A ————————— SAAMI ————— FARMERS. ring for Fall Fresh Cows..." Find a Way or Make It." ESTABLISHING AN APIARY, A bulletin of the Department of Ag riculture says: Spring is the best time to establish an apiary, especially for a person unacquainted with the prac Colonies in condition secured then are more easily kept in order by the novice than if pur chased in the fall. Mistakes in man agement may possibly be remedied be fore the season closes, and by the time it is necessary to prepare for the win ter the learner will have gained a cer tain amount of practical knowledge of the nature and requirements of the tical care of hees, good wes, If the start be made son, mistakes, If they in the sea- may re late occur, can be applied. The beginner had bet ter obtain his start by purchasing one ar two colonies of pure Italian or Car niolan bees in accurately made frame hives and in first-class condition. These should of of repute near his own place if possible, and possi he get some bee master n order to avoid expressage through long confinement transfers, The colony may be £6 to $8. yet | be found for. though ble damage or pumerous COSt per wos at this much com will in mon bees in box hives may frequently at half cost, when finally fitted combs, and the price generally heaner the end, hw abtained the price or loss, tis transferred into frame hives, ith straight up Ww common (juecns re by Italian Carnlolans, will or The possession of a colony already in king order gives the novice r standard with whieh to compare all sthers, and often enables him to avold costly experiments ys pothier plan, also commendable iI8 10 Ared neighboring bee first Keeper many SWHTIDS on t These rat FEMININE DAIRY WISDOM As rorothy Tucker thr given the world by he F Salting regularly i Ver) tant When cow tbhundance of = ougl arin Journal finnor nol mater to regular salting |i racti a great i arin lity ¢ in gq tity and quality of noticed A still Iw change both milk plan is to keep it where each can be titer COW can desires help herself whenever she he best cows are always the he Avy feeders, If they eat heartily and are healthy, and do not lay on fat, you may be sure that it is going and will always find it in the milk pail regular eare will count now, Breeding and natoral capacity are pdwerless to contribute to sud cessful somewhere, you (rood, accompanied by and regu stock raising unless wughtfuluess, intelligence lar care Merit is starvation and abuse, not proof against neglect, she fill the milk pail? many unobserving and then wonder men they are Too this, poor. How many farmers are preparing to idle away the winter? Is there expect why any other business that will permit it? Winter butter production is more profitable than summer; then why not be a winter producer? ture of the stable up to comfort saves tion for prosperity of drying up early. With plenty of food and good care they will milk near iy the year roumsl Be sure that linseed meal forms a part of the grain ration now, on't neglect the daily brushing and cleaning of every cow. ing like pure, simple, cleanliness, of Jane, when a full ratlon of corn fed, are ready to sell, Ont of this This gentleman's methods in this worthy of ariel his a farmer has been perfectly to him through a of No doubt the price obtained has been above level, and 1 think if through his twenty years would come Hay ing bought many lots of his feeding, | know of their merits, On Aug. 30 last thirty-eight head averaged two hundred and fifty-six pounds and netted at home scales 833080, A lot of thirty sold on July 10, 1805, averaged two hundred and sixty-five netted him £370.37. There are certainly many advantages in this plan line are imitation SUCCORS As SUlCeeN HY Orn fall and slon Vers pretty close to the five cent mark. pounds is likely to be higher at the season he at any other time in the year. American Ag riculturist, “FIND The first requisite of a market dener is to be able to produce the of vegetables at the This accomplished matically A WAY, OR MARE IT.” sar best Ost smallest may be by = saving all available manure and by the intelligent use of com cial fertilizers He must studs tastes and custome mer the wants of his them depends the life of his Havli his products into proper Have all veg i graded in at least two ols done the next ng 80, shaw lass and FEEDING generally feed « fattening properties are should be fed HENS FOR EGGS tO0 fit that it sparingly night meal on a cold day hot in excellent, Buckwheat principal feed during winter orn wheat should be the or fIat=s are 15 free access to gravel and grit. Warm milk or along oyster shells, should vided liberally. Liquids are necessary for the formation of egg shells Seraps from the table, peelings and cabbage are equally relished by “bid dy,” and if properly housed and cared for will give good returns in the basket New England Homestead, water, In rro- egy LETTUCE. With the exception possibly of Many vegetable plants are do, but the lettuce seems to prefer rank, ter, and furnish it every week, sumers 0 know that they are eating pure, clean some other manufactured stuff, and there is a big difference between cash and trading out butter, A NEW METHOD WITH HOGS. The method and success of a farmer in Franklin County, Ohio, Is worthy of note, writes W. T. Taylor. Sows are bred to farrow in July or August, As soon as the litters are old enough to wean, the sows are taken away, fat tened and sold or slaughtered by Jan. 1. The herd of pigs are kept thrifty and growing through fall and winter. Ag soon as blue grass or clover peeps out in spring they get that, followed kind. used as a “first Monthly. crop.” Europe's Electric Roads. There are now M0 miles of electric roads in Europe, an increase of 125 the Chi and 857 cars. 82 miles and ears, Great with 65 miles and 108 ears, and tro-Hungary with 45 miles and CArs, of track and 52 motor care, Of the 111 European lines 91 are worked by the overhead trolley system; three, one i aa) Aus 157 by an insulated central rail, and eight by storage batteries Fourteen tons of turkey wore shipped from East Georgla, Vt, one day re cently. HOW MUCH 'C A KNOT? Lardsmon Know Its Value Expressed in Miles, of record In thizx day Ocean Stenmers, breaking by when every big steam- er that comes into port expected to a record hung at a yardarm, HO Carry lnundsnmien know the te “knot, to spenk, how the which HELIN of spend meaning of It is purely nautical term, Fin in chiefly wholly a rate al sen Ix expressed? and having specific appliea- a vessel moving in the water The term “knot ix the mariner's nautical mile, " orl and its use line used for a by navigators of the ocean when they and the probably line Necessary wish to determine the distance that the in a important speed has The very ship tine log and fittings; sailed piven part of a ship's when, for several dave at especially is this rhe case the the sun being sea, unable, because thick weather, to get a pavigator is hidden by clouds or peep at it with the actual po ith ng his sextant, from which sition of the ship Is worked omt the data taken by a frequent heavy of the log small block of wood with a long line attache run out of the for secon «d and sel not nd, nfiu. Oo! ta the stern from fn specitl number of seconds) on of the w [oree an the that an hour, pro For instance, if steamship continue speed during the hour of wind and spread o vessel of the sailing continne the sane. uumber knots on the line passing rel while the sand is rua as good ap actnal measurement of the vessel's apes] through the water that measured by an a« if it wax shown that the vessel was makiog knots, wotild cover ten graphical miles, or a little more than 11% land miles, or eleven and a half as obtained, the be with could In except COtree tial should survey instruments, ten she Reo to a land mile), Hence, to speak of the City of Paris having made 525 knots or nautical miles in twenty-four of 25 land i= faster than travel.-~New road distances, or a rate which many railroad trains York Herald, Some Eccentrics. “It is 8 very funny thing,” =aid a press reporter, “how particular some men are about little things. For ex- ample, I know one man who has come He cannot possibly sit still It doesn't make any difference must be shined if he is to be shaved, Another man insists on holding & palm leaf fan in bis hands winter and sun mer,” A Novel Wagon. A novel wagon passed through El the cover, was formed of the body of one tree. The tree was cut the right length for the body and the heart of it was hewn out so that the driver could git in the hollow very comfortably and drive, thus forming a secure cover as well as body.—Atlanta Journal. | They Were the that Im. | pressed a Visitor to Jamaica. Fhe light the things thnt First Things wa fi firs and the heat are Mort Hpress om Fhe Li the Lil ght i= tin fron Wii, KU omnipresent aml cog ire lnminon by contr Intitude forty-ddve milli he sun jatitude Yet it isn a not a flere phere OW west; but The remote d landscape are Hn fonder, soft and bard « fheadd suffused ne, The at is not so as that one can read here by light, one cannot read fine easily, stances melted in an ae instead of b defined w lentleoss clearness Nevertheless, thi superlative; planet ntal lun tense and more re par Hox mon ™~ loves] o4 these ideas the first place, of tar in the South, the fi larg ore ix not are too valuable “Where a treatment 11 Is INH person deserves stich a and better 1 ih easier horough cowhiding. A to give him a t cowhiding sticks as well as a coating of Tar and feathers originated in the days of Richard Lion, hundred years ago, ax is oy idenced by one of his ordinances for seamen follows: ‘That if any man is taken with theft or pickery., and thereof con: vieted, he shall have his head polled and hot pitenn poured upon his pate, and upon that the feathers of some pillow or cushion shaken aloft that he may thereby be known for a thief,” Washington Star. tar if it is properly applied Coeur de aver elgnt AR The Working of a Big Department Store No other business that is conducted Take of the store in magnitude of detail for instance the case of one giants of the species, season. In a year it does nearly $10, 000,000 of business, vidual sale last year was an orches ent clothes pin for one cent. the holiday rush there were several days when its gross receipts ran over £100,000, It has more than seventy de. partments. To heat It one huadred miles of steampipe are required, and the electric light plant would adequate. oF equip a small city. It »opresents a sental of nearly £300.000 « year, and at a conservative estimate the dailv sxpenses of the store are £5,00u. When It Is conxidered that this enormous sum is made up from the profits in alex, for the most part in suall par cels, one gets an inkling of the infinite care in details ¢:d4 the perfestion of wie who make enter are A ducted one man lin of made this ris fin these bus sin terient if 1 il i by the cash ‘Arties siare discounts “i Lise and Moisture Ears and Mearing are believes] not to The the Most hase of the grasshoppers their of the body ¢ cavity of the middl ize of a Kidney bean Thomas Holeroft wrote a comedy called "Deaf and The United States has 480 deaf mutes to the million of population In 1864 a mutes was founded in the middle Ti h the = ¢ oar is about famous Dumb.” national college for deaf gt Washington liable to deaf ness than people of any other race All have small ears, capable of very quick movement. The blind are generally possessed of a singularly acute sense of hearing. The crocodile hears remarkably well, and has the rudiments of an outer ear. The mammalia are the ouly inferior animals which possess an external ear. There is no creature which possesses a more sensitive hearing than the cat. Rearlet fever and cerebrospinal men- ingitis are frequent causes of deafpess. In 1SS6G Bell's method of visible speech began to attract widespnead at tention. Strange as it may nos! varie. tice of jellyfish have true organs of hearing. Cancasians are more carnivorous animals ROP A Philatelic Exhibition. England's stamp collectors as their part in the celebration next year of Queen Victoria's attainment of the “record” as tenant of the British throne, are to hold an international philatelic exhibition. It will begin late in July in the galleries of the Royal Institution of Paloters in Water Col ors, and the Duke of Raxe-Coburg and Gotha and the Duke of York are among the prominent collectors who have promised to suppor! the enter prise. It will smbrace British, Colo nial and foreign postage stamps, en velopes, postal cards, news bands philatelic appliances, literature and cu riosities and objects of interest in con nection with the vostal service, A STORY AND ITS SEQUEL. Revolutionary Hero. sdesth In Brooklyn a few ne KB, Gerocka, of 1d 10 of fives ryan below! and roland, fo leave COs vintition and Iw fined the Turkish army several eng fatter made rank of in | § 1 Oop iy ig deeply reve wer thie ue by «tol a roosts amd emptied my “1'm sorry,” said Hancock “Yes replied the stole «verything but Thank God. old man they my hope of im- none of them mortality caa ste al tha that,” re. Nineteenth fowision Iw too sure about torted the General Maine ix coming Me, ; Jourtal “Twn “The next.’ Expensive Feathers. rearner bunting, in some inslances, ix more profitable than gold seeking. "The egret feathers soll from thirty-two to th riv-five dollars an ounce. Of course, they feteh at least double that when retailed over the counters of New York's most popular shops. They are ot wold by the ounce there, though. Tliey go by the piece. While there are probably hundreds of men who make a husigess of killing birds for their feathers, the best known of the feaih er hunters In the West is Hamlin Smith, the white chief of the Covopad indians. Their reservation includes most of the land on Madeline Bay, In thw marshes of this broad sheet of water are found the egret. heron and erane ia numbers, Even the herou's feathers ocme high, They fetch at wiwieeale from eight to ten dollars an ernee. One heron will often yield feathers worth one hundred and iy dollars, If herons are more plentiful than egret, they are more profitable hunting, because there ik only a small tuft of covering on the egret timt is marketable.
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