FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. ITEMS Oy) “WELY INTEREST TO THE First Few Days of ihe Pig...Raising Chie. ory ..lsolation for Milk and Cream. Farm and Carden Notes. SHEARINGS, When the feet seem to he tender apply a mixture of pure lard ot vith one-tenth part of acetate well with it. This will destroy whatever polson may af fect the feet through the effects of Im Decaying sheep’ “ vaseline ol copper ground in the land kind, especially if it the of pure matter matter of any wet, will quickly rot feet and cause giected may is the ne sole which if esults, Inmenoess, have serious 1 American Farmer MILK AND IS FOR CREAM, LATION Milk which it is and butter is sure to absorb any odors with brought in contact, Cream having a greater proportion of fats absorb odors even more quickly than will the cream and his fact emphasizes milk, foul milk 1 of butter out ity keeping both of reach of odors of any Kind This can hardiy } where of all any Kind be done while the milk 1s Kept the odor of cook tables ing yt kinds « of odor from an 1 vhen combined butter fats, soon 1 OIMes exeeaed fat the chat atly changed KEEPING COMMERCIAL FERTILI ZER. Most fertilizers buy farmers in purchasing « wha t TT} if mmer omnet «ial needed for immediate 5 use partly to escape losing the interest but mainly tdea that investments not in use, Cause t tilizers air. It wet thes year a tion © here is a popular i deteriorate by exposure f the mois maxoe minera which } make best way to keep any eral fertilizer Is to scatter {t from time the st manure heaps vith that oth the to time over able and apply it manure heaps made more tion, as each supplement other will be by this combina in and phosphate efficient of fertilizer of 1 § - kind Ww the deficiencies ' Boston Cultivator BU RYING STONES The only way toget rid of loose stones on farms where to bury common great heaps around son aa tl they are numerous is Years ago it was a to ti usually if Esl fuses Ig tree, stones in field #lonaes pra tioe pile inside the while h the would kill after a the fence Almost stones they moved poses of them pern few years, or beside corners of few fields the years way always after a the will be foun nu the where been placed and Burying the anently land necds draining making the stones into under ground the that can be made of them rain will Fr mt! f its outlet is have have to be again stones dis wl § his wiiere the places best disposal A well-lald never fail Carry kept conduits is stone to water open. FEW OF the DAYS first few FIRST THE PIG During should be pen, or it small, dr: lot be confi 1 to at least {ree confined to the farrowing ‘They will do better to lot until they are weeks old, Just as soon the as the pigs show a disposition to eat they encouraged in ing. should be so do- A small place should be cut off from the lot, but not the mother, this little lot should be a trough. If the pigs are getting of milk from their mother, will, provided she is a there is nothing so as to allow the pig to enter, and in shallow good brood better for them Dry. their teeth sore, soaked grain soon make dance of this provided, but removed hard corn i An abu soaked grain should be left should day and fresh little sweet skin what is be at least twice a grain put in. If a milk can be given it will add to growth of the pigs. This may be con. tinuad until weaning time, when a de cided change in the feed becomes nec easary. This is the most eritieal period of the pig's life, and on his manage ment at this time largely depends his future usefulness, If checked in his growth, he will probably not recover thie whether kept to grace the Lhierd or to fill the pork barrel. —Missis- - sippi Experiment Station. RAISING CHICKORY. It seems that the farmers In West. time ago, and are turning their atten- tion to raising chickory. substitute for coffee known, and in many parts of Europe is preferred to coffee. All real “French coffee” has more or less chickory in it, and those whe have grown accustomed to mixture prefer it to pure soffee. Very much of the rolfee we use in this coun try is adulterated with chickory, and substantially all the “coffee extracts” have chickory in them. We import about 10,000,000 pounds of raw chickory every year, and about 500,000 pounds more “burnt, roasted, ground or otherwise prepared.” The manufacture of chickory has become so important in this country that the manufacturers secured a duty of tw of chickory roots, and the price ranges {as high as $10.50 a ton. There good market for it, and it will be quite a while until we ralse enough to meet | the home demand, Chickory is a plant of the dandelion family, and will grow anywhere that American Farmer, Jay from three to eight tons an acre i Is Nn landelions do, HOME-GROWN CELERY. We grown to lke know many farmers who have celery, who buy con fall and win. without a thought of growing They the aud alia siderable amounts every but welves Keep from plant. that the celery under cultivation, of the Celery expensively Hupression OSH inlly difficult grown ging leaves, 18 a to be than Wis used more now The thought deep trenching thar onee necessary is now considered sudden showers In sum with injurious, ns will fill ti ie trenches and half bury the mer witer young plants in mud | before they have fairly begun gre It Is much better to plant on leve face, and blanch the stalks by exclud light with {er TOWSs of celery wing 1 si ing boards set nst the } an cach side The sol il IN poss nty of water FARM AND RDEN LEY Yon really can find ar a woud always Lorses bran 3 oats and young col to let them lose ; time, The winnie not weaning colt first tion, and without a hit his hin hi Old fences and hedges are ; ard, They nd of ornament menace to the orch es of insects n Ing wheal od Hes as an object of beauty Some who seein farmers £4 handle the orchards things, did were growing there if they not know that any trees RIow ' t They plow $ crops which impovish he soil. or nae 4 wmrd for were no more to be considered No wonder their trees be as if trees than the ore pasture fr v » t fonee-pos come discouraged Between the tree rows of a young or- chard there i= no better crop than cur or two or three After there, rants goosehorries, bushes in each interspace five or six years grow a rule, and all the time keep the soil by and till Then let it grow up in blue bed for nothing as open frequent manuring age, STARS; it at least forms a fruit to fall upon. Wellbouse, sows red clover the nice Judge the great apple grower of Kansas when they come into this down twice a roller on which are several knives of a stalk cutter, The is kept up by yearly re fertility of land far as nitrogen orchards his and rolls bearing, season with a large clover stand and ia well cared for and good physical condition ge the the wlio sevGing, “ey Should the pruning of an orchard be peglected for three vears, it will not do to take out in one season all the growth that should be removed Rather two or three years should be taken to rectify the mistake or neglect previously made. A sudden severe pruning kills many of the roots, and is sure to be followed by a very abun- dant and sowmne troublesome growth of suckers, (Go over the orchard frequently and know that everything is well with the | trees. The possibilities of orcharding are only to be measured by the ability of the man. If there are drawbacks in | the nature of soil, climate, altitude, lay | of the land, ete, and no doubt such drawbacks do exist, they are only of minor importance, and to the thorough. | ly competent fruit-grower such obsta- Jest are really an aid. They put a | handsome premium upon special | knowledge and fitness for the work of : growing and marketing fruit, two or Lightning and Trees. i Cedars and fig trees are rarely struck | by lightning. The beech, the larch, the {fir and the chestnut seem to be pec | liarly obnoxious to the “bolts of Jove.” {There are trees, however, which appear | to attract rather than to repel the lightning flash, The trees generally | enumerated in the eategory of those | which the lightning Is most apt to | strike are the oak, the yew, the elm ‘and the Lomburdy poplar.—Ilam's Horn, product, while the raw comes in free. The Nebraska farmer gels all the For the last fiscal year Uncles Sam's navy cost $26,202,155, RECEIVING INDEMNITY FOR LAND WORTH A KING'S RANSOM. Reco~nition Won at Last by Chief Poka, gon After a Marvelous Struzgle Last. ing 63 Years. Chief ol y Indians, stinon 100n Jun rr watomie for $118,000 due the government efforts of a 1 generat for land in som indiana, Niates Ir ent northern and to the Unitexd in the peach and celery 1 lands , it territory ransom, The ald The Pot dinus chr Kays awat and hole Lier H.O were Fern He Mad Ax tnd Pokagon if He would and He fit 3 gl fadom 1 renown manhood he has fought in 1866 siraits of his people sduced to great nder protest, the sum of payment for all claims A man of less courage and would tl t he matter rest £10. 00K) ability l there, but Simon Pokagon went on fighting to have his claim The grant of $118. o nearly $35.000 to YE ry will lift them anotl thirty years at last « 000 will gis snceded head of a famdl) This of debt, lot, and secure peace for of a brave ont purchase farms long ago the remnat the remnant racy $ ss 1 3 1 Pokagon is the | the great race fh & 4% OF Chie if 11 fe-<himself one of the greatest in that he recognized that the fall ac Cop ance of civilization is the only hope of red man fre He ith the train ed white man, and with the vigor that the yin titer extinction talks w intelligence of the would have won him distinction in na tional councils to have on the Indian commission ow and fearful appearance He lived a life of utter depravity, A British expedition of 150 men was after him, and stronghold, Lieutenant smashed his Festing, who vies prince, Katshelln, killed the robber “The Fromense nn just ontside brutal Instinet i They cut off to the king 1 hind low nu min, was and untives « of his helping holed follow © town, then the head and He, and ni ame ou sent it i NT please, miuntshi you it Mive ate | ors) subsequent. "Trolley Heart." name of no tha haat r out of venr an 8 1H appear perfect been spent on it The claimed by material he many advantages for it chief of employment in large ix which is its train freight houses, buildings ge area, the I al and | The joints are mad ermits of % jE ght form of skyligh special metl The tran pond tev translucent fa i sparent material spread over cloth itl ich the woelve nealios panels a fexible wire per inch, wi and justment fo elastic quality permittin ts ad iis 3 iy that the roof any shape take ontraction owing to the of js strong and is made x frame stricture may or « the work The fabri in panels 18x36 inches a weight of over 400 pounds per foot pansion in xize, apd can Carrs square A | White Cats Deaf. “Though 1 had often heard of 11, 1 will see all this sam of money dis sipnied, the number of the settlement still further reduced by death and the rest sunk again in hopeless poverty and debt. The chief has instrocted the white man far more than his own people. He has written for The Re view of Heviews, and Forum, he has delivered addresses at sohools and met committees In Washington, and every where he has presented the Indian question in a clear fashion, sparing neither white man nor red. But even he, wise and forceful as he is, is not able to stem the tide of extinction that is rapidly sweeping his poor little tribe out of existence, In a few years Pok. agon will be no more, and fifty years hence there will be a legend in Mich. igan that the warlike Pottawatomies onc: dwelt near 8t, Joseph, Boiled Chief's Heaa, One of the innumerable little wars that England carries on with savages has just taken place on the River Niger in West Africa. It concluded with the eating of a human head by the native allies of the British, A chief named Katshella had built himself a stronghold on a tributary of the Niger, from which he made raids into the territory of the neighboring king, who was under British protec tion. RKatshella was of immense size cats are naturally deaf until recently.’ ing with the lowasr order of animals “1 was aware that Professor Bell in his original experiments in connection with the telephone, had ascertained white cats was that they were all either deaf or very deficient in hearing, and that other experimenters in the clusions, To satisfy myself I recently secured in all twenty-three white cats, and experimented on them, one at a time. “In every case | found them stone deaf, In carrying the experiment further. 1 found that white dogs and white horses are deficient in hearing, and that many of them are entirely deaf. So are white rats and white mice. I am confident I do not over state it in regard to white cats, though 1 have only experimented with twenty. three, and, of course, can only speak positively in regard to them. 1 don’t hazard much, however, when [| make the bold statement that all white cats are deaf.” Washington Star, Cs; The Belgian government has com mene extensive reconstructive srorks on the docks at Ostend. The cost of the andertaking will foot up nearly £20,000, 000, NOTES AND COMMENTS, accordance auth President Cleveland, with the of im to prescribe the bre ith the awarded to ! in ONEYeRK kind of 1 inl of Vid | itd fet Zing to bbon worn ow honor 7. pe . ' gOIGlers or (is gallantry, bas prescribed a one neh ow aud one plans mmended by Charles Wichita, Kan the hunter uthority well id Payne, of known Eame, vate and a on w 1% preserve in § Lae ried © are ca game States will Northern New Mexico fred i realest wm he U or t soon be heen wealthy best huntiz Now mends the Mexico purchasing of nearly mountain land, fo the Maxwell Land « and which is Jocate New Mexion Ww A game II be ened and 0 XX) aero of which now belongs sant 5 : varthe 2 hiautil Northern Khonid used f $1 preserve, the enti sed with a high and tract w strong i wire fence and stocked with all manner of wild game Rome wrote asking him if it his named Ima other Um to that effect frequently appeared In print, but most people supposed that thes were the inventions of discourteonus humorists or of political enemies. It seems at least that they were half true, for in answering the query addressed to him, the Governor says: “The name ima was given to my daughter a few days after her birth, and the singular application of it to the old, wellestab- ished name of her paternal ancestors did not occur to any one until 1 had en- tered political life” There is no daughter named Ura, for the reason, among others, that Governor Hoge has but one daughter, His sons are named William, Michael, and Thomas, Miss Frances E. Willard, President of the Women's Christian Temperance Association, has recently compiled | some interesting statistics with regard to women's progress the world over. | Courageous person Hogg of were true that recentis to ex-Lovernor Texas one of daughters is and an Niatements have She chronicles, amoung other things, the | fact that women have about succeeded in gaining admission to the General! Methodist Episcopal Conferences, and that they have been successful in preaching the gospel in all bat the | Episcopal and Roman Catholic sects, | With respect to education, Miss Wil: lard says: “Out of 451 colleges and | universities In the United States only | forty-oue are closed to women. All! the others are now co-educational, and, | besides, women have 143 schools of the with 20.- of fol. of Chicago eleven Etntes and 000 students, One fourth lowships of the University held by fourteen thie inre women Oodle ion ¥ universities { nted, Thr being ellows HIV represe VOI f i in the EMI EVRY Lovie Iwo male dengal Iwo hoa Oh- 1 Somalil uso Apes, £i- } I pow MIs AZO en had these ani silities responsi RE are 1 the price of the The City of Cold “The City of Gold” will be to the Paris exhibition of 180 what the Eiffel tower was to the last great show, ten years since, There had always been an idea of reconstructing in effigy the Pont du Change, the Rialto of medieval Paris, and this suggested to M. Hudelhard, an imaginative journalist, the far more grandiose pro. ject of lllustrating the whole history of money and the industries connected therewith. He aime, in the first place, at tracing gold, silver and copper coln- age from mine to mint and from mint to mart, each step in the progress being exemplified by working models, if not by the machinery in actual use. He hopes, moreover, to extend his display %0 as to cover the monetary operations The sab- stitution of paper for specie will then ie is rumored, reveal the intricacies of the entire ordin system as carried out in great banking establishments, though one can hardly James Gazette, ——" The egregious underestimate of cost that enterprise before wholesale steals ing completed the ruin, The forts on the Meuse river, In France, estimated at 84500000, cost $16,000,000, ;
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