FARM AND GARDEN,
ITEMS OF TIMELY INTEREST TO THE |
FARMERS.
To Stop the Banging of the Stable Door.
The Neglected Orchard-Fruit will be
Cheap this Winter.
ment
pel
piskeulture est:
upon I
hatched and distrib
dividuals and
ter
country, an
want of
public, generally,
tle for the
In foreign
been |
profitable
farmers
it, and pr
Ise “"
And
fishh have been
tions mil
“vate In
COUrses
1 have erishe for
And
but
1ded
pioper
have derived
money expel
fish ¢
wuld
benefit
countries, nlture has
be made
Tedd
il
pofitable, and it ©
in thi - uatry pr
would their attent
wocute it with judgment
Every owner of a farm
CReTEY.
ons have own
dlmens
fist pond,
tHe rarest
pense. And
sale i l
great wa jd
place wo!
wot 1 fl
in autisnn, for
the
and
i Hs io
of
on bed
tural pioieetion regi
' '
£Oine, tLe eaves
will fall the
fay s
ed. |
leave
reiiove any larg eo
up fr
At the end the
roots will have reached a
size, and may then be dug
F spring m sevdls or roots Jef
in the so'l. f
section, the
marketable
third
with
American Agricuhiurist,
stocked
1 . 7 .
G8 or arall plants —
THE NEGLECTED ORCHARD.
We leave our orchards too long be
thing with them. People who nesiect
their orchards until their
twenty-five, thirly or forly years oll
after the orchmrd ms been sect a gone.
ration, have just come to the point of
trees are
orcbEard?’ A wan en: begin to
thing when it Is ten years old.
an omliard is seven or oizh
it tht orchard has a fui
ought te Bering right ih
+ 23d he
re to study
the question as to what that orchard
wants, rays Professor 1. H. Bailey,
of Cornell University, 1 nearly always
say to such a man, “You have simply
delayed breaking your horse until your
oid enough
LOW you
make a g horse
horse Is to dle, or
anid
horse
nearly
break the
out of
BO. eatnot
§ 1
ang
€)
him.” Course, to cu. td
land
iry 1
vite the ns
0 prune
be done, 1
that an och is ten
en
shoud "3 retty good
An
average un
veuars oud
: condition orchard when
ould
ie 1ree; w it Is
should
«Very
have an orchs
{ 1889, aml
produced
and the
Having
is that age barrel
twelve years
aver to the
Hee
We
that t
planted Is
some of
Year me
the trees
aiready
more than a
apples, l
IMM
Wii.
bring more tha
woitld do. The poorer qua
bruis
fo stock, or if
from
be fod
of it for tuat.
ured and the fruit
will ks ©]
which,
iy
func evaporators
© ip
(ine ex
3
«HON
abundant this season
PUMPKINS,
There j= nothing bette; rs ing
pump
fife, nor is any vezeiable more easily
cheap y
puninpi
before
grown
and
cooking the
preparation required sid
“iin, onis or corn, snontid be .put in
after the cooking is doae, the
of the pumpkins will cook it suffi ven
iY, it thax way sweet, tender aad ex.
eollently flavored pors can be made,
ins open
fai
we
gr
them is
sone
Ax beat
a——
James Cliton, formerly wel known
socially in Baltimore, bas dour a sone
wiat unusval thing. HBoveral years
ago he enlisted ax a private in the
United Brates army, and, solely,
merits, ha has
risen to the grade of second Ii gteaant.
i
FRESH ECCS FROM CHINA,
And Other Cood Things That Chicago's
Chinese are Importing,
The Chicago luter Ocean notices that
one of the signs in front of a Chluese
store amd restaurant in Chinese charn
ters, reads “Fresh Eras
A little Investigation brought
following Interest
Th
From China
ont the
The eges
Chicago every
examiners’ rox
for sev
PLT
Wits
giuare
bamboo spilt
of
with
Cousins
for
centri
mw rOCeT ION
amd t
amor
duck e
Passed
through Lom
weeks Fach 8 wra
of black
Jdke COs
Iwo eRe
mud,
tency for
mass that
montas.even
They
putty
when exposed to the alr come
: dine 1 .t 3 } ' wl
holding twenty-five Chines
ten,
Everything that comes from
in boxes
dozen—that is,
absol
mud coating
tint of
difference
the she
Tae of
i
and
wrating room covers an en
contains fifty
ith an aspirant for barbaric
fame behind each Between the
two lines of chairs runs a long table
with looking giasses and all the neces
sary appliances, In extreme rear
of the room is a pea in which are con
fined the bristly.
At the bottom of the line of embryo
barbers a pretty little girl in long
apron, for all the world like a hospital
nurse, She is a “lady” barber. that
latest prodvetion of woman's rights,
There are others like her, but she is the
prettiest of the bunch, and an object of
competition for the penned ones, To
lose the tip of one’s chin in her ser
vice would not only be easy, but almost
agreeable. She hag been in the school
only about a week, but already she
Krows her business, at least the
main side of It.
Khe shaves her man and, while a lit.
tie nervous, does not make such a bad
Job of it after all. The pupils, az a rule,
stay long enough to acquire the rudl
ments of the trade, and then go forth
to seek positions as “extra men” until,
perhaps, they can secure a permanent
chair in some shop and mmyhap have
a place of thelr own. New York Mail
and Express,
floor, wiv
Ww
CHAS,
one
the
in
or
In Mexico the tobacco plantations
are penal settlements,
THE LOTTERY OF RICHES.
a Poor Man,
and now am
charming middle
wi, whose looks
nd
been voung
the
ve
1
sald ome of
on of the peri
who
Diamonds Made From Metals.
Moissan, the dis
A few days ago M
ting urgiat, dis
ignizhed French memliurg 1
saturated wit
of
ered that if iron were
carbon at the high temperature \
arc, f the carbon woull
separate out on coddling in form of
true diamond Another chemist, M.
Rossel, has conceived the idea that ow
ing to the method by which hard steel
i= manufacturad it probably contalis
diamonds, and this has been found to
be By disso.ving away the
metal in acid and treating the residue
with concentrated nitric acid, potas
sinm chlorate and hydrofinorie and sul
phuriec acids, minute crystals are loft
be hud. Pall Mall Gazette,
electric SOC «
the
ihe Case,
No Breath, No Sting.
Here ji8 a way to rob ou beehive of
honey and avoid being atv gz. Just hold
your breath, Simple and e.sy enough
and the only reason it hasn't been tried
more often is that few people Know of
it. Even the bulet-like borne anno
injure you if you just stop breath ng
for a woment. In Tact you can pick
him np and watch his stinging appara:
tus vainly work, for hie can’t pincture
your skin auy more than he car shes
iron. New York Journal
ena AR
un smoother and the bottom affords
As woon ns the vast railway enter
t
telephone
instrument is general wil in the
ear. while thi
right hand is in taking
DOtes, In the cases observed the
subjects heard tie
through the telephone with their left
ears, but could understand little or
nothing if the instrument were put fo
their right It is therefore con
cluded that the telephone has an aj
preciably: stimulating effect on the
auditory nerves, and the recommenda:
tion is made that the insirament be
used alteroately at the right amd Jef
ear.
hand and put to the left
often used
ei
slightest sound
Cars
A maritime signal station is to be
established by the Government off Nan.
tucket Rhoal, forty miles out in the At.
lantic Ocean, in the lane of travel taken
by vessels bound from Eurepe to New
York. With establishsient the
station at Fire Island will probably
crlffse to be important as the first point
on the American coast sighted by ship.
ping bound to New York from the east,
from which the agents in New Yok
first hear from their vessels, The sia.
tion has long been considered practic. |
able, but the cost of a cable and douln
as to the part the Government should
play in the enterprise has prevented
decisive action heretofore. Orders
have been issued by the Treasury De
partment now directing the transfer of
the Nantucket Shoal =hip to a polat
fea wiles farther oul, whore the waves
ils
The cotton crop, says the New Or-
ans Pleavane upon the sale of which
de
not
his been expected
He character of the season's trade
f
promises to be fairly good,
n, but still large in
Ths
the
utherford
Presi
1
Nake
where
would not rod and even
where men find passage difficult. Their
tracks have been foond mp the very
of ins over 7.000 feet
these journeys an elephant
$30
ne,
summits monogia
high. In
is often compelled to descend hills and
mountain sidea which are almost pre
cipitous. This it is done:
The elephants maneuver is fo
nee] down close io the declivity, One
foreleg is then cautiously passed over
the edge and a short way down the
slope, and if be finds there is no good
#pot for a firm foothold, he speedily
is the way
£3 st
rsd
it is dry.
down in the same way. Then be per
in advance for the first foothold. This
isaves good places all ready made for
Now bracing himself up
by his huge, strong forelegs, he draws
his hind legs, first one and then the
other, carefully over the edge, where
they occupy the first pleces made by
and the huge beast prevented from
fopp 13g over on his nose,