Democrat Yate — —_— Bellefonte, Pa., October 1, 1909. MY LADY MOON. Bo slow!y down the western sky You sail, my Lady Moon, ; The fleecy clouds that after fly Will surely hide you soon. I'd like to sail the skies with you, And race the clouds along the blue, Please take me in your gold canoe— My pretty Lady Moon! Around the woridand home we'll float, My pretty Lady Moos, I'd rather travel in your boat Than in a silk balloon, We'll look down on the rivers deep, The lonely roads, the huddled sheep, The woods where birds are fast asleep— My pretty Lady Moon! Here all the world is green and gay Beneath the skies of June, But oh, what wonders far away You see, my Lady Moon! You climb above the mountains’ crown, You view the busy, crowded town, The restless sea, the lonely down— My preity Lady Moor! Ob, let me sail the skies with you When you're “The Harvest Moon!" We'll choose a night when clouds are few, And West Wind sings a tune; When orchards shine with apples bright, And reapers sing in waning light, And you shine for their dance all night— My pretty Lady Moon! Cecil Cavendish in October 8t, Nicholas, MY PICNIC. 1 am afraid that that title will make youn think, gentle reader, that the picnic of which ! az about to tell you is the only one to which Iever went. That is far from the truth. No, indeed, it wasn’s the only one—and I eleven years old the ninth of September! The fact ie, I have been to picnics as long as I can remember, picnics and listle picnics, nice picnics stupid picoios, picnics on the seashore, and picoics in the woods, and picnics upon the tiptops of mountains. I dare say no child was ever fortunater in the pionio line than I have been. Bat the picnic I am now about to tell you of was the very nicest one I ever had, and that is why I shall think of is ax my picnic as long as I live and breathe. Another reason for call. ing it ay pissie is tbat I was the only one at it. cept, of course, Rob Roy avd lis- tle Gamboge. But they don’t come in till later, as you will soon see. Io the fires piace, I bad better tell you about my avoestiy and wo forth, and then that will be over with. You are not a bis soxiouser, gentle reader, than [ am to ges at she picuic part. Bat I muss explain a listle, firss. My father is an artist and paints the moss beantifal pictures in the world. Some of them we sell, hut we have a great many left. He is the jolliest father you ever beard of, too, and perfectly splendid at oorn roasts and things. Probably be would have heen at this very pionio if he badn’t been «0 busy painting a picture of mother standing in the red snmacs shat grow along she top of our bluff, You see, what I am about to relate took place on Turtie-Back Island, where we spent all the summer, lass year, and all the fall up to Thankegiving week. It's a lovely place, and we liked itall the time, bat the very best was alter all the sommer people had gone away and we bad every bit of the island to ourselves. The day the last family except ours went away, we stood on the biufl, father and moter and I, and watched the steamer ous of sight aronnd the other end of the island ; and then we all joived hands and had a dance of delight, and father shouted just as loud as he conld thas poem of Robinson Crusoe'’s aboat : “1 am monarch of all | survey My right there is none to dispute I" Finally motber got all ous ol breath daocing and laughing, avd she bad to be fanned with father’s hat while I found ber hairpins. 1 see 1 forgot to describe mother when I was telling aboant ny ancestry. Ste is something like other mothers, but nicer ; and she knows the names of all the butter- flies and birds on Tartle-Back Island— spangled fritillaries and safted titmouses aod ail those bard cues. I think I have now got nearly to the pio- mic part. It was upon the thirtieth day of Sep- tember shat she last of the summer people went away, and after that we were all alone and never saw a soul for a whole month and most of another one, except old Uncle Johnnie MacDonald, who came over from the mainland every day in his sail- boat to bring us milk and mail and things, because the steamer had stopped running. Mother les me wander anywhere I wavted $0, because there was no one to molest or make me afraid. That is how is bappened that one beautiful morning in October I asked her if I might take my lunch ina basket and go around by she beach clear to the other side of the island, where the big mansions are thas they call *‘cottages’’ bus that aren’s. Mother said I mighs go, but that it was a pretty long walk and she was afraid I would get tired. I told ber I kuoew I shouldn't, and so she packed my listle basket fall of lunch and covered it what she was putting in, because I wanted it for a surprise. Then I wens down the steps cat in the blofl and etarted norsh along the beach, and father and mother stood up above in the red sumacs and waved their bands and called good-by. The lake was blue as blue and all spark- yp Exf:Ert] iE aE ; HT iH HL § SE and after a while he began to make soft lit- tle whines, and I kvew be was trying to tell me all about it. I put my arms aroand his shaggy old neck and bugged him bard, and told bim be didn’s need to try to ex- plain. 1 audessiood Pestectly Bow 10 bap. pened. We've 4 great many sum- mer resorts, father and mother and I, and we know all 100 well bow the summer people are about going in the fali and leaving their pets bebind They always say : “Ob, shey’ll find a bome Some one will stake them in !"” And once : i: —- in a while some one does, but jast as often | and a good some one doesn’s. [t's the poor kitties that | reader, it bad been such a bappy picnic ! are the worst sufferers, and is almost breaks | —By Marian Warner Wildman in Seto EE + i | : gs th 1h i 2 i; i: il, [felt that the worst was over. And bands bad got only a few little scratches The rest of the way home seemed longer than I bad expected, for I was quite sired my heart to think bow many little birds | St. Nicholas. they. have to eas $0 keep from starving. I mighs as well tell you night bere, gen- tle reader, thas afterward we learned that Rob Roy's famil bim sill they boat, and that all they did when they re- | struction of boats and barges. membered was to send word to Uncle John- | lini Company, of Italy, alter working for pie MacDonald thas if be ever saw a black- | eight years on coucrete cnaostruction Boats of Concrete, The latest use to which coacrete has been successfully applied is in the con- The Gabel- and-tan collie dog when he was at Turtle- | various kinds, bas demonstrated thas the Back, to take it over to the mainland and | material is give it to any one who would bave it, They | boats, large and small. practical and economical for The concrete told bim the dog wasn’t thoroughbred aod | barges bave the following dimensions: they didv’t care anything about it. Per- length, filty-one feet; beam, sixteen fees. ? baps it is just as well for me not to dwell | They are bails with double bottoms, and ] unsinkable. t00 long on what we think of such people. | are It might spoil the story of my picoie. We badn’s known each other more than | years of use twenty-five seconds before we understood, | condition, M Rob other, dog and thas I'd take care of him, minate I said thas he looked at my | basket. Poor dear, I fore that be must be almost starved ! was more than a week since the last of the Se Tckiculy Dusk a A are said to be in perfect ern barges (which cost y and I, that we belonged to each | elightly less, ) alter five years of service I told him that he was to be my | require repairs to the extens of thirty per and the | cent. of their initial coss. This is due to noh | the fact that the concrete hull bass ect. badn’t thought be- | ly smooth exterior, thus reducing frie- It | tion which becomes such an important item in boat maintenance. Although Signor summer people bad gone away, and he | Gabellini says he bas thus far made no in- couldn’s bave bad anything to eat since | etallations of motive er in his barges, babit daring shose dreadful days of hunger before cou innch haskes at once and wich. It bad oold chicken in very good this can readily be in which case it would seem that hie ievement would state, Joudet tha We mark an epoch in sea-going vessels. Swarms of bees are sometimes com- I opened my | pelled to take refuge in very remarkable ve him a #and- | shelters. A peculiar and instructive in- it and looked | stance was observed by the writer in the The poor dog enjoyed it so | spring of 1908. The swarm flew over a much that I gave bim another and another | large vineyard which contained few build. and another. There were only four, bus [ Ooe of these buildings was con- ings. filled bim op fairly well on cockies and | structed of hollow concrete blocks. The snd bard boiled eggs. There | swarm flew directly toward a small hole in wasn’t anything else but a bottle of milk, | one of the blocks and disappeared in the and I badn’s anything to pour that into, 80 | interior. No doubt the swarm had rested I had to tell him that he must wait till we | on a sree or shrub on the preseding day and got home for more. He was very nice about | had sent out scouts to seek a home. The it, licked up the last cooky crumb from the | scouts found she listle hole leading into the floor, and followed olose after me as | great cavity of the concrete block, and re went back down the steps to the beach. | ported their discovery to their comrades. We decided to go on around the point | This case furnishes indisputable proof that and home that way. That is a nice thing | swarmiug bees really send ont econts, as about an i<land : you don’t have to go back | they are believed to do, for the little hole the way you came. If you keep on long | could nos have been discovered in the rapid enough you get to the place you started | and lofsy flight of the swarm. from. We walked slowly along the beach for guite a way. Rob Roy was bunting Oue baby in arms, a couple of others for dead fish, and I was looking up at the | tagging at her skirts a« she moves about big cottages along the bluff. We had just | she house, no help, and yet this woman passed the last of them when I suddenly | manages to sweep and cook and sew. Isis noticed thas I was a little tired. I thooght | any wonder that she wears out fast? Is it I would sit down for a minute under a wil- | any wonder that her nerves are racked ? low tiee and take a drink of milk from my | Hardly a woman is exempt from ‘‘female bottle, Gentle reader, it was while I was | srouble’”’ in some form. Is is apon the in the very acs of uncovering my launch | woman of many cares, the woman who can basket again that I heard a mysterious | not rest, that the disease falls the hardest. sonnd. It seemed to come from thick | Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription comes to bushes that grew all over the binff, which | every weary, working woman, vexed hy wasn’t very steep right there. * Tinkle—tankle—tinkle—tankle--"’ What could it be? Once I should bave thought of fairies, | oures female trouble, woman's ills, ag a hoon and a blessiog. It heals ulceration and inflammation. It dries the drains that sap the strength, Is strengthens the but I—well, I wouldn't for the world have | perves, and makes weak women strong and the fairies think I didn’t love them joat ae | gick women well. ‘‘Favorite Prescription’ much, and of course there are times yet | contains no alcohol, neither opinm, cocaine when I just do believe inthem. There was | nor other narcotic. It cannot injure the that day lass winter, at ‘'Peter Pan,” you | most delicate woman. koow. “Tiokle—tankle—tinkle—"’ The sound came nearer and nearer. I | bave ever been famous for the ~The railroads of the United States size fairly held my breath. Aud then, all at | and carrying capacity of their rolling stock. once, out from nuder the buehes popped my | Nowhere in the world are such heav little Gamboge—my dearest, y pas- sweetest, | senger and freight trains baaled as in this loveliees yellow kitten that ever worea bell | conntry. Not long ago a train 3,000 feet around ite precious neck! Of course I didn’t | long, containing 85 care loaded with 4,451 know then that it was Gamboge. (It was | tous of coal, was hauled from Altoona to father who suggested his vame and mother | Enola, Pa. Trial was made to determine who suggested Rob Roy's). But I knew | what loads could be moved over the middle he was to be my kitten, just the way I'd | division, where the maximam grade has known Rob was my dog. recently been cut down to 0.2 per cent. Gentle reader, can yon imagine a person | The train was hauled for 124 miles at an cruel enough to abandon a poor little help- | average of 17 wiles per hour by a less vellow kitten to ita fate on a desert | single freight locomotive. island ? I wish I could think the same fam. ily thas left Rob Roy bad left the kitten. That would be better than to feel that dear old Tartle-Back has to have two [amilies Anions to Know, “Yes,”’ said the doctor, “I can cure you #0 “‘outrageous and undesirable,” as father | if you will follow my directions rigidly.” said. I tear, however, that Rob and Gamboge had never met till this eventful day. 11 | take. they had heen old acquaintances I feel sure | toxicating liquors “All right—I'll take anythiog.”’ “I'm not going to give you anything to Yon muss simply quit drinking in- give up smoking for that dear, kind Rob would never have done | at least six months.” the dreadful thing he did do when he came “And are you going to charge for order- back from his lass dead fish and found me | ing me to do that 2” cuddling and comforting Gamboge under the willow. For before I knew what he “Certainly. My fee is $10.” ‘Say Doc, how much would youn expect was doing, Rob came bouncing at the kit- | to get iv advance for hitting a man on the ten with great harks, and poor little Gam- | head with an axe?” boge, scared half out of his wits, bad jomp- ed out of my arms and was flying across the beach with his tail as big an an Angora’s. Of course Rob Roy went after him, helter- skelter, and I couldn't do anything but stand and scream at Rob to come baok, One Wish Unfuifilied. Wife—*'You promised that if I would Hairy you my every wish would be grati- which be didn’t. (I have always thougbs | Husband—‘Well isn’s it?” tkat if [ bad bad a ont | him then | Wife—"‘No; I wish I hadn't married he would have minded me, bat all I could | you.” call him was *‘Sir,”” and of course he didn’t mind shat.) Little Gamboge, in his blind terror, ran right down to the water's edge, ——*'] admit,” said Cristick, ‘‘thas he's ring some notoriety, but not fame as gaze apoame | you call is.” borror-stricken good-sized wave and washed bim right | __'‘But,” said Dumley, “I don’t see the a off hia paws and out into the deep. Roy pluoged after, and in a minate bad Rob | difference between and fame.’ “You don’t? Then you wounldn’s be the kitten in his mouth. As first I was too | able to distinguish between the odor of a : =8 Rob brought that kitten straight to me and Jet ta take is aus of lig iaguih. Tuuwhe stood, looking up (' wagging and Tohik ve nought [ would throw it in again for him: [fetoh. 3 g i I : : : soothed Then I found a olean clamshell and poured some | B® rose and Limburger cheese.” A Theatrieal Paradox. “There is one contradiotory thing actors seem to do.” What is tha?" ‘The longer they are at one stand the more they consider is a ran.” EE — Not Yet, But Sometime. ha From the City "Yon intend to suppose Saburbanite—“‘Some day, perbaps. At present we are devoting our entire energies to keeping a cook.” Se say you are in love with Miss 1 sure am.” “Bat I can’t see anything attractive about her.” “Neither can I see it. Bat it’s in the bank, all right.” —-—‘*Have you,’ inquired the city vis- itor, oo moss covered buoket abous the $ sir,”’ answered the farmer. ‘‘All utensils are sterilized and strictly EE ——————————— ns know where to get the finest S54, fundvand dried fruits, Seohler & Digest of Game Laws. Within the next few weeks the bunting season will open and hunteis should book themselves on the revised laws which in brief are as follows : October 1st is will be legal to kill bear and there is no limit on the number which may be shot, thas hunter. The rabbit season this year is de- 'o | layed until November 1 and will last until December 15, thus giving cooler weather for the captare of the cotton tails, The following is an abstract from the state game laws : Bear, unlimited, October 1 to January 1; black birds, all kinds, unlimited, Septem- ber 1 to Jauugry 1; doves, mourning or tartle, unlimited, ber 1, to Januar, 1 ; deer, male with ble horns, one eaoc! season, November 15 to December 1; English, Mongolian or Chinese pheasant, ten in one day, twenty in one week and fifty in one season, October 15 to December of | 1; grouse (ruffled) commonly called pheas- aos, five in one day, twenty in one week, filsy in one season, October 15 to December 1 ; bare or rabbit, ten in one day, Novem- ber 1 to December 15. Quail, gousasnly} called Virginia par- tridge, ten in one , forty in one week and seventy-five in one searon, October 15 to November 15 ; weblooted wild fowl of all kinds, unlimited, September 10 April 10 ; wild turkey, one in a day, two in one season, October 15 to November 15 ; wood- cock, ten in one day, twenty in one week and fifty io one season, October 160 De- cember 1 ; squirrel, fox, black or grey, six of combined kinds in one day, Ootober 15 to December 1; shore hirds, unlimited, ber 1 to January 1; snipe Jack or Wilson, unlimited, September 1 to May 1 ; plover, uolimited, July 15 to December 1. Game killed in this commonwealth may be had in possession only during the open season for such game and for thirty daye thereafter. The antomstic gun cannos be No deer, ruffed grouse, commonly called pheasant, or quail, commonly called Vir- ginia partridge, killed within the common- wealth can be bought or sold as any time. No roffled grouse, commonly called phea- sant, killed outside the commonwealth, excepting during the open season for like birds in the commonwealth and for thirty days thereafter. No wild turkey or wood- cock killed either within or within the commonwealth can be bought or sold at any time. All other game can be bought and sold in season. Non-residents who pay the license can carry ous of the state game legally killed in one day. Unnvatoralized foreign born residents cannot shoot or hoot or own a gun in Pennsylvania. There sball be no fishing or bunting on Sanday. —Do you know we have the old style sogar syrups, pare goods at 40 cents and 60 cents per gallon, Sechler & Co. References, When you engage a servant, especially in a position of tiust, you demand refer. ences. You are not contents to just read these references and take them for what they say. You eoquire into sheir gennine- ness. When you give your health into the care of a medicine shonld yon wot exercise equal care? Anybody can claim cures for a medicine. But proof ia a different matter. The closest scrutiny of the claime of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is in- vited. Does it cure dyspepsia, ‘‘stomach trouble,” weak heart, sluggish liver, worn out nerves? Doss it eurich and parily the blood and make new life by making pew blood ? Huodreds of thousands of people testify thas it does. Look up the testimony and decide whether you can afford to be sick with such a remedy withio reach. ~Do you know that sou can get the finest, oranges, bavavas aud grape [ruis, aod pine apples, Seohler & Co. Oriental Greetings. Some of the Oriental modes of salutation are very peculiar. For instance, in central Tibet, the custom is for the salater to stick out his tongue, hold bis right ear, rob his left hip, and how deeply, all these motions being carried on at once. Centainly the other fellow need have no fear of personal assault from the suhject of these carious aotios ! Less ludicrous, hut tqually re- assuring, is the Chinse custom rubbing noses on bended knees. The salaam or profound bow of India and the Mobamme- dan countries serves a similar purpose. —From W. R. Murphy’s ‘ ‘Salutations’ in October St. Nicholas. —Do you know where to get the fines teas, coffees and spices, Sechler & Co. A Suspicions Silence, Howard was only twenty mouths older than the . He had somehow come to realize that Elwood, who was creeping, was more likely to be in mischief when quies. Ooe day he called to his mother with a great deal of anxiety in his little voice, “Mamma, I hear Elwood keeping still.” wees 0 you know thas you can ges the finest oranges, bavannas and grape fruit, and pine apples, Sechier & Co. ——Do you know where to get your garden seeds in packages or by measure Sechler & Co. Si aa Mrs. R. P. Monfort, of Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio, writes : *‘I have received the Medical Adviser, and very much pleased I am with is. I thiok it quite a to get such a book for eo small a sum. Ido not think a crisp five dollar bill could temps me io yan with it. My husband said to me yesterday, ‘Thas book ia worth five dollars to you.””” Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay ex- pense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for the r-covered book, or 31 stamps for the cloth binding to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. —=-!'Look here, Jane, it seems to me that you're asking for money all the time.”’ “That's a delusion, John, dear. If you'll think a minute, you'll realize that I'm spendiog it, part of the time.” Srm—— ——Little Edna gre )—Say, mam- ma, what is a lack taste ? Mam- ma—It is the feeling, my dear, that FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN, DAILY THOUGHT. Time is infinitely long, and each day is a ves, sel into which a great deal may be poured—if one will actually fill it up,—Goethe, Sagar Eating.—There is too much fear of eating Eating Sugar is fastening, but it bas never been proved tbat the time- honored theories of its being ruinous to the teeth and digestion are anything more than theories. There are certain conditions, such as diabetes and kiduey troubles, that make sugar eating inadvisable. Ordivarily, wp- less one is trying to thin down by abstain. ing from all the joys of life, it is noneces- sary to go withous sugar ou one’s cereal, fruit, or in desserts and camdies, except from motives of economy. It bas been said that an adalt in good healéh may eat a quarter of a pound of sugar in 24 bours and benefit by it. This may preclude onlimited candy munching, but it more than allows for the average sweetening of foods, While some of the utterances of the heads of the important honses savor of Del- ic vagueness with regard to autocratic ions for the winter, there is a decided note which is being sounded in the wil. linery world of Paris. It is noticeable that covered bats are gaining favor. The cover. ing can be confined to the crown, in orush- ed silk or velvet. Entire large bats with high crowns are beautifully covered with moire and with an immense bow of wide moire ribbon. Jost at the juncture of the crown and brim a narrow fold of the silk is placed. This style is most con- venient, because any shade of a costume can be well matched for the bat, Unuenal, this, for the Parisienne loves her contrast. On the surbane there is a backward ten- dency of the bulk of the trimming. Most of the folds of material are drawn from the front and project a% the back beyond the line of the hair. Velvet in black and colors figures conspicuously in antomn millinery. Coque feathers are extensively used. Me. tallic figures in gunmetal tone are con- spicnous. There is a renewed Jogiue of jes, which appears in combination with crystal, silver and gold. Is isalso introduced in beautiful embroidery designs, In some new models the waist line ie again normal. The French woman clings to the high line for she evening, and ber ' demand for this is answered by the upper | line of a high girdle. Although the polo- | paive draperies are featured, she long, | clinging lines and the variations of the tunic will not be completely surrendered. The faliness of the sleeves appears at the elhow or below, rather than at the top of the arm. Huge oostiffened revers aud | large pocketa are concessions to the liking for Louis XIII styles. Skirts of street gowns are generally de- void of trimming, a Ia Americaine. De- signers are relying upon clever introdue- ‘| tions of pleating to give decorative effects. On the bodices much braiding is used in rattail and fanoy designe. The emphasis in street costumes is laid on the line rather thao the trimming. This deserves careful study, hut when mastered it can be incorporated in many new gowns. A raised line is the last innovation. It ap- pears in the upward tendency of tunics, in the line of trimming on the bodice and in the onderarmy seam that curves upward from the bip to the boss. The waistcoat will play an importans role in antomn wear, il the low-cut coats battoning below the waist line retain their popularity. This length of line in the revers is very graceful and belps to lessen any influence which is cropping out in pleated skirts. In the long coats there is an effort to throw one side across the front and fasten with a few buttons low on the other side. If the waistcoat be not worn the space at the neck between the rgvers can he filled with a dainty . These are appearing in deleotable flufly styles of lace and linen, and for the woman who prefers a stiffer ef- fect the plain pleated ruffle is here. The jersey dress bas heen met with, but it has not been carefully introduced. Tis credentials bave not come with it and it is wisanderstood. It is bardly to be regard. ed as a coming fashion—it is here. Wheth- er or nos it will be found a favorite and en. couraged for any length of time, its place is within the t fashion period and is time is now. It is not put forth as a dressy garment, but as a fairly low-priced and con- venient one for the lover of the cuirass, or fisted princess, and for the buyer of things new. Its happiest expression is a beaded, glittering surface avd a well-tied sash. Every one bas heard of what the cooam- ber will do for the beauty of she ekin, bat comparatively few know how it is used. There is a sors of natural arsenic in cucum- ber that makes it valuable as a skin whitener. The easiest way—in the season—to use eacumber is to cat it in slices and rub well into the «kin. Let it stay on as long as you can, over night if possible. Rinse in lnke- warm water. To extract she juice, out the cucumber in fine pieces, skin and ponnd to and bring to boiling point over a hot fire. Cool quickly oun the ice and put in bottle with patent 8 This juice will keep quite a long time without spoiling it kept tightly corked. Dilute it with twice the quantity of water when aced night and w . A table- spoonful of the juice to two of water is a good proportion. - In a fanny paper not long a mos- quito being asked the cause of his sore bill, replied, “Ob, these face lotions the girls 418 using now are so fierce it is all blister- It you want a lotion that is snre not to be ‘‘fierce’’ you shania do a8 did yyue mother, es y happened a belle, and make Jou own lotions, face washes and creams from sowe of nature’s vegetable cares. The tomato, for instance, is a famouse bleach for a sunburned or yellowed skin thas bas gotten a dark line around the throats. Cut into thio slices and rab well on the neck or face. Let it remain five or ten minnses, then rinse off with hot water, which bas been made sean} with a few drops of benzoin or a ball tabl ful of powdered borax to a quart of . When using a cleaning flaid rab is gent. ATi a gp ogi not to ru roughly in the bands. The favey for drapery around ekirte is growing every day. The pale gray tints are worn with va- rious shades of green. . | FARM NOTES. | : : 7 peer etigtes that the cost of - nga es on v large, trees is 20 cente per barrel, Sle on low- beaded trees the cost does not exceed 7 cents, —Judge Fred Wellhouse, of Topeka, Kau., bolds the title of ‘“‘Apple King of America.” He owns over 1600 acres devos- ed to apple trees,and has made apple grow- ing a life study. ~The latest estimate is that the Ca Cod cranberry crop will amonnt to 300, barrels this year. Successful bogs in the Cape Cod vicinity are valued at $1000 per acie, although made from land which in its natural condition was nearly worthless. It is common swamp land, covered with growth as wood and bashes, —The great secret of the enormous yields made hy the French farmers lies in the high state of perfection to which they bave brought their top soils. The top soil can be enriched and built up until its possi- bilities of production are many times what they may be at the time improvement is un. The capacity of the soil is limited only hy the ability of man to enrich and cultivate it. —To produce the greatest return in next spring’s crop of Asp shoots, remove the seed berries while are yet green. This will take time. The foliage must not be seriously interfered with. The usual way, however, is to out the stalks nexs the ground after they have ripened, remove them from the ground, mavure with com- t manure, and dig isto the earth lightly vo the spring. ~The hest protestion for roses and other bardy deciduous shrubs is, perbaps, the cheapest. They require, for the best effecs, thas they be in such a maoner that they will be well ventilated. Merely put a framework of light sticks driven into the ground around, tying the framing at the top, and cover this with build paper. This will protect the shrubs, Shey will nos suffer from lack of ventila- tion. : ~The best plan for ridding the fields and pastures of noxious weeds is to out all of them out thir month, before they go to seed. If no seeds are allowed to form, the crop will at least be reduced next vear. Many of the weed pests are biennials, blosroming and seeding the second year; | hence by keeping them from going to seed | the second year they will die and thas will be the last of them. The Cavada thistle helooge to this class, ~—Cattle manure contains considerably more water than thas from any of oor do- mestic asimals, It ferments and beats elowly, and is ranked ae a cold manare. A cow will produce 40 to 50 pounds of dung or solid manure pu day, and 20 to 30 unde of urine of liquid excrement. A cow ‘ed a balanced ration will void about one- baif of the nitrogen in the urine, about | one-fourth in the milk, and the balance in the solid excrements. ~The trees and shrohs will lose their leaves as soon as the killing frost comes, and should at once receive attention. One of the moss particular things needed is to go over them and destroy the coconns of and insects which may be attached to them. Look for them in the crevices of the bark and high up in she limhs. Every one destroyed this autumn will save many thooeands next season. Do not pack the wulching ahove the trees nntil the ground is frozen hard. : —A Maive dairyman bas found the keeping of hogs and converting them into sansage a profitable side line. He has erected a eanitary slaughter house, with all the np-to-date conveniences, and with an ample supply of hoth hot and cold wa- ter. The piggery i» aleo constructed on plans which insore the highest degree of sanitation, and the pigs are kept clean aod healthy. The sausages are packed in oiled paper in ove.pound hoxes avd in bags and fiod a ready sale to city customers at very attraotive prices. ~The bardy plants such as the phlox, bollybock, peony. ete., will die down to the ground as soon ar the heavy [frosts come, They should he cat off, and the tops, and all rahbish, burned. Loosen the soil about the crowne, and merely lay a slight covering over them at this time. When the ground is frozen hard is the time to put manure or litter over them, which should stay on until the frost draws ont of the gronnd in the spring. This conree of treatment will prevent them from [reezing out of the groand in the spring. — Some fruit growers believe that the most appropriate time to plant an apple orchard is in the fall, from about the last of October till the middle of November, when the ground is loose and moist enough to work well, but not wet and sticky. At that time the growing season is over and the trees will bardly be injured at all by the change from nureery to orchard. The roots that have been cut in digging and preparing for resetting will callous over, | and the ground will settle firmly about the roots, and in the spring the trees are ready to awaken into new life without a check to growth. —The coly protection that is needed by the hardy hedges, such as the arhor vite, privet and althea is that which will keep off the snow, when in such a location that the drifts will form npon them, and in case of a mild day turn it toice. This ia fatal, and is most likely to occur late in the win- ter or early in the spring when the weather ie variable. There is no better protection i part, build - bed from wiower ping. © ~Hale, the well-known expert, says the white-fleshed 0, eu be in great demand wherever quality is songhs for, and as it is more bardy than the yellow-fleshed, it is better for the grower in a cold climate. He farther the Greensboro is the earliest good 3 Waddell requires rich feeding and ecevere thinning; pion, the most delicions- hag Be Gin, go S08: inning; e » i a) “El Xi te y sare feeding excessive shin has ' small pit, fine-flavored flesh; Hill's CBili, late, but a fine keeper, needs excessive feeding and good shinning. & 13a S—— a — ——Bubsoribe for the WATCHMAN,
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