ITEMS OF FARMER. Remedy for Potato Fertilizers + Necessity for Carding Cows. BEETLES REMEDY I'MOTATO The use of paris gr dry prop tablespoonful half nn FOR mixed of of to de 11, irtion One bushel application plaster fh plaster, is stroy the Or the water, with a it, may be stim and this It y pivw In suspend the hk molasses To dd done when the ed sleins Spray on {Vs should hated and gaths "VER Thi ever on the food 11 be of and the cre little Lintie be hard to go minst i less than 65 degrees, game. Then the oy the churn in the summer, and the easy as then, It may not be quite as easy if the cow is fed on dry food alto gether, as if the food is ent hay. wetted with warm water. and six eight pounds of cornmeal. nothing else, daily or even more if the cow be a large milker—but otherwise there will be no difference on of the Then the cream being “slightly sour, end of a appearance it is poured into the churn, and churned in fi room wr t that nat less than G2 degrees or oven 65 degrees —~the butter will come (0 the same time and as good and as certainly as if it were midsummer. The time for keop- ing m®s for cream at the temperature named is thirty-six hours, and the eream will ripen for churning at the same temperature in the same time. But if this temperatore is changed there is no certain rule that ean Ix given. butter, it is a good thing to give her two pounds of cottonseed mea daily, or churn at 70 degrees, aes the cow not b [$311 $1 and the vam will be rine for gnme time as in the churning will be as or aceount Se Ran, satiny as as fas it i= ix, RENOVATING OLD CHARDS, The almost universal complaint of apple-growers throughout the Central, Middle and Easter States is that the APPLE OR- they longer bear profitable Elnborate heen made by Station, and New England and lea gt, no Crops, investigations have many observations by horticultn ascribing to matter fit in present commercial rists, agree iu largely exhaustion of culture, This (Hage nssed thoy trouble to and lack ha heen thoroughly l horticul the ny and other entings tural wir and during ths ye testimony goes to alow that where tlie land should he thorouy old orchard that ha# long been In gras fs Den atbEr than of rdots in of able of being plow ol. rhiy worked, Even fitted 1 injured by the breaking which a thor ough plowing f« the fl time accom nlishes the gen Hale Agricul This contrary to eral Impression. Dyen J Board od whet Wo pirsue to the Connecticnt ture that he doa ' 3 $ "3 De hist fo i m an old orchard hv hivd J. H. Merriman al? +} HS iis WwW.th 4 hen and chile? sng are placed In a var os ery confined op 1 shin, plot, e destroyed. vegetation. Whee “he Leeyg are on a voung weeds, whieh {5 rol noticeable, { the ¢ Litit is. nevertheless i gp tf fany a hen han gnred for breaking of setting, Often the deep and with sic eggs roll to the centd®™® avd the hen ean- not spread out as «ho sheald for neu. bation. The eggs are vanlly broken un- dor such circumstances, and the hen is blamed for the shorifighiadness of her Keeper, Weep a justly cen 1e8iy ure In shipping live peallry have the up: low coops are ernie] and there is danger of suffocation. For the same reasons do not overcrowd., A fine coop of hens will be depreciated if a number of cocks be among them; keep them separate, Contrive to have them ar rive In market in the middle of the week: receipts Increase toward the last of the week, and Monday there is gome stock left over from Saturday, usually. Nor i Monday a good day to sell poultry. AMONG THE CUBANS. TRAITS OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR LIBERTY. Houses of the Rich and Poor in Havana «In the Streets-Courting Among the Young Folks. The Cuban the IX enormously the better cla 11 house of is of It or typical const Of ho to withstand earthquakes heat The ling from floors, ordinary avy. built of adobe Sif! stane and to resist roOins are enor 15 to 20 or 25 bod ndo WH with ce high, all 1 peing o THON, feet even in the rons stone, and the w covered with iron bars I'l lows hia fl Frewsome pelled only tghter of th Rilo ie hol'day GIN 0 now, he depression pu ¥ sells overy and pay and he pa ke £1] No ie h ix given eveoa form of re reation on Sunday, the If i= actually possible fo go out of the sity for several miles into the « ouniry wi hout disturb from the #lice solid oper nr despite the Ag for the churches, thousands of women religiously atte, In Cuba the church and her children ure a woman's life, Bhe soon loses her ansband as her companion in the home. She does not read. She never hgud of a New Woman. ~ She has het little circle of friends like herself, gnd some day But she has boen faitiaful to the and the nee), siriking thing abont a service jo the great Cathedral is the presence of the women of Hav. ana and the absence of the men, The lottery is the ¢orse of Havana. One of the first crim heard on the sfreet in the morning ia the shrill voice of a Cuban yelling thet hp has lottery tickets for sale. It {4 olen the last sound heard at night. in Yhe eafes, women annoy you iuevasantly, offering any part, from onedtmith to a whole | ticket or more. 1p the stores some one gently touches your arm. Jt is a lot tery ticket peddier. As the theater crowd comes out, the rabble Is not cab | driver and newsboy#, but lottery ticket sellers. A card ix nent to your room | in the hotel. Its strange name indicates | the courteous attention of some ecith | zen, who bows low, smiles, talks of | the weather and the beanties of Hav- ana, and then offers to sell a lottery | ticket. In the Botanical Gardens, at the Custom House gates, at the very Cathedral doors, the long yellow sheets | dios chureh, woul4 10 face till nimble » { mre thrust that Ho every all Cuba formidable a | ®evin inst g gupport i Of fal All Company forekeepers are courteons They #0) ure polite Fudaly Or He Were thes ful Hay nerally plentd in not n amd Culbmns Hote thing are the Wires hut oy of 1 hie popular, highest grade, and Spaniard w «ver buy anything but the best A visitor in purch cally Cuban experience difhie fnvihing Hu Ciers that ulty E54 ¥ CORUSe thing JATCHER'S SECRET, His Way of Clearing a Place of These burnin’ don't like All hizs mates will leave in a Ax hy comes around; he'll Keep tryin’ to get and finally it'll end by every last rat leavin the ghip or the halldin’, I've known "em to jump overboard and drown if they couldn't get off any wna And they won't come back for a long time, 1 guarantees every place for a year. You see, that stuff 1 soaks the rat in scents up every hole and runway he goes through, like a ferret would, only worse, and my doctored mt goes over every rat promenade of face chasin’ his friends before y leave the ship or the buildin’. No rat will al low himself to go into any place where he smells a ferret. No he, He just winks one eve and says: ‘I don't think this place good for my health,” and gets ont.” Portland Oregonian, ireg +} they him. He smells ike fa thousand the ferrets boul y with em of her the they How to Manage a Burglar. A young woman, who successfully resisted a burglar at night, though he drew a revolver, gives this advice to her sex for use on like occasions: Think quickiy. Never lose your presence of mind. tse all the weapons nature has given Hold your breath when you are be- ing chioroformed. Don't fet a little thing like being gagged divert your mind. if you can't scream throw things at the window to attmet attention. Remember thet, while you may not be as strong as he is, ten to one you are much brighter.—New York World, THE CALENDAR, be no 1900, Leap ¢ Hs iH wit 1634 Bicyciss on Yachts, Bicycles are fast becoming a popular 1IT4100 steam making wiater The vachisman finds a whee! of the greatest convenience and most enjovable as well as popular way of exercising and traveling about when ashore if all the steamers that make southern winter irips from New York were to keep 8 number of bicycles oti board. there is hardly a doubt bn what these wheels would pay for them. selves in 8 very short time. When stop. ping at the varioas ports it would sot only give the passenger a chence to go ashore and get rid of his sea legs, but afford him the quickest, cheapest and 1 articularly ihose ting a constitutional at the same time. In vhiese days when everybody rides a biey. cle, §t wouid do the tourist's heart good to have a chance for a spin over the roads | of a foreign couniry. A Diamond Spoon, Mention 12 nmnde in the lonmgsinoe published memoirs of the Marquise Vil: fiers, of Paris, of a8 wonderful spoon once in the possession of his family. This spoon was reputed to be of gol studded in every part with damonds i of the first water. Four inches in| length only, yet the value of this arii- | cle was stated to be $75.000. Bach | i diamond was the size of a layge pin's head, aod there were some hundreds | of thesn~Loudon Tit-Rita, : A Collection of "Americanjsms.” CAmeri ome think, say in when Instead of vou of ans generally, 1 instead of LOmNn tiiere 18 8 KOOCK “1 beg your pardon n failing to KRY. me.’ ming tinagerst You pov ery! 1H they «all a they SR allowe been Known to go to bed ear i pa had hy under i thes: the i hoped ood means to escape Auden Spectator His Real Name, One of the questions asked of an appli- cant for the 1 aited States Army i “Have you given a (rue name and pot ca assumed one” A voung fellow a little disgruntled with life on scoount of some trifling backset in business or in love fa as likely us nol to conclude to bury himsell in the army. Such a ofie is pretiy sure to applysunder an assumed name. think. ing thal service in the ranks would bring reproach upon his family name. This is uci generally encouraged by the officers f the army, bul sometimes when there spovied. There was a story in the old to be a corporal during his fire: enlistment under the name of Philip Sidoey. When his term was oul his captain said to him “Sidney, it is sone of my business, nis, just out of curiodiiy, 1 should like % know what your real name ie" “Ah, Supine the cory answersd, a is afraid you would penetrate me : I did not like to use me fail pa serving in the ranks, so I dropped me family name. Me full name, Captain, 8 Sidney de Montmorency.” : Ae are worn by women Of om Fewer rings fashion. :
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