FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. © in FARMED. Oil on Trees lajurious-Facts Worth Re- membering.Steer F ment of Clay Land ttening«-Troat. PLANT STRAWD Strawberries raised as more de that but it potato 8. 11 We farmers don ticlous, astonished Hore ise them, anything but Why, have Sone met think ol wn and cattle, that 1088 apd lear readers made strawberris 3 of the best eighty acr in Think the make of Nebraska, for strawber of It. well eared leadin aristies of ries will juce frot of erage—1 bushels, ai 1Inonnt of y 700 bu ND els nl OLN of S00 will consun acres of at Country themsel he f fourths an though horse breeding grades that the to into menial X while mere horses in abundant —&ca dy an brood mare can be found. A leading man i land of the brave and the free and bus tle, is to all want to do the thing at the same time, A fey ALO OF erybody wanted to and CTORS the name good, desirable characteristic of the huo- ecspecially in this glorious Fro KR Ine breed horses at once to quit breeding horses—and they did There are the inteliizgent horse breeder if he can only manpage to hold on to his heavy draft horses, his large-sized trotting bred colts and fillies, and them plenty of care and feed for the next two years: there will then be a rush for horses that will the of good ones higher than if years. Every one Knows that Lorse. breeding operations in this state have been at a standstill, and, in fact, they have not become active even at writing, Tl bright times coming for give bring value Phe large stock farm owners small farms have turned thoughts in another direction. In n few years they will wish they had stu | died the horse question a little battop and had a few good ones to sell, Wost- ern Agriculturist OlL ON TREES INJURIOUN, Auy Kind of oll or grease ap lied to bark of a injurious, tills the pores of the back and thus pre alr, the tree is ns it vents the entratce of which is in bark A fre irtful, helpful, to de all Kinds : insects and and to kill the decayink bask, KOOL dispensable to the life of lw thick i but Stroy mildew that 1 i wash is hi ian is to be removed as ne sible, sO defends the the lice bark ly with earbolic tection against pus tree against that might otaerwise infect the If the Hime wash Is scented free acid, it will be a pro Hee i 1 well as against the borers. New FATTENING pounds of et a bout fs each With take fry i to twenty pounds of grain i: the ensiiage sixty this they will een has very little corn upon it orn, one part oats and one bran part it. The mangels may well in small from time to uld preferably tl fodder quantities time fod though have ACCESS corn timothy erante in ten There i= no and fuel. or fi nn yours reason for 3 iarge i it uch firewood Although ree tedious to cut in the woods, there Ci of it in bulk, it is more easily handled, easier to cut and split on the woodpile, dries quicker and quicker and hotter fire. i armers’ Voice, Ore the game ninkes a FAC WORTH REMEMBERING, It i= worth while for all farmers, ev. yw liere thorough citlture ix better than three mortgages on their farms, That an offensive war against weeds Is five times less expensive than a de TS to remember that fen«ive one That good fences always pay better than bvwanite with neighbors, That hay is a good deal cheaper made in the sumer than bought in the win: tor. hat a horse who lays his ears back and looks lightning when anyone ap proaches him, is vicious, Don't buy xing, That educating children Is money loaned at a hundred per cent, That one evening spent at home in astidy is more profitable than ten in SUSI The original civil engineer was the mole. He anticipates danger by mak- MANUFACTURE CF KERCSENE. Erushed into a Whirl, the Oi! Becomes of Lighter Color. How many housekeepers as they fill their lamps with ker unmmer stoves with gas den osene oll or their line, have any ade? And at Whi elnery in these olls how are mm ides from Chicago Ind. is the the world t afew ing rarest ll 1 Evervhody knows that crude the would be in is state oll comes out of the earth. but it covery an utterly useless dis for brains and retin: were it not the By use however, not used in raw nnd ug of the brains the produacts maouey material. oney of the clear only several other ure the tha, benzine, gasoline last called ng 1 oil, but drawn from cerade material kero and often coal oll or sd ne much handling fection as the Kerose of course, hen It is said + oll, after all been distilled out, 1 hi i made so closely roseinbling product of the bees as to deceive even an expert, at that factor and os is often met nmde com the refuse and sides of wax has been use makes A ZO « had vi is § churning a resemblance to movement and the peopl the lower were amusin smoking paring to sniff the « baat the and inte the o 11 ih fashion, ft sed] out bevor ship channel Suddenly there ain into View fi apparition the clad in sweaters and bicycle garb, sped straight for The spokes of his bi His feet went up and down with regularity and great speed. At once there was a feel. ing of apprehension on the ferry-boat, and warning shouts instinctively ut. tared. The scorcher paused not ner hesitated. The boat was moving. but the bicycle easily outclassed it by many degrees as a racer. Just ax the clear water was about to ghow between startling Down wharf, un wheeltban the fleeing boat. cyele wheels were invisible impetuons the ferry-boat, the bicyeler leaped from his bicycle with the speed of thought, seized the machine and boldly jumped toward the boat. He was cool as well as nervy, and his wheel was not per geptible far. Then the men breathed hysterically. The bold rider fearful chance. <San Francisco Call. — ib Davand Night on the Moon, The day on the moon is a fortnight in length, During that INCONCEIVABLY SWIFT FLICHT. The Virginia Plover Makes More Than Throe Miles a Minute. birds great studied He covered by in a inter ns it a matter of tot been We that Fer gee “ to be know, however, in a favoring cir duel general way under nnd (H cover , miles up to 610 in a day of The hard-working travel by day twenty-four hour prob The Cis ly eaters that five or six miles i geous Bi ed Ly hewn i: i wd Miss, to Lot titimore ortole, belng i trae both plumage and volee, has all the way from Rodney, Point, Manitoba, a miles, and he in forty-eight a speed of twenty day A lot of other lumped and twenty nk dis 4 tance of 1.48 covered it seven nih pret birds w together, an a day wer HYerngs threo miles obtained And then # hundred mil a nig observers few that the birds flew and then reste tiled They but ou the little island concludes that the Epp word BLATRIETN ge alt 50 every in Dwr fe is » grinding nystified the 1 effort hias the rail fw ny V1 ort CRs ain potives have been exam have been tie and every joing of foot no wmiches and every Cars Cross every Bas wen inspected has looked at, track has regauged, planation conld be found master has almost erawled over the six miles on his knees in of the cause, The roadmaster has tried his to ferret out the matter. and the superintendent has been over the track amd Inspected it—all of them making repeated efforts time and again to find ont what is the matter, but they have given it up as a bad job, They have not only not been able to discover the cause of the noise, but have been un able to discover any theory to explain it. It is one of the railroad mysterie! of the age, and has been going on for twenty years During that time the cross ties and rails have been replaced soveral times with new ones, but with out offect. Who can explain the mys tery? and evers the been but The section ox search but ——— A Sparrow's Choice of Colors. It has recently been discovered that sparrows have a particular dislike to certain colors, such as purple and blue, ably rises to 220 degrees Fahrenheit, and during the period of darkness the heat probably radiates so freely that the temperature falls to 300 degrees below the zero of the Fahrenheit scale, SO The bones of aged persons having some caged sparrows that he had would not touch their food If he put manitested a discourteous dislike to Indice who came into the room wearing bine dresses, and that several of them were cured of the vice of pecking at a cerinin part of the wall they had access to by plastering a piece of blue paper over if. As sparrows are graib-con- people, are therefors more brittle, farmers, RACE OF MISSING LINKS’ Interesting Information About Some Curious Bushmen in South Africa. Olive Schreiner, the author “The Story of a African miormn nbout the uth Africa, clever eux of South Farm,” tion FIVEeS sOlNe CHrions in a article strange little bushmen of 8 How Akin lu race and nagazineg nearly e Xtift speech to the dwarf races found Iu Coutral Hghter in color Ma they that larger than If eleven faces, the ing between an adult Bushman is pot an ordiy They wool on thelr little balls, with They told, not is ol ninsil heads inked Been to Teseiine, grow in } wo ure further Ulldren very net form the of « hese small p fixed social QUui fibout in hordes or tunis they in w Ben wel vio bush witled 1ik« nga 100s from ira ngely lan tat simolest simpls no wat tion tency ened lime is when dry “ning now drawn it wing just specially arranged i ments at the botsom o fecting this, A wer thro to ugh press rollers rod and the Ril bed of on the right thickness next placed quickly upon the cutter: the started, and in a moment the plat fore ing a hundred or more cutters upon the wheels are now un falls sheet, each shaping out a heel, Mawalian HMuckieberries. Near the Voleanic House on the island of Hawaii sre great thickets of the obelo, or Hawaiian huckleberry, says the Popular Science Monthly, which the natives con sider sacred to Pele. the goddess who is supposed to preside over the famous crater of Kilavea, and which, together with white pigs snd chickens are thrown by them into the boliin: red lake during an eruption to appease the wrath of the aggressive dame and thus cause the rivers of lava to cease flowing on their destruct. ive course. These berties grow in clusters on low pushes right on the very brink of the brimstone beds, and ate so numerous that a bushel may be easily gathered in half an hour. In appearance hey somewhat resemble a cranberry. and the favor is pleasantly suggestive of grapes. Electric Energy from Coal A néw process, by which {1 is claimed that electricity can be produced from the dirvet combustion of csal, is de- geribd in a scientific journal, It con sists in blowing air through a bath of fused caustic soda. having a curbon annode and iron cathode whereby a very large current of low voltage is obtained. A ———— 1.E JOKER'S BUDGET. JESTS AND FUNNY MEN YARNS THE OF THE PRESS, OF Loved and Lost--He Knew the Ser.-A Boon te Art-Domestic Crueity~To be on the Cala Cid wikie CiGe, wr to marry her pho- “Yes; I de they didn't Keep 3 1 suppose YOu « srnrise his morning bird to Mr. MNightow! “(Mf course nol.” was the lstter's reply in a rebuking tone was abed long before that You should cultivate betler hours, sir.” TRIALS OF THE BROAD “] have been informed that your first attemnpt at a long distance ride on your wheel turned out to be a highly dramatic affair.” “Very. 1 had to walk back.” IV THEY AAD KNOWN, A man, whom the circums ances wi traveling caused 10 cit in the same seat with a young lady who was unususily friendly for a stranger, said, as he was leaving the car. “1 thank vou for a very pleasant chat, but 1 am afraid you would not bave been go kind to me had you kvown lama married man.” “You haven't any advantage of me promptly responded the young lady: *] am an escaped lunatic” And so, as it turned oul, she really was A perilous feat was performed, not jong since. by a bicyclist in Lyons, France. He rode his wheel over the coping stone of a house, fifty fect from the ground, in the presence of an ime mense crowd. The track is only twe feet wide.
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