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Many a man who would smile Iadul . rentlv at the innocence of his little ,m ' .'' child,' who, planting1 a seed in the V . morning, would dig it up at night to j-ee why it had not sprouted, is today . . . nullinjr a long face over the lack of , . " pressure of business which was to rc- y . biilt from the sound money victory. . . Strangely disregarding the fact that .. .. the election did not occur until the fall - " " trade was practically over in all the , .. holiday lines, armies of travelers were ; .. put on the road election week to har- rass merchants who were in a position ' . ' to buy nothing. Dry Goods Econo- ".. . mist A Novel Experiment. A curious and novel experiment has been tried in Uerlin.' A number of prominent artists were requested to send to an exhibition a picture embody ing their idea of the personality of Christ. Among them were Brutt, Kampf, Marx, Gabriel, Max, Skarbina, Stuck, Thoma, Uhde and Zimmerman. The savior was represented at half lengths, detached fromthct surround ings oFniiiarily in "such "pictures, with luctcly a laudbcapc or cloud effect for background. Ivach painter also sent explanatory notes with his work, stat ing wJiy he had represented the sacred iigurc in that particular way. Watering I 'la nts in Winter. There, is far more danger of giving house plants too much rather than too little water in winter. Uuring the short das and long nights, with very little sunlight ou the soil it is hard to l.-cn it at a temperature where the plants can grow vigorously. All the burplus water added lowers the tem perature until it reaches a point where the plants barely exist without making any growth. If the soil has much veg etable matter, humic aeid will be de veloped and a low temperature and this will poison the plant roots. llou- In Keep Wrinkle Away. A simple preventive against the ap pearance of wrinkles is this: Saturate a boft towel in very hot water, wring it and apply it to the face, keeping it there for at least twenty minutes. Then dry the face very gently. This must be done just bsfore going to bed. When traveling, if the skin is sensi tive, do not bathe the face except at night and in the morning, and then throw a few drops of tincture of ben zoin into the water, so that it may be made soft and agreeable to the skin. Ladies' Home Journal. A Woman'K Way. A handsome, well dressed young woman was standing at the curb on Market street, waiting for a car. The rain was falling steadily and a deluge was pouring down through the rents , of the .umbrella upon her bilk and plumes. "Why. you arc fairly drenched," ex- claimed a friend who had observed her .plight. "That umbrella of yours doesn't shed a drop of water."' "Oh, but sec what a lovely handle it Jias,' and she held it up admiringly. San Francisco Post TO CX'Itt: A COM) IN ONE DAV. Tal:e I-asativc IJromo Quinine Tablets. AH prusuists refund the money if it fails to cure, :5c ' Features in the January number of . Harper's will be: "Portuguese Progress in South Arica,' by l'oultney IMgelow; an instalment of "The Martian,"' by George du Maurier; "A Century Strug . gle for the Franchise," by Professor Francis X. Thorp; "Fog Possibilities,' by Alexandor McAdie: "Science at the beginning of the Century.' by Dr. Henry fctmth Williams: " "Literary " Landmarks of Home." bv Laurence lhitton; "Fnglish Society," by Geonre W. Smaller; "John Murreil and His Clan." bv Martha Culloch-Williams; "Indian Giver," a farce by W. I. llowclls: "One Good Time.' a talc of rural New England; "A Prize Fund 1'cncficiarv,'" bv E. A. Alexander; and ""In the Watches of the "Sight," by ISrander Matthews. S.i 1 lie Dry Knari Dust. One of the jobs which should be at tended to before cold weather is to save a few barrels of dry read dust to be used as dust baths for hens in winter. Nothing contributes more to the health of hens than this. Coal ashes will an swer, but they stick to the feathers of fowls worse than road duht will, and yive the birds an unsightly nppea ranee. The road dust is coarser, auu we think the fowls like to roll in it better than in the white, line dust that comes from sifting coal ashes. The Keen Ki'ee of Her Crier. do not care." sobbed the shin- I wrecked maiden, "about bcin "but are you sure I shall be tecomiuglv?" eaten; dressed The cannibal chieftan deftly con cealed the sharpened shark's tooth be hind Lis back. "Dressed."' he echoed. "Why, ' We alwaj-s used point insertion. Yes."' New York Press. Tliecxponsaofdoctors'bills. Keep your blood pure, yoar digestion good and jcur system regular at thisscason by taking a course, of ood's arsapariila Tho "ncct hi fact llie One Trao Blood Pnrlfiw. HonirPc Oillf are the only pill to tako iivju i.j v.ith z:oid'sSars: sSorscpartiia. It r"V ZZasnffcr and Agent wanted kM L lor Dr. Kay's Uterine Tcnic, no sio :fv required uni It cootf arc sold "Woman hood." a valuable Tdookici on female diseases free. Tr II- J. Kav Medical- Co.. Omaha. Xeh. OMAHASTOVE REPAIR WORKS Sltir rrpalrt Tar apt LlcJ if ttr badr. 1201 DOUGLAS ST., OlJIOA, DEB. GPiUMDRUNKENNESS Csra. CK. J.L.6TEPHEMS. I.KB"jOT.Mi OlTTyTC ajycars ,xrH""Pncc. Send s'Kctcli ft-raJ. I U tl I Oi lice- l- l)-ain!:ii. priti. examiner U.S. l't-OUTcO IK je .t Wi tr, ilcGiil UM5, WaliJJ.i lU-nti IIKU M. hOWAW. Milwaukee. Wis. ,l?55 iJ WHISKY '''' rar"- "" ' iusn rntx. Dr. u. r. ffnnuxi, tlt. ci. Jf cd rlthlT" Rhsiapsca'sEjS Wattr. sore eyes. 5: W. X. l., OMAHA 52 1890 When writing to advertisers, kindly mention this paper. tV"tAiAJVVVSV Sl!a 3i w 7 r-crtCcKhSj-rcp. 'Jastxa Good. Use 19 IS iaz'czc. f0'1"5 JL C THE rlAI?J MUSCULAR 8UPP03T3 OF THE v BODY wfjl'pn imn i ft lEA CKACHES8fl OR LUMBAGO. TO RESTORE, AND STRAIGHTEN TO RECLADI LANDS. 'MODEL FARMS" BEING E5TAB. L1SHED ALONG THE BUR LINGTON ROUTE. la Kaatmt and braka Practical Farm ers in Charge of Kacli Station Suc cessfully Experimenting With Western Prairie Soil. Omaha, Dec. S. The enormous crop Kansas and Nebraska produced the past, year has given agriculture such an impetus in these two states that all other industries have in a measure been overshadowed. The Burlington Railroad company has established a number of experiment stations or "model farms" in order to demonstrate the advantage of the most improved methods of soil culture and lead farm ers of Nebraska and Kansas to new ef forts in this direction and enable them to become independent evon in the so called "drouth sections'" and "dry years." Incidentally the company ex- pects returns from its investments in increased and regular crops, necessi tating heavy freight and passenger traffic on its network of lines in the West. John Francis has just returned from a trip over .Nebraska and Kansas, where he has established model Jnrms at Oberlin, Kan., and at McCook, Hold rege, Alma and Urokcn I5ow, Neb. Something was done in this line by the company last year and with immensely satisfactory results. The farms con sist of forty acres in each station un der the immediate supervision of a borhood. Each farm will be visiled .frequently bv oso o the ho icVIIi.rr, ot 1TOL Campbell, w no arc bUilleu in the new methods. Nebraska and Kan sas farm staples, corn, wheat rye, oats and potatoes, will be produced. The farming at the experiment sta tions is conducted primari' on the the ory that the rainfall of the West ib am ple and abundant for all practiclal farming purposes, but that owing to capillary attraction, the moibturc es capes from the earth before it performs its proper and desired functions. The new method will contribute to retard the action of nature's law at critical moments and retain the moisture. Experience has demonstrated that the virgin soil of the western prairie is hard and dry to an unknown depth. However, wnero the surface has been disturbed and capilliary atti action in terfered with, the same soil, under ex actly similar coudit.on otherwise, is moist and mellow as desired by farm ers. On this theory the small grain will he drilled in lines far enough apart to permit cultivation. The surface will be readily cultivated to a depth of one or two inches. Capilliary attrac tion will bring the moisture this near the surface, where twe attraction of the molecules is destroyed and the un limited store of moisture d stributed gradually to the roots of the grain in stead of passing rapidly into the atmos phere. The professor's experts will spend the remainder of their time in speaking at fanners' institutes in this and adjacent states. 'ra:ilnin Victoria. The journey between Windsor castlo and Kalmoral can be accomp'fchcd in less than nineteen hours, a rather lontr allowance for ."is0 miles, but the queen doesn't like to feel the carriage oscili ate round curves, as the trains on American railways have a merry fash ion of doing, says the l'oston Herald. When this journey is taken, the royal emmren wno uappeu to accompany grandmamma are not given any day, but are made to continue lessons jus, the same as at home. l.oli. their The I'pUotlv C1um-i1. He is a young lawj-er, and she lives in tne west end. Ihey were to i .nave been married in the spsing. The other day they fell to quarreling over the telephone She was petulant. He was angry. Finally she called him a b b brute, and said that he could consider the engagement oft. "All right."' said he. and then he "rang off.' as they say in telephone parlance. And she well, she returned the ring. Albany Journal. The JloiJorn rtlolliir Has found that her little ones are im proved more by the pleasant Syrup of I Figs, when In need of the laxative effect of a gentle remedy than by any other, and that It is more acceptable to them. Children enjoy it and it bencilts them. The true remedy, Syrup of Fi?s, is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Company only. Ihc Soul ir Honor. Farmer You look like a strong, healthy fellow You ought to be ashamed of yourself begging your vict uals. Why don't you go to work and earn a living".'"' Tired Tommy I ean't for eleven months, ?Iistcr. You sec I made an election bet with a man that if sound money Avon I wouldn't work for a year, and you know how the election went, and it wouldn't be honorable te not pay my election bets. i:liii! Iter Mini!. Client I tcok out a iife insurance policy recently for my children's bene fit, and 1 er stated my age as 3", which er which was not quite cor rect. Will that affect the validity of the poliey? Lawyer Not at all. madam nor at all. In order to avoid payment the company would have to claim that they were deceived by your represen tations, which, of course, would b ridiculous. 1 'uck. A i'rrMimpii v)iimiMii. A little girl who was in the habit .f using the word "guess" intempcrately, was. reproved by her teacher "Don't say -guess.' Mary: say prei-umc." .lust then a playmate came up and, feeling Mary's cloak, said: "My ma is. going to ask your ma for the pattern of 3-our cloak.' "My ma ain't got any pat tern." answered Mary; "hc eut it by presume."' Troy Times. Captain Alfred T. Mahan. who re cently resigned from the United States navy, in order to devote his entire at tention to literary pursuits, has written an article on "Nelson in the I'att'.c of the Xile for the January number of the Century. Captain Mahan has for years been studying the career of "Kelson in preparation of a life of the great commander, and the present paper is one of a series of four he is contribut ing to the Century on Nelson's most famous engagements. YOU WAM A FeP.Til and we have, oO miles west of Houston, at OHESTSRVIUE. the best tract in Texa. High prairie, well drained, abundant rainfall, good soil, low prices and eay term?. Uou't foil 10 pot yourself. Write cud receive our bock Fer tile Farm Lands" FRIEE and information as to cheap excursion and FREE PARE. Address Southern Texas Colrnizatiou Co . John Linderhclni.'Ugr., 110 Jtialto Bldg.,Ch:cago Applt-K of :!(!. ui. o;ime; vi. .-uacitenzte. neiorc a distinguished clneational association I in Philadelphia, asked American em- pioers to remember that "a man in order to be of any use to civilization must earn money enough to pay his board." This, remark deserves to be wuhcu us, u lunuatneiitsl canon oi litical economy. iJ.o-.tjn Globe. po- -- Elocution bou'd never be carried too far. The man who i y Jt is.; for a soft sna. ' will iiLelv ha.-e a hard t-uie. tn iiMnPR -isr 1 STRENGTH CN 3 1-iSiL .. ?;. 5.-l ;i ft UP, USE D AIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How Successful Farmers Operate This Department or the Farm JtpFcw Hints as to the Care of' UwpBtock tad Poultry: II. MONRAD. writ ing in American Creamery, says: It seems to the "pen and ink" butter-maker that tho fact of Eastern dairy butter being classed so low, in dicates the need of more creameries. Dairy .butter, when properly made, ought to be better than creamery, as the maker has the means of controlling the feed given to the cows and the handling of the jnilk all the way through. The creamery huttermaker, oi the other hand, has to contend with batches of poor milk; he will never get better milk than, the average of what is produced by his patrons. It is true, one reason for the lower rank of dairy butter is the lack of uniformity, which hurts its sale in the open market. This fact i3 often not thoroughly understood by the dairy farmer. Take ICO tubs of dairy butter good, bad and indifferent, with an average score of 90 points, and they will seldom be sold as hiik fa uniform eamery"butter scoring 85 points. Thb fict alone, not to men tion the saving of labor and the possi bilities and economy of the very best appliances iu the creamery, should be nu2ieient to encourage the farmers to cc-opcrate and establish more creamer ies. Take the conditions in L'ugland. If the farmers were to co-operate there it would he all the worse for the Danes and Americans, just as the stronger and more extended co-operation in the west is proving such a hard competition for the cast. It is not only the cheaper and more fertile lands of the west, it is the moie enterprising spirit which adapts itself quickly to new systems, new ma chinery. And why? I may be wrong, but it eeems natural to me that older communities are slow to undertake re forms. Just consider the case of two young men. One goes west and starts untrammelled by the traditions of what h"5 f?ther and grandfather has done, while the other has to face the adverse criticism not only of his relations, but that of every one of his neighbors. Is there no excuse for his letting improved methods alone and jogging along in the old ruts of his forefathers? Nor must it be supposed that the reform in the west v.hkh is not completed by a long shot has been carried out, before the farm ers were, so to say, starved into it. In Dakota I asked a patron of a creamery how many cowa he milked; he replied: "Two List year, ten this year, and I will milk moie next year." When, in my enthusiasm, I slapped him ou tho fcl.oulder, saying: "Ycu are the man of my heart," he added, with a queer Ensile: "But I had to be starved into it." The truth is that the most suc cessful creameries are in the districts where the continuous wheat crops have reduced the yields, and the low prices i the profit to starvation point. What ! little I have seen of the eastern farm ing, where enormous sums are spent on artificial fertilizers, makes me be Here that ony by an intelligent co oijcration in dairying will the "aver ago" faimer tet out of the dismal swamp of unprofitable farming. There are enough icclated cases of unquali fied success to prove this. While I do uot desire to h3 understood to advo cate the total abolishing of private dairying, 1 do firmly believe that the establishing of moie creameries in the cast will prove a benefit to the farmers. C:camc-rics when properly run are ..enters of education which soon spread a better knowledge of cheap milk pro duction, and a better understanding of vrue co-cpcratiou. Ilfii and !Ior-.e I'ix'it. A Dexter gentleman claims to have itn a battle between a horse and a lun recently, says an exchange. More cddly matched contestants can scarcely be thought of. Into a neighbor's or chard, where a horse was feeding, an 11. 1 lu'n k'd her Hock of chicks. Just .That began the fuss the gentleman did not ice, but probably the chick? made thcmscl'.es too familiar with the horse's feet. The hore began kicking at the old hen with all its might, and with the prospect tbat if he could only hit her once poultry would take a sudden ;ioe in her vicinity. The pluck of the hen was something wonderful. The chicks scudded out of the way, but the xc i:cr Huffed cut her feathers, ran her ;:cvk out straight before her, and dart d for the horse's heels whenever they struck the ground. She pecked vicious ly at them, but the odds were against :er, as the heels were pretty sure to bo missing by the lime she got a blow well aimed. The hcrse labored under .he same difficulty. He would hack for tho hen and take aim at her.and she would change base before the cyclone struck. ITcr much fuss and effort and little effect the battle furnished an imhiuc .spectacle. Both sides quieted iluwvi after a time, and the old hen :..'cl;cj off with her chicks, clucking c iierously, which was doubtless her . ay of impressing them with the fact that cho "was not afraid of the big gest horse iu Trotterdom." Hen Kosts A writer in an exchange says: Seeing 1 farmer near me building a hen house, I tcok occasion to give him a new idea. He was putting in his roosts in the old fasliieued way, one being above the other on an angle of about 45 degrees. In th3 way the fowls are led to attempt to get upon the highest roost, and, as it ets full, the weak ones are crowded iu aud fall to the ground; they begin again to climb up, only to repeat the same performance, until it gets so dark they stop climbing, restiug content up on the lower roost, or even upon the ground under the roosts. In the morn ing the fowls will not go down as they went up, from one roost to another, but fly from the roost to the ground, this way, and by failing from the roost to the ground at night, heavy fowls, espe eii'ly when very fat or very full cf egg?, are often crippled in the legs or oherwise injured. Many likely hens I have s:een completely spoiled in this I way. I told him I should build all the roosts all of the same height, and no more than two and a half feet from the I .loot, putting about 15 inches apart Be- fore I left I had the satisfaction of see- isuj. ii"i i-uuiuivuce 10 unuo ine worn I ho had done and to build his roosts as I suggested, and of hearinir an eld farmer who was present declare his In- tontion of taking out his roosts, which were on the ladder style, and putting in new ones, level and lower. I think they r.ill save hens enough before summer ? by so d-iing to more than pay for the . labor it will take. i'oaltry Xojci ""Vhprit vvheat screenings may supply bulk. out they give very little nourisliaitlttt. I says a contemporary. He who depenrfsdEscretary, care Auditorium Hotel. ! upon such tood for a flock wm not hRTe ft VJ IV MXV t J 1UU5 MW0W grata of any kind should never be fed to poultry. Chicks require more liber al feeding, and oftener, than grown fowls, as they are making flesh, muscle, bone and feathers at the same time. For these reasons they require a good sup ply of varied and nourishing diet. In winter green food 'of some nature Is necessary for egg production. Any kind of vegetables can Ir served for the purpose. If the flock can have access to a field of - growing rye or crimson clover it willsmeet their re quirements. When fattening fowls for market corn can be used in varied forms. They relish cold musiu Mix ing cornmcal with scalding water, or boiling the whole grain untirsoft, are all good. Celery tops are the best vege table adjunct at this time. It has been demonstrated that If ono flock, during the winter, be fed with warm grains, and another with cold, that the former will produce during the season more than twice the num htv of eggs. as the other, and will be even much finer in appearance. There are two extremes. You cannot let your poultry roost in trees In winter, nor can you shut them up in over crowded houses, and then expect suc cess. Success does not lie on either of these routes. Do not lose time in grading up when you can buy pure bred fowls as cheaply as now. Neither is it well to keep the eagii young pmieia tnat tne mouiers may be finished un for market. Tho hens kept for the producing of future stock should be of the best. It is un wise to use eggs for hatching unless these eggs are from certain hens, which are known to be not only pro lific, hut have shown themselves capa ble of producing hardy, strong and vig orous offspring. In short, breeders should be tested, just as with any other stock. So long as the poaltryman uses eggs from the general basket for incu bation, instead of from a few of his best hens, kept apart from the others, he will make no headway. The progeny may be better or inferior. It will be a matter of guess-work; but if care is taken it will be but one or two genera tions until a marked difference for the better will be noticed. Sijluo l'ccil. O the question as to the value of the various nutriments, Prof. Armsby says that "Their equivalency has been assumed and made the basis of the cal culation of rations, simply because, in the lack of all evidence, this was the only practicable method. It is quite probable that this assumption does not involve any very great error, except, perhaps, in the case of cellulose; but the actual comparative value of these substances can be determined only when ve know, first, how much latent energy is liberated during digestion. The study of this subject can hardly he said to have begun, aud the only object in mentioning it here is to show hew provisional are cur present methods of estimating the value of fod ders, and to guard the reader against the error of considering them final anil conclusive. They are of great value, and have Tendered very important ser vice. It is certain that they are not grossly erroneous. At the same time no good and much harm may come from an intelligent over-estimate of their accuracy and value." The powers of dicesticn and assimilation -may be the preliminary period advances prop erly, the stomach giadually enlarges, the digestive fluids increase in quan tity, and alimentation intensifies. But, on the other hand, irregularity and over feeding breaks up the harmony of the digestive processes, sickens the animal, and reduces alimentation. The feeder expresses his situation by saying that his animals "are stuck." You can suc cessfully proceed from a common ra tion to one more rich and palatable, but if the order is reversed growth is ictarded, and in some cases entirely stopped. For example, pigs fed on sweet milk and then turned to dry feed, become stinted. "Don't buy cattle from a neighbor who has better pasture than yourself," is a common saying. If you expect the highest results you must re serve the sweet meats for the last. Vnimals not being fed for market should be held on a coarser and less -ich diet, narrow aud not fed to full satisfaction. They should carry enough fat to make them look well, hut not enough to produce sluggishness in ac tion. Straw or Sand for Poultry. Sand or earth is mostly used for the floors of poultry pens. It is rarely that straw is used for the purpose, the result of its being more troublesome, if uot more expensive, says a writer in Mark Lane Expres?. A trial has been made for two seasons cf straw litter on the fleers of some of the pens, and of sand and gravel on others, in order to find out their relative merits. The results were reported to be altogether in favor of the straw, for the following reasons: (1) It covered the grain thrown into it much better than the sand, and was in consequence a much greater incent ive to exercise. (2) It was much easier to handle, and could be removed and renewed in much less time. (3) It was not so cold to the feet of the hens; ex cept in days of bright sunshine.-the fowls did not seem inclined to scratch in the sand. i4) On being removed fiom the pens every particle of excreta went with it; in the case of the sand, it was found that on its being raked' over a quantity of the droppings re mained. (5) By the month of April the sand-covered floors had become .much mixed with the droppings, not withstanding that the latter were re moved daily from the platforms. (C) On the grain rations being thrown on the sand, the fowls are likely to pick up some of the contaminated "floor ma terial, and disease to follow in conse quence. This would be worth trying by keepers of poultry in confined places and runs. Shorthorn Hreedcrs Will Meet. The annual meeting of the American Shorthorn Breeders will be held at the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, "Wednes day, November 18 at 7:30 p. m., for the purpose of electing three directors, and to attend to such other business as may come before the meeting. J. K. Pickrell. Sec. Directors whose term of office ex pires: A. H. Jones, John McHugh, Ahram Renick. Extract of by-law Xo. 5, relating to proxies: If at any meeting of the stockholders shares of stock are represented by other than the owner or owners of said stock as shown by the books, the authnritv to act shall be by written proxies filed -. . with the secretary. Note. Special rates have been se cared for ail members at the 4ndttnr- : iuai Hotel. After November 15 anv l communications intended for action at the meetlng'should be addressed to th& IFABM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Some Cp-to-0at Hiat About Cultiva tion of the Soil and Yleluji Thereof Horticulture, lttUcalture and Flori- calture. D. LYMAN, writing in Garden and For est, says: Mr. B. E. Fernow, chief of the Bureau of For estry, referring to a grove of pines with, which I have teen experimenting for more than 20 years, says in Gar den and Forest: Mr. Lyman has a growth of white pine trees two-thirds of an Acre n extent, 50 to 53 years oi ao, which he has thinned, so that in 1S91 only 146 trees remained, or 223 to the acre. Most of his trees are over 10 inches in diameter, at least 1C of them are over 14 inches, and the best measured 22.2 inches, the height be ing 70 to 80 feet. The calculated vol ume corresponds, to a production of 7,185 cubic feet of wood an acre, which, under very careful practice, might cut 30,000 board measure. In view of the vast value and im portance of the white pine and the lapidity with which a timber crop ot it can be grown, even on land deemed al most worthless, I have been experi menting on a small scale to ascertain its rate of growth and the best treat ment of the trees while growing. In this study I have been disappointed at finding so little aid from books. I want to find out how to grow a crop of tim- ber on poor, cheap land as well as the best farmers in the corn belt can grow a crop of corn. I have some -100 acres of mixed growth from 23 to 33 years of age, and most of this has been left to nature. I have thinned some 12 acres of small white pines and pruned some of them. The little grove referred to by Mr. ' Fernow is upon a deserted farm which I bought in January, 1870, and, as I re member, the first time I noticed it was a few years later. The trees are close by the highway, less than six miles from the large village of Farmington, less than a mile and a half from a rail road station, and fourteen, twenty and .twenty-five miles respectively from the cities of Rochester, Somersworth and Dover, yet this grove with its 108 square rods of land could not probably have been sold at that time for much, if any, over one dollar, and, perhaps, for not over fifty cents. A man thinned the trees, receiving the thinnings as pay, and they made stakes, kindling wood, and, perhaps, a few light top poles for fence. They ought to have been thinned earlier. They were then left cither five or seven years, which was too long, before they were thinned again. They have been irregularly thinned from time to time since, and the pruning iias been equally irregular. Standing more than 40 miles from my home, they have not been as well cared for as they ought to have been. They have no limbs within 20 feet of the ground, and the first 20 feet from the ground will make very good boards, worth, if cut now, at least twice the price of inch-thick box boards. The larger these trees become the more clear lumber there will he in -them, pnd its value per foot will increase with their size. I have other young pines on the same farm which I have pruned so that the logs from the first 20 feet of their bodies will he perfectly fre.e of knots to within two inches of their hearts, and these knots will be so small, free from blackness aud sound, that they will scarcely he noticed in the boards. The cost of the several primings of each tree will, I judge from my exper ience, amount to about one and a half cents. It would be a fast average growth with properly thinned pines if tney were two teet in ammeter at id years of age. The most profitable num ber to the acre at this period of their growth I have not satisfactorily deter mined. Ferhaps 130, or possibly 150, and the amount of lumber from 60,000 to 80,000 feet, hoard measure, with all of that from the butt logs of very su perior quality and the remainder sound, with the ordinary amount of knots. The amount of wood fencing, shingle stuff, box-board logs and timber cut out in thinning sueh a forest or planta tion is immense. The saving in cost of getting lumber from such a clean for est, where every tree is a pine lit to cut, instead of having to cut paths through trees and brush, and break them through deep snows to get scattering trees from among mixed growths is a very important item. For this and other reasons I prefer to have unmixed timber lots and no undergrowth. V'ndiTdniiiistRC. In the Year Book of the Department of Agriculture space is devoted to the subject of drainage. In one part of the report it says: A soil containing too much water during the whole or con siderable part of the season should be underdraincd to draw off the excessive amount of moisture. Most of our agri cultural crops do better in a soil con taining from 30 to CO per cent of the amount of water which the soil would contain if saturated. 'With less water, crops suffer; with more, they suffer for lack of air around their roots. Wheat may he grown very successfully, and may attain a perfectly normal develop ment, in water culture, with its roots entirely immersed in a nutritive solu tion, provided the water is supplied with air at frequent intervals, but it will not grow in a stagnant, saturated soil, not because there is too much water, but because there is too little air. A soil, therefore, that contains too much water contains too little air, and part of the water should be drawn off through ditches or tile drains. Centuries ago the Romans used to overcome thii trouble by planting the crop on very high ridges or beds, often eight or ten feet high and fuili' as wide. In this way alleys were pro vided at frequent intervals to carry off the surface water, and the greatest ex tent of surface was presented for the drying out of the soil, while the roots were kept at a considerable distance from the saturated subsoil. Storer states that some of these ridges are still to be found in some localities in Europe. They are used today in a modified form in the cultivation of the Sea-Island cotton off the coast of South Carolina, but are being graduallv given up as the practice of undordrainiag is introduced, which is cheaper in the end aud more effective. Tile drainage is l usually mere effective in stiff clay soils and in low bottom lands, but it is oc casionally beneficial in medium grades of loam, or even in light sandy soils. ir." iii - .L 1S I,racea to a considerable extent in the light sandy soil of the truck area of the Atlantic seaboard, where tnc Question of a few days in the rincn nE ci tbe croD 5s an important factor. Keeping: Tall and Winter Apple-,. Newspaper bulletin 57, Purdue Uni- versify Experiment Station: In many localities in Indiana there are often more apples grown than can be dis posed of profitably at the time of gath ering, and so serious loss to the grow--ers Is the result; much of this loss could be prevented by a proper hand ling or the fruit, and by providing a suitable place for storing until the congested state of tho market is re lieved. In order to keep well, apples must be picked at the proper time. Care mnst be exercised in handling to pre vent bruises, carefully assorting the ripe from the unripe, the -perfect from the imperfect, and storing in a cool, dry place, with plenty of pure air free from all odors of decaying vegetables or other substances. The average fruit grower does not exercise enough cau tion in handling and assorting his fruit. The degree of maturity will have much to do with the keeping qualities. A late fall or winter apple should be mature, but not ripe, when it is picked, if it Is expected to ho kept for any considerable time. The process of rip ening is only the first stage of decay, and if thisis allowed tocontinue before picking, till the apple is ripe, or mel low, this breaking down process has proceeded so far that it is a difficult matter to arrest it. As soon, therefore, as the stem will separate freely from its union with tho branch, the apple is sufficiently mature tor storing." The proper temperature for keeping apples is as nearly 35 degrees Fahr. as It is possible to keep it", and in order to maintain this, it will often he neces sary in this climate to provide a sep arate ?!ncc for KtorinR the fruit, as the average cellar under the dwelling house is wholly unfit for this purpose. If tho cellar consists of several com partments so that one can be shut off completely from the ethers, and the temperature in this kept below 40 de grees, it will answer the purpose very we'lh If this can not be done, a cheap storage Louse may he built in connec tion with the ice house, by building a room underneath, having it surround ed with ice on the sides and overhead, with facilities for drainage underneath, keeping tho air dry by means of chloride of calcium placed on the floor in an open water tight vessel, such as a large milk crock or pan. In this way the temperature may be kept very near the freezing point the year round, and apples may be kept almost indefin itely. James Troop, Horticulturist. Fresh Cotv and S.tr'ijpiT. Bulletin 33 from the Iowa Experi ment Station reports an experiment on the effect which the period of lactation has upon butter flavor. It is often said, the bulletin states, that it is necessary to have a part of the milk from fresh cows in order to produce butler of good flavor. In the test the cows of the college herd that had been in milk for more than six months were regarded as strippers, while those that had come in fresh within that time were in the "fiesh" class. The average number of days since calving in the first class was 230 days, and in the latter 107 days. Tho feeding and management of -the cows as well as of the milk was similar, and the butter, made separately from the fresh aud stripper milk, when scored "V. S. Moore, official scorer for the Elgin Beard of Trade, scored alike 95 points for each lot. The conclusion from the experiment is that the period of lactation has no effect upon the flavor of butter made by the separator system. Under the gravitj system ihere may be some difference, as many dairymen claim, and the possible ex planation is offered that as the fat globules become -mailer as lactation advances, more tin Is required for thc cream to ri?e by tho gravity method in the caseof strippers than with fresh cows, where the fat globules are larger. It has been found that when cream or milk is kept at a low temperature fot some time a somewhat bitter flavor is often developed, and the organism which produces this bitter flavor may be the reason why the butter made from the milk of strippers is generally considered inferior to that made from the milk of fresh cows. The time neces sary for creamipg by the gravity pro cess is an essential element in the de velopment of the hitter flavor, and when the separator is used the mill does not have the time to becom bitter. KinUcrpesi in Afr'cu. London Live Stock Journal says: According to a Renter's telegram it has been computed that IG.000 head of cat tle died of rinderpest at Sctlagoli, in the southern part of the Mafeking dis trict, in South Africa, during Sep tern- bcr. The government are making every effort to prevent the riuderpest fiom creasing the Orange river, and are sending 750 police to assist the burghers in patrolling the river. This dire plague appeared on the east coast of Africa in the end of 1SS3 opposite Aden, the infection haing been, it is supposed, imported direct from the Asiatic continent but a short distance off. In 1S00 it had reached Uganda, and by September, 1S91, in the far heart of Africa at Kavilli, says Captain Lu gard, in his well-known work. "The Rise of our East African Empire," it had "swept olf every ox." He remarks mat had ordirary precautions been taken at the first point of contact with the infection such precautions as "civ ilized veterinary science would have prescribed" the vast destruction of the sole wealth of millions of human beings and the terrible starvation and mortality among the pastoral tribes of the invaded districts of Africa would have been avoided. Having now reached the district cf Mafeking. just on the boundary of the Transvaal Republic .and British Bechuanaland, its southern progress towards the Orange river is much to be dreaded. We much lament ..he gloomy forecast, and can onfy ad vise cur many friends among breeders I in Cape Colony to bestir themselves in face of the coming enemy, and to deal with him ruthlessly without counting the cost. A heavy present loss will prove to be a future gain. Harvesting Beets. Beets and Man gold Wurtzel beets shcu.'d bo puli-d ano stored before frost. These roots are very susceptible to injury by even a slight frost. In harvesting them be 'srefui not to bruise them. Cut oil '. ihe tops without cutting in the root i itself. They may bo storesrcither in a root cellar or in heaps in the open field. If put up in heaps, mal:e these in the form of a pyramid on dry. high iand, and cover first with a good coat ing of dry straw. Let the roots be dry and as clean from soil as possible when stored. After the heaps have stood for a week cr ten days, cover the straw with six incs of soil, except just at the top, vhlch leave open until the heap ha? finished sweating or severe frost is threatened, and then cover with I cil. Beat the soil solid, so that it will hed the rain. If severe frost threatens cover with more soil. If stored in a eel- Iar, allow free ventilation until frost threatens; then close up all openings and cover with straw. So. Culti'.ator. l Egga intended for hatching should not be kept over four weeks. They muat be turned every day or two. A Worthies "Lot. Visitor I understand that Judgo Tophill's daughters are all married badly? Villaijer Yes, One of 'em married a man who embezzled the church funds, another wedded a worthless scoundrel who wasted her money and broke her heart, the third eloped with a man wko proved to be a bigamist and several other things equally as unde sirable, the fourth married a chronic oflicesceker, and the fifth is the wife of a chap who docs nothing but collect foreign postage stamps. It looks as if the devil owed the judge a grudge and paid him off in sons-in-law. New York World. A Calfomla Crop .that I'ays. There is an enormous crop of sugar beets in San l'ento county, Cab, this year. The average yield is twelve tons an acre, .which will net S3."0 a ton. As an instance of profit in this crop, a story is told of seven brothers, Danes, who rented a farm of 279 acres, paying for it S? an acre as the rent. They have raised not less than eighteen, and probably twenty tons to tho acre. Three of the Danes havo done nearly all the work, the others being engaged in another beet-raising enterprise near Watsouvillc. it is said that on the first farm the three will, make SG,000 this 3'ear above all expenses. 1Ioy' This! WoolTcr Ono Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Mall's Catarrh Cure. KJ. OHENKY. CO., Toledo. Ohio, We, tlio underMKiied. havo known l J. Cheney for the lust i5 years, ami belie o him perfectly honorablo in all business tram-actions and linancially ablo to carry out any obligations niadu by their tirm. Woit & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo. O. WalUin? Kinnan & Marvin, Wholcsaio JJniSRMs. To'.erto; Ohu- Mall's Catarrh titire is taken Internally, acting directly upon tho blood and mu cous surfaces of -tho system. Testimo nials bent free. I'rlco Toe per bottle. Kold bv all drusglsls. "Mall's family Pills arc the best. I'hespliate for Clover. Whenever phosphate is sown with grain, a part of the fertilizer is always appropriated by the clover seed sown with it Clover is a lime plant, and it also needs the phosphoric acid that is so helpful to the wheat. The phos phate is valuable when applied to clover that is to produce a, seed crop. Potash is also needed to make clover seed well, aud should be applied in some form. Merchants Hotel, Omaha. conxni: rirrKKxni axi fakx.vm sts. Street cars pass the door to and from both depots; in business center of city. Headquarters for state aud local trad?. Hates S- and S'J per dav. PAXTOX & DAVENPORT, Prop's. Colt linns in a Apple Tree. Mr. Tliornily, who resides east of the city, last week lost a lino Oudan colt in a peculiar manner. An apple tree which stood in the orchard to which the colt had access had w fork, just above which was a large knot. The colt got its neck caught and was unable to extricate itself on account of the knot. In its struggle to get free it hung itself. Marietta Times. For I.uns; and chest diseases. Tiso's Cure is tho Le-.t medii-iuo we havo used. Airs. J. L. Northcott, Windsor, Out., Canada. IJenclics in )!! Trinity's Aisle. People sometimes wonder why the small benches arc placed in the aisles of Trinity church. They are for strang ers. The four back pews in the church all the waj across are free, but they are not as satisfactory as seats further front, i'nless the Sexton is notified in advance that pew holders will not oc cupy their seats, he holds them until the reading of the second lesson. All seats are then free. "ew York Times. Cor'm CoiiiiIi IlaUam Isth?o'.!-st an.! !xit It will break n; a coM qnickcr San anythios ike. It U al-.vaj s r. liable. Trv it. The two widowed sisters, Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Gibson, of Cambridge, I'ng., who are celebrated for the discovery of I'iblical manuscripts on Mount Sinai, have given a site and .'0,000 pounds for the Presbyterian Collegs to be removed from i'loumsbury. London, to Cam bridge. It :s this Mrs. Lewis whose article, entitled "What Language Did Christ apeak.1" is one of the most im portant contributions of the ( hristmas Centurv. BSv mi !B3i sSl 1 i: V"J"3s An cce- Vf hat . rny stole- 'has hap- into your scacd?. house onei . Simply day last weeirt Rnis: the cold cad touch: las settled on ryour kidneys. you ngutiy in' 'They are ovcr- pas-anr-. c voa Pcharged with blood though little of the" land inikunec. In- matter at the time, for the enemy was only a vagrant cur- istead of passing the waste matter out of the body they are damming it up in the blood. Every minute, yes, every rent of air. Cut? now you are ocgm-l nmg to learn wnatS mischief the littles heart beat adds to intruder did, for! Stfce poison in ycu. your back isstif f and j painful. Your head J aches, and at times! Normal Action of the kidneys IwiII purify the I blood. Nothing you fed dizzy. else will. 3 the friend in need, it will rettacethe ir.ffam msticn.so that the grip on the tissues ci the bisol-vesstls is relaxed, and the uric aciJ is rest on is way out of the bedy. f"s?-.rr-C"v i ... j.-... .-- kwmmmPM .'li'jii'iiii-g'JL'-'j&'m'Jn Sr52illes' I.irj.. totUs. cr cew style, sciller one at yur jn.iiis "'--- 'r A"H''---' H -"' - wwgnwMUjUMUEH LffiAyiliSaUiU'J 539 rr??9erc-cse?we-ri fim&lk - - flf...vy.-3aif?gw $ &. Chows you did stimulate the and they leave Better send out "ZV-. v dm for booklet and TANDY ? tmMm. f jtk i KlfeigaSelCATHARTIC; niKu&u. Cure Constipation. e&-'-iJi-:"',--i""' Important The oniv genuine "Baker's Chocolate," celebrated for more than a centurv as a de licious, nutritious, and flesh-forming bever-j ?5s. vSi 2 WZ? & age, is put up in Blue Wrappers and Yel low Labels." Oe sure that the Yellow Label and our Trade-Mark are on every 111"! package. S WALTER BAKER 2 --:?-s- T v it i Minimum mi inn nnmi IPttC WAK. ReflMtleaa at m BaelMlar. It's a wise wife that doetrn't try to know her own hesbaad. The smallest and the bigf-Nt tfciar in the world is the heart of a little child. Men would go snoppiBgr oftener with women if they weren't shaeaed so by the way they treat the salesgirls. The tiiieen of Sheba probably aaver overheard one of Solomoa's wives ask him to get up and kindle the fire. The man who envies his bachelor I freedom is all right; it's the maa that docsn t sccu to mind it that needs watching. Girls wouldn't stick the toes of their new shoes out so far in front if they knew how their skirt-tails dragged be hind. New York Press. "Rorna Dawa With InNraatlM.. Ago finds Its surest solace In the bealgnant tonic aid afforded by llostottot's Stomach Bitters which counteracts rheumatic and malarial tendencies, relieves growing Inac tivity of tho kldnoys. and U tho fines" rem edy extant for disorders of the stomach liver and bowels. Nervousness, ton. with which old people are very apt tobeaMIcte. Is promptly relieved by It. Sick Kneaa "Literature. "Tho reading matter of the chronic invalid and the convalescent is a com plicated subject that receives too scant attention. Absolute requirements cer tainly are a freedom from morbidness, something bright and amusiBg, that also demands little thought. It is well too, to decide upon a story that baa plenty of vigorous action not exhaust ing, hairbreadth escapes in one of those healthy works that makes the reader feel as if he had been exercis ing himself. The enjoyment of this book will gently tire him and often superinduce refreshing sleep. Telephone Wires anil Lights". Telephone wires seem to have an influence in preventing lightniaff from striking, according to the ivesti gation of the German Telegraph De partment. Three hundred and forty towns with telephone systems and 50O towns without them were under obser vation. In the former lightning struck three times for every hour of storm; in the latter five times. More, over, the violence of the lightning was much less in the former cases. SZra. AVInloiv Mootblnc jr Forrhllil rntcet!ilnir.often the cums. reduces lnftm. luatlon, allaj join, i-urcs wlml colic. SSctntiabottla. A Slight Distinction. At a recent introduction of an Eng lish bishop to his see somebody noticed a Dublin graduate wearing an Orford hood. Ho pointed it out to the bishop and said that the person stood there with a lie on his back. Well," re plied his lordship, "you can hardly call it a lie, but it is certainly a false hood." FITS !oprfl freen.l porn-anntlyerMl. Xofl: altrr Drat dxr n un of Dr. Kllin-'a (ireat "tervu Itvstorer. Vtte ii trial botrI ciut trrii. scud to 1e. Klimt, LCI Arch St. l'tuUiIelpUia, l". 1'riinluK Potato Vliies. Acting on the notion that as pruning was good for fruit trees it would bene fit potato vines, a citizen of Portland, Ore., clipped oft" the vines in a patch close to the ground, as soon as they wcro well up, and some of the potatoes grown there were, it is said, among the largest and finest found. folesloYsiirHeailii. What docs that mean ? Sup- pose you are taking iu money all day, and drop it into a !' pocket with boles ; you will d find yourself a loser instead of t '' a gainer by the day's business. 2 " ?i. i ii. - ;. r cat aud driuk and sleep, yet lose instead of gain strength. There's a hole in your health. Some blood disease, probably, sapping your vitality. You can't beg" too scon, to take tite great blood puriuui, Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Comfort to California. livery Thursday af teriwon .1 touri-t .sltenlnjj car for I'envt'r. t-.ilt Lake City, tan I'ranclsco, anil Los Angeles Ie:i'- Ornali.i and Unroll I;i tlio IliiHinzton 1'oiite. It Iscainctcd, upholsterer? in ratt.-ui. I. a-. -prin:: seats and bai-Us and 1-. prnvIoVc'. with curtains. l;t-ll i njr. tow els Mi:ip,eti Ani-t'ricin-cl oc"ii-!oh conductor and a uniformed iillmati portrr acccmpcny it tliruiit;li to thu ractiic Coast. While nether .is expen sively llnislu'i! nor a lieto look at a-, a palace sleeiier.lt is just as 31 od to ride in. ce oi:d -las-!i ;r tsarelionnrcd and the price of a berth. Idu enough and li enough for two, I only S Tor a folder rIvIii full particulars write to J. I'ltArkO:". C eu 1 I'asa'r ?cnt, Omaha Neb. RfiPT DMDli? Halne Wn tn tfce prolines IIUOI rUilV 10 l)Ulni-iOT rears. m well ac- Commlatton Mr:- qua'tit-'! with tfir want" of the chant, omahi. tn'.Ie--o3fiuniljrcsno,)tn!- VA"Ti:: the htln-st prlce. Am prompt Butter, less I'onl In mafcln rilurus.aailrc.p-ia- try, :.i:nr. VcjI. f-W.r. lfrrences. Any Laalc KIdrs i:tc. tn the Mate D! A lC?l BUSINESS ANDSH0HTHANDC0UECE DLrmtO Actca.'. Ucsinfss "noi Tim Start Teaches business by doing buMm-os.- Also thorough Instruction in an uranciit by mall. LIfo "scholarship 54. hx nionti course S. Corner Ibtnanucapitoi a vent Omaha, Nebraska. ATENTS, TRADE MAUI P.r j n-.Innt Ion anil.Advi-as t- PatMiUMiitr of I irntion. Lwi for"InTentorV l.uidc or llow toUe RitenL" O'KAUUnLI.&SO.V Ualitnlon. O. U. Or. Kay's Lung Balm for coughs, cold and throat diseal s5- ftanj not 'cake a tablet of Cascaretsl J Candy Cathartic last cvemno;. Cascaretsl prevent sour stomach, tone op the intestines,! liver, leave no chance tor sick head aches in the morning;- You eat them like candy,! your breath sweet and fragrant: for a box right now, IOc, Zoc store, or mailed for price- Write ftee sample. 2 J J ASCRZSa STEMNGnEMEBYCMM CHICAGO; MONTREAL. OAM.; HEW YORK, an iillllllllllllllllll Notice ! & CO. Ltd., Dorciiester, Mass. . 2&L G-sV. V JTi's r- v 33"-. " ,1 ,. - t "5. i d s? n '?t . f! ::1 p m f I - 1 -3 ' ' S. : i a. 05-. W1 if- 4 -. 'J2" !r-' T.$h. 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