ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. The Second Growth of Clover--«Cleaning Out Fence Rows-Feeding Drilled Cora Too Early*-Elc., Etc. TIE SECOND GROWTH VER. It is a great mistake to pasture clo ver after the hay mown off, It is not merely the trampling of the clover crowns by the of stock but still more the check to root growth when the clover top is eaten down, that prevents clover roots from strik ing down into the subsoil. There are on many farms supplies of mineral plant food that neither the plow can turn up nor any other plant can reach until clover roots have piloted the way. OF CLO- crop is hoofs < CLEANING OUT FENCE ROWS, Since the Introduction of ers amd is less care taken grass out of the fence corners, always an ugly task to horse mow- harvesting machinery, there 10 Keep weeds and It was now the corners of fences, dumping thrown out of stones field. Now ¢ scythe {if common place in plowing the nobody thinks of using the he has a mac But it not to mow the weeds and bushes that grow in fence corners, weeds bine, is a mistake sO as to prevent and an unmanagea ng on the plow from going to seed he bushes from becoming ble nuisance, encro: able land. AC FEEDING DRILLED CORN T00 EARLY. There is a great tem ers milk fore it comos in not enough the best. der corn is grain, kind. sowed in between rows, whit least should enough allow cultivation between them. od corn, even afte *s of little good part, white value, ation to farm fail in drilled corn be The cows will ¥ 4 can get poor feed at whose cows Degli: to to cut sowed assel, eat this prov ids the grass, and it Is It far given to suppl bran ‘ lied corn is better stnent wheat meal of Dri corn, r Some is much better than aa Ahi te be ABD as the sunshine can get Iril at to h apart Sow the far be r it in Yassel, tock. All It ground, no Comes lower in 1! nutritive Haw 5 even on rich Ww and have almost MILK FOR POULTRY. ha 80n At t kens, should have liberal milk. It is muscle easily digested and ous and healthy grain and green be often surprisin his of the year confinement, feeds of skimmed and flesh forming, produces a vigor If fed with results will young especially if in growin. foods the = Sour or clabbered milk is of great value to laving hens, whether in con or on the , Prominent Nn range raise ag rigs for market ms ¥ poultry m who 1k of buving this milk ving is milk r and ereametios find it form contains both the young vers hens in foods usu; even whe will do 1 chick a profitabl: the ter fed, it seem the a nothing of its value i ther tions, connec iy fi y of nore winter than of way VALUE OF CILEAN STABLES. lined to at wood points For exam- wiggested clean filth a4 they n be, that all odors an which might by aceldent get int milk 1 at the creamery sold. No one question the of the separator for doin what it intended to do fr » milk fntended to remo man thy cows shiould be Wire remov here milk was will value was om th ever was who wi r out of 1nd the thine is not fa- distant when cream ery operators wifi find a way of de tecting the source of supply of tainted and filthy milk. Then the dairyman will forced do what he should now voluntarily do as a matter of de- eency. excl business, be to PREVENTIVE MEASURES, WELL-FED IS HALF-BRED. This Is an old saying that has some basis for truth, and another that was the keynote of the success of John Ross, a famous Ohlo feeder, was that “the corn crib Is the best cross." Both these sayings are along the same line, but, like a good many old sayings, they stop short of the whole truth. amount of care will make a scrub ani mal as goo! as a pure bred one that Is given equal attention. ‘This is the foundation « success, Without good blood to begin with, It Is Impossible to secure the best results, What is bred in the will show In after and the bred animal invariably makes showing, other things being equal, hone well the best make an animal thrive if half fed and carelessly housed, and that a scrub run the cultivator through, so my son ftried a one horse harrow and pulver- | zed the crust, The rest of the sea- | Bon was very dry. Our corn made a | good yield, while other fields that were [not cultivated after the crust was | formed stopped growing and made { Hght yield. seed] 18 very essential, It should be selected before cold weather and should be kept in a dry, alry place, [Cold will not do any damage to prop- erly dried corn, I believe corn should be drilled twice close in drills wanted for worms amd some for birds; then If it all comes up it 1s easier and quicker to cut out every stalk thao it is to replant, | It has been said: the man than there Therefore stir the soll, Good seven ns the as Is some “There 18 more In in the land.” A. R. Peters is giving it extra but this Is what the modern stockman wants, He is after the best there Is, with the intention of giving after he gets it, The up-to-date stockman has learned n care and make the greatest profit. He must of care and liberal In the matter of feed, and after this con fidently hopes for success, The day tle or sheep can be turned into a wood lot or out on the range, and allowed to Care, is it good care to economize | be lavish is passed when a lot of cat | ter than a pound of cure in dealing with insects. High culture and fe tilization is one of the best prevent ives of inrect attack. Fertilizers such as coarse stable manure applied at the rate of fifteen to twenty loads to the acre to sod in winter and ploughed un. der for corn in early spring will help prevent the attack of white grubs and wireworms even In badly infested fields. Tobacco stem= and waste, a valuable fertilizer. is used against a eucnmber beetle, cabbage maggot. ete, to prevent their feeding and depositing eggs. If a crop is grown for a number of successive years in the same fleld the insects injurious to it are liable to. in. crease to the greater detriment of the crop each year: a system of rotation will avoid this to a great extent. The general farm management should keep in mind preventing insect depredations and attack by selecting the preper time for ploughing and sowing, selection of plants liable to attack, clean farming, burning or converting into manuare all trash and rubbish.—Massachusetts Ploughman, wl ttl aw i i money for the owner, meat and native beef The people who bett educated mutton does ’ eit have become oF not go hee with want from well br } and if in one place they wi until t find It half bred to a certain extent, heep, hey but is what counts now Volce, Farmer's BREAKING, to raise The cheapest is t way rutabagas 0 select a plece of rich from Plow It y 3 fr ¥ - ix y to a depth of four or five in froe wens with a sharp tooth harrow thoroughly fine the top two ine soil to form a loose mellow sed Sow the seed by hand or broades means of ing machine Sone Kind of 8 ZETRASS using three ng thr amd one If the to be sown by hand mix it of seren] is four bran. po to four pounds per acre. with w” times its bulk 01 in wool ashes Sow narrow strips about 1 tell 1} W hes thin ck and fo about fou ne $0 a8 to leave only one vige g about ] going ba rth. wn 3 the plants are r wrous plant ghiteen every eightes tutabagas should be last of June, and thr ff July, main gro he while the as wth and that have quite i * in Juley vine gat] 1 } tender red, born sewgledd ear n Ne ly and attained their full growth int! months hot summer i After iid fibrous bagas sown The roots should fall as soon Pull by quite el LOS of rham Hen as there hand to the root about one bushel each to dry in the sun for a few after which they will be ready to ha In the is hes home and store hwenoe good root cellar it t to dry place diameter and 1 st eq Fill He prs % dig small pits about five feet three or four font deep quite f roots, top ' 5 ping them ug he center Pa Tien cover carefully with coarse hay Let two feet extend © xlge of or straw, the covering bevond th all on 3 the cover it over to the depth on t on top of vo feet of of two feet this p and pack in be kent desired, fii ¢ + 5 it least te soil down firmly Loata « it until spri vill not be should | ng, if \ injured even if ti freeze four foot of to a depth From 500 to T080 bn an ROARON els of be raised favorable, on one range acre ritabagns « f tho be Judd Farmer, SUCCESSFUL CORN CULTURE The first important thi ful corn culture is to have the well tile dr Next, the must be properiy prepared. should never | ng ®UCCOEE ground in fined, ground Pl 13 ground the earth will crumble as it falls from the mold- board of the plow. The ground should be plowed a little deeper each time until the soil is sev en or eight inches deep, and it should be well pulverized before the corn is planted. Should "there come a frost after the corn is through the ground the corn gets chilled and the result is the same as in «tunting young animals, if fhe ground iz warm before the corn is planted I comes up very soon and I believe most farm. ers plant their corn too deep, and when cultivation begins the implement drags clods on to the little stalks and covers them up. A case in point: A neighbor (a good farmer) planted his corn this spring—tolerably deep. Some owl He done w hen the but ROZRY. when load of corn to his corn pen and stop ped the wagon on the planted ground. Some of the corn sifted through the bed and was not covered. It came up before the planted corn and is now growing rapidly.» Cultivation should commence before or very soon after the corn comes up through the ground and should be con tinued at least once a week until laid by, The cultivator should be run tol erably deep the first time; after that, shallow. The greater the drought the more necessary it is that the cultiva tion be kept up. A few years ago when our corn was laid by there cama a heavy rain, which left a smooth crust all over the field. The corn wgs then too large to THINNING The principal much small, gcabby and {ll shaped frait be. ing sent market that the fruit ZTOWS thick the trees, If a crop of corn, turnips, or any of our an- nual crops planted the damage Is only for the present; but if ia be allowed full, it may injure the next and perhaps the next two or thre future If a peach for Instance, Is quite full, any time will be able t of fruit as it of FRUIT, cause of so to is {OO on is too thick tree to bear too ‘ s+ crops in the free, tl it be th to one-half at nned the seed hardens may before and 0 produce as many ds poun f not thinned, and It Wan { 3 COUrse is the ot 3k MVE no time to prepare for the next; besides, their iausted q anothe prepare them fe proper and judicious sme trees may be brought { good and profit } of annual Dearing « ble indle quick mers farm work and thin When Severeign Meets Soverziga. is 1 It Don Carlos, tl it generally reme 3 4 : ish throne, was in but came y i Know ant come whe vou sav he i= well enou [ care nothing about seeing him, as fa; as 1 am concerned, but 1 will recels me i New York Pr Ion Carlos oa An Incident in Front of Santiago affect] Ie The wy displayed by f the ar army for the 0 whenever pot ir commands, i on f presents jtself Brig iain, ike o 3 raised Fort Marcy, in ront of the old headquarters Michael was first MeKibbin's the case of MeK Something brs 1 i ighteen in years the old g the pole now company McCabe, of on Cag company, then sia- at this post. McCabe was the father of a boy called Fred, post. When the flag was McKibbin held the in- fant McCabe in his arms while the child pulled the cord which raised “Old Glory” afloat. The boy grew to man's estate here at Santa Fe, and when his country called enlisted in E Company of the “Rough Riders,” and was a participant in all the heavy fighting around Santiago done by Roosevelt's regiment. By the merest chance he met General MeKibbin there, and the old officer displayed great feeling when he ascertained who young MeCabe was and embraced him like a father. Such acts and such feel- ings make the American soldier what [he js—the best and most latelligent { fighter in the world. Was gar flag pole rison at standing sergeant this City, be tain tioned proud born at the raized Captain Burning for Filty Years, | A coal mine in Scotland which | caught fire over fifty years ago. and | has been burning ever since, has at { last burnt itself out. The mine is on | the Dalqubarran estate, Dailly. It | was set on fire by the engine working {the fans, and, although many costly | attempts have been made to extinguish Lit, they have been unsuccessful. The ‘flames have from time to time burst { forth in the ground in volcano fashion. [The fire was prevented from spread. | ing beyond the one area by reason of the “dykes” of rock which intersected {it and so saved adjacent mines. { i When tea was first brought to Eng- land the leaves were eaten, NEVER CARES TO WANDER mpi The Busy Bee Doesn't Go More than Plve Miles After Materiat. The range of the honey bee is but little understood by the masses, many thnt miles in nectar, bees go for supposing g search of while that they go only a short distance, It may be curious to many to understand how any one can tell how far the may fly, but this is simple when under stood. Years ago, when the Italian were first introduced into the United States, having marks dif ferent from the common bees already here, easily distinguished, and after any bee keeper ind obtained the Italian be he observed and their notice bloom is plentiful near where the bees located, they will not go very far in range, but if bloom is scarce they may go five mile ally about three miles is as far as tl may go protitably, a others hee these hoes, were % they could range easily are perhaps a mile 0 hinve been ne, di how of water that It bee 18 wonderful far home and ever find its way back to | particular hive, If, 1 ’ : - little bee {5 out of its home o can go BO own nove hive would t2 home wa with no other object 5 bi Home, Du ahould iI only MOY Nie Hive 80 mark thelr are guided by f smell. The) 3 ' tie color of bloom, nat aN no doubt by by ReNse oO on a n not likely to ¢ of certa kind bloom for any can find th often any Riss Not a Pleasant Neighbor. Madison n the opriat ff exper i306 he inv io or ’ r of and a number o of New York to Gover sev the torpedoes and th Winch bis exper While torpedoes, he was whic] were large copper cylinders his DUInerous crowded anual After a while he r case of tors turned the same descrip Bats and 10 the f tion, way Was Old placed under William 1ched a NG of which | lock Drawing out Castle Was att Fulton set then he =aid solemnn tones to his attentive audiency thai a il prec £ I mean a peg i clock in motion, and “Lsentismen harge: i torpedo, present % to blow up a vessel contains 170 pounds of gunpowder, and if 1 suffer clockwork tn run minutes, | no doubt that it would blow srtifii were to the fifteen have this f ation 1H» i atoms." The cir 0 had around began (0 and had le of humanity which closed the inventor F spread out and grow thinoper, fore of the fifteen minutes passed there, were two | persons remaining onder the gateway Some, indeed, lost no time in getting at the greatest possible distance from the torpedo, and they did not again appear on the ground until they were assurid that the engine of destruction was safely lodged in magazine, whence it had been taken five or but £ the How War Horses Act When horses are hit in battle, they stop. tremble in every muscle and groan deeply, while their eyes show wild astonishment. During the battle of Waterloo, some of the horses, as they lay on the ground, baving recov. ered from the first agony of their svounds, fell to eating the grass about them, thus surrounding themselves with a cirele of bare ground. the limit. ed extent of which showed their weak ness Others of these interesting an. imals were observed quietly grazing in the middle of the field between the two hostile lines, their riders having been shot from their backs, while the balls that flew over their heads, and the tumult behind and before and around them cansed po interruption to the usual ipstincts of their na ture. It was also observed that when a charge of cavalry went past. near to any of the stray horses mentioned, they would set off, form themselves in the rear of their mounted companions, and though without riders, gallop strenuously along with the rest, not stopping nor flinching when the fatal shock with the enemy toon place. At the battle of the Kirb, in 1754, an English officer, took possession of his horse, which was very beautiful, and immediately mounted it, When the English cavalry fled the horse ran awny with his captor, notwithstand- ing all his efforts to restrain him; nor did the animal stop until it was at the bead of the regimont of an parently, Hs master was com mander which, the The melancholy, and at the same time, ludicrous figure which Macedon nld presented when he thus saw him { self the victim of his ambit ion to pos uitimately pon senffold, ived,.~New York fine horse, which his life {may be easily | Tribune, i ROKK | cost him the once { | | { { { CHIVALRY AT CHAPULTEPEC. Mississippian ig the Storming | Noble Act of a of the Fortress. The Hon. brief John Temple Graves, In a speech before the told on the the of —~which embalms ivairy sing