FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
§TEMS OF TIMELY INTEREST TO THE
FARMERS.
A Broken Horn-«Cure for the Stretches.
Disease in Fowls---Brains, the Farm
er's Remedy.
A BROKEN HORN,
fre
the
When at play, they
quently break off the horns that is
outer shell of them, leaving the inner
core, which will bleed, and is very ten
der. There nothing seri about
this, and if the bleeding wrap
ped in a tarry bandage, it will heal in a
few davs, and
with new horn
shape, but will
New York Times.
COWS are
IN Os
core is
soon become cov ered
It will
always
never regain its
deformed.
he
CURE THE “STRETCHES.”
“When a sheep has
writes DD). H. Thing, “pour
throat a pint bottle full
of thoroughwort (Eupat
tum), made t
steeping until as blac
the first time i » RIeep beg
streteh, and it failed
in my forty ' experience
and dry
hand for
culturist
FOR
the ‘stretches,”
down its
of a decoction
irium perfolia
hy
Do this
to
as strong as possible
k as ink
ins
INS never {tO cure
Gather
oh
to nave it
Agrl
BO 0S
American
ropose
DIS IN PFOWLS
Fowls
as ant
produce
various part
the
times bluish, both she
Blood ‘ker tann usual,
name of the
black.
fatal, so
and time to
best to
the house hy
Timewashing
may be saved
the ofle
solution «
fer
uraled
a da)
food
mn
food, «
hrax, tl results of
purulent
boils or
f the
s Of he
body.
combs turn black
'\
is das whenee th
worth
then
that it is not
ry to
dises
} .
burt
Save
kill the
is wt
a nat
tained
is
BRAINS,
Stipsho
pay in tl
Was nol
Years
plow or;
enough
the
there
|S|0OW Wisal
and
wel
1X
Yost
that
anyhow
would come
amd as a cow
any difference
basiness was deqdd
agement
and no mat
agement
darn
figs
mare 1!
Joss 10
it. He
both oO:
fers,
tions of every one of his
can adr rated] are
side with his p
ket: and
ble about it
the other fe
must net grumble
He most recognize
sultan)
business, have the
that nothing on ea
of the gray ma * jo his
ravel them. —Farmar's Voice
cotio
role
Pe laced sid
roductions in
no «2 for him
Whie he is grumbl
Bow git the
He
pdt think ar
¥
“ Of
one
¥
il pian
pursuits,
SEED POPATOES
The bes i
a problem upon which ue two farmer
agree, an ning which numbe
less experimen heen tried
farmers generally, as wall
ment Hesu'lts
tions havi
¥. Duggar, whe 1
Bulletin No. 35 reg
ment of Agricuiture that it is more
“smportant
pact pleces of nearly un
fo shap the |
nite number of ait each No
piece shold be e sntirely devoid of eyes,
and tle mu jority of the pieces
should be large enough to support at
feast two and Detter three or
The yield from planing the seed or
bud end is larger than irom the stem or
butt end of the tubet, the eyes on the
seed end being first to germinate, and
hence of especial impostance when an
early crop is desired. The total erop in-
oreases with every incpepse in the size
of seed pieces from the gingle eye to the
svhole potato; this ‘nerease occurs
both in the large and Ip the small potn-
foes, hut chiefly in the latter. The net
yield of salable potatoss increases with
every increase in the size of seed piece
from one eye to the Lalf potato,
“he hall potato affords a larger net
aalable crop than the whole potato, on
account of the excessive amount of
1 concert
have
as by
sta
GE
been caref ally
ii] i 1ides
1 + 1 : »
ft Difead SiLes
into com.
than
ea defi
to cut tuber
form size
HeCeR 250 40 10 hav
eyes “it
woven]
eYes,
Taking the average of many experi
sents, it was found that for every 100
tushels of net salable crop grown from
single eyes, there were 114 bushels
from two-eye pieces, 131 bushels from
quarters, and 139 bushels from halves,
favol
if seed
to be
when
high
Hse
potatoes hese results
the use of halves as seed pleces,
potatoes and crops are assumed
of equal value per bushel; but,
command a very
bushel, he
Tee It Ix better to place In
Inrge than several
sminll ones of the
price per (quarters may
advant;
hill one plece
one
VOry FRMe aggregate
weight Small potatoes cian sometimes
for seed with profit, In which
should be planted wh ile
quling are careful to
weed medium to large tubers of
and thelr example should
used
CHRO they
“la
lect for
good shape,
be followed.”
rowers se
SWARMING OF
r
While dividiog has taken tl
ng
e place o
{io A great extent,
pret
says A H
for real
uted by
wari very
swat rable in in
Duff. A arm
business cannot be
sion A
days wih
ming is many
slances, good sw
bees
divi natural
substit any
urst twenty
of
pounds to one, that
il do
twenty
swarm for the
store double the amount honey, and
in five
any division of equal strength w
It will t all of
days to eateh ug a natural swarm
} %
HOHNeS
nany cases
sion
in cond
makes some
sion is
‘ a A
od is sown in
transplanted once
now,
sold ont
ghbhoring
for
{ op
a nel
on cents per pound
It would
did
plant
well be a
that
o the
poor
half a
the plants
all the
got to attend
to things, and know your business, to
har crop every «ix weeks; but
anyone who is really anxious, and has
average skill,
sticks to it
After I was made happy by seeing
how successfully they managed the let.
Professor Hunt took
ts over to the creamery—1 guess that
is what they call it—-and showed us
how they teach Ohlo boys to make but-
ter by the use of all modern Inventions
and appliances. sverything was as
not average
and’
apart
ou have
seven inches aver
Of course, 3
Yost a
ince greenhouse
the appliances in the office of a city
merchant: and the students were using
all the modern inventions in the line of
electricity, chemistry, ete, taking the
subject in a scientific way, from the
until the gilt-edged butter, eream or
cheese ia ready for a class of customers
who are ready and willing to pay for
the finest food product that skill and
ean bring out. 1 hope our ex-
and to
stand out against fraud, trickery and
-
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES,
A good plant takes no more room
than a poor one. Have the good one,
| pare if such ewes are kept at all, They
| ennnot est hard grain
i It not
dozen sheep,
| he
A ©t odd
is that the sheep must hoe
hni*
would
much to
and that sized flock
farm
does Cost buy n
better than none on a pool
general rule in sheep husband.
petted, it
be kicked
ry
is a ti animal and cannot
to be nt
mid
and ought not sWOorn
the alnlity to
needful for the
r, but what and
re equally important to
Feonomy and perform
are average
to
hard work
know how to
be sue
the matter
and
annually
Did vou ever consider
up how much you lose
ring the very est
NOW the ti
cement
by not si
amd corn? tie to have
advert!
Don't be your
sg or fallures, What has Ix
you will help other
blocks
in
under
atranid to report se
nefitted
umb
CORN
and vour st
ling pointed out will enable
of them
shod
not, put
eer clear
Is vour bh well and does
fit
of boots one size
Grae
him? If
too nrg
HATNess
find
SAVE 0
suspender, and out
foels
down on
onrself how he
ill both feed
8 more tha an i nid of
head
oor de
pri
nals level
THE OLYMPIAN CAMES
T Parcel ot
Ancient
Were Part
ey
and
the
Creek
1 » »
oe ' nue
%
5
ugh at the vers
Wars, nr Mpegs Lay
that
[ero
and its
rhe i
ind one desting
Hellen
it fron B
“Olympiads,
sls ae
Pils
i" ! or the four
ifnters
iY
tween the games
remote origi hix festival
it
revive
fired
in less th
eaith
Thix
ving spark which
everywhere, and |
tury the festival In
character,
Only rontestantz of pure
blood were allowed to
names. As time rolled
Greeks who were, you
sailors and merchants) pushed their
maritime enterprises, and established
throughout the whole length
and breadth of the Mediterranean,
children of the greater Greece, every
where from the distant borders of Per
«ia to where the city of Marseilles now
stands, assembled to struggle for the
prize wreath, The interest of the
Greek face in these games became 8
passion. To win a victory in any of
the contests reflected as much glory on
the athlete and on his community as if
he had been the successful general in
a great battle. His name was added te
the brazen tablets recording the cele
COMmMonw
N84 B.C oon lighted a
fireek blood
half a cen
in
an
came national
Hellenig
enter their
on, and the
know, greal
colonies
If he died on this fleld of honor,
«a8 was often the case, even in the
The cost of a West Point outfit com-
plete is abort $00.
-
WAR IN THE SOUDAR.
ENGLAND'S LATEST RAID ON THL
MAHDI'S DEVOTED DERVISHES.
About 12,000 Soudanese
Troops on Hand--A Chain of
resses from Calro toWadi-Halfa,
In
kopt rate
uans proper, ‘They
infantry men. They
most rellaole soldiers
in the
for duty,
serve only
army consists of
and battery,
between 10,000
half of the
Lower Egypt, in
and in
half
the Soudanese troops are
the black 5
are used only
Egypt
sepi from yp
are
of the
army as
but
six
army.
Soudanese
us they are fit
HBgyptian fellahs
I'ne English-rg
the battalion,
und contains at
and men, Al
army Is oned in
Alexandria,
The
half w I
Saukin
SOV Ee
yours
yptun
squadron
present
2,000) most
tatl
Cairo, Suez Nauk
on the Red
vile, the
the
point of the
tal of
Khartoum,
present expedition ngal
form in
of operat
Dervishers
sen
ay
Soudan in
Dest vay to the cap
formerty
In th
Mahd
obability
army
he entire Soudan
Omdurman
t hue
How
nst
Dongolla will all pr
the
Rince
GIR
basis
the made their las
vain attempt in 1888 to
i Nile
will
Prost
into Lower
Egypt
Muahdists
army
#Egains
xoellent ti
LTOOS
T
igh as protect
ny as the Dery
ie WY
rile
attacked by
the
tely n
vhother
% comple
vers, In}
i®= a burl ng one
Hoers
Arions
gy pt this quest
Alt
ged to
1
houg #1
ite obi
| sh
ways Tor count
and
a number
ry’'s ruler
that a«
of
on Comma
iis governm on
ficers nevertheless,
theo
Like
full
her
RAIDIDR
Anot
CRs
oon
na
df confidence
and
re
tary honor
When one
bow
keep
he army. when ond
irt-covered fellahs in
one has known the
hated, despised fel
look upon the self
of the clean and
Idiers of {i nfortu
men remain in this condition
long they are absent
villages. But it has been
that something can be made
of the groveling, poor dirty fellahs. As
tlie Sondanes: are married, as
a rule, more than one-fourth of them
recieve leave of absence every week,
the leave lasting twenty-four hours, to
visit the village of the Soudanese wom-
en near the forts, The men on leave,
however, are obliged to drill during the
uaytime. Sarras, the furtherest post,
Lag one cannon, and two Maxim guns
Sarras Hes near the Nile,
The last British war against
Dervigshes resulted in the well remem
perod Nile slaughter pen,
i August, 1888
emseives to
when
lavish
jrist on
fident
well-clad sol
nately
only
their dirty
Appearance
today
the
ns from
troved
1
snldiers
General Grenfell
vas slaughtered,
their ¥; — “allies,
(ute of the day bad been decided, after
all hope of recovering their lost ground
must have been abandoned by the
fanatical Doarvishes, they continued to
wurl themselves upon their only
to be ily mowed down as ripe
grain before the reaper. They refued
all quarter and none, but with a
grim detemmination that knew but
tory dent
and as
fire of
swithes in
fork,
mercies
gave
two
Stes to a Lght--vi Oar hi
1
their
thelr
fought as bravely
bornly when the deadly
I Ered
ranks and when every movement
piled up
firs
wred by the bodies
own dead, as when
broken front and
vhiey faced thelr Toes
It w ile lead
uel
confident victory,
nitered
of bis bras wars % in this
forlorn hope that the Dery arder
wWad-el-N'Juml, fell, plerced by a bul
let, In his brain, His followers, noth
Ing daunted by his
nd ov
as
them
the
dashed
upon
fate,
CIVER,
1
n tii
aver o
and
reds in front
unbrok« eit ee
of
fight long
nization
PREPARINC HORSE MEAT.
A Comparatively New Ind
United States.
ustry
of a horse
OX Ti ¢
nd
whic
fron
and i=
ix the hind quarts
$odaun : rd
tipped wor f
invarial
black
ie factory and
is alm ol
the gn
bailed for
the akers of
# thronged at night
poorer quarters
pick fron
has been thrown
xt
wa le
inl harm in
% place
1s the
ara
flesh
and early ne
hames are on
fhe
morn
is beef
no Spee
Their Mats.
arkes
Red dy
Men and
“Well, well) leading hat-
{or the other day;
ed at the vanity of women ag they take
long and fond glances at their reflec.
tiong in the windows, woman
is not a marker for the ordinary man.
The uglier a man is the longer it takes
him to suit himself with a hat, and the
of tener does he look inte the glass while
buying one. I have an unusually pre
customer, who would ex-
haust the patience of a Joh. He came
into the store the day after the spring
styles arrived and consumed two hours
and ten minutes in getting a hat that
pleased him. The next day he return.
od the hat and had one made to order,
Thiz man is so ugly that nothing could
rein
has smil
gore but
i
3
A Modern Fable.
A wolf in skulking about looking for
ty desperate ana repeated charges, The
oit the Egyptian cavalry and
cellent service.
it was a scene of revolting slaughter
such as could scarcely occur where
both combatants are civilized soldiers.
Nor did the responsibility for the
butchery vest upon the English and
in «ight of a number of shepherds en.
gaged in discussing their wrongs.
the shepherds discuss their
wrongs.” sald the wolf, grabbing a
«Atel
ison Globe,
A Rich Find,
A hanter in Bracken county, Ken-
at a possum, and when the tree came
down he found it contained four pos-
sums, two coons, five young squirrels
and about 100 pounds of honey.
TEN- YEAR- OLD KING
Maharsjeh Krimmarajah Inthe Ruling
foverelgn of Mysore.
Mahar iah
tadaduy
Hindu boy not
8 the King of Mysore
‘Lief native
Krismarajah Wagayar
the official titles of a
yet 10 years of age, who
He is one of t
03 iat
India,
are
princes of and lis
TES~YEAR-OLD EKING MYSORE.
late father
the
prince
throne,
of India
being prepared
will
has English
turn out
BRING
affairs
Ae mn
Rajah
ys ition
young
we lofty |
ovcupy with gros wo)
native tutors
a pund
Lis
and ‘
and
ing
ince
a pring
Dur
pros
and his
uno
are
Easy Come, Fasy Co
WR
x f the
WL as Dackach
whatever ns
ever Lad It may
g with
wh
=
ost certain to
umuistion
Bad ventilation
in dwell
vereating,
of the
kidneys and liver propery
work thrust
prime causes of
thus
the utmost
Purify
Your Blood
et
of
weather and
Uracing air
ow, a8 when warmer
the tonic effect of cold is
gone, your weak, ure blo
will not furnish
That tired feeling, loss
open the way for serious
health, breaking out
npurities. To make pure, rich, red
blood Hood's Sarsaparilla stands us
equalled. Thousands testify to fits
merits. Millions it as their
Spring Medicine, Hood's, because
- Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Isthe OneTrne Blood FF urifier. Alidragg
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ather
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