—J. H. Engle, of Abilene, Kau., raised 1000 bushels of potatoes and 50 bashels of corn to an acre on the same ground. He pisnted the potatoes six fees apart and the F. Bebilling, president of the —H. J. Ludlow, superintendent of the Nobles County (Mion.) t of Horticulture, declares that for the past 17 years he has made from $500 to $800 a year on a half-acre of apple trees. —The price of poultry and eggs bas in. Ne re ropiory than a0 oMber agricul more any . SE pron A bacon. Eggs bave in- creased 47 per cent. poultry 37 oent. has aan 18 years wp grass or Satish show ‘hat the State's allalla area is greater than that blue grass, orobard grass and other tame grasses combined. —Cucumbers, long, green ones—18 inches to 2} leet, without seeds, are the most recent arrivals from London in the fanoy vegetable market to New York. They are the result of years of experiment on the pars of the English gardeners. ~The brood sow that is mature can, with safety, raise two listers a year and be carried cheaply and easily from the wean- ing of the spring litter to the coming of the fall litter without much grain ration, it given plenty of succulent feed. —Seventeen Jersey cows under authenti- cated fat tests bave produced 700 pounds of butter or over in one year. These cows ¢ the berds of 11 different owners in nine States. The average yield of but- ter of the 17 is nearly 813 pounds. —Farmers of Southern New Jersey lust summer shipped $1,000,000 worth of vege- tables to New England, the Middle West aod Canada. Through the efforts of the Pennsylvania Railroad the market for gar- den production has been greatly widened. —1¢ is a good plan to sis down on a win- ter evening and make a mental image of the soil on each field upon the farm. Think of what each spos bas produced in the past years. Select the poor places and make definite plans for making them more pro- ductive. —Fresh poultry manare is said to be worth, compared with the present value of fertilizers, 65 cents per 100 pounds. Figures from different experiment stations give she prodact of 25 hene for the winter season of six months as 375 pounds for the roost droppiogs only. —It is estimated that the census will show almost 200 000 more farms in opera- tion than in 1900, with a total of ahout 6,000,000 —an increase of several millions of people emploved on farms. In 1800 there were 10,433,188 males over 10 years of age employed in agricultural pursuits. —Considerable more than 50 per cent. of the entire wheat orop of 1907, estimated in round numbers at 634 000,000 bushels, was grown in 15 of the older States east of the Minsiasippi, their gross yield being placed as 382,000,000 bushels. This is more than three simes as much as the largest wheat orop ever grown in the Canadian North- west. —A good way to begin to break a colt is to make a stall for it and sie and feed it in the stall daily. Feeding while you handle the young animal is one of the very best ways of winning ite confidence. Use an extra heavy halter on the cols from the first. If it early learns that it cannot break a halter is will go through life with shat delusion, much to the profit of the owner. —Though people have an idea that pig- eons are very hardy and can be kept with lissle or no attention, the facts are that unless their food is of good quality, and their bouses are kept olean, y are sub- are nasaral- out to many diseases. P very oleanly, and when allowed their liberty, seleot only the best food and the varieties thas please them, but when they are confined, we must select these things for them if we wish to succeed. —1It has heen found that fresh air is also goed for the borse. Keeping horses in Ithy, dark, unventilated stables is the cause of many aoase of sickness among horses. Cauadian veterinary authorities olaim shat the average case of influenza or distemper will not need muoh medical at- tention if the borse is allowed an ahand. ance of fresh air. It is absolutely certain that a plentiful supply of fresh air is neo- essary to maintain a horse in good health. ~The hog commends itself to the gener- al farmer on account of its prolific qualities. A sow will prodnoe two listers of pigs of six to a dozen each per year, and she farm- er can taro his money over several times with bogs while he is waiting for other animals to mature. Hogs reqairea little more care as times than some other animals bas the man who likes to work with them and is willing to study their needs and give them regular care, will find them a most profitable adjanot to the farm. They oan be turned into money or food, as ths owaer chooses. —The aunoal feeding stoffs inspection bulletin of she New York Agrionltnial Ex- ment station save that of the 378 brands of feed analyzed, 90 more than lass year, only 22, or eix less than last year, were found helow guarantee in protein and fat— apparently a decided improvement in the aality of the feeds. But when we find t 10 hrands of wheat hy-produots con- tain ground corn cohs; thatsome half dozen other brande place w:ain prices on alfalfa meal; thas more shan 30 brands, supposed- ly mixsares of ground farm graing, contain oat hulls; shat 28 brands of molasses feeds or similar mixtures contain considerable amonute of anground weed seeds, and shat many of the compounded feeds are varions- ly adulterated or sophisticated, we realize that no analysis giving merely ochamical percentages can be an efficients check upon certain fraudulent practices. For this rea- gon every oareful feeder should welcome the ohanged law, effective January le, 1910 which requires a statements of fibre as well as protein and fat (except when the fibre is leas than 5 per cent.) and also re- quires the maker of compounded feeds to tell what ingredients enter into the mix- tare. [A CHRISTMAS AT CAPE HORN. NCE 1 had a shipmate who cele- brated the most grateful Christ- mas of his life at the Horn. It was on the Mary Ann, in December, 1807. She was a deep cut steel clipper, but she was a four mast- ed bark, and four masted barks are all ugly in heavy seas. The best sea boat afloat will plunge at Cape Horn, but four masted barks are all the time un- der water, Sometimes they are swamp- ed altogether and float waterlogged around the Horn. Then the current pushes them south to perish in the fce jam. Some sailors can be likened to the four masted barks. They are the sall- ors who have been too long away from home. All sailors plunge liberally into shore life, but the “too long away from home” fellows are, as a rule, swamped in shore life's breakers. One of my mates on the Mary Ann vas Bob Jones, a typical “too long sway from home” unfortunate. But Lob still had somebody dear to his heart. He had started on more than one trip around the world with the set determination that the end of the voy- age should see him rejoin his own loved ones at home. But on pay day at the end of his trips his good resolutions had been broken. It had often gone so, and Bob was hiding self despair under the grim surface of a man hating man. Bob and 1, with twelve other Yan- kees, Dutchmen and Swedes, were on the starboard watch under Chief Mate Dickson of the Mary Ann. When we went below on Christmas eve the sea was running high. Sleet and hail came down in the squalls. The western gale had trimmed our sails down to the lower topsails. We had hardly fallen asleep when we heard the man at the wheel strike one bell. Before the signal for “All hands on deck” was answered forward Bob and [ were out of our bunks and hind our sea boots on. “What's up now?” growled Bob, and he got his answer from Jimmy, the deck boy, who came rushing in with- out preliminary warning. “Rise, rise, rise, sleepers! Weather ship for icebergs on the leeward bow. Rise, rise, rise!” The watch on deck was already set- ting the fore staysail to head the vessel off the wind. She was running easy when we came on deck, and the storm spanker was hauled out to bring the vessel to the wind i on the other tack. Bob was sent for- Ml ward to fur! the fore staysail. The rest of us went to, the braces and pulled the yards in to starboard. Then came the ugliest part of the job. Slowly the Mary Ann turned to face her foe again, But before she could head her bow against the mighty seas they broke over § her from stem to stern, Bob came aft from the staysail to join ws just as we all jumped out of the way, for a big breaker came thundering over the weather rail. The breaker caught Bob at the fore backstays. He jumped up and put his arm through the coils of the fore sheet, hanging in straps in the royal back- stay. The straps were rotten, and Bob and the coll sheet rope dropped and disap- peared in the boiling deck waters. The waters surged to leeward and carried a dark object with them. The skipper threw a life buoy from the poop. “Poor Bob!” sald everybody to him- self. It was all we could do for him. Bob was gone, and there seemed to be no help for it. We had the Mary Ann snug at last. Our watch bad still an hour more be low, not long enough to make it worth while to crawl into our bunks, and we lighted our pipes, lay down on our chests and discussed poor Bob. Bill, who was Bob's own chum, went to Bob's bunk and overhauled the things. “It is enough to make anybody rip- ping mad to think of a rotton old strap checking a poor fellow overboard,” mused Bill. “Christmas night too. Say, boys, when we auction this stuff off we've got to show Bob up hand- some to his friends.” It must be explained that when sail. ors die at sea their belongings are sold at auction to the crew. This custom serves a double purpose. It is easier to ship money halfway around the globe than to insure the safe delivery of an old wooden chest. A good sum ‘of money is also more welcome to most heirs than a chestful of tarred rags. Besides, the sea auctions give the ship- mates of the dead an cpportunity to “raise his reputation” by adding gener- ously to his account. Everybody wanted to fill the Christ. mas stockings of poor Bob's folks. The chief mate, Dickson, good naturediy consented that the auction should be held then and there and came to the forecastle with pencil and paper to re. cord the sales as fast as they were made. “Here you are, boys—here you are! Get your money ready. The greatest Cape Hon eale ever held will now atart.” raped the old chief. “First BOB AND THE ROPE DROPPED. prticle is a valuable straw pillow. Re- member what Bill Shakespeare says, ‘Uneasy rests the head that hasn't got Two dol- Three—four—five— ape Horn prices, Eight—ten—ten—are you Tom, you can have it for $10. You may get a better one in San Francisco for 50 cents, but you can’t duplicate it for $50 within a thousand a pillow.” What am I bid? lars? Thank you! six--six 1 have, gentiemen. ull done? miles of this place. “Next article is a handsome stand- up linen collar. It has only been worn by poor Bob in Liverpool and can be washed absolutely clean for the small price of 5 cents. It is the only article of its kind that has ever been for sale at Cape Horn. What am I bid—a dol- lar—two, two-fifty, three-fifty, four— four—are you all done? Sold to Dick for $4. Dick is a sport now. Wait a minute; there is a button in the back You will have to buy of the collar. the button separately, Dick.” And so each worn and patched gar- ment of poor Bob was sold at “Cape Horn prices.” Bob's shipmates took care that none of them contribut- day. He hesitated A VALUABLE STRAW PILLOW. in chorus. “Hem! Well, we will see what in it anyway.” assented the mate. When the canvas cover was opened a score of letters in soiled and torn envelopes dropped out. “] see no harm in letting you fel- lows get a little home sentiment out of these old letters,” said the mate, “but you must not keep them. They must be forwarded to Bob's friends. You boys can bid for the privilege reading the letters.” Dick for $9 bought the right to first He took the best preserved en- velope and its inclosure and went away pick. to read the letter. The sale continued, letter after let- ter fetching a neat sum. Half the let ters were sold when Dick came from his corner and interrupted the sale. He looked troubled and shook his let- ter in our faces. “Boys, this letter is from the girl,” “She's a dandy. Bob was no good. He didn’t go home when he was paid off in Liverpool; he didn't go home from New York; he didn't go home from San Francisco when he could have made the trip in a day. said he. The girl is waiting yet.” The mate, who had been intently reading one of the letters, here inter- The mate at last put his hand to the bottom of Bob's chest, and from a cor- ner he brought up a bundle of papers wrapped in an old piece of canvas tied together with yellow silken ci- gar bands. The. mate held the bundle thought- fully in his hand. | =———— trespass. “Open it up!” shouted the men clemency. tains into the plains, The most cate never inake fires till about ington Star. miliar to the world, beginning: all through the house— olan tien = The poem was written by a very Bob's final pay learned man, Dr. Clement Clarke in 18G3.—New York Globe. produced two crops—corn and gent tillage. When Shepherds Watched by Night. Some historians contend that the shepherds could not have watched by night on the Bethlehem plains in De- cember, it being a period of great in- In answer to this a well known student says: “Bethlehem is not a cold region. The mercury usual- ly stands all the month of December at 46 degrees. Corn is sown during this time, and grass and berbs spring up after the rains, so that the Arabs drive their flocks down from the moun- deli- the end of November, and some pass the whole winter without them. From these facts I think it is established without doubt that our Saviour was born on the 25th day of December, the day which the church throughout the world has united to celebrate in honor of Christ's coming in the flesh.”—Wash- fhe Most Popular Christmas Poem. The most popular Christmas poem ever written for children was that fa- *Pwas the night before Christmas, when Moore, a profound Greek and Hebrew scholar. He was a professor in the General Theological seminary in this city. He was born in 1779 and died —The fact that Delaware farmers have crimson olover—each year for many successive years and thas the land was steadily improved under this rotation ie strong evidence in favor of Professor Whitney's assertion that our soils are inexbaustible under intelli- a Sm is (CASTORIA FOR INFANTS and CHILDREN. ot Bears the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER. The Kind You Have Always Bought. In Use for Over 30 Years. rupted. CASTORIA “Bob's mother is getting old, and she is poor, She does a pick for money. The Centaur Company, New York City. however. All she wants is her boy. | 5+353m He will never return to her now. Poor Bob's mother! Poor Bob!” At four bells the lookout gave us Side lights burning Suddenly he began to beat his “All's well! bright.” the forward bell like mad. The lookout was shouting and wav- ing his arms from the forecastle head, where he stood clinging to the rail When we reached the fore part of the house the lookout attracted our at- tention to a dark object leaning limp- ly against the starboard lighthouse. It was Bob Jones. We carried him into the forecastle. The mate and the whisky bottle were brought forward, and Bob slowly came to his senses. “1 was slambanged something fear- ful, boys,” drawled Bob. “That break- er caught me right, and the blamed strap broke. Then over she rolled to leeward” — “And I saw you go over the side” interrupted Dick. “Not 1. It may have been the sheet “1 was washed coll,” cantinued Bob. away up under the forecastle head. 1 guess | went clean off in a faint after 1 had crawled to a dry place. When I woke up 1 made for the forecastle, but I couldn't make it. 1 dropped right off again at the lighthouse.” When Bob had been bandaged up and given a warm breakfast he was the old Bob once more. & The boys poked lots of fun at him when they returned his things to him. “Hold on, boys: let us make a ¥ = — = pS ~ = L Dick broke in. “Here is my Bible. Bob will swear to go home to his mother and the girl from San Fran- cisco he can take the auction money along as a Christmas present.” “That's right! Come on, Bob. Swear, man, swear!” “I do, so help me, God, and a merry Christmas to you all, boys!” sobbed Bob. “I will go home. boys—I will!” And he did.—Philadelphia Ledger. IT WAS BOB JONES. bargain with Bob” the imperative Webster's Dictionary. 54 51-3m. 1 Hair Dresser. 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