FARM AND GARDEN NEWS. INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS, —— » ITEMS OF Larie Rye Crops—The Pruning of (rapes Pastures Etc, Etc. LARGE R CROPS. farmers should the possibilities grown grain, It vields dess than wheat, YE appreciate as of Few they rye almost always but are satistied that this is mainly because it the land where wheat could not be grown at all that Is sewn with rye. It is the fact, however, rye ean be for we often is poor grown on the same land in falling off in yield that shows its great advantage so far as exhausting fertility is We once knew a tield of rye, only two acres, that yielded eighty bushels, But it 1s fertilized with phosphate, just HE 8 straw without Succession concerned, wi wheat would have been, t was tall and firm, and the heads wer: the longest rye we SAW {ye straw is in many places saleable heads ever at a’ high prices as hay, or sometimes higher than If grown with min eral fertilizer rye straw can be used in nany of manufacture. The softer grown with nitroge valuable. this, branches rye straw nous fertilizers Is much less THE PRUNING OF GRAPES, Noth ] but the pinching back of for not needed grape is best to Le is well sq aappens starts at the d he ef i MICK SHOWA De clusters of grapes ID OF BEES IN SPRING safely oll willis puts on. p len of flow rye } De ors or wheat his pollen wile DewWiy when guren bee doeg not beg ' # supply of polien has been The earlier the the the hive fills w the swarms are ready Cultivator, queen bee begins work SO0ner ith bees, and Ww to lssue.~ an ns Amerie FOR STIRRING SOIL THE REASONS where proper ild be and was airly well. When inates extreme he wer at the sue and dryness hence importance of @ a8 001 As the sd for : fairly good condition dry and hard. When the spring is thus and rainy, the sun and atmosphere do uot dry and warm up the ground very rapidly: we find the best means to aid evaporation of the surplus moisture and warming t soil is a ridge meth od of cultivation, using a turn plow to throw the soil up In the balks: this serves to drain the Bill and exposes more of the ground to the action of the sun and atmosphere, thus rendering it warmer and But this ridged cultivation should be discontinued as soon as the soil approaches a fairly good condition, which requires but a few weeks, If the weather is favora- ble. Some think it better to foflow this ridged cultivation by using the har. row to level the ground. This dows very well, but we prefer a cultivator, which stirs the soil more effectually. «0 that it ore the drier. after it gets a foot in height and the roots expaaid beyond the nil, shallow cultivating must be practiced to pre vent root pruning. After warm weather sets in, and the surplus moisture Is gone, our ob- ioet thet 18 to hold the rest of the ¥ a moisture in the soll for the use of the piants; hence, aside from destroying weeds and admitting atmospheric ac- { tlon, we stir the soll to prevent evapo ration of the atmosphere arising from that stirred below. So altogether we find that the cess of stirring the soll Is very import fant, doubtless far more than majority of cultivators the themselv: s For th fow nant 11s, pro. sO of soll are aware, reason we are led to add a on one of the most hmport reaso: « for stirring the soll; this to cont nue the elaboration of the | plant food iu the soil. A growing crop takes up rapidly the supply of avail able plant food In the soil and, to se is himportant that w replenished as fast as consumed, al of food vegetabla word {cure a good crop, It bite { The soil contains a { material in the | matter and fragments of minerals, but it {s not available, Air and Lure are the active agents in hitting this | material for the growth of the plants {and hence stirring the stiuulates the action of these agents, And not {only this, but the freshly stirred soll {absorbs much valuable material from the atmosphere, thus adding to | store.~J. I. Baird, Greenville, Ky., in | Agricultural Epitomist. . great de shape of Moist soll its PASTURES, twentyfive SKINNING A fresh cow {| pounds of milk ds | takes from a pasture, in milk, pounds of phosphor of 1 giving ily, for unsupported by five months | grain feeding, 15 1-2 pounds of { nitrogen, 6 2-3 acid and But this | The about 6 pounds wotash being 1 8 far from Cow spends het heav 5 weg ppros i] 43 pounds of pot wrtinds annus ¥. COWS are destructive Oo Use “doing up” a ich data, it pas IE are old dairy sectio slid better wi Ho iis be na met had, and Ly out, and ches itil Hhgel iin f Stove ay Joints of Stovepipe are whole apparatus stump Previous to away from around is kindled: $ the then added, smoke and you have a good srking principle ts] i The i will be burnes il Vere f ts season « the stumps will render th ts! $ 3 $ condition to burn Phere Is more struction of More i from the de derived | stumps than work can in a | free from and { will also be the result | profit mans SUPPOSE, he done slumps to rid yourself of every stump on your | farm. — American Agriculturis:, Ivanhoe's Rebecca's Portrait. Miss Wilhelmine Loos, daughter of Rev, Louis of Lexington. Ky. formerly President of Kentucky University, lias completed for the Fos ter Jewish Home and Orphan Asylum of Philadelphia, a picture of Rebecea i Gratz, When Arsannpa Gratz Clay, a grand. i niece of Rebecca Gratz, was asked by | the managers of the home to have painted a copy of the famous picture { of Rebecca tbat hangs in the Clay | homestead and which was painted by | tie immortal Yully, she commissioned | Miss Loos to do the work. It is well done, and ile wembers of the Gratz family agree that it is a perfect like. i ness of the distinguished original, The picture was sent to Philadelphia in time four the unveiling on August 29. the anniversary of the death of Re becea Gratz, the founder of the Foster Home, Rebecca Gratz was the lady who inspired Scott's character of Re- becea in “Ivanhoe.” —Richmond Dis. patch. the j 00%, The Italians always carry thelr money together with thelr passports. 1a long tin tubes, i Remarkable Skill by a Vermont Man of Three Score and Ten. Lafayette Stearns, of Rutland, Vt, 8 a man who has mastered one of the nost trying of physical infirmities, and made his fe useful when others would have given way 'n despair. Mr, Stearns is a farmer, seventy years old, who, though blind for eighteen years, has, during all but two of "ose years, arried on the cultivation of ten acres | Wf land, For two after he be ame blind Mr. Stearns was obliged 10 lay aside all labor, though brawny, and physically as able and anxious to work as ever, During this period he tried many times to plant portions of his garden by trying to perfect measurements his implements, ne i i i ’ years and with morning the idea that he would take two string, and suspending the latter from the stakes could construct satisfac- tory gulde, Mrs. the stakes for first row to be planted across the len. With th his first acre, for each kneeling to him came stnkes and » ia the sar Stearns set is assistance he planted the stakes over selfing new row, obtaining measure ments with the short hoe handle which bended planted knees seed, while on his hill aver do r for caunrning he carried, i the the it could he opened and covered Before earned he much gardening he noney neigh earned enough irs purct f addition i Oute Slearns, wil The Loag Coast of Chile. #0 long face of the New York to the ing at kK arr and if it h to pes it oiild be str of 3 i son! north with 1 & FOWETrIinogs Mig oe I" provinces wotik Bay Wf Lal it the =. 500 miles long land ndes and the the irador, CI DTraCces the bet ween Pacific which tops of the of livides it from Peru. and it has lition, cean south river Sama, in ad islands of the Ma Atlan most of the Frank GG. in tion, Carpenter Constitu Dying is China in China give what he calls Chi slonary an nese hae When passing along a street } a crowd, aml a man about fifty years of | of a city he came upon found that fallen in the street uncomtion there, poor age hac to die occurrence around the shouting and cursing, when one per. | son called out, “Haul the fellow into the gutter and do not let him die in the middle of the street, blocking up | the way!" ! The missionary was obliged to pass on, but returning an hour later, he | found the man in the gutter dead, a | fan over his face, and two candles | burning at his feet, with the design of | lighting the soul-—whither they did not know. There the body lay until | night. and the people passed by un- | affected by thé sorrewful sight.—<Mis- sionary Herald. : Muzzling for Babies. The muzzling farce is nearly played out: when a department is reduced to publishing statistics so worthless and | inconclusive as those presented to ar Hawmwent by Mr. long the cause jt advocates must be inca bad way. le claims by his muzzling order to have reduced rabies, taking the first half year, from 413 casés in 1805, to 12 In 1808, but he neglects to state that the method of diagnosing rabies has been radically changed in the interval. A certificate from a veterinary surgeon on the basis of an examination of (he dead body was held to be sufficient in the former group of cases; later on this wer “sund to be worthless, and Tue i stood man, | has, In consequence, been abandoned Furthermore, In previous years, with out a muzzling order, quite as remark able fluctuations in the returns have been recorded. Muzzling, in faci, © unscientific: and arbitrary, maddeniog to the dogs, aud of very doubtfal util ity to anybody. Worse than this, it ke an absurdity, and an Injustice so long as only domestic and farm penalized while the sporting dogs Mr, Long and his friends left with, All these things have been pointed out repeatedly, bug they produce no effect on the departinent Intelligent throughout country are growing shown by the increasing by the question in contested elections to ap dogs ar are un people thie as ix irritated, part played and this Is an argument likely peal to Mr. Long and his colleagues, Saturday Review, ABOUT AMERICAN HUMOR. The Britishers Are Beginning to Understand and Imitaie IL “American humor 1s forging to the front n man who 1 turned Washington from Ix Washingt greatest proof of this very E in gland econtly sndon, newsnaner 10) according 1 he » beginning t« our humor, and i wal $ 11 . 111 1 tiely UZ 1 Chilis for Imineagintess without is rend & rendered wrenlinr devi aj framework and suspended is a long, ber two feet thick or the apex heavy beam of tim from one end, and to four si and if more timbers are Ofins an enormous pen which the reaches within «ix inch ground. When the shock of an earthquake rocks the pagoda, t mework ‘onsequently goda is never disturbed, and tl explanation the great ag } sf them suppose them to eculiarly suscep tible to the effects of an earthquake Trenton (N, J.) American The Safety of Fast Trains Thirty years ago. when the average of trains wae | much less than at the present day, ac speed passenger vi rence, that people declared that. to it had become necessary “hang a director.” In 1865, out of upward of 1.000.000 (ex fo United Kingdom, only five were killed one in 200,000,000 whereas the nam was 25, or about one in 1.000.000 of the population of the metropolis, Supbosing that each individual of the 50500000 of Londoners walked abroad each day in the year. that would give a total of 2.207 500.000 walkers against 1,000,000000 travel lers by railway. and produces the ro uinrkable inference that, for avery mortal risk incurred by a rallway pas senger, the walker in the streets Lins to encounter twelve chances of violent death. —Blackwood’'s Magazine, A strange grave contains the body of Charles Carter, of Russell, Kan, He was cleaning out an old well when the quicksand caved in on him. covering him up to the neck. He lived fifty. eight hours. As it was found impos. sible to remove his body, the well was filled in, and thus became his grave. NATIVES OF OUR NEW POSSESSIONS ARE YERY SUPERSTITIOUS. Thelr Belief in the * Anaana '—People Sup- posed to be Prayed to Death—The Outburst of Yolcanoes Ascribed to Angry Gods The inhabitants of the Islands are all superstitious, Inte occupant of the inhabitant in Hawalian ¢ from the throne to thu the remote ve island of Molo of the outcast jie bhumblest gions of the kal, the home The Inte stitiovs person edly previ Inu Were desalnte Kalakau Hix thie Kn hing end hastened by Ms to his departure severnd kahung ar wi engaged in the cheerful 1} i tion of to dest W from the adherents of Lilluckalani, ti throne of Kamaham ae ited subsidy Ques who wi place her on Another fa« tribe Ki ing has the prey Fran later 1 Honolulu Fit fous wy 0) there 11.0.1 caliea which But kahuna of higher jetim les down ai gracefully. die gt : A peculiar] of the under my the % interesting exen power of the observation y laborers on Tw a v. { sugar plantation became enamored dainty whi “walnhinn a smiled on Kiha two los same pret} girl handsomer Kila weld ast ing place, and he the oldest + his opponent kab [3 | the gods had ith much been thrown to the » big kanaka taken where he wagon and into nother’s house surrounded by his weeping fly and friends. At noon on the tenth day, after fatal spell began to work, he took his amulet from & and gave it mother, bade well to his family and friends, signed his soul to the gods of his fore fathers, and gracefully gave up the ghost, A week later the victorious Kilai led the pretty haif-cast girl to the altar. Like all primitive people, the Hawa. finang attribute the various phenome of nature to supernatural agencies And the periodical activity of the vol week the iz neck fare con his to the outbursts of wrath of the getlsas Pele, who dwells in the flery caverns of the “house of everlasting fire.” She ig the vestal virgin who keeps aglow the fires by her breath, and is sa Haan tiful ie face™nd form that ne man can look upon ber and live. When her anger is aroused, she sends forth hot lava and stones to destroy all who refuse to do her homage. From time immemorial it has been the custom to appease her wrath by libations and propitiatory offerings. which were thrown into the crater and placel on the altars with great ceremony, In 1882 the village of Hilo, on the Island of Hawali, was theratened with total destruction by a flow of lava from the crater of Mauna Loa, twenty miles distant. The lava was slowly approaching the town, and when within half a mile a public recognition of the pewer of the goddess Pele took place, The Princess Ruth, sister of the two previous Kings, Kamehameha IV. and V,, was entreated to come | from Honolulu and appease the fury | of the terrible Pele, She chartered a steamer in all baste and went to Hilo, where she caused an altar to be erect. after the fashion of the olden and there publicly made ship plication after which off or front the ad. | vancing lava he Intervention of the mely, for the lava, practically al CON el, i times i’ele to she placed ngs in to { Princess which bad t before her arris Inter, and fect on the Wis ceased to flow stopped a few days of mind of the this had the enoe Hnaginative native reviving the ancies al in pow » gods $1 vr flies irs IN A PORTO RICAN FOREST. Are to be Found. adventurs also relished y me the | streams her no fear if alwars ow down filled with miik had water was were mors Other wale ry one time ! ity; but many n «dible, even One had a de 1 little, and flavoring candy i moisture, “ 01 my mouth 1 iIN¥ Tf 11 4 ivi ON ail the my spring, 1 would get 1 had him drink. after would 1 let water thirst Only satisfied Criminals in Uraguay. Here one of Robert Crawford's stories about Uraguay: “Two men sur prised a farmer and his wife in their little hut while it was broad daylight The man was seized and bound and | the two villaing proceeded to torture him to make him disclose the hiding | place of his hoard. The wife begged | and pleaded as the horrors increased. the man proving obdurate. Finally she ‘said she would tell them where the | treasure was if they would follow her. One of the two accordingly went over to the chest in the corner with her. She opened it. fumbled about inside of it for a moment until she found what she was looking for. In anotfier mo- ment the thief at her side was dead and his fellow covered by a large re- volver in the hands of a small but exger woman of the people. He got away before she could quite make up her mind to shoot him, too. Then the husband was released and the neigh. bors, some miles sway, called in Word was finally taken to the central police authority of the state: the offi. cers came, viewed the dead thief—and identified him as their Attorney-Gener- al. It is not unlikeiy.” Mr. Crawford adds, “that his accomplice was the Judge of the Criminal Court” is
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