A ———— FARM NOTES, MoDES OF APPLYING MANURE,— It js not an easy matter to lay down general rules in regard to the applica- tion of manures that will be wise in all cases, Opinions differ somewhat as to the economy of spreading farm yard manure upon the surface of flelds or lawns in late autumn or early winter Circumstances alter cases here as else- where. It seems, however, reasonable to maintain that winter top dressing should be restricted to level fields: for both rain and snow must sweep manure from frozen hillsides before its con- stituents have had any fair chance to +oak into the ground. There are advocates both at home and abroad of the practice of carting out fresh manure from the barn yard as fast as 1t is made and spreading it directly on the fields. The chief gain in such practice 1s doubtless the saving of labor. The spreading of short manure upen grass in the spring, or in the autumn even, is no doubt commendable in many situations as a means of maintain. ing the same. A chief objection to the system of surface spreading, which applies particularly to light leaching s01l8, 18 that the nonsoluble portions of the manure, as they lie on the ground, are liable to dry out to a peat like sub- stance that is not specially useful to the growing crop. However manure may be applied, 1t is of importance to secure its equable distribution in the soil. In a general way, It may be sald that horse drop- | pings and manure from sheep pens | should be applied by preference to cold clayey loams, or to moist soils rich In humus, Thesa hot manures tend to warm and enliven the land. On the | other hand, the slowly fermenting cow manure is preferred for warm light soils. On hight sandy soils it will be | found a good plan when using horse manure to mix it with some slow sort, £3 COW Or Swine manure, Hypr:p RHODODENDRONS,—If one wishes a single shrub to ornament a front yard or conrt, the most desirable is a hybrid rhododendron. A good plant of this will cost more at the nursery than a car load of lilacs and snowballs—and is worth it. For sucha use as the above, where there it is to be seen every day and several times a day, it should be worth looking at. These rhododendrons are evergreen, hardy, fine in form, and will succeed In any locality where is not lime in the soil If there is & limestone soil, dig outa large place, and fill it with good pas- ture soil. Those who have written abont the culture of the rhododendron | have made It appear that such a pre- | paration of soil was needed as to discour- | age all but the wealthy, while in fact there are excellent sorts that will flourish in any good pasture or garden soil, If any one wishes to grow the finest and most costly he must have a | gardener to grow them. Dut one good | enough for ordinary mortals, that will be a mass of verdure all the year, and during some weeks in early summer, a glory of bloom quite good enough for most of ua, Go to an intelligent and truthful nurseryman, leave the selec- tion to him, if you buy half a dozen or a single plant. If the plants have been well grown, the roots will be a compact ball of earth, and may be taken up and moved, even if the buds are far ad- vanced. As the summer comes on 50 do the insects, and with their first appearance should the war against them be com- menced, and kept up until they are all destroyed. Not only should we ex- terminate them for our own benefit, but we owe it to our neighbors, for what is the use of one clearing his patch of potato bugs, or taking precau- tion agalnst the squash bug if his neighbor pays no attention whatever to these matters? Let all keep their lots as clear of insects as they do of weeds, and a magnificent crop of all kinds will be the result. cows, all of native breed, and divided into two sharply defined races, the brown and the spotted, The former color varies from deéep fawn to mouse gray, the latter shade being held in most esteern, The brown race short. horned and considered as the original type. It corresponds to the remains found on the sites of the Roman cities of the third century of our era. The skulls of this race, furthermore are identical with those found in the Swiss like dwellings. HAMBURG FowLs.—Consplcunous among all laying breeds of fowls stand the Hamburg; for they are exceedingly prolific layers. Their eggs, however, run small as regards size, and the fowls do not bear confinement as well as some other breeds. These fowls are remar- kable for their beauty, and this fact, along with the drawback of small sized eggs, has had its infinence in plac- ing the Hamburg as a f.uncier’s fowl rather than a common purpose bird, LaxDps plowed in the fall should be plowed again in the spring. It is highly important to have the soil well verized. It cannot be overdone. re is no farm work that will pay so Be GoosERERRY JELLY. ~ Cut the gooseberries in half (they must be green) and put them into a jar closely covered, Set the jar in an oven or pot filled with boiling water, Keep the water bolling round the jar till the gooseberries are soft, take them out, mash them with a spoon, and put them into a jelly bag to drain. When all the juice is squeezed out, measure it, and to a pint of juice allow a pound of loaf sugar, Put the juice and sugar into the preserving kettle, and boll them twenty minutes, skimming carefully. Put the jelly warm into your glasses, Tie them up with brandy paper. The jelly of apples, currants, grapes, peaches plums, green gages, and indeed of rl- most any kind of fruit or berry, can be made in this manner, only increasing or diminishing the quantity of sugar as the article may be more or less acid. PickLes made of the large garden strawberries are a novelty, and are highly esteemed. Pat the fresh berries in a jar, a layer in the bottom first with cinnamon and cloves scattered over them, then put another layer of berries and continue in this way until the jar is nearly full; then pour over them a sirup made of two cups of vinegar and about three cups of sugar; heat this to the boiling point, and then pour it into the jar. Let it stand from one morning until the next; then pour berries and sirup into a preserving kettle and let | them boil slowly for nearly an hour. | If you are careful to let them cook slowly, and do not break them when stirring, the berries will shape perfectly. If canned they sure to be fresh and delicious when ee aeios— SOME people are afraid of ice walter | because the lee may not be pure. Its into the water to have it | Indeed, lice should never be | placed in a tumbler of water, says a wri- ter in the Epoch, but the water should | be cooled by placing the piicher on ice in a small bucket or champagne cooler, It has been pointed out often enough, too, that water thus cooled tastes much better than ordinary iced water, which frequently has an unpleasant Havcr quite apparent to a refined taste. For some mysterious reason, however, wen and women alike have alwaysshown an | extraordinary indifference to the advice | of health authorities, They read it, | approve of it and then continue to col- lide their noses against the small ice- | bergs flouting on top of their glasses, i ————— A CORRESPONDENT says she has | canned pie-plant with good results by baking it instead of boiling it. She cuts the stalks in pieces about an inch | long, put In earthen pudding dishes or abundantly, and baked; then she put | her cans into a pan of hot water on the | top of the stove, and when the pie plant | was tender put it and the sirup formed | by the julce and the sugar in also, and when the can was full sealed It up. She says that the juice thus formed 1s much richer, and that it takes less su- | gar to sweeten it than is required In | the boiling process, QUINCE AND AFrrLE JELLY.—Cut small and core an equal quantity of ap- | ples and quinces; put the quinces in & | preserving kettle with water Lo cover | them; apd boil until soft; add the ap- ples, still keeping water to cover them, | and boil till the whole is pearly a pulp; | put the whole intoa jelly bag and strain them without pressing; add three-quar- | ters of a pound of sugar to a pint of | juice, and boil together until it jellies, nt ———— gar, mix well together and put into a | freezer with ice and salt packed around it. Have ready one quart of peaches mashed and sweetened. When the milk is very cold stir them ia and freeze them all together, Strawberries can be used in the same way, but will re- quire more Sugar. HAVING beaten a carpet perfectly free from dust and put it down again upon the floor, the least unpleasant and quickest way to freshen the colors is to wash off with soup bark. Ox gall is efficacious, but disagreeable, for the purpose, Add a handful of crushed soap bark to a pailful of water, Take special care to scrub oul grease spots and then wash or sponge off the whole carpet, iil — A Narrow Escape. “Yes, 1 had a very narrow escape,’ sald a prominent citizen to a friend. “1 was confined to my bed for a year and my friends gave me up for a consumptive’s grave, until I began using Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs, and here I am, sound and hearty.” You will find It for sale by all druggists. Price 00c and $i, Sample Bottls Free, r———— A —————— DirripexT LOVER-—I know that 1 am a perfect bear in my manner. She—Sheep, you mean; bears hug people—you do nothing but bleat. NERVES! NERVES!! What terrible visfons this little word brings before the fe of the nervous. fleadache, Neurs sia Indigestion, Sleepleasness, srvous Prostrat! All stare them in the face, Ver atl these ons troubles can be cured by using For The Nervous ‘The Debilitated The L THIS GREAT NERVE TONIC Blood Poison “1 was polsoned hy poison ivy, and let it go ull the poison got Into my blood, when I was obliged to give up work, and was confiped to my house for two months, I had sores and Scales on me from head to feet, my finger nails came off, and my hair and whiskers came out. 1 had two pliysi- clans, but did not seem 10 gel much betler, Hood's Sarsaparilla helped me so moch hat | continued taking it tid I had used three botlles, when I was cured. 1 can recommend Hood's Sur. gapariila to all as the best blood pumiier I know of.” Grong W. VUNK, 76 Park Avenue, Brock port, N, Y. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all dragygista, $1; six for $3. Prepare i only by CL HOOD & Cu, Apothecaries Lowell, Mass, 100 Doses One Dollar wc — A BOY is brought home with a severe cut on his arm. The blood spurts out of the wound showing plaluly that an artery has been severed. It Is fortu- nate it a member of the family can come forward and bind two pieces of cloth tightly around the limb directly above and below the wound, the blood will cease to flow and even If there should be unavoidable delay in the ar- rival of the doctor Le will be able to save a life that would certainly have been sacrificed if the prompt treatment mentioned had not been resoried to, A BEDROOM papered with French chintz papers that are brilbant, but never gaudy, and furnished with cur- Unbleached muslin seaside or cottage room. J ored Canton flannel disposed after the affords more elaborate decoration on the same foundation. » ———————— CITRON PRESERVES —Take a citron and sugar, equal weig it, put the citron in a kettle or stewpan, boil anptil take the water, put it in a kettle with done; or with lemon If desired, oi Don't disgust everybody Ly blowing and spitting, but use Catarth Eemedy and be cured. ar, -——-—- spring or early summer, A Horse Who Can Talk! Everybody bax heard ofa v but who has ever seen an with the power of speech? mal would be pronounced an would the telegraph and the ts been a hundred years ago. very recently a cure for consumption would have been looked upon as miracu- lous, but now people are beginning to real- {zo that the disease is not smable. Dr. Medical Discovery will cure it, if taken in time nowned remedy will not make new bat it will restore diseased ones toa healthy hy, Thousands can gratefully All draggista. tentify To grow carrots to perfection there sandy loam. — ———— “As glares the tiger on kis foes, Hemmed in by hunters, spears and bows, Aud, ere he bounds upon the ring, Selects the object of his spring.” So diseases, in myriad forms, fastens Ladies who nents peculiar to their sex, shoule use Dir. Pleres's Favorite Prescription. most complicated and obstinate cases of legoorrhed, excessive flowing, palaful men. struation, unnatural suppressions, prolap ’ “female weakness,” sion, bearing-down anteversion, sensations, retlrover. pal heat.” a_i t——— A good cook throws away nothing. Every plece of bread, every inch of meat, every particle of vegetables can be turned into something palatable, Dyspepsia, indigestion, sick headscne, and that tired feeling are cured by Hoods Sarsaparilia, which tones the stomach, promotes healthy di- gestion, creates an appetite, cures s.ck headache snd baiids up the whole system. Sold by all druggists, 100 Doses One Dollar, When the umbrella is wet place the handle downward to dry, as this gives the Water » chance to run off from the cloth, When it is not in use leave it unstrapped. Rupture cure guaranteed by Dr. J. B. Mayer, 831 Arch Si, Phil's, Pa. Ease at once, no operation or de- lay from business, attested by thou sands of cures after others fall, advice free, send for circular. Salt sprinkled over anything that is burning on the stove will prevent any disagreeable odor, —————— ITS All Fits oped free by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve 7, No alcer first day's use. Mar. velots cures. Treatise and $2.00 trial free 10 Fit cases. Send wo Dr, Kline 381 Arca 84 Polls, Pa Cheese-cloth makes the very best enough so that they can be washed often, A" Nothing Cu ; tng © res Dropay, Gravel, ; t's, Mears, ke, ike Csnn’s Kidney Care, Omoe, 531 Arch Be Phila. $i a botile, § for $5. Cures the worst cases, Satie 81. A Draggisia sn AMAIA in, are a regular savings as cook. The greatest variety of them. —— sn 11 afflicted with sore eyes use Dr, Isano Thompe son's Eye-water, Droggista sell at Do. per bottle To open slip the tip end of a knife blade under the rubber, as soon as the air enters, the top comes off very readily. Fraser Axle Grease, The Frazer Axle G times as as any other. Use it, and your and _ A trial Prove that we are SAA RE FN i SEI —— HY wuy do I have this drowsy, lifeless feeling? WHY dol have Backache? wHY Neuralgia and Rheumatism? WHY does Serof- ulous taint and Erysipelas show itself? BECAUSE your bloodis filled with Poison, which must be Completely Eradicated before you can regain health. You must go to theroot of the matter. Put the Kidneys—the great and only blood purifying organs—in com- lete order, which is complete ealth, and with WARNER'S SAFE CURE wl WARNER'S SAFE PILLS your Cure is Certain. wHY do we know this? BECAUSE tens of thous- ands of grate- ful men and in all parts of the have voluntarily written us to this effect. There is no standstill in Y ou are either growing WHY not to-day resorttothat table. They are made honor. They are time-tried. on nent merit, and COU KNOW IT. J. B. HOBENSACK. Eurgical & Medical Office, NX. Neoond St, Phila, Estab, 40 years, Make special. f treating all forms of Nerv. 3 v, os of wigor, lence and ail END Ufice Hours 8 A. M 2 FP P.M Closed off Sundars ANTED: FOR BOOK. 10 lake s for enlarging SMALL PROTO. } pletunres are really beantifal Likeasss Fuaranieed. Agenis osn easly gel ofders and AdQress, B28 MAMEET ST. Pil LADELPHIA After all others fall consuls : weskened early indiscre y striethy tons, Be Callorwrite, Advice frees and oom Gdannial. fend slain 19 Look. 4 Address Bex 83, Teledo, Ohio. ined PURE BLOOD PIGR Engle Mastiff, St, Bernard & Foxhound Pups low, Ostaiogmes lwengravaires XN. P. Borer & Oo, Oostesv lie, Pa HERBRAND FIFTH WHEEL. si Caiege improvement. HERBRAXD co. Fremont, y Blair = Oval Pills. vecmetic Remess. Box. 34; round, 14 Fills. Goins worth $8: per it. Petuit’s orth §LOX, bul is seid st Te # box Lowe af homme and sake more money working forae (ban of anything siee in fhe world Hither son. Conily owifit Fash. Terms PRES. Address, THOR 8 C0. Augusia, Males, Salve is Ceniers, Aes 20 BR3 NE —— Some one threw a head of cabbage at an irish orator while be was making as h once. He paused a second, and said, “Gentlemen, I only asked for your ears, I don't eare for your heads!” He was nos bothered any more during the remainder of his speach, “PAPA, If three wheels is a tricycle, and two wheels a bicycle, what is one wheel?” “One wheel, my son? Well, let me gee. Une wheel must bs a unicycle.” “No, it aln’t, papa; it's a wheel-bar- row.” mito MI — Miss.I see the English have a queer fashion. After the period of deep mourning is over ladies make no change except to wear light gloves, Young Widow-Yes, dear; it shows that the hand has passed the mourning vSurrs Pressed with Neatness and Dispuseh sl is what the advertisement ead, and a Sistzactediy dung lover ther “17's just as I always said, Mr, Du. senberry. You're too vacillating, You Inck gumption. You haven't quite backbone enough.” “Backbone doesn’t amonnt to much, my dear.” “Oh, it doesn’t, eh?" “No Now there's the camel, He's nearly all backbone, and yet he’s the meekest cuss in creation, He'll let you pile ‘the lust straw’ on him.”’ BAGLEY—Ah, DeCaggs! where art thou going with the hobby horse? DeBaggs—'Tis for little Jimmy, my youngest sprout. Bagley (sagely)—It’s costly business to have children. DeBaggs (gloomily)—I should say so. Every time | start out to buy a ten- cent toy 1 meet somebody 1 know, and then away goes a dollar or two for beer and cigars, - “Mr. DusgxpeErny, did you mall my letter?”’ “My dear, I lost it.” “Oh, you careless fellow! It was to Aunt Emily, and was of the greatest importance,” “Rou mean the postscript was?” “Yen “So I thought, Well, I remembered what the postscript was, and tele- graphed it to her.” LirTLe Dor—Mamma, I wish you'd soak my head, | Mamma—Mercy! that way. | “Well, I don’t see why. Last week | when I bad a headache you soaked my | feet, you know.” child don’t talk ache now, pet?” “No, but my foot hurts,” st — | “Do you know, Miss Catler,” said | Mr. Yorely, “that I have a predilec- | tian for looking back?’ | “Just like pa when he failed; he | kept looking back all the lume; he was | 80 afraid the Shenff was after him.” “No, no! you mistake me; I mean looking back into the past—reverting to the days of our forefathers, a hun- dred years ago; 1 sometimes wish 1 had lived in those days.’ “I'm sure I wish Yorely.” you had, Mr, mbme— “HERE comes the mustard plaster,” | sald one dry-goods clerk to another, as a lady with a sharp nose and a business iike air waltzed into the store and pro- ceeded to tumble over & big pile of goods, . “What a funny name!” said a cus- tomer who was standing by, why do you call ber a mustard plaster?” “Simply because she gets in front of the counter and buys nothing, and asks 80 many questions that she irritates the poor clerk who is waiting on her,” “How does that make her a mustard plaster?’ ‘*Becauss she is a counter irritan ATTORNEY --Miss Bomeage, you are | the plaintiff in this suit for breach of | promise, I believe,” “Yes, sir.” {| "And Mr. Squint, bere, is the de- | fendant?” “Yes, gir,” “Well Miss Sameage, you may tell | the Court how and when he promised | to make you his wife.” | *It was on the 34 of September last, ‘gir. I went into his photograph gal- {lery and asked him if he would take | me, and he said he would.” . we | EE = “HELyro,” sail a south end young- ster to his chum, “your folks going to | move; ours ia.” | “So's ours. Dad says he won't live in th’ old shell any longer.” “Mine neither, Where are you golong to move?” ‘Into your house, “Into your house.” Where are you?” Mu. LITEWAITE-You must excuse | me if I am rather dull, I am always stupid when I bave a headache. Mrs. Keene—Dear me! it must be dreadful! to have a headache 80 much of the time, No SA¥YETY ANYWHERE — First Aparchist— Now we have got out into the suburbs away from the police; let's unfurl our red flag. second Aparchist—No, fve'll be killed. “Eh! What's the matter?’ “There's a bull in that lot.” no, don’, “Way, Mr. Harler, you're bald- peaded! 1 didn’t know you were baldheaded., Why, you're awful young to be baldheaded,” said Mrs, Hite. “Oh, I dunno, I've got a son not over two weeks old who is baldheaded, a—— IT was a Vassar graduate who want- ed to know if the muzzle of a gun was to prevent it from going off premature. iy. i A Twenty Years" Experience, 770 Broadway, New York, March 17, 1886 1 have been using ALLOOCK'S Pourous PLASTERS for 20 years, and found them one of the best of family medicines. Briefly summing up my experience, I say that when placed on the small of the back ALL. coCK's Prastens fill the body with perv. ous energy, and thuw cure fatigues, brain exhaustion, debility and kidney difficulties, For women and children I have found them invaluable, They never irritate the skin ADWAY'Q PILI... The Creat Liver and i STOMACH REMEDY. For theeure of 6: Bowes, Kidueys, §isdder, Lom of Appetite, Headache, gestion, Billousness, Vever, Lalla Bowels, Piles, and all derangement al viscera. Purely vege'abis, mercury, minerals, or Jelelenons Price, 28 cepts per box. ' DYSPE-SiIA! are a cure for thls DR. RADWAY'S PILLS S55 500 Tier re- fore strength 10 the stomach ang enable iL 10 pers form ite functions, The symptoms of Dyspepsia disappenr, and with them the janility of the sys disorders of the Bumeeh, 4 “False and Troe” S# Send a letter giamp to DE. BADWAY & CO. No. 3% Warren Street, New xork, 1of “False and Troe.” *.! Be sure 10 get RADWATE, ‘DR. RADWAY’S Sarsaparillian Resolvent, Bulids up the broken down constitution, purifies the blood, restoring dealt and vigor. bold UF For the relfef and cure of all Pains, and Inflamrmations DREADWAY & CO..32 Warren 81. N.Y WELLS INVISIBLE Velvet Cream. A Magic Com plea nn Besa ler for ¥aoe, Neck and Arms Elegant for Congest Ee delicate trans. parent white. ness, soft youthful effect and fipe finish. Harm- lems, does not. roughen, draw, wither, nor in any way injure the most delicate or sengitive skin, Buperior to any Powder, Paste or Liquid for toning down red or Sushed face, Effaces Tan, Bunburn, Freckles, Pimples, Cosrsencss, Sal low Bin, all blemishes and imperfections. $1, bottles at Druggistsand Fancy Goods Dealers, or by Express, prepaid, on reosipt of prios, E 8 Wiis, Chemist, Jersey City, NJ. UB. A, “ROUGH ON NEURALGIA.” $1.00. Drug. “ROUGH ON RHEUMATISEM "$10.50. Drug. “ROUGH ON ABTHMA." $1.10. Druggists. “ROUGH ON MALARIA ™ $1.50. Drogists, or prepaid by Ex. EB Weis Jersey City, ROUGHowCORNS <2 ¢%%s | be. Instant | be Belief ELY'S Cream Balm I suffered from oo The droppings €nlo the trout spore nasscsl~ ing. My nose blod ol- most dafly. Jirst days use Risice the of Ely's Balm LAs Oream hod no b { BOTETORS FF onli ] pone. DD. @. Dovid. eon, with (Re Boston Dudgel. A particte Is applied indo e alse, Price &8 tents st Dr Rots ¥YLY BROS. W . MARVELOUS. EMORY DISCOVERY." Wholly sanlike artificin! sy cams, Care of mind wandeviag, Any book learned in ene reading, insses of FONT i Paton Fons =f { Eline on fo ity, Chis ICRARD PROCTOR, dopant PF. BENIaMix, I Coox., Prin Taught sy corres from PROY NEGES tmpaved Cireular SAW MILLS EQUAL J3t% —— TO ANY. . atchers, | EXCELLED | BY NONE. by the | sais “TIFFIN. OHIO. 1 prescribe and fally en. doree Tig 43 as the oly the certain ou Ln HE INGA TIAN, M, Rs Amsterdam, N. ¥, was bave a] 2 fon man % Sivan the best of satis: il EM int
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