t I. Teacher of English m e doing a fine business in Havana. The Cubans are Wonderfully enger to learn a nine teenth century Inngnnge. The town of rnllmnn, 111., no or ganized aud established by it founder, whoie name it bear", is soon to give lip its distinctive character and bcoonio in fact ns well a in name a part of the municipality of Chicago. Under the supreme court decision the com pany is reported to be preparing to give up it building other than those nsed strictly for the pnrposisof car building, which means that it must give np its control over the town of Pullman. A Oerman editor has been sentenced to more than four years imprisonment for lese-majeste against the Emperor's second son, n small boy in knicker bockers. Yet the offending article, which in its.'lf was nothing, was pub lished in the absence and without the knowledge of the editor. Convictions lese-majeste under the Emperor .Wil liam have excelled anything ever known before in Europe, whether in medieval or ancient times, and one wonders why the German people tol erate them so quietly. The largest sailing vessel afloat, just launched at Camden, Me., was chris tened, not by smashing ft bottle of wine, bnt by throwing roses over her bow as she slid down the ways. This is a pretty innovation that will not only please the ardent opponents of wine, bnt will appeal to the love of the picturesquely beantiful. An American ship, built of American ma terial, by American labor, in an Amer ican yard, could have no more auspi cious beginuing of its service in the American carrying trado than this peaceful and decorative garlanding at the baud of an American maide i. A girl in England recently drowned lierself because some "professor of palmistry" had "rend the lines of her hand," aud had predicted trouble for ber. She was scared into self-murder by his reckless prophecy. Then her father, deploring her "silly faith" in what he decl.ired was idle folly, tried to find her body by throwing into the pond a loaf of bread ballusted with quicksilver, believing that the loaf would "jump arot.n.l" when it floated over the spot where she lay. Super stitions die hard. This was a case of the kettle calling the pot black. How is it with those who regard this unfor tunate girl and her ignorant father with pitying scorn? How many of all the soldiers would object to sitting down with thirteen at the table? Reports from Fall River, says the Dry Goods Economist, show the year 1898 to have been a hard one with cot ton manufacturers iu that centre. The 'previous year, it had been thought, was bad enough, the average dividend yielded onacapitalof nearly $24,000, 000 amounting to bnt 3.88 per cent., against 8.18 per cent, in 1805. Last year, however, the average earnings on the same capital amounted to 2.22 per cent. This gradual decrease in dividends is not surprising when we learn that little money has been spent on new equipments daring the year. Experiments are, however, going on with new weaving machinery, and. as result, of the ieceut ag.Ieui.V.!: oe-.- tween a number of the factories, mill stocks have advanced and prices have improved. Hence it may be that Fall River, having begun to soli its pro duct with more intelligence, may within the next twelve months have the nerve to put in modern machinery capable of producing the very highest grades of cotton goods, and thus ouce more provide for itself a basis for sub stantial prosperity. The salvage system of the Salvation Army is to be introduced into Ban FrauciBco. This is an idea of General Booth, the basio principle being that idleness leads to evil, and that the man whose material wants are sathv fled is more amenable to spiritual in- fluence. The system is in operation in three cities in this country, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. - In the last named city ten large wagons are in constant service collecting waste, while a large number of men are em ployed iu sorting the material for the market, aud in repairing such broken articles of household furniture as can be made of use to poor people. Many women are also engaged in resouing from the waste, articles of clothing which can be . made serviceable by mending. The repaired articles are sold for a few cents each, the money thns received going to the one who made the repairs. There are many possibilities iu the development of the idea, one addition iu San Francisoo ' being an arrangement with the news paper publishers to clean oat the of- t . flees in return for ths waste paper, j OUR BROKEN Ovet a wlnriln?, wnysMe wslt, Uagged and rouRh anil arajr. There crept a tender and clinging- viae, Tirelessly day by riny. At last its mantis of softest tint Covered each Jagged seam, Thn straggling Willi, hnlf broken down, Decnme, wltli that leafy, tinted crowu, i iur as an artist s u renin. Lanta r THE PURPLE EGG. U Omened an Emperor BY ANATOl.F. The other night, while w ith a num ber of friends, 1 heard a story of a woman who had been driven to a strange suicide by terror and remorse. She was highly bred and cultured. Suspected of complicity in a crime of which she had been a mute wit nets, in despair at her irrcpornble coward ice, tormented by a perpetual night mnre that showed her her husband pointing her out with his rotting lin ger to the magistrates, she became the helpless prey of her overwrought i nerves. A trilling cirenmstnnce de termined her fate. Her little nephew was living with ber. One morning, iih usual, he was looming his lesson in the dining room; she was sitting near by. The child began to translate, word for word, some versos from Sophocles. He said over the Greek and French terms as he wrote them out: "Kara teion, the divine head; Iokastes.of Yocasta; letneked, is dead . . . Sposa kouuen, tearing her hair; kalei, she calls; Laiou nekron, dead Lais. . . . Eisedomeu, we saw; ten gnnnika kremasteu, the woman hanged." He wound up with a flourish of his pen, stuck out his tongue violet with ink and sang: "Hanged! h ringed! hanged!" The wretched woman, her will-power ut terly destroyed, obeyed the sugges tion of the thrice-heard word. She rose without a word, without a glance, and hastened to her room. A few hours later the commissary of police, called in to investigate her violent end, in tide this reflection: "I have seen many a woman who has com mitted suicide. This Is the first one I've known to hang herself." This rase recalled a similar one to my mind, that of my unfortunate com rade and friend, Alexandre Manscl. In the foregoing story the heroine was killed by a verse of Sophocles; my friend's life was brought to an end by a sentence of Lnmprides. Mansel, who was a schoolmate of mine at the Lycee of Avrauches, was different from all other boys. He seemed both older and younger than he really was. Hmall and slight, nt fifteen he was afraid of all the bugaboos that terrify children of five. He had a hor ror of the dark. We were not fond of him; he would have become our butt if he had not impressed us by a cer tain fierce pride and his record as a clever scholar. Though he worked spasmodically, he often stood at the head of his class. They used tossy that he talked at night iu the dormi tory and walked in his sleep. Nono of us could swear to i:, for we never woke after our heads once touched the pillow. For a long time I was more curious about him than fond of him. We sud denly grew great friends on an excur sion that we all took together to the abbey of Mont St. Michel.. We had walked barefooted along the shingle, carrying our shoes and our luncheon on the end of our sticks, all singing at the top of our voices. We crossed the drawbridge and sat doivn side by side on one of the old cannon, rusted by Ays centuries of rain and spray. Looking with his dim eyes from the old stones ) the skj swj"uff ng bare feet, AlexaUilr7aVuptly spoke to me: - .-- "I .aould like to have been a knight in the old wars. I would have taken a hundred cannon. I would have fought single-handed on tho rampart, aud the Archangel St, Michael would have stood over my head like a white cloud." From that day on I understood far better than before my schoolmate's character. I discovered that it was founded on an immense pride that I had not suspected. I need not toll you that at fifteen I was not a pro found psychologist, and Mansel's pride was too subtle to bo at first evi dent. It extended itself to vague chimeras and ' bad no tangible form, Yet it inspired all my friend's sonti- meuts and gave o sort of uuity to his whimsical, incoherent iilttns. During the vacation following our excursion to Mont St. Michel, Mansel invited me to speud a day at his parents' home at St. Julian. Secnr ing my mother's vather unwilling cou sent, I started off, til a white vest and blue tie, early oue Kuudav morning. Alexandre, smiling like a happy child, wob waiting lor me oti the thresh old. He led me by the baud into the "best room.' Though the house half rustic, half b.mrgeoise was neither poor nor disordel ly, I was op pressed ou entering it, so silent aud sad it was. Near the window, whose slightly parted curtains denoted a cer tain curiosity, was seated a woman to an appearances old perhaps not so old as she looked. She was thin aud sallow; bet eyes glittered iu their dnrk sockets under their reddened lids. In spite of the warm summer dnv she was swathed, bend and all, iu black garnfeuts. lint the straUKest thiug about ber was the metal circlet that clasped her brow like a diadem. "Htre is my mother; she has her neuralgia." Mine. Mansel made me welcome in faint voice and, observing my puz tied look, saii, smiling: "Mjr young sir, w hat you take lot WALLS. Oh, for the kindness that clings and twines Over life's broken wall, Tlmt blossoms above the soars ot pain, HtrWlng to bldn them all! Oh, for the helpful, ministering hands, Beneficent, willing f"t, Tlmt spread rich mantles ot tender thought O'er life's hard places.tlll Time ha wrought lis nenung oivine, complete. Wilson Hmlth, In Youth's Companion. and Created a Suicide. UlANl'E. crown is a magnetic: circle I wear to cure nit hendnclies." Mansel led me into thn garden, where we caught sight of a little bald man eliding down the path like a phantom. He was so frail and slight that he looked as if the wind would blow him away. His uncertain gait. his long, thin neck craned foi -ward. his bend no bigger than vour list, his sidewise glances, his hopping steps. his short nrms raisod like wings, gave him quite the nppearatice of some now sort of fowl. My companion told me that it was his father, but that we must let him go to the poultry yard, which he infinitely preferred to all the rest of his domain; he lived among his hens and had almost lost the habit of talking with human beings. The odd little figure at this moment vanished, and loud cackling rose in the air. During the short stroll we tool: in the garden. Mansel told me that at din ner 1 would meet bis grandmother; that she was n good old soul, but that I must not pay much attention to what she said, as she was often a little out of her mind. Tho bell rang for dinner. M. Man sel followed us into the house, carry ing a basket of eggs. "Eighteen to day," he said, iu a clucking voice. A delicious omelet appeared. I was seated between Mme. Mansel, sighing under her diadem, and hot mother, a vonud-chceked, toothless, old Normandy woman, who smiled with her ryes. She seemed delight ful to me. While we were eatiug our roast duck and creamed chicken the old lady told us amusing stories that showed no signs of weakening facul ties. On the contrary, she appeared the merriest ar.d safest member of the family. After dinner we went into a parlor furnished iu black waluut and yellow Utrecht velvet. Under tho globe of the gilt clock ou the mantel lay a pin pie egg that at once drew my at tention. With a child's inexplicable curiosity I conld not take my eyes oil' it. But 1 must add that the egg was of a stinngj and splendid color a royal purple, not in the slightest man ner recalling the wine-colored Easter eggs, dipped iu beet-juice, that de light the children at all the fruit stands. I could not resist making a remark about it. M. Mansel replied by an admiring cackle: "My young sir, that is not a dyed egg, as you seem to think. It was laid just as you see it there by a Cingalese hen of mine. It is a phe nomenal egg." "You must not forget to add, my dear," sighed Mine. Mansel, "that it was laid the very day our Alexaudie was born." "Just so," returned the father. The old graudmothor, in the mean time, looked at me with mocking eyes, aud with an exprossive movement of her lips betrayed her skepticism, "Hum!" she murmured, "hens some times hatch what they haven't Jfihl, and if some mischievous neighbor should happen to slip into their nest ''iJon't listen to herl" broke iu her grandson, violently. "You know what I told you! Don't listen to her!" "It's a fact," repeated M. Mansel, fixing ' his round eye on the purple egg- Not long after I lost sight of Alex andre. My mother sent me to Paris to finish my studies. I entered the School of Medicine. About the time that I wus preparing my doctor's the sis, I received a letter from my mother, iu which she told me that my friend had been very ill; he had had some strange seizure, on recovering from which he had become exceeding ly timid and suspicious; but he was quite harmless, and, in npite ot his troubled health and reason, he showed a remarkable gift for mathematics. This news did not surprise me. Many a time, while studying diseases of the nerve-centres, I had cnlled np men tally my poor friend from St. Julien and, iu spite of myself, had made a prognosis of general paralysis threat ening this son ot a neuralgia mother aud a microcephalic, rheumatio father. At first 1 seemed to be ou the wroug scent. Alexandre Mnusel, on reaching manhood, regained normal health aud gave unmistakable proofs of bis fine intellectual gifts. He car ned on extensive mathematical studies; he even sent to the Academy of Sci euces the solution of several difficult equations. Absorbed in these and kindred subjects, he rarely found time to write me. His letters were clear, friendly, well composed; nothing could be fouud iu them to attract the attention of the most suspicious neu rologist. Boon, however, our corre spoudence came to au end, and for teu years I did not get a word from him. I was greatly suprised lust year when my servant hnudud me Alexan die Mansel's card. Buying that thi gentleman was waiting for me in tho antechamber. I was in my office dis- cuHBing a professional question of some importance with a colleague, Excusing myself for a uio:nent, I has tened to greet my old school-fellow. I fonnd him much nged.bald.haggarif, fearfully emaciated. I took him by the arm and led him into the drawing room. "I am delighted to see yon onre more," he said, "and I have a great deal to tell you. I am a victim of nn heard of persecutions. But I nm brave, I shall fight to the end, I shall triumph over my enemies!" These words alarmed me, as they would hnve alarmed any neurologist. In them I traced a symptom of the af fection by which my friend was threat ened according to every law of hered ity and which had appeared dormant till now. ".My dear fellow," I said to him, "you shall tell me all this later. Stay here a moment. lain settling a little matter in my ofllo?. Take a book to kill time till I join you." I have a great many books in my drawing room there must bo IlllOO volumes in the three bookcases. Why was it that lny unlucky friend picked up the Very one that could harm him and opened it at the fntal page? I talked for about 20 minutes louuor with my colleague; having ushered him out I returned to the drawing room whore I had left Mansel. I found the unfortunate fellow in nu alarming state. He was showering blows on n book open before him that 1 nt onco recogniod as a translation of the "History of Augustus." In a loud voice he kept repeating this sen tence of Lnmprides: "Ou the day when Alexander Severns was born, a hen belonging to the father of the babe laid a red egg, a presage of the imperial purple which the child was to assume." His excitement rose to fury. He foamed nt the mouth. He shouted: "The egg, the egg that was laid on my birthday! I urn an emperor! I know you want to kill met Don't come near me, wretch!" He paced rapidly tip and down. Thou coining back toward me, with his nrms spread wide, he said: "My friend, my old comrnde, what do you want me to give you? Emperor! emperor! my father was right the purple egg emperor I shall and must lie scoundrel! why did you bide that book from me? I will punish you for high treason emperor! em peror!! unlit bo it! ves, it is my duty!" Ho rushed out. I vniuly tried to stop him. He escapod from me. The rest is well known. All tho papers told how ou leaving my house he bought a revolver and blew out the brains of the sentinel who barred the gate of the Elysee palace against him. Thus a phraso written in the fourth century by a Latin historian causes 150D years later the death of au un lucky French soldier, Who will ever unravel the skein of cause and e fleet? Who can bo sure of saying, "I kuow what I am doing," as ho poi forms some trifling act? This is all there is to tell. The rest cancel us only medical statistics and can bo summed up iu a few words. Mansel, placed iu a private asylum, remained thore n fortnight iu n state of violent madness. Then be lapsed into utter imbecility, during w hich his gluttony led him to tatitig the wax used for polishing the floors. He choked to death, three months ago, swallowing a sponge. Argonaut. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Tame suakes are used in Morocco to clear houses of rats and mice. A Sicilian tribunal seutoii"ed a noted forger to imprisonment for 181) years. Tavelara is the smallest republic as to population, having only fill men, wom"? ld, children. It is 12 miles fro:u Bardluiii. Reside! the rinderpest, South Afri ca s worst plague consists in tue myriads of grasshoppers, which are sometimes so ueure that they stop railway traius. There is a creature known as the hagfish, or lnyxiue, which is iu the habit of gettiug inside cod and sim ilar fish and devouring the interior until only the skin and the skeleton are left. Oilos de Retas of France, the orig inal "Blue Beard," was exocuted ou Christmas Day, 1140, iu atonement for a multitude of sins, which iucludod the killing of six wives, from which the popular nursory story is derived. There is a plant in Jamaica culled tho life plant, because it is almost im possible to kill it, or any portion of it. V hen a leaf is cut oil ami liung np by a string, it sends out white, thread like roots, gathers moisture from the air, and begins to grow new leaves. The seven principal Bib'os in the world are the Korau of the Moham medans, the Eddus of the (Scandina vians, the Tripifikes of the Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese, the Three Yedas of the Hiudoos, the Zeuda vesta,' and the Scriptures of the Chris tians. A peculiar style ot advertising re sorted to iu China is effective and in exuensive. When a Chiuaman has a daughter closely approaching mar riageable age an inverted jar on the roof of his bouse announces tliat fact. When she has attained the proper age the jar is laid on its side, with the top toward the street. The Costliest Bean oil Earth. It is not generally known that the vnuillu beau is the costliest bean on earth. It grows wild aud is gathered by the natives in l'apantia aud Mis cantin, Mexico. When brought from the forests these beaus are sold at the rate of 812 per 1000, but when dried aud cured they cost about $12 per pound. They are mainly nsed by druggists, aud last year over 1)0.000, 000 were imported into the Uultod States. M AND GARDEN fthenp ftreit Irr Iteririlng. Many poople who keep sheep nnder sheds ou nn earthen floor in cold wenther make the mistake of not pro viding bedding enough, thinking that it will interfere with properly packing the manure which is trodden into a hard mass by them. But a little dry straw should be scattered over the floor at night, and it will be none worse if It is the refuse of what sheep have picked over during day. Even the fattening sheep the the thn will eat some struw as a change of food, and it will select the upper part of the stalk near the bead. Oat straw is the best for this purpose. The sheep is very impatient of wet, and besides, it is injurious to the wool to hnve it soiled by manure. If the ends of the wool are closed by filth this stops its growth, just as it does ou the tags which even lifter they have been scoured aro not worth ns much nt clean wool from other parts of the body. Whitewash nm! Nnlplinr. Thn San .lose scnle ravages have brought out many new a'ld vnluable spraj ing mixture which, while they possess only moderate value in sub duing the scalo, have been fouud very effective in other diseases of trees. The combination of whitewash and sulphur is oue of these. It is fairly effective against Hie San Jose scale, more so in some sections than in others, but iu pear blight it has proved itself of great value. The treatment consists of washing or thickly spraying the trunk and all limbs with a mixture of two-thirds w hitewash aud one-third sulphur, the work being doue in the early npring. From presdiit indica tions this mixture, with tho famous Bordeaux, will do more than any other insecticides now available in destroy ing the various pest of the fruit grower. Most fruit growers are fa miliar with the composition of the Bordeaux mixture, which may be made at homo or purchased from manufacturers of spraying pumps, as preferred. When made nt homo care is necessary that only the best ingre dients are used. ling lit the Orrlinnl. To obtain the best results from or chards, clean cultivation of the soil is essential and especially so in the young and rapid growing days of the trees. The plan of attempting to crop the soil in the orchard is wrong and fruit growers are fast abandoning it. Undoubtedly the best success with orchards comes from tilling the soil, and this is particularly true in dry seasons. No grasses of any kind should be permitted to grow. Insects and disease are best managed by the use of the spray and no methods of cultivation can take the place of this work. Whou orchards are located on hill sides, or tho trees are so set that the soil between thorn cinnot be ad vantageously cultivated, it is a good plan to turn hogs and sheep into the orchard during the growing season. If thn herd is of good size they will ent nil of tho decayed fruit that drop, besides the grasses that grow around ami between the trees, frequently getting down to the roots of the grasses. This i equivalent to tillage, and it grain is fed the animals the droppings will mnteriallv add to the fertility of the soil. Either plan is good, but thorough tilling is to be preferred to the use of hogs or sheep, Iu either case remember that insecti cidos and the sprayer must bo faith fully used. 8lmlv Ynnr Soil. There is a rich Held and a poor field on nearly every farm. The other fields are neither so good ns the best nor so bad as the worst. The most farmers know; but their practise too often is different from their knowledge The poor field is treated just like the rich field. The regular farm rotition is practised alike iu both. A good crop is the rule in the tortile field, and noth mg but a poor crop Is expected from thn pool- field. As much labor is re quired for growing tlio grain on an acre of the poor iijUI us ou an aero of the best one. Farmers should study ths peculiar! ties of each field on the farm. It is necessary to know tlicai before it i possible to f irm them to tho best ad vantage. Thn fanner who pliiuts po tatoes iu a field whore the soil is cold and heavy, or who sows wheat on low bottom luads liable to overflow and freezing, will not be paid for his labor. The Held with tho southern exposure should he planted to com before the one which lies toward the north. Iu the former cas the plant will have considerable footing before the scorch ing heat of June. If thore is a field of heavy black lou.u which is decidedly waxy in totnre, it would better bo plowed before the time of freezing is past iu the spring. If wheat is sown in a field liab'o to wash into gullies during t e winter and spriug, it will pny to sow timothy so id iu these hol lows with the wUe.it. -Tennessee Farmer. Ynrd o- Itsnvv tav Pmillry. To obtain the best results from poul-J try raising for eggs It is conceded tliat the fowls must be carefully watched aud ovory care given to them. This is not possib'o wheu they are al'owod the free range of the farm, nor is it possible to raise fowls iu this way aud obtain the high e?g le.umls heard about, the publication of w hich has induced more than oue inau to engage iu poultry culture ouly to be sorely disappointed. The egg record of the average barnyard fowl of nu particular breed, ou the range, does rot aver- ( tje wore than 00 eggs a j e.i , while the yarded fowl of good breed bat e record of 175 or more eggs a year. It ill be understood that in advocating; the yarded fowls, growing chicks are not included, but only those that nave been laying or have just begun. Be fore reaching this period the growing chicks should have the benefit of the free rnnge to enable them to make frames on which later, in rards. reli ance is put for egg production. It must be remembered, however, that yarded fowls require more and better care limn those on the range if increased egg production is to be at-, tallied. The yards should be not only sufficiently large to give the fowls needed exercise, but thev shonld con- tain, supplied by the ponltrynmn all' that the fowls would naturally find on the range. That means grains, green food, meat, grit, water and a place to dust and scratch. This applies to winter treatment as well ns summer. If farmers will but learn to observe the actions of fowls when on range and bo guided to a large extent by this in treatment of them when yarded much less trouble will be experienced. Iu yarding fowls the best arrangement is that which will permit of a double yard with the house iu the middle. Two such yards ench 150 feet long, permit of keeping one or the other in green stuff from early summer until frost by sowing oats and rye. This green food, gathered by the hens themselves, will subdue all natural in clination they may have for the free range aud fill the egg basket to over flowing. Atlanta Journal. (lraea Need Nitrogenous Fertiliser. Extended experiments at the Con-v necticut station show that grasses dif fer from many other crops in the readi ness with which they respond to the use of nitrogenous fertilizers. While clovers und other legumes seem to be able to gather much of the' nitrogen they need from natural sources, the true grasses must be supplied with nitrogen in the manure or fertilizer, in order to give much increase iu yield. Thus thore is a twofold value in the experiments. In the first placet tlioy sliow tuat the grasses call for the use of nitrogenous fertilizers, and that very little increase of crop is to be ex pected from mineral fertilizers alone. They indicate that where the farmer iisos stable manure, which contains . relatively large quantities of nitrogen, on his grass crop, be is following a wise practice, and that by the liberal use of manures or fertilizers rich in n it ro on he may increase the crop two or three fold over what would be ob tained where no nitrogen or no fertil izer was nsed. They indicate further, that the in crease in yield is not the only advan tage obtniued from the use of nitrogen in the fertilizer. ' As protein is the most valuable of the food nutrients contained iu feeding stall's, it becomes, important that the farmer shonld adopt every means available for in creasing the supplies of this material produced upon the farm. This be may do to quite a degree by the use on the grass lauds of manure from well-fed stock, or by the purchase and use of nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, tankage, dried blood, fish waste, or other forms of nitrogenous fertilizers. The percentage of protein iu the crop may thus be increased as much, ns three to five per cent, nbjve what is obtained where no nitrogen is nsed as fertilizer. The yields where mineral fertilizers only were used were but very littla better than where no fertilizer was ap plied. The increase where the nitro gen was applied nearly always corre sponded with the amount of nitrogen nsed, whether the nitrogen was from nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia. .. The increase, however, was not as great where the larger quantities of nitrogen were applied. The best financial returns, an average gain of $3.60 per acre, were obtained from the use of 320 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre in additiou to the min eral fertilizers. Where mineral fertilizers were nsed without the additiou of nitrogen, there was a decided financial loss, while in all cases except oue, where nitrogen was used with the mineral fertilizers there was a financial gain. The in crease in yield obtained from the two forms of nitrogen was nearly the same, althongh the financial gvins were con siderably hotter with nitrate of soda than with sulphate of ammonia. The smaller gain is accounted for by the higher cost of the sulphate, the nitro gen iu this form being reckoned at one rent per pound higher thau th.it- from the nitrate. New EnglauJ Homestead. I-'nrt for Farmers. Don't cultivate the com too late.. Yon will cut the roots. We would advise foediug calves from tin or galvanized pails. If the calf will not drink and some will not starve it to do it. Overripe grass is woody, not fit for animals. Cut when it blooms. Cut the grass when the bloom is on and you w ill preserve the aroma. When the rains ceaso be sure to cul tivate and muke the surface fine, D m't put sa'.t ou hay. It has ' no- preservative ell'jct aud makes the hay moist. The preservation of a good aroma, in bar makes it all the more palatablo to the animal. n Clover hay is a huudrel per cont. better thau timothy for all purposes iu f ceding stock. No ueed of buying hay caps from pnople who sell tlioe thing, Get'' cheap inusliu aud paint it. A tread power, ruu by n big dog or calf, will do the churning ou most far iu, and save lots of lubol'. The only way to buy biuder twine is to club together and deiuuud a re duction iu price. Tho sellers of biuder twine are getting riuU oS. tlu faroiers.. Western I.' awuiauv.
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