FARM NOTES,
17 is a popular mistake to suppose
indrafned, Except in bogs
SWAPS,
when they can,
tem of underdraining through
channels opened by decaying tree roots,
very much as it does
underdiains,
hardened by long cultivation water
runs off rapidly; and it is here that
floods are most likely to occur. In an
experience of many years we have
uniformly found that deep underdrain-
ing caused the water to run off slowly.
1t soaks into the soil, and
times. The underdrain only takes the
excess of water above the point of
uration. lt is something like absorb
as compared with the same
passing off from a hardened,
surface. The effect of deep
drains is very different from
large and numerous open drains.
last do help the
ly, while the
under-
that of
These
underdrain retards it.
there Is no outlet except as water dries
out may sometimes cut off the
of a sprig; but, if it does, the reinedy
is easily applied. Dig a deep hole or
well in the line of the underdrain which
it may run through. This will hold a
reservoir of much better water
can be got from the bog, and as govd
as from anv spring that finds its sour
in it. At all events we can not alford
to maintain swamps, with their unheal-
thful malaria, as a means of keeping
up our water supply.
RTHECOWS
each cow abo
half bu Tye meal just
calving. cot nmen ing by giving a band
I il of weal In & aller 1 of boiling water
to a feed, at first, apd creasing the
quality dally, ¢ g about two
weeks before calving, 1f the udder should
becom re, swollen and ir ilar amed,
bathe it every two hours du
day with hot soap-suds, rubb ng i
and gently, and drying with
cloth. last thing at
lard as h wn bear
it well. For sore teals,
with warm water, and apply giycerine
For an obstruction in a teal, use
gilver milk'ng tube, The best way
manage a fresh-calved cow,
the cow herself is concerned, is
allow the « to suck for
days, or until you are quite
udder 1s all right. Then take
the calf kK the cow five
day for ally if
liberally Large
fever are two ailments most to
feared in a fresh cow, The former
produc: d by overfeeding with c¢
trated of stimulating food, like cotion
seed, or corn meal. The best remedy
to my knowledge is, @
in the fend, Use this medic
three times and frequently
udder with hot soap-suds,
that interferes with the
the cow after calving
milk-fever. Exposure, too mu
cise Or nervous excilement, are
sufficient to bring on an attack,
recovery of rare occurrent
‘the ounce of prevention’
as in so many others, that
pound ol cure. Keej > the
for a week before and
ree | well,
and nu her
Suaal
—Wea Lo
T'IONS FO
feed
tin} #
18f UL
ymmencing
'
i he hit
it, ruth [i
wash cleat
L as she C
a
Lo
as [ar as
Lo
two Lo live
y
sure tl
all
16
away
aud mil
awhile,
for
1
He
times a
she is fe d
and
e€spec
mis.
Mice
one ounce &
ne two or
+
ens
all pets
fom tue
Anything
condition of
AY produce
1 exer-
all
and a
3
$
{ attempt 10 use
a8 the LWO
some plant
ure Kerosens,
ir
Don
water togethe
nol mix,
kerosene a:
the
an emul
be wall
led 1
fany plants by
des of mo
are oilen
aking th
ii care in regard to
cannot taken.
eé emul.
be
Wnene old
but little frui
show evidence
back,
growth.
lowed to
be kept cl
any amount of cutting back, Wood
ashes should be used freely in the peach
orchard, and ground bone applied once
a year,
peach trees have borne
and the man
of decay, cut them
allow of an entire new
’rovided the borer be not al-
itself, and the soil
Hmos
“ay
a8 Lo
establish
THE earliest Lima beans, which are
usually found near the lower parts of
the vines, should not be picked until
enough shall have been allowed to dry
for seed, as hext season they will pro-
duce earlier than the higher grown
seed,
A Fast horse is not the bast for the
plow or cultivator, as such horses not
only soon exhaust themselves but the
driver also. The best work can usual.
ly be doue with a slow animal, as the
yrass and weeds cau thus more easily
be destroyed,
A woop preventive of hog cholera
is sald to be as follows: For a herd of
twenty-five head give twice a week of
bran about one peck; salt, one quart;
wood ashes, one peck; soda, quarter of
a pound, and about one tablespoonful
of earbolie acid; all mixed well.
WieN the animals are ‘turned out to
grass provide them with salt freely and
regularly, Many good farmers prefers
placing rock salt where stock can get
to it at all times, When this is done
the animals will never take more salt
than is good for them,
DENMARK butter makers reckon on
wheat bran, oats sod rape cake as first
class butler foeds; barley as second
class food; while peas, rye and linseed
cake are placed as low as third class,
If hens are confined to keep them
out of the garden, dig up the earth in
their yard once In a while, They like
to scratch in the moist earth, and need
the exercise,
REPEATED croppings of leguminose
crops may so exhaust the soll, as to
render it what is called “clover” or
“bean sick,” This condition may be
remedied by the growth of other crops
for several years,
HOUSEHOLD.
BAkED ReED-BIRDS.~—Clean
draw them nicely, season to
taste, and wrap each bird separately in
a piece of pure white paper which
been well greased with good butter;
oven, or, what is better, if you have 1t,
an old-fashioned Dutch oven,
best way, according to our mind,
take, say, one dozen prime reed-birde,
size us possible) as you have
Split the potatoes in halves, leaving the
skins on, and with a knife hollow
centre of each until
Xow season the bird to suit the
placing the two halves of each together
small skewers, using two for each
tato. When all the birds are thus pre-
pared put them into a pan and bake
them in the oven. When done you
will have a dish to boast of, The
all the julces
they escape from the bird in
coo king, so that nothing of the flavor
->
ALLOPED. —Take fresh or canned
{ qt.; butter, 1-4 1h,; bread-
! own sugar, 2 oz.; pep-
galt, 3 teaspoonfuls;
Put a layer of bread
of peeled,
3
1 teaspoonful;
in a baking-dish, then a laye:
sliced tomatoes, and cover with bits of
little of the onion, pepper,
galt, and sugar; then a r layer
bread, and so on, havi ]
of bread and leav!
pepper, ete., to spr Ink 3
canned tomatoes three-quarter
hour, and fresh ones twice
Green tomatoes are excel
fried or stewed with vir
sugar, and a high
pepper, and powdered spice
f
OL
y (F
I
or
‘h
BAS
MILK AS A SuMMER Dien
important element of sumer
milk, but it must be taken in
on and Sarefullys Drink it
small mouthful 8,
dency to dyspepsia beat the
moments to break the
rh r it easier of digestio
nodera
slowly
butter
are
unites
id refreshing summer drinks. Ice-
rater dyspepsia is a complaint
sry general, though ils cause
1 under stood,
Warm cover
vinegar,
and remember
saying: “A ooo rift
il, a miser pegar, 8 wise man
and a mad man for mixing
WSL twice as much oll g 4
ivy Ni i aa lt
Ng Of Ol, sail
De sure iIXing
3 rv
I
forv
-
nT CAKE. —One pound
SUgAT, one pound
ancl hed ype
ur, one pound Oi
tter, one pou almon
grated
pound bl
three pounds citron,
flour and beef
five well-beaten
grated,
one
int
BUS
and
gut it into
ries and
AiliS
a littl pice
i Ci th,
SURAT and
is an Ei
Fake h
p
of
en yel
SIX egy
£3 ana
Make
miming
, parsoips and onions previo
boiled tender. BSI them in,
epper and salt mutton, boil it
rown, put it into the gravy along with
16 vegetables and stew all together,
rn -
iy
ice
the
A YiE FOR
to one
stand for a few
is swelled, Then
aud siiced,
tablespoonful of
Mix all well to.
a buttered dis
pint
; let it
meal
the add
flour and a little salt.
her and bake in
This makes
ih.
yy the sick or well,
———
GOOSEBERRY TUDDING.—Make
teaspoonful
cream of tartar in it, and beat two
minutes; one-half cup of cold water
with one-half teaspoonful of soda and
“4
of
one cup of flour, Flavor with
- —-
LiLy CAKE. —Two cups of sugar
and one cup of butter mixed together,
one cup of sweet milk,
two cups of flour, one teaspoonful of
cream of tartar, whites of five eggs.
Flavor, and frost with chocolate frost.
ing.
CREAM CAKE.—Beat (0 a froth one
cup of sugar and three eggs; on this
pour one cup of sweet cream, then stir
inone and one-half cups of flour in
which one half teaspoonful of soda and
mixed, Flavor with lemon and bake
in quick oven in thirty minutes.
a—— a
For the destruction of moths, pur-
sue the following plan; Take the
tacks from the carpet, fold it back, and
wash the floor underneath in strong
suds in which a tablespoonful of borax
hasbeen dissolved. When dry, sprinkle
the carpet and floor with Insect powder,
and re-tack,
QUITE as good an emetic as any Is
mustard, The dose is a teaspoonful in
a teacupful of warm, not hot, water
Tt should then be swallowed as quickly
as possible, If in ten minutes vomit.
ing is not produced, drink another tea-
cupful of warm water,
om
WAR TO THE KNIFE, —~Miss Shaws-
garden (of St, Louis, to Miss Breezy of
Chicago)— Well, how is everything in
Chicago? Dull as usual, 1 suppose?
Miss Breezy—No,
very bright, How is
. Louis,
the pasturage
———
““‘T was not always in this
" sald the hack-driver
as he reached for Is fee, *‘Indeea?”’
“No, sir; at one time 1 was a well-
known and promising lawyer.”
how do you feel over your promotion?’
the unfeeling rejoinder.
station of
plaintively
Him BRAVE.-
I'm afraid you are
James,
ny dear, 1
MAKING
{auxiously)-
the baby too much sugar,
Father—Not at all,
want him to be full of rit.
my dear
it's
sir, how
not
Cool—Jones—DBut,
you prove that
4 Year ago.
Sne-—What a lovely summer
How resplendent the bright orb
vault above.
He ler to get
his hair «
Y aas, nice day for a fel
ul.
i ————
THOR. —1 always test
1 to my wife,
yes, and you use those
At
by yeuding 1 then
Friend—Al
she likes,
Aunthor-
1,
NO
those she do
OUR ARISTY
wo
of eream; season with
and salt; let it boll and serve
n veal or sweel bread.
-
Wash a half
them 18
ED BEETS. ~
ii beets and bake
for one
i them
Sour; ri
$5)
wi
jispla ayed
0 have it mounted
above the ground,
App top with
al pans, ill sav snough grain
rat
erec
ting acorn Cs
on posta several foot
an
ted
d thes C inver-
met
from
for th
Lo pay
er PEE PE r ares § 4
BCLUNe Of KRcCOnNie,
and mixed
dropped on a piece of bread
wi food at night, and pext morn-
in drops given in the
m ymmended by Dr. IK.
N ich ig, of the Massachusetts Doard
Agriculture, for garget.
i Lhe
Jour
er, is red
ti
or
‘5
al
of as a remedy
ROLL. ~~
ad dough.
Driep Fruit
oaf of bre
bakiog: roll ite abo
thickness; spread
smooth and seaso
Ps
te Lo
”
ue
wit
ned ; commence
gleam an
Hi
1
side and rol and
eat with bu
1
t ice,
>
8500 Not Called For,
makes fine gree:
-
A Wonderful Freak
ies exhibited in
W hen
ar freak
of Natures
he demand for currents is reported
as greater each year,
A Bonanza Mine
of health is to be found in Dr. BR.
“Favorite Prescription,” the m of
which, as a remedy for female weakness
and kindred tions, thousands testify.
to arita
affe
-_——
Fruit put up for
atiractive hape bring
—-
market in neat,
best prices
Farmers am a oth who
isisure time for the next few
find it their interest to write
Richmond,
another
t3eet
ere iittie
have a
months will
B. F. John-
appears in
column. They offer
their time
a
Hardy ferns are beautiful about the
lioase in spots too shady to grow grass,
them all or part of
— —— a
Fraser Axle Grease,
The Frazer xle Grease is the best and,
intrinsically, the cheapest. Don't work
your horses to death by using poor axle
Rrease., dry iL
-——-
Young and growing animals are the
most profitable for the farmer,
The pain and misery suffered by ths who ars
afficted with dyspepsia are indescribable. The
reliel which Ia given by Hood's Sacsaparilia has
caused thousands to be thankful for thls real
medicine. It dispels the causes of dyspepsia, and
tones up the digestive organs
A ———— a.
The best breed is good care, good
water, good feed and good barn,
Nothing ke Caune naney cure for Dropaey,
Gravel, Bright's, Heart, Urinary or Liver Diseases,
Nervousness, &o, Cure guarantesd, Mos, S31
Arsh se. Faia. $1 a bottle, 6 for $3.00, Uruggisia
I WI AAS ANS 505
It is better to cultivate a few acres
thoroughly than to skim over many,
Pn
Roya GLUE mends anything! Broken Chie
oa, Glass, Wood, Free Vials at Drugs & Gro.
HE AI A oscars isis
Coarse wooled sheep are 1 more lable
to be Infested with ticks than merinos,
The Banana apple is a sweet Beet Winter
apple that is highly recommended,
FACET A,
Tae Rear LioN or
New Yorker (to native), **Exeuse me,
sir, but 1 should be glad to see the
residence of W. 1, Howells, if"
Bostonian, “Never heard of the | pe
man,” | dis
i
™E HUB. —
New Yorker. **Perliaps you can tell
me where your famous philosopher, Dr,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, »
Dostonlan., **Never
either.”
New Yorker,
Mr. John"
Bostonian (with sudden animation).
“Sullivan’s saloon? Go down two |
squares, turn to your nght, and there
you are,”
lives
heard of him,
——
Moses NOWHERE. ~* XY ou mada
conductor,’
‘and I'll
you."
“Yes, ma'am,”
humbly.
**What do you mean by carrying me
beyond my corner?’ ex-
old man; ‘‘the company
sald the conductor
an
**Yes, sir.” said the conductor
| bly.
** Bah!
meek
Talk about your Moses being
a man; he never run a street
HAND what
Charlie?”
“Only bugging
“Charley —an
a far-away manne:
1 was ’
“Why. ( sy, dear, vy
IL. are Shi he ex
y of alarm, Then |
again, and thought
4 F a
ghost of
»
a shore,
ou are not
laimed
looked at
ise wered
n her downeas
a smile
ber mouth,
was sure of it.
Harry wi 1
Leves
playlug
He
* he
moment
once more
of the i
rier f
gall ar nth
. Ald an enl
mam, ‘1s a
» Young min
knowledge and walch
id develop
can tell. 1
I think only
' interrupted
yn she was talk-
devoted to your
had hoped
in fact
1%}
A Lue
Two
lias bro
am awfully
that it is hard now, i
have tried in vain to get a carriage, and
am afraid th Bt we shall have to do the
best we can th a small umbrella,
My Ea What! I'woof
In tie umbrella! Oh,
ther man) Don’t
Brown?
Mr. Brown
11
COMPANY ~~]
ight Miss Deane t
10 BAY,
y the
8SOITY Miss Deane,
raining que
\
0 you think
somewhat sadly)—Yes,
oreeg H
ctor?
Madam, as
Mor,
Ines
shrieks
WIOU I
father to
1 4
iv
don’t want that
here any
daughter
anything.
“Why, papa,” responded the
**(reorge has discovered a sure cure
i corns and bunions, and has given
poetry forever.”
“Oh.” said the father, “I'm afraid
I've misjudged the young man, Just
{ let things go on as usual,”
3 poet
said a
will never
mors,’
“the
AlDOoul
itl,
for
up
| Bunko Steerer (to stranger)-
Excuse me, sir, but 18 not this my old
friend Mr, Ely, of Rome, New
| Stranger—No sir, I am Mr. Eichlen-
steinbergerblumenthallichtenschwartz -
coff, of Quoddyquehograchlasmemfrem-
agog.
| Dunko steerer excuses himself,
{ before he can reach his “pal” the
| stranger's pawe and address base es
caped him,
se,
but
| “MISSED your ‘train did you,
Ha! Hal! But you needn't wear sucl
a sihister look.’
“My friend, did you ever study the
derivation of that word sinister?"
“Yes, it comes from the Latin,
trum, meaning left.”
**Exactly; and if anybody ever had a
right to look sinister 1 have.’
The all but well established law that
the graft does not effect the stock into
which it is inserted, is met by an occa.
sional exception,
Buckwheat has a stimulating effect
on x8 production, and should be often
sina.
The average period of gestation in a
ewe does not vary much from one
hundred and fifty-two days,
AT od, Rend stamp for
PA LENS RE Si nton. b.0.
£3} Arch HE Bours
QLD ts worth da. por 1h. Potties
sold at 250. a box TT ar
DEAF! E} Hie eR Rats SALEN ENT ED Rit
all § —n
le
17 MeDOUGAL
tried Hood's Barsapardis,
iM, 1s remarkable, Many wie
derive any good wha
are compe ¥ rest
CUullar curative power
Seases caused Ly impure
he system, it is unsurpassed,
“Hood's Barsaparilia as a biog
qual Itiones the
gorales, giving
Aney complatn
AUNDERSE 1 Peg
HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA
by a
HOOD &
100 Doses One
THOUSAN DS
THAT
“Fly's Cream Balm
CURBED THEM O}
HAY FEVER.
tril.
gypsies,
new
TH)
CO. |
Dollar
EAY
‘usa J Apply Balm into each no
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FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM,
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In explanation of the ren 4 wir of these
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