Bellefonte, Pa., Aug. 28, 1891.
Farm Notes.
If sheep are kept for mutton and
wool, take well selected ewes and
breed to thoroughbred rams.
It is very lesirable to keep the
breeding stock in a good, thrifty con-
dition. A failure to do this will show
in the off-spring.
Too close breeding should be avoided
with sheep fully as much as with any
other class of stock, Change the same
every two years at least.
Too much live stock is quite as bad
for the farmer as too much land. Do
not crowd the stock, and do not keep
more than can be fed well, pastured
well and housed well. If you have
more than this sell off the surplus
speedily.
Careful observation throughout an
extended portion of almost any of our
best farming districts will show that
not one farmer in ten exercises due
care in the management of the manure
produced, even allowing it to go to
waste while buying commercial fertil-
izers to take its place.
In breeding stock do not expect to
get better animals than those you breed
from, for you will in all likelihood be
disappointed, ‘Like begets like,” and
if you want good colts and good calves
look closely to qualities of both sires
and dams. You cannot get perfect
animals by breeding cripples.
Itis a good thing to be systematic.
Teach your boys this. Letthem begin
by keeping a record of everything—of
the weather, of the work done on the
farm, the loads taken in of each crop
harvested, the cost of everything bought
or used, and the income from the sales
made. It is a good practice.
When commencing to feed out the
silage this tall keep in mind that to ob-
tain the best results it should not be fed
alone. Combine it with clover hay
and you have an excellent coarse fod-
der. Then for young cattle, and for
making milk and beef, use in connec-
tion with this bran, shorts, corn meal,
ete.
The Chinese are the best gardeners
in the world, not even excepting the
Germans. The reason for this is that
they count all labor well spent that
adds an iota to the richness of the soil.
They save fertilizers and manures of
all sorts with a methodical care that is
wholly unknown to our advanced agri-
culture.
Root crops cannot be considered di-
rectly as fat or flesh producing, but
they make an agreeable change of diet
and are valuable to use in connection
with more concentrated foods, such as
corn, bran, oil meal, ete. Consisting
mostly of water, they have a loosening
tendency that must be counteracted
with heavier food.
A calf, in order to have the fullest
development of which it is capable,
should have the very best of care from
the time it is born. The first year in
a calt’s life is the all important one.
It should never be stinted in any way.
Give it all the food it wants, so that it
may take advantage of every quality of
growth that it possesses.
There are those who claim that the
hen house should be cleaned out at
least twice a week in warm weather.
Many lady poultry keepers will be con-
tent with no less than having it done
six times a week. Can the houses be
kept too clean? We think not. But
there is a limit to the amount of work
than can be profitably put into any
business.
Some of the much puffed “washes”
for peach trees by which the borer is
to be circumvented would no doubt be
effectual on the larvae if applied at
just the right time; and, to be sure of
the right time, apply every day from
June to September! Bat will that
pay? An examination of the tree and
a search for the borer, with a hoe and
knife in April and October of each
year, costs less and is much more ef-
fective.
We are beginning to learn some
things of value in the dairy. The
milk tester, for instance, is opening the
eyes of dairymen to the vast difference
existing in the milking qualities of
cows of near kln in the best milk-giv-
ing breeds. In the majority of herds
may be found indivinuals that do not
pay for their keep, and yet their per-
formance is sufficient to pass muster
until subjected to an investigation by
the tester or by an analysis.
Manure may be spoiled by either of
two extremes—by being kept too dry
or too wet. By the former it will burn,
or fire fang, thus losing a large portion
of its nitrogen; and by being kept too
wet it will leach out, thus losing all
elements of plant food. It isbest (when
not applied directly to the land) to keep
{¢ just moist enough (a keep down the
heat. One or two buckets of water
thrown upon the pile each morning
will accomplish this.
Take the seeds of apples, pears and
cherries, and others desired to grow ;
plant them and give good culture, re-
moving the first year and setting them
the second year in the orchard where |
the roofs will never be disturbed.
When the first fruit comes top grafting
can be employed on those trees which
do not have good fruit, and in this way
a hardy, healthy, permanent orchard
can be had. Many of the trees will
bear good fruit without grafting.
Do not forget that sheep are subject
to internal as well as external parasites.
In addition to the dip, they should have
a little hardwood ashes or finely pulver-
ized tobacco occasionally in their food,
which will usually be sufficient to keep
them free from worms. It isof the
first importance, in sheep raising, that
the health of the animals should be
closely looked after, and we advise
flock masters not to neglect any item,
however trivial, that will help toward
this end.
me
The quality and quantity of milk
given does not alone determine the
value of a dairy cow. A little pan of 5
per cent. milk may satisfy the city man
but that ratio will not profit the com-
mercial dairy. Too often cows are
judged by the qaautity of their milk
when the low per cents of fats and
solids should condemn them to the
block. Some authorities 1nsist that
quality follows quantity, but this has
been repeatedly disproved, although
quality can be improved by generous
feeding.
General Grant Lost.
He Became Too Much Interested in a
New Orleans Horse Race.
One of the most interesting men I
ever wet in the Judge's stand was Gen-
eral Grant, says Judge Simmons in the
New York World. The popular im-
pression of General Grant is that he was
singularly reticent, but I found him to
be pleasant and communicative.
I met him first when he was return-
ing from his trip around the world, He
had been through Mexico and stopped
in New Orleans on his way home, and
was the guest of Mr. Walter Fearn, who
was minister to Greece under President
Cleveland.
As president of the Louisiana jockey
club I invited General Grant to come
ont and see our racing.
“The newspapers have been attacking
me a great deal on account of my love
for horses,’ said he, ‘‘and perhaps I had
better not go.” I told him he was no
longer in offize and there could be no
harm in his going. He finally consent-
ed, and was driven out to the track by
Dr. Choppin, president of the Boston
club. TIinvited him to come up into
the stand, and he chatted very freely.
“Do you know,” said the general,
“that I never hear of racing that I do
not recall my experience in New Orleans
in 1844. At that time I was a young
lieutenant stationed in St. Louis. 1
wentdown to New Orleans to visit Mr.
James Hewitt, and one day I accepted
an invitation to go out to the track and
see a horse race,
“I do not remember the names of the
horses that were running, nor do I re-
cull the distance of the race. I only
know that I was standing watching
them when I saw one, a gray horse,
about 30 yards in front of the other.
“The excitement of the race overcame
me, and 1 enthusiastically yelled out:
“I'll bet $40 on the gray horse.’ A
gentleman standing beside me said quiet-
ly : ¢I’ll take that bet.’ I reached
down to get my money, when he said in
a courteous way, ‘Your word is sufficient
sir.’ ?
“You canimagine my feelings when
a few moments later my horse began to
fall back and the other horse to move
up. Presently the second horse passed
the gray and won very easily. Then I
felt in my pocket and found that all the
money I had in the world was just $40.
I gave that to the gentleman who had
won it and went back to Mr. Hewitt’s
very much crestfallen.
“I was ashamed to tell Mr. Hewitt I
had been such a fool as to lose my mon-
ev on a horse race, and I knew nobody
else from whom I could borrow, and I
wanted to go back to St. Louis.
“One day I was walking along the
wharf, wondering how I was ever going
to get back home, when I saw the steam-
boat J. M. White unloading. I knew
this was a boat plying between St. Louis
and New Orleans, and a brilliant idea
occurred to me. Why not see the cap-
tain, tell him my story, and ask him to
trust me for a passage.
“I atonce went on board and asked
for the captain. I was told he was in
the barber shop and would be out in a
few minutes. When the captain came
in I said : ‘Captain, I am Lieutenant
Grant, and I want to get to St. Louis,
where I am stationed. 1bave no money.
“I shall be delighted to have you,
lieutenant,” replied the captain. ‘The
boat leaves to-morrow afternoon at b
o'clock ; come abroad whenever you
wish.’
“I have never forgotten that race,
and I have never forgotten Captain
Swan’s kindness.”
Knew When He Had Enough.
Duel in Maiden Lane Between Two
Drivers of Trucks.
Two trucks, one driven by a long man
and the other by a short one, met in
Maiden lane yesterday afternoon. There
was a third truck by the curb. The
street is narrow and there was not room
to pass. “I've got the right of way
here,” shouted the short driver.
“You're a liar,” shouted the long
man. “I'm going up hill, and I’ve the
right of way myself.”
“I’ve got a load on my truck,’ the
short man retorted.
The long man said he didn’t care.
Each refused to back his team and let
the other pass. They argued for five
minutes and then the short man got off
his truck, took off his coat and rolled up
his sleeves. The long man jumped off
his truck, too, and made the same pre-
parations. Neither spoke a word. The
short man walked up to thelong man
and biffed him on the ear. The long
man responded with a hot blow on the
mouth. Then they weat &t each ather
—biff, bang, smash. The short man’s
lip was cut open ; the long man's noge
was bleeding, and his ear was swelled.
At the end of two minutes the short
man’s right eye began to swell up, and
one cheek puffed out. In another min-
ute the short man held his hands up
above his head and said :
¢1've had enough.”
These were the first words spoken af-
ter the men had got oft the trucks. The
long man dropped his hands. The little
man pulled down his shirt sleeves, put
on his coat and got on his truck. Then
he backed his team with his loaded
truck out of the way. The long man
drove ahead without a word, and the
crowd that had watched the fight cheer-
ed the short man for when knowing he
had enough.— New York Sun.
Scriven county, Ga., has a gen-
uine curiosity in the form of a colt
which carries a pair of unmistakeble
horns on his head. Heis now nearly a
year old, and in no way remakable save
for the horns, which Sia grown with
him until now they are nearly a foot in
length and as handsome a pair as any
cow ever carried.
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“Japan Wax.”
«Japan wax,” as itis called, isob-
tained from a tree, the Rhus Succedanea.
which grows in Japan, China and the
East Indies. The Japanese call it Haje,
or Haze. The tree commences to bear
fruit when five or six years old, and in-
creases its product every year, till, at the
age of fifty vears, a single tree will pro-
duce 350 to 400 pounds of berries, from
which seventy to eighty pounds of wax
can be obtained. The wax is formed in
the middle of the barry, between the
skin and the seed, like the pulp of a
grape. It is extracted by boiling the
berries in water and allowing it to cool,
when the wax separates from the skin
and seed, sinking to the bottom of the
vessel 1n a solid cake. The specific grav-
ity of the wax is 0.970, and its melting
point 131 degrees Fahrenheit. It is
largely used, either alone or mixed with
tallow, by the Chinese in the manufac-
ture of candles, This tree should not
be confounded with the ‘tallow tree’ of
China, which has a pith of solid tallow
in all trees that have fully matured.
Horse Sense. :
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There is a trick practiced by one of
the West End tow-horses on the Cem-
bridge street hill which the Listner has
no doubt been noticed by a great many
people, and which is well worth being
put on record. The horses stand in line
at the foot of the hill, each when he re-
turns from a tow, taking a positicn at
the rear. In this way each horse gets
his turn at towing. Among the tow-
horses at this hill is a big-necked gray, a
stout and wise old fellow. He has been
seen, when the tow-boys are temporarily
around the corner, as they sometimes
are, to sneak out of his position when he
has got to the head of the line and
quietly move around to the foot. In
this way he dodges his turn at pulling
the car up hill.
The Good Old Times.
“Then times were good,
Merchants cared not a rush
For any otter fare,
Than Jonny cake and mush.”
But now times have changed, and the
plain and simple fare of the forefathers
is done away with. Patent flour, and
high seasoned food, and strong drinks,
have taken its place, and as a result,
dyspepsia, impure blood, and diseases of
the stomach, liver and lungs are numer-
ous. The great change hasled one of
the most skillful physicians of the age to
study out a remedy for these modern
diseases, which he has named bis “Gold-
en Medical Discovery.” Dr. Pierce in
this remedy has found a cure for Dys-
pepsia, Bronchitis, Asthma, Consump-
tion, in its Yearly stages, and “Liver
Complaints.”
An Outrage Under the Law.
Springfield, Me., Advocate.
One of the cases where injustice may
be legally done was witnessed here this
week. Irvin Hodgdon, alittle boy who
knew nothing of the fish law, saw a large
trout in the Mousar and managed to
catch it with an unbaited hook, For
this he was arrestel by Fish Warden
Load of Acton, carried to Biddeford and
fined $26 and costs amounting to $40.
How A BrauriruL Frowrr Was
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lovers, walking by the river Rhine. The
lady begged her suitor to pluck a little
pale-blue flower, growing on the bank.
In doing so, he fell into the water, and
was drowned ; but while sinking, he
threw the flower to her and cried :
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The little child of Mr. and Mrs.
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ou the day that he predicted would end
his life. He selected the suit he wish-
ed to be buried in, made other arrange-
ments for his funeral, and at the ap-
pointed time lay back and expired.
RINGING Noises.—In the ears, some-
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by catarrh, that exceedingly disagree-
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Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the great blood pur-
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Arbuckle’s Coffee, 25cts a pound.
Good Roller Flour, Champion Brand, $1.15 a sack.
Finest Fall Cream Cheese,13cts a pound, 4 1b,for 50cts.
New No. 1. Lake Fish 90cts for 15 pound pail ;
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Best California Canned Fruit, 25cts a Can.
Maple Syrup, full gallon can,$1.00; half gallon can 50¢
California Dried Grapes, cts a pound.
do do Raising, 10cts a pound ; Seediess, 15cts
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California Apricots, 20cts a pound.
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Sve little fortunes have been
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Some earn over $500.00 a month. - You can do
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Even beginners are easily earning from $5 to
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Inprice we defy competition, as we
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