FARM AND GARDEN NOTES
ITEMS OF TIMELY INTEREST TO THE
FARMERS.
Spreading Manure---Selecting Seed Grain.
Description of a Good Dairy Cow---Small
Crain Harvesting.
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FEEDING FLESH TO HOG!
It is a common practice to throw the
offal left butchering of dogwst
animal to the It will be greedily
hog Is naturally car
from
hog
ous: but where much such feed is given
it makes iimal feverish, and
flesh ix not so good for fod as
pork made by feeding grains
if ther any of
the offal, the
troduced into the
are lesions disease
disease hus be
tne
nay
SW There is
obiection to feeding such meat
which have anima
SOme
and which will not
}
Wik
of their eggs
Cultivator,
hy
> I
RE
SPREADING MANI
’ shepherd & hou
guard against, So that it is son
questonable if the «ilo can ever
on sheep farms tut ther
usable
possibl
ly the sweet
sugar beet or the sucenlent mangel
question about roots, « special
palatable and nutritions
Rape cannot be sown with grass seed,
as it will shade the ground so much a
to wholly prevent the grass from
to kill it
short time, Rape
spreading plant, that will
fill the rows if they are three feet wido,
being much like a cabbage, but with
the leaves spreading, instead of making
a head
On any farm, and under good
management, 8 flock of sheep will pay
their winter feeding in the manure thoy
fll make. Give them lots of straw,
and they will convert it into the richest
kind of food for crops.
FOF
grow.
ing, of »0 simother it ax Com.
pletely in a is a leafy
completely
gowwl
While we are buying about all our
woolen goods of England. to the ruin
of our own mill men and impoverish.
ment of our operatives, the great and |
good statesmen of that country are |
paying us for the practical freedom of
the American market by devising legis.
lative schemes for shutting out
sheep and cattle,
our |
Thirty tons of roots may be grown |
on any good acre of land by the right |
cultivation. This will feed thirty sheep |
for 200 days, or 200 for a month. This |
will supply two-thirds of the feeding, i
For the future ewes the twin lambs |
ghould be reserved, It Is not at all |
necessary that twin lambs should he
discouraged on account of inability to]
T
is
il
trained fo
toy
then, Better ewes,
all that
{ successfully
wanted
The
rear
i=
is
| rear
| are
training done by
| feeding.
: nals
wirn
Sheep are not robust
thirty
{drive of miles on n
them
and
for
them
but
much
to
{nltogethor too
effect
5 Jop disease
inlly
ongestion of
| the
I'his
trouble,
Iw tire de
Of
the
the skin
wontld
HIOST oR
the lungs
pre by ovevhenting prodine
Injury t«
off of |t
a tempod
and hy
wool cause the dropping
however, only
in nry
which the sheep will get over
time, but it will not
on the
surely cause the loss of lan
time. American
na short Bve
wool already sheep
ihe at
Sheep Bree
ing
SMALL GRAIN HARVESTING
Improved harvesting machiners
reduced the labor of caring for sma
80 considerably
ain after it Is ripe,
acreage is determined more
bry
prospective price than the «
Hoetion,
The pony binders
hinders, the header, «
confined to the great
ure used «
s. In
NeCERsL
Inily by ti
certain loealit
hods ly remain
igh nnd does
rot
nproved
rong i il
to is limited
ball
They
Ww 1 roller and
ind 1 easily
work in kind of
band there
pros fede
nn very do good
Hy grain, On the the
iz a number of twelve
ket
These do well
other
foot binders on the n which can
also be ved as headers
in the heaviest grain, binding the
great of grain with It i=
pushed before the team, four horses be
ing sufficient to propel it. With a little
alteration the grain can be headed and
run into a wagon instead of a binding
apparatus. The three-horse mocnines,
however, continue to be the favorites
and cut the greater part of the grain,
These have been greatly simplified une
til the parts of the machine are few
oven
innss 0 Nar
ago. The work is done perfectly. They
will work on ground too soft for the
ordinary reaper. The construction
tiuat any one of average
brightness can operate them,
is
Curious Egyptian Delicacy,
“Rhabob” is one of the great delicacies
the
It i= a thin string of mutton,
which is wound around a small ‘ron rod
the customer waits,
Lord Gower, an Englishman of noble
birth, in a land where the tall silk hat
is regarded as the fortieth article of
faith, has started a crusade against the
“dicer” as being unsightly, ungainly
and altogether unnecessary appendix
to wale attire,
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
(HX) Mada
Ly fut
Now
to
France lost 7 soldiers In
ascar, rather a high price to
Antananarivo
be
the taking of
monument is to erected their
memory
The
heen
Intel
ar, fol
wlhale-boat Industry has
nffected by the Cuban ow
along the New
of the insurgents
the whale-boats in sight
to New York The
ws to use
and
agent
buying all
and shipping
intention
England coast an
has been
them
bus
sieved to honts
filibu
these
landing men arms from
shipments
[he
sone
European Economist publishes
facts with regard to the growth of
the
during
population in countries of
Arions
Europe decennial period
» OF .
1885-00 ge nerense was 29
FOO iH) Rome
For
12.510 804) toy
advanced
added
popu
Austro-
1 iritain, 2.»
have
example, Russia
het
Laermany,
SERS
§,.0522.600
Ig
lation
Hungary, 3,502 200;
i022 400
’i,1 Wi
fs ed
urkey, 1.1640 0600)
An article in
ne point
3
opie;
take testimony as to the pract cal re
gults of leense and prohibitory legisla
of
of R108) ix
he prevention niemper
An
to defray
Loe appropriation
made the expenses of the in-
quiry
The
Australia
They
of the population,
and spend their life in travelling from
one little colony or “station.” as
called, to another The name “sun
owner” is applied to them for the rea.
«on that the sun's setting is a signal for
thelr coming. The “stations”
far apart--twenty or thirty miles, or
even more—the people have not the
heart to send them adrift to the bush,
A correspondent of Yoston
IF'ranseript aays that is n
paradise for tramps comprise
about one-quarter
it is
recognized as a necessary evil The
well-to-do farmers have usually an
“travellers” hut,” and regular rations
are served out to these wayfarers, a
nikin or dipper of flour, the water-bag
refilled and a “nk for the night.
A dispateh from Duluth, Mian, an
pounces the discovery of vast beds of
part, of Minnesota. It is also
thu: voese vast beds have become the
property of James J. Hill, president of
the Great Northern Railroad Company,
a branch line of that raliway to the
mines. Similar discoveries of very ex:
have been
Alberta hundreds of
the Minnesota deposits
Record
that
Hyered
Of
nan eventual transfer
The place
Ios
has undeniable advantages
the I
against all competition,
in Canada
Wnt
he Philandelphin
it
of
says tuat
n good conl ean
the
might
of the
ould turn ont
he cheaply
superion
the neat t
grea
Prened iron ore, it
1! iron
Dusiness where the ray
material can most cheaply assem
bled
ih
wien
end w assert themselves
The
have
Madagnas
the
pro
+ the latest num
Oficielle Hova'
customs prevalent in
changed
of
tnne
Cit not been wines
establishment the French
For in
finzetie
the
final
tectonnte,
of thi
contain under
the
bers
heading of
following “Fri
little pil
Review iY at
Fi
slave 1
little
oman
Fananarive
hoy 100 frances
110 fran
| r
practiced by
francs; slave,
sluve grown w
franes,’
ded
HE the
$ not exactly the same eruel
1
Lier i
of
Lies Hberal PAPER
market should be
French officials
Af:
ords
1s
t
uring fine weathe
again on the
riactures of
} rit i it
binving
Ro it is that mans
to lo
Mummy of an Unknown Race,
John McCarty 1
Ari a mamms
4
Hunter into
Pros
rong ht
ott, zou that i= be
a decidedly different He
it while hunting a lion, which he had
treed] and brought down, in the Verde
canyon. In a cliff dwelling he had
found a sealed chamber 7x9 feet. Tear
ing it met a grisly sight. It
was his mummy kneeling on a soap-
weed mat, with the body upright and
head erect, the Jong arms hanging
straight down from the shoulder. in
life he was about five feet seven inches
high. In one hand was grasped a stone
ax, in the other a bundle of barbed
flint-headed arrows, As the air rushed
type,
open he
arrowheads and the rawhide handle of
the stone ax crumbled to ashes, as dia
the mat and mantle which covered the
mummy. The fine brown hair about
two feet in longth, fell from the head.
In the cave were found several earth.
enware bowls, a tortoise shell and
about £1.80 worth of besf-grade tur.
rough, dust as It was
The pleces rang-
ino flint in this part of the country and
ro known vein of turqnoise in the west.
ern hemisphere of the width of these
specimens, where the ancient got them
is a mystery. The absence of high
cheek bones and the fine hair Indicate
that he was not related to the Indians
of today.
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THE YOUNC FOLKS,
THE AIFELI
Ten little children, standing
Std y
then there wep
fearful of
nine,
Nine puzzled faces,
Clkly, then there
Eight pairs of
heaven,
BY, DURY
seven grave heads,
fix
“lal
lady,”
d ¥
Carer
strive,
“Dut te, duty
Five diearts so
more
Bix darlings,
+ were live
un tiny more
ann
S00 the
re
As a peneral like
ard ship
are hut there
them is
United
are some exceptions, and one of
the “‘mascol” of the
{ cats
I888, He Las traveled
150,000 miles in her. and
something
the
Is
feaman,
sailors
Martin Foley. Officers
come and go, court martials
ties are inflicted, but Charley remains the
pet of the ship and the most exalted eat,
marine or otherwise, on the globe. The
bundreds of scattered people who have
served on the Yorktown will be delighted
to learn that Charley is still “on deck.”
80 to speak
i
tice. but be is still amiable and lovable
They teil a funny story about this
famous cat. When the Yorktown was on
a dock on the opposite side of which sn
English gunboat lay. As was his wont
a view of things. Fome English sailors
observing bis swagger,
troduced.
One of them went on board the English
gunboat and brought vat Ginger, a lusty
cat of Jofty British pretensions and aristo.
eratic mien. The two cals met on the
dock and touchsd noses in a disdaintul
way. when, all of a sudden. Charley let
fly his right paw. striking ‘he Iriton on
the jaw and knocking him overboard.
This act performed, he strutted back ts
"im? His performance was cheered by
the Yorkt i’
thint cal’s slo k
pn
I'he
af
ship.
and
{nies
wn if
50
sletiire
I i
ime per, ent
a! thie Prasig C3}
44
nears ry { Aa i ron tae
SOOT ON i them hing i FHI
[nite] 8
it the i \ {
thor isar
| know abou feline mance
iz of [ese
3
Humble Ancestry of Proud Peers.
n Nir John Houb
Marquis of Salis.
‘homas « Goke, draper,
A Matter of Nose.
ite of the Important place given
as an index of character,
is but little to be learned from it
the cause of an innate
mind and the fea-
Most of the correspondences
which bave been remarked appear to
be of a radical onder; but why a Roman
first became associated with a
warlike and domineering disposition
or how a long and thin nose became
n sp
to the nose
there
in esthinating
fiom
If we omit the changes
which take place in a nose during a life.
ime of its possessor, there is scarcely
i
:
No Tartar or Hottentot,
Japan has shown that
she possesses plenty of men with mili
tary aptitude, but no Wellingtonian nose
can be found within ber borders, Again,
no Chinese nose is jong and thin, yet
“John” is not without a certain apti-
tude at driving bargains,
The very correct maiden has colored
stds and sleeve links to mateh each