* on forwa~%, ard, by oxertine more | Tim ITEMS OF TIMELY INTEREST TO THE FARMERS. To Cet Fancy Prices for Milk...Bran a Valuable Food....Economising With Manure....A Bed of Peonies. WITH ECONOMIZING MANURE It never pays to stint the manure dressing in any crop that requires much labor to grow it. All the labor is made more effective in proportion as the soll made fertile on rich labor may In other that Wit is more words, amd erops require most be grown h profit, while on the balance will be on ti poor Nir ie © loss si the account with manure ald in in in every 1 idea of econon apply it here it creasing soil fert ty. ing will most I'his | f the applied to growing case where a part benefit of manure will be soon a large clover crop. WHY LILY OF THE VALLEY FAILS One of the most frequent « alse failure with lily of the valley the roots are too crowded is to clumps BRAN Bran is 1 of as feed than is iin duets few years reason, of buy that most are willin With this int some offect diseases $ through former taken now venting the spread iy. PRROS tinier Peonies can be I either | fall or spring is the Detter time, often comes on so rapidy when ground, that (here is but a for planting. Roots removed and transplanted in the fall have all the fall and winter to heal over any wounds and be ready for starting at the open ing of spring. If removal is delayed uatil spring, the first season's growth pianie On the whole, th Hot in oy ' he west spring, of short ti the frost is once out t hes ine There is probably no way to prevent moles from any particular spot if they frequent the ground. The proper thing is to trap, catch and destroy them. It is quite a matter of taste and will decide how many plants to set. show except for the short plants are in bloom. showy while they last, but a bec de voted to them would look very sombre after the blooming season. time the very well, but if a bed of some size should be devoted to them it become uninceresting, the plants is 2 good one, of a border of shrubs, the flowers, very much can be expected from them until the plants have become strong FEEDING PUMPKINS, | Hogs and cattle will enjoy pumpkins {with their corn and make better | turns for the corn if they have as much pumpkin once or twice nn day as they will eat up clean, Eins hauled to by re We have seen pump field and wiagonload, resulting disgus feeder practising this method does not hink much of pumpkins, us his stock will eat them once only, If the pump Kins are fed In small quantities at start always ready the dumped | out the in a rOrge, disorder, and the or the for the stock is show a more complete digestion of tl of ration w Or KTASS, no need of slop bran % to balance field seeds 1 ii clover Nome the 1 ht to be ong t the pumpk as the seo the flow of urine, found any fed two mileh kins they could eat twice ins, but we necessity for COWS usual amount their frre LU dur To one cow he fed pumpkins w COWS ran on pas Is tl moved, and to the mpkins with seeds and « * bacasian batin REA A HORSE, MAN-—-B ‘4 pest Post ¢} v Nan arops from siyeey ex ze an pound illness, promptly se enrt stake and does not recuperate him, kick him or a and ) iy head oft the ribs, lently in the belly, This treatment ill restore him if persistently admin If a man finds his load and feels Chat it «train hi reed, too board and Knock him down mer him thoroughly with the bogrd. This will give him and he will make no more fuss renewed But will look or That AOS humanity, and he will be If a man refuses to drink when you water for two days, That will “teach it convenient to attend to him. Itis a good plan to ply the whip frequently on a man who is at work. No matter is doing bis best, hit him now and then on “general principles” and to prevent him taking any comfort. If his load is not heavy, oblige him to go Bim hard enough to bring down the av crage life one-half, ax is done with horses. If no whip Is handy, use a club. Tie your nfan’s head back in an unnatural position, with his eyes toward the sun, This will give him a “fine appearance” and “prevent stor bling.” Of course he will not be ahle to do as mugh work in this fix, but it makes him wretched, so it ls all right, in winter remove his clothing "to prevent bis taking cold.” He will also » “dry quicker” when you overwork him, You must hang a blanket on his back (hut leave his neck and Hmbs exposed) when he is not at work, Men thus treated “much healthier” than when allowed winter clothing, 1f not perfectly convenlent to feed a man who is working for you at noon, let him go without, and by active use of the whip ure ax much work as the food would have secured, Of ure Sir course it wenrs out his vitality and distresses him, but that matter, Put tight shoes on your man.and keep there until he is with To COIS not i Ho them very lame his change much, but Carns slioes money, some, and lame if Year, and misery are of no account an save a dollar on shoes a ham Cet man do not be all True nobility con in getting aor “character.” money, ot In decend ¥ induess, w his noodles noney “even blood -stalned principles, | them Hen fof is all These for 1 my are orrect Hin Ht tread his sure, from master, who horses on thin 1 plan i what's dant Journal, and know it 7 Human MEXICO BOILED DOWN, SistomRepublic, 10 voleanoes in Mexico. lakes and great Ia f aver (EK altitude of Moxie in The Cycle of Droughts. . Rus Wales, a prolonged examination of history f § Fag irom he I Sonth sell, a selentific oan of New announees as the result of earliest times that seasons of drought recur with unfailing regularity at intervals of nineteen years, Of 208 all but fifteen conform to his theory, years one long peril of three years deficient, and a shorter period between He even finds a confirmation of the Bible chronology tian dronght ino Joseph's time, the drought during King David's reign, foretold by Elijah, and that predicted by Elisha, all fall into the nineteen year period, Moose Eik Nearly Extinct. he moose elk of Norway will soon be extinet, The law says that no more than one shall be Killed on one property ‘na year, But as it says nothing abot the size of the property, the owner of a tract of land with moose on it sabdi vides it foto small plots, and then a woose can be killed on every plot with ont breaking the law, 1t may not be generally known, but the Grawing of Du Maurier which claims the widest circulation is the label on the Appollinaris water bottles, Tobacco seeds are so small that a thimbleful will furnish plants for an acre of ground. "THE MUSIZ OF NIAGAKA, Rhythm of the Mighty Cataract. published of Niagara 1 Las the musk “It had ever gara had rwot Le, and Ki htherward The roar of Ni but a Fanist, nn 11s belle analysis He says: Dean my f thatNia heard el of | What igara®? 1 Dereon in this eps perfectly constr tone, clear, definite, at chien its majesti plete series of tones grand and noble unison, gan," Myr. They Were g.ri Po off or # w feud € utier intellig dren the parents fo teach thean ; un made wants of whining sound, and when angry would snarl like an alligator. Khe was very unruly, The boy was moe tractable, but both he were mutes, to hie words were availing The girl her known by a sort pteristios of the alligator, The girl would be now about feet high if she could stand upright, but the mame nNnmber of feet long would be the more appropriate way to describe her longitudinal sions, The jaws bear a strong resci- Hance to those of an alligator, and curving claws, callonsed by long use in Irands and feet, The boy is more docile aul exhibits a higher degree of mitelligence, wil accept sweetmeats, holding them in ks Jaws as he crouches in the cor {action about the house, The other children of the family are kinsbip with their loss fortunate bro- thor and sister. . . a How Eagles Fly. An eagle oireling in the afr main. fanz his vinge steadily motioniess, but he spreads ks tall as wid» as pos. | fore of pressure with one side of iveris {| COUR The tended with #ither to the right or in the bird's prot quick mot wing left ching tion Is at short, 1K, of one is #ireioched for * that of the other is 1 1s pondingly. OL convulsive moven tall escaped the ori of them not Ix exliustive ‘Mystery of the der Ween to ardunies to hr Use for Sheep Brains, B t " Nove! 1 the st hundred made better ware will be qualified to teach or to to preach the logy, and at least one will become an investigator and to the honor of his country and the enlighten. ment of the world." New Orleans Pica- yune, prediction dt fir n ail and Marents: 5 “ § mere pers jed #0 to lear will be citizens a = eotly practice medicine or law or contribute Mules for Bear Munters. banter to ride is a good mule, Dr. W F. Edgar, U. 8 A, tells 11 Recreation why a mule is best, The Doctor was leamp up in mile, seeing a big bear In (he trail, fired. { The bear tumbled over, and ont of Ceight. It looked like a ooean Kill and Washington State on went at Mm, | ntmost service, | headed for camp. {tang wouldn't have been quick enough, ter had to do was 10 hang on. The | mule Fuew what to do withom bejag | told, The eight great water companies of 3 | Cutting Teoth at Eighty-three, Two of the oldest { 41 {yr unGeTgoing Baltimore of men in fare now the suffering cutting tee. One is Thomas RR. Rich, aged seventy : conuntant Mix VOArs ago by i non trolley car, nd fell thelr ¢ i Novi Knocked down teeth were eed a Trend t the if% at ar ve gapped red he odd can rdly : § £Pgag aged He STUB BET H. Hill 1 making the jury feel ax he did, an verdict ndered The youl man had been several seks, amd, alter the were in jail for congratu- his CONTI Se “Well, it fed to What young man's answer was no one but the Col hel kpew, but he was inspired by it to write a very beautiful poem, which wae at the time of its first publication very widely copied. ntions his release over, q him how does asked be free? the A Check to Diptheria Dr. Dixey, in his paper on the vital statistics of diphtheria in London, speaking of the antitoxin treatment, asserted with confidence that the diph- theria mortality of the metropolis has it is diffienlt to attribute to any other than the introduction of the This conclusion of ic. of course, direcily at variance Hrowne, to which we recently referred in this column. Dr. Gordon Sharp con- tributed a valuable paper on the =oil in sion that diphtheria would appear to be endemic I certain districts: that pervious subsoil, may become favor able breeding grounds for the bacilli bit that deep drainage would appear © reud-r such soils innocuous, The New Jersey Historical Society baz declined the offer of the trustees to provide - fo.ce which he thus displaces drives at’ Princeton for thelr exclusive use, =
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