ITEMS OF TIMELY INTEREST TO THE FARMERS, The Shippings the Richest... Warm Water for Young Stock..Handling Corn in the Stalk...Soill for Creenhouses. THE SHIPPLYUS THE RICHEST. The New ory found that in the case of first pint of milk contained only three at, per Yc) Hits v hole milkin Experiment Station five cows the per cent. of while the last pint con tained 6.80 cent, and the mixed wh.K from the r averaged =k) per oor. In first half every in contained only fat rep wet ed na aml New Hamp shire, merical ‘armer Wh . ich a alt meh as the Ooh WARM WATER STOCK. FOR YOUNG ¢ The rouci mit of calves and colts th s always dm troubles of digestie rom changin strldenl) ut a part little ter is anim near drina «li reei! ZEN, OAL Do away stork, an Keepin tl HANDLING Well-eared die. It CORN lesirous of eats every If yon nse art broken and bad sorts of artifice chalk, ete Crs, little bones, will natural appetite used for with good resul do the right th hen. You w trouble. Feather. £ - » » POT GIgVS ¥l. 1i PER, of these will » ALLY pepper and aalt somes satiate {Ie Park nests hens tha It is better hy at ance and eat lots save yourseif SOIL FOR GREENHOUSES After one or the «oil of greenbot adapted to the be replaced. It the Kind of soil ought to be Cron P. is nod CaAny for the muck «anse it is Kept submerge “0 long a time that all washed out as able. It takes a whole year to properly prepare hamus for the greenhouse bed fast it becomes avall The best is made by composting sods 't8 like- These sods the nse which will clear away ly to cause most trouble. manure, and some n.irate of soda The sod and excrement will rot down together, and the soll with the sod will rasted. Besides plants ing heap from being the soil from growing sand, to be Kept entirely by itself to keep root cuttings in. The white root- lets that put out from the callous of a entiing are very tender and witl not be put into soll that is very rich.anad which is consequently always warm from the heat of decomposition. A ONLY MINERAL MANURE FOR VINEYARDS, The liability of grapevines to mildew and rot on fruit or leaves is very greats fly on coarse, nitrogenous sappy. soecnlent growih of leaf and that spray ang eile? diseases, it is still hetter to vertitize the vines only with potash and phosphate manures, which will not stimulate the unduly, mad which will keep healthy. It Is true that a amount of nitrogenous fertility form ig needed to produce the grapes. With plenty of mineral hiefly be earlier and better r I vines them not host fertilizer, bunches will potasly, the grape wood growth to be cut n fall pruning will not be so over xuoriant viders never ma nure with stable manure. All the ash from the which are regularly after dry and sprinkled ar Mapure affects the quality be French vine yearly burned recelves the prunings ing siiid the OCS Ne fertilizers re ogten iL ever Ions DURING COLD STORMS, COWS rst storm o When the int ago 1 happened RE home nt DWN I driving snow FARM AND GARDEN NOTES rant «fre until spe for cars are pia on all lines sales can be f RAM 38 Neate at thods of distribution wou to consumer and larg: mand for berries. considered a nev dy in crease the doe Fruits would then be CRY Y “lonal tee, great cities are often glutted with inferior frukt, carelessly picked, poorly packed and roughly handled, making reshipment to small towns and While this may The tion companies, #t leaves small profits for the commission man sd certain loss for the producer. Growers should understand that i costs just as much to pick, pack, trans port and sell poor fruit as good; good fruit in a fair market is sure to pay well, while poor fruit in any marks: is almost certain to return a loss. The remedy is giving more care to the de talls of production and working for bet. ter markets io the smaller towns and cities, The universal consumption of fruit means the empioyment of millions of women and children in a pleasant ocen. pation; it means the most perfect come bination of the useful and beautiful in the common walks of life: a stimulant to better health, higher thought and a With a growing demand, promising a larger consumption, will next consider, WHO B8HALL GROW THE SMALL FRUITS? and Farm, we pone HOW ORECON WAS SAVED. A Stirring Reminiscence of Sixty Years | Ago. To man are people of the | Untted States indebted for the posses. | #lon of the Meh region which now com prises the States of Oregon, ldaho and | Washington and part of Wyoming. That was Marcus Whitman, who, nearly sixty years ago, went one the man 0g as | the Indians his daring | a volumeer to of ar amd perilous journey nyisslonary ¢ the Northwest, By $000) mitles gemes ity the continent to the ton, In the nrkist of 10 he saved then Kowh and they rot ant fiever alive For the first eleven days of the | plainly expe Again, was with Indians, to be very the road ney though beset danger the foot who were then be Mack! ginning men, He set out foward sottheast to | discover a now route io the Mississip pi settlements amd passed through bliz wards and many hardships to Fort Uncompahgra, in the Spanish country, | on Grand River, The lite band passed onward info | the heart of the big mountains, beat | on discovering the way to the ancient | Spanish settlement of Taos, northwest | of Santa Fe, i When about onedhind of the dis ince was accomplished, the party en countered a blizzard of awful severity and for ten days they endured this, | during which time the provisions be: came scarce and the animals upman- ageable, When the storm finally abated the giride deserted the party and Dr. Whit nan was forced to return alone to Une compaligra to procure a new ono, | After still further bardships and dep | rivations the Kttle band reached Taos, | where they foumd provisions ag scarce that they could add pone to their nl ready depleted stores, But they pushed on erossing streams filled with broken fee amd suf. | wiite hostile to ie : i fering pangs of hunger, uni Shey had | travollad abot half of the distance be tween Thos and Santa Pe. Here the | bast of the stores were consumed, and | death by starvation was close a1 band, | @ Bafore Dr, Whitman and his asso lates reached Santa Fe they were compelled to ent the doctor's dog and one of the mules Once in the capitalelty he found it a comparatively easy tawk LO convines Webster of the of the hands Jour rim desirability His frozen IHwH long country. and feet bore wit to the ney ill ana the President the add in A year later saw him at a caravan of 1000 people Walla Walla, They reached the pro pron ised ns power " the head of bound for mvisesd land in safety and organized a government in lance witl OUniry's laws, y after Vilst ares And tha saved Oreg FEET COVERN THE COMPLEXION AStartling Scientific Declaration, Recent ly Sprung. The Most Useful Metal A chemical authority states that sill con, a4 well as carbon, renders iron f ei bier, the duces one-third of the steel manufac world ron deposited by battery is grayish beatiful It H eays Unified States pros the Ty Lhe the galvanie wiiite and takes 3 polish, that is sail the first smnnon oast Shipe built of steel are said to be able to carry 20 per cent. more freight than those of iron, in the fourteenth was the principal seat manufactures of Europe. Rust consigts of ferric oxide, ferrous century Belgium of the iron ate, silica and aiwonia, The conunon copperas of commerce, 2s extensively weed as a disinfectant, ie a malt of iron, the sulphate, The so-called “tinwares” vee] by tinners are merely sheets of fron rolled vory thin and plated with tin, The iron pyrites, or “fool's gold,” is ahundant in many parts of the world. It is a bisulphide of iron. SL BRO i. Spice Are Dried Buds, The SRpice islands have given the warld few thinge more popular than the dried buds of a tree smoked and dried in the sun, named in Latin from In the same group of islands a wnall collection of lands are planted entirely in put: meg trees, NOTES AND COMMENTS, St. the Kilda, the lonely islet west of Hebrides, has i] it Is not entirely out of the world by sending a subscription of $12.50, raised among ‘its wixty families of fis to the fund for the relief demonstra that Herinen report, one 1H wiaryatic Loudon during only a thant ’ i oR Are now Heng hordes for field the Po thn ne work Prusain Inasmuaeh provinees of Silesian, East sen and as are content to labor for twenty cents a day, all told, the German land about the in hitherto turned a deaf ear to the argn being driven to the wall. and may It ix almost certain will in to other German a short time indus ecoolie labor extended Niates Montserrat, the live West have just been carried by a hurricane, than # has ever received. At Mont serrat is made a very large part of the me jules to witich modern sailors owe their almost complete exempifon from that terrible form of blood pois. oning which used 0 be fhe result of almost every long voyage. One of Captain Cooke's best claims to Tame apd grateful rementbrance is the fact teat be first demondirated the possi Ldiy of taking a crow around the world, # peed be, in » sailing ship without loking a single man from sear vy. The Ue juice with wirich he sup flied limecl, and by the adminteira. flon of which be saved] his sallors from thie offocts of thelr saltoment diet, did not come from Montsermad, bat the cut ure of some lime (recs Dogan there | many years ago, and the fuice their { fruit produces Is in WMgh repute all over the world, The Chi Foray the supply Mr, J wg ata 314 {Hd Hey wave tural gas is fast Weeks has (0st SUPPLY and iis vigo Railway of na i taal ving om owal labor apply has in 18s% roduced was WA £13,006, A Cat's Huusehoid Duties. ¥ helplal to Among iher Angie ih {Pees ohne Miss rit ti 1 v ale * ine Hed ng almond brn inconsiderable gmo od * i and «0 no ix lmvalualbde to hey in ak ing care of the sms.? Every n fading time Miss Angie sets a large basket in the orchard and Bildad begins work, frisking back and forth tinder the trees, picking up the plump $ikdad inorning oul £9 brown nuls, never ceasing till the bas. k fall, be in, letting iz mistress know, by pulling at her apron, that he needs her help. Aside fram thus relieving Miss Angie of all the trouble of gathering the nuts, Bil dad's services are called imo requisi thom to protect them froin rats, which when goes 3 young almonds Another one of Rildad’'s accomplish- ments is that of chuming, at which he ® quite an adept. OK Mr, Eddes, has invented a ttle churn, with a unique, Eghtruoning tradle, upon which Bildad mounts and treads away with the most prajseworihy industry till the work is done. So expert bas the cat become that he can tell by the sound of the mEk when the butter has come, and strikes with hiz paw on the Imtle boll which is attached to the churn to Jet his misthess kouw. in the midst of all {his Industry Bil dad finds time for ax much fun and frolic as the average eat, and is 3 source of great amusement and pleas. ure to the old man Eddes, relieving him of many fedions hours The Jefferson family has been on tha stage for Gve gaerations,
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