FARM AND GARDEN NEWS. | INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. ITEMS OF Maple Insects=--Pointg in Pig Feeding Bee Raising on the Farm«-A New Fungiciie Sorghum for Dairy Cows-Etc., Etc, MAPLE INSECTS, ‘he defolistion of the no doul to the insect, The ineipal attack ed maple worl While the nature fers materially, them the trees solution or fective. One pound 150 or 200 stroy maple trees is of some which due Ivages insects maple trees are the green strip un and the tussock moth their attacks dif remedies against Spraying the of green is of the are same, with a paris ot the most el green to will de Rome her arsenite, of paris gallons of water hie POINTS IN PIG FEEDING i weal proved superior to shelled Vermout whether Corn n corn pigs It doubtful, gain was equal to the Whey in intities proved a large bran, quantities ol in tests however, the cost of grirding for some is bran th with with food large qu conomical of skimmilk more than rofits turned bevond I ducting total recel in we 80 smal mmilk to losses as the pigs grew one hundred the cost of and allow skimmilk is and pounds corn from the | pet small fed in fed fat ant » to ightee of ng wi 1 cents unds when fed in en one hundred po quantit } aver: large when in =, "IDE discovered A NEW FUNGI Notl way of tion of promises which is but m ine iS in he introduce has been a fung the 84) Ly is cheap, ases of fo pounds ERE thoroug finely three quarts of produce a pounds of centrated the ma boils then closed touch into proper Is } the honey see that possibile be fitably done Have 1 addr n each box 11 “11 y rk 11 0 If this cannot sup ply name your home your and sfita bie and will tines a Hamehse ole howe ver, Northe sown #8 corn is thing plan are much =maller woods ! corn. it i keep this : common | gil so the than with that more at best than make corn triore trouble fis weeds, probably, plant from becoming with staekinen here the north. | Sorghuin wakes the of hay for | hot the leaves being nutritious and free from dnst. It is equally valuable for dairy cows and other stock when well cured, The stalks often keep their julees sweet into the winter time, and are then highly relished by stock. As they contain much sugar it is pos- gible to overfeed with them, but a careful feeder will not encounter this trouble, Sorghum can be sown in a small way, either broadcast or ia drills. Professor Henry, in Breeder's Gazette, #00 - FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. In testing skim milk, buttermilk or whey, the amount of fat is so small that special bottles with fin i readings should be used. | When the soil Is stirred early in the day it dries out night, but | cultivated later in the day the moist | ground attracts more moisture froa an. adds to the supply avalla the crop. space iuside the hive very before ol the alr ble fot The Iu in proportion to the size of the colony if t) ae should Tos | | { shonid colony Is weak the contracted, taken to the colony, day pr colony | and due care should that is alwn The come In and the w the vitality have Ree a queen in venient fo i seens ty une the Brow never orchard, | sprouts and sag | the which should | support of fruit; and | of the crop, | Of fewer hushels produced | and the inferior quality of fruit, | When poultry ran wild it uniim fted of doubt that it change often as filth them nneomfortable Even flock ill desert a filthy take to the il hich ter of gone to the ie trees a lack re ws the value heenuse the the had amd it is no 1 Its quarters | render. | now choice quarters irue as insects or 1 Os poultry © or infected in the ference to the h hoo and fences they orchard, or to pre ouse, are confined to quarters Clergymen Marrying Themselves. “The tion he loos ’ ff I) 1 gs igi of a law is very blank on the ques jonally comes up, as nan to well are clerzy ld COUrse obsery “Of marry Hm a known law) there not who have evel many contended as ti well form marri sonally been make ue 1855, had isiderat Fighting Qaality of Weli-Fed Soldicr has been exercl Niates gevernment th for it clothing 8 troops resents a rem campaign pr t tinsuitabl i] the trop § should Wool woolen goods next skin mater and ised i v iT felt day Hg hy : 3 he best inl for al ' pe fs all spirati its soldier sweltering Ol. wl hat portion next dry. and is For t reason it is he old thle always danger of whi and it many deaths instead of wool his Chicago Record ® ise Army Shoes was in the army. In the war.” said an old selidier. to call © exactly civil gunboats i at ood in tied then sometimes ‘Walt Hr shoes under deseribid what deseribing never shoes shonld that's rally. however, get on ny way he that manner, we fo COnOT miudscows mudagconws,” wae a not usual remark. but gunboat was term commonly used. “And now I get a letter from a yorng friend who has enlisted Tu the present war of the United States with Spaln. He writes me that he has drawn a pair of shoes which he has named one the Indlana and the other the Oregon. You see the disposition to call army shoes by naval designa- tion seems to be inherent and to crop out on occasion. Whether It is because the shoes are so great in size, or 30 big and clumsy or big and heavy, 1 don’t know, but certainly there seems to be an incliuation on the part of the army soldier to call his shoes fondly by navy titles."—New York Sun. a= una BILL PERRINE'S SHOW BEAR. fe is the Greatest Money Maker in Medicine Hat. Hat. Northwest Ml Perri hos next ro tue ratlrond at, Northwest anada, Territory, hought Medicine July 13.1 funch room at Territory, C it stat] Viedicine in the the: nine-tentlh Hat, who it Ii rine lu flies prophied js ir people In Medicine wait y ! would lived tow. the the for fre and again, tl Bill Per 15 pauper, we Ww the Pacific found told them rivis ts wis built reached Hie a graders who place they gold, of the that half Th pros tallway Perrine digging RO many stories had found wen wanted to quit work he and go [for several years he kept on that he “Bogus 311 Fl many to be vbhody at such n rate of ored 1'er en sobriquet rine endeay 0 promote no one wanted for ever ns rr siounary in but ith that would term nted w SiH, so) him, of his ¥ bring Heved none chemes ever him a living. : ars ago an Indian bear Hat. i irown whiel Medic fifty for tm, to had only wanted $1 the mone ine fons fed one the bear ‘errine Ser Hom ue ¥ d te 1 money witli hear the woods 4 rs ol yard ‘ %¢ i} +5 . passe ng nbed on } tified that t at had been least one action be Irney. good overland away to eateh the bear. were dumb with amaze making their 3ill hastened ment, “You blamed twice that m Kemp, who found il have gad old of Bill's fool oon uch,” was Je you man Liow got wi lous pross f ity I guess $2.50 is about the i sald Bill, tingly he chan i ae ¥ as ¥ 3 gen aceon pat day every pas senger train which has passed throug! Medicine Hat contributed £2.50 to see Bill's Ix med have ar set free, Somet the amount was not quite made up amd tl bear tt LosoRe, When the next a] - ie was not train « still When on for a ever, was {rev this bruin had been month Hat about going people minds Bill lollars was the price He at his hegan to change ire wf} for the w hundred still unnecessary effort Tse ive $l paid a fs hua boom a iunch room. Fare Work for to & bank ir iw t has to become oratorical part ith the pear's freedom, and tells the stranger about of Medleine Hat, who fal ideas, often adds “That b'ar of mine over there, if he Yives jong enough, will money any other OW. make any “ the pric ¥ Bill, after the peo io induce tourists of he ple have make more than man in this Origin of Kalamazoo. The name Kalamazoo, Michi Oshkosh and one or two rote 10 be for foreigners a Af American absurdity. It ore Ee an, like lias syVhonyio often to tastrate that form of vernacular Eng others, is & $a But all thought of ridicule vanishes when its romantic origin is considered, for it ix the echo still lingering about the memory of two dusky lovers, who, in that long ago time when Michigan was the home mainly of Indian tribes, lived and loved on the banks of the river which now bears their names, Kahla, the young warrior. waa straight of limb and eagle-eyed, while to Mahzoo had been given by the Great Spirit the many graces and vietoes for which Indian maidens have become poted in song and legend. Life to these two possessed nll the charm [ and went, brought only abounding ! joy, Fach summer evening, as the tw) Hizht deepened and the time drew neat her the malden her the swaying of over ‘Ss ine. lover's return from chase, witched from bower hranehies a ginut the his shiot ng of hig canoe the distance called to hi the hang! river edge sign conl of round the in oiere and loving Chicago her clear, musi me, “RKahla! kao from warrior came “Mab young the Times tones, response, Herald zoo!" Said by One of Cervera’s Officers. “Did you expect to escape?’ “NO: we expected to die As 1 nothing it 1 fleeest wi ne. 1 hit a sligl 1nd Here was did not Are Ww the sallors know of thn | said, them, bn fhe fate t awaited (82 4) 10 { not an officer feel that his end had cot chance, pro sibhili he v 1 ViCRROs rangemen fleet favorable, TI told 1 i lookout had gf Brook lyn was th iy 1 i ight could out VER ls, It wi and Brooklyn though one A Man Under Bonds 55 a Common Scold, were sn Hartmann He ed Kris managing henzoller affairs Ler peopie § fond dey mofe deir houses und am a nu not.” Magister held Hartmann on the charge of wing a common scold ana bail defend law “You cannot hold client charge Who ever of a man wing a 4 “1 did. nt enters hail f ride replied Isa ney on the RL demanded th yer « 0“ 10t & ried on that nmoen old 7” unless will outside.” just now, and or $400 he in the w the Con agon walling Hartmann's broth went on his bonds Phila n-iaw 1 Heecord The Shot That Disablcd Genera | Linares Serge Melnerney of w al any, nth infantry, as peeping th a general yards, Can 1 pick was passed along back. over is 1.000 him and Melnerney his tongue (a i loaded his rifle on the and fired. “1 undershot yards” sald drawing another cartridge from his “but it didn’t scare him.” Melnerney's rifle cracked [again he cried. “1 Zot Bim,” and the | officer on the white horse fell over i with a shot in It was his shoulder, General Linares, the Spanish com tance off" permission came 1 his ecartridgs # uppers ition The word rolls HE soldier = rifle. Then edge of the pit 34 resting nis pimed Toms he Jw he, F moat. When Before Melnerney | from his ear. “A litle toe far to the right.” he cried. waving his right arm as though he were a target marker on a rifle range. Chicago Record. AA A RAI A 5, Foolish Advice Given. “1 hate to see a man who has sens enough to give good advice,” =ald Mr Bifterly, “but not sense or strength efiough to follow and profit by it him. has got rich on a hint from NOTES AND COMMENTS, A gun with an | 8 peicemnker American behind 1t 1s and a mapmaker, Australia nelghborhood Hawall, welcomes in oul {ae aoa ul Miles’ on to General excurs the g grogtest suo undertaken The tracted Banners the public Mayor f Atlan i ' has con Npangled wierd over oy {it i RUCRsIOLAL furnished GI1X 06) fst] | United States Art settler £3 wi HAs ive ¥ 1 ny ext not German tog Si longest in the 1 Navy, the ni oldest couple not Go ine" | Navy, “Om bats use of wo { authorit of 31 be whenever dots citlar.” effect American naval Lstroction of by the An fon Wr Some interesting ered from th ing most startling fo Md, The relation station the height ivolunteers as a rule wor State military organi jcept in the matter of “hely {ually above the averag record shows that fully nine the applicants were less than the average ilhielght, five feet and eight and six per cent. were below the minimum git, five feet and four At this station about thirty-four per cent. jof the applicants were mustered into the seevice, Ae rejections were in mos{ cases due causes other than disease, It said by the =ciuiting officer of the =iation that the colored ils ¢ members of ations, and, ox Wore us The cont. of ) 1 inches, heig inches, to iw {better condition for service, generaily, than the white men. was named “Hobson,” which indieated | 1 proper regard for heroism. Pope | County, Ark. on July 22 secured a sew postoffice, which is called “Sigs doe,” showing that it remembered the Maine and her commanger. North Carolina came along on July 28 with 1 postoffice in Randolph County, which (with & “Sampson” postoffice, and on ithe 28th Florida named a postoffice for Dewey and Kentucky secured one named “Manila.” what idea con trolled the peopie of Woodruff County Ark. in asking fH J ust to have an of 1868 favor May 1 does not appear, The of “Dewey, i iwtoffice name silce Manila Hm tn and I year Ad not the victory bor has been OX I fed] nt the that the rity of the will popula the xhnusted ton "hen will publie generat iynamo, and siation wwe being con overhead con rails Yor a special are a each floor usual way w two feeders jesd the are to one end of the track nected to the end of dyctor and running the truck has of 3 lean’ 0 the othi trolle is been devis we toward pair other, them on the Tween of the truck reed ptaining do mple way. City of Mexico which puts a dred bailding and Sometimes thy « age city women them. cotton cloth that ments fur wostly the furnished welcome Ag the sone of in in a crowded part sowing machines teaches the to use OATHC used for gar i% women, but are are riments, i is fo the and t nisi od machines hread aid the pool housew mike np their Mexican women are without bouse- keeping Implements, the chikiren without toys There Dever Was a pation of children so terly cevold of things to play with. They have not even a spool or 4 bone. But these which have never been ives fo | rattle watch you froma the recesses of the maternal rebosa with large eves in which the sadness of their ancestry | and the cruelties since the conquest are shadowed forth. There is a good deal of the stolcism of the Indian in these baby faces, and a good deal of inherited sorrow. too. The proud but gentle race of the Astecx Las been humbled and ground in the dust by his brave conqueror, the Spaniard, good nature, has a look of extreme saduess—San Francisco Examine.
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