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. :