FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS,
To Cure a Kicking Horsc—Tests With Fer
tilizers — Will Breed Cavalry Horses Give
More Nitrogenous Foods.
ITEMS OF
HORSE
with him, but
stout bit, ad-
TO CURE A KICKING
Don't whip or work
put on a bridl> with a
vises ¥. H. Richardson, of Linn Coun-
ty, Missouri. Attach a 3% inch
to the bit rings and then run back to
his hind anki: leaving barely slack
enough for him to walk. He will be
unusually bad if he kicks more than
twice after that.
ment,
ous thing to have around. 1 have cur-
ed some very bad cases in this way and
never.knew it to fail.
FERTILIZERS
station
of
Il twenty-two
ed, on which fert
the rate of from
per acre, two
acre and
at
increased
iINA4
and
The 2.000)-
the yield
TESTS WITH
The New York
made some e: peri
fertilizers on
viots being test
was applied at
to 2,000 pounds
ceiving 1,500
plot received
1,000-pound
vield
per
bushels the
pound
only
iment
in the
exper
ments
toes,
lise
ilizer
1.000
plots IE
pounds one
all. The
the
bush-
per
no fertilizer
application
lized
year
the unferti
irst
geason
increased
1.000
over
ela
acre the 39.0
next
application
1.4 over the
cation of the first year and 14.1 bushels
the next. The tests demonstrated that
using 1,000 pounds of
per acre be loss.
bushels
fertilizer
over
would at a
CAN BREED CAVALRY
Secretary Wilson, of the
department is displaying giuch interest
the encouragement of the exporta-
for in
believes that
why
HORSES.
gricuitural
in
tion
markets.
good
should
used a broa
pressed wi
breed i
the Wes tern
be 5¢
The agents of
London and other pia«
sifu to
of horses
He
reason
sale
not
'rviceable {
make report
the general
styie of hor
This
covering
informati«
one of the bulletins soon
Charles E
eral
will visit Eu: bearing
Stunt
an
horse associations in
commission depar
Stubbs’ special
the horse
fal
such data
gate
gpec reference
induced
competi
MORE NITROGENOUS FOODS
reader w
: do not give
a feed of
to four co
a
have
the four
ows do ne much milk as one
should. 1e of
August 15th, September
other two are
Tam r foam)
them was fresh
1 * md
18th. ane
as
COW
the old milkers that will
be fresh in the spring.
This is a of
vation
ty to make mi
hy food, but all must
r of nitrogen to do their best
ratio between
{100300 Y called the
the fats and
there is a ge
case partial nit
Cows differ in their
lk from excessively star-
have a sufficien-
There
rogen
star abili
is not an invariable the
casein
of milk
stituents,
cheesy part)
other con-
rre.
neral oc
some
or
a cow must have
this casein from
Corn contains
casein-forming
abundance of fat
spondence, and
thing to make
annot make it.
small proportion
food, and a greal
forming material. It is like asking a
mason to make a large quantity of
plastering mortar from sand and gravel
and a little Hime, to ask a cow to make
a large quantity of milk from corn,
corn fodder and bine joint hay
mason can make only as much mortar
as he has lime for; the cow can make
only as much milk as she has nitrogen
ous material for In common farm
isnguage, the feed given the cows is
iltogether too heating for milk and
they are burnt out for milk produc-
tion.
if possible feed clover hay instead of
orn fodder, at least for part of the
rough feed, and feed half as much bran
(by weight) as corn. Jetter still, es-
pecially if clover hay is net at hand
would be to feed bran entirely for the
grain food. Bran is the safest cow
feed for the unskilled to use, and the
st for the most skillful, as snown by
the reports from the most successful
dairymen of the country. The cows
are probably injured so only partial
recovery may result until they are
fresh again, and even then the bad ef-
fois may still be’evident, but unless
she
but a
of
the line indicated, no change for the
better may be expected except for a
brief time when they are fregn and on
new grass.—New BEngiand Homestead,
————
SWINE.
Every farmer who has not an exten-
to give them a green winter feed,
But i ittle o corn should be f
hogs. Feed oats, wheat, shorts and
rye, food that makes bone and muscle,
{ Give them access to good grass, shado
in summer, good shelter in winter and
always plenty of good pure water
A gentleman who has had long ex-
fence in farming in Tennessee found
allowing his cotton seed to be
and then throwing It in
shallow enough for hogs to feed
under water, the geed be-
and valuable feed
Keep plenty of salt, charcoal and
wood ashes within reach of your hogs
at all times, Give them the range of
i such land as will yield food supply, it
possible, The best flavored meat is
| made by plenty of exercise while grow-
| ing, but yet kept in thrifty condition,
ttention has recently been direct
ed by the Journal to the possible
{to our farmers in the hog trade
Mexico, but that country, it is said, is
i now considering an in the
{tariff on American hogs in retaliation
| for the tariff placed by the United
States upon Mexican cranges.
| per
that by
| Bin
water
on the
comes a
to rot,
goed
safe
value
with
increase
sow ought to be separated
hogs and given a pen
ten days or two weeks
In summer this
well ventilated,
should be
laxative
provide
straw for
om fi irtable
indiffer-
comfort.
and often
The brood
: from
to bh erse if
before farrowing.
should dry and
if in weather, it
and warm her a
her
stock
about
the
be or
cold dry
Give feed
Keep as quiet sible;
a plentiful quanti
and
ty
bedding make
The major 3 are
ent about and
able quarters for their hogs
the anim in unsheltered
pen du season till the mud
comes Aside from the
an
ing
to their
injury resulting from such expcsure is
the evil of having to feed them in such
a place food gets out ir
the mud,
mass of fil
fined at
to be
t with it a
If con-
hogs ge
Sino
i ‘5
every fee
r quarters ought always
ag
omir
gans !
grow fat an
or breed
FUT POSES in the t
} pos
1 .
ition as
{pot
sow, the instin
a brood
» must he rezarded
lead her to have
if ir
iz beat if ]
ge come in March
or October
have sight
ten
es]
§ I 3 ared
them wel T
yment to her milk or.
roperly handled, she
pr
Texas
pigs in
as to
give develog
and, if
for hia
will
gans, will
always suckle well
nal
Stock Jou
The Initials Misunderstood.
Part of the boyhood of Bishop Barry
spent at boarding school, where
during his first term he was allowed
$i0 as spending money. His mother
i it to him requested
daily
tried his
forgetting to post items for
was difficult to recall them
and he invented an abbreviation corie-
sponding very nearly to sundries which
appeared pretty regularly througho it
his account
When Mra. Barry first looked over
her boy's account book on his return
ghe was much pleased at the most fre.
quently recurring item of expense and
inquired he had been led to take
#0 Strong interest in the cause of
missions
Astonished in his turn, he declared
had not given a penny to missions
“But surely.” exclaimed Mra Barry,
“the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel is missionary work, and I find
| that more than half your money has
bean given in small sums to 8, P. G.”
“8, P. 0. mother,” confessed the {u-
ture dignitary of the church, “does
not mean society for the Propagation
{of the Gospel. When 1 could not re.
i member what 1 had spent my money
{for 1 put down 8. P. G.--'Something,
i probably grub.’ "Syracuse (N. Y.)
| Standard.
was
on
ot H
imea
days
his expenditures
to keep word, but somet
the
togeti her. it
how
an
he
ARS
Columbus’ Pay Rolls.
pasture Lo sat what grass she will and |
have some woods range to root in.
Exercise is needed to keep her
health.
The hills of payment of the crews
i composing the caravels of Christopher
Columbus on his expedition for the dis
| covery of America were recently dis
vigorous condition, a healthy and vig- |
orous litter of pigs may be expected,
Kept growing. :
navy.
Opitiia is obtained from the unripe
fruit of the white poppy.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
What
with business?
turers of Birmingham,
discovered, have been shipping
to the Afridis by way of the
Gulf, to be used in checking the prog
regs of the British troop#
is patriotism in
The thrifty manufac
Eng. it {8 now
Prof. Crampton of Columbia Univer
has discovered that it
to ingraft part of one insect's body on
part of another insect, This is a great
scheme. Why combine insects so
as to eliminate the south end of wi
and the north end of mosquitoes?
Life not
Alaska. Mr.
sity is possible
not
188
altogether gloomy In
Dunham writes from Cli
cle City to Col. Carroll D, Wright: “I
am well and strong. The weather is
fine, the coldest to date belong 25 de-
grees below zero, Two feet of snow
on the ground. The sun at 1n
o'clock and set at 2 o'clock, giving
seven or eight hours of daylight, Moo
swings night, giving
ad
is
rises
"us
in the heavens all
a light by which
if it were
Speaking of Mr
elected Mayor of C
ago, the
“She conducts bu
ron with a master hand,
election was looked upon
regarded the
Cimarron had
this welghted
large municipai indebtedness
ed in a war Mrs, Curtis
has taken matter in
handling it the
bondholders and
effect of
shown clea:
Springfield, Mass
QUArTY wagons
badly
one could I'e
to be had
Curtis, who wa
Kan, some
World say
Tm
her
joke she
May )’"
Cimarron af
marron,
time Kansas City
the of |
siness
and while
“as a
IS now as best
nas ever
time is down with a
contra
county seat
the and is
hand
to atisfaction of
taxpayers
wide t roads bas
been
rmely
nearer
Sone
Dev ls
peopl
baggage Wag:
rather more 4 ix)
and marchir
$
ana ni
ike nearly a year to
point
and
» thrown
ction
e thous
Twely
ersburg are be
per
in
out
SO
by introd
if the sale of
ndful of the
State monopoly «
nous Ii quors, mi
3 3 tt}
ydition in which this will
them the government
made it wn that such as are by
’
change deprived of their means of Hive
t back to their na
It is
kn«
lihood shall sent
tive
ive
not ex
go
ustomed to
proapect Is
of them will remain to awell
of the and dis
in that prospect
tion of
to Keel
piaces of cost
pected that
they have
life and
that mos!
the ranks
contented
which is met by
lot of
many will slect to an
become ace
habits, and
city
the
unemployed
capital, a
the
installa
pol
additional
them in
Official
f
forest
cemen
order
been paid to
two
attention has
only
Commission
that alread)
preservation for VOars
n Pennsylvania, but the
er Forestry
there has been a great change in senti
ment, and the growth of the move
ment in Pennsylvania a surprise *o
those in other States who are wWork-
Ing on similar A great oppor-
tunity for work reafforestration
is pointed out. The counties in the
State hold very many acres of land,
because of failure on the part of the
owners to pay the taxes, Thus far these
lands have received no attention. They
have been the prey of fires, squatters,
timber thieves and stock growers, un-
til all the natural tendency to a fresh
growth of timber has been practically
destroyed. It
of reports
is
14 a
ines
in
be cared for by the counties in hope
of remunerative return. Some strik
ing figures in the repoit show the de-
creased flow of water in the Schuylkill
of the forests. At the period of least
annual flow the river sent down to
Philadelphia in 18160 an estimated 500 -
300,000 gallons. This amount decreased
in a progressive ratio until in 1885 the
amount was only 105,000,000 a decrease
of G1 per cent.
New charges of incompetence or
worse are made by implication against
government engineers in a recent re-
port of the Department of Agriculture,
It will be remembered that last year's
rise of the Misslssippl did an immense
amount of damages in what is known
as the Yazoo country, Many lives were
lost, and property scattered over 0
square miles of territory, and valued
lat $15,000,000, was dectaoyed, All this,
the report says, was to the leveeos
built for the protection of some
aquare miles of land in the Bt, Francis
| bottoms, The attempt reclaim
tract and make it habitable diveriad
| money and energy that might more
profitably, it is declared, have been #x-
| pended for the benefit of the lower
gion, Some $500,000 has already becn
used in making Franels levees
and they gill There
have been thers the United
States, by citizens, and by the
State governments of Missouri and Ar.
kansas, at least 5,260 cuble yards
of earth, The United Btates govern
ment, in addition to enormous ont
lavs made by private citizens and
States affected by the floods, has spent
more than $35.000000 on the Missis
sipp! Rive: improvements
and the committee
port, estimated
to complete 1
MOU EN),
due
SAnn
10 this
re
the St
ure
put
private
incomplete
by
the
the
levees and
on levees in its
the ;
em
that 1m neces
he sy about
London St
Berlin
oncert
correspondent of the
writing from
ting detalls
t hich is in
japan in
the
ing
other
that sh
bulle ships
any FEugiand,
been pointed «
PORE ble eve
keep the
i hree
is being bu
class armored
with a
speed
wo to Armst
Company FEE
TWO «
France
knots
havi
#Irnoot
NOses
tT
£ipp
rel a 4 5
ana : ORANG
mer hants
newspapers
Mochs
inE
the
Nee
eiement
funese sed
and
is easily
id law-abidir
oculckly
a Viennese
bie poli
hough
nature
yassion
Recording Small latervals of Time.
A chonograph fc ording
nglv small intervals of time, such
as a of a second
exceed.
millionth or leas
cally
a cylindric
wh p
profinced
0.11658 in
been used to record automat
compression Ly a blow of
capper
weight fell 15
permaneni co
in a coppel
in producing
00030517 of a
photograph: a
of the
in one
nches
mpression of
time
compression
piece of Cad® a
and
consumed
being
The machine
urve
cylinde
the
second
produces by
showing the
gion. The chronograph
rotating cylinder, with a surface ve
locity of about 11% feet per second, on
which is photographed a pencil of light
which is passed rapidly through a ho'e
in the end of a rapidly vibrating tun-
ing fork. The delicacy of this instru.
ment is far greater than that of the
ordinary tuning fork chronograph, in
which the record is made on a surface
compres
consists
progress
of a
Largest Stone Ever Quarried
The great Wisconsin monolith,
10 feet square at the base
nd 4 feet square at the top, may be
to mark the coming semi-centennial of
the red sandstone quarries of ¥. Pren-
tice, at Houghton Point, Wis, and it
wag originally proposed to send it to
the Chicago Exposition as a Wisconsin
exhibit. But engineering and financial
reasons prevented, and it has been left
at the quarry until the present time. A
movement is now on foot to ship it
by water to Milwaukee, and there ercct
it. Plans and estimates have been
made, and it is estimated that $40,000
to $50,000 will do the work. The claim
is made that the stone is 10 feet longer
than any single stone quarried in the
world.
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. |.
ROME DAY.
I.ast nigut, mv darl
I thonght
And [ crept
And watehied a Hpac thereby :
Aud then | kis
hrow,
For,
wa yon slept, i
to vour little eril
stooped and sed your
| love
+ too young to know it
on! yon so!
HOW
ue 1
me vou shall know
Bowe time, when in a darken’d place
Where others come to weep,
You: look upon a face
Calm in eternal sleep;
The voiceless lips, the wrinkled brow,
shall show
too young to know it now,
But some thn
eves shall
The patient smile
You are
e you shall know
into the
tonight
my tears
L.ook backward, then
1d
on, my
Are fnlling aw
And fesl
The kiss
Yel
Hee Ine here
mee, darling, how
i write
up Hi
ofl long ag
ounce mot
young to know
+ Tie you sha
PLENTY
ot enacted to prevent
the
+ gwept
Way
CH STELPLS
Western
performed a feat
Iwo riggers in a city a
that
erve
few vears apo
for daring
equals anything on record
and steadiness of n
Some re
VOry top
church steeple one of those
PRIS were necessary at the
of a high
slender steenles that taper to a pon
feet or so above the g
1678 Was to reah the
the inside,
of
way pot
and the riggers got &
ached
irom
adder fil
adders and
the other
ight
side of the steeple, nearly
The topmost Indder,
high enough to enable them
the the repairing was to
be and, as that part
steeple was too small to permit them
to lash a ladder te it convemently
they adopted a plan that it makes one
shudder to think about, es: Phil
adeiphia Times
One of them, carrying a pot of
melted solder, climbed from one ladder
to another until he had reached the
last one, and then, bracing himself,
he raised an extra ladder that the
other rigger had brought up in his
land and leaned it against the upper
pari of the steeple. Then the man
below grasped this ladder and held
it steady while the man above climbed
it to the point where his work was to
be done
He began the work at ones, but sud-
denly, by an unacconntable accident,
he jostled the solder pot and the fiery |
stuff ran out and fell over the hands
and wrists of the man who was hold:
ing the ladder.
But the brave fellow did not move
With a presence of mind snd a courage |
that deserves a monument of brass or |
marble, he maintained a firm hold of
the ladder until his companion counid
come down from his perilons perch.
si ii
however, was not
to reach
apot where
done, of the
s the
JET,
Bertie's pony Jet, was the prettiest
snd gentlest little creature in the
world. He was intelligent, too; you
ould gee hat by ¢ one Latics eat his
bright eyes; then he was 80 docile
that he would obey Bertie's lightest
word: Lut he had one fault, snd that
was jumping the paddock fence into
Mr, Dorr's cow-yard.
Mr. Dorr said he frightened his
chased his chickens and
Bertie's father said that if Mr. Dorr
pat up another rail Jet could
into the yard, but Mr. Dorr
sbbled
would
pet
shoul ibe 4
tened,
Sometimes Bertie did fasten Jet,
but the pony objected. He seemed
to think that he was turned into the
paddock for exercise, and would often
2 ntrive to free himself,
" One day, after Jet had jumped the
fence and Bertie was leading him out
of the vard, Mr. Dorr said
“Now, young sir, let this be the
I" that animal out
the road if 1 rind him trespassing
again,’
For several days Bertie wal hed Jet
but one morning he was late
forgot his pony com-
home
stable nor the
turn
into
closely,
and
When
be returned
in the
Pp elely
was neither
] fence
“Jet ’
of the
the
called
1 3 : '
tad e311 er 1s
goKed thronghn
ard ana
put-diis bead out
COW y
A boy
1 aid
s was turned
morn
1
raii-
this
i the
én ran
: ears came
get run
ILE COWS
hand-
by the
against
Dorr’'s
lose
ar
very bhope-
n talked
Jet
orr's yard,
1 beer
owing
s 10 ask any
went
80 hie
nes and turn.
of wood
new where
whistling
f
ie
a 1
iA
oui
He
y eat,
€% again
warned
and he
, when
¢ oouid
id, on
track,
each
SOM e-
yng under ag
ailed;
“8 Ww
oked closer,
aud he saw
great neck
down
of
CORE -
tell the flagman. So off he
s swiftly as his feet would carry
jiite forgetting little Jet. for the
in his anxiety to save the poor
1:4
|
% 1
Bi
1 and
ed her head,
aroul
I1 be sure to
collar i her
be run
All engine, thought Bertie
5
the
will go as fast as I can to
©
4
nd out
He
Le
of breath when
told him
was tired ar
ched the flagman and
of the animal's danger
“I'll haveher off in a few moments,”
said the "man; “‘there’s a place close
to the archway that she can be made
to climb. You go back along the
bauk and I'll ran down the track.”
When Bertie reached the archway
Again the flagman bad sent Mr. Dorr's
Alder ney up thebank., Bertie thanked
breaking a long switch from
gan driving her toward her
I'hen once more he thought
and wondered where he could
rea
: ans d,
a bush, be
home
of Jet
Lie
He was almost i shtof Mr. Dorr's
gate when fOme One came ranting up
whind hime. It was Mr. Dorr him-
# ~~
Where did you find
asked. “I and my boy have
hunting for her this balf hour.”
‘“She was walking up the railway
track,” said Bertie, “ander the arch-
way and I ran and told the flagman
He drove her off for me.’
“You are a good boy
pose you we auld
that pony of yours is now ¥'
Dorr
“1 am afraid I shall never
again,” said Bertie, sadly,
looked everywhere.”
“(jo right along and look into his
stable now,” said Mr. Dorr, langhing.
n sig
he
been
her ¥
Now, I sup-
like to know where
said Mr.
see him
**1 have
Bertie rushed through his garden
and threw open the stable door; there
was just light enough left in the sky
to show him Jet's bright eyes Staring
at him, as the pony lifted his b
was munching hungrily,
“Yon wicked, wicked pony,” said
Bertie; but he stroked Jet's head
lovingly before closing the stable door
for the night.
Well, that was {he last time
pony jumped the paddock fence, -
the next day Nr Dorr put up another
rail, and so Jet was forced t3 keep to
his own side.