oom eA FARM NOTES. Tar PoraTo’s NEw ENEMY.—A pew disease of the Irish potato has been discovered by Professor J. Lam- son Scribner (formerly of Girard Col lege) at the Experiment station at Knoxville, Tennessee, ‘‘The disease first appears in numerous small pim- ples, each surrounded by a slight de- pression, In advanced stages the pim- plas and depressed borders cccupy the entive surface of the tubers, wuich be- esme much shrunken. The skin is broken over the point of the pimples, giving them a grayish color. The po- tatoes gradually become reduced in size, dried out of shape, and finally are very dry and bard. The cause of the diséase was shown by microscopic ex- amination to be thread-worms or nema- todes, which were present in great numbers, the largest them being about one-fiftieth of an inch in length. Nothing is known of the history of this parasitic potato-e el, so that no remedial treatment can be suggested. Many of these parasitic nematodes pass a period of their existence in the ground, so that it 18 probable that they were introduced into the University farm from infected goed —for an infected tuber WoL tain to carry the worms to the crop, thus perpetuating the disease. A ¢ of Hew CROWS, — New England farmer up his corn carried a bundle newspapers over the ground, putt middle of each, and allowing the wind to sway them, making at times quite a disturbance in the field, Ie found it a perfect protection, says that vears ago he made an agree- ment with the crows that if they would not pull his corn he would feed them So he a quar about the tield and the Ked up, and while dois WOorins, Ol pic scattered couple ts CIOwWS 3 g so picked s For VINEYARDS. —People 3 II Wi. ashes contains 520 po S14 a and 120 led with the water or of ti nated with the od igh the tar 1s not 11 » water is then sprinkled abundant- ly on the cabbage and the trates every portion of the head, kill and driving away the worms. As the water evaporates no stain nor odor re- mains on cabbage, The same quantity of coal tar can be made to Im- pregnate several successive barrels of walter. ——————— IF A CALF is at all dainty abou food do not keep iL for a cow, Nt gree can offset the disadvantage ol appetite and poor digestion. the calf as great a variety of fox possible is the best plan we know of to make a hearty eater. The greater the variety the more food can be eaten, and this, if continued, means increased digestive powers, on which in any ani- mal, man not excepted, future useful- ness must depend. 6 t 13a bux (LISSOIVE In odor pene- i} Lie they FVII «dl as ie ib ThE grape is a warm-country fruit, and should be set out where it may be exposed to the sun all the day long. Grapes generally do quite well on the easterly or westerly side of a building, but a southerly exposure is better, The soil should be dry and warm, whether it be sand, gravel or clay. While, like all other plants, the vine takes its food in solution, it will flourish in a drier soil than any other plant, and it will never succeed where there is not good dramage. Trae best curculio preventive is to plant Chickasaw plums through the or- chard. The curculio lays its eggs in the Chickasaw before other plums come in. The Chickasaw plum trees become burying grounds for curculio, because, practically, none of their eggs ever watch in the Chickasaw plum, no in 3000, and those that do batch never of a beetle. A CORRESPONDEN Cultivator 1s inchined to think that there is too much liberty of shooting in this country. The bitter prejudice against first settlers, still exists here, and the average American citizen ceive it a hardship indeed if, with gun in hand, he could not roam where he listeth and blaze away at anything wild at his own sweet will, Ax ardent admirer of the Holstein- Friesians contends that experiments by fkhoda and others in Europe and America have shown that the Holland breed can produce milk at much less cost than other breeds kept in same stable and on like food, and that they not only vie successfully with the pure butter breeds, both in quality and quantity, but they are profitably bred and grown up for beef. PrAXN is one of the best foods for cows that are expected to calve in a month or more. Bran abounds in ph tes, and will largely contribute to t oat of bone of the embryo calf. any cases of abortion in cows arise from lack of a proper supply of the food elements that sup- port the dam and young. Tae bush Lima bean has been tested thas season. While it has the bush thabit, and requires no po yet it lacks the quality of the large Lima. It is also and can be used as a bean for soup, . HOUSEHOLD, SEASONABLE SALADS, —Cauliflower salad is one of the daintiest and pretti- est looking dishes of the salad kind, To prepare it, boil a cauliflower in salted water for.about half an hour, or until tender, but not overdone, When cold, divide 1t in small sprigs and arrange them neatly on a dish, and strew over them some capers, and a little chopped parsley. Pour over this a dressing made of three tablespoonfuls of olive oil and one of vinegar, with salt and pepper to taste, For a salad of green peas, you need only put some cold boiled peas into a dish or salad bowl and pour over them a mayonnaise sauce, or plain salad dressing, as above, and garnish with small sprigs of green mint, A salad of Fresh beans is made by dressing the cold boiled beans with oll and vinegar and chopped capers, and garnishing with slices of cold boiled beets, A nice salad is of not too-ripe toma- toes covered with a sauce of oil and vinegar, mn the proportion of two of oil ———————————————————— EDDIE'S DISAPPOINTMENT, BY MAY GRAHAM, {FOR THE VERY LITTLE FOLKS, ) One bright day in May, Eddie Wheeler. a funny little fellow of about faur years of age, might have been seen toddling slong the Lancaster Pike, pashing a small wheelbarrow before him on which lay a little pig. Quite proudly and triumphantly he wheeled 1t through their own gate and up to the front door, and then, taking Ris new pet in his arms, carried it up to the room where his mother and sisters were sitting. Mingled shouts o ment greeted him as he sroudly, “Look, mamma, at Ir. Hodan dave me.” “Kind!” exclaimed Hildah, the eldest gister, ‘‘what in the world will you do with the filthy beastie? Surely, mothe er, you will not allow Eddie to keep him?" “‘He is not filty—he's as tlean as you are,” said the boy indignantly. “But who is going to keep him so?" {f dismay and amuse- entered saying what tind before serving. pepper to taste, be added at the time of serving. An especially nice salad for picnics chopped fine; three boiled eggs, chopped; half a teaspoonful pint of good vi ferred). Minced chicken, salmon, or if hea beef, canned y . y 1 " 4 mackerel may i preferred; but ham i rty. and appetizing salad. WH used, INAKes A good, ¥, - Tine CARE MATTING. —In sweed- ing the pretty and economy al straw matting that is growing to be very pop- with housekeepers during warm weather. do not use a broom, for in 8 snot OF It i said A * cleaning down again, in an a require | while 8S labor $1 Ww O04 it does not may oor the sane as usual carpet, and beaten, but } 1 the Ik be washed i ——— HousenorDd HixTs,— When recipes call for a cupful it means just ball pint; this amount in granulated weighs just half a pound, Salt will curdle new milk; so pre- paring ards and porridges the salt should be added the dish prepared. Red pepper pod charcoal tl onions, cabbage, ele: are will prevent the unpleasant o starch Polish.—A piece 0 candle, spermaceti or white wax as large as a robin’s egg will give a nice A teaspoonful of salt to each pint of starch will prevent sticking. Always sift the flour when you use it. warming it a little afterward if the weather be cold. better than once, as you get more between the particles, Spirits of ammonia is the best thing to clean hair brushes with, as it does i“ in sat Cus wt 14 until 5 8 or a few irown into the pot being lor, f stearine or LIONS, If a teaspoonful of ammonia is mised with a quart of water, the brush ne d only be dipped in the solution for ment and all grease is removed, ter. shaken well and dried in the air, but not in the sun. siting the lips frequently makes them often beneficial, A harmless applica- tion is made of a quarter of an ounce of 1 The melted separately, then the whole mass is well mixed turned into a mold to cool. wax and SWEET PICKLED CUCUMBER lect ripe cucumters of a uniform size; pare and quarter them and remove all the seeds, If you can not get then of even size, cut them into pieces as nearly as possible of the same size. Make a brine strong enough to float an egg, pour it over the cucumbers, and let them stand nine days, stirring them every day. Then let them soak for thirty-six hours in plenty of clear water in which has been stirred a teaspoonful of powdered alum toevery gallon of the water. Make a syrup of one pint good vinegar, one pint sugar, half teacupful of water, two tablespoonfuls each of broken cinnamon bark, mace, and pep- ns, Let it boil, and drop in the pieces of cucumber; let them cook until tender, then remove them to a jar, snd put more pieces into the syrup. When all are cooked, pour the syrup over them, tie them closely, and set them away. 8, we Sn BAkED Cuvcumpenrs, Cut fine large cucumbers lengthwise, scoop out the and stuff them with a dressing made of cold veal or chicken, bread crumbs, salt and pepper to taste, and enough melted but er to make a smooth paste, Tie the two hilves of the cu- cumber and bake in a slow oven, Serve hot as a side dish. asked his sister, “Me,” answered he, hurling defiance at grammar, as well as at his sister. “Papa will make a house for kim in out of the room and downstairs though afraid some unfriendly might snatch his treasure from him, Of course the pig wasallow ed to stay, for Eddie being the youngest child and only boy, ruled the house, his five sisters affirmed. Some weeks afterwards, a BOE which was the object of the boy's love And the piggie and puppy fio the back vard together. Ans rs . in 3 ind” M in { WOOKS Hogan } ef 17 4s ins ii ng ove $539} Lf UY RC) 4 11 { 08 1 $50y ABW boys o the Hogan parents . the first children thes been blessed with. My ; here to be seen, but = 4 is h fu ned 10 2 i 1 Eddi of the men 3 %4 wheel bar “Now run or Ww Vit ry na dott FW Young man, na aon trina x maister will i hisain you i ng on many as the mis With childisl and kn : ' 11 I BLUOWE wing generous farmer, Eddie hasten iv his wheelbarrow, feeling that nld bring back a little baby brother it would be better than all the other pets put together, and besides, would be something at which even his sisters could find no fault. Huldah saw him hurrying out of the gate with his empty wheelbarrow and | wondered what he was “‘up to" now, «Twill be a guineahen this time, or maybe a peacock,” said she tw her £ that or i that gene vars § FORRES he o the return of the | Jenrn the worst voy, that she might windows and made them look up from their work. Eddie, the picture o despair, | pushing his wheelbarrow Ds him, | but a glance at it was enough to show i that it was empty. “My. Hodan stinzy, stinzy, stinzy,” they could draw out of him for a little while | thizing with her little brother's genuine i grief, | thankful that for once Mr. 1 | been stingy. “What & matter wis my deari ittie boy?" asked the mother, using the § i wae all logan had keep her youngest a baby so much longer than any of her girls had been. «What was it stinzy Mr. Hodan would not dive my boy? Muzzer det him one if se tan!” Mother!” exclaimed Huldah in de- spair, ‘Eddie certainly has enough ani- mals in that back yard.” “Oh! oh! oh! it wasn't any animal and it wonldn't be tept in the bat yard,” —egroaned the boy. “What could it have been?” asked Huldah, thinking of the piggie and the puppy and the tarkey and the chicken and the pussy. “Why,” sobbed he, it was a yittle baby boy. There are two over dare, and Mr, Hodan wouldn't dive me eith- er. His man told me to bring over ze wheelbarrow, and maybe I might have one, but Mr, Hodan ony yaffed when 1 ast him.” «f don't wonder,” laughed Huldah, but his mother took him in her arms and tried to comfort him for his disap- Raitment and to explsin to him the difference between a little baby and the other animals which Mr. Hogan had so generously shared with him. “DEAR, sald a they sat in church, ht." berg iting in a dra “Never mind," her husband, *'I will cash that draft later on.” Physician's wife as “here is Mrs, Gold Sur HAD A Brre.—Every one had his or her line over the rail of the boat awaiting a bite, when a freckle-faced girl with auburn hair turned to the young man with a downy moustache and two watch chains, and exclaimed: “Oh, Augustus! 1 believe—1 believe I have a bite!” “Then pull in,” he commanded. “But it may be a great big fish, and he might pull me into the water,” “I won't let him.” “But iY he does?’ “1 will save you, or we will perish to- gether.” “Phen—then I will pull.” She pulled, and brought in a sea robin about as big as your finger. The peril | had passed. We sneered at the catch, but they minded it not. Not until that moment had they dared acknowledge their love. He was her'n and she was his'n, and they were very, very happy as they spit on the bait for more juck, A YOUNG apprentice one day, at breakfast, suddenly exclaimed: “1 am going blind! Ach! Iam blind!" happened, “Don’t know,’’ was the reply, “but 1 am 50 blind I cannot see the butter on my bread.” The good-natured master, who had once been young himself, begged his the lad’s man in- are your After Hg supper the old . my lad, how “Thanks, the could distinct] —— — - The Best Testimonial mi my dear, | i i i { i } i A HEAVY RESFONSIBILITY, Oliver Sand—**There’s that Mr. Hefft 1 was telling you about; he’s manager of one of the largest corporations in the coun- fry.” Miss Lita Rallett—*‘I should say so— the biggest I ever saw! And bow well he manages it!" Harp LUCK. — Mr. Crossthoades — “Mirandy! 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