shape that the drop
pings will be like those made when on
good pasture. Whenever the drop
pings begin to get hard and dry the
milk begins to shrink. We have found
it possible to feed linseed oil heavily
on this account. We get the best re
sults when a balanced ration is appetiz
ing, and it is for this reason that we use
several grains in making a ration.
Fresh cows are often very "fussy"
about eating when we arc trying to
push them, and show strong likes and
dislikes for various kinds of feeds. If
the best yield is desired, it pays to
humor these fancies and balance tbe
ration with the feed the cow likes. One
.Mint needs explanation. Feeds may
ah MiAlitlAiitlif aara-r 4k j-h awn AAffn
tables to make trouble without careful
watching. In 1894 our corn was poorly
eared on account of the drouth, and we
found it necessary to use a good deal
of corn meal in our ration. In 1S95 our
ensilage corn was heavily eared, and
we found it best to use only enough to
make it taste good. We have had to
guess each year how much our ensilage
varied from the published analyses and
figure a ration accordingly. II. M. Cot
trcll in Rural New Yorker.
Mildew ea Grapes.
Some seasons grapes are seriously
affected by mildew. The vines may
suffer severely one season and be en
tirely exempt the next, owing to a dif
ference in the weather. It has been
ascertained that mildew of the most se
vere form and frequent occurrence on
native grapes, is caused by an excess
of moisture on the foliage, chiefly be
cause of heavy, continual dew. Local
ities where heavy dews are of less fre
quent occurrence, are most favorable
for successful grape culture. It has
been found by experiments that plants
protected by a suitable covering which
will arrest the upward radiation of
heat and prevent dew on their foliage,
will be exempt from mildew, although
surrounded on all sides by mildewed
vines. The relation of rot to mildew has
not been definitely ascertained, but it
has been observed that fruit on vines
where the trellises are covered to pre
vent mildew, are less affected by rot
than those less protected. Some va
rieties of grapes arc much more liable
to mildew than others, and should be
avoided. Ex.
The Vast Wraith In Trees.
The timber wealth of the United
States gives a yearly product of over
$1,000,000,000, or twice the value of the
entire output of all the mines put to
gethergold, silver, coal, Iron, copper,
zinc and the rest This is a resource
worth keeping, and yet we are cutting
into our capital at the rate of 75 per
cent each year, as only about 25 per
cent of the timber market is repre
sented by new growth. A3 for losses
from the fires that arc started by loco
motives, cattlemen, berrypickers, hunt
ers and incendiaries, it gives a suffi
cient idea of what they cost us to be
told by the forestry commissioner of
Pennsylvania that his state alone prob
ably suffers to the extent of $30,000,000
annually from this one cause. Not
only the trees are lost in these mighty
conflagrations; the vegetable mold
which would supply fertility to the soil
for future agricultural purposes, or
food for the roots of a second growth of
foretst. Is burnt; and the first step is
taken on that easy descent to landslide
or flood-bed. From Scribner's.
The Paeony and Drouth. Two years
ago we stated that a row of several va
rieties of the paeony was left in an
abandoned nursery which was added to
the pasture. The ground was soon
covered with blue grass and closely
pastured. The paeonies have kept the
grass roots from encroaching by their
dense foliage, have never flagged a leaf
during the drouth, and have been
loaded each spring with perfect flow
ers. Tbe stock do not touch a leaf and
have no path across the row. They
go around it and leave the row (two
rods long) in its glory. Probably the
flavor leads to this avoidance of the
plant, but the purpose of the note is to
call attention to the wonderful capacity
of the paeony to endure drouth and
lack of culture on a dry knoll. Ex.
The Lily for Shady Positions. Thir
ty years ago we had on the old home
stead a row of lilies and other peren
nials. On one side of It only four
feet distant we set nursery rows of
Scotch pine and on the other side of
Austrian pine, with a row of chestnuts
on the east side of the whole. The
evergreens were thinned by nursery
sales, and those that stood are now
quite large trees, under which gras
and weeds do not grow, except such
wild plants as can thrive In dense
shade. Among the perennials tbe only
thing that endured the dense shade was
the yellow day lily. This has spread
until it has made a thick growth over
a spot twelve feet square, and its foli
age and flowers appear nearly as per
fect as in open sunshine. Rural Life.
Breaking a Kicker. An exchange
says that a veteran broncho ouster
gives the following as a sure way to
cure a horse of kicking: "The way we
fix a kicking horse is to tie one of his
forelegs with a rope to the hind leg on
the other side. Then, as soon as he
starts to kick, he jerks his front leg off
the ground and goes down in a heap.
Two or three doses of that kind will
cure the worst case you can find."
Marks made by hot dishes set on ta
1 f
bles may be removed by the iise of I
kerosene oil well rubbed in, and then i
polished with a fresh cloth. . ' j
THE GREAT NURSERIES.
LOUttiANA. MO. ROCKPOWT. n eaf
VhHsi be Gov. Conwan. Ex-See fcrl'
aaatnoriort.Ea Juag swipr.
"Ob. how BaaloMcaat an myJUtr 7ars
f aarsery. haatae seaata. aircoa.Maed.
waea caaapaxed' with tats aumenaaaa
taMlaaatent-wRera they cmnt By
Has." aald Jadaw Maler.'wthat va
aorUcolturlat. asha. u coaraaay with tha
writer, vera betas driven ta the
wfMrtsMats ot this vast aarsery.
u an experieaea ot ovar forty
we ae men raaiaaiher ta have
years
thraagh aa eatahHaha-ent where so htrsa
number ef haade-were eaaptoyed. wheat
dutlea were so thoroushly eystematUed.
and where healtuse capacity ef a hlsher
erder was Bsaalf eeted.
It ia not te the soil of every farm that
ese flada qualities essential to the growth
ef the different kinds of Nursery stock,
hence It has devolved upon these gentle
men, who were born to the Nursery busi
ness, to select from among the hiila, and
valleys ot the two Pikes such portions as
are adapted to their purposes. But la
this very fact of selection ot soil we see
their exceeding- care for the future suc
cess ot their stock.
Missouri and Illinois have no more
worthy institutions than the Stark Nur
ser.es, and surely no better er more rep
resentative men than the proprietors. The
business Is growing on their hands, as It
deserves to grow.
They have a system ef e9.ew acres ot
commercial test orchards located la great
fruit growing regions.
The canvassing force Is being Increased.
6,000 fine outfits ready. Stark Nurseries
always have room for more active work
ers because they have millions of Stark
trees to sell. Colman's Rural World.
For rotlaaler-
The following Is excellent for polish
injr nickel and steel articles: To one
tablespoonful of turpentine add one of
sweet oil; mix them together with em
ery powder enough to make it a pasty
mass that will just pour. Pat it oa the
article to be cleaned with a piece of
soft cloth and rub off quickly with a
bit of flannel and use a little dry emery
powder for the last rubbing.
Ta Cleaaaa tha System
Effectually yet gently, when costive or
bilious, or when the blood Is impure or
sluggish, to permanently overcome ha
bitual constipation, to awaken the kid
neys and liver to a healthy activity,
without irritating or weakening them,
to dispel headaches, colds, or fevers, use
Syrup of Figs.
It costs more to keep a bicycle in repair
than it does to keep aa o!d girt looking
vonn-r.
Pisos Cnro for Consumption fe the oaly
rousb medicine used in mv house. D. U.
AlLright, MitHinburg, Pa., lee. 11. 95.
Do yon know that people believe, if yoa
are a gossip, that you are not very nice
your.f?
How ta Grew 40e Wheat.
Salter's Fall Seed Catalogue tells
you. It's worth thousands to the
wideawake farmer. Send 4-cent stamp
for catalogue and free samples of
Trains and grasses for fall sowing.
John A. b'alzer i&ed Co., LaCrossc,
Wis.
II ..story is what character has written.
1 "ABfoaac Built for Two." " " 1
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gattJeAsd
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I - Five cents worth of
I "BATTLE AX" will serve twa
chewers just about as long as 5 cents'
II worth of other brands will serve one
II man. This is because a 5 cent piece
I of "BATTLE AX" is almost as J
t large as the 10 cent piece of other
1 high grade brands. I
Columbia
Bicycle
Experience
Nineteen years of it have made more
bicycles, better bicycles, and bicycles lon
ger, than anybody else. Columbia riders
ride on the certainty of experience. One
hundred dollars is right for quality, safety,
surety the trinity of Columbia excellence.
When you pay less, you get less.
Catalogue of Fact, free at Columbia agencies
by mail for two 2-cent stamps. . ..
POPE MFG. CO., Hartford. Conn.
a
TawIavMwa aWvMwafsr Awgwat,
,1ffifi,.1
to tha
itml
for tha traataamt of other
tha
sketch of Mr. Bryan, the
enaoiemia for tm
view haamastfawi
BeecherSaaww and Dr. Baraatway the)
father of "Nobody a Children." There
is the nana! elaborate tcmsm of the
at- magislsas: aad iho depart
ta of "The Progress of the orld."
"Record of Carres t Eveats," aad "Car
rent History in Caricature" answer aad
the typical American demand for what
ia ap to date aad "live"
Peraeaal.
ANT ONE who has been benefited
by the aae.of Dr. Williams' link Pills,
will receive iaformation of much' vatae"
aad interest bv writing to "Pink
PUls," P. a Box'l593, Philadelphia, Pa.
Andre Castaigae, the artist, was re
cently given the unusual opportunity
of sketching Pope Leo from life. One
of the pictures that he secured repre
sents the pope ia his private garden ar
the Vatican, surrounded by cardinals.
Mr. Castaigue's drawings will accom
pany the fourth and concluding paper
of the group which Marion Crawford
haa been writing on Rome. It will ap
pear in The Century for August and
will be devoted to "The Vatican."
atAnnMt frM. Anil ivpimnitntlv imiimI IT.
Sta afwr flrt UjV uv of Dr. Kllne'atlrrat Kerve
aawRT, rtre.:iruMUoiiieanuirr.iU'e.
Bead to Oa. Kuu, tH Area St, Philadelphia, Fa.
If yoa swallow anythinz hurriedly, you
bolt it and if you re.use to swallow at all
yoa bolt it
If the Baby m Cattle Teeta.
Be ana aad ose that old and welMried remedy, net
WaaLow'a ftoonuso Sxmcr for CtdUrea TaettJao
Some women try as easily aad often as
somemea grumble.
Woman's Writes
Believe in Woman's Writes?
Of course wc do. Who could
help it when women write such
convincing words as these:
"For seven years I suffered
with scrofula. I had a good
physician. Every means of
cure was tried in vain. At last
I was told to try Ayer's Sarsa
parilla, which entirely cured
me after using seven bottles."
Mrs. John A. Gektik, Fort
Fairfield, Me., Jan. 36, 1896.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla
cures..
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