FOR FARM AND GARDEN DISPENSING WITH SAWDUST. There is not so much sawdust as used to be the case, and there are every year more now ice houses croal- ing a demand for it as filling Le- tween the walls to exclude passage of heat. But sawdust does this mainly by excluding passage of air. A space filled with air and closed on either sido against draughts answers every purpose. This is easily made by a jointed layer of building paper. The same thing is now houses where thorough protection from cold is desired. It is cheap enough to be used for every purpose, lining the inside of stables, hogpens and hen- houses.— [Boston Cultivator. used on POINTS AS TO PIGS. I have found boiled small potatoes excellent food for young pigs, in con- nection with skimmilk and house slops, says L. P. Pierce. We cook them in two iron kettles on the back of the range, being at no extra ex- pense for fuel. Unsaleable or scabby potatoes are used, and when cooked are mashed and mixed with the swill. If skimmilk form the greater part of the liquid, the pigs will thrive as well as on any other feed that can be given them. I consider them two- thirds as much as wheat-middlings. In very cold weather 1 feed a little corn or cornmeal in addition, as the pigs crave carbonaceous food at such times. Growing pigs should not be fed to repletion; the quantity should be guaged so that they will always come $4 they get hungry a little before feeding and squeal a little in anticipation, itis better than to have them lie stupid in their beds until stirred up. Growth is to be aimed at, rather than fat, which is to be put on in the last few of their existence. Pigs will not be idle all the time; I give them a sheaf of oats three or four week ; they keep busy for hours eating off the seed and then make a bed of the straw. Some give them a separate room with coal-ashes to root [New York Tribune. worth to the trough with good appetite. weeks times a in, ~- AWAY WITH PARASITES] Parasites of all kinds, both those that afflict human beings and those that worry the life out of animals, deserve to be exterminated, and we are glad to record that in this work of extermination the Departinent of Agri- culture at Washington is making sat- isfactory progress. Trichinosis is due to animal and the sooner trichin@ are wiped out of existence the happier and healthier will many kinds of quadrupeds be. For, accord- ing to Dr, Leunckhert of Leipsic, forty out of every bundred rats are infected with trichin®, and as pigs eal rats, and haman beings eat pigs, it nato- rally follows that the destruction caused by the insidious parasites is very extensive, sured that the the deadly known, and that among the animals atfacked by it besides rats, pigs and human beings, are eats, dogs, horses, bears and rabbits. Among other mischievous parasites are the heel fly, the liver fluke and gad fly. Tie former Jays its eggs on the backs of cattle, and an inspection of siaagh- tered in Chicago shows that the damage done by it each year amoants to $3,- 300,000. Hides in which the paragites have bored more than five holes are rated as of second quality and the meat of such animals sclis for one cent less a pound in gross. The gad fly at. tacks horses, hatching its eggs in the stomach and frequently boring through the stomach and Killing the horse. The liver fluke atiaches itself in youth to the livers and Inngs of cattle, doing great damage, and is eventus!ly trans- formed into a species of snail. parasites, Indeed, we are as- disease ia most That these parasites can be success. fully combatel extermioated seems certain, If infected pigs ave systematically condemned trichinosis cunot flourish and to destroy heel flics and gad flies all that is necessary is to spread tar ointment over the bodies of the animals atiacked. The Department of Agriculture is at prese ent trying to find out st what stage of its existence the enemy can be attacked to the best advantage, and a3 experi- ments will soon satisfy them on this point, it is safe to hope that (hey will soon be innocuous, ~|[ National Provis- foner. and PRUNE THE FRUIT TREES. It is true that if a treo has proper attention, from the time it is set ont until it is 15 or more years old, it will, daring that time, not have been found nveessary to have used a saw or an axe for pruning, for the reasou that if proper attention had been i Riven the tree, all suckers or useless dimbs wou'd have been rubbed oft with the thumb and finger when they were small or but a few inches in length, at which time they are easily got rid of. However, the plan gen- erally followed by the farmer (and some fruit growers also) is to let the treea have a free-and-easy growth for two or threes years, when the suckers are getting so plentiful as to give the trees an appearance of shiftlessness; then the owner himself goes to work, © the hired man is told to trim up the orchard, and they usually start in with a saw and axe, cutting and slash- ing to the heart's content, and by the time the job is completed the trees look as though they would not require pruning again in a dozen years. Bat where large limbs are taken off it checks the flow of sap in that direc- tion and causes suckers to appear in large numbers below where the wound was made; these are easily rubbed off when small, but are usually neglected until they are several feet in length. During the winter early spring is considered a good time to prune trees, and furthermore if you do not feel competent to do the work proper- or ty,then employ some one of your neigh- bors who is posted as to which limb or portions of the tree should receive the heaviest pruning or be entirely neglected. A trim and prane an frult will ripen top open so that a man can easily and the rson would competent man can orchard so the evenly, also leave the readily move about among ranches, while a green pe off hundreds in a day's time cut small limbs that will prove a positive if trees to trim and not feel vou have fruit able to have them trinuned, then, when some ex- perienced man is at work at the busi- ness, carefully observe how he works, ask branch and him why he cuts away this ’ leaves that one, and my : word for it you will thereafter prune more intelligently, and you will vel low any previous mutilations. INAr- ree ever outlived your All large wounds should be pro- tected with a coating of sheliac var. nish applied with a brush, or use var- nish of any kind or even paint can be used to prevent checking and decay. Should the wound be a large one and the of varnish entirely heal or grow over coating should be applied in the fall. It will prevent the stub from absorbing undae amount of materially affects the tree, an which of the moisture, vitality to cut 1f you are necessitated Away a branch two or more inch in di the thus 04 atn- of insuring always eter, inake it as close to body tree as possible, greater rapidity in healing, making the surface of wound smooth as possible by trimming off the ragged edges with a knife after saw, — [Metropolitan and Rural Home. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES, Keep the siock thrifty. Every day the stock is kept adds to the cost. Stock never stands still. It either gets better or worse. ad they can secure a fair supply ITass, It should not be forgotton ia feed- ing hogs that it is very important to that they have of water. see a full supply is all Can A horse that is a fast walker right in the walk fast unless his legs are his body right. limbs, as no horse put on A. L. Crosby says that when one is feeding a dairy cow he should watch not only her head end but the “udder” end. The udder is the rudder that points the cow to profit or to loss, Correct. The fact is becoming recognized that equal executive ability on the farm will, on the average, produce as muck wealth and more comfort than it can in average busines and commer. cial enterprise, The most suitable temperature for what are known as greenhouse plants, such as geraniums, carnations, camel. lins, arbutil ng, ete, is about forty. five degrees at night. Hot house plants better have fifteen more. Can't you and your neighbors start a mail delivery association? The his tory of the mail service shows that private enterprise started mail delivey in this country. Uncle Sam followed and took the work out of the hands of the people. There Is n» ti ne wasted in making beds in the farmer's garden, Plant everything mn straight, level rows, the longer they are the botter. This will save time when preparing the ground and makes culivation much onsire. The small, raised beds may do for the village gardner, who has time to be fussy, but not the farmer whe means bastness, FOR THE HOUSEWIFE, TO POLISH CUTLERY. Cutlery is polished with fine emery powder either by means of a buf- fing wheel, that is, of wood covered with soft leather turned rapid- ly in a lathe, or by rubbing with a piece of leather on a piece of board, For domestic use there is nothing better than a piece of potato for the rubber dipped in flour of emery. — [New York Times. one WASHING GOLD ORNAMENTS. This is the way to wash gold orna- ments: They must be first placed .in cold soapy water, and after having been left to soak an hour or two, may be rinsed in clear water. After being dried in a handful of bran, they should be rubbed with chamois leather. Nor must silver jewelry be entirely forgotten. Filagree can be restored to its original white beauty by being thoroughly cleansed in strong potash water. Then rinse. Then in a solution as follows: Balt one part, alum one part, saltpetre two parts, water four parts. Put your filagree into the mixture and bathe carefully for the space of five minutes. — [New York Commercial immerse Advertiser. REMOVING GREASE PETS. The Lest thing to remove grease. If the some SPOTS FROM CAR- spots from carpetls is gasoline. for taken up down and A they should be gasoline it loth you be poured over it, and 3 As the cloth becomes ill it disappears. are rubbing with soiled, change it for a clean one, or rub in a In this 8 few minutes’ There should be no and the is otherwise a most as it care, it is perfectly harm- better than or benzine.—[New York RECIPES. Oatmeal Gruel—Mix one table. Pour this water; let it Sweeten it and cold water, into one pint of boiling for half an hour. it with toast. little salt, Drawn Boiled tablespoonfuls Jutter for Fish of and two of flour until smooth, pour over it nearly a pint of boiling add a of set over the fire and stire, letting four teaspoonful lemon to a boil, then take from the Fried of and wash Shrimps—Open a can dish little salt and sprinkle over them, dip carefully crumbs and drop into a Kettle of hot suet, drain. Lettuce or salad should be served with them. Dried Apple Pie——Stew dried apples soft, skim out and in as little water as possible; sweeten to taste and add a few strips of orange peel or one slice of lemon; Pat all coarse sieve, sweeten and season putting into the piepans; stir egg. Bake with two crusts, rolled thin and warm it sligthly before eating. Apricct-tapioca Padding— Wash and pick over carefully three-quarters of a cap of pearl tapioca; putin a dou- cover with three cups of boiling water; cook one hour, when it should be soft and clear; thon stir in a saltspoonfal of salt, a cup of canned apricots and about a third of a cup sugar { stir until the tapioca jelly is dissolved and serve when very cold in a glass dish, Scalloped Tomatoes—These may be cooked in small individual dishes or in a large one. Beason a quart ean of tomatoes to taste with salt, pepper and quarter of a teaspoonful of onion juice ; sprinkle the bottom of the dish with stale bread crumbs rubbed through with a little butler; alternate with layers of tomatoes until the dish is full— the top layer, of course. must be of crumbs. Put in a rrither quick oven, and when nicely browned they are ready to serve. A AIS BNI. No Patent on This. “I wonder how she manages to have such a lovely complexion all the time?” “She keeps oer heart filled with sweet harity | and the milk of human kindness, and it tinctures her face within.” ew York Press. flavor with a very little spice, through a in a beaten ble boiler, | Habits of the Moose, i i J. G. Lockhart says that moose generally lie with the tail windward, trusting to their senses of hearing and smelling, which are remarkably acute, to warn them of approaching danger from that quarter, using their eyes to warn them from danger to leeward. While they are sleeping or chewing the cud, their ears are in perpetual motion, one forward, the other backward alternately. Mr. Lockhart also claims that the moose has the remarkable babit of making a short turn and sleeping below the wind of their fresh track, that any oue falling thereon and following it up sure to be heard orsmelled before he can get within distance, — Cultivator, Lat 18 shooting Boston S55 All Because of Human Vanity. denl There is a vast of smuggling to of York. Persons have been known carry thousands’ of dollars’ worth ¢ ismonds, rubies, pearls and other gems ashore from steamers, having them their mouths, in the lining of their hats, or stowed away in the seams of their clothes, A diamond dealer's traveling agent often bas in the little box which he carries suspended from his shoulder by a strap thirty thousand dollars’ worth of jewels. Bome of these jewel dealers were murdered in silent places in the past when making their semi-annual business trips, but pow they all armed, and arc more wary.— Week. in 1 RO well Ince a III 5255 5 Questions Often Asked, What is Alabast Alnbastine is a di Q. yv differ hie market i Goes IL Qilles ArKet’” fron Where ines on the m It is msde POON of cement that goes t the Wall, and nes made Ir naterial are then gots J. Does the Alabastin uisianoe’ A. Alabastine mha tise nded throughout sanitary natun Q. Wi 5 rega Linas been nos! Use OF 9. C "h ar Alnbastine ? A. Any Kin thie mot elaborate deo W. Ho w can 1 learn to de A By wri iti Rapids, Mich suggest jones, and showing six sels re A successicl swine | once a week puts a quart ant barrel of swill, two pounds of sulphur into each Four impar CADYOnus The jr mm Ought to be smaller —the great, griping, old-fashioned pill. There's too much ¥opleasant. ness for the money. Ought to be better, too. They're big enough, and make trouble enough, to do more good. That's just what Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets do,— more good. Instead of weakening the wan, they renovate it ; instead of setting, they cleanse and rola it — mildly,” gently, and naturally. They're the original Little Liver Pills —the smallest but most effective, purely vegetable, perfectly harmless, and easiest to take, Onlv one little Pellet for a gentle la: . ive — three for a cathartic, Sick Head- ache, Bilious Headache, Constipa- tion, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and all derangements of the Liver, Stomach and Bowels are promptly | relieved snd permanently cured. They're the cheapest pills you can buy, for they're guaranteed to give satisfaction, or your money is re- turned. You pay only for the good | you get. It's a plan peculiar to Dr. | Pierce's medicines, “German Syrup” William McKeekan, gist at Bloomingdale, Mich. “Ihave BE the Asthma badly ever since I came out of the army od though I have been in the drug business Sheen years, and Bove tried nearl thing on the market, given nS has Dentness Can't be Cured Py local applicat: ons, ak Ley cannot reac h the diseased portion of the ear. There 's ony one WAV Lo clre deafness, and that i# by constita remedies. Deafuess is caused by au on flamed © ondition of the mucous tinfug of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets ‘n flatned vou haves rimb Hing SOUL OF ‘pers fect hearing and when it is entirely closed. deafness is the result, and unless the nflam. mation can Lo stored to ite normal condition. bearing wil destroyed forever nine cases oul of ten enused by catarrhs, which is notning but an fined condit * the mucous surfaces, We a ¢ { s Hundred Dollars for any CH deufnoss caused by catarrh; that we eaunot ones bs taking Hall's Catarrhh Cure Bend for cirenlars, free, J. Cnesey & Co. 0. win, Vou, Toledo Sold bs Drugkl FITE sto Neve Restores Mar free, Pun. K after and # Phila ppd free hy No fit Treatis Arch »t VELOUR Cures, Dr. Kline, ‘61 The League of Ame will move for good roads in rican Hiinois, aff ec BuoscHiat, Trocnes Woy by 4 Lest Of many For Bronchial Brows's tueir eitl = ete. Tesren ny Time, tinns, bisve proved years. Price Canary birds ging their best in filled with tobacco smoke. rooms and Stomach dis The Ik the BS For Dyspe arders, Brown's I Tonle, it rebuilds the system, cleans and strengthens the muscles. A splendid 106k for weak and debilitated persons, The coast isa great industry, pia, Ind gestion, 1a Bitters salmon canning on the Pacific Oxg dose of Berchinm's Pills reliey Lbeadache in 2) minutes. Forsale by all drag ce ntsa box. Chicago's Mayor ings abolished. OR Rif Hints ————— WALLS grade cross ENJC Oo vs Both the method and results when Syrup of Figsis taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liv rer and Bowels, cleanses the ays tem effectually, dispels coids, head aches and fevers and cures habitus) constipation. Syrup of Figs is ihe only remedy of its kind ever duced, pleasing to the taste and ao ceptable to the stomach, prompt in ite action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most neaithy and agreeable riba, its many excelle nt qualities com- mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup o Figs is for sale in 500 and 81 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand “will pro- cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accent any substitute, CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP COQ. BAN FRANCISCO, CAL, SPBYILLE, KY. FEW FORE, B% T BE © 0g, Na] PEELOR, cE ATE WED and Paints which stalp the hands, inlare the iron, and burn off. The Rising Su 6 Stove Polish is Brilliant Odom tess Dur and the consumer pays for Do Un OF ELA Par Sage with every purchase, WELL DRILLING Weehinery far Wells of any depih, from 2080 5.008 fort, for Water, (il of Gas. Our Mounted Beam Drilling «nd Fortabie Hores Po reer Mackines set to wor k in 20 minutes, Lt antanbond 10 Grill fester nud with low power than any oiler. Specially sdegted to dil ing Wei lis in eurth or josh ob 10 feet, Farmers and others are makis es to 840 per dar with our martina | and role Sedendsd baviness for Winter or Bummer, ® are the oldest sod Targrest May ufpeturery in the busiress. Send 4 cents is Swonpe for [llustreted Catalogue H. Adams, Plerce Well Excavator Co., New York, KANSAS FARMS good prices rn for sais at araias List irae CHAS BR. W QoL. LEY, « Ushorae. Han, PATENT V. T. Fitagerald n a age D.C, nnd Mortssres areal! rigat., Bl orops aal ORATEFUL-COMFORTING. BREAKFAST. * fy = thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutes tion, and oy a careful application of the fue proper erage which may save us many heavy doctors’ billie, J. D. Wnircox. One of the Oldest Settlers in Penna, J. D. Willcox was born sixty-seven | yesrs ago ard bas lived most of his time in Olmsville, Tioga Co., Pa., where he is a practical farmer and a suc cessful country merchant. He is deservedly popular, known for many miles around, and by strict integrity “and honesty be has attached to himself a host of friends, and has received from the Governaent the Posmastership of his village. He | says: 1 had been weighed down by poor | health for a time and gradually | grew worse until some four years ago the | crisis came. At that time four of our | best physicians could give me no | encouragement, and some of them | said 1 2 would not live a year. 1 | commenced to use Dr. Kilmer's Swamp- | Root, Kidney, Liver and Biadder { Cure. My doctors said your remedy might help me for a time, that I { would not be here a year hence. 1 took {| Bwamp-Root for nearly twelve x onths | three times a day, and when rheuma- my shoulders arms [ & 0. Anointment rubbing y over the affected parts, al- liver and back, warm- ¥ flat iron, The was 80 bad for a while that I either hand to my face. good; in fact, 1 al my ¢ your my I now eujoy is on the inno ong but the tis set in on anda | used your U in thorou ACTOSS INDY | 80 chest ing it in wit | rheumatism COU My health | think I am as well a | age—sixty-seven years. | Swamp- Root entire credit { life az rot ges now Is very iS mosl men gi for sav ing the good he alth I have worked and ¢ 10 its use, some du the farm of late do most of chores myself. This is not if it will great remed | your using 1 best regard This is but ot ‘ ters received daily by Dr. snd five thousand dollars will be given | to any one who will prove any portion | of the above testimony unt Swamp- toot is beyond question the greatest is. | covery of the age. written for publication, but idence in your objections to With give others confi ¥, 1 have no t as best you can. [ remain, J. D. Willcox. se of the hundreds of let. Kilmer & Co., rac. GOLD MEDAL Faris, lo/8 W. BAKER & COS Breakfast Cocoa oroen which (he excess of Off tas been removed, ‘ Is absetutely pure and 41 io solubie. i No Chem icals T Ms PrepRIBon. rp sory than tarve times a strempia of Cocoe mizec with Starch, Aroeroos Or HORNE, and is Jherelore far Ore S00» spies, costing seen Thon ORG rena cup. Ie aeicious, DOWN ating, wrengthening, BASIE DIGESTED, and sdmarelly aiapied 08 ovadide a well ar for perecns in hoslth. Bold by Grocers everywhers, W.BAKXKER &CO., Dorchester Mom [JONES® SCALES — THE BEST emo FULLY WARRANTED == 5 Ton Scares $ 60 Freienr Pal AJ ONES BingramTon NY. saterpraing Als ENT imate or femans wanted In every 1 wn or village 10 take orders on “A STUDY IN MATU Ral HISTORY and a pretty parior ment eombied Fvery indy of Tante i thay obe, They are quick sellers at he. 2c. and ! $e. vach,. samples mallel at efther price; or #5 oI ! the Agent's outfit of three. Liberal discounts 10 alle | thorieed aoents. 8210 §5 a day in it 10 ve agenis | Send postal potes or apply In person © BUFFHAM BROS., Paul Street. BALTIMORE. MD Bin Henry Tnorson. tos most noted phywician of Kage and. says that more Shan tat! 51 al) diseases core (POM errors in Det Send for Free Sample of jared Tea wo S19 Wat th Street, New York Clip SET TEA i Temes of bad eatingicures Sic Tomine { Wil | 2 Se that 8 constitution may be gradusily silt ¢ strole Shough to resist every tendenc Hundyots wattie maindies are Boating nt - ready fo attack wherever there is a weak point We may escape many 8 fatal shaft by keeping our selves well fortified with pure biood and a propery | mouriehed (Tame, CS ¢ inpethe, Made sirufity with oofling water or milk. Sod amily in bait d vine oy Grocers, abellea Lhos rs 4 & CO pron, vacant © Chesniste, rE w disabied tee for increase Sars ex aclirthce Wri rox DO A.W Me ORM ICE Sons Wasnrxarox ) 0 & Cixcimxart O A AS wi KEYSTONE Loads aton in 5 pr — ig time, work, men, 2, durabie, ligh: ait Rend lor Gaver Colon. HAY LOADER | KEYSTONE AFF G0. $65 i=: A MOXTH for Liirigm Young fien ge ZIRGLER & CO. Paling. Pa” FREY AND CHEF NORTHERN PACIFIC R. R. Best Agricultural Gres ing Timber Lands nS. siblers Sale FRER | Law Oem. K. ¥. WK. 8 Pai, Li " pert 2 \ pasa I | ( : SALA) (A - -- 18 WATYAYAY a ANT SARE NN ZANE h Lh ALS FASE TATA ie ALLA BE 3 i dad NSO RA TS EN : A OS a SE SE SE SESE ES be
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