“Beware ald
Bellefonte, Pa., June 18, 1909.
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THE BOY WITH THE HOE.
Say, how do you hoe your row, young chap ?
Bay, how do you hoe your row?
Do you hoe it fair,
Do you hoe it square,
Do you hoe it the best you know?
Do you cut the weeds, as you ought to do,
And leave what's worth while there ?
The harvest you'll garner depends on you ;
Are you working it on the square ?
Are you killing the noxious weeds, young
chap ?
Are you making it straight and clean ?
Are you going straight,
At a hustling gait ?
Are you scattering all that's mean ?
Do you laugh and sing and whistle shrill,
And dance a step or two,
As the row you hoe leads up the hill ?
The harvest is up to you.
~New York Sun.
A HOUSE THAT WAS SAVED BY
THE FLAG.
At 1655 Taylor Street, in the city of San
there stands to-day a house,
which, in the greatess fire of > times,
was saved from the flames by the 2a
‘When over four hundred blocks of build.
ings lay in smoking rains, this house was
the only one left etanding unconsumed
along the east side of the full length of
Taylor Street—a distance of twenty-eight
blocks, nearly two ful! miles.
The house is one of the prominent resi-
dences on one of the great hills of she city,
known as Russian Hill ; and was the first
large dwelling-house erected in thas sec-
tion of San Francisco, away back in the
early days. It is not built of Inmber that
grew upon the Pacific Coast. Like many
of the houses of pioneer times, it came in
the hold of a vessel around the Horn. In
the far-off state of Georgia the pine-trees
grew ; and there the house was framed and
fashioned before it started on its long sea
journey of thirteen thousand miles. Some
additions have been made, and its exterior
has been covered with California shingles 3
but for the most part it stands to-day as is
was first framed in Georgia.
It bas Jong been the home of patriots. Its
owner, Eli T. Sheppard, served as a mem-
ber of the Eighty filth Ohio Volunteers in
the Civil War ; rendered valuable service
to his country as United States Consul at
Tientsin, China, from 1869 to 1875 ; and
in 1876, was appointed by President Grant
intervational law adviser for the imperial
Japanese cabinet. Another portion of the
residence is occupied by Mr. E. A, Dakin,
a veteran of she Civil War. Mr. Sheppard
bad gathered within ite walls a large and
valuable collection of oriental treasuree.
Among them were costly vases given by
the Emperor of Japan ; a sword presented
by Li Huog Chang ; a superb lacquer cabi-
net, the gilt of the Chinese Empress to Mrs,
Sheppard. On the other band, flags had
long heen Mr. Dakin’s hobby. He had
one room entirely covered with American
flags. Some of them had played a pars in
history. There wae the jack of the Oregon ;
the rear-admiral flag of she ;
she jack of the Marblehead while as Cuba ;
the laanoh flag of Dewey's Olympia ; and
on the walls of this room buug the great
banner of the Stars and Stripes that was to
save the house and all its treasures from de-
struction.
At the time of the earthquake and fire,
April 18, 1906, Mrs. Brindley, a daoghter
of Mr. Sheppard, was there awaiting she
arrival of her husband to take steamer for
Japan. She bad long resided in thas coun-
zy, aod had bad *‘eartbquake experience,”
80 to speak. Accordingly, as soon as the
earth bad ceased trembling, she proceedsd
to fill the bash tubs and all other recepta-
oles in the bouse with water. She feared
that the disturbance of the earth had brok-
en the supply maine ; and hardly had she
filled the last pitcher when her fear was
proved well-grounded. The water ceased
so flow. Bat ihe first step that made is
Jonible for the flag to save the house had
taken. Mr. Sheppard and Mr. Dakin
took the second step. In order shat the
household might bave a supply of drinking
water, they brooght home from a neighbor-
ing grocery a dozen or so bottles of water
obarged with carbolic acid gas, —she kind
of bottles where you pressa lever as the
top, and the water fizzes out in a stream
under pressure. They are commonly called
“‘siphons.
At this time no coe ¢ the house in
danger. Is bad sturdily withstood the
earthquake ; and the fire was many blocks
away. Bat all Wednesday and Wednesday
night and all of Thursday the fire raged in
fary ; and at Inst is came creeping up the
slope of the Russian Hill. The flames
reached the block in which the house was
situated. The heat grew intense. The sides
of she house sent forth smoke. The veranda
on the east broke into flames, and she un-
der side of the eaves oa the north and
east kindled to a blaze.
Mr. Steppasd and his family bad taken
one last look at their home with its treas-
ures, and had sought refoge with friends
across the bay. Mr. Dakin had ed to
the last, hoping against hope. ih all
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“a house that flies a flag that is worth
saving !”” His men 1 with a cheer;
and as Mr. Dakin was sadly wending his
way down the northern slope
Hill, soldiers of the 20th United
Infantry were dashing up the eastern slope
at a donbie-quick. No time was
tore away tne burning woodwork
veranda ; open the door ;
covered the bathtubs filled with water.
Some of them oarried earth from the gar-
was carried to them, they bombarded every
spot that had kindled into flame,
stood alone. Every blaze that had started
upon its eaves sides had been extin-
guished aave vie, There was one spot un-
er the eaves at the northeast corner that
could not be bombarded successfully.
less the fire at that point was put oat, all
that had been done were done in vain.
The soldiers were equal to the emergen-
oy. A squad mounted so the rool. One
of the men lay flat upon the edge, and
while four of his comrades held him fast by
the legs, he Jeaned afar out over the wide
old-fashioned eaves. Others passed to him
bottles of water charged with carbonic acid
gas. And there, banging far over the edge
of the roof so that he might be able to di.
reo the stream of water on the fire burning
fiercely beneath the eaves, he squirted the
fizzing contents of bottle after bottle, until
the last flame and the last ember were ex-
tinguiehed —and the house was saved. —By
F. H. Wheelan.
Potato Bugs and Blights.
Information has heen received by the
Division of Zoology of the Penasylvania
Department of Itare from some of
the principal potato districts of she State to
the effects that the potato bug, or Colorado
beetle, is already actively at work on the
young potato plants and threatens to do
considerable damage. Blight may also
cause much loss to potato growers.
Io answer to some of the queries as to
how to destroy the bugs, as well as prevent
blight, State Zoologiss Sarface replies as
follows :
“The Colorado potato beetle or potato
bug will be very destructive in many parts
of this State this year. Spray with the
Bordeaux mixture to which is add-
ed. Make the Bordeaux mixture by using
tour pounds of blnestone and five of
lime in filty gallons of water and to this
add either one-baif pound of Paris Green
or two pounds of arsenate of lead. Spray
thoroughly and youn will prevent blight
and aleo kill the bugs. Repeat this once
every two weeks for blighs, bus if there are
no bugs present, yon need not add the
poison. Whenever the bugs are present
add the poison and spray for them. There
is no rule concerning the frequency of repe-
tition for potato bugs, as we simply spray
when they come and kill them ae soon as
possible. If yom do not wish to go to the
trouble of making the Bordeaux mixture
for the blighs; or are willing to run she risk
of the blight not coming, yon can kill the
potato beetles by spraying with either of
the two poisons mentioned, in fifty gallons
of water alone. But the best thing to do
is to make the regular Bordeaux mixture
with lime and bluestone and then add the
poison to this. The Bordeaux is for plant
diseases only, and will not kill insects. It
is thus a fungicide. To make it an in-
suiide we add the poison, as described
above.
BLACK ANTS ON PLANTS AND TREES.
A request for information as to how to
rid plaots and trees of black ants, which
was received at the Pennsylvania Depart.
ment of Agriculture’s Division of ogy,
elicited she following from Prof. H. A. Sar-
face, State Zool :
*‘You can do this by finding the nesting
places of these pests and holes into
the inserior of them with a sharpened stick
like a broom bandle, and pouring into each
hole one-half tea cup of carbon bisulphide.
Fill the hole with earth and cover is with
a wet cloth or blanket to keep down the
fumes, and the ants will be ed at
once. This is the best possible method for
destroying ants of any kind. After the
vest is found, and the queen destroyed in
the manner stated, the colony is
Bh He ed
y r to where
they live and pouring in the carbon bi.
sulphide. If it he at the side of a wall, or
elsewhere where they can nos surely be lo-
cated, one can destroy them by pouring a
considerable quantity of gasoline, or ben-
soe, into the hole made by the side of the
‘‘Ants, as seen going up and down trees,
are not themselves the cause of inj 0
the tress or plants, bus are visiting Plant
Lice, or Scale Insects, or sometimes plant
glands, for the purpose of obtaining the
sweet liquid, called honey dew, wh is
Senrated be them. Thus the ant is general-
ly an indication of serious pests on the
trees, although itself doing no injury. It
is, therefore, not n to treat the
trees for ants, but to treat them for the
pests which the ante visit. This means
spraying with a contact insecticide, of the
SR
“Blood Tells.”
That old eayi bave many applioca-
tions, "Then tue hoe 1a blotohed with pim-
ples, the body vexed with eruptions
eaten by sores, the blood is telling of its
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60 cents per gallon, Sechler & Co.
Forty Years in lows.
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In emigrating from one country to anoth-
orth | er, and especially when some considerable
dietance intervenes, one of the principal
requisites inquired into is, are climatic
conditions conducive to good health, There
have been many instances where simply a
change of locality ; the getting away from
conditions or environments resulted in
transforming a person of a delicate consti.
tution into ome of rogged health which
would naturally be followed with the
prospeot of prolonged life.
The death rate in the valleys of Centre
county may be no greater than that of the
Iowa prairies. There are no classes of peo-
ple bealthier than the mountaineer, yet
bow few of the Bald Eagle valley homes
are builded very far above highwater mark
or at least above the elevation known as
the “foot of the mountain.”’ No criticism
can attach for this, for where the cultiva-
tion bas to be done there the home must
he, and where railroads can be constructed
there will the towns be and neither of
these two industries as a rule are operated
oo the mountain side, and were it not for
the splendid, natural sewerage system
leading out from every nook, corner, ‘‘hol-
low’ and valley carrying away unhealthy
and refuse matter, Pennsylvania might be
called unbealtby; but this never was or
never will be. Mountain springs are al-
ways pure and give out nothing but health.
Good authority says that Iowa is one of
the most healthful States. Ite altitude is
nearly regular being 1513 feet above sea
level at its greatest surveyed elevation, dif.
fering from Pennsylvania in from 1000 feet
at the lowest and 2684 at its greatest, so
that the average places us abont 300 feet
lower,
However we even up by having a con-
stant flow of pure air with no mountains to
interfere, with an equitable distribution,
some say the winters are severe on account
of the northwest winds, but they come
laden with purity, as does the mountain
spring. The summers are delightful and
the falls are clear, warm and dry. It is a
fact that we are free from epidemic and
epidemio disease,and the dryness and purity
of the atmosphere cause many to regard
Towa as a desirable place for those predis-
posed to lung trouble.
The only scrap to be had with the writer
as to the relative healthful conditions of
the two States in which he claime a lively
interest, is to attempt to place either one
below what they really are, namely : good
places in which to live and end ones days.
My fathers family in 1869 was intacs ;
that is, death bad never visited us, there
being eight brothers and three sisters, We
were not all in good health and as a conse-
quence, Dr. Dorworth was an almost week-
ly caller at our home. Father was always
in poor health, while our mother seemed
to be the only robust member of the family.
So it was largely to tess, and perhaps for
better health conditions thas caused a re-
moval of the family here. That Iowa far-
nishes a more healthy climate, we are not
ready to assert, but certain it bas been that
the entire family were greatly benefitted
and the eleven brothers and sisters alive
today are all robust men and women. The
youngest brother, of twelve children, was
born soon after coming here. The youngest
sister the most delicate of the family, died
Feb. 2ad, 1807, at the age of 47 years. The
providential privileges meted out to us
bas been the subject of some comment, and
at the times of our reunions went the
rounds of the press of the country. We
note one or two : On Sunday, Oct. Sth, 1889,
the unbroken family coosisting of father,
mother and twelve children gathered at the
parental home and sas down together at
one table to a dinner prepared by she moth-
er and three sisters. There were present,
and served at another table twenty-three
grandchildren, a total of thirty-seven——
another, and our last, occurred in August,
1900. Father was taken with a severe at.
tack of a nervous affection, of several years
standing and is soon beoaiie apparent that
he would not survive. The family were
all summoned and were present at our first
sorrowful gathering. Watching and wait-
ing for seven days the end came on August
23cd, while mother and we $welve stood
around his bed and saw our father breash
his last; the firet break in the family by
death. His funeral was from Wesley M.
E. church, the sermon preached by Rev.
C. C. Mabee, who began his career as a
minister at a campmeeting held in the
early fifties, a mile above Howard in
Pletohers woods. We six brothers carried
him from the old home to the church and
lowered him to hia last resting place in
beautiful Woodland cemetery in this city.
Over six years later, our mother was
stricken with pneumonia acd passed away
December 12th, 1906, belore the arrival of
all the family, but all twelve were present
as the funeral and again we six brothers
completed the task of placing our parents
gide by side where they now silently rest.
Less than two months later the youngess
sister, Annie, born in Howard, was taken
suddenly from us with that almost always
fatal disease puenmonis, and another time | 80d security
we gix, laid a sister away, the first break in
the family of children. We eleven sur.
vive, all in good bealth and wondering who
will be the nexs.
Our parents were upright, conscientions | health riches
christians, living and putting into practice
their profession.
Ie a communication to the WATCEMAN
recently, Caps. Austin Curtin referred to
father’s habit of chewing tobacco and his
desire and efforts to rid himself of i$ which
he finally succeeded in doing. The captains
statement is correot, for on Monday, March
9th, 1885, he wrote a pledge in bis diary,
and from that date on he never used it
again,
Oar family connection about all living in
Iowa, were joined on February 18th, 1881,
by grandlather, Jacob Baker, of Howard,
who finally concluded to retire and spend
bis remaining days among his kindred. The
revering of old bome ties wae bard for the
old gentleman to get over, but be lived a
quiet and fairly well contented season with
his son Mitchell, passing away on Friday,
November 4tb, 1887, and lies buried ina
country cemetery, sen miles south of this
city. He was followed to the grave by
Misobell, who died in she hospital in this
city, following an operation for appendicitis
on the 23rd of July, 1898, and was buried
beside bis father.
It can bardly be realized, yet the writer
is now the senior male survivor of his fam-
ily name, while but one of Jacob Baker's
family lives : Mrs. Mary Moffly, widow of
the late Capt. Joe. W., and who is now
visiting in the old home State.
We encroach on space in the foregoing
allusions of a personal nature for the bene-
fis of many old time personal friende and
acquaintances who may not bave known of
the changes that time forces upon ue, hav-
ing been led to think thus from letters at
band, expressing surprise that the writer
still survives,
With this we close a series of what was
intended to be of four or five articles that
have been swelled to about an even dozen.
Claiming no pretention as a writer for
publication, baving never attempted such
previous to this, we apologize for poor con-
struction, but emphasize the accuracy of
the foundation and in conclusion assert
what has permeated the entire series thas
Pennsylvania and Iowa are both good
enough to live in and enjoy life, good
enough to die in, and not fis subjects for
adverse criticism, and in support we ap-
pend the following composed by a member
of our Keystone club, sung to the tune of
My Old Kentucky Home, and always put
to use in our annual meetings :
My Pennsylvania Home.
BY W. W. FINK,
Turn back, O Time, to the days of long ago,
In fancy we fondly return
To the dear old State where the Schuylkill's
waters flow
And the mem’ried lamps of childhood burn.
Through the eyes of youth we can see the dis.
tant hills
In purple and shimmering grees,
Her mountain chains and a thousand rippling
rills,
And her mellow, golden fields between,
Cuorvs
Pennsyl—ensyl—vania
But vain my pencil—8o
We will sing one song for our Pennsylvania home
For our childhood's cherished home of long
8gO.
On battle-fields where our fathers fought to
break
The shackles of the tyrant old King George,
Their graves lie low by the river and the lake’
And at thrice heroic Valley Forge
Der Dutch, der Dutch mit ihr karshe pol und
such,
Und ihr schwetza halver English yust so
gahr,
But der karsha pof und brodt warscht of der
Pennsylvania Dutch
Nourished heroes for the migh ty civil war,
-Cno.
The quince bush grows by the little cottage
door
As ever in days that are gone,
The schoolboys play on the Susquehanna's
shore
In the glory of their life's bright dawn,
A golden haze from the happy olden days
Falls round us, and so, once again
In loving tones we will soft our voices raise
For the dear old land ef William Penn,
Cha,
Und noon mine lieben froinda, missen
wir obschide namen. Wir baben angen-
amp teite mit inander verlebt. Ich werda
alla ein leaboolles ondenken in minem
hertzen bewaren. lob schleetza mit den
schaven, trastrichen worten Schiller’s :
“Fer dies kurtza meochen laben awich-
kiten mustz es gaben wo eich froinda
wedersaben.”’
Good-bye,
8. W. Baker.
Des Moines, Iowa, June 1st, 1909,
Odd ltems from Everywhere,
Union lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Nao-
tuckes has received from Thomas H. Ran-
dall, of New York,a Masonic emblem found
while excavating ancient Roman ruins. It
is shooght that the emblem was worn by a
master Mason in Rome more than 2000
years ago.
While the seeds of the dorows, an East
African leguminous tree, are extensively
used for food, the pods and leaves form an
egeellent cement when mixed with orush-
stone.
Joseph N. Hope, of Dover, N. H., has a
bread-toaster that was made in Lebanon,
Me., nearly 250 years ago. It is made
wholly of iron.
Marine lamp-posts are still in nse at Ply-
mouth. They serve to mark the way at
night for tugs with scows engaged in the
work of making a deep barbor channel on
a tidal sohedule.
In Australia, where women vote, the
child of a poor widowed mother, instead of
being taken from her and placed in an in.
stitution, is boarded with its mother as the
expense of the State.
nerves and pervoueness, i
Satie os val so? makes the mind
cheerful. Is ly does away with
the pain associated with the baby’s advent.
It makes weak women strong and sick
women well. i
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
So Life's year begins and closes,
Day's through short’ ning, still can shine;
What though youth gave love and roses
Age still leaves us friends and wine,
~Moore, “Sprig and Autumn,”
Sativ is perennially the leading material
for the wedding gown, bot it is more shan
ever the fabric of to-day. when gloss ie de-
sired of all materiale. Of the satine there
issuch an all but endless line thas is is
difficult so discriminate. One thing is troe
of all of shem. They are glossy to the last
degree and supple as she silk will allow.
As tbe season grows uncomfortably warm
for satin thinver materials will take iw
place. Acrepe de chine of satin finish, tulle,
net lace and chiffon of various textures.
The weddiog gown of to-day is as pistar-
esque a robe as ever a girl plighted her
troth in.
In the robes seen this spring the waist
line bas dropped more or less, as is basin
all other toilets, and she lines of the figure
bave been brought out at the waiss and
bust more than is possible when the girdle
is lifted. As yet, all the gowns are of
priocess style, although some very hand-
some ones have been seen that bad a two-
piece effect. This is usvally done, how-
ever, to suit the figure. Certain figures
carry off better a gown that bas a break
somewhere between the hem of the skirt
and she buss.
Oae of the loveliest spring weddings
which took place on the other side of the
water was ail in white—the bride, her two
attendants, the four little flower girls and
two young boy pages, who wore white
sailor suite. The bridesmaids wore lace and
the flower girls chiffon. The bride’s gown
was satin.
The old-fashioned blue and white check-
ed gingbam is developed into a smars little
gown that is equally suited to some of the
soft wool materiale or to flannel, of which
at least one gown in the summer wardrobe
should he made. There is a four-gored
skirt, with a double box plait down the
front, which gives the effecs of a panel by
being piped with plain blae, like the blue
in the check.
The jumper suit, on acconut of its con-
venience, will figure conspicuously this
season, bus the gunimpe and sleeves are
generally securely attached. Sometimes,
too the skirs is made separate, but provid-
ed with hooks, and the waistbands with
eyes, especially where there 18 any degree
of fulness in either or both.
It is still somewhat of a puzzle whether
trailing skirts shall be given preference
through the summer. The odds are with
the nays. There are, and probably always
will be, certain occasions upon which only
a long skirt is appropriate, and there are a
great many materials suitable only to be
fashioned into long gowns; bat for all but
ceremonious occasions there is no doubt
that the instep-length skirt will be the
more generally worn, although the design-
ers still advocate the others,
There are many pretty designe among
the inexpensive linens, the cheviots, and
ocotten orepes, shat have small figures print-
ed on them in delicate colors. They are as
cool and smart-looking for morning wear
as white, and somehow seem to keep their
immaculate appearance for a greater length
. of time than all white. White is used a
great deal for trimming purposes in the
way of bias, straight, and shaped bands, in
stripings and pipinge, and in jackets and
barness effects. hite braiding or cording
on colored materials is one of the fads of
the moments, and for this there are many
varieties of braids—plain, lace, applique
braids, round, flat, tubular, and io all
widths.
The cherry season is at band. Native
fruit is already fairly cheap in the markets
aud before long will be here in quantities
for preserving. No cherry is better for
canning than the bright red Royal Ann.
The Morello is aleo fine. Neither are sweet
SuoUR AG ekt, bug are ideal for cooking
aod preserving. Harper's Bazar suggests
an original method of stoning cherries.
Take ordinary long wire bairpins—new
ones, of counrse—and sterilize by dropping
for a moments into boiling water. Pas the
loop end of she bairpin into a cherry
ull ont the stone. The [ruit will be very
ittle injured.
In preserving cherries aliow three quar-
ters of a pound of sugar to each pound of
a b ono ¥s Shigsine ide Rleiths
thr a n vessel.
Cover the leave overnight. Drain off the
syrup and boil until the scum rises. Skim
carefully, put in the cherries and cook for
about twenty minutes. If cooked too long
8! rit lone ite Beautiful nei
0 e a very preserve as
above. After the fruit has boiled twenty
minutes take it out of the syrup witha
skimmer and place on a platter in the hot
sunshine. The dish should be covered
with a wire screen if the busy bee and the
industrious fly are not to benefit. Boil the
syrup until it is thick and like molasses.
tn the cherries to the syrup, bat only
to heat through. Seal in tumblers.
The best oherrries for the table are black
hearts. Served on lettuce hearts with a
delicate onnaise these cherries make a
delicicus . Many people stir into the
mayonnaise a ocupful of whipped cream,
bat this is not necessary.
Natural finished willow furniture may
be cleaned with soap suds in which borax
has been dissolved.
It should be applied with a scrubbing
The pieces should be dried very speedily
in the sun.
oom
The old-fashioned remedy of ying a
one of the best apelying +
roat.
bandage, such as a folded
in cold water and
begins | evenly diffused in the finest kind
that, as
FARM NOTES.
~—Asbes of savy kind mixed with dry
soil will make a good duss bash for poul-
try.
—When genuine roup breaks oul among
the fowls it is very difficult to get rid of.
By keeping the hen houses dry and bav-
iog perfect ventilation she disease may be
avoided.
—Two crops of lambs casnot be expeot-
ed in a year with any sheep but the Dor-
sets and Tnois, and with these it is not
considered desirable to breed twice a year.
Ae a rule, single lambs once a year will be
found wore profitable than twins or two
lamblings, even with the Dorsets.
—Out of 2,500 hoys recently examined
in the schools of Kaneas, only six cigarette
smokers were found to be what would gen-
erally be called ‘‘brighs.”” Ten of the re-
mainder were average students, while all
the rest of the 2,500 were found to be poor
at their stadies, or worthless.
—Cultivation of the soil is not merely
done to kill weeds, but it is a moisture con-
servator; it makes the soil more porous, so
that the the plant roots more easily
penetrate in search of plant food. In time
of protracted drought the cultivator should
be kept going whether there are weeds or
not.
—The asparagus beetle is now doing
damage. The best remedy is to cus the
shoots as soon as they appear above ground,
ae tae beetle attacks the tips. Many per-
sone prefer the green tops of asparagus, bus
the best stalks are those cut when the tips
Sew, as they are then tender from sip
to butt.
—Oope of the handiest things about a
farm is a canvas large enough to cover a
load or stack of bay. Those who still stack
all bay outside need one most. Bus there
are many other uses for one, such as cover-
ing loads of grain that can not be unloaded
before a shower, a protection for the binder
on dewy nights, ete.
—S8prinkle lime in the watering trough
and not a particle of soum will form on the
surface. hen the lime loses its strength,
scum will begin to form, which may be
twice during a season. Wash ont the
trough aod repeat the dose. It is cheap,
harmless, wholesome; keeps the water
sweet and saves the live stock.
—Some Philadelphia gardeners use lime
and tobacco water for destroying many in-
sects which prey on plants. A half bushel
of lime is emptied into a barrel of water,
together with a backetful of tobacco stems.
Thie is well stirred up, and after is bas set-
sled for a day or two the clear water is
syringed over bushes, killing all insects
that come within ite reach.
—Melon vines sometimes die from no ap-
perent cause. Decay begins at the base of
the vines, the branches not falling until
later. This freqnently bappens when no
indications of insect damage appears. The
cause of the dying of the plants may be
from the ground being low, or from the use
of fresh mavure in the hills, which oreates
too much warmth during dry periods.
~The bumble bee is a friend of the farm-
er. In sections where cloverseed crops are
depended opon, the value of the bumble
bee as an agent in fertilizing the olover
blooms is fully appreciated. A knowledge
should be bad of the useful as well as the
destructive insects, which would prove
that the farmer bas quite as many good
insect friends as he bas destructive ones.
—Good hay can only be made by cutting
the grass as soon as it heads out, and clover
a8 soon as the heads are in full bloom. It
is a mistake to wait until the heads turn
brown. There is nothiog in the theory
that sunebive alone makes bay. Air is as
much a factor as sunshine. Curing mainly
in the winrows and bay cocks is now
ticed by many of our best hay specialists.
~—A stockman claime that when calves
three or four days old become sick and die
with scours it is due to indigestion, ap-
parently, and yields to treatment with pep-
sin if taken in time. A teaspoonful twice
a day given in a little warm milk after
feediog will cure it, and if given when the
call is born, and continued for a few daye,
will prevent it. The pepein is the common
kind sold in drug stores, and can be pur-
chased by the pound.
—Shallow cultivation conserves the
moisture and prevents it from ing
from the surface. Every time a rain falls
the loose ground absorbs more than does
the beard soil, as the latter permits the
and | water to flow off. When the rain goes down
into the soil, avd the soil then loosened, the
capillary tubes are sealed and the flow of
water upward ie arrested. A loose top soil,
therefore, not only permite of securing a
large share of water from each rain, bus
also retains it.
—1It is claimed that by pouring butter-
milk freely along the backs of sheep it will
ve a remedy for sicks. It a gill of
erosene is added to a gallon of buttermilk
the remedy will be improved, as the kero-
sene forms an emulsion with buttermilk
and does no barm to the animal. The rem-
edy will cost bus listle and should be given
a trial by way of experimens. It is also
claimed thas if buttermilk is given a horse
it will serve better than soy other asa
remedy for bots, These remedies were
Suggested by parties who bave tested
t en,
ws S000 Sovusty ol Jandy is jpuiid,
a law exists com a to
duced for each pig of whi” Sig om
sheep on the farm is ly ander-
stood and appreciated by ish
oe 3 he
ae $0 ¢
of the Fue salt is so
of batter,
is showm icroscope,
a film of clear
is surround
—Do you know where you can get a
fine fat mess mackerel, bone ous, Sechler
& Co.
Doge in Hamburg are taxed according to
size. The bigger the dog the higher the
tax.