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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