Demorwic atc Bellefonte, Pa., February 14, 1890. msn Farm Notes. A rich mellow soil and frequent cut- ting out of the oid wood is necessary to grow a good crop of currants. Kentucky sells over 20,000 sheep every year in the Boston market, where they bring a better price than New England sheep. Cotswolds, Leicesters and other mut- ton breeds mature quickly, and that is what is wanted in a meat producing animal. Michigan has shipped to Texas and the Southwest over 3000 blooded rams the past year, one breeder having ship- ped 1400 merinos. Barley is our only grain of which the home product is not equal to the demand. The deficiency is chiefly sup- plied by importation from Canada. It is said that the English shepherds find cut cabbage proferable to either beets or turnips, for sheep. Lambs in early winter are especially fond of it. A practical Ohio gardener, from his own experience, has found sifted coal ashes an excellent preventive against injuries from melon and cucumber bugs. There is no certain way of curing a kicking cow after she has formed the habit. When treated kindly and gently from the beginning but few cows be- come troublesome in this respect. Eggs for sitting should be’ from healthy adult birds not related. Nev- er breed from late turkeys if it is possi- ble to get better. Never breed from yearling turkeys if you can get 2-year olds. Prominent Massachusetts gardeners advise that nitrogen be used with caution. If used understandingly, it is beneficial for grass, dandelions and let- tuce, but there are some doubts as to its benefits to asparagus. For a pea pasture for sheep sow the morrowfat thickly upon well prepared ground, and turn in thesheep when the vines are six inches high. The vines will immediately start up again and make a splendid growth, To keep apples in winter, says the Albany Cultivator, spread buckwheat chaff on the barn floor, and on this place the apples, and then cover with chaff two feet thick. Fill the intersti- ces with chaff. Other fine chaff will answer. I¢ is brains that make business pay. Without brains a man in the richest gd mine in the world would forever e a pauper. The more brains we put into our sheep husbandry the more and better woo] and the more and bet- ter mutton we shall produce. Mulching the straw berry bed, says the Live Stock Indicator, can always be delayed until the ground freezes hard enough to bear up a wagon. Itshould be remembered that the next year's crop of strawberries will depend upon the treatment of the plants now. Black knot on the plum, according to the statement of Professor S. T. Maynard, may be destroyed with a mix- ture of linseed oil, turpentine and kero- sene. The kerosene must be used with care, for if allowed to spread over the branch it will destroy it. As a result of a very large number of analyses made by the Danish Dairy Supply Company, it is reported that evening milk contains more fat and more total solids than the morning milk. In October and November the milk is richer in fat and solids than in other parts of the year. There is much in the breed, there is much in the feed, and there is more in the feeder than in either. A good feed- er will do fairly well with a good breed and poor feed, or with good feed and a poor breed. But a good feeder putting good feed into a good breed is the acme of perfection in dairying. Cut down the supply of cattle is the cry, and prices will advance. Certain- ly if there were no cattle in the coun- try a well-fatted steer would be worth a small fortune. But what good would that do the man who hadn’t the steer? Good prices when there are cattle to sell is what we want, In selecting breeding stock we should always want to know whether they are from a family noted for fertility. “This is an inherited quality, and cannot be too well established. Like all valuable qualities in any domestic animal, it is eacily lost by bad management. It is also desirable that the parent stock be of a quiet disposition and even tepera- ment. Professor William J. Green, of the Ohio station, having tested the effect of early and late picking for apples, says: “Early picking of apples improves their keeping qualities, but no difference is manifest for nearly six months after picking. Ifkept for a longer period than six months Ihe early picked apples Sho a decided gain over those picked ate. EE I S— Not The Slightest Bustle. Parisian decrees are for skirts without the slightest bustle. Foundation skirts are very nurrow, often with only four breadths, and, when the costume is of heavy material, are supported by a couple of reeds or steels. Goods ot lighter weight are permitted to fall, without support. Evening dresses are held out by a skillful adjustment of petticoats flounced, ruffled, puffed and shirred to suit the peculiar needs of the articular dress. For walking suits the nglish skirt, with full gathered back, plain or almost plain front, and slight fullness at the sides, usually laid in with plaits, will continue through the spring the favorite it has been during the win- ter. Tt is admirably suited to the cloth dresses. For stout ‘women these skirts are cut with the front breadths an inch two or longer than the back.— New York Times. . A Hereditary Skull, Some years ago, in the city of Louis- ville, Florence found the elder Booth’s son, Edwin, in profound contemplation of a human skull. “There is a re- markable history connected with that head,” said Booth. “It properly be- longed to my father, but he never came in possession of it, and only a few hours ago Mr. Morris, of this city, handed it to me as wy property by the right of inheritance.” The story connected with it as he then related it, ran about as follows: Upon one occasion in Louisville, the elder Booth engaged in one of his lapses. While in a most mellow mood he started on a journey afoot out the "old Bargetown pike. Passing a field in which a horse was grazing, he entered it, secured the ani- mal, mounted and rodeaway. At that time horse stealing in Kentucky was considered an even more flagrant of- fense than it is to-day, and was ranked as a capital crime, the punishment for which was death. The greatest horse thief in all that section one upon whose head a heavy price was ffxed, was nam- ed Fontaine. Well, Booth jogged along on the horse that did not belong to him, and was in a supremely happy condi- tion, until he met two farmers, who in- quired of him where he had obtained the animal. “I captured him in a field b~ck here,” said the tragedian with jovial frank- ness. “Indeed” said one of the farmers, “and whai might your name be ?” “My name is Fontaine.” said Booth without a smile. “Fontaine |" ejaculated both men simultaneously. “Then you are the very man we want. Come back to town with us.” “Certainly,” said Booth, in the most good-natured manner, and wheeling the horse, he rode back to Louisville with his captors. The city jail was then in charge of a Colonel Thomas, who knew Booth well. “We have brought you Fontaine, the horse thief, and claim the reward,” said the farmers proudly, addressing the jailer. “Where is he 27 they where asked. Booth was produced. “Wh y, what does this mean, Mr. Booth 27 asked Thomas. “I haven't the siightest idea,” said the great tragedian with the utmost simplicity. “I met these two men with this horse, and they insisted upon giving it to me. I guess they stole it. I think one of them is Fontaine.” The horrified and now alarmed rustics were about to be locked up pending an inves tigation of their suspicious conduct, when by the niost singular coincidence a man rushed to the prison door on horshback and shouted out the infor- mation that the real Fontaine had been taken into custody. When he was brought to Louisville Booth expressed v desire to see him, and paid him a sisit in his cell. Strange tosay, a strong tentimental friendship sprung up be- tween the two men. Night after night the kind-hearted jailer took Fontaine io the theatre where Booth was play- ng, and there, secreted in the flies, he looked down upon the acting ot his queerly found friend. Stranger still,night after night when the performance was ended, Booth visit:d the prison,and fre- quently slept all night beside the horse thief in his cell. In the confidence that this communion begat Booth once spoke of the difficulty he experienced in always having a human skull at hand when he played Hamlet. “That shall be remedied,” said Fon- taine quietly, and he then and there made his will, devising his head to Junius Brutus Booth after he had been hanged. Booth left Louisville before Fontaine was executed and the incident passed from his mind. Years after- wards, when he was dead and his son was playing in Louisville, Dr. Morris called upon Edwin Booth, told him the story I have related, and presented him with Fontaine's skull, which he subse- quently used in “Hamlet.” EE ————————C——— Farmer Benner’s Prophecies. Samuel Benner, the Ohio farmer, whose prophecies respecting the iron trade have proved close to results, says that “during 1890 the price of ron will and theaver, age price for the year 1890 will be higher than the average for 1889 and I also predict that there will be a wonderful advance in prices for iron stocks and all products and commodities in 1890. All business will be prosper- ous, and it will be a year of good crops and the boom year in this period ot activity. Inthe beginning of the year 1891 speculation will be at its height, a great business inflation, pig iron $50 per ton in the markets of our country. I predict that there will be a panic in the year 1891. The overtrading and gener- al inflation of business and expansion of credit and confidence will produce this result. The panic probably will be brought about by the effects of heavy rainfalls and floods, or by the collapse of come large financial business firms. This panic will be a commercial and financial revulsion, and will be fol- lowed by along down sweep of prices.” —— To Care for a Canary. Never Give it Sugar or Anything Sweet but Apples. The Epoch. A good many people don’t know how to take care of a canary bird, and there- fore I give them the following advice, { which I got from a bird fancier : “Never | give your bird sugar or figs or raisins, or anything sweet, except a small piece i of sweet apple (peeled) twice a week. Put the apple in the cage in the morn- | ing and take it out at night. It should | have all the ra pe and canary seed it wants and gravel should be kept at the | bottom of the cage. Avoid feeding the ‘bird on celery. Twice a week feed it | on one-third of a boiled egg, using both the white and yellow of the egg. Grate up the egg; that is better than putting it in whole. Giveit the egg the day before it gets the apple, and as large a piece of the former as of the lat- ter. ing water with the chill taken off.” ——The sewers of Paris are one of the modern wonders of the world. That marvelous network of underground streams, over which the tourist can trav- el by rail and in boats, constitutes the bowels of thegay capital. This labyrinth of streams is kept with scrupulous care; for any obstruction in the flow of the sewage would be attended with serious results to the health of the inhabitants of the city above. The sewers of the human system are the liver and bowels, and in order to keep disease out of the wonderful city of which they are a part, they must be kept always free and unobstructed. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets are the best laxative and cathartic known for the purpose: Tiny, sugar-coated granules, in vial, always fresh. CUSTARD WITH CANDIED FRUITS. — Boil a pint of cream with a teacup of sugar, flavor with strawberry extract and color pink. Beat twelve eggs, strain them, and pour the hot not (boil ing) cream over them, add two table- spoonfuls of gelatine dissolved in warm water. Beat until cold. Put pieces of candied cherries, grapes and apricots around the bottom and sides of a mold, pour jelly over them and set to cool, Freeze the custard soft, take out the jelly from the center of the mold and put the custard in ; cover the top with chopped bits of the candied fruits. Put over more custard and more fruit until the mold is full. Set on ice until want- ed ; if eight or ten hours it will be all the better. ———— ——1It is a curicus fact that the body is now more susceptible to benefit from medicine than at any other season. Hence the importance of taking Hood's Sarsaparilla now, when it will do you the most good. It is really wonder- ful for purifying and enriching the blood, creating an appetite, and giving a healthy tone to the whole system. Be sure to get Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which is peculiar to itself. ——If “the grip’ could only be per- suaded to take hold of itself and throw itself out of the community,how happy its victims would be! But the trouble is that it can’t catch itself, ve ——— —Two great enemies—Hood’s Sarasparilla and impure blood. The latter is utterly defeated by the peculiar medicine. Carriages. I3aioaes ! 0 BARGAINS —In—m- o CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, o AND SPRING WAGONS, at the old Carriage stand of 0 McQUISTION & CO.,—— NO. 10 SMITH STREET, adjoining the freight depot. We have on hand and for sale the best assortment of Carriages, hati and Spring Wagons we have ever had We have Dexter, Brewster, Eliptic, and Thomas Coil Springs, with Piano and Jhuschabal bodies, and can give you a choice of the different patterns of wheels. 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