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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
STEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL |
TOPICS.
Young Clover in Wheat---Frequsnt Applica |
tion of Gypsum--~Setting Out Cabbage
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Plaats Etc, Etc.
YOUNG CLOVER IN WHEAT. |
Where winter wheat was seeded
with red clover the last spring it is|
probably making a good growth, and |
will very likely set large enough to]
oblige the reapers to cut high so as
not to cut too much of it when it]
comes to harvest. Clover seeds much
better on winter rye or wheat than it
does on spring grain, though we have
seen it grow pretty tall among spring
grown barley, The reason why it does
better on winter grain is probably ve-|
cause it can be sown earlier, and Is
algo benefited by growing in the fine
soil made by frequent freezing and
thawing of the surface during the win
ter.
FREQUENT APPLICATIONS or
GYPSUM
Wherever the white, soft rock fro?
which gypsum or land plaster p!
duced, it is ground during the wint
in large amounts and Id a ery
prices, often as cl D as *2 to 33
ton. We have } vn farmers driv
12 to 13 miles in winter for a load of
land plaster, ti wally called
When it {s thus plentiful and che
advantay» n ng two
threa applications it during t
growing ses.on ft ver, ‘peas and
other broad y piant I 8 1
ood to ap! y tl £ ©
pe« i il y if hi 3 \ wt
creasing the de ik 3
increases the | f t
them and thus injure the Crop
American Cultivator
ARTE WATER
The water from artesia x does
wot change, as no f { t
can come | ( i
are any impurities they are due to th
minerals with which the water con
in contact as it passes through th
earth's lower stratas. These minera
aay be beneficial to health, and
very rarely As th ia
increases that 1 Ww 8 wi ‘
come contaminated thes:
wells deene or. ttor magi’
artesia in r st }, ¥
f o +) bag +} : - i
when this is Mua f the
health l tien :
from drinking s ¢ 3 w
is 158 od t froi x
sO shallow La ' aeper
on surface dre f tl 1pply
FEEDING OATMEA 0 { ENS
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ysis, oats d i gl 5
Ye feed | } er
Br ¥ ' it +4
be profit Ke
rol x ;
of the o X {
< 3
t 1 pp
d r w t !
fed the i tn
1 0 giz
zard Meal } \
be cooked ind :
made from it tl trer i
cakes into small bits and fowl will eat
them greedil
FORAGE CROPS
SETTING OUT
Simple as the act
CABBAGE
Teems setting
cut cabbage planig, there is an art in
this, as in nearly every farm operation,
that needs to be understood to make
it More cabbage planis
are killed by taking too much pains
with them and not properly under-
standing the conditions. Deluging the
newly planted cabbage with water sim- |
ply packs the earth around the stem, |
which hardens as dries and makes |
ingress of air impossible. The ground’
for cabbage or any other vegetable
should be moist hut never wet Clip
the top pretty freely. In fact most o
the old leaves may be removed, as the!
<abbage grows from its centre and
will soon replace them. Then puddle
roots by dipping them in warm water
successful
it
and quickly placing them in soil dry’
enough to adhere to them. Then plant
as quickly as possitiz I= ~ that has
been freshly stirred, and very few will
fail to grow. —American Cultivator,
STABLE CARE. |
Whenever a cow 18 kept for milk |
there are few things that should never
be lost sight of. To the man with a
few cows and little mouney they ars|
more important than to the rich nian |
with many cows and more money. It]
Ca should always be the aim of the owner
of butter fat (because this is the only
true measure of the value of milk)
with the minimum amount of expense,
woerything in the house movable, so it
The cow should be comforta an be readlly carried out of doors,
The roostpoles, dropping boards and
sume, properly digest and assimilate] jet boxes, together with any other
food for her support and a large sur-| |gose should be piled up out
The profit in dairying | of doors; saturate well with kerosene
by this surplus. | ang set on fire. After the oll has
|
under favorable | burned oft throw sand over the ple
hoards,
measured
Moderate exercise,
conditions, will contribute to the d [0 keep Tie wood from burning
sired result: but every effort of th ‘ v .
! ! | . : : Cholera never attacks fowls that are
cow beyond that will detract from the | .
ai 34% i properly housed and fed and whers
profit. All the energy used in warm od i
! ; ice are kept down By proper housing
ing up lee-cold water, every moment : »
' . : ’ we mean clean, dry quarters, where the
she ghiver: in the cold wind, iessens|,. et EE est
. fowls are not packed In lke sardines
| the surplus of the ~milkpail., Cold i ntats "
; it night, and where the premises are
damp, dark or dirty stables are not |, ept clean
{ comfortable; therefore, in such quar- | rat : :
ters a cow will not do her best | 1 you have only ten or a dozen hens
In the exercise of my duties as a | they may be confined in pretty small
dairy inspector I have visited ever | quarters and produce a good supply of
. | nees if vi Xb P6134 rh 5
class of stable, from the best to tl Egs, ii given th raps from ths
| kKiteher v ntv y err and a 1 ia
worst; those that were dry, clean chen, plenty of gi and a Jttle
wyip by » i 1 w -
light and well ventilated, down to [8rd ID & EOOG Supp of straw o
i 3 TR hey will moor! er
those that were dark, damp, and filthy | “8S 0 they will import eggs
| beyond deseription. Hundreds of time Grade up your wk get a good
I have been met with the statement, | rooster of the herd you prefer; nex
“I would like to keep my cows clean, | Year get another of the same breed not
dry and comfortabie, but I cannot af- | related to the one used thi ear ep
ford it.” In these pections we not i 1 ir after year for a little thne
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the kind and amount of feed used, et id ye Ww I for all p 40
and also the amount of milk produci purposes & flock as good 4
I'h ves us a reliable basis from |oughbred.
vhich to determine th kind of ca jere are t 8 ! thi hat
nd feed and the char te of 8 y {i aly en Te ho
that bring to the owt the la reson who }
returns for the time iabor, capitai a ¢ of 0 } 1 hin I
ins invested Right here In i ¢ ng ci ) b
no Ln tO ¥ t t £ ¥ 1 toy 1 i
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f the Salvia Bpler 5 14 Xie } hed the of i
and best. TI is a valu t to .
utting the How 5 Are ' £ ir § mii t
long racemes 1 work In spiend 4 rg $
with mixed flower Fhe pi 8 W { ¥ a it f vol
to arrange them is fo plac # t ¥ y Reed 1 name « ¢
spike 1 a tall vase by thems: 1 smoke whenever foel 1ike it
with a few of their own leave: | the tin harging y 3
FE n nt i % a t was
Th ¥ i ¢ ¥ ory ’ “wt ’
Ihe iz one bea i r n : : i
t y scarlet flow: which n
brilliant hed for a part of the day. {
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the flowers drop off after midda i Oace ore, the Unmailed Letter
bart ‘ Here L new sry about the r
kind is hardy and nearly alway e : : A
) vho forgot to mal f ste
OW The grea t ¢ witl ; - . *
ivia will t ed fi ha ¢ ¢ Bere i news man wao is
EAIVIA A i * i if i
"as od 5 +3 +
sown seed. Under fas ecieq wil one oi ¢ Now
tances he he w o fia : 4 in ea
something ove fw » A
3 : i wint day. his wit i
lo i
hires 8 Ave © etter tu I, and he : t ir
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2 ‘ " ty re tl i 35 i Ke It was ad
only « a worth uitivating } i friend ir on Angeles Two we
ry sad ni } sllowad to form seed } ng a chilly snap. he put on the
¢ it is neesssa to save one's geod coat, and in ng he felt the
prh lang lost sfiealvn Conaclenr Frick.
only allow one plant to go to reed mm t 0 mi y : en strick
keep the others blooming until after | *P and without noticing the date or re
the late frosts. The most brilliant d membering when the letter had been
5 % $ + give iin soo riighed off and ooated it
play of the salvia 1s during September | 6!ven him, he rushed off and posted |
and October. The cool mights of au-|It was when the reply came from the
tumn seem to lend an additional riend in Los Angeles that the secrot
was out. The friend thought that the
to the brightly ecolarea flowers. Si;
of this plant root easily, and where | Writer must have gone
there is plenty of space they can be|8lad to get your letter,
kept over for another La
Jonies in Agricultural Epitomist.
crazy, “I was
gy
Year AT
with you? You wrote things that hap.
ened two years ago and about nothing
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POULTRY NOTES. It took. some
time to get matters
Hot weather breeds lice. Lice straightened out —New Orleans Times
breed disease Democrat.
It is the weakly chick that firs | est
shows signs of gapes. ice Wagon Figures
In-breeding is a very fruitful canse There are in use in New York city
of gapes in young chicks, ‘about 1.000 jee wagons, which cost
Jut don't neglect that housecleaning | about $350 apiece, so that the money
out thoroughly —dirt floor and | invested in ice wagons amounts to
all. A | shout half a million dollars. Though
Clean up the yards and ice wagons are made of the best pro-
curable materials, to
hard wear to which they are neces.
sarily subjected, yet it cost a good deal
to keep them up. After the first two
will prevent such diseases as cholera, | OF three years $50 or more a year must
The griddles of worn out stoves | commonly be spent on an ice wagon
make excellent feeding boards for for renewals and repairs, so that the
young chicks and are easily cleaned, money spent simply for ce wagon feo
| pairs amounts to from $60,000 to $75,
If you have a hen that eats eggs we jn) annually.
advise killing her for roast fowl or ——
chicken stew. She will teach her com- | queat Britain has a longer sea-coast
panions the bud trick. line than any other nation in Europe
To tid the roost of the small red | | measures 2,755 miles, with Italy seo.
ond, 2472 miles. Russia ranks tiie
sud France fourth.
outiving |
water ig apt to stand.
This cleaning-up will prevent many |
cases of sickness among the fock and
nothing better than kerosene, Have
DISAPPEARING GUNS.
OVER THE
THEIR UREAT ADVANTAGES
FIXED TYPE.
Impossible to Silence a Battery of Such Ord-
nance When Well Protected by Concrete
and Sind-~Method of Loading and Firing.
A young woman visiting at
Point was degcribing to the command-
ant of the post a wonderful model ghe
Let
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{8 beautiful, Colonel, beautiful!
me they call it a—a-coh,
retreating gun!” My dear young lady,”
exclaimed the shocked officer, ‘the
guns in our army never retreat!”
What this enthusiastic young person
Bee, Yes,
tried to name was a disappearing gun,
such as appears for £ moment above a
huge bank of sand until discharged,
and then sinks with a roar from sight
1 re v go # w Y ' 1s »
only to appear a few minutes later to
% ‘ 4 § ’
repeat the operation And it is on afc
| count of this temporary vanishing that
| disappearing guns are so valuable. As
it costs thousands on thousands of do
lars to i a modern, high-power gun
of larg i 1 { exp ire to the
i v 1 1 fv ry
fire f an « y is very d able from
in on id andpoint alor The
I pon which it is mounted
¢ $ 1" non $ n the old typ
h ‘ € $¢ i ' § 4 4 1
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shock and of its hy
ic buffers mi t gradually
u tl t quietly to rest in
ta p t of 1 Large guns of
type ha econtly been placed at
I iW hy i Hami ¥ § Waidds
wort! The large ounted is a tex
inch rifle, and use a fd
weighing 1.000 pounds. In four seconds
from the moment of discha his
mass of steel will pass over a mile and
| be capable of piercing ten inches of the
armor-plate. The laigest gun in
the world of this class has just been
{ completed by our government and will
i soon be shipped to Sandy Hook.
| calibre is twelve inches, and it is fif-
The gulf and car-
When fired the
equal to that
| best
i ty-seven feet long.
| riage weigh 170 tons,
{ force of its recoil is
man cars within a distance of five feet
| when going fifty miles an hour.
| takes 475 potinds of powder to pro-
duce this great result.
in an ordinary drili with the large
guns of the seacoast defence, the firing
must be simulated, as it cosis some-
{ fired. Then, too, it would prove dan-
instance, at Fort Hamilton, the men be-
vation tower sights some vessel in the
aiming of the gun. This is done as
carefully as in time of war. The gun
is then released and, ae it rises to the
firing position, an obzerver seated as-
tride of the breech sights on the vessel
to verify the aim. The accuracy of
range findizg and aiming is remark-
able. During a drill last week the
emoke stacks of five different vessels
were separately the objects of fire
Three times when the gun rose to the
firlng porition the ane of sight was on
the smoke stacks, The other two times
it was on a vital part of the boat
When our system of const defences
is completed, every port of importance
will be protected py these disappearing
guns, hidden between parapets of con
crete and sand, These,
in connection
with high power mortars, well man
ned, will make our coasts secure
New York Post,
Preparing Searchiights.
The importance of the mirror
search lights is shown by the fact that
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SURVIVORS OF 1812 WAR,
Father Smith Was Mustered in, but Did Not
Get into the Fighting.
Eleazor Smith, of Danbury, N. H,
New Hampshire's only survivor of the
war of 1812, was 100 years old su Mon-
day, May 16 Publi reises in hon.
or of the event were held in the opera
exe
Louse,
“Father” Smith .as per
and says that he expects to
Years
health
ive several
been sick
he says is due
fect
i
moire I
in his life,
a Tal
to total abstinence from the use of
. i ani : 1331 id i ws Ji
there Is not at the present time a suf hn x mi ' "
: tobacco and aleoho He has never
ficient number of these articles to sup vi a $ "
ply the demand of t} ‘ used glass His hearing is impaired
Ji Lae ge aig oO je . a
T h ’ : t b only a little, and he moves about with
ese mirrors must be 16 |, ‘ .
. freedom with w.e use of a ane. On
utmost nicety, and the worl 6 hl warm day i t } e of
. : . Varn iays ie EO ) a Ouse 0
that it is not easy to hurry it It re i ;
is d ‘ . neighbor 10 vi
quires at least a week with present Mr. Bmith is of Fnglist LON H
: Mr. Bmith is of Eng ‘ i
facilities to complete a mirror iz the fathe the R +
A nd ather served in the Revo onary wa
best style of the art I'he glass, whicn | __ . ’ '
. and was at the battle « Bunker Hi
must be of extreme fineness and purity } (1 Ww ’
i . y when Gen, Warren I¢ r say
molded into the proper forn It he } } i} ’
ie ha iearad his ! i that in
in reality a concave lens with bi ¢
cident many time A Lroter i
ing of silver and protection of the fir J Zot { wr
. " Lea za A i o Vy
est hardened vulcanite. The operations KE
Cleazor en t I War » i
inding and polighing mu England on O ' x14 not
ducted on st scientific princi ’
COmMpan ruit vathan Jot
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preparing of the ar : i { v . Z
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— | i r New York 8
Ww a a || eeec—
arnzd Gould of the Cost.
Paul Gore. now clerk at the Andi. ! # Nickels ” for France
t ANNEX, WAS rox rh 0 | The French Governme have decid.
Grand Pacific for seve ears je | ®0 0 Inirocuce RICH their coin-
4 2 8 v in « nect with J It is not in iat the nickel
. hall entirels a v >
G { vizit to Ct 2 bX | 3 Dall « ely de bronze, &s in
tt ¥ : y ~ er
he Gi d P the case Belg 31 Switzerland
+3 th hie idea t fd re a piece of inter.
t mediate vi between the half-frane
K King i iasi-irant
i a i the 3 sy $9 yy $
a nirvmar n town 1 and ne it entime piece w H iT
"3 ¥ { respond or re r les v 3 ¢v
Ihe little millionare approached J. p. | To*P0RA more or J Aa
>a % , | gixpence ar Dent it
Vida Who Was clerk i h ana | hey i pen:
t +3 { Mint is b % ust A
modestly asked it w the | : sibel
. i pont na ® A
best way for g t Liz fy | pennies ana if V
x | gig iM 1
Park \ f ng wit G { La Ye}
§ rage 1 !
was gave him CHEBATY I { . ¢ }
1 ¢ wi } ww bs oO the value ©
‘ nas i ? oot Cars of Gon h 1 : i: of
¥ ¥ A * + * > ruin § 4
: " and id “RB se 11 w { was sugeested
i ii aig ~ "| »is 5 a
him that it 1 & have a hi fue #3
bm - wm i 3 = ny a fie 3 o
I not go in a carriage : hi a
; xt:s4 entre, like « Chinese coins «
Yes, you can but it is a little ex : bcd :
has : A ’ : genomir which are sirung
pensive,” said Vidal : 2 M ¥ % } 5
ar. a : » " « 1 together ns ; Lupus JOW
Well as this a my first t »
. Ber a ¢ ' a : ever, objected that this would inter.
think I will try to stand the expense ; a
“All right. but to wh hall 1 fere with his artistic handiwork nd
/ ignt, © ¢ Faom shail 1 :
the idea was abandoned. The proposed
charge the carriage?’ asked the cle
“To Jay Gould,” came the
swer. Vidal almost fell to
but Gould got the carriage
| Times-Herald
rk
quiet an-
the
Chicago
ficor,
Why a Colorado School Was Closed.
Mary Matthews, a nice little girl,
lived so far from the schoolhouse that
she rode a little blue-eyed confiding
mule to the hall of learning The
teacher thought it unwise to allow the
animal to graze about unharmed, so he
attempted to club it away. The rest of
the story is told in these expressive
little lines:
Mary had a little mule,
i It followed her to school:
‘that was against the rule.
The teacher, like a fool
Got behind that mule
! And hit him with a rule,
After that there was no school.
i Rifle (Col.) Reveille.
i Production of Coal.
Coal is not only a production of heat
and light, but a storehouse of colors,
medicines, perfumes and explosives
From 140 pounds of gas tar in a ton of
coal, over 2000 distinct shades of ani:
line dyes are made,
There are said to be fewer suicides
among miners than among any chee
class of workers.
new two-penny pieces are noi approv-
ed of in all quarters. Yeme people de-
clare that they will tena pust the
penny for tips to waiters and others.
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Bug's Long imprisoament.
The wife of Dr. C. H. Emory, of Bed.
ford, Mass, a few days ago noticed a
small white speck on the top of a hard
oak centre {able of which she has been
the owner for six years Yesterday
the speck suddenly developed into an
opening about three-eighths of an
inch in diameter, out of which crawled
a strange looking bug, gray in color,
about one inch in length, and having
several arms and legs There iz much
speculation concerning the strange in.
sect, Undoubtedly it was embaodiad in
the top of that polished centre table
ever since the table was made from the
rough lumber by the manufacturer
Since the possession of the table by
Dr. Emory there has been no break in
its surface, for Mrs. Emory nas had i
under her daily care. Dr. Emory still
has the captive, and is trying to iden-
tify it.—~New York Telegram.
A — ssi
“By Request.”
An amateur singer takes particular
pride in announcing that a certain
song is “by request.” When she dos
dishes at home it is “by request” We
wonder she doesn’t take more pride in ¥
it—Atchison Globe. Ca :