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,