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Affliction Which Befell
Fort
Scott Lady.
PORT SCX)TT, KAN.-" I have taken
flood's Sarsaparilla for dyspepsia and
to purify my blood, with excellent results.
I was bo that I could not eat anything
without distress, but since taking a few
bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla my food
docs not distress me, and I have felt better
in every way. I believe it to be the best
of blood medicines and gladly recommend
it to others." Eva Craig.
Hnnrl'e Dillc are tasteless mild, effee-
aawva 0 a tive. All druggists.
Coal .Jllaln: hjr Elertrf rllf.
The apparatus which has been de
viled for coal cutting by electricity is
said to b successfully taking the place
of the usual methods, and, in its now
pcifccteu form is regarded as a val
uable substitute. In its present make
up, the under cut is made by revolv
ing tools, the axes around which they
rcvolvo being either a horizontal line
parallel with the coal cutter bar, or a
horizontal line at right angles with
the coal augers, or a vertical line
chain machine. Generally, tho ma
chine consists of a stationary bed upon
which slides a movable frame bearing
the cutting devices; and tho latter
gradually fed into tho oval, as tho
knives or tools cut the oval away in
front of it The electric motor is at
tached to the movable frame or to the
stationary bed. suitable gearing or
chains transmitting the power to tho
cutters and the feed is automatic.
Tho coal is generally undercut, the
effect of the cutters being, as intended,
to make a groove in the coal the en
tire longth of tho Dar. Tlio notor
used on this coal cutter is capable of
giving fifteen horse power when per
forming the work for which it is es
pecially adapted in this line. It runs
entirely without spurking and has all
it vital parts protested in the most
thorough manner. Now York Sun.
Danger Ahead.
At tViIs time of year the stomach nnl en
tire digestive Kyt-tsm is deranged causing
imligestion, weakness, drowine.ss and gen
eiul ni'livi;sitin. Ihm't oi to Uep while
there is lttujrr .iirvjij. Your system needs
renovating to prevent fevers and other
dangerous diseases. Take Dr. Kay's Iten
o. v. or in time and ive wim. ouakaxtee
you will not have fever. It strikes to the
root of tho :nattr ami removes tho cause.
It regulates the stomach, bowels ami liver
so gently and pleasantly ami yet cures a
larger per cent of caws than any rcnied
ex cr discolored. It cures tua worst case
of indigestion, constipation and chronic
diseases. It is pleasant and easy to take,
l'ru't. by mail, postage prepaid, STicts. and
$1. If your druggist doe not have it don't
taVe some inferior articlo which ho savs
is "just a-, good," but send to us for tuo
medicine or "Dr. Kay's HomeTreatment,"'
. valuable fivpngo free book with ,"0
recipe-. Aililress Dr. n. J. Kay Medical
Co., Omaha. Neb.
Revived I'salm of Lire.
At 20, when a man is young, he
thinks he knows it all; he likes to wag
his active tongue and exercise his gall;
he struts around In noble rage; the
world Is all his own; he laughs to scorn
tLc world of age and lists to self alone.
He wears a window in his eye to see his
whiskers grow; he thinks the ladies pine
and die because they love him so. At
40, as you may suppose, he's knuckled
down to biz; 'tis not till CO that ho
knows how big a chump he Is.
To Colorado Spring" and I'aeblo.
IlnrlliiRton ICoute tia Drnter.
A through Sleeping car ti Colorado
Springs and I'ueblo via Denver is iittacliml
to ISurliiictoit Koiite dailv train leaving
Chicago 10:::0 p. in. Office, 211 Clark St.
rrlntins Known to Ancient Rome.
Adrian Diaconu, the Roumanian
architect and archaeologist, claims to
have discovered in the ruins of the an
cient Roman camp at Bersovia, near
Temesvar, incontrovertible proofs that
the Romans, and especially the officers
of the Fourth legion (Flavia felix), were
acquainted with the art of printing
that is to say. with the use of movable
types in the second century after
Christ. The professors of the Academy
of Bucharest confirm this assertion of
Diaconu.
Hall's Catarrh Core
Is taken internally. Price, 7Tc,
Tiik Yw.i.ow Km Ma:azixk is a new
publication in New York, by Howard.
Anslee .v Co.. -'."IS William street. It is
published fortnightly at Si a year, or
sold at live cents a copy, the onlv niar-
a.ine in tins couutrv of it.s scope and
originality at such' a low ori.J Tl...
Yellow Kid is profusely illustrated aud
is original and entertaining through
out. It promises to become a highlv
pojiular publication and to rapidly ac
quire an immense circulation. A sam
ple copy will start the laugh all along
the line and bid defiance to the blues.
. t Coe'a Cough Balaam
Is the oldest an. tK-t. It ill l.iiak up a cold quicker
tlinnj thins !. It isaUajs reliable. Try it.
Voluminous and Intricate.
"Ah. ha.!" said the old college man, as
he picked up a sheet of paper and ex
amined it closely, "it's been a j-ear since
I saw a table of logarithms."
"That isn't a table of logarithms."
said his friend, snatching the paper
away. "That's the score of this morn
ing's cricket match."
rARRELL'K REB WAR EXTRACT If
rho best; all crocers will refund youi money If
job are not tatUfled with It.
Talked Religion to a Sleepy Hoahaml.
A South Dakota doctor got a divorce
a few days ago at Yankton, because
when his wife became a member of the
church she proceeded to make life a
burden to the doctor by trj'ing to con
vert him. It was related by him that
she would wake him up in the middle
of the night to deliver sermons to him.
To Care Constipation Forever.
TOteCaacareta Candy Cathartic. 10c or ma.
If C C- C fall to cure, druxcists refund atoner.
A Buffalo Horror.
By the upsetting of a steam yacht in
the harbor at Buffalo, N. Y., nine peo
ple were drowned, all but two of whom
tere business men of the city. The
craft keeled over while turning around.
How Old
You need not answer the question, madam,
for in your case age is not counted by years. It
-will always be true that "a woman is as old
as she looks." Nothing sets the seal of ago
so deeply upon woman's beauty as gray hair.
It is natural, therefore, that every woman is
anxious to preserve her hair in all its original
abundance and beauty; or, that being denied
the crowning gift of beautiful hair, she longs
to possess it. Nothing is easier than to attain
to this gift or to preserve it, if already
possessed. Ayer's Hair Vigor restores gray
or faded hair to its original color. It dees this
by simply aiding nature, by supplying the
nutrition necessary to health and growth.
There is no better preparation for tho hair
than
AYER'S HAIR VIGOR.
OnI Beads tsi kftchtjaa.
The question of good roads is rewir
ing much attention in southwestern
Michigan thin season, and in many
places more road worlc is being dons
than before in many years. In the fruit
belt the growers aro awakening to the
fact that it is much money in their
pocket to be able to deliver their prod
ucts in good condition at the shipping
stations, while farmers in general are
taking much more interest in the man
ner in which the road taxes are ex
pended. Berrien Springs residents
have found the improvement of the
highways to the lake shore a profitable
investment. The original intention was
to attract more trade to the village
from the neighboring farmers, but it
has also resulted in making a favorite
route for parties of Chicago wheelmen,
who ride up from Benton Harbor and
give the village an appearance of life,
which has been largely absent sinca
the removal of the county seat Ex.
In Memory or Ills Wire.
They have queer stone-cutters down
In Maine. Deacon Hackett lost his sec
ond wife lately, a scrawny and shrewish
woman, whose loss was not an unmixed
sorrow, says Harper's Bazar. Stiil, the
deacon dutifully decided to give her a
monument. Being rather "near," he
haggled with the village stone-cutter
as to the size of the slab, and finally
chose a very narrow one at a bargain.
The inscription was to be as follows:
" 'Lord, she was thine!" "
" Lord, she was thine!' "
But the stone was so narrow that
there was no room for the last letter,
so the stone-cutter left it out, with this
result:
, "SARAH HACKETT.
'Lord, she was thin!' "
Marrying on S.IO a Month.
Yesterday a young man asked me If
It Wvouid be safe for him to marry on
5500 and a ralary of $59 per month. I
told him I could tell better when I saw
the girl. There are girls who have
grown up in case and who have kicked
great black and blue welts in the lap
of luxury, yet who are more ready and
willing to accept a little rough weather
than the poor girl who has stood for
eighteen years looking out through the
soiled window of life waiting for the
rain to rinse it off and let the sunlight
through that she might see her ap
proaching lord. Bill Nye.
Try !rln-0.
Ask your proper today to show you
a package of GRAIN-O, the new food
drink that takes the place of coffee.
The children may drink It without
injury as well as the adult. All who
try it like it. GRAIN-0 has that rich
seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is
made from pure grains, and the most
delicate stomach receives it without
distress. i the price of coffee.
15 cents and 25 cents per package.
Sold by all grocers. Tastes like cof
fee. Looks like coffee.
Astor'rt Storage Ilattery Yacht.
Col. John Jacob Astor has been mors
active than any amateur in the coun
try la his devotion to electric propul
sion on the water, having experimented
with every known variety of storage
battery and engine. His last attempt
in this direction is in quite a large
launch, forty-seven feet long and fur
nished with twin screws driven by
thirty horse power engines actuated by
storage cells. The boat is beautiful in
construction, can make ten miles an
hotir, and has the electric quality or
noiselessncss. Indeed so quietly does
she glide about the smooth Hudson that
very possibly from hr deck one could
pick up a sleeping gull on tne water.
Shake) Into Tnnr Khoc.
Allen's Foot-LIase. a powder for the
feet It cures painful, swollen, smart
ing feet and instantly takes the sting
out of corns aud bunions. It is the
greatest comfort discovery of the age.
Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting
or new shoes feel easy. It is a eertair.
cure for sweating, callous and hot,
tired, aching feet Try it to-day. Sold
by all druggists and shoe stores. By
mail for 2.".c in stamps. Trial package
FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted. La
Boy. N. Y.
Commerce Ocitroycr.
The Columbia and the Minneapolis
were the forerunners of the great Brit
ish cruisers. Powerful and Terrible,
and now the French have a pair in con
templation that are designed, it is said.
for 23 knots with natural draueht.
1; . ,. ,
Their displacement
is S.jOO tons, or
more than the Columbia's, but much
less than the Powerful's. As the liners
and other merchantmen increase their
speed, that of the so-called "commerce
destroyers" needs to be augmented. It
is worth noting that the new French
vessels arc to be driven with three
screws, like the Dupuy tie Lome, the
Augusta Victoria, and our own craclt
Cruisers.
Ho-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, make weak
awa strong. Wood pure. 60c. 11. All drugcista.
lie Hunted Sick Cows.
'A sharper has been going about
Greenville, Mich., claiming to be a
State Board of Health detective, look
ing for sick cows. If he found a cow
sick he would say to the owner that the
latter was liable to a heavy fine, but if
he (the farmer) would give him $5 and
kill the cow he would say nothing.
From the number of cows reported
killed in that vicinity the sharper must
have lined his pockets before hs
skipped.
Mrs. Wlnilw Aootnlng- Hjrap
For children tcethir.K.soften the jrum.ri,1i!rrinn'aii
mation, allaj spam. cures nind colic. :5rentsabottI
A Mutual Service
He I am very unfortunate; it seems
I can please nobody.
She Come. cheer"up; I have no one
to admire me, either.
He Tell you what let's found a so
ciety for mutual admiration; I, for in
stance, admire your beautiful eyes; and
what do you admire in me?
She Your good taste. Brooklyn
Life.
are You?
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
flow Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm A Few
Hint ms to the Care of Live Stock
and 1'oaltry.
cs IS
N visiting stores in
the commission dis
tricts in various
cities, we have
learned some facts
that may be of in
terest to our cream
c r y buttermakers
and managers of
creameries who
have charge of the
fg-" . : JSliI
shippings, says El
gin Dairy Report. There is no question
but the appearance of packages
help to sell them. Possibly it may
not help to get better prices, but it
helps to find a customer. The lot of
tubs that are bright, clean and look as
if they had come from a clean, tidy
buttermaker, will attract the atten
tion of the transient buyer who is not
even avenro nf tho ctoncil number 07
the quality of the goods, much quicker
than the slovenly, dirty, wet looking
package. So it pays to see to it that
the packages when they leave the
factory are in first-class condition, as
.far as cooperage is concerned. There
are some little details in connection
with the putting up of the pack
ages and marking of them that
might be worth considering. The
method of placing the stencil on the
tub sometimes has much to do with
the apeparance of the package. I have
seen packages where the stencil had
apparently grown from the small com
pact one to one covering the whole
top of the tub, being put on with
water or bad material, and in moving
about the abrasion of one -ib against
the other had almost entirely obliter
ated the stencil and it was spread all
over the whole of the cover. A little
turpentine and lamp black, which are
not expensive, will make a clean cut
stencil that will stay where you put it;
and the receiver will know when he
receives the package just what he is
getting. Tins should be securely ias
tened both on the cover and the tub,
and enough of them so that the covsr
will be held in place properly. In
soaking the tubs the buttermaker
will be careful to get no water on the
outside if possible; it does not improve
the appearance of the package to have
it show up watersoaked on the outside.
Another thing about which a cream
eryman cannot be too careful is to see
that his packages are made of good
timber. We have seen tubs in the
butter cellars probably composed of
one-half good timber and the other
half poor, and the staves of the soft
wood soaked with the brine, which
gave the tubs an untidy and slovenly
appearance. Attention to some of
these little details will be found a pro
fitable investment to the creameryman
in the quicker and better returns he
will get for his goods.
The Anti-Color (llutterine) Law.
We notice that the Chicago daily
papers, almost without exception, are
making comments entirely unfriendly
to the new oleomargarine law passed
by the legislature of Illinois. The
papers not only criticse it severely, but
trump up charges that have no truth
in them. In the first place they claim
that the law is entirely in the interests
of the farmers, which is not so. The
consumer in the city is benefitted to a
very great extent by the law that
compels oleomargarine to be sold for
what it is. The consumer is now com
pelled to pay butter prices for a con
coction of different kinds of grease.
Any one of those ingredients sell on
the market and at retail for much less
than 10 cents per pound. In fact the
cost of a pound of oleo ready for eat
ing is only about 4 cents plus 2 cents
revenue, making 6 cents altogether.
Now ten cents is a good price for such
a compound, and now that it will have
to be sold for what it is, fancy prices
for butterine will no longer prevail.
The city laborer that wants to eat but
terine can get it in its pure state and
for a low price. If he objects to hav
ing it white he can for a few cents
buy enough butter color to tint a great
many pounds of the stuff to suit him
self. But we know that the "dear"
laborer is not interested. He has to
pay butter prices now for oleo and
would generally prefer the butter, for
he thinks he is buying butter. The
willing eater of oleo would rather pay
10 cents a pound for white butterine
than 20 cents a pound for yellow but
terine. The poor people in the large
cities eat it for economy's sake, and
10 cents per pound extra is rather high
to pay for butter coloring matter in
butterine.
Then, the papers say that the law
ruins a great industry and throws
many men out of employment. Let us
see. Oleo costs 4 cents per pound to
manufacture, that including labor and
materials. But materials only repre
sent the labor of other men, so that
really the whole cost represents labor
in some forvi. Butter costs the farmer
all the way from 4 cents per pound
(under the very best of conditions and
with the most profitable of cows) to
39 cents under tinfavorable circum
stances. Some butter costs much more
than that. It is safe to assume that
average butter costs at least 12 cents
per pound, which means that 12 cents
worth of labor is employed in making
butter. It will therefore be seen that
it takes three times as many laborers
to make a-raillion pounds of butter as
it does to make a like amount of but
terine. Therefore if a good many men
are thrown out of employment by the
closing of butterine factories it will
give employment to three times as
many men, on farms and in creameries.
But what becomes of the money saved
in the manufacture of butterine over
butter? Do the wealthy manufactur
ers distribute it among their workmen
in some form or other? Not at all.
The saving in cost of manufacture goes
to help swell the fortunes that are be
coming a menace to the country.
Another point they attempt to make
is that the farmers that now supply
fat from beef, pork or cotton seed will
lose a market for that much of their
product. This is great reasoning
Every cent's worth of the stuff they
sell stops tne saie or ten cents worth
of butter by the farmers. Even if the
same men that are furnishing the fats
do not furnish butter yet they are hurt
indirectly by the sales they make to
the oleo manufacturers. By killing of
the sale of millions of pounds of butter
they force dairymen to abandon dairy
ing and go into stock raising or cotton
growing, aud thus raise up additional
competitors to themselves and help
force down their own market.
There are other things that might
! e said in favor of the law and against
.lowing men to get rich by perpetrat
:nt; fiaud on the peopie. but we reserve
iiem to another time. Every farmer
-houhl use his full influence to
-tiengthen these laws, and to enart
:pin in states that now have no ant,
olor laws.
P- lisfif Hi
1 Debernlax Calvea.
W. C. Roc'kwood, writing in Hoard's
Dairyman of the use of caustic potash
and other remedies to destroy the horn
growth in young calves, says: "I have
seen its effects and also the effects of
some of the fluid horn preventatives
which are sold for the purpos?. The
destroying agent In every case is caus
tic, burning and painful. And I have
known terrible suffering to result
from the use of it. One of my neigh
bors bought a young calf at somedis
tance from home, and before putting
It into the crate in his wagon, the man
he bought it of offered to doctor the
horn buttons. This was accepted and
the stuff applied then and there. I
have the word of an eye witness that
the sufferings of that little thing were
terrible. It would dash itself against
the side of the crate and its head
would be drawn upon its neck by con
vulsions, and it would have been a
mercy had death released it from the
torture. The next day it seemed to
be better and I believe came out of it
all right, but my neighbor says he
would never allow such a thing
again."
The Farmer's Review believes that
the above result was caused by wrong
application of the potash. Great care
must be exercised that the potash is
put on the button and that none of it
be allowed to run down onto the fi-ish.
If there be too much moisture the pot
ash will be carried gradually down on
to the flesh.
Standard Varieties of Chickens.
The shank feathering should corre
spond with the breast, being black if
the latter be black, and slightly mot
tled with white if not. The shanks are
deep yellow, inclining to orange. The
color of females is a white ground,
closely penciled with dark steel gray,
producing a beautiful effect, frosted or
silver gray In appearance. There
should be no show of pure white in the
plumage except in the margins of the
hackles. Unless extreme care be taken
in mating, the hens are likely to have
a dingy color, and the pullets are apt
to have necks almost white for some
distance down. These light-necked
birds generally breed to worse, but the
evil may be remedied by choosing birds
for breeding whose heads are distinctly
marked. The shape and character of
the markings of the Dark Brahma pul
lets also varies. They should be medium-sized,
sc that the pencilings can
be clearly discerned at a short distance.
A great point in regard to color and
marking in Brahma pullets is that it
should be uniform over the body, and
the hackles should be silvery white,
heavily striped with rich black, and
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BUFF COCHIN COCK. SHOWING
FULL FEATHERING.
the shank feathering penciled same as
body. For practical purposes the Dark
Brahma is not to be commended as
highly as the light. The close breeding
for points in feathers is likely to in
terfere with their productiveness, yet
with proper attention and care they can
be bred profitably as well as for beau
ty. The standard weight of Light
Brahma cocks is 12 pcunds; hens, 9
pounds; cockerels. 10 pounds; and pul
lets, S pounds. The standard weight of
Dark Brahma cocks is 11 pounds; l.cn-.,
Si-i pounds; cockerels, 9 pound"' and
pullets, 7 pounds.
A Steam Shearing M:ic!ilp.
Machines for doing all kinds of work
successfully are being manufactured,
but it has been said that none could be
made that would shear a sheep or milk
a cow. The following item from a Col
orado exchange settles the first ques
tion: "The sheep-shearing machine is
no doubt a success at last, and Colo
rado is behind the times in not having
them at work. At Casper, Wyoming,
100,000 sheep of the 350,000 to be shorn
will be clipped by machines. At Raw
lins, 350.000, Green River, 100,000, at
Evanston, 250,000, and at Soda Springs,
Iowa, half of 250,000 will go through
the machine the others by hand."
That the one of milking cows by ma
chinery is very nearly an accomplished
fact there is no doubt, and soon the
large farmer will be able to manage
his flock and herd with fewer hired
men.
Washing the Cans. If your washed
milk cans amell when closed a few
hours they are not clean enough for
milk. New cans, pails and strainers
should be carefully examined for ir
regular creases in the soldering; a
little more solder will fill these places
and make the can perfectly sweet in
side. In cleansing cans where no boil
er exists for steaming them, wash first
in cold water, then in hot water and
sal soda. Finally, half fill them with
clean, scalding water, put on the cov
ers tightly for a few moments, they
will steam themselves completely. By
using the hot water that steams our
can for the sal soda water for the next
one, a limited amount of hot water
will thoroughly purify a goodly num
ber of cans. Ex.
A Great Work Begun. It is safe to
say that a great work is at the present
time being done in the selection and
breeding of dairy animals. We are not
able at this time to see the full bene
fits that will accrue from this work
for a few years do not bring it into
relief. But a century from now the re
sults will appear in their full glorv.
Similar work a generation or two ago
gave the standard English breeds of
cattle. What will be the result when
this selection is carried on with ten
fold the effort and accuracy? Besides
we may expect that as the years go bv
more aud more men will take up this
line of work.
Turpentine For Roup. Spirits of
turpentine has been used as a remedy
for roup with excellent results, it is
given iu half teaspoonful doses, once
a day. mixed with sweet oil or cotton
seed oil, in the proportion of one part
turpentine to two of the latter, it is
also excellent when used as an oint
ment for swelled heads or eyes, and
is one of the best remedies for gapes
a few drops oaly being necessary for
chicks. It will also prevent lice if free
ly used on the roosts and over the floor
and walls of the poultry house. Ex.
A novalty in the belt line Is made of
bright-colored plaid ribbon of a heavy
weave, and is fastened wit Si a plaid en
amel buckle, which matches perfectly.
PAEM AND GAEDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST
AGRICULTURISTS.
TO
Some Up-to-Date Hlata Abont Cultiva
tion of the Soil and Yields Thereof
Hortlcaltnre, Viticulture and Florl
caltare. N selecting
cation for
farming, or
a Io
trtick com-
mercial fruit grow
ing, the character
of the soil should
be carefully consid
ered; for, next to
suitable transpor
tation facilities, it
is a question of the
greatest import-
anw. The kind of soil to be se
lected will naturally depend on
the crop to be grown. For the
home garden almost any of the soils of
the state can be made to answer a very
good purpose. An essential require
ment for both fruits and vegetables is
good drainage, either natural or arti
ficial. This is especially necessary
where earliness is a question of im
portance, for wet sodden soils are al
ways cold and backward in the spring.
Soils with a certain amount of sand are
easier to cultivate, and will be more
suitable for most vegetables than heavy
clay soils. They can be planted ear
lier in the spring and will mature crops
earlier. Most fruits, on the other hand,
will, in this latitude, thrive better and
be freer from disease on rather stiff
clay land than on very sandy soils. Per
haps the most notable exception to this
statement is the case of the Oriental
pears (Le Conte. Keiffer, etc.), which
seem especially adapted to the moist
sandy soils of the coast region. The
ideal truck soil is a moist but not wet,
black sandy loam, containing abundant
vegetable matter; and preferably rest
ing on a not too impervious red clay
subsoil. It should be nearly level, or
with a gentle southern exposure. Of
course the greater the natural fertility
the better, but after all this is not a
vital question, for there are no soils so
rich that they will stand continuous
trucking without frequent and heavy
applications of fertilizing material. The
mechanical condition, and moisture
holding capacity of the soil is really of
greater importance to the truck farm
er, than its chemical composition; and
these must be maintained by continu
ally adding to its supply of vegetable
matter, either by applications of sta
ble manure, or by plowing under green
crops. Only comparatively level lands
should be planted to truck crops. On
steep broken hillsides too much fertil
ity is lost by washing and there is too
much extra labor in cultivation. All
stumps, rocks or other obstructions
should be carefully removed in order
to admit the use of modern cultivating
machinery. Very broken hillsides are
sometimes utilized by planting them to
fruit trees and especially to grape
vines. Fine fruit can be grown in such
locations, and in some cases it may be
the best way of using such lands. It
is, however, usually unwise to plant
commercial orchards on land so rolling
as to prevent rowing the trees and cul
tivating both ways, on account of the
added labor in cultivating and harvest
ing where the rows have to circle the
hillsides. Only high lying lands should
be selected for orchards, especially of
the stone fruits, not only on account of
the better drainage, but because of the
greater freedom from spring frost, and
a less liability tojoss from rot. High
land fruit is finer colored and more at
tractive than that grown on low lands.
A flat-topped hill with the land slop
ing away in all directions is an ideal
location for an orchard, especially if
there Is a good red clay subsoil. The
character of the top soil is not so im
portant It may be a little sandy, in
which case the fruit will be a few days
earlier; but a stiff red clay throughout,
with only a small amount of vegetable
matter, will give fruit of the highest
flavor, best color and best shipping
quality. As stated before these re
marks do not apply to the Oriental
pears and only partially to apples.
Parts of the mountain country of North
Alabama are admirably adapted to ap
ples, but in the central and southern
parts of the state they are a little out
of their latitude, and the trees are like
ly to be short lived in dry and exposed
locations. They will be longer lived
and more fruitful in lower and moistcr
lands, though in such locations the
fruit is always duller in color and more
liable to rot. F. S. Earle, Ala. Exp.
Station.
The Sugar Beet Onetttlon.
Just now I see a great deal said about
the sugar btet, and as usual 1 have my
weather eye open to see what there is
in this talk about making our own su
gar, and thus saving a round hundred
million dollars a year, now spent by
our people abroad for the sweets of
the. table, writes Jacob Biggie in Farm
Journal. The new secretary of agricul
ture has taken up the beet sugar ques
tion with much zeal, having already
sent out nianv thousands of packages
of beet seed for trial with full direc
tions how to grow the roots. The news
papers arc booming the scheme and
urging the importance of no longer de
pending upon foreign sugar, and we
are likely to have quite a craze over
the matter within the next year or
two. The idea is a good one, to be
Bure; we ought and can produce our
own sugar, and in time will do so.
But It will be best to move cautiously
in that direction. So far as I am able
to learn, much the larger part of our
territory is totally unfitted to the prof
itable production of the sugar beet.
Probably in no place east of the Mis
sissippi river south of the latitude of
Chicago, can our farmers ever expect
to make the cultivation of the sugar
beet a profitable experiment. There
are, it is true, restricted localities in
this section (west of Pennsylvania and
east of the Mississippi), fairly well
adapted to the business, but I shall ex
pect never to see a successful sugar
making plant getting its supply of beets
at heme, anywhere in this territory.
Therefore, I would advise our excellent
Secretary of Agriculture to go slow in
pushing this scheme here, and caution
our rarmers not to waste much time
and labor over the project. A few
years ago a sugar-making scheme was
launched in northern Delaware, and
a large factorv was built near Wilming
ton, by leading capitalists of that city.
It was very promising, but it was a
dead failure. A gentleman thoroughly
conversant with the enterprise in all
its details, informs me that they had a
splendid factory, fully equipped for
making raw sugar, but they could not
net the Lee's. The climate and soil of
Nov. Jeroiy. Delaware and eastern
ivrrsylvania. lie says, arc not adapted
to the rrov.-tl- of sugar beets. "The
leets will sro-.v ami grow big but the i
-;rr s, es out of them too quickly. ,
cr u vfv reives into them in sufficient .
ntitj " p'V- The farmers did not
c !.i::i!:y to the experiment, and we
-j err.'-.- fur own beets."
,-r r0- 's lorlj'ng forward to a
laijC blackberry crop.
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Wide Tires m Benefit to Roads.
Elaborate tests of the draft of wide
and narrow tired wagons have just
been completed by the Missouri Agri
cultural college experiment station, Co
lumbia, extending over a period of a
year and a half. These tests have
been made on macadam, gravel and
dirt roads in all conditions, and also
on the meadows and plowed fields of
the experimental farm. Contrary to
public expectation, in nearly all cases
draft was materially lighter when tires
sir inches wide were used, than with
tires of standard width. The load
hauled was In all cases the same, and
the draft was most carefully deter
mined by means of a self-recording
dynamometer. The beneficial effect of
the wide tire on dirt roads Is striking
ly shown in some recent tests at the
station, the Columbia Herald says. A
clay road, badly cut into ruts by the
narrow tires, was selected for the test,
as presenting conditions least favor
able to the broad tire. A number of
tests of the draft of the nairow tire
were made in these open ruts, and im
mediately followed by the broad tires
running in the same ruts. The first
run of the broad tire over the narrow
tire ruts was accompanied by an In
creased draft; the second by a draft
materially less than the original nar
row tire, third by a still greater de
cline and in the fourth trip the rut was
piactically obliterated and filled. In
another trial, when a clay road was
so badly cut into ruts as to be almost
impassable for light vehicles and pleas
ure carriages, after running the six
inch tires over this road twelve times
the ruts were completely fil'.cd, and a
fiist-class bicycle path was made.
Had Drainage and Had Batter.
New York Produce Review says:
"Not so very long ago," said a western
representative of one of our leading
commission houses, "I visited a cream
ery that had been having a great deal
of trouble with their butter; they ap
peared to be unable to remedy the evil,
which was in the flavor of their goods,
and they were very much discouraged.
While I was there I endeavored to as
certain just how they made their but
ter, and also tried to find out if there
were any foul odors about the cream
ery. After getting into the buggy I
asked the driver if he had watered his
horse; he said he had tried to but the
horse would not drink the water; he
hiuself had tried to drink some, but it
was so foul he was unable to do so.
We had gone only a few rods when we
met the creameryman, and while he
was standing talking to us he noticed
some skimmilk coming up out of the
ground not far from where he was
standing. He called our attention to
it, and said his drain must be stopped
up. I became interested immediately,
and suggested to him that possibly im
proper drainage was the cause of his
poor butter. Upon further investiga
tion we found that the water, skim
milk, etc., in the choked up drain had
worked its way back into the well and
polluted the water, and the water in
turn had polluted the butter. He im
mediately set to to clean the drain and
well, and since then has had no trouble
with the flavor of his butter."
Care in Fertillzlna; Orchards.
It is hard to get the soil too rich, or
too full of vegetable matter for the
best production of vegetables. With
fruits the case is different. To secure
the best results on thin land orchards
must be fertilized, but it must be done
with care and judgment. Excessive
applications of stable manure, or oth
er nitrogenous fertilizer, should always
bo avoided, especially after trees reach
bearing age. Such applications induce
a rank, sappy growth that makes pear
trees much more liable to blight, and
will surely cause destructive rotting of
the stone fruits. With apples there is
less danger, and they may safely be
fertilized quite heavily. Excessive
wood growth is, however, never desir
able in a bearing orchard of any kind.
The trees should be carefully watched,
and be given such treatment as will
give a crop of well developed fruit;
and. at the same time, a moderate
growth of well matured wood. Tiio
leaves should always be of a dark rich
green, for pinched yellow foliage in
dicates starvation.
Corn Sold in Cattle.
Last summer an Otoe county farmer
held an invoice of his situation and
found that all he had with which to
provido winter supplies, clothing
food, etc., for his large family, and to
show for his summer's work was 4,000
bushels of corn, says Nebraska Farmer.
Ten to twelve cents per bushel would
not do for him, nor let him out. He
went up to the South Omaha stock
yards and presented his case so plain
ly that he was permitted to drive to
his home 101 head of steers. These he
cared for until the last of January
when his 4,000 bushels of corn was
gone. The steers looking fat and
sleek were shipped to Chicago and a
good price paid for them. After pay
ing first cost at Omaha, interest, and
all other expenses, this man found that
he had nealized on his 4.000 bushels of
corn 52 1-8 cents net per bushel, be
sides having on hand a carload of fat
hogs and a lot of the richest kind of
fertilizers to distribute over his farm.
Grass Seeding. In seeding land to
grass it would be much better if great
er variety of plants were grown. Some
kinds succeed better than others under
special conditions of soil, so that the
greater variety sown, the better the
land is likely to be covered, and the
larger the quantity of feed produced.
But the advantage of much greater pal
atableness of pasture or hay which con
tains a variety of grasses i3 even more
important. As an aid to make all hay
more eagerly eaten, some sweet-scented
vernal grass seed ought always to
be sown. It will be eaten close to the
soil by every kind of stock, and when
left for hay the aroma from it will pen
etrate the whole mass and increase its
feeding value. Ex.
Mineral Manures on Clover. There
is no use of mineral manures that in
the long run pays so well as to make
them grow clover. Both potash and
phosphate of lime are required for the
clover plant Though it has the power
I to take each of these from land where
they are too deficient for grain crops,
I yet the clover is quite as much as the
' grain benefited by having these min
! erals offered in available form. We
never failed to get a good clover catch
when seed was sown with grain that
had been phosphatcd. By the use of
the clover a double benefit was secured
' from the mineral fertilizer, as the clo
ver itself supplies nitrogen by dissolv-
' ins the air confined in the soil. Ex.
Reducing the Flock. During the
month of May is the time to get rid
of the extra fowls that arc unprofitable.
If you are satisfied that it is too late
to allow more hens to sit, get rid of
the males and save expenses, as thev
are not necessary except to fertilize the
eggs and the hens will lay as many
eggs without the presence of the males.
Also pet rid of the extra fat hens. n.
they will ret pay for the food they con
sume. Ex.
Km m Bla; Johnny Cake.
At an Oakland. III., barbecue recent
ly twenty sheep, ten hogs, two ftn
steers. 700 laaves of bread and the us
ual fried chickens, pickles, fried cakes
and other "fisins" were provided for the
50.000 people present. One of the old
timers there said that the johnny cake
reminded him of one that was baked
at a barbecue in Hamilton. Ohio, dur
ing the presidential campaign of 1SI0.
This cake, he said, was 26 feet long and
two feet wide. It was cut in twenty
six pieces, one for each of the twenty
six states, and required four mrn :o
turn it. A johnny cake :wice as big as
that would hi. ro.",uire.I to supply tha
union now.
Visitor (n I.lnroln 1'arU In Chicago
Will t-e delighte.l with the t-ouvenir XhmA
of this beautiful spot 1.0. v laiiigdistr l:itcd
by tho Chiiago. Milwaukee "fc St. Paul
Railway Conipnny. It i a m:igiiilceiit
puli'.icnt'on of iH" paca full to overflowing
with dePoiotis linU tore- pictures of one of
Creation's mot eharaiine pHccs of report
for itizen o? tlio Great Hojniblie.
Xo stranger viit.'ns Chicago should ba
without n cepvof the "Souvenir of Lincoln
Park.'' It can onlv bo procure I by enclos
ing twenty-five .'2.") cents, in coin'or post
age stamp?, to (Sea. II IliMlTord. gt?ner:il
pnssenscr agent. 410 Old t'oljuv HutMing,
Chicago. II '
lie Wanted lo Knoir.
"Aro you tho proprietor of this
restaurant. "' said the m-i. who had
waited for his order until ho became
slcopy.
Yes. sir. What ean 1 do for you?"
"You can give mo some informa
tion. I want to ku.v.v whether you
have told the waite- to .-tay away sn
that you can bring in a bill for lodg
ing against me,"
Kdnrationa .
Attention of the reader is called to
the announcement of Notre Dame uni
versity in another column of this paper.
This noted institution of learning en
ters upon its fifty-fourth year with the
next session, commencing Sept. 7, 1SD7.
Parents anil guardians contemplating
sending their boys and young men
away from home to school would do
well to write for particulars to the Uni
versity of Notre Dame. Indiana, before
making arrangements for their educa
tion elsewhere. Nowhere in this broad
land arc there to be found better facil
ities for cultivating the mind and heart
thr.n are offered at Notre Dame Uni
versity. Life Insurance In Kansas.
Not one life insurance company Is
now doing business in Kansas. The
statutory conditions are so onerous that
all have withdrawn. The State Bank
ing Life association, of Des Moines.
Iowa, was the last and only one in the
field, and it has just permitted its li
cense to lapse rather than file a $50,000
bond and make a deposit with the state
treasurer of 10 per cent of all assess
ments. Real Warm Weather, Rest and Coaafor.
There is a powder to be shaken into tho
shoes called Allen's Foot-Ease, invented by
Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., which
drttgKfcts and shoo dealers say is the best
thing they have ever sold to euro swollen,
burning, soro and tender or aching feet.
Some dealers claim that it makes tight or
new shoes feel easy. It certainly will cure
corns and bunions and relieve instantly
sweating, hot or sn:arting feet. It costs
only a quarter, and the inventor will send
a sample free to any address.
Worth a Contest.
Caller I wish to contest my uncle's
will.
Lawjcr Is the estate worth it?
Caller He left $100,000.
Lawyer Let me see. That's $50,000
for me, and $50,000 for the lawyer on
the other side. Yes, it's worth it.
Deal Tskaccs Spi: and bmoke Your Life Aaay.
To quit tol:icco e:islly anil forever, be mag
netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, takcNo-To-Ilac.
-the wonilcr-wor'cer. that makes weak
men strong. All ilrujrslsts, r0c or ft. Cure
guaranteed. ItonMet and sample free. Address
Sterling Kenedy ". 'hle:ip or New York.
Women desire sympathy, men prefer
help.
Our Agents
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Photography Is en of tne fmTerlt
amusements of the royal family. Qnea
Victoria has a fad for photographs aid
possesses a large collection of photo
graphs of eminent personages. Some
of them date back to the time when
Daguerre flrst made his discovery, and
many of the ancient pictures are m
indistinct as to look almost like sadly
developed spirit photographs. All et
the varied gradations in such pictures
are exhibited, down to the very latest
improvements. The Queen is very fond
of looking at her collection. Godey's
Magazine.
CoSIa on a Trolley Car.
An unusual sight was witnesed on
a Brooklyn trolley car heading toward
a cemetery. An employe of a well
known undertaker was seen carrying
the body of a baby In a coffin, which
was wrapped in a blanket, on the car.
There was considerable excitemeat
among the pasengers for a while, but
no attempt on the part of the conductor
was made to collect an additional fare.
This is the cheapest funeral on record.
Enterprises of Great Pith and Moment
Hare, ore now. hart their current "turned
awry." as Hamlet says, hy an att.iok of dys
lepla. Napoleon failed to Improve his ad
vantage at AuMerlUz In consequence. It Is
said, of InillRestlon brought on by some In
discretion In eating. In order to avoid dys
pepsia altstaln from over-indulgence, and
precede the meal with a wineglas-tful of Hos
teller's Stomach Bute's, more effective than
ai-y dietetic In Improving the tone of tha
stonv.ch. Liver complaint, chills and fever,
and rheumatism aro annihilated by the lilt
tew. m 17-Tear-Old Wire Wants Divorce.
Lillie Snauder. aged 17, is suing for
a divorce from John A. Snauder. aged
16. Both live at Louisville. Ky. They
ran away and married in August. 1394.
Now Lillie says John ill-treats her.
Dr. Kay's renovator is certain to clean? 1
ind invigorate the whole system. Trial
size, 25c. See advt.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak
minds and the holiday of fools.
For Lung and chest disease. Fiso's Cur
is the test medicine we have used. Mrs. J.
I.. Northeott, Windsor, Ont., Canada.
Some of the feasts of Lueullus cost as
much as SG.ono.
KdacataToar Bawele WHk Ca
Candy Cathartic, cure coastlpatloa forever.
tOo. If C C- C. fall, drussiata refund aaoaey.
Thomas Cosgate introduced the fork
into England about ltWO.
The Bicycle
Sensation
1897 COLUMIAS AT $75.
Standard of the World.
IS96 CtfHttis . . . it $60.
1197 HirtfwiV. . . .it 50.
Hartfir. Patten 2 . . .it 45.
Hartfiri Patten I . . . it 40.
Hai1firiPattenis5aNS.it 30.
These ire the new prices.
They have set the whole
bicycle world talking
and buying.
POPE MFG. CO.. Hartford. Com.
Catalog free from any Columbia dealer;
by mail for a I rent stamp.
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Amonjt the geysers, water
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-built by the government.
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