FARM AND GARDEN NEWS.
{WAS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS.
Destroying Weevil in Corn— Cutting or Shred
ding Fodder—The Habit of Wheat Growth
Forests Modify Winter Temperatures
Btc., Bte.
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DESTROYING WEEVILS IN CORN
Bisulphide of carbon is an infallibl® |
remedy for weevil in grains of all kind
if applied to the grain in a perfectly |
air-tight bin. Its application does not i
injure the grain for seed nor for food |
purposes, as it is very volatile and |
passes off soon after being exposed to |
the air. However, the substance is |
very inflammable, and it is, therefore, |
necessary to avoid bringing any light |
near it, |
SAVING COAL ASHES. {
Although the ashes from coal have |
very little fertilizing value, they are
well¥worth saving for use in the hen-
house as a dust bath for fowls. They
are much better than sand or loam,
which 18 often recommended for that
purpose, for these last, and particular-
ly the sand, only act mechanically to
rub vermin from the hens, while sifted
coal ashes are so fine that their dust
fills the breathing apparatns of the hen
lice, and thus destroys them. So for
putting into henhouses the bits of coal
that are mostly present should be sift-
ed out. Wood ashes may be used for
a dust bath where coal is not burned,
as it is not in many farmer's homes, |
The fowls will eat bits of charcoal
from wood ashes, and they will hot in-
jure thém, though likely to make the
colored spots that are often seen in
egg shells where fowls get at coal and |
eat it.
CUTTING OR SHREDDING FOD.
DERS,
As a general rule, it is not consid- |
ered profitable to cut first-class hay for
mature animals, If it is very coarse,
chaffing may be beneficial. In one
instance the Indiana station found
that steers made better gains on cut
than on uncut clover hay. For young
stock especially, eutting is desirable,
as they eat it more freely. Professor
Henry of the Wisconsin station thinks
there should be a good feed entter on
every dairy farm and that all corn
stalks should put through the
Long corn stalks are a
nuisance in the feeding manger and
re as worthless for bedding. Many
farmers find difficulty in feeding cut
corn fodder, as the cows even refuse
to eat it. Thisis often due to over-feed-
ing or endeavoring to have the cows i
live on a limited variety. Keep the
msn gers clean and feed the ent fodder
with care, and usually very little will
be left, with the exception of the very
coarsest portions.
be
machine,
THE HABIT OF WHEAT GROWTH |
It
Ol
impossible to grow good
wheat where fall droughts
are prevalent. It is only there
are enough fal rains to down
the tender blades into the soil, and
thus their growth, that the
wheat will tiller or spread to either
a firm hold of the
and also at the same time sending up
side shoots that will make a spreading
habit of growth. This protection will
not prevent the frost from going into
the ground, but it will shield it from
the sudden changes from freezing to}
thawing, and the reverse, that are far!
more injurious than steady cold
wemiher would be, In fact, the wheat
grower is never bettér satisfied than |
when he finds fall-sown wheat frozen |
in the ground with a light fall
snow over it. If wheat can be Kept
covered with snow through the cold
weather that will prevent cold weath- |
er from browning the leaves, and it
will come out In spring in good condi |
tion to grow, Some wheat growers
harrow the wheat in fall, but this|
bruises the leaves, and coming before |
cold weather, when the wheat plant |
is dormant, it Is too great a check to
its growth. Harrowing In spring, if|
possibile before a rain and followed by |
warm weather, is a much better prac |
tice. i
is Crops
winter
where
beat
ws oare ie
CUHOUR
side, soil,
getting
of
FORESTS MODIFY WINTER TEM
PERATURES,
Forest trees tend to diminish the in
clemency of severe winter weather in|
two important ways. Whenever al
cold wave is sweeping across the |
country the low temperature is)
brought from the far northwest by the
extremely cold air which travels with
a high wind velocity over the section
affected. If this is a wooded country,
where the farms, with their dwellings,
barns and orchards occupy the clear
ings of not too great width, the forest |
trees stand like so many barriers and |
hold the strong currents of extremely
cold air fifty to one hundred feet
above the surface and foree them to
pass by wihinout chilling the ground
and the objects which are near it to
as low a degree as would otherwise
be the ease, something very desirable,
Then again during the winter days
of bright sunshine the naked trunk
and branches, always free from snow,
because of their dark color and very
extensive surface, absorb and store up
during the day an Immense amount
of sunshine and impart it again to the
air as heat both day and night and so
hold the temperature to a moch high.
er degree than would be possible with
the surface only covered with the
white, reflecting and non-absorbing
mow. While we have no rigid ob-
servations which make It possilde to
say just how great such forest pro-
tection is against extremely low tem-
perwsurey, yet 1 have po doubt that it
is fully £5 much as ten degrees Fahr-
enhelt and even fifteen degrees when
the wind is strong and the sun is shin.
ing brightly, and such a protection as
this cannot fail to have a very bene
fictal effect upon live stock and or
chard trees as well as small fruits.
Professor I. H. King of Wisconsin, In
the New England Homestead,
WINTERING APPLES
GRAPES,
Winter apples in small quantities
can be easily kept for a long time, if
they are perfect specimens, by pack.
ing them stems down in boxes not too
deep. Soap boxes will answer the
purpose nicely. Fasten a cover to the
box and set it in the cellar on the
bricks or timbers that will raise it
from the floor and permit a free cir-
The cellar
AND
should be well ventilated on dry days, |
but the windows should be tightly |
on damp or rainy days. It is |
the fruit in perfect
essential that be
winter sorts may be easily kept until
late spring. A successful apple grow
er has a large cellar under his hay |
barn devoted entirely to the storage |
The boxes
row between each row and
are left undisturbed until wanted for
sale or use. At intervals during the]
winter he markets the finest speci
mens in “pony” baskets in a nearby |
passage
fruit.
Grapes are not so easily kept as ap
ples. Some varieties like Concord and |
Delaware can be kept for any length
of time only in well arranged storage
houses. The for keep
ing in a simple manner at home are
Catawba, Vergennes, lona Di
anhs. The grapes must be fully ripe,
or they will not keep. Have a few
small boxes for convenience in hand
ling. Put a layer of paper in the bot
on that a layer of then a
layer of paper and you
have lavers Put |
the
colder the better even to the verge
of frost. Should there be danger
the grapes actuoally freezing.
boxes on racks near the ceiling of
Do not permit the cellar to
best varieties
aml
Pa
rapes,
on unt
grapes.
wy
of
fi 1
tiiree
set
cellar.
too dry nor yet to damp. Excessive
dryness will cause the grapes to with
er and if damp will
Gr ill quantities packed and
too thes mold
apes in &n
treated as d
inter without
Journal.
will keep far into
Atlanta
frectad
the w trouble,
WINTER FOOD FOR MILCH COWS
Good ensilage, of is the best
ted
be fed on something
COUTTS,
he
but if silo has been oeglec
animals mn
that will give
Where clover hay can
£0 or dess per ton, MH should form
important of dally ration
This would form the bulk of the coars
and the with
and Clover
properly
of nourishment. but mn
ng in the
norant
consequently
st
ve nearly the same
Iw obtained
ani
ft haan
Li
part
food, furnish animals
carboliydrates,
hap. cured, coniains
{ h of
i right essential
In
not in
handling.
emphasis
should be placed upon its quality. If
and brittle, It
that &
pourishing qualities,
too chippy is
good sign is rather inferior In
Good oats in the sheal make excel
lent milch winter,
sheaf oats can be purchased from $10
per ton upward, and at this price they |
make an excellent investment. The
average sheaf oats would turn out |
from thirty to forty per cent grain and |
sixty to seventy per cent straw. Upon |
this basis the grain and straw would |
supply rather more carbohydrates than |
protein. Likewise corn
would show this same lack of propor
tion between the two food elements, |
cow feed for soo
good stover
Bot it will not make much |
that difference to the cows, and conse
bohydrates proportionately than pro-|
The latter ean be given In greater |
quantities in such foods ag corn meal. |
malt sprouts, cottonseed meal and
grains. The relative high price |
of these foods should not exelude then i
entirely from the cow's bill of fare. |
During the cold weather the animal |
needs food rich In protein, and it is
by not stinting them in the
that the best result are ob |
In the end, if other things are
all-round care, rich feeding will pay.
~: 8. Walters in American Cult
Vator.
HAVE FEED FOR YOUR HOGS.
The following timely advice is from
the pen of E. F. Brown, in the Michi
van Farmer: Fortunate indeed is the
man who has a large corn crop, If he
One of the chief points of success is
plenty of food of the right kind, fed
at the right time. Attention is also
just as important as the food, and in
some cases perhaps more so. No one
ean expect to glean a golden harvest
unless he personally gives the pigs his
devoted attention, Five times a day
is not any too often to feed them
When they get hungry they wamt
something to eat, and when they have
all they want to eat they are not look:
ing arouwd for a hole in the fence or
under it to get into mischief. The
saddest of all things for a farmer is
to have a large drove of hogs, and
nothing to feed them.
One farmer, a good many years ago,
planned to have a lot of hogs, but did
not think they would consume very
much food, In this he was disap.
pointed. They were the old style of
Chester Whites, so it is not worth
while for me to repeat what has so
often been said of their fattening qual
itles. Their average length (se I've
been told) when fifteen months
was about eight feet, If reports are
true, their width was considerably less
than this, One day a neighbor farmer
while driving by, on hearing a fero-
clous noise in a field near by, called
the swineherder's attention to the
music, and added that he did not
know what tune they were singing un-
till mow. It was “Over the Hills to
the Poorhouse,” he sald, and drove on,
The hog that learns that tune, brother
farmer, will cost more before he !s
ready for the market than he will
bring at selling time.
With plenty of old corn on hand in
the spring. as a many of the
southern Michigan farmers are sure to
have next spring, it is not to be won
dered at if more store hogs are win.
tered than common. 1f
warm place for little pigs
in, no doubt but
the owner some money next summel
if he will turn them out
two or three months before
them off on hig old corn,
wood
one
to
10
The person
there Is no great profit to
the
into
fut
ow
wo
hogs. Nor
does he want
present
to the business
can do.
ENGLISH GIRLS GAMES,
Ball
An attempt,
football
Buys London
to un
mpossible pastime for them
made to introduce
for
It was
as n
game
Mall
likely and
and
persevered lun thelr
women, the
See be a most
though of brawny ladies
for a
Is
# fenin
course sel
son or so through the country,
their
of
i
ter apd det
and
iIRiOn
the
were
uerdons, rest
severely
ollowing thelr example,
At the women's colleges and schools
hocky Is becoming more and more the
favorite
Holloway Cs
play ® in
winter pastime,
3
Hege team Is famous, and
iis own splendid field every
term and
in
Cambridge
afternoon this
students engage the
Oxford
leges, but they do not play golf
Neither do
Thames is
from the co
games against
and
women s
they boat seriously
so, thoug!
bonts,
ing
the
fous grot ardent
Many { hij 8
London
outiving
hool girl
i and oth
fields near
hockey, prossessin
town for
fe Gsirton
tablished
thes
it
.
well
Have ff OWnH, as
also in
dulge in a little mil cket during
spstantiy meet
Bn with
x
Newnham
4
in open « oftest, or J
abode of learning to meet the
3 Leia
DOES
stitution oi
tennis
to
graduates of the
Asphalt
during wi
fiall, Oxford, wher
the
COuUMs
vigorously the
Margaret there
boats, vicinity of
the Cherwell
possible,
Golf and the new fashioned game of
croquet are regarded by damsels
seventeen as slow and frumpish,
arrive
river rendering
But
at years of discre
that is some
and that they are “jolly
difficult” to play well Croquet doves
flourish much, therefore, in
lastic realms, though its vogue has in
there
thing in both,
shi
Gymnasium work and dancing are
girls, and college ones also, Al Hol:
loway college there is a superb floor in
the long galleries devoted to library
purposes, and here the
are permitted
sometimes
to trip
gayly.
Fencing is another excreise to which
women are becoming more and modo
devoted but it dods not seem to appe tl
to the woman's colleges as yet, It is
ti sido s, Is most advantageous to those
whose occupations are sedentary. Lit
erary women and journalists are Keen
on the folls, and there are clubs in
London where women may meetl men
in mimic combat sometimes,
fadustirial Instruction.
Speaking at University College,
Liverpool, Sir J. Gorst. vice president
of the Committee of Council on Edu.
cation, sald that at the present time
there was a strong desire on the part
of all interested in education that a
great step forward should be made in
commercial and technical instruction.
The necessity arose from industrial
competition in foreign countries. Un-
doubtedly our higher and elementary
education for industrial purposes was
vastly inferior to that of many of our
rival, and no time was to be lost in
setting to work to effect an improve.
ment, To this forward step there
were two essential conditions, In the
first place elementary education must
be improved, for it was no use to at
tempt to organize a system of higher
schools without having a sound ele:
mentery basis upon which to build,
Moreover, it was essential that higher
eduention should be perfectly organ.
zed, and that In each educational area
there should be one clear and definite
plan of education suitable to the par
teuls® conditions of the place,
ITEMS OF INTEREST ON NUMEROUS FEMI.
NINE TOPICS.
|
For Closing the Dress Skirts—Fight Against
Silk Skirts—Collarettes and Boas - Women
tasured for Big Amounts— Etc, Etc.
FOR CLOSING THE DRESS SKIRT. |
Fashionable modistes are now clos
ng many of their dress skirts at the!
pack, or else they place the placket on |
the left side of the front breadth un
der a trimmed tab, a passementerie |
jevice, or other decoration that
reals the means of egress and Ingress, |
If the form is large, the effect is not
satisfactory where the skirt is cut in
on smaller, slender
figures the new fastening of the skirt
% certainly an improvement and a re-|
as the belt at the back of the |
can be permanently sewed to
skirt, thus doing away with the
of the two with
Looks, buttons,
extras
the dress Is donned,
Con
the
and
troublesome every time!
LADIES
(Hints by Cl:
SLIRT.
ira Llovd)
Among the many new modilications
of the flounce thi
most graceful and popular.
includes the
2 Ole Gf Taw
Flu
there 1
MCR gore
skirt
front
. flounce, Mein
the
Hans
whit
Jus
about
of which flounce Is
om
his skirt with the flare at
popular form
forint
BOW The perie
thar
Lie
if ae
skirt
effect
I
1
Bips Is acComplisied
A 20 Cf
2 FAP
A AT
Ligh .
wore
+
green Wool
narrow
formed
FWeen of ths skit
Five yards of 44-inch
medium
NG
inches
algo
412 is cut
walst measure,
in women's club cir
at the next
Federation a
the
it
is whispered
that meet
the State
made
of move |
wear |
cinb mem.
It is said
of these
be to discourage
of skirts by the
we officers,
amd swish
silk
ti
sharp rustle
garments has interrupted the proceed.
of the clubs, and that
Ups of some
to own silk skirts bave decided that
radieal action necessary. The
shinrge Is made that the moment a club
gh office she
is
woman Is elected to a hi
thus arouses the envy of her sisters |
all of which has a tendency to create |
Chicago Times-Herakl,
COLLARETTES AND BOAR,
The of
boas be
povel collarettes and
now to seen in leading city |
stores is unusuaily attractive. Some
sf the newest conceits In boas and col- |
lareties are made of coarse net and
mousseline de sole, thickly dotted
with chenille pompons. These styles
full at the neck, and have long. |
tabs, which can be)
array
towed to fall free, at the wearer's will. |
While inexpensive, the efiect of these |
Gainty mufflers is very pleasing, par |
ticularly where worn by a slender,
willowy woman, but there are other
collarettes— thousands of them. Many
are pretty, and a few otherwise. Ev-
ery taste ean be satisfied, and it fi not
necessary to empty the pocketbook in
order to possess oneself of a dainty
and artistic throat protector.—Phila-
delphia Times,
INSURED
AMOUNTS.
Life insurance for women is com-
paratively new. But everything has
to have a beginning, they say, and it
will not be long till the number of in-
sured women reaches into the hun
dreds of thousands, instead of only
into the tens of thousands, as it now
does. The movement has grown more
rapidly in the East than in the West,
but in some portions of the West
also §t has gained at least a strong
foothold.
A list published by the San Francisco
Chronicle 18 headed by Mrs, Phoebe
Hearst, insured for $400,000, This list
also includes Ms, EB. Crocker and
Mrs. Wallace, of that city, each with
$150,000 insurance. Another Pacific
const woman, Mrs, W. OC, Hill, of Seat
tio, has a $100,000 policy, and a Den
ver lady, Mra. Boekert, one for $135.
000. Two ladies in the Ohronicie's
WOMEN FOR BIG
$100,000 class. reside fo Chicago.
—— — a cos
farah Hackett Stevenson and Mrs,
4, Tarbell, the last named be.
ig the wife of Vice-President Tarbell,
pany.
The £100,000 class has each of tle
Misses Jorillard, Mrs. Martha J.
Cramer and Mrs, J, Sloat Fassett, The
list is headed by an
woman, Lady
North
i
nnd
and
Carolina,
Lux, Alice White
A. Longley, all In
to respectively California,
to Mrs, M.
Henrietta
110
Malnpe
NEW W. CC. T. LL.
New England,
Pine Tree State, has been honored in
the election of Mrs, Lillian M. N.
Stevens to the presidency of the Na
tional W. C. T. L.
For twenty-two years. Mri, Btevens
PRESIDENT.
and especially the
of the of Maine
National association by
nual elections, She
Inte Miss
ance work.
Mrs,
State branch of the
successive an
the Willard in her
Stevens was actively
political movement
Aroostook f¢
Maine,
York at
sickness
sew hers
to
ou ang «il
when was onlle New
the the of
and
Her official
tional W, C. T
death,
connectio
ohne
Hats of
trimmed,
gable
with little
and tails as they
and sealskin are
not animals’ heads
with
speckled
be. but
the
fashionable
also
mousseline
witht
ned to
pheasants’ feathers and
the recently
They
rosettes
of
hen. adorned
fluffy
and gleam here and
Jewelled ornaments,
An effective sealskin
small, though rather broad
toque, Is trimmed merely with two
of turquoise mousseline de
with am and a
steel daggar siadded with amethysts,
which caught at side,-
York Journal
are
f
of de
sole, there
hat shaped
roscttes
sole, thyst centres
is Lhe
GIRL'S APRON.
{Hints by Clara Lloyd)
This pretty and practical apron is
developed in zephyr glogham whose
ground is buff and cross lines of dark
blue.
of which
top of
epaulette
the bottom
gathered
rufiled
and back, to
attached the
A siraight
ig
sleeves,
The peck is finished with a narrow
hom secured by machine stitching fine
fishes the bottom of the skirt,
Three yards of 30-inch material are
required to make this apron for a
child of six years,
No. 416 is cut in sizes from
tel years.
two fo
ns o—
HANDKERCHIEF 15
THE STYLE.
Fashionable women
the long popular embroidered hand-
nor even the dainty lace
monchoirs that were for a
universal favorites,
array of cheap em-
broidered and lace trimmed ones to be
found in all the shops is responsible
for fashion's fickleness. The woman
who commonplace things and
drops a style after it ceases to be ex-
clusive Is now using handkerchiefs of
severest simplicity, They are
the very finest linen, sheer
and filmy as a cobweb, with a narrow
hemstitehed edge. ln one corner, in
delicate and simple of trae-
initinls, must
a flourish embrolderer’s
10
A PLAIN
no longer use
Doubtless the
abhors
made of
the most
are her but there
not be of the
needle these jetters.
The handkerchief must depend for
exquisite quality of
ind the perfection of the
Elaborate
style upon the
1
ery Monograms,
name of the
jot
The only
Test
at unique
te
have the
initials,
a
» plain
pial
longer
r abot
linen
an equally
with
with
ENIFS BILVER
igio-Naxon race
mes, so sples
“Bailors’
who
ago,
fellow
the op
during
10 ap-
is need-
of her
but
than that
it
royal pavy
fe
iy obtain
was fol
similar
Last
more
tem-
jon 1.
“Sailors
as mon
Rest
M us,
» DAYY,
her
he value
Miss Weston
of seamed
£4
1 mn hy
ENE O31 D5
8 propor
: '
on
sew Of TOW
benefited
“mothering” pro-
all hearts by Lor
of life and her
great service
a seaport
The men of the navy have
enormously by her
., for
she has won
constant devotion to the
upon which of Britain de
pends. Thousands of British séamen
have been taught by her unpretentious
the honor
of
that
and daughters have
the hands the
New York Herald.
words
and
the
no
benefits
ours can
sailors’
reaped at
Friend." —
of
GLEANINGE FROM SHOPS.
Imported gowns velvet
pligue and chenille trimmings,
Flannel petticoats with a torchon
lace flonnce run with satin ribbon.
Jewelled belt clasps with an enam-
elled background in bright colors
Fancy black silks in new moire,
striped, dotted, damas and barre ef.
fects,
Collar
vandyked
color,
Lace insertions in wavy or scalloped
shape that set especially well on &
skirt.
Plain and dark plaid cloths for golf
skirts, rugs and capes with bright
plaid lining.
Dress trimmings of appliques in
silk with stems aod leaves of beads,
gilt, spangles, ete,
Plain taffeta petticoats having a
deep flounce of chenille-dotted silk of
the same color,
Evening nets embroidered in tha
nille as a border and upright designs
mingled with spangles,
Hair orpaments of satin ribbon
wired bowknots, net and spangled
wings and bowknots of spangles,
Tucked, corded, appliqued and cute
out effects in silk and satin as wel 58
embroidered for fronts, yokes, etc.
Overpowering A Crazy Maa,
A novel way of securing a crazy
man was used in Prineville, Ore, re
sion of a friend's house and with a
butcher's knife defied the officers
They bad the brass band play on the
corner, and when the patient laid
THE
with ap-
taffeta,
shades of a
of accordion-plaited
and in three