FARM NOTES. 'oULTRY PARAGRAPHS .—Don’t be tehicken-hearted,”” nor to greedy, in| weeding out the culls, Hens do not vat their eggs unless they jearn the habit from having eggs broken | in the nest. Never use stale or [rozen eges as nest-eggs. in buyirg peultry for breeding purs 1 0ses, gO to some jeliable breeder, who | us his reputation at stake. It may cost a little mere for the birds, but the buyer can depend on what Culls a: @ expensive at any price. To make a good, warm breakfast for forty fowls: Boil a heaping | alf-peck of potatoes; mash them; add onequart each of shorts and bran, a teaspoonful each of salt and pepper, aud finish by adding hot water enough to mix into # suff dough, Fowls need far more care during damp, rainy weather than during the | clear, cold weather of winter, orthedry, | warm weather of summer. Dampuess | engenders numerous disorders, oany of which are difticult to cure, Therefore, it is better to use preventive measures | than to adwinister medicines when too | late. i mete i i he gets, | } | DAMPNESS in the stab’es is not easily avoided. Whenthe animals are out-ide the windews and doo 8 should be Kept open to allow currents of air to flow | through. AS a rule many stab'es need more windows, in order to admit the rays of the sun, which serve to dry the interior. In summer the windows can be shaded, FAT on animals cost less than any- thing e'se produced on the farm, so far as depriving the land of fertility 1s con- | cerned. ‘The carbon really comes from the air, through the agency of the leaves of plants, and 18 conyerted into | fat bv process through the body of the | animal QuANTITY of food eaten does not ine | dicate that an animal must necessarily thrive and fatten by reason of the bulk | consumed, more important, an animal to digest more should, in order to thrive. The quality of the food is | It is a tax to compel | food than It | Tne early vegetables are the real lux- To have them early the prepara- tions must be made early. The garden | plot should have been put into condition | i efore now. Have the seed ready so as to plant as soon as the ground is warm | enough and danger from frost is over. For late erops the ground should also be worked soon, uries, hquors when he can get pure sweel water, so fowls will often abandon their | drinking vessels and slake their thirst at | some dirty puddle, With tl em prohibis i tion 1s the only safeguard. ; FEcas For MARKET.—If your ob- | ject is to keep hens for the purpose of selling @:¢8, do not have a lot of useless | males to feed, wisely advises a poultry i authority. The presence of a male has | no influence whatever on the laying of | eggs, and, if anything, he is a nuisance | when not desired. Bear in mind, also, | that eggs laid by hens not with males | will keep three times as long as will | those that contain the germs of chicks, | The best laying breeds are swall ones, | such as the Leghorns, and more of them | can be kept together than of the larger | kinds, For eggs use the Leghorns, and keep no males. If you desire eggs for | hatching make up a special yard for | that purpose, but get rid of the males | as soon as the hatching sea<on is over, OATMEAL FOR CALVES, —The best | food for calves Is one of the Spring | studies thst interests cattle raisers, | Hence we make uote of the fact that M. | Mertens, director of the Commercial | dairy farm of Karsitten, Eastern Prus- sia, has found excellent results attend | the employment of one-fourth pound of | oatmeal per quart of milk, given to | calves intended for the dairy when three | weeks old, and gradually suppressing | the sweet for the fresh skimmed milk | from the centrifugal creamer. Later, | he gives crushed barley or oats and lin- | seed, gradually augmenting, so that | when six months old the calves will be receiving one pound of linseed and two | pounds of gran per head daily. They | are zsllowed the finest hay. He dusts | about one good ounce of chalk per day on Lhe rations, a i WinTER-KILLING. —Trees are injur- | ed in winter more than is generally | supposed. The injury is overlooked | fruio the fact that trees have a wonder- | ful power of overcoming this injury. | The cambium, or layer of young cells | between the wood and bark, possesses | thie most vitality, and ean longest with- | stand the effect of cold. The green | outer bark may become ruptured snd | disorganized, the older wood withn | way nave it remaining vitality exhaust- | ed, leaving only » “‘black heart; the | vody of the tree may be rent by fissures | in prolonged cold weather, but so long | #4 the buds aod a thin film of cambium | re*ain their vitality, the trees will live, | an | asspring approaches, the cambiam, i by the protected and well-stored roots, begins to grow and fonn new wood and bark, while the displaced cells of the older bark again All with sap and settle into their places. The dead wood 1s made useful for carrying sap, the gaps in the trunk close up, and no one but the observing horticulturist ever | kpows what a hard time the tree has had of it. Itis ouly when the tree, or a considerable portion of it, dies, that attention is generally called to it, The killing back of unripe twigs occurs in most trees nearly every winler, but the greatest danger in the coldest win- ters is from the killing of the body. This 1s the poiyt farthest removed from the most vigorous centers of life, ana pring The run down. tired condition al this season is aue to im. purities in the ood which a umniated during the winter, and which must be exp Hed if vou wish to well irilin thor. y purifies and vitalizes t i appetite, Le Ss 1s a necessity with nearly everybody. AVE ACK fool Hood's Sarsap hie bi os billousness and headache, tion to the kidneys and liver,and a foe r of health spr og s healthy a to the whole body t this “Itake Ho d's Sarsaparilla every gth ry ye i with most satisfactory results.” PAuMERLER, MiBridgestreet, Brooklyn N.Y. Purifies the Blood “Hood's Sarsaparilla purified my blood, gave me strength, and overcame the headache and dizziness, so that [ am able to work again, 1 + to others whose ar as tonic LUTHER NASON, Lowell, Mass, “We have used Hoods Sarsapariila for years, and recommend it as the best spring medicine we began giving ittoh without it." m, We are seldom . Rochester, N. H. Hood's Sarsaparilla KRold by all druggists, 8]; six for only by C. 1. HOOD & CO, Lowell 100 Doses One Prepared Mass, Dollar WHEN buying an animal, In order to improve the stock, it will be of but | better than the Many animals are brought into a herd or flock! that do more injury than if no attempt- improvement was made, Alwar s Fruit CAKE.—Two cupfuls of but- sugar, mix well; eight eggs, mix well; add eight cupfuls of flour; beat flour, in which two good is mixed, currants, teaspoonfuis Prepare al { one cupful | small cup of flour with them, add to cake; bake slowly for an hour. If a lady's dress is on fire she should endeavor to roll herself in a rug, carpet cs STATE OF Onto, Ci7y OF TOLED Lucas COUNTY, FRANK J. CHENEY make of the TH & t + ha aii that hie F. J. UHEN 1 iy of Toledo ( foresaid, and that sald firm wil fONEHUNDRED DOLLARS fos ¥ of Catarrh that Cann Lt je use of Hart's CaTannyg CURS FRANK J. CHENEY and subscribed in no lay of December, A. D A. W. GLEASON, N 8 the # ¢ firm of EY & URiNess i OU “A Oo the su ie 4 he Ve cane 1 cured by Sworn to before n presence, this oll - ¥ _ {SEAL m. Send for ¢ m JLCHENEY & CO 1 ak ta old by Druggists, 7 ¢ » - see. For calves give a feed of corn meal and ground oats, Apel iin Axle Grosse. Frazer The Frazer Axle Grease is better and cheaper than any otl ¥ i Ask your dealer for i er, at double the price, t, and take no other, ~—— The best of all foods for stock is a along with a ration of grain, 1rree oy Dr. Kitne's Gress | taafoer Ore day's use. Mar. | Treatise abd §21. 90 1a free io Send to Dr. Kine 381 Arca. Pula, Pa | oo ——— Prejudice and self sufficiency natural- TS: All Fiamop erve lesorer, VE OuS cures. Fi cases. No ¥ HA world, and ignorance of mankind, i JramMicted with sore ayes use Dr. lssao Thompe To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attemuting to hew ——————————— ye Punch™ § aie a - The farmer who 18 not acquainted with sunrise doesn’t need big barns, Wateh for “Murray” Buggy adv. next week, i ———— A gilded bit does not make the horse Pf Fog h NJOYS Both the method and results when p of Figsis taken; it is pleasant’ and refreshing to the taste, and acts tly yet promptly on the Kidneys, ver and Bowels, cleanses the sys. tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habiyual constipation. Pim of Figs is the only remedy of its fina ever pra. duced, pleasing to the teste od ao ceptable to the stomach, prompt in’ pr action and tal bene Sind its ects, prepared only from the most Py oh i substances, ite many excellent qualities com- mend it to all and have made it the most popuias remedy known. 8 of Figs is for sale in 600 , and 31 hotties b all leading drug- | ONE E contains the smallest amount of cam- bium in proportion to its mas, It is therefore the weakest point, and needs its additional thickness of bark, But in orchard-culture, in trying climates, this is not sufficient, we often find, after severe winters, that the body is dead while both top and root sare alive, Kor this reason, low heads, and bank. gists. Any reliable druggist who/ may not have it on hand will pro/ eure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute, CALIFORNIA F18 SYRUP CO. I —— $og up with earth are recommended. PRE RERARRAR EN SE REE N ERECT The chief reason for the marvellous success ol Hood's Sarsaparilia is found In the arti 1e itself It is Merit that wins, and the fact that Hood's Sarsaparilia actually what is claimed for it, 18 what has made it the medicine secomplishes given to Hood's Sarsaparilin a popularity and sale greater than that of any other blood pur ' “Early last spring 1 was very mu hirun had nervous headache, felt that. much benefitted by Sarsaparilla and recommend It Lo my friends Mus.J M.TayLoR1119 Euclid Ave, Cleveland 0 Creates an Appetite #1 wish to enroll ny name as one of those who Lave gerived health from the use of Hood's Bar saparilla. Formany years 1 have taken it, es pecially in the early spring, when I am troubled with dizziness, dullness, unpleasant taste in my mouth, in the morning. It removes this bad taste, relieves my headache and makes me {eel greatly refre The two bottles 1 have used this spring have been worth many dollars to me. 1 wdvise all my friends to take it.” JOHN BINNS, 463 43d Street, town of Lake, Chicago, 111 N.B miserable f I was very pedd we sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilia f k Hood's Sarsaparilla drugs §! Preparedonly HOOD & CO, Mass, 100 Doses One Dollar. { Roldabya iby C.1 :aix ford Lowell A EM CAIN CONE POUND A Day. A POUND A DAY IN THR WA MAN WHO HAS BECOME “ALL RUN Ix ' AND HAS BEGUN T0 TAKE THAT REMARKABLE FLESH PRODUCER, SCOTT'S MULSIO OF PURE COD LIVER OIL WITH Hypop of Lime & Soda 1s ; » AL. Tus year HAS BEEN FERFOEMED OVER AND OVER AGAIN, PALATABLE AS MILK. EN. DORSED BY PHysiCiANs, Soup py ALL Druccists., AVOID SUBSTITUTIONS ANI IMITATIONS, BE A GAIN OF CASE N Ely’s Cream Balm WILL CLE Price 50 Ceuta, Apply Balm into each nostril ELY BR N ¥ A wt DR. SCHENCK'S QEAWEED TONIC DYSPEPSIA 1s a Positive Cure for And all Discrdersof the Digest. fre Organs It is likewies & corroburative, of strengihen ing Medicine, and may Ie taken with great penefit ju 8 cases of Detality, For Sale br 1 ‘ 1 00 pet Ir Bel ke J! Droggiets Price, $1.00 peor tie Hew Bk on ti Liver and Stomach mailed fee Lea address, Or. J. H. SCHENCK & SON. Philadelpfia. nh ONEY LOANED, MONEY SAVED Wanted sgentaeverywhere to represent The Capital Provident Bldg. Phila re provsiptastee and a few may secure Ageroy petting 81264 ( twits Bave veiverssl mle, o samples BEER. care 10 Leonard 81, New York | Bavingsand Loan Society ACTIVE MEN, dl yeor ¥ Cre everywhere, with i § ¢ tal i re ap Ha - i $715 TOS350 A MONTH can be mads working : for ua Persons preferred who ost furnish & horse and give thelr whole time 10 the business, Spare momenta may be profitably employed also | A few vacanciesin towns and cities. BF i SON & CO. 9 Main Si. Richmond Va i i F BEEMAN & MONEY, Walkingion, D. G Parawy, Premio, (Lai A¥0 LAND ATTORNEYS HN. D, Money, 1 years Bomber of Congress, A A Freeman, § years Ass U. & Ay Gen. 14 es | — m— YEAsT BUNS —One and one-half | omps of warm milk, one cup of sugar, | one cup of yeast, thicken to a batter, {let it rise over {little salt and nutmeg, two cup i chopred raisins | prefer, add flour as for bread, put in a baking tin in small cakes, let them | rise again, tien bake. The Only Gaaranteed Cure { for all blood taints and humors, pimples, | cal Discovery. A certificate of guarantee from | 8 responsible business house warrants it to benefit or care, or money refunded, 50 cents, by d EE Dr. Bage's Remedy. ruggists. | Keep an eye on the vegelables and fraits all through the winter that any | decay may be noticed and the decayed specimens removed, i —— -— — Be sure toget Hood's Sarsaparilia if you want an honest, reliable medicine. Do not take any other which is alleged to be “about the same” or "just as good.” Insist upon having Hood's Sarsapariia, whieh is peculiar to Heell. Sold by all druggists, Try is. —————“——— I Oe " The London Telegraph says the peo- pleof London in a vear drink 200,000,» 000 quarts of beer, 10,000,000 quarts of rum, and 50,000,000 quarts of wine, I I DSi i Ste N Free, 3 Pa. ota Fre in 0. Yr Srijina Ou, Pilla, upon pt of 3B Dobline's Blectrionl wrappers, See Hist of novels on elroulaes aro! enol Lar, This soap for sale by all grocers, The fence corners should be as clean as any other portion of the farm. They are the harboring places of vermin and a fruithful souree of weeds, Thomas Blacklock, D. D,, one of the most learned men of the Eighteenth century, was blind at the age of three months, Lettuce should not be soaked In vine gar. Beefsteak and mushroom pudding is a favorite Brazilian dish, HOUSEHOLD, —————————— | Timparrs, [Ly vquest,] — Mrs, Parlon gives the rollowing 1uethods of preparing timbales: “Line little dariole molds, with tine, short pie-crust, cut iv al { *1x chicken livers, if you have | Fry the livers in a 1'ttle butter, i i | tiil it is a well-mixed paste; sod three | tablespoonfuls of rich gravy. Rub the { veal paste though a sieve, add a quar- | ter of a pound of ham cut in dice, sea- son the mixture with salt, pepper and a { few drops of onion juice; add a little | rich sauce—only enough to prevent the mixture becoming dry, Fill the but- | tered imbale molds and let them bake | twenty-live minutes, At the end | {them with a nice brown | sauce. The recipe is excellent with | macaroni substituted for the | Select long strops of macaroni (do | minutes to soften them; begin at | bottom of the timbale molds and them with the macaroni, curving | around to fit the bottom and sides the tim fof the veal mixture mixed | white of a raw egg; then fill | bales with the mixture, {bits of tongue cut with the Truftles in timbales, as often served without a fauce | napkin as lo any way." i - Crisp SWEET CAKES Put a pound of flour, rub in six ounces of butter and eight ounces of caster su- gar. Deat up a large egg, mix it with | the flour, and add as uch milk as | will make a stiff dough. thin and cut into round cakes, a slice of citron or a blanched almond on the top of each, Bake in a very quick oven till of a light brown. If | stored when quite cold in a dry place and covered with coufectioners’ paper | these cakes will eat as crisp after sev- | eral weeks as when first baked, putting i Frexcn Toasr.—Deat one egg thoroughly, mix with it one teacupful jof sweet milk and a pinch of Slice fine white bread, take crus’, dip in the mixture, tbat then fr salt, the allowing it y in hot but or ii | ter —— 1.LEMO} L EA CARES Rub ounce of butter into one pound o flour: add two ounces of one teaspoonful of soda, cream of tartar, the rind of a large lemon, and a ten egg. Mix a mn dough with milk, and i pans or very shallow rou and butter white hot, smiesmip— COOKIES One besten, one cup of sugar, O1 cup each of butter and | one-half teaspoouful of sxda, a little nutm and grabam to mix stiff, Mold them in flour, rub the top with white sugar and bake in a quick oven, Or if you have cream, use a cup of sour cream instead of the butter. one f fine caster sugar, and one of ju'oe and grated well-bea- wierately stiff bake In nd Lins, to & Ally GRANIAM sweet ne) eR, te) wi Oo GRAHAM BREAD. Place two-thirds quart of fine wheat flour and one-third | quart graham flour In a pan, mix well with one tablespoonful of lard, two tablespoonfals of sugar and one table- apoonful of salt; dissolve one-half a water, add the flour, knead well, let remain over night to rise; in the moro- ing mold a little on floured board, ing only enough four to prevent stick. ing, place in greased tins, let rise In warm place about two hours, then bake | one hour, or about that, * The world is even if it is not Shakes is the opening stanza of an anonymous poem. It was the sent ment of an old Br ber grandchild And many a Mabel has found it 1his is sense, even poarean. Indeed, it to Mabel to be trus, and she has made ber life a very happy one booauss she has taken care of her health. She keeps on hand a supply of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and so is not troubled with those wasting diseases, weaknesses, ‘dragging -down © sensations and fenctional irregularities that so many women endure. It} ¢ musdieine for women, sold by dr ler a positive guarantees fron af that will give salisf in every case, Or money will be refunded This guarantees has printed on the Ix WrBRppPers, and faithfully carried out for many years Favorite Prescription” & a legitimate medicine, nol a beverage Contains aloohol to insbriste | Do SYTUP OF SULAr Lo derange digestion As peculiar in 1s reme dial results se in its composition, As a powerful, invigorating TUrers it bese tle no tome, it righ Copyright imparts strength and to the particular * run - down, erg, dresumagenrs bousekeerwrs, BUrsing moAlers women generally, Dr. Pier Prescription is the greatest being unequaled as an appet and restorative tonic, or strengti As a soothing and strenglbening “ Pavorite Prescription” is unequaled an is invalwsble in allaying and subduing nervous excitability, irritability, exhsaus tion, prostration hysteria, spasms ana a distressing, nervous symploms, Ofunoniy attendant upon functional and organic dis ease, It induces refreshing slcep ar » lieves mental suxiety and despondency A Book of 160 zes, on *‘ Woman and Her Diseases, their Nature, and How 0 Cure them ” sent sealed, in plain envelope, on reosipt of ten cenis, in stamps Address, WORLD'S DISPRNSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 663 Main Bt, Buffalo, KN. Y. woh Fos debilitated t fencers SOREL eae, sO and Yo -4rit ww to Take Billions Headache, Constipation, derangements of ithe stomach and bowels Smallest, Chenpest, Easiest Cures Sick Headache, Billions Attacks, and al 25 oeuts. by druggists. PISO'S C Best Cough Medicine. Cares where all else fails, Sd Ee Recommended by Physicians. Pleasant and agreeable to the By druggists. March, April, May are the Months when the Blood should be renovated with Ayer’'s Sarsaparilla and the System fortified for the oughly enjoyed | all, and JAKED StUurrep Fisn — Wa bh | towel. Salt and pepper to taste; | the cavity with stuffing sauce as used | for fowl, sew up and place in a baking | pan with a cupful of boiling water | and two ounces of butter; Dasts two { or three times during one hour, which it will take to white gravy or mashed potatoes, SL The Exettement Not Over. of Kemp's Balsam for the | Langs for | Asthma, Bronchitis and Consumption { to give entire satisfaction, $1. Trial size free Lay the “elimbing roses, | practicable, on the ground, amd cover | slightly. - — No Polson Calomel claim to cure all diseases is based admitted jower to pr and exeretion, purify paired vitality and stimuli @ healthy action of the liver, Kluneys, skin, boweis and lungs the derangement of which is ihe cmuse of atl diseases, or nearly all. A sample of the St, Ber. nard Vegetable Fills will be sent free to all ap Hoants. Adress, St. Bernard, Box 2416, New ork. the bl an Farmers should favor the se'ling of all produce by weight, instead of by the bushel, Cann’s Kidney Care for Dropsy, Gravel, Disbetes, Bright's, Heart, Urinary or Liver Diseases, Nerve ousness, &ec, Cnre guaranteed. 831 Arch Street, Philad’a. $1 a bottle, 6 for $5, or druggist, 1000 certificates of cures, Try it Put the manure on your future onion bed now, Then add more manure early in the spring. Rupture enre guaranteed by Dr. J. B. Mayer, 831 Arch St, 1’hil’s, Pa. At once, no operation or de. lay from business, attested by thou rands of cures after others tail, advice free, send for eircular, You will place your squashes in a cool, dry A squash should be placed so the air can get all around a a Yun should touch each change of Seasons. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer % Co. of this disease, OG. H.INGERAHMAM M.D Amsterdam, WN We have sold Rig MARY Years, and i ven the artion D.RDYCHE& OO, Chieago, | $1.00, 80id by Drogeh ITS Sees NERVE RES for all Pear B_Nenve Divnases. Only mee ue Nerve Afoenom, Pos, Sriiepes, jy he, IRPALLILE If taken se diverted No fier fost day woe. Trestles and $2 thal bottle free te Fit paieste, they paying 01 prem chmrgee se bry when received. Bend nates, I°. 0 spd express addres of sed to TR. KLINE i WoT Fs FRAUD 5 rH #1, Mie Gon Draggines. BEWARE OF IMITATING REST IN THE WORLD. Its wearing qualities are unsurpassed 3 outlasting two boxes of a other oh fected y beat. EZ@GET THE GENU- YOK SALE BY DEALERS GENERALLY, > +. SjoolHolder NEW PATENT, Sgves time and trouble, Ag ine dispensable articie for very household. No indy & should be without it, FRAZER WANTED Si change, 98 13th Street. Lo NS|ONeuLY Tones . APEYISLS Aion Norrce Th Eraser Monroe Ink Era BF wer lontly | saoih, weal Agents Wanted, ™ A Jape cents, .~ AG RAMEN, rea PRINGVIL OPIUM Fi Tafiin FEE EX'S PASTILLES. A CANVASSER for thls town and viginity, Some ov Por riienlars to MRS. 8, Iphin, Woman's Ex LADIES! SAVE MONLY, SAVE TIME, SAVE TROUBLE By sending your Orders to the QUAKER CITY Purchasing Co. for anything you want in Dry Goods. . Laces, Jewelry, Furniture, Groceries, Delicacies, lor of any other Goods you think of, Wik The Company has a set of the most experienced buyers in all branches, and they offer their ser- vices to any of the subscribers of this paper. Every Lady knows how difficult it is in large cites and how much more in small ones, to find just the article wanted. We have therefore established for the benefit of the subscribers of this paper, this company, whose duty it shall be to supply every lady at shortest notice with infor- mation about the article desired. It is done in this way: If you want Dry Goods send us asample and we will let you know how much the yard can be had for. Laces the same, Of Jewelry, Fur- niture, and such goods, we will for- ward descriptive catalogues, &e., with the lowest net prices. Of Grooeries, &c, we will forward » price-list. The quantities we shall soom have to buy will enable us to fur- nish all goods at VERY LOW PRICES, And all that is nocessary to secure these advant is to send ns a Heuling of Paper, cut off to prove you are a subscriber. Aboress, "tar Cy Prk 0,
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