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.
£
:
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|
§
trip to the Rermudas. After a fow
-
a multitide of persons in its short ex-
fetonce—<New York Press
Spain has a population of about 20.
000,000 people, .
A
Ans
af tro.
bi = 6
RLL
fi
aint ap
west in
An Aerial Cable Ferry.
Paris a Creat Fortress
hancellor
I*at
s £63
133 4
titica-
wall
inhabited
#31 the
i
{we or
1 wall
NOT,
forts
the
fi are
first.
They
y bas
ked up
wavs and oul works.
is
proof, with In
Foeto Pasumatic T res.
jisis Lave a griat deal
warppoiuted
ets when dried by
becore hesdenod aml enslly
These sels fall
and make eveling al
sagsille at certain seasons of
the yi
lian oy
si AT § 5
Corey,
wand,