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.—