———————————————— A A AN SA FAkM AND GARDEN NOTES. | 1 EMS OF TIMELY INVEREST TO THE | FARMERS. The Home Carden. Self.Sucking Lows. Flax on Soil. Smut in Wheat. Keeping | Sheep. THE HOME GARDEN. Remove the dead leaves from plants every day and spray the foliage with water. This will give the plants a fresh | appearance and will, In great measure, | kegp down insects. Tie up neatly to »iakes all straggling, growing plants. leaniness of this kind helps to keep ihe alr of the room pure and comtribuics to the vigor of the plants, Turn the pots frequently so that the plapts may nol grow one-sided, BELF.SUCKING COWS. « Mrofessor W. Saunders, of the Cana. Jima experimental farms, has been waking experiments In flax growing. | Iie states that "the difference In ex haustive effect of these several crops twheat, oats and flax) en a rich would scarcely perceptible, would not justify the opinion that {lax ~ & very exhausting crop.” Wien crown for fiber, flax is pulled at a cosi «f $4 0 $5 per acre, the yleld of filer averaging one and a graln eight to ‘ihe average yied awown for bushels per acre. ' BOL be and half tons, and of bushels Manitoba when was 16H 1.2 Farmer nine per aye in 1805 sex] in American FILLAX ON SOIL. A balletin sucking cows has been North Carolina Experiment Station 'wo remedies are proposed: Boil a bamdful of quassit chips (can be got for of self by ti on the subject issued several hours 'n Wash every u drug stores) Qe 1 water iWon feats io Mp has sim of 4 niilvruess Cow's mi at ts at «alee Lars unt the mut Ohlo Farme Wuen Maint IN WHEAT Vie Minnesota St perinenting wheat per sulphate consisted of either sprink SMU] ation has been ex in sinut preventing "ie experiments with the cop omg the grain with the so utions or d ping the grain into alter each treatn wed an the so utions WAS Ll od walter tre cwmployed wer degrees VF. and ar degrees, rhe yarying fr frst MID TWO LO ten miinties results obialned were which the seed oughly pound copper sulphate to ons of water, 1 in lime: and nent, water at 120 degrees for ts amd shen for ten £rees, was dipped wet In A soigtion alter in not where th rain was soaked n in nutes nt 10 In each case 0.1 per ted plants were grown from as eompared with from 11 cent. in the lots Soaki seed ln cold water for fifteen gave 10.4 per cent. and in uraied sait 3 per cent. fo 200 check ie ng i minutes smut, 8 sarc Yeppoon 4 solution 3 KEEPING SHEEP feed [£4] Manage your warm Sr you don't have timothy to them. Dr. Wilson «ails timothy the “bane of sheep feed,” writes “J, WW, P.” of Matamoras, Pa lever is tiptop, and we feed cornsta ks a great deal. They will eat considera ide of rye straw, but possibly too much of rye heads would not be best, They will also eat through buck wijeat straw, | They are fond of turnips, and will also oat cabbages, pumpkins and small po tatows, If the hay that you feed your! horse is not pure, the sheep are very | fond of picking over the bushes, ete, | that the horses may leave, tive your ewes a little grain al win ter, rather than only at breeding time. | If you use corn you can feed it on the var, and by so doing save expense of shelling or grinding. It is said not to pay to grind grain to feed sheep, A | neighbor of min. feeds a little buck- | wheat. We keep salt before the sheep | winter and summer. Sheep are very useful in eating young bushes and weeds in pastures, We have never had much enccess in raking lambs on the bottie, when they are disowned by the ewes, If you wish the tails to be docked it should be done | as soon as the young lamb begins to | irisk and play about, If it has to be, done later, when the tail {8 severed, put on pulverized bluestone, which can’ be obtained of the apothecary. To succesd well with sheep, of course, one shoukl have a liking for them. If you wish to butcher a sheep, the hide ray | be easily cured by sprinkling a teacup- ful of fine salt on the flesh side of he hide at once, amd rubbing it In with the hand, especially where a little of the meni is left on the skin, + ghee for i that feed mucn (:a'en Kheep manure iw sald to be very val mab.e as a fertihizer on the farm. We our flock of late, and I attribute it 10 TREE FARMING. TH the lands which, either from lack food material in them or from location, else, and the money to be made in in, is being quietly proved in hundreds of localities. Tree planting, prevent the loss of fertility and the loss of mos ture, Is rarely appreciated even those whose farms are washed away by driving rain. The forest covering protects the soll In the following ways: 1. By preventing rain from falling to by t Lie its foreoe, the waar réaching the soll branches and trunks of the trees, 2. By interposing a loose cover, a formed by the fall on branches and leaves, which breaks the ps, amd Keeps direct feree of the raind: sod from being compacted or pu h ows penetrating the d.el by their i 3. The deeply roots 1.08 left from decayed stumps rees assist F eV wy one il ETOow &rgps su Li water t to pass th order that tl . + fF IS wWiaal ing the walter thie require may not pass off with th } eh th iy f through the drains Also, when ti &6 1 it lover tet si Teas Lhe BO IE eaves perioralions or chan. the air h is enabled upon t nels through whi the soil amd act vegetable matter contained there it available for p.ant {ood wer hand, in undrained land is stagnant and fills up of the soil, and the land re heat in in the ot} the water all £ » DOES ‘Oe Dores nains cold; aso the which is » atmosphere above cannot get into until the water in the soil is evaporated; we find that of umdfained sails iz low. drained soils. Careful conducted in Eng.and that there is a difference degrees of temperature in soil hence, tie temperature ér than that of experiments have shown ven The advantages we gain from drain. 1. It enables us to work our land frou seeding 1s evident to every one in this country of short seasons. Experiments have shown that the crop obtained when the seeding is done early is very considerably greater than that obtained when the seeding is done ten dayw« jut er. “5 -r After heavy rains in summer our and dries more rapldly when drained than when uwmlrained, and this allows our hoed crops to be cultivated more thoroughly, and causes our grain crops not to be Hable to rast or blight. 3. Our crops are less liable to be in Jured by summer frosts, * 4. We obtain an earlier harvest and 0. When we grow fail wheat it 1s not cure a cafvh of clover, and the liability of the clover to heave is a.most vntire ly overcome, 6. On heavy cay solls tillage is ren. { dered much easier, as nothing is more { injurious to these soils than to work | thems while they are In a wet condition. 7. On dralned solls manure gives much better results than on undrained it can be appiled on the surface, its fertl. zing washed down into the soll by » If our land Is drained, we ean have | greater comfort in all our farm opera tions than we can have If our land i» undrained, and therefore In wet wean er heavier and more sodden, and in dry weather harder and mere lmpacted, than it ought to be For a similar rea son the health of all our farm annnals axl also of ourselves ig better on drain ed thap on undrained land Rolin; constitients are aid ~ HOW THE "CHINOOK" COMES. | Even the Cattle Recognize the First Breath of the Benign Wind, Yleture to yourself a wild waste of | snow, wind-beaten and blizzard fur | rowed until the vast expanse resembles billowy white The frigid alr, blowing hall a gale, is filled with | needle-like snow and ice crystals which i sting thre flesh like the bites of poison ous insects, and sift through the finest i crevices, The sun, low down {southern horizon, looks like glote, w th halves, crescen's ] a BEA. prizmatic bars encirclicg Gi f range cattle, roam 1d thrive on ligenous to the eat herds o at will ar "ILIOUB Erasres i 1] Yan * 1H slope w ler . ture Up in seven it ws meni sede come Nae Dw Pritewl BIL eAi¥n with level, becoming the hot $01 +h Li on a neycombed retire sntist nuine and lasting one afterwards are rown hills everywhere; the plains are covered with floods of water. In a w days the wind wil rate the snd the he Were it da 1% by fied 100 a © we that 1 is a ge hours there ¢ 3 : evap wll for the hern slope un- be habi ner could { Comes animals survive the winters United States Weather Review, roads not 2) tart LOE not win table, tin ti Origin of Came of Chess. For years the origin of the game of chess has been a mooted question wit enthusiasts and scientists, All sugges tions, however, have been downed by a discovery made in Egypt. Until re- cently it was assumed that the ancient Indians had invented chess, and that it was introduced from India to Persia in the sixth century by the Arabs, and in consequence the crusades was spread over Europe. It is true the Chinese assert they can trace cheas in their own country to 200 years before our era, but late excavations in the pyr- amid field of Sakbhara have brought to light a wall painting which represents a high official playing chess with a | partner at the time of the government | of King Teta, who belonged to the sixth i dynasty. | Prof. Lepsius assigns King Teta to 12700 B. C, but Prof. Brugsca pus him | back to 3300 B. C., so that chess must {have been known in the mysterious land of {of Egypt more than 5000 years ago North of the pyramid of Kind Teta the two grave chambers are to be found. The | walls are covered with well preserved | bas reliefs and pictures representing ‘several scenes. No lesa than twenty- | seven halls and corridors have been | discovered, There are beautiful col- i umns, and in the chief room in a niche | i8 a tinted statue of the King seven feet { high, There are hunting and fishing { scenes, a group of mourners, Mera and sons, and Mera playing chess, An Afnusing Rate War, Two rival blacksmiths have an amusing rate war at Smithville, which is told about by the Taylorsville (Ky.) Courier: "There are two blacksmith shops at Smithville, one on the west side of Salt River and the other on the east side. There is a toll-gate at the west end of the river bridge. Each shop is fighting hard for the trade. The shop on the west side puts on a round of horse shoes for seventy cents and pays the customer's toll each way, while the shop on the east side shoes a horse all round for sixty cents and pa‘s os ail patrons through the toll-gate fiv= of charge.” SAVING THE LAST DIAMOND } The Remaininy One of an He'rioom Clu, | ter in a Man's Teoth, A nf way to keep a diamond from | being log: or stolen been discov | ered by F. Van Craenbroeck wiih the | aid of a Hyde Park dentist of having the gem set iu a ring or stud | Mr, Van Craengroeck cauged the pre fous stone to be placed In a cavily In one of his teeth, where it will both ormamental and useful, and probably in no danger of falling into the of thieves, This particular diamond has a known | history that extends back ‘through the French revolution and four generations of the young man's family It was to pregerve it, and not because he nevded it as a toothfilling, that he had the stone ret in an upper bicuspid The d'amond is a sn only an of 8 carat, been carefully cut. Ori set with twenty-six others in a band ring belonging to Mr broecih's who was a went ] ugh succes and «; the gems Craenbroeck ot mother geveral only one diamond soma tise ago ih Van briéck es mbiher died, sud he v clally anxious t ve the “al a has he JHNAS ghing hat war poid Van Craen- ther c1ing all one, w cighth but it 54 o ginally it al-great-great-grandm pative of Fr w} tained th vears left 0 A Plethora of Diamonds. is PO secret that the more tha : : ingia- ped to England, Russia itea, the standard price per karat would de- The marketing of the the diamond fields of Af- time as cheap big ayndicate " . nds w but the biue maintain A BCArcily or the Ur of the Crease 50 for { entire product of the world, Brazil, Bir rica and India, would make dian as rhinestone knows this, it White and yellow come particularly com: } diamond is bound to value for all tine, owing to it And extreme beauty That is, of course, unless some upheaval opens up hidden strata. of the matrix or mother rock these almost priceless specimens of crystallized car. bon “In Bouth Africa the output of the diamond mines is carefully scheduled, and a bond or asrecment exists betwean the great syndicates that the supply shall not excesd the demand. By this means they are able to ell the stones at a fair price withou! glutting the market. The vncut stones ¢ re nacked away in immenee fire and burglar proof vaults that are impregnable. Bize and quantity are carefully sorted, and a perfect system prevails for keeping up the supply of each part.cular aze and quantity without exceeding it, ia, South present alinost ita Ls VOICan i containiag A Cleve’ Silversmith, "The late Hob Whit head, the silver. smith, will be muss missed by ma- gicians,” remarked an atiache of a pro- fesrional magic.an, “ior he coud always be depended upon (v Bix up our proper. tes and apparaius cud to keep the se- eret of their operat on to himself. He Was very, very clever at tinkering with metal, ag many in cur business found to our satisfaction. Whitehead made much of the aprarrius with which | Heller started on the read as 8 ma- | gician. Heller, you many not remember, was named Palmer when he originally | resided in thie c'ty, when he was the | organist at Epiphany Church, He did nearly all bis piactizing in the room | over the drug store at the corher of Thirteenth and F streets. As he thought out the unparatus he needed A - to ——————— wo - i years for and {hie la ing wenty-five he late Profersgor Herrmann esgor Wyinan, the father of u and Professor Ander; the 3 rd the north, who wag gi raction years igo "Among atl auction fi Pr 9 ol a the odds and ends recently in Whit ad's old curi- y shop—and It sold for old metal the pound--waas the plant for one of Heller's famous tricks It never worked satisfactorily, and was sent Whitehead be remade It completed when word was Heller had died, 1 was the apparatus by which Heller ap- parently grew a tree of orsages from a pot located in the midst of the audience ‘he flower pot was filled with tubes, at- tached to the end of which was a rub when blown up and size an orange ¢ by pumping air until they were old h iy IH 10 to Was nearly resembled In color The growing was don into the rubber oranges sufficiently large bellows at b Cian had the ittom the bel over one the Uging done of he WOrK « Btar yh shington A LIVELY A Climpee of the Busy Time in the Kitchen a Creat Hotel, Wil] utually is )y ia) Wd promises to come back aves, & DEgIo sérvint, warned bY &n electric her wherever she may 8 he a , ; wu we return inquirie nearest grocery vient to give Vers visitor firey who my w something about her which will give me a what wants know When she calls again I go into a tr e, and this time ‘conditions’ are all right 1 surprise her inexpreszibly by describing the appearance of her own res.wence, giving the street and number and final. ly spell out her own name. Nine times out of ten this that is required The caller is convinced that 1 bave learned her name and residence by oc- cult power, and therefore is ready to believe anything else I may tell her, It is easy when you know how. New Orleans Picayune sl ——————— School Gardens in Europe. While almost imaginable branch of education is being supplied to the young in this country, the teach- ing of horticulture has been remark- ably overlooked. In this respect Rus- gia, which is not generally regarded as a very far advanced country in edu- cational matiers, can give points to the United States : School gardens, or sfadll model farms, are rapidly becoming a Jeature of the primary schools of Russian villages. A report for the southern phrovince of Ekaterinoslav states that 227 out of 504 schools in the province already have small model kitchens, orchards, tree plantations, or farms, averaging a lit- tle more than an acre in size, at which gardening, tree culture and silkworm culture are done by the schoolmasters, who receive special instructions at summer schools from Jocal specialists, This province being nearly treeless, much attentisan is given to {ree culture, silkworms ranking next in importance, and beekeeping and vineyards being studied at some of the schools. In Central Russia the culture of cereals takes first place at the echool farms, while in Caucasian the greatest interest is felt in silkworm culture and vine culture, ghe to an » the 2 1 is all every The Trans Siberian Read. Bt. Petersburg auihorities announce that the Siberian Railway will be com- pleted by Jan. 1, 1500, if men and. money can do it. The main line will be over 4,700 miles long. This was begun iu the spring of 1891. Up to date put them into shape. The latter did 70,000 men are how cmpleyed in the many hundred do'lare of work for construction. It will terminate at Port Holler then aud siterwa ds. White- Arthur, on Chinese territory. | DENSITY OF POPULATION. & The Most Thickly Peopled World is in New York City. Ia the Century is a paper by Mra Behuyier Van Hengseelaer on “Places in New York,” in the couree of which the author Cross the ry now, and you will enter the famous Tenth Ward-—-a true tenemeni-i district, forming part of mopt crowded city quarter in all rio a whole, the city of New York below the Har lem River Island of Manhalian) in more densely peopled than any other city in the arid ing 143.2 per to acre. while Paris counts bh of entire fork (reckoning the Harlem 711 acres of Kast Side cummer of 1884 224 O00 pols, Average fe at arca--the Tenth local acre-average of thickly peopled spol sw quarter in Prague filth as large as © density : whol Chol in the Bays Bow ious the he wo {ihe WwW count the sons Then one-¢ the population of all New now with the parts above too) is concentrated upon ground Here lowe: of our town, in i Ou welt ° lev. 2 x1 on the the there ds ing 476.0 1 i acre; tion this Ward 626 and a certain of showed The Df b a ure but it is } i Tenth i, while wa a scarcely great han that of th of ” the Avenuyc Riving iains £ K34 esac i Coun nd boli gays of the gull % - RIDE Lo get South t {8 the { actual working a. Of course, if be subirected of days in a and if onethird able {or work purposes it is should not the cH & ¥ , yuntries and in the special effort of pet to reduce . the hours of and thus there has last twenly ypeaire a larger reduction, really, of werking time in the United States and in Great Britain than the Latin or Latin American Detroix Frees Press, oe been ¢ hast but day the in countries A Shower of Meteors. People who were fortunate enough te be up at an early hour yesterday morn ing witnessed one of the most interest- ing celestial phenomena ever displayed to wondering eyes. It was a meteoric shower or a bombardment of the earth by shooting stars. Several personas whe saw it say the shower commenced, or was noticed first, about 5 o'clock and continued for about an hour, The sky was clear with the exception of a bank of clouds around the horizon. At first there were a few shooting stars and then suddenly the whole heavens Ht up with a finch like lightning and it grew brighter and brighter until there appeared across the whole sky a trait of fire like the trail of a huge coma and from it in all directions shot stars or meteors, The light gradually formed ilsetf inte a long streak like lightning and then moved in a slow zigrag snake like movement across the heavens and final iy shaped itsell into a perfect leiter “Z, in which form I remained for a long time anu shen slowly faded away. During’ all this time there were nu- merous shooling slare and the whole earth was lighted up almost as bright as day. The display lasted for the greater part of an hour, but the great light described was of much shorter duration. The phenomena frightenad many people and several instances are related where horses were almost para fyzed with fear at the strange sight Anaconda (Montana) Standard. ————— owt A Horned Rabbit, J. C. Rutledge, of Kansas, is reported te have killed a horned rabbit. The animal did not differ materially from the ordinary cottontall found in pearly very pari of the country, except that it the base of the sare there cropped at two horns, each a lle over (we ‘nches in length and about an tath la circumference.
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