= / Demorrahi atc, Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 27, 1899. FARM NOTES. IMPORTANT FACTS REGARDING HORSE- SHOEING.—Much has been written concern- ing the horse’s foot and the application of a shoe thereto. The impression seems to prevail generally that any person can fit the nail on a shoe, and just as long as it is thus regarded owners of horses must make up their minds to have the noble animal suffer more or less, It should be the far- rier’s business to make the shoe suitable to the foot, and then fit the shoe to the foot, and not the foot to the shoe. If the horse has a perfect foot, shoe so as to keep it in a natural shape and allow it the privilege of performing the functions assigned it. Many smiths run away with the idea that they can improve the form and appearance of a natural or healthy foot. It is impossi- ble to have the footsound and healthy af- ter bringing it to an unnatural form by the free use of the knife and rasp,and some goso far as to usesandpaper, as if they could not do a finished job without it. Such persons ought to have steam power and a polishing wheel, and make free use of them, thereby saving a great deal of elbow grease. It should be remembered that the foot is not a bone, or so made that it can be ironed in any manner that may please man. It is elastic, expanding to the weight of the horse every time he puts his foot to the ground, provided he is shod properly. No horse can have good action if the nails are driven too near the heel, as that prevents full freedom to the foot. You might with equal propriety expect him to the travel with perfect ease if he had his foot incased in a boot of iron. The formation of the hoof forbids it in every particular. The shoe should be made to suit the foot. Many think that if they have the shoe light, so long as it prevents the crust from breaking, that is all that is needed. Experience has proved quite the contrary. Horses should be shod according to the work, the amount they have to do, where they doit, and show they have to doit; also zood judgment is needed to use the proper shoe to preserve the foot. How many times are hind shoes put on the fore feet, when a second thought would teach the smith that it should not be tolerated ? Quite frequently fore shoes are put on hind feet, which is not so ob- jectionable as the other, as the position of the hind foot and the work it has to do renders it less liable to injury than the fore foot, which explains why there are more horses crippled in the fore feet than in the hind. Still, great care should be taken to pre- serve the natural form, of a healthy foot be- hind. Nature gives the colt a foot with a round toe, and it generally remains so un- til some pretended horseshoer alters the shape either with his knife or rasp; and as he has an eye for things that are peaked, v so the foot must he brought to that style ,.s to resent such treatment. v , sign a cause. ’ 4 of beauty, or else he will fit his shoe to drive the heels together, and rather than have a circle of the shoe he must cut the foot narrow to suit the width of the heel. If all smiths would make it a study, and then shoe to widen the heels, the toe would take care of itself, as you will never see a horse with a good wide heel and at the same time have a narrow, contracted foot. The foot should, in the first place, be par- ed perfectly level, removing only that which nature is trying to throw off. How many love to take a knife and cut away ab the frog in abeut the same manner asa man would a cheese for the family ! The ragged ends may be removed without any great injury, yet if let alone nature could do its work, and you would have a natural frog. Many horses are nearly ruined by the cutting away of the heels, which should not be allowed by the owner of the horse. The shoe should never be burned on the foot to make it fit. Have the foot level, make the shoe the same, and the two levels must fit. and then there will be no spring- ing of the shoe to the foot. The nail should not be driven too high in the hoof and in a straight line—not to look as if the floor- man was trying to imitate the teeth of a saw. When clinching them to the foot it is utterly nonsensical to file a gutter around the foot as far back as the nails go, and very often you will see it extend still far- ther. For appearance’s sake file as little as possible under the nail for the clinch, and do not hammer the nail as if you were driv- ing it into wood, as the horse will be sure In dressing the foot never flle ahove the nails, as you are certain to have the foot hard and crispy, because you take away from it that which retains the moisture in it. It is the same to the foot that the enamel of your tooth is to it, which, if kept in a state of preserva- tion, gives you sound and healthy teeth.— Farming and Gardening. —The products of the farm can be chang- ed in value according to the kind of crop. Every article has a commercial value where it is grown, as it will be worth something, be it much or little, but there is also a feeding value which represents the use to which it may be applied with the view of deriving a profit from it. An article may be worth more for feeding on the farm up- on which it is grown than to a purchaser, as the purchase necessitates the cost of transportation. A farmer can, therefore, feed his home grown article with less expense than he can feed articles purchased and brought on the farm. —The best time to manure the garden 1s the present. Rake the ground and burn the refuse before plowing. After plowing the ground cover it two or three inches thick with manure that contains no litter, and then work it in with a cultivator. When spring opens the soluble materials will have been dissolved from the manure and absorb- ed by thesoil. The frost will also assist in reducing the materials. Early in the spring plow the land again and harrow it fine, giving additional harrowings as young weeds appear, so as to destroy them. —Carrots can be sliced with a root cutter and be made serviceable for all kinds of stock. Horses can eat them without prep- aration of the food, but cattle are liable to be choked by any kinds of roots unless the food is cut or sliced. With the root cutter carrots may be sliced and chopped at one operation into very small piece, so as to render them serviceable for poultry of all kinds. Turnips, beets, potatoes and pars- nips may be sliced in the same manner. —DBitter cream sometimes occurs despite every precaution, and it is difficult to as- It results from the cows eat- ing certain weeds found in the pasture, or it may be caused by spotted mildew, which forms upon cream in damp cellars. When the milk is kept too long without skim- ming, or the pails are not thoroughly clean- ed, the result may be bitter cream. —— Might I ask why you have that dollar in a glasscase?’”’ asked the thresh- ing machine agent. ‘‘It’s one I brought back from New York.”” Mr. Haicede ex- plained with pardonable pride. é FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. Miss Caroline Hazard, of Rhode Island, who has just been inaugurated as Presi- dent of Wellesley College, is not a college graduate. An old-time lotion for weak and aching eyes is a weak decoction of sage leaves. Pour a quart of boiling water over a hand- ful of freshly picked leaves, cover closely and allow it to steep gently on the back of the range. Strain and bott!le. For the last two weeks leading tailors have not made gowns, particularly tailor gowns with habit backs. This seems a step in the right direction. If a woman 1s too thin this style of gown accentuates the fact, and if she is too stout the habit back is particularly trying. The newest skirt has a pleat resembling a Watteau down the back. It runs to a point at the waist, and loses itself in the flare of the train. Some of the tailors tried to intoduce this skirt in the late spring, but the fair ones would not have it. Paris has adopted it, however, and now it is getting in its work here. All basques of jackets are cut in short, round tabs. The tailor made dress for au- tumn wear is as simple as possible, consist- ing of a plain skirt, without even a circular flounce and a plain, buttoned jacket with small revers and a coat collar. Foulard skirts are not made in one with the lining, as that destroys the character of the material and makes it appear thick and heavy. The lining of taffeta takes the place of a separate skirt, attached to the outside merely at the waist band. Flannel shirt waists are all the rage and are worn by the best dressed women. If a woman is looking for these flannels she does not want to get one with the dots too close together. These are not half so stylish as the larger and infrequent dot, such as women have been wearing on their veils of the last half year. One point should be noticed in making up these flannels. The regular cuff with the link buttons should not be put on every one of them. A cuff with buttons regulates such a waist absolutely to the daytime. Cut the sleeves in a slight flare over the wrist and put either several rows of stitching or a narrow ruffle of velvet rib- bon to match the design in color, or more especially in black. Even the cuff and sleeve are more artis- tic if made without the shaped cuff stitched to the sleeve. Instead of the cuff shape the sleeve down to the wrist, make it quite long, open a httle at the back, catch it with link buttons and roll it over to suit the length. This sleeve is very much favored by wom- en who dress carefully. The fashionable colors this autumn are dark ink-blue, sealing wax red, lichen gray, locust green, swan gray, cocoa brown, Hollandese purple and automobile plum ; goods are offered in all these shades. The three-quarter length sack coat is to be worn greatly. To the daughter of the gods who is divinely tall I commend it. She whose proportions are on a scale of less grandeurywould do well to stick to the tight, trim French shape, ending a few inches be- low the waist, which, like the poor, is al- ways with us, and always in good style. Sleeves are cut very tight and very long, ending in a point right over the knuckles. An old receipt for making Sally Lunn, i3 to make a batter of one pint of milk and enough flour to make it a little thicker than for muffins. Add one spoonful of melted lard and one of butter, one tea- spoonful of salt and the yokes of two eggs. Dissolve a cake of yeast in half a cupful of lukewarm water and add to the butter. Stand it away to rise for two hours, then put it in the pans and let it rise again for half an hour. Bake about twenty min- utes. It is a wonder that women who have taken to gardening of late years do not raise their own herbs, and so have some really worth while, and if they are not commercially inclined, that they do not raise them for market. Herbs are easily raised, so that semi-invalids, who wish to do some light work in the open air, could easily manage an herb garden. There is nothing pleasanter to the eye, nor more grateful to the senses than beds of lav- ender, rosemary, sage. Summer savory, saffron, fennel, dill and carraway, to men- tion only the most common. They need a rich soil, so that they may grow quickly and luxuriantly, for the value and flavor of the herb largely depends on the character of its growth ; all the care they need when well started is to keep the soil well stirred, and the weeds down, and one must be sure to cut them at the right point, when they arein their prime. Then comes the drying in an airy, not too light, shed or room, and afterwards, when per- fectly dry, they should in the case of herbs used to season meats with, as sage. Summer savory, and others of like nature, be rubbed fine and put away in glass cans; others, meant for perfuming linen, tied up in neat bundles, or put in porous bags and iy whence their sweetness may be use- ful. It is not so many years ago that two sis- ters, who needed to add to their income, nd by good luck had land suited to the 3arious mints, as well as pot and sweet herbs, set themselves to work to make something of an herb garden. They con- sulted a druggist, who told them what it would be worth while to raise, and the prices they would fetch, and the woman at- tempted the venture. In the bit of swamp that was theirs, they planted spearmint, peppermint, ber- gamont and flag; in their garden they planted all they could get the seeds of whose names came in the list given them by the druggist ; they studied the best times to cut their crops ; the right way to dry them and to do them up, and they found themselves at the end of the season with a neat sum on hand and a desire to continue the business. One cannot make a living, or even an ad- dition to one’s living, without exercising skill, foresight, and, best of all common sense ; cannot succeed in the enterprise un- less willing to put a certain amount of work and time into it, but there is no rea- son why many cannot make it lucrative, and, as said in the beginning, an herb gar- den furnishes a pleasant diversion to those who only love gardening and have no mer- cenary views. Grass linen sailor collars will be worn on may of the cloth gowns this fall. These collars are much more elaborate than they were last year. One seen on an advance style imported blue serge gown was trim- med with a narrow band of white em- broidery heading. Through the beading scarlet baby ribbon was run, and the ef- fect was exceedingly pretty. Married By Proxy. Peculiar Ceremony Performed in Australia and | Africa. : i took place in Amsterdam, with a coun- terpart in Africa. Itappears that a young | man left Holland some years ago to serve | in the telegraph department of the Trans- | vaal. It had been his ambition to make a certain young lady in Amsterdam his | wife if he ever attained to prosperity. But when success was achieved he was unable to leave his work for a journey to Holland. In this diffienlty a marriage by proxy— known in Holland as a glove marriage— was suggested. The details were all carefully arranged, the difference of time exactly calculated, and continuous cable connections between Pretoria and Amsterdam secured. The bridegroom and his friends assembled in the Hotel Kruger. An operator using a wire from the cable notified the lady’s family in Holland that all was in repdi- ness, and the reply came that the ceremony would then begin. In the Amsterdam mansion a friend of the bridegroom made the responses, and when the time came to clasp hands, pro- duced a glove belonging to the bridegroom, which he had worn. The proxy, holding one end of the glove and the bride the other, the promises were exchanged and the ceremony complete. A cablegram from the bride to her hus- band, six thousand miles away, gave him her wifely greeting, to which he responded. There was a wedding feast in Pretoria and another in Amsterdam, and the cable was kept busy with congratulations. Then the bride said farewell to her family and went on board the steamer to begin her voyage to her new home. The custom of the old glove marriage dates back to old Dutch coloniel days, when they were more common than in these times of rapid and cheap journeys. But there is a contract far older that re- sembles it in many of its particulars. Many a tearful farewell to mourning loved ones assembled around a deathbed, is like that bride’s good-hye to her family, merely the parting of one who goes to Him who has long heen loved, and who is about to enter the mansion prepared before the foundation of the world.— Pittsburg ‘‘Dis- patch. | An extraordinary ceremony recently | | Prairie Wonder. Corn that Will Yield 150 Bushels to the Acre. J. C. Manbeck, a farmer living four miles northwest of this city, who is con- tinually experimenting with a view to making his farm as productive as possible, has secured a wonderful corn that yields 150 bushels to the acre. Owing to the great difficulty in getting the seed, Mr. Manbeck was only able to plant half an acre this year, but from this little field he will secure seventy-five bushels. The corn is called the German corn, is as white as white can be, produces from three toseven ears on the stalk, and from 10 to 20 stalks to the hill, and requires but one grain as seed in each hill. The corn branches out from the root like Winter wheat, and grows from 10 to 12 feet high. In a sample stalk brought to the ‘‘Regis- ter’’ office the last ear is 9 feet from the ground. The ears of this corn are of a regular size, about 9 inches long and quite thick, the grains being very large and even. Mr. Manbeck says that it is the most wonderful corn he ever saw, and that he doubts not but that, with even fairly good care,anyone can raise 150 bushels to the acre. It makes the finest of stock feed when cut for fodder, and produces many times as much to the acre as the common field corn. Mr. Manbeck’s experiments are fnrther indications that the great resources of Iowa farm land are not half-developed.— Des Moines ‘‘ Register.’ Wide Tire Law. Of Particular Interest to Farmers Who Attend Market. The following text of the wide-tire law is taken from Green’s highway law of 1898, and is correct : ‘‘Every person who during the year ending June 1, 1898, and each succeeding year thereafter, uses on the public highways of this state only wagons or vehicles with wheels upon which two or more horses are used, the tire of which shall not be less than three inches in width, shall receive a rebate of one-half of his assessed highway tax for each year, not exceeding, however, in any one year the sum of $4 or four days’ labor. The right to such rebates shall not be af- fected by the use of buggies, carriages, or platform wagons carrying a weight not ex- ceeding 100 pounds. Upon making an affidavit showing that he complied with the provisions of this section, during any such year, he shall be credited by the over- seer of highway for the district in which he resides, or any road district where he is assessed, with such rebate. Such affi- davit may be taken before any overseer of highway, who is hereby authorized to ad- minister such oath.”’ BIsSMARK’S IRON NERVE—was the result of his splendid health. Indomitable, will and tremendous energy are not found where Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels are out of order. If you want these quali- ties and the success they bring, use Dr. King’s New Life Pills. Only 25 cents at F. Potts Green’s drug store. —*I suppose the college where you went turned out some good men ?’’ The Corpse and the Dog. The other day a woman shipped her hus- band’s remains and a dog over the Central. At Albany she appeared at the door of the baggage car to see how they were getting along. ‘‘How does he seem to be doing ?’’ she asked with a sniff. ‘Who, the corpse’’ inquired the baggage master, kindly. ‘‘No, the dog.”’ ‘Oh, he’s comfortable,’ replied the bag- age man. ‘Anybody heen sitting down on him ?”’ ‘“Who, the dog ?’’ ‘‘No, the corpse.” ‘Certainly not,”” answered the baggage man. ‘Does it seem cool enough in here for him ?”’ “For who, the corpse ?’ ‘No, the dog.”’ ‘I think so,”” grinned the baggage mas- ter. ‘‘Does the jolting appear to affect him any ?”’ ‘‘Affect who, the dog?” “No, the corpse.” “I don’t believe it does.” ‘‘You’ll keep an eye on him, won’t you ?’’ she asked, wiping a tear away. “On who, the corpse ?"’ ‘No, the dog.” And having secured the baggage man’s promise, she went back to her coach. ap- parently contented. ——You ought to take the WATCHMAN What Do the Children Drink ? Don’t give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is de- licious and nourishing and takes the place of cof- fee. The more GRAIN-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their sys- tems. GRAIN-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee but costs about 14 as much. All grocers sell it. 15c. and 25c. 43-50-17 Business Notice. Castoria Bears the signature of Cas. H. FLETCHER. In use for more than thirty years, and The Kind You have Always Bought Castoria. A § T 0 BR I A cC AST O'R 1 A C Ain Qi pony ing 1A C ASD 00 Rr TA c A 8 T 0 BB: 1:4 gece For Infants and Children BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF THE KIND YOU HAVE ALWAYS BOUGH1 In Use For Over 30 Years. cccce A S T oR I A C A S P 0B: .L A Cc A S 7 Qo RB 1 A C A S T 0 RT A C A S 7 9... RI A cCccC A S i G9 ‘RUT A 43-37-1y The Centaur Co., New York City. New Advertisements. ANTED-—Several bright and honest persons to represent us as Managers in this and close by counties. Salary $900 a year and expenses. 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