how A % THR FARM AND GARDEN, Topics. i€rimson Clover on Vacant Spots. The Best Food for Horses. Care of Brooder Chicksns. Etc. Ete. CLOVER ON VACANT SPOTS. If yon have any land that cannot be cultivated to corn or potatoes do not allow it to remain for the weeds to ex haust it, but mow down the weeds when they are young and in August sow the land to crimson clover, to be plowed under next spring. It is a good plan to sow erims clover on every vacaut spot and thus improve the soil by taking advantage of its capacity for gathering nitrogen. — Home and Farm, CRIMSON on THE BEST FOOD Unquestionably, bay come first in the list of horse foods When a horse is off his feed, or slight ly ailing from any cause indicative of violent bran } with good nursing will bring hun right in nine cages out of ten. Noth ing is better than an occasional feed of mts, carrots; turnips 11 a half a peck of be gi daily as a morning or evening meal effect would be foal should be vossible. HORSES bran FOR Oats, corn, and not disease, 1 13 ¢ i Oul all pe tatoes or these could SHOow hn CARE OF BROODER Perhaps we should brooder, for we fin H. B. (ree I i nal, to take keep it Trash do in fee ens, One thin We see It eve FY brooder, and th: pay to put a chickens il matter how | is better and of two lL rooders 100 chickens : Another not given a get the sun weeks old, open shed, they will and stunted in gro i8 not neces give them a so as to get ments of of the d If cleanline the chicken busine the sie Fping ston brooder chickens &r|{ ones ove I) twice a day, ancl side, and three chaff or ¢l to a mainiah either ou WELL PROPORTIONED UDDI If one will and compa will be surp best cows a wide « ndders, and tl difficult shay © says Pract: and it is most symm or the rich udder of of lar 74 ench divi fair-sized t dairy litera nncommon Lifer cows that largely metrical ing devel to power nored. We common breeding back quarter ward part, ar er's m t size of th passing Jerseys, two udders in said to be alike, the forward q vided in appearance that the amount of these quantity than do not know mine the smaller quarters, as compared with the larger, have ever made, but the question is rather one of how to breed cows with well-proportioned ud- ders. narters v quarters was from that touts relative richness the heen CREAM-RAISING It is established without the nse of separation or ice has yet been discovered by which a perfect recovery of the cream contents of milk ean be secured, but where the herd is too small to justify the expense of a separator or ice is not available a good method is to fit up a well cream ery. A well four feet in diameter will care for the milk of ten cows; but if it were six feet it wonld be better Fit out a sufficient number of com- mon shotgun cans to hold the milk of three milkings, with loose-fitting deep- rim Covers, and stont bails so arranged as to hold the covers firmly in place when sngpended. Provide a pully and one- half iach rope of sufficient length to let each can when filled with milk into the water, until it floats. Jt should remam uncisturbed, « cept by the addition of the next milk- ing, for twenty-four hours, when it can be raised and skimmed. By this method an effective cream- ing is secured; the milk is safe from all contamination of flies, dust and odors. Further, the well affords a IN A WELL that no system of cream for the churn, as well as for xeted If this studied and be it ol wall creamery syatem faithfully carried out, will not only save a vast amount labor, but greatly improve the quality and increase the quantity of the butte: Its work 1s constant and uni the weather may does it require a AM. made, whatever to be, nor serubbing and New York ROADS IN ENGLAND English roads are good because are well built and well cared for ‘lusion at by has been investigating the finest the made chance scalding Tribune. daily Madison in they 1s the Wiha He anywhere Con arrived a writer subject says that they are the in the world. Some of leading out of Bath Romans, and all the of scientific construction, with highways the highways were by other are deep foundations and ample provi for draining they constant county “ions Besides, supervision and care council has standing mittee on roads, which ta them in repair the highways and keeps T into div each mittee ided sith of which 18 as which Ww lit He IWAY Animal Not s. There are not less thaa 2.000.000 the British Isles The New York Aqnar have a pair of white whale will come from the St sbably 3 2’ 4) (Hogs In nm will SOON They Lawrence River be about fifteen feet and will pre ong An thibition iz The deer is practicall; It was shot by Ernest Sidney, on Bald Ibino deer on ¢ Augusta, Me white all over G. Lyons, of Centre Monutain ie The wild elephant is a wise beast, but there are some argne that he has a.depraved taste. He fond of gin, it 18 said, but will not tonch champagne. wiho will 18 gize of the kangaroo is from three to four feet in height. Spec- imens from six to en feet are fre quently met with on the Anstralian plains, The average S68 A kangaroo has been known to make a leap of ninety feet. Bees’ Brains. The brain of the honey-bee has re- cently been studied by Doctor Kenyon of Clark University more thoroughly, it is said, than ever before. It is thought that the source of a bee's power to adapt itself intelligently to its sur- roundings has been discovered in eer- tain peculiar objects in its rsdn, ealled the ‘mushroom bodies,” BICYCLE BY MAGIC. A %akir from India Produces a Whee! from His Cloak. He has Amazed Paris—But the Trick is Very Simple, Though Requiring Creat Dexterity—Carried in Small Pieces. Arrayed in a gown of spottless white, his coal black hair covered by a snowy turban, with many folds, an Indian juggler, who calls himself the Nawab of Jellabad, has been startling the people of Paris nightly with a marvel lous trick and then poking fun at them with his explanation of how simple it 18 to do. It is not so perhaps, to the unskilful, nothing less than the production bicydle. from beneath that flowing cloak, the greatest doubters in all audience would have sworn no bicyele Inasmuch as it is manifestly impos vele in one’s pocket being brains in earth this Is going to carry out the has made They are ering that he means to perlorm exactly what he ined win to hin simple a for it is of a he re could have been concealed. sible to carry a bic or under the arm without Hoen the onlookers puzzle their vain seemingly remarkable man promise he long in discov to di how on cover not has thr sheet of ord is this pro unfol WV ho Aare sel f plain sight o every hing to per aid from nndulates MANE prairie, 11 ismantie siighitest ov The then nsunl ex the stantly jnggler sections of and Comes sheet In him, the him the that make a First of all he arranges the Then the wheels are quickly turned into proper shape Following this he blows air into the rubber tires and adjusts them. Then comes the gearing, the adjustment of and handle bars, and lo, the is complete and ready for use dexterously flings the sheet from him and at the same mo- it mounts the wheel. The rest has New York Herald. ade f with the sh eet s from 5 ievele the COVvers about he complete whole frame two saddle Ww heel Then the juggler mer been told The Work of Honey Bees. To secure a pound of honey, which is equivalent to something like 3,000 cells, would take a bee several vears. In fine weather the bee makes calls upon fifty to eighty flowers a a day's outing. During this time it collects what 18 equivalent to a grain of nectar, which is a thin syrup and has to be evaporated to make honey. The bee after working all day, spends the great- er part of the night fanning the nector | with its wings to evaporate the surplus | water. In this way it shortens its life | by wearing out its wings. Langstroth says that a bee al the height of the working season lives about three work- ing weeks and then dies. Bees fre- quently perish on the way home, be- cause their wings are so shattered and splintered that they refuse t# support the body. "If a disabled bee reaches the hive alive it spends the remainder of its days as nurse, housekeeper and in general utility work. A good and fertile queen bee keeps the hive full of bees during the season. When the { honey flow stops she ceases laying at once, then the workers kill all of the [ drones and manifest other symptoms of a consuming for retrench ment, desire HAD NEVER SEEN A TUNNEL, Jumped From the Train as the Engine Ente-ed the Hole: A correspondent of the Philadelphia Times writes from Colorado Springs as follows “I'm from Missouri, have to show me!’ That is what John Duffer, County, Mo., remarked this morning a8 he patched up in the office reighton Manitou His badly scratched where tact wit bruise and they'll of Pike was being of In ( face and ul hands were had come in con there his head of Pike ® tarnation they h the sharp gravel, WANs A Over ons “Ye wliere taf felt ‘like a had struck again ragment Peak, wild-cat had clawed it, one eibow and there was a general feeling of soreness ‘pretty much everywhere,” as he explained it to the thankfu John doctor, but he was alive and vad d from: the platform juin pe 4 of af olorado Midland passenger train, t the entrance to first tunnel Manitou, mistake above whil as to Bp pes 1 y mountain which ile Creek walk what became of or. who had been feeling ts to nee if they were ‘didn’t they stop for you Ihe last I the and the saen to consideral time if several witne Duffer that the 8 contents were not he Pp ele asly Pike's Peak, on entire {fain and it buried in the interior of and quite a little acoompanied him to the station Pun away telegraphed to Cascade to return one lunch pail and grig labeled John Duffer, Pike county, Missouri. And as he left the station to fill up on “free soda biling right out of the ground,” Mr. Duffer explained once more: ‘When the train ran into the hole I thought: we'd never see day light again, and my only chance was to jump, and so I jumped. I'm from Missouri, and you'll have to show me | crowd where Agent A Remarkable Memento. Captain M. B. Rowe of Fredericks- burg, Va., recently plowed up on the Bloody Angle battlefield, near Spott- sylvania Court House, where the bul- lets bew thick and fast during the fierce fighting in May, 1864, a remarkable memento of that battle. It consists of three bullets welded together in such a way as to suggest that coming from different directions, they met in midair. ~Chiecago Record. —————— EE Tunnel! Between ireland and Scotland, It is reported that the British gov. ernment has a scheme under consider- ation for tunneling between Ireland and Scotland. The idea is not a new one, and is reckoned by competent en- The Scotland just north of Port Patrick to a point in Ireland, near Sutrickidrgen. The estimated cost is $35.000,000 i i i 1 i ANIMAL CUNNING. A Fox Came to Life After Being Killed, Bit Its Captor and Escaped. Two canes are on record of foxes be fi ¢ completely ing discovered in hen-houses the fox not only eeived the finder, but to dragged out hy thrown In fox jumped up and Another example i dangled acre fn man's elf to he more ach de elf and the BWR He allowed hims the brush ench instance be down, then ran that of a fox whiel shoulder an along At last bit the man and was promptly dropped A ent 4 nome allowed ts carried road for than a wile was observed to carry a weasel in month, the weasel dang ling helplessly, The door of was closed and the cat, with its u habit, admis To mew, to set down the up and fastened on its nose its a} nal Bion howeve weasel, which ahserved A cor he following instance was te Professor RHomanes had been retrieved by having every appearance WH ino man's truggles the bird on 15114 pus Bently violent the man drew his hand hmp Al astonishment it again | apparently upon the Bra nial § ye 11 § 16 Dukes of New York At that dinner I ate apples that rip 1 more than 1800 Yours from wheat n dren of Israel passed thi Red Sea, and spread with butter was made when Elizabeth was of England; and I washed down the re past with wine that Inmbus was playing barefoot with boys of Genoa The apples were from an earthen jar taken from the runs of Pompeii. The wheat was taken from a chamber in one grows Queen was old when Co ghelf in an old well in Beotland, where for several centuries if had lain in an earthen crock in icy water, and the wine was recovered from an old vault in the city of Corinth. There were six guests at the table, and each had a mouthful of the bread permitted to help himself bountifully the butter, there two-thirds of a gallon. sweet and as finely flavored as if it had been put up) yesterday. Amusing Chinese Edict. edict by the emperor: ““ We have received instructions from H. I. M., the empress dowager, to colored reine for his riding pony, and we therefore issue this decrees sane- tioning the request of her imperial majesty.” ios RS British Foyal Pages. In talking of the English royal houss- holds one often hears of ‘royal pages,” who must not be confounded with the so-called pages of honor The lat- ter are boys of gentle birth, ranging in nye from twelve to seventeen, re salary of 81,200 a venr, and trains of roy stat Moreover, by + the hd military co Ye ho Celve a bear the iit Oo irtue of j agg receive CARRION S dent and tradition, 8 nom- immntion to the Sand Lin “Xun © army a1 inna st, and if they can pa nation there, a4 commisgic on completing their term of service court The pages of the ord Are men, and merel footman. Thi who do the waiting grown wr kind PR es tall to nen es, to footmen convevin them from the kitchen iIKewise wall st the reer td y pgentied nen household ano Iie footmes The Ooglywoo : Ma avs 4 the r they get horses in the down (dois onto WOO, that very Whe hn stands danger appears, it =at once spins rapidly this makes a hole, » which the Ooglywoo sinks rapidly of The hole then shinup- Forest and Stress tail and around. Of cons on iis “ ini ] ont pears also. sight The Electric Lucifer. electric match is the next import ant invention promised Before very the phosphorus. tipped wooden splints now in use will be replaced bya handy little tool that may be carried in the pocket or hung up conveniently for striking s light when wanted Twen- ary people doubtless will “hell sticks” of the pres. ent day ag primitive and absurd, just AS We Are dispe sed to look with scorn The cen ers. Already thers is on the market a gaslighter which affords more than a suggestion of the electric mateh of the future, a twist of the handle generating Industrial Journal. Found Diamonds in \ His Coal. While filling up his stove Frank Shepard, of Millville, N. J., saw several He picked them monds that he took them to a jeweler, for his pains. de was not, though, for the stones were real diamonds, and their value was plwed exports al 8580, by
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