ITEMS OF TIMELY INTEREST TO THE FARMERS. Clover for the Dairy-~A Wet SoilsThe Butter Drier---Commerciai Melon Grow. ing Under Irrigation. PRUNING QUINCE FREES. Part the quince is owing thie his tree of the Inck of success i v Line Kk « f prun growing ing which t receives ten its The tree productive if trained : entirely ne pruning | is much ore certain IN i il i single and its weaker cut ont ey row 1 close where th grow too spring gether \ with well i med f v «1 its mass of pink soms, is a beautiful sight in sp golden fruit Americal when covered © is still more tivator. contains water thian a me : nioist or anil, practica termine CONtaIns wafer void vening degrees be Know fnerefsing tion and experience ¢ shades of darkness nc 3 from dry to satu ol. 3 i a iry apm + Ane ny } changes A dry soil has Aran a wet soil has a ee colnet under physical forec is also a guide. The | thi foot scarcely disturbs the surface wet appeat The soils ressure of prirticles of a dry soil. The same pres- sure slightly displaces vertically down ward the surface particles of a merely With a thers laterally of both sur There spewing up about the foot, and the soil {itself mires. Usually a wet soil is ten acions and always heavy, moist soil wei soil is a displacement face and sub-particles, ix =n cidedly injurious. Early rains diminish the injury. Without the soll will become hard, lifeless and vold of moisture, ly broken andl tilled will lose their ¥i- horoughly tilled even thereon thrive during ir soils he broken nnd titled wet and follow, will perish of fertility toesides 1 or con ined drouths i is drouth Crops for moist the want thierecn i ree 0 Be 11 suffer a permanent physical ¢ Farmer, THE BUTTER DRIER threatens to the but of hen, invention now the which Ww A ne supplant worker the ithout rolling o butter rids granules bruising t recent issue of a London paper, ofessor Sheldon goes on record quite of working commends the ord drier and molder, witly against the practice and warmly work of the Brad! In the butter, nse of tl this invention the butter washed in thie rined.” Af ne half an hour, ladled s churned as usual, then *l seannular state, add in the In cnnimng eranular butte out and of any won nds filled fren teoriia rd cul uction of elm trees, amd Pro ith was particularly busy last explaining his experiments and jong against the ising precay the pests are vul and on follow One pound of Paris green has found stots poisons, he makes his exterminator the formula or London purple, mixed with 150 gal g of water; add a sufficient quantity of stone or shell Hime, a pound for each in order to qualities add anarts of glucose, or thick molasses, to fost give po ind of the wittoer poison; adhesive two when the the boil This for 110 bad effect upon the i neutral every 100 gallons of mixture; water and lime have come to ing point. put in the poisons mina will have trees, for the soluble arson by the lime. exterining- tor prepared by the professor is: Lead 11 ounces: sodium arsenite, 4 in 100 gallons of water: add adhesives to the mixtures before; thoroughly stir and apply. The chenpness of these preventives and exterminators ig remarkable, A hundred gallons of the first formula, food Another acetate, ONees, an raries has recommended This he de-! non-polson- ineffective because ous fentitic American Was a Total Abstainer. daylight of battle of Manassas,” before sald a | reunfon | or “About thie second the day at a recent the ol to General 1, J with a detall of Confederate otlicer the blue and Wis Jack 100 men for spe nt to head presented orders | gray, to yeport Ron, orders, | and had received cin went once quarters the Junekson came to General and follow him stufl out, beckoning me from his halted lHquor?” rove ome fifty vards and then turned to me and “Captain, do vou e 1 he asked “No, sir” I replied. word 1 resis AWHS Lintst ths SONT Here Ca an order ral Jackson to fire the ware it was well destroyed report to him “I carried out 1 pot a man that time t Jackson quiched.” foe dreaded ne fost was yan Facts About Shoes. The Portuguese shoe has a wooden sole and heel, with a patent leather, fancifully showing the flesh the The Persian footgens is a raised shoe, and is often It i= made of light wood, with an strap extending instep. The Muscovite on a frame, and but little attention i= paid to the of the foot. Leather uses], but the sandal is gener made of «ilk cordage and wooden The Siamese shoe has the form an ancient with a gondeln bow and an-open toe, The made of wood and the upper of inlaid and cloth, and thd exterior vamp made of side of akin a foot high richly inlaid, the hand-woven, shoo wooden shin pe is SO ally cloth Canoe, t i= wole is elm trees, cost about fifteen cents, Ar may be obtained at about eight cents toon cents a pound, One of Professor Smith's contempo- The sandal worn by the Sxyptinne is composed of a sole nesses of leather. This is held to the | The sandal i= beautifully OTS, TRAIZING NAVAL THEY CGO TO SEA ON THE REVENUE BARK CHASE, She Is to Spend the Summer on the Baltic. Work and Play of the Cadets While on a Cruise, the English method of training midshipmen is that by his of fleers In each thie work Somewhat similar to which Uncle Bam educates for the says the is to revenue service, FP ross, Free practical In trot Cs tench by English youth are spread throughout tish navy. The res enue cutter taught on board vessel breech loading pattern i lie nists of one ponder Diriggs-RBchroeder; on the top gallant forecastie aft winders and RA #' the drilled Also and are Iwo The § regularly at Oo make Aare quite those in the manual f=evd in the dn pleasant weather junior cadets ting up drill and Being constantly Oxo sailor during the first year having charge of deck at in tervals during the second vear, the ea i 5 the tion of a and the 14 acquire a practical knowledge of not to bw had by of At are watch in 8%, and they stand night. The old nakes period E> is ' iHustrated by the dets seamanship that i= any SCN. other method instruction all the the day from quarter wal saw, well shown The inations, algebra, cadets on x 1n hes at “practice proficiency in seamanship the require entrances exam: arithmetic, geometry, tory, grammar, chemistry, geography, Hitermiure, infor. mation and either French, German or Spanish, insures candidates who ma) nat once be taught brapehes res quired to equip them as officers of tix Revenue Cotter Service, The course includes gunnery, seamanship, navi gation, signals, revenue law and inter national law. In port recitations are held five days of the week, study period lasting seven hours per day. severity of which trigonometry, his physics, general {home Lowis count widowed redst; ood lot a constantly to eat, and (thers have ald extract font the bees ably pot less tha their 1 Gaur is thought several tons of honey named Duncan, who lives not far from the spot obtains from the rock enough each SUMmer by the sun's heat, more than for family All second highest point in Pennsyivania, honey is found Cracks New York Press through that n wild in forks Nezative Sort of Animal, Donbile headed, donbletailed, and been exhibited throughout the Adelbert Bivins, who lives 1 N. Y.. owns a calf without eyes or a tail the sex of whicl cannot be determined, or wiuch is sex The calf is pow over a week old, The fou borned six dogo] calves have world, Feist at Hoscoe, and leas apparently hapyp and thriving. £ : i | § trip to the Rermudas. After a fow - a multitide of persons in its short ex- fetonce—