Tlie Spraying of Kerosene. The spraying of kerosene, or kero sene emulsion, on trees, should be done judiciously. Pure kerosene will in jure any tree, destroying peach trees almost instantly, and even when ttfe emulsion is used it should be well di luted. No inexperienced person should use "kerosene emulsion on orchard tree«, though crude petroleum, applied in winter, has been recommended as efficacious and harmless. Don't Force YOIIDB: Ptillet.. The young pullets that have been se lected for laying next fall should not be forced by feeding too heavily on grain. They will thrive much better if allowed to roam at will and pick up their food, but a mess of cut bone at night will be of assistance. The ear ly-hatched pullets only should be kept for winter laying, as the late ones do not usually begin to lay until spring. If they do not grow examine them carefully for the large lice on their heads, necks and bodies. Dusting with insect powder once a week will be an advantage, but the most important matter is to keep their quarters free of lice, which may be done by spraying the poultry house once a week with kerosene emulsion. The roots should be anointed freely with crude petrole um. it is the best plan, when raising pullets for winter laying to cull out all the inferior ones and send them with the youug cockerels to market. from Creatn Not Clean. Ripening, says Hoard's Dairyman, ex presses the whole series of changes that take place in the cream caused by the growth, nutrition and death of bacteria. The flavor they produce is the substance of things sought for. The changes they produce in the cream are certainly the evidence of things un seen, but evidently the result in pro ducing successfully the first or last condition depends onto what extent ;o-operation exists between the dairy man and butter maker. No dairyman is doing his whole duty when the cream from his milk is taint ed by the presence of dirt produced bacteria; no butter maker can do his duty when he is compelled to receive such cream and, although the butter maker may receive many hard words for not producing "extras," the loss ultimately falls where It belongs—on the milk producer. The only injustice is that the loss does not fall on the dirty one alone, but on his neighbors as well, on the just as we,ll as the un just Exterminating Garlic. To exterminate garlic in small patches of ground such as lawns, a good plan is to put a few drops of car bolic acid on each bunch by means of a machine oil can. Often a single drop will kill a garlic plant. Some say the acid will kill the plant when applied in winter, when the ground is frozen. When I was in Washington City two years ago last spring not a plant of garlic did I see in the White House lawn and I have since learned that the pest was destroyed there with this acid in the manner above stated. When it ture it is thought the only sure and feasible way to destroy it is to turn the sod over and rid the land of it by cultivation and the smothering pro cess. Lime the upturned sod and sow field peas and oats. After this crop is off keep the land worked with cut harrow until time comes to sow crimson clover, which is about July or August. Then seed the ground with clover or preferably rye. This twin crop may be plowed under for a late crop of corn or cut for fodder in time for potatoes. By the end of the second season the garlic will show signs of final decay and the land may again be seeded in October to blue grass or pasture grasses of some kind. —T. R. Richey, in The Epitomist. Water for Vegetable*. It is a good thing to remember that the major portion of most fruits, and many of what we term vegetables. Is water, and that to have them properly develop, there must be no lack of this element. But it is not always wise to supply this artificially, as all soils are not fitted for it, and there is dan ger of soil baking or an over supply. The best' course to pursue to keep up the supply of moisture is first to save what nature supplies naturally—con serve it, as we say technically. This Is done by constant cultivation and, at times, largely by mulching. Soil that is constantly stirred on the surface by hoeing, harrowing or coarse raking, keeps cool, is quick to receive any moisture in the atmosphere, such as evening Jews, and does not part with it so readily. A mulching of straw shades the soil from the direct rays of the sun. prevents rapid evap oration of the moisture and keeps the soil from baking. Cultivation also has a good effect by aeration of the soil, which is essential to plant life. In some cases it will be possible and desirable to apply water by means of a hose. The evening is the better time for this, as it has opportunity to soak well into the soil before the sun's heat of the following day can take the most of it. If this be used in connection with a mulch, the danger of baking the surface of the soil, and the necessity for frequent application will be greatly reduced. The writer saw a small patch of tur nips near the roadside last fall which were of remarkably large size and solid. One that was weighed (not the largest) proved to be 4 1-4 pounds. This patch was so situated that it re oeive* the rain warhings from the road ani was abundantly but not excessive ly supplied with moisture. The large specimen referred to was cooked and served to six persons at one meal, and proved mora than enough, making a large dish in itself. The writer has frequently observed that radishes are very fond of water, and quickly take what is supplied them. Further obser vation would doubtless show that all vegetables of this nature have a sim ilar desire for water. Where water is artificially supplied to vegetables that should make strong top growth, the addition of manure will be beneficial.—Meehan's Monthly. Well Bred Seed Corn. It takes a lung time to establish a fixed type of any variety of corn. This is equally true in breeding live stock. The most careful live stock breeders have taken years, and in some in stances nearly their entire life, to get a fixed type of some particular family. Good ears of corn may be selected from almost any field, but the ears happen to be good individually only, and these will by no means insure a crop of ears all as good as the seed planted. Well bred seed corn is that, which has been persistently and care-; fully selected for several years to in sure, as certainly as it is possible, a reproduction of as good as is planted.' A well bred ear of corn is that of which the cob forms a smaller pro portion of the weight of the ear than is usually found in ordinary corn. The ear, by constant selection, has been bred so that the grains will form well out and cover both ends of the ear; and again, the spaces between the rowj have been bred nearly out, until the rows are very compact, and in some instances almost solid. A variety of corn handled In this way, in the hands of a skilful breeder, is as certain to reproduce itself as has been possible to attain up to this time, by planting a yariety that will fill out at boi . ends, pud where the rows are very compact. Wit still do not lap over on each other, we «*cure a crop that will shell out f/omebc to seven pounds more per bi#*.e! than the ordinary corn grown by farmers. This large yield is secured because all of the available space on the cob is occu pied by corn. The kernels are set deep into the cob, are closely joined in, and cover both ends of the ear. There is practically no waste space. Any corn raiser who pays particular attention to a variety of corn that will shell out a large percentage knows the importance of securing a variety that is heavy and with the kernels compact on the cob. Such an ear will shell out from 90 to 92 percent and on account of the very small shank it would be very easy to husk. We ; are glad to note that corn raisers are paying more attention to the weight j and quality of the corn planted this year than ever before. —Prairie Farm er. How to Select Good Cow«. It needs no argument to show that it requires good cows to secure a profit in dairying. Now cows are selected and maintained in many dairy herds, almost universally, on the judgment of the dairyman. If a cow pleases a man he takes and keeps her until her years of usefulness are over. He does not inquire about her record, as no records are kept. It does not occur to the dairyman that there may be a great difference in the individtiality of the herd thus secured, a difference so great that some individuals only will yield a profit and others will be kept at a loss. If this question is raised, not one dairyman in a thou sand takes the trouble to weigh and test the milk of each cow in order to satisfactorily answer the question. Four years ago we secured a herd of 25 covs. None of these cows having records, they were purchased on the judgment of the men who selected them. A committee of Jersey breeders sent us four Jerseys. In the same way three Guernseys and four Ayr shires were selected. The remainder of the herd were grades. Some were raised on the farm and others pur chased. An accurate record was kefrt of this herd. Each individual cow was charged with the food she con sumed at market price, and in addition with the cost of labor expended in her case. Credit was given for the butter produced and for the skim milk. The variation in the individuality of these cows was shown by the year's record. In the production of milk the 1 range was fiom 8558 pounds to 3141 pounds, in butter from 509 pounds to 165 pounds, in net profit from $42.26 profit to $18.63 loss. The six poorest cows were kept at a money less of $67.47, and the six most profitable at a profit of $148.78. It is a rule scarcely without excep tion that when records of individuals in a herd are kept for the first time, some animals are found running the dairymen in debt and others yielding very little profit. It is a conservative estimate, I believe, that 25 percent of dairy cows are kept at a loss, 15 to 20 percent at little or no profit, while the remainder only yield a profit suf ficient to make up the loss of the un profitable ones and leave a small re sulting profit. Dairymen may correct their judg ment and secure better cows by keep ing records of the milk given by each individual and the amount of fat it contains, by forming in their minds a better conception of the form and outline of a dairy cow. She should have a long, deep barrel In order to store and digest a large amount of food. She should have a good udder, so that the food transferred to the blood may find reom to be elaborated into milk. She should have light front and rear quarters and carry little flesh, showing a disposition to trans form hei food into milk and not into flesh.—An Old Dairvman, in American Aerculturlst. PEARLS OF THOUCHT. The virtne lies In the struggle, not In the prize.—Mllnes. Honest error Is to be pitied, not ridi culed.—Chesterfield. Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.—Rochefoucauld. Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.—Shakespeare. To rejoice in the prosperity of an other is to partake of it. —W. Austin. An obstinate man does not hold opinions—they hold him. —Bishop Butler. The seeds of our punishment are sown at the same time we commit the sin.—Hesiod, Seeing much, suffering much and studying much are the three pillars of learning.—Disraeli. Life is a quarry out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.—Goethe. That is true philanthropy that buries not in gold in ostentatious charity, but builds its hospital In the human heart. —Harley. Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. —Persian proverb. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.—H. W. Beecher. The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned is that it is easier to retain the books themselves than what is inside of them. —Gilles Menage. ORICIN OF FAMILIAR PHRASES. Well-Known Ezpremions Tliat Have Star* ted in tlio Mont Natural Way. To feel in apple-pie order Is a phrase which dates back to Puritan times —to a certain Hepzibah Merton. It seema that every Saturday she was accus tomed to bake two or three dozen ap ple pies, which were to last her fam ily through the coming week. These she placed carefully on her pantry shelves, labelled for each day in the week, so that Tuesday's pies might not be confused with Thursday's, nor those presumably large or intended for washing and sweeping days eaten when household labors were lighter. Aunt Hepzlbah's "apple-pie order" settlement, and originated the well known saying. It was once customary In France, when a guest had outstayed his wel come, for the host to serve a cold shoulder of mutton instead of a hot roast. This was the origin of the phrase "To give the cold shoulder." "None shall wear a feather but he who has killed a Turk" was an old Hungarian saying, and the number oi feathers in his cap indicated how many Turks the man had killed. Hence the origin of the saying witt refernce to a feather in one's cap. In one of the battles between the Russians and Tartars a private soldiei of the former cried out: "Captain, I've caught a Tartar!" "Bring him along, then," answered the officer."l can't for he won't let me," was the response. Upon investigation it was apparent that the captured had the captor by the arm and would not release him, So, "catching a Tartar ' is applicable to one who has found an autagonisl too powerful for him. That far from an elegant expres sion, "To kick the buoket," is believed to have originated in the time ol Queen Elizabeth, when a shoemaltei named Hawkins committed suicide bj placing a bucket on a table in ordei to raise himself high enough to read a rafter above, then kicking away thi bucket on which he stood. The tern coroner is derived from the won "corph-connor," which means corps, inspector. "He's a brick," meaning a good fel low, originated with a king of Spart —Agesilaus—about the fourth centu? B. C. A visitor at the Lacedaemonia capital was surprised to find the eii without walls or means of defend and asked his royal host what thl would do in case of an invasion b?1 foreign power. "Do?" replied the t roic king. "Why, Sparta has 50, C soldiers, and each man is a brick." When the Horse guards parade St. James' park, London, there is ways a lot of boys on hand to bis the boots of the soldiers or do otl menial work. The boys, from tb constant attendance about the time guard mounting, were nicknamed black guards," hence the name "bla guard." Deadhead, as denoting who has free entrance to places amusement, comes from Pomj where the checks for free admisi were small ivory death's heads. Sp mens of these are in the museun Naples. One of Nature'* Workshop*. In an island in the Lake of H bon is the remarkable Taal void which is readily accessible from I ila, writes a correspondent in the' York Herald. Its central crate oval in shape, a mile and a quf across the greatest diameter, anct within its rim two lakes of hot W, one yellow and the other green,l a small active cone 50 feet in ho, from which escape steam and su ric gases. The strange colors oe waters are due to the presend chemicals evolved in subterrc laboratories. The greatest ertfi of Taal took r'ace in 175-1, wipint four villages. Apparently the vote ash lends wonderful fertility tie 6oil, and presently a new growf bamboo and palms appears wheri olation had reigned. The flags to be hoisted at on«e in signaling at sen never ex« four. It is an interesting arithntf fact, that, with 18 various cd flags, and never more than fouja I time, no fewer tbn m signac be elven. ' BntofUt&lng Bqnlrrelt. Alive In bis native woods the> squlr rd Is an amusing little Yellow, and he will entertain you by the hour V yon will let him. probably become first aware or his presence by bis dropping things on your head; then he plays hide and seek with you as he zigzags up a tree. While he pauses for thought, or possi bly to wash his face, another squirrel comes scudding along the branches of * neighboring tree, and away they go, one chasing the other, jumping from branch tip to branch tip, racing up and dovn the trunk and making the bark fly. Sometimes one loses his footing and falls headlong twenty or thirty feet to the ground, landing there w:tb a force that makes him tiounce. You thing every grain of tense must be knocked out of the small bod;, but he only blinks a bit, and after a moment spent perhaps in letting the stirs set that must have suddenly risen before his eyes, he streaks it up the nearest tree after the other, fellow. Long after they have disappeared from sight you hear fliem chattering together up among the lenveq like two watchman's rat tles.—Philidelphia Record. Oxford I the greatest university in :he world. It has twenty-one colleges ind five hills. LION COFFEE I A LUXURY WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL! P " ( w 'th due apoligies to H. W. Longfellow.) n OUr Under a spreading chestnut trse Coasting- MpXY »W The corner grocery stands, U, ~. , i[jW Jw I The grocer—mighty man is he Establish- ' jj(?|l With hard and sinewy hands, ttients we '' Bj BH That weigh out goods from morn till night, j„ _ . 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It is better to break good resolutions than never to have had any. FITS permanently cured. Ne fits or t BMS after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Oreat Nerre Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free Dr. B. H. KLIN-I, Ltd., 981 ArchSt., Phila., Pa. Even the meanest of men arc liberal with advice. E. B.Walthall A. Co., Druggists, Hone Care Ky., nay: "Hall's Catarrh Cure cures every one that takes It." Sold by Druggist*, 75c. Missouri's convicts cost SBO,OOO last year and earned for the State $83,991. Mrs. Winslow's Soothingly.up forchildren teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. The lumberman has to work for his board. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of throat and lungs.—WM. O. ENHSLEY, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10,1900. London's Stock Exchange recently cele brated its hundredth anniversary. DYSENTERY, DIARRHOEA, CMOLERI MORBUS. A half to * teaspoonful of Radway'» Reai4y Relief in a half tumbler of water, repeated as often as the discharges eon* tinue, and a flannel saturated with Ready Felief plrced over the stomach and bow l'ls will afford immediate relief and soon effect a cure. Internally—A half to • teaspoonful la half a tumbler of water will, in a few minutes, cure Cramps, Spasms, Sour Ston*. ach, Nausea, Vomiting, Heartburn, Nerv. ousness. Sleeplessness, Sick Headache. Flatulency ana all internal pains. RW There is not a remedial agent in- th« world that will cure fever and ague and all other malarious, bilious and other fe vers aided by RADWAY'S PILLS, s0 quick y as RADWAY'S READY RELIEF. Sold by druggists. MBWAT t CO., 55 Elw St., ». T. DRO PS Y STHSKSSSS eaaoa. Book of Uatimonial* and lOdayi' trutmtol Fr«#. Dr. ft. ft. OEZIM'I BOMB, Bos B. lU/lU, •».
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