FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. ITEMS OF TIMELY INTEREST TO THE FARMERS. Feeding Pigs In a Dairy-Our Insect En- emies---Potatoes In Drills vs, Hills Treatment of Orchids--Etc,, Ete, FEEDING PIGS IN A DAIRY. Pigs will feed very milk of a dairy, with cornmeal bran mixed with it. Ensilage may be fed to pigs thus kept great vautgge, and as much growth as If on good pasture, For 100 pigs make n house 100 feet long and twenty feet wide, divided by a middle passage, and into ten pens five pigs being kept in each pen. There should be a yard on each side of the house for and with on each side, each pen with a swinging door to lot The York the pigs out and in at pleasure. floor should be of plank. New Times, HILLS to be POTOTOES We grown in IN DRILLS VS knew drills until a beetle had become numerous and se old running out always planted in casional hills were ipg only spindling tubers Of potatoes § i never ter the potal MI varieties showed of When the farmer who had of the signs hills, found th defective plants crop ot drills, twelve $0 mich Sirs lecting and understood ths in hills is retu chance it gi tivation by going through ways saves labdr and adds to the There is potatoes great advantage | before they come up best done when they ire covered a coverer, which under r up clonds plants when constant rains occur, Therefore purnp must be tural World, ent atl il fds were The esaont 1 had at after they of horticulturists t is Interesting t - rye vis] granag rugzles of our great r the suitable AYE A Garden and Forest, We who know about it are surprised that any intell gent cultivator should have tried grow epiphytic plants “in common soil in plots plunged to the rim in a tan bed.” Teak baskets, sphagouim moss, peat fiber and charcoal appear to us to be exactly what any intelligent school boy would have recommended as plying the right material for an epi phyte. But, like all useful discoveries and inventions, simple as they appear to nx they were not worked out with- out muoch thought, experiment and the sacrifice of many plants. One of the ghrewdest of botanists working in the the st note thers to discove conditions most i for them, writer in io “Up Dr. Lindley, stated in a paper read to that “high temperature, deep shade and excessive humidity are the condi Hons essential to the well-being of or- shide.” Thirteen years later another ‘he same treatment, adding that a rest ng season was necessary. This treats ment became the only orthodox one, Jhirty years. We now recognize that fresh air at sajor bright sunshine, that while some require plenty of moisture all the year round, others requore it only for a por. Yon of the year, and that some even thrive only when trestad as if they | were cacti, The temperature for ex. otle orchids varies from a purely trop that of a few | teal to atmosphere, and after growth Is com pleted are removed cool and dry conditions to afford them a | Post, | not fairly uniform all the year round. RAISE YOUR OWN HERBS. I noticed an article under the heading Raise Your Own and it was good sound sense, every word of it, but let us go a little farther and say, “Ralse writes Eva Galllard Every “ Sage,” your own herbs,” in The American Agriculturist, the various herbs and mints is an al most invaluable help in her work, and that in many the dash of particular one makes all the difference hetween a dish and that lacks the finishing touch that proves it to b Nearly all herbs are so easily grown that the) honld the indis. 1hles Sweet basil CARPS ROIe perfect one the work of a skilled cook be counted among in every garde: seasoned ly es of nearly all sorts such as is used in 1 SOUPS, Fen iI 10 tes and salads that sauces amd the . SAUCes, gray » boiled in water fish en leaves are used as a garnish ind the fish platter Tarragon is for n ARE oi for where is manured but in this far and no farther, of exhaustion with replenishment. But should be in bearing the trees are less than forty feet ipart without liberal feeding Cultivating the orchard is good when the trees are young, but much plowing rich. re and be thus sign must HO CTops grown orchards whiers wiental, of FARM AND GARDEN NOTES, Raise your own calves and you wili have quiet and gentle cows, The demand for first-class butter is The dairy business of today is suffer ing more from lack of good men than of good cows, Never rush the cows from pasture to Watch the dog and nnd stable boy It is claimed by good authorities that there is less danger of milk fever if the cows are permitted to calve in the fall That troublesome pest, the dalsy, may he utilized advantage in fattening bhasves, but it will not do to feed milch to i Find out how much it costs to keep her product Is worth in cold cash. Do not neglect this any longer. Many cows not worth their keep are butter is overworked the grmnules the butter and the depreciated are mashed, grain ruined, value of the should not come in contac the then hands butter, as warmth of es the grain nk vou ean cover nilk thie i Better costs no more to pursue thos by tse of } never ave HOCORKATY Cold Storage on Ocean Steamships, Ea f the sins of } % i, 11KN are 1.604 oceries form an tilly large ite atering de¢ it For in Is ay the vas mer is provided with 1.000 pounds { 1.500 of coffee, 2.800 pounds ha $500 pounds respectiy ely of and with 1.000 of - 4 of t Si ¥ of fea, pounds white moist sugar: pulverized sugar, but enriched, Salt and lime dressing, one thousand votnde to the aere, was recommended for canker worms—a barrel of Hime and i a bushel of salt. Rlake the lime to a powder, add the salt and let it stand for a week, then apply. I It i= with apples as with everything else, if only the really first-class fruit i was gent to market there would never tor 1.500 Adver- ham and New York 6.000 pounds of pounds of bacon, tiser A Freak Reptile. One of the most interesting creations of nature iz the lnminous centipede, a combination of lizard, spake and natural electri light plant, It is about one and one-fourth inches long, its body being covered with short Its body is very narrow amd to be in sections. In quence of this peculiar formation he enrious hairs tppears Cones mand, and at paying prices, every sort and size and | bearing year, the price for good quality { of all sorts can hardly be given away | Auything below second quality should pork or vinegar or appie butter, or be evaporated or eanned. The mistake of quantity when it should be offered for quality. i cept when frightened. Then the natural electric light plant feautre appears, and with an almost in stantaneons wave-like motion, begin ping at the tail, the color of the reptile changes from orange to a greenish phosphorescent shade, Then, sparkling a tiny streak of green light, the refuge. When one of the palr is in search of its mate the color grows a bright yellow, but at will *he wentipede if lying close to the grain of a ploce + wood, is hardly noticeable. Now “ork Journal UNCLE SAM'S SCALES, HOW THE COVERNMENT WEIGHS THE MAIL EVERY FOUR YEARS. During the Next Four Years as Muchas $10,000,000 Will Be Pald To The Railroads--~Object of the Work, The mails the the quadriennial weighing of for the fourth of United States has been completed, division Every four years the government ol ders a welghing of the malls on all the mall trains in the United States, This i® done for the purpose of ascertaining ix due the various for transport. the what sum of money the connlry pouches of railroads of ng the mall ment, Though not a precise method by any the pproximation ike a method govern means this plan enables govern ment to make a close a and i sometl definite 1 3th ’ t iT *f clumiol ile ng i proper of would be to welgh the mall each the Course day and to make a settlement basis of each day's showing would only tend to ould be id be CX pense natters as there WwW Lie work that requir wou tion the Such would be ind dragged in fa stick ent from t tree above us by a pin in it proceeded he main was at the ten feet from Tim, Tom t he to confess, wonder at How. was jnst aml, | fervous beyond am free enough io Tom's manner at such a ever, I couldn't help watching his movements, and sctusally laughed to see him sliding the pinpointed stick aleng toward the unsuapecting victim, Having got it at the right distance, he waited for a smashing volley of bul lets, and just ag it came he prodded the soldier in the back with the pin, Well, it was really funny to see the chap jump and yell and roll over and we both fairly howled. But it wasn't «0 funny when the man didn’t move after on other side was time but he never had much of a chance to, for when the next volley came he was on his knees beside bis dead comrade trying to do something for him, and his it off. ~Washington Star. PICKING THE ORANCE, A Picturesque Scene In a Crove in Calis fornia. large The pleking of the orange in I such the Ban Riv an addition of Chinese Americans, rom far and filled with body is at is this year ul pagination is in California, aw Gabriel Valley Redlands, Is announced by centres Pomona erside and to the flouting population Gangs Mexicans, gather f al koers and and men boys near, the Iaughter and work ErOVes Are song Every fis it aud if the crop is large, one ix feeling cheerf The in wired GBVery orange grove of the filled with golden thi { POOR fruit, wh soft and The actual grove, when beautifu the eye, for should lie ¢ one oun : idl t BIass luxuriate in the sight i# not a place ground is, or sowed ptr a shabby tent For food 11 fo he depend im aking and on coffee or ainly on Lis own pork, tes with sugar and no milk he will occa slonally have some canned stuff or po fatoex, The furniture of the hut ig of the roughest description-a roll of blankets for bedding, a bucket, a tin wash basin, and a tin mag, with per haps a emcked looking glass four inches square Harper's Round Table. Of course EE Violin Bows, Why do some violin bows give such a much sweeter sound than others? This has for a long time been a trade secret, but if we pass our finger over around at ye in a scared kind of way His surprise found expression in an oath, and he called to the man. There was no answer, and he called again, with the same result. Then he crept over to him and gave him a shake. That brought no response, either, and see his face. It was an ashy blue, with the eyes staring wide open, snd the with never a mark on him, save, per haps, that one pin scrateh in his back.” “1 should you think your joking friend could never have forgiven him. self for that cruel joke,” suggested the writer, violin bow is composed, a slight rough ness is observed very much like the barb of a fine fish hook . In a very first-class bow these infinitesmal polots are arranged =o as to fall in opposite artists are very particular in the point treme of rehairing their bows them i i i : | As soon as the roughness in the tone, and the hair is cast aside. Some of the most noted violinists re. hair their bowa before every concert, not caring to run the risk of using a how which might possibly give an un. certain sound. The bows are made cluded ihe professor, “because Tom tall.- Boston Caltivator. Said to Automatically Record and Repro- duce Thought. automatically recording means of of The and reproducing lar in prine ple toa phio- achieve iden thougut by 3 machine nograph ment of Jul PD. C. a ne of will i In fmed of Washington wihio is Bell nas in now the ( 1% Emnner scolentist and inventor the contestants against the telephone patent The machine i tested hy friends and a patent is been rid looked for I'lic machine is a cylinger inch inches long an half in «diameter, It ix about six nnd a com ted with an exceedin e chemical, vasily rent, in minonm decompose citric curs front of a ne needle of alu veradd with whose point Hu CU The needle N sel rests on in a thin being used the eylinder very ragm ke arr f person machine retris ed so a His Sunday Rear Admiral Makaroff, Admiral Makaroff of the Rus gian navy,” says the Philadelphia Rec recently a Charles H. Cramp, is one of the mos; conspienous figures in modern Eure pean naval history. Although only 4) years of age, he is first on the list of Russian rear admirals and is senior tu a large number of officers whom be su perseded by special promotion. He #0 was who, during the last Torko-Rus gian war was regarded the Skokeloff of the Russian navy, and, like that grea general, whose portraits be resembles was several tines promoted for his dar ing and enterprise. His career in that dashing attacks on Turkish shine in the WAr Was an uninterrupted series of Batum and other Turkish harbors of the Black Sea, in which his skill wae second alone to his daring, That is why he ix the senior rear admiral at the a 2¢ of 17 years. He recently command od the Asiatic squadron and is now on his way home to assume command of the Baltic fleet” AY nme Hear ord. “who was guest of Two Sayings From Cork. A Cork Town Councillor {8 credited with having thus spoken: “There ean be no doubt of the virulence of thiz epi demic, for 1 know of people lying dead from it who never died before” The same gentleman thus chivalrously de fended a colleague: “1 strongly protest against this attack on my absent friend, for surely it is not right to hang a man behind his back.”—-The Spectator.
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