FARM AND GARDEN NOTES INTEREST TO THE RS. ITEMS OF TIMELY FARM How to Remove Rank F'avor«-.Suntiower Culture---Watering Nord About Turkeys. Horses at Worke-A OILING neat's foot oll, four Mix one gallon i ‘ pounds of the by red tal Melt of st newly low, and two pounds of vaseline and i lamp in. wh Ofer ounce stir black. Take the harness apa and wash witrin watet tnd Castile thoroughly mixture <Oft lent the leatl nnest Homestead, WATERING It used to be drinl lid 1 forenoon of their HIS Was ool roin Ri! they eaten ] BRAIN AND MURCLE he man will far outstrip ir man This which men engage in farming. The getting along other igs equal, are thoss who mix brains h thelr work: who tematize their work; ite weason, and in manper possible, does not who uses bot THIER ie who uses onl iife the clea, is irae in # } } i but eapoecis true farmers who are thie easiest, thir wit pian and sys do everything in the most thorough instance, decide what or the one who breaks hls ground gardless of the condition of soil, plants untested or doubtinl in poorly prepared soll, cannot be said to have mixed enough brains with his work. There is no doubt that many farmers Ie the son | ana have too much leisure at others, | Hore, again, is where the bLralos come in. The work should be planned with a view to doing it most economically. | by a jundiclous dis. i which This can be done tribution of hands and teams reasonably busy dur. all the hiring help and rushing at and then taking It siderable spell The co-operation of brain nnd mus on the farm, than merely farming; it brother farmers, and organizations the best sdvantng in n Work will keep y LAE keasons of vear, instead of SOoe Sell ONIN, asy for a con le Hii Os lore hods of Hal WN however, {to means improve meth co-operat ith marketing to for purchasing St pendent Louis J tune, SUNFLOWER I'he ing advocated in Western farm crop ertedd that the better var cultivation HE ann t try support of cnte rostiit was a perfect butter thle favor” anmenting on the Elgin Dairy opportunity that will enald to nn 8 Tv iis » alive, the dito fers Report appve: “} i creamery men ARs ritnents for thems ives © this same trou [Ore or vss gver rank grass 3 #14 rie Dene feed on We give this fi amd will =ay to try it. even if it accomplishes no good ir readers of that that it certainly will do no harm “One of our cream IHinois had the asked our advice on this matter ry men aul The plan we proposed was for him fo heat { milk to ranning it ern same trouble, Lie 160 or 180 degrees before through the i dilating It with about water at the same time. He did this and found the result was good. Very little, if any, of the bad favor mained, The eream was cooled imme dintely. aed ripened by means of a starter.” “I'he principle practically th same as the oe used hy the Goodrich rothers, If any creamerymen are troubled that way, we would advise them to undertake one or the other of {the plans and see if it will work well with them. Farm, Fleld and Fireside. separator, amd oieuarier re ia fewer hours, doing too much manual labor, The farmers, as au class, certainly eannot be accused of being lazy. The major ing some seasons of the year. It tribute thelr work well, and are, as a consequence, too busy at some seasons Electricity Is said to have been sae cessfully employed in a case of persis {tont hiceoughing Sach cases are i usually fatal. oader ordinary treat | ment, and if the electric current can be relied on to stop the paroxysms, as it is reported to have been done in a recent case in Elizabeth, N. J. it wili | be «till another great trinmph for | therapeutical electricity, THE .ABORS OF THOSE S.DE OF THI CACED ON THE WINDOWS. IN« The Men Wio Rezeive and Pay Out Money Have No Easy Time of It--.Experts at Counting and Handling Bilis. On large The almost wick thie of the nys stepping into anny banking houses down town Boston Transcript, one | edly tempted to lken func behind the ) ged animals, But ha to Ko the HIonaries Hany quick, forbid sharp, ntelligent faces of these men set ron inside the fhe ce nitted depths privilege to an ordinary ich to awaken won ¢4 rue of boty ng tellers depart %, whose indeed are peculiarly In uml frag: ken iin out thy & Ot TRrOwW iLig Onn ragged and pominations Fone examined amd smoothed ont, and hen h i= complete it is slipped band clearly package jittle amount it $R into a neat white the 5a peer with conitains stamped upon it as well as the signa titre The of him whe i= responsible for it bills of the larger denominations that is the £20, 850 and £100 bills are usually up into pack ages, and the $500 and 21.000 hills are laid away independently of any stated amount, Having finished with the fives and the counter takes the and twos in hand. These are likewise dealt and strapped into bands of twenty-fives, fifties and hundred dol lars. The good bills wing thus sorted out, the ragged are gone through and counte® =p separately, latter bile, after a respectful performance of the last rites, are altimately committed iv the flames at the National capital toca aud bad are for the time placed together and footed up according to the stamped, fn order to prove whether or pot tue figures agree with those given with the deposit, The good bills are then stored away and the ragged ones of ench deposit are taken apart and amassed together through the day When in due season, the business of sorting has ended, and not a good bill to say, made (ens ones with These “ail went amd %o on, with the These to Wasitington to be destroyed io the return there are sent tens, twenties ver” and “nationals” are casionnlly for them giond bills It is Inter a back Sub T'reasury, in ding to note the marvel wis rapldity the bills {ors conning handed rough “OTL sirnightening thie tentimoes bill he strongly id proving, all at observe that de time hie HOTONS f of abruptly throw out a certain the ar apart from 1 rest, with a ost etnphasized, Immediately spurs up to pace, n the least The nuinitinted is struck nnd usunl discon corted, the iis by siden exclamation, starts ne vously and stares blankly to hay TENN (RNY To Arrest Bleeding, intended for An instrament which is 1 the arrest of bleeding in surgical oper atione has boon perf ted In Mr. Law T. A platisum current of blades any ire being in slated by a bed of burnt pipe clay. A current of suitable voltage is turned on, the artery seized and compressed, and In a few arterial walle are so agglutinated that the passage of blood is rendered ime possible. The temperature employed is about 180 degrees Pah. =o that it wilt oe seen that the principle is fon: anuentany different from that of elec tricay cattterizing instruments, I is stated teat by Mr, Tait's instrument tae necewaity for a ligatare is removed, und 8 =ew and completely effective method is placed in the hands of the siirgect for the treatment of surface oozing son Tait, of London wire arranged to carry a tricity i is inclosd in of stove] requisite instrument the w elo the of a forceps or other pair secomls the tissues and Fifty«three Years a Conductor, It is proposed to present a testimo. the oldest taken and put up in still venient order. The legal tenders or gresnbacks, the silver dollar bills coins amd national bank notes, all ranging from the lowest denomination to the highest, are carefully separated from each other and take in series and put into straps respectively of hundreds, five hundreds and thousands, Thusall if not in England, Jeane will retire from the company’s service at the end of the present month, after fifty-three vears' service, He has it Is estimated, traveled some 4.000.000 miles in the guard's van, When be joined the ser vice the mailway guards wore guineas beaver hats, were not permitted the adornment of a moustache, and on Sunday It was imperative that they NOTES AND COMMENTS. Of the general public libraries mn colintr Hoxton spends 170,000 Chicago 8125000. and Minns : $50.00, New York ROAM) OA LH 0 O00,000 depositors ne x eh stroved the hous ch dren ” ¢ in Europ on-the-Main It whore e Iwo Klingenberg » Prosperous spot yers howdy bas work and an income, and there ther local the Ww here Ho axes, © the income of 8 for and leaves a bonus for distribution be Happy It iz all ise or imperial, 1 at mnnicipality suffice everything ides Rlingenberg! ton the part of its local administration There are valuable beds of fireclay in the and these the municipality years ago neighborhood, had the tunes of other people, bat retained for the benefit of the town, pay all taxes, and the inhabitants get the surplus divided among them Young men going inte the army re ceived this year a present of 15 marks each, The advance of time and changed conditions of life and action render some of the greatest achievignents of the race obsolete and valueb se almost pathetic to think of the wasted works of humanity, of the huge erec- which now remain but as useless or even unsightly monuments of miscal- culation or past limitation of view. A Quebee paper, for example, lately an nounced that the famous citadel at Quebec is valueless for defence. Bult at a cost of 820,000,000, those fortifica- tions could now, it is sald, be stormed by an invading foe without the slight. 02 show of resistance from within Se in many cases, the march of the forces of time compels the reconstruction or pe thaps the evacuation of once heavily garrisoned and supposedly impregna. — tions, In more than one sphere » OF BOCIOTY, singular fact that « red in the pers 114 bleyele accidents the *UeRtion fos hax wets wiors Wis tok uted for bn fa ing general FET Hp * whe and are «1 quickly. iv a block given ob be certain dix bad fudge nee ordinag packed feet two spans, or over nine inches equal biricks one work when laid in posi- meas Ceutl English two amd one-half ers Twelve tablespoonsful of ans liquid make what the doctors call a teacup ful To fence vith three lines of barbed wire a square mile reguires 3.5840 pots An ordinary tablespoonful of com. mon salt, dry, weighs almost exactly one ounce One square acre will require 182 pounds of barbed wire for fencing in three lines, A hundred feet of threedined barbed wire fencing requires eighteen pounds of wire. New Use for Electricity A new use for electricity Is to be found at the Great Northern Hotel where Manager Eden is putting a great pipe organ over the desk in the rotunda which is to be used to entertain his amd dinner hours. It is a mechanical Detroit, who built the big organ that stood in the choral hall at the World's Fair, and | believe is entirely an ex-
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