FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. ITEMS OF TIMELY INTEREST TO THE FARMERS, Successful Raspberry Crowing--How a Creat Apple-Grower Plants--Herbs for the Home. THE COLLIE FOR SHEPERDS The collie dog is the by sheperds, and name of the shepherd doz derived from an and used to be when they Kinds and one most thus by the TOES he name collie is old meaning black, these dogs a black, or bred pre mostly were There are two of the The Scoteh sl i-haired long-haired by (One Is row; and esteemed collies other is smooth former Is most wenpherds for its sense well is bad telligence, against Times, HOME-MADE CHEESE, IZING MII Deen RASPBERRY G ING KEEPING COWR CLEAN If one %« true th nif #H11s the extreme taints and tell us about of milk the importance of keeping cows clean eptibi to disease germs, cannot be exaggerated Assuming that, for thei Com fort and for the =ake of keeping the milk «lean. the cows are to be brushed and groomed, where and when shall it be done? If in the stables where they are to be milked, of the stables must soon become loaded with the dust and dirt brushed or card- ad from the cows, amd the milk is more Hkely to be contaminated than if the filth had been allowed to stay on the cows. The practice in good horse stu bles is to take the horse out of the gtall for grooming. The cow needs grooming more than the horse, and in the opinion of the Jer- sey Bulletin, it 1s of vastly more hin- portaice to those who are to drink her milk, Certainly, then, the cow is on titled to ax much pains at the horse, and should be groomed in a separate place from that in which she is milked. For this purpose an open shed is per- haps best. As a practical test of the value of grooming cows, we suggest that those who doubt it make a fair trial by carefully weighing the milk FF own then the atmosphere or thirty days without grooming them, | perceptible difference that can be fairly | attributed to the grooming. That the | cows will feel better, look better, and really be better off, we have not the least doubt, Ax to the time for grooming, I { bean found that just before milki | for the same time, note if thece 1s any 1 | hans the hest.Progressive Farmer, GREAT APPLE-GROWER PLANTS | HOW A red worth county, Kan Wellhouse, of lLeaven is reputed the most the cessful mdividual apple-grower ln far Judge 1 most si the and extensive and probably known ns the apple-king. His 1650 wile oomuist of Neres; thirteen vears has been upward of 400 hels, the varieties Ben Dax O00 bu and ef pre Missouri Pippen in, Welll ceddence are res ouse has HERBS FORTHE HOME aswel shudder to go over one Bow $ been Catnip or or henbone were 1 haps pennyroyal, enough. but the wormwood., Ough! yon iif century will not But gu ck a hi relieve vou of that hitler taste can still taste it pe fake then it used to cure enough, Another point in favor of herbs la that we, who were bovs over fifty years ago took by the gallon and accordingly stayed on the farm It might be that if the farmer boy of today should he of wormwoomd pain given large doses tea, say one half gallon dose, that the ques. tion of how to keep them on the farm would be solved. Peppermint propagation is effected hy offsets or cuttings taken in the spring. It does best in a moist, tinsiy shaded situation, but will grow anywhere after it is once established For distillation the tops should be cut the in be slant, the oll being obtained from The young of diarrohea, own in relays as the plant soon ripens and up. Make a owlng In early spring and two more ithout a month apart, Carawny, this biannual, Is a native of Avia Minor, amd succeeds well in ordl mry garden soll, seeds are sown either in the sprivg or fall in drills ons wpart, and the plants are thinned out bout eight Inches apart in the drill the len ves sed Reed seven, are IRON should ts seed dries first fount ton ‘he seed are produced abundantly following summer, and only require irving to be ready for use in a rather dry stievecds host snndy but they Will any garden loam if it I'he plants tained by seed or slips which are pullod the late and Sage Halt which is in almost MH OO wet fire oh off of the old plant in spring Pansy Is of easy rapid growth 114 val ducer and has shown al {Oo progeay, to (NYWE (on- ten to twelve years is xl many smselves long before that time fit bred eighteen or twenty years old, but they have to be fed ground grain and bran, mixed with moistened cut hay, long enough Keep a cow, A ge demn {ows in are unfrequentls it must be understood, says the Hos pital, that the gubstance which goes. by the name of sterilized milk is something different from ordinary milk. The al bumen is converted into peptone, and the relation of the fat to the other con- stituents is in the same way changed. so that very little fat separates from the emulsion From the investigations, however, made by Dr. Blazing, profes. gor of hygiene at Brunswick, England, it appears that the nutritive properties of the milk are in no wise interfered should be distilled as soon as possible If an annual top-dressing of soll is giv- en the beds they will amply repay the tronble, SSAA AAR SAINI Forms of the Name “Smith.” There are families—some of you may know them-—named Taillefer, Tolliver, Tollfer, Telfair. Now what would yon vated in the same manner as the pep permint, and hung up In a cool place for winter | tse, Pennyroyal is readily grown from divisions of the crowns amd suececd | best in a moist spot, : good, pain English—Smith? It is a fact, Taillefer i= derived from the French, and the others are only cons tractions of that word, or changes made by mispronhaciation and custom, Tail ler fer means to shape or fashion iron; NO MORE OF THE DISEASE, HERE THAN ELSEWHERE, ioration«-Vigor of Our Paople. The belief in the greater nervous of the Ameri tiie widespread York, nervous writes Dh Magazine, late Dr of the an, Century "he one C. Knapp, in Kees Beard, first very of describe New Wis to prostration to give to it its medical name of neurasthenia, so that it hag often esl ofl disease Nervous Ameri “Ameri “hn Bo) spoken ai accept! nent He for and yimen he plains, w made better for time distance, wi slightest injury to horses or mm Trot Like a Thoroughbred. A big brown moose, trained 0 go in harness, trot and run races-—that was of a Tom Reed, Kenniston, and he for citizen of the State of H Village, where his eccentricities as a boundaries of Maine Iw guessed at from the motto which he endeavored to attract guests to his hostelry. It was: “No niggers and no napkins. After he had abandoned the hotel business, or it had abandoned him, Kenniston adopted the interesting pur- suit of a showman; in other words, he started a menagerie. That was the be- ginning of the career of the moose as a trotter. Kenniston bought the animal when it was a calf. It had been found wandering in a pasturage, and was evidently deserted by its mother. Kenniston gave his first lesson to the animal by means of a child's express cart. The harness was of rope yarn and a piece of tough leather served as a bit. At first Kenniston, who was not remarkable for his courage, very pro- dently led the beast with his cart at. tachment by the head. This arrange- ment appeared to suit the moose admir- ably, and it and its instructor got along very amicably. By and by Kenniston got tired of the to have n in the cart. This appears to have been ship, who mmedintely marked his re enue of Phillips The spectacle exciting bitte Wile HOLT DON el and the the Wis villagers of the town The wagon wrecked aprile d out but managed to escape from the ca i tastrophe He pers sted, without much serious injury however 11 hig cotirse of moose education and gradually mal became more to tx fate oiled Kenniston, ax may be supposed, ney odd pttenda nes < . >eventeer 10. Recolle broken to 15. Recollect tint st becomes mud and that mud forms which will keep the road in a few temember that the middle of the 16. rain may run 17. Never allow the water tables, gut. them clear the whole year through. Every rondmaster and supervisor should cut these rules out and paste theta in his everyday hat. To make a good road is one thing and to Keep it in good repair is quite apother thing. The finest roads in Europe are the result of a splendid repair system where every defect is promptly cor rected before it has time 10 cause se rious damages to the highway. a ana A Valuable Car-Load. Twelve and a half tons of silver pullion, valued approximately at £375. 000, will shortly be shipped from the Furaka Hill. The shipment, while not large enough to fill a car, is as expensive as would be permitted. This, it is said, will be the largest single-car shipment ever made from a mine in Utah, and it is believed in the world. SOLITUDE OF SILENCE, A Peculiar Charm Possessed by South African Scenery. charm which is that It is other peculiar Ih African scenery Dossesses and silence differently «it by a charm which ned are mnay iit Homer ca the rich Works f men” essent { presence ial to WH rf overt lon ndncape Cult fells orchards » golu Ive feed his work used ay be built ' i very ex upon 3 ! wo Ad ordinary unning of the Fox. i inter can travel so vy few men legged hunter natter of petting seen in Eng. bush, creeping after a sleeping hare, for all the world like a man stalk- s pe fox cannot catch a ab bat its food is mostly rabbits, in spite of their fleetness. But at no time does it display its skill so well as when running for life with a pack of bounds iu its trail. Lord Willoughby de Broke writes to the Badminton Magazine to tell how a tired fox made straight for a fleck of sheep in a pen, ran through them, and in the end escaped. Olaus Magnus, Archbishop of Upsala, wrote a book called “Historia de Gentibus Seplentri- omlibue” of which an English tmns- lation exists. This book tells of a fox that leaped from back to back of a herd of goats. As the dogs could not fol- low, the fox escaped. A curious irick of English foxes is to fump as high as possible, grasping a tree branch with their teeth, hold on til] the hounds have gone on, asd then dransing to the ground. escape. This js similar to the trick of the American fox, which jumps into a tree and rests on a branch: but American dogs are not such fools as English dogs. They gath- er around the tree and howl til the hunter comes. when it meat. Foxes land, slipping crawling amd from bush to ing a deer. bit in a fair chase A Missouri man bas invented a rob- ber-proci car,
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