A ——- FARM AND GARDEN — MOTES OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. The Home Price of feed-~The Guinea Fowl ~0ats and Barley-~Bedding Tuberous Begonias, Etc, Etc. The Home Price of Feed. When farmers feed much that they produce to stock kept by themselves it is not fair to the stock to charge for fhe feed what it would bring in the market. Feeding at home saves much labor in marketing, and there is besides the manure pile, which returns to the soil a great deal of the plant If the stock is reasonably good it ought to pay the farm value of the grain und fodder that it eats. In that way farmer Is making more than he could by selling it. ty improving his stock the farmer can make It pay market prices for all the grain he feeds it, The Guinea Fowl fowl lays well, none rear voung with so little trouble or care to the owner. They hateh out in meadows or fields, and bring home S50 ta Tite If set and to rest when quite small reared under ordinary with the chickens, years packed great quantities euinea eggs in the fall; we use them all winter in every way: they well, the gulnea eggs chicken eggs ure sent to market. guinea fowls are ~{ountry Gentleman. Bedding Tuberous Begonias, Tuberous bego habit and chara better nnderstood nias have improved in by the open COIne ETOWErS, and are to-day among first plants for bedding Not least of and bloom mer in ground. the merits is profuse from until The varieties are early blossoms of nil shad Another thing in favor that vn successfully | ots. eit sum frost, ti several of but blue. ne plants i color 0 they may Ix TON ner 3 ¥ wg LY 1 © Open ZTounda « ing winter. The best 8 is rich yet rather sandy soil The bulbs may be planted in beds where they are to bloom. earlier blossoms will be had if bulb are started boxes, « usin sandy loam or leaf mold. in pots or Ig Pots should i0t and plenty be maeh larger than of nished by using stones and broken bits of pots in the bottom. © lightly with sail, moisten the soil tl ougidy, and Keep it moist, at all times, dow of the REVS ti the gtier sig the bulbs, drainage must be fur over the Or but not wet, Place the pots in the win repotting, up. 13 t HVIing folia rool, 18 ge sinris % LH 2 itly larger pot, changing to ¢ larcer one if bef to open ground, which will be NeCesSsary ore trans Fring in late May or early June fiw plants to be put into the out foor bed, soak the doil in the pot thor yaoghly hike with the ball of earth adhering to the I just deep enough so that the top will stand out of the ground, as it did in and dur done are £1 134 an Fools, the pot. ing the summer give an abund ance of water. After frost the bulbs should be taken up, dried somewhat in the sun and packed away in dry sand in the cellar until spring. Each year the blossoms will be finer from the old bulbs. Chicago Record. : Shade for Sweet Peas. At chose two sites with a v with unusually good success, onset 1 jew of ascertaining which was the better. One had a southern exposure, the lines extending east and west, entirely pro tected on north side, while upon ithe other dhe lines were planted to extend porth and south, front the east and protected on the west and aorta. The seeds were put in about the first week «of April. Those planted on the south side cane up first, and the vines grew tall and beautiful, while the others themsives above ground. vided wire netting and for those on the east side used ordinary twine fast envd to stakes set about three apart. 1 soon found the netting, al though by far the more convenient, by no means a good arrangement for the vines, for the wire, acting as a conductor of heat, withered and dried them so that by noon the stems hung timp and flabby, while the flowers bad fost their brilliancy of eolor. I began 40 notice this almost as soon as blos- soms appeared, and then watched to soe If the same thing occurred with my wast side vines. 1 found it did not, and also that the stems upon these opened than upon the others, ing. “40 the vines, o- a ———— the vines outran even this height and came near putting Mother Goose to shame by rivaling Jack's beanstalk, The stems were long and strong and the flowers, many of them, were as large ax are represented by the pie- tures in the seed growers’ catalogues which 1 had previously thought greatly exaggerated. These vines blossomed until the middle of October, by being protected from frosts, and were still green and flourishing when pulled up in order to prepare the ground for an- other season, The following year 1 planted only upon the eastern site, lines extending ners, and the results | good, were | favorable conditions as to soil | ful cutivation of sweet peas.—L. | land Homestead, Thin Seeding of Grain. Less grain per acre is sown In this whom three to three and one-half bushels of oats are often deemed nec | essary, | always moist, and as farming is gen | erally rich it needs this thick seeding to make the plants crowd each other { from the start and thus prevent luxuriant growth, Here such a seed ing on land of moderate fertility might not produce anything but the stoaw of grain without any heads. We 100 OLee at the end of the row that a wider balk was made than the single width | of the drill passing across the rows at Leach end would cover. We were only with the drill two bushels of seed per acre, s0 we thought, not to leave any balks, to drill twice across i sowing each end, though it made early dried up good appearance, and amounted a to | head out. If clean, sound, plump oats can be | liad, a bushel and a half drilled in with some phosphate is better than a great ow i er quantity. 1 0 here Is no crop, not even | wheat, to which conpuercial phosphate Ww it seeding of oats, which should the is so well adapted as the oat. this li | be always drilled early, we gave 1 a light harrowing just after the 10 come up. This ug 3 vt ween the ely covered the forth. to root Hore SHOES i root for every roves, The face soil, + wil il be broken, harrowing al the sit so that any crust formed by * ew jeaye t up =o quickly and so plent ill the season. af BO ore oriast Ww form on the surface ough such alway overs the ground at har srain vost ® with a better crop than can be got if y and one-half bushels per rnin comes up. fo if | from two to tw of FOWwWed weed] sown sere, but not har aiter the x such light and seed] than On rich The grain grown 8511] seeding is nearly full, and is worth more for grain grown in land with a fair 0 to 100 bushels of oats from so li ip always ple 3 the usual way season we have grown ght a seedling as one and one-half bushels Nor peed this be surprising. as a single oat grain has been Known to produce bearing a i head well it that as usually sown much of the seed oats fail to produce anything. Oats are often threshed while still damp I from the field, and if such oats are put | in close bins the vitality of their germ | is quickly destroyed by heating. To { make sure of getting sound seed onts | they should not be threshed until win- | ter, and pever Be allowed to heat in even the least degree. Every such seed put into the ground will not only grow, but it can be made to produce a hun. {dred fold, though this is bard to cure under ordinary crop conditions, All our grains are doubtless for our climate sown more thickly than Is necessary. More attention to the qual ity of seed and its ability to germinate would pay farmers better. Grain that will not grow, or that makes such a feeble growth that neighboring grain dwarfs it, ig about the most ex- pensive manure a farmer can use. Yet this 1s what many farmers are doing | with a large part of the seed grain that | they put into the soil, where it simply #iX 10 seven stems filled with oats. ix plain “er either | rots and furnishes plant food for the | weed that could germinate. — American Cultivator. Farm Items Keep a close watch on the chickens for croup. A swill of ground oats and barley is very good for sows and pigs. Add a little soaked corn as soon as the pigs are old enough to eat. Watch the hired man and see that he takes proper care of the horses. There is as much in caring for horses as there is in feeding. Stables should be well ventilated, lighted and deained: should have tight floors and walls, and be plainly con. structed. A person suffering from any disease, ous disease, must remain away from the cows and the milk. Bad ventilation in the cow stable is often the eause of bad butter, The cow breathes the foul alr and the milk becomes tainted. heen shown that rations rich In pro- tein are more conducive to rapid growth and finer general appearance ‘than rations rich in earbobhydrates, Af silage is fod to cows a short time before milking, an odor will be ob- READY MADE TEETH. i What Becomes of Them. teeth are manufactured and sold every, year. What becomes of them? It destructible, are made, tucket of The story Is told In Nan a sen captain who was a front teeth by accidental contact with a belaying pin. For some time he be- moaned his lost accomplishment, until he found that well with an artificial tooth whittled out of a plece of wood, When a per. carve out an incisor and put it in posi tion, Then the audience would walt until the tooth was swelled by the moisture of his moth so that it would not slip out. When plates were discovered and the dentist was able to supply a whole mouthful of new teeth, the teeth expert themselves were carved out of ivory, But constant grinding away the and these elephant teeth were not satisfactory. To-day all artificial teeth are made of porcelain, and will outlast a Methuse Inh. Those which thie trade “store teeth.” being carried in gtock by the big dental supply houses are manufactured in enormous quanti would wear ivory, are known in as fies, The porcelain mineral material, which con tains various proportions, is worked up like a sort of dough or plas ter. forced Into molds and fused by In fense heat In a furnace Each tooth is coverssl with and Las one or enanel, more metal pins in the back to hold it to the plate Ii large lots these eth ean be made VP YT there Is one item 1 iu cheaply, but nd etal holding expense thnt cannot GYoercome,. a that is the the pin. The « gr a 1 stand the in ost dq «114 fi 3 i Era at of thie nin is platinum, and th wits nt ing i gens of furnace the rate of a cent a pin « A great in ex} sbstitute f raw material, hs been spent werimes SOIR or bu en 1 the standard fs ued bLiy ¥ $ Ges, red sit publi fang other ¥ prominent [x Own tf ii reproduced culinrities of form and 5 tien told as all ie watohes The teeth are set in plates of gold and aluminum, but num plate upon which has been | a lining of tinted poreelain similar to that used. for gum work, Tinted plates as the teeth, bat the shrinks in the firing, the fitting of such HE porcelain And now for the answer to the ques are lost, sometimes sometimes left as o fam- Generally, however, they thes that second it is is quite a occasionally suggested bikiness in traffic it is not of large proportions. of regular teethmakers they are smashed up to get the platinum out. Not long ago a man who found a said that 10 cents a set was all they were worth to any one but the person whom they fitted, The expensive teeth are not market. able, and the marketable teeth are not expensive. That is the whasls thing in a nutshell + Yet teeth have been used over. A lady went to a dentist with a set of teeth which had belonged to her mother, who was dead, She sald that she had wore them, and now that her own were gone she wanted the old set remotnted for herself, It was done. Boston Herald, A ANSARI Smithers’ Retort Sarcastic. Mr. Smithers is a somewhat fastidi- ous young man who is looking for a pew boarding-place. Bmithers can't abide the regulation boarding house and always tries to Jive with a private family. Tle is now convineed that an “ad” which solicits boarders for a for a stuffy, double flat, inhabited by one small family and 24 boarders, Sniithers ealled one day last week at # place with a glowing description just on the flank of Micligan avenue his suspicions, but he had gone too far then to back out. A sharp-nosed, snip- py landlady came in, with a top-lofty air, “Kr-ah, I believe 1 am mistaken,” he began. “I supposed 1 should find a private family. By the advertisement hu-m The laughter and the familiar board- o" ten lady stenographers came up from the dinlng-room in the basement. The * “You are efitirely mistaken, sir,” she we have a few friends living with us.” Smithers sniffed the alr. There was a distinct odor of prunes and corned beef, “Well, I must say.” he remarked, ns he turned up his cont collar and fled down the steps, “that it smells lke a boarding-house, madam.” Chicago Record, THE HEN'S WORK. Scientific Data as to Eggs-—-At 25 Cents a Dozen They Are Extravagant The Agricultural Department, through its experiment stations, has food value of o a large num- American eres at the various stations, an egg on and percentage of com- 10.5: water, 046; fat, A side of beef con- an about the percentage of protein, but a larger per- of fat. Egg the nous group of foods, and would amd quite property i materials sup investigating the According t made wend hen's eggs. ber of analyses of af average weighs two ounces follow] Shell, and ash, 00, ins the position: La tains on average same centage 8 belong to be com witl carbohydrates {sugar such California ahiiect as cereals, potatoes, ete, experiment station examination to determine whether there was hasis of fact for the popular opin brown shells have those with said by some richer than » poknessed i dif pnute Min was di nis ry of brea found the was digested. which and it > £ ¥ - 4 » “4% i 00 to 05 per cent vis} ye¥ a % ait ONS, wi taroiein usion that ef i nutritive gs do really [ro® NRE i hig which ar to be popularly supposed long to then kinds and nx to the fmounts ons occupations and the relative cost foods the Department finds that, compared with other foods at the usual prices, eggs at twelve couts per dozen are a cheap source of nutrients; st sixteen cents per dozen they are {alrly expensive, while at twenty-five cents a dozen and over they are ex- travagant, of such Seme Fish. The followers of Izaak Walton on FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. A MISSPELLED TAIL, A little buoy said: ‘Mother deer | May Eye go out too play i The son is bright, the heir is clear, | Owe! mother, don't say neigh!” | “(io fourth, my sun,” the mother said; His ant said: “Take ewer slay, Your gneiss knew sled, all painted read, Butt dew knot lose ewer weigh,” “Ah, know!" he cried, and sought the sirset With bart sew full of gleo— The weather changed and snow and sleet And reign fell fierce and free, Threw snowdrifts grate, threw wat'ry pool, He flue with mite and mane— Said he: Though I wood walk by rule, Eye am knot write, 'tis plane. “Ide like two meat some kindly sole For hear gnu dangers weight, And yonder stairs a treacherous whole; To sloe has bin my gate, “‘A peace of bread, a gneiss hot stake, Fwed chews if Eye were home: This cruel fate my heart will brake, I love knot thus too Home. “I'm week and pail; I've mist mY rode” Butt hear a carte came passed— He and his sled were safely toad Back two his home at last, Hpriver'' ANTS In Africa there are ants that travel at night in great droves and visit every in the Then svery- in that wakes right up hurries the sireets "ne 3 3 2 3 They nave to, 80 do the dogs and house body village, house ana out into and the cats and the rats and the spiders i the cockroaches and everything we, for o hungry, and IBNY « fithem has life and can nu these ure so fierce an , 1hat every way or be take them ing everything for the peo io not keep one time, ana JAPAN, Japan schol i ear al aren new parents, fo five cents pnis for 1 re ¢, thereiore, spe inliy From five years npward the chil do their begging ‘by themselves the age fourteen or id4 pretext of paper and other rubbish, they prowl round hie courtyards of the he Their weapon a long stick, the end of w steeped in glue, aud with which in removing from open windows, ete, filteen, uu 8 “wa 5 g Wasi gatberin uses and com nenee to steal. usual in hich 1s ney ’ rifles At gixteen they are taught the art of picking pockets with skill and dis- patch, and from the rank of beggars rise to the rank of thieves. Daily lessons are given to the young thieves by the chiefs of each band, and the The whole thing has been reduced to a the gentle art (with a line alone) from seeing the line depending of one of the main deck ports and gave it a couple of violent tugs, in imitation of a fish biting. Up the line was hanled with alacrity, but, of course, with no Once again the “sab” essayed him so heavy a bite. This time the middy’'s plan was more elaborate, for getting a companion to keep the neces. sary strain upon the upper portion, he panied up the lower part of the fshing fine and attached to the hooks an old shoe, an empty bottle, a holy-stone, and a sardine tin, Having carefully lowered these to the full extent of the line, he gave it a more powerful puli that ever, and the expectant fisherman above hauled in as fast as he could, But his language, when he discovered the nature of Lis “eatelr,” is too much to ask even an unfortunate compositor to set up in cold type.~The Cornhill, The Mother-indaw in Court This didn’t happen in Georgia, but It “happened” just the same. “My mother-in-law ix the eause of all my troubles,” sald the prisoner when arraigned before the magistrate for failure to support his wife. J “You should have courted your motherdn-daty,” sald the judge, “and then you would not have any trouble. courted my motherdndaw,” sald the Ro hi * burglary are carefully taught in every detail, specialists having been known to go to the large European capitals to study different methods of ab- siracting a purse. Such a one some- times has as many as 160 shrewd pupils at a time under his tutelage. The whole thieven' colony is re- garded by a code of laws, and these are administered with the ntmost se- verity. The youngest thieves keep ten per cent of their earnings, the better class of pickpockets forty per cent, and some fifty per cent, or even sixty per cent. The surplus of the profits is invested in the teaching of | pupils, and employed as the chiefs of | the community deem necessary for the | general well being. The thieves are great adepts in disguise, and it is very difficalt for the peoiice to catch them red-handed, | TAME SQUIRRELS, | carry had gone with bis mother to market, and had spent the only three nnies he had in the world in bay. ng peanuts for the squirrels in the groands of the State House. There | were 6 great many of the little ani. | mals, and in the trees were boxes in which they made their homes. As Harry and his mother entered the grounds an old woman with a big basket on her arm fall of provisions brushed them, She had gone only a little way waen she n the irrols skipping the grass, She stemned or and stopped distance she looked back and saw that the basket was almost hidden from view by the squirrels, which were greedily devonring a bag of pop-corn they had broken open, Harry could not help laughing at the old woman's fright; but he brushed carried it to her, the little animals running after him. The old woman was very glad to get her basket again, and very much surprised to see Harry stand still and let the squirrels run all over him to get the peanuts in his pockets, under his collar, and in his little red mittens. It was great fun for him and for the squirrels, too; but the old woman thought it very dangerous sport, “*1{ I were vour mother you shouldn't do that,” she suid, as she walked away. Harry looked up at his mother and laughed, “I'm glad Ihave a mother who isn't afraid of tame squirrels,” he said, es — DOROTHY DREW AND ¥ Dorothy Drew's own account of her visit to the queen is given in a sketeh of the you grand-daughter of the inte Mr. in The Young Woman: Her first of Windsor Castle from the train moved her to reflect that it was * just as nice as our castle.” Then she came very near getting ex- cited, horses and the royal carriage that came to meet them, with the footman behind and the groom on horseback in front, pleasing her very much. And Princess Beatrice met them at the door, Doro- thy, forgetting that queens do not meet their subjects on doorsteps, imagined that the princes was her Dorothy st relates how she and her mother had alittle sitting- recom and a bedroom, with big fives, all made, just as if i ug; THE QUEEN, y ng (rladstone view the two white wh iii majesty, ; ’ with tl ana nig with “the one Was Yery nice goin stay all sat down grownups,”’ and how fliey were ow they innuehieon ¥ $ : ue who sat by me “Have YOu ever ing i * the queen be- # i y wn: gs 44% V 2 aul i tue MOAY-in-waiting asked slic wens on he: « and how in red aS walt the queen - and be- 1o0F. stood Om had i for Dorothy Anocluer wolnas her sixty was just imamma, sead, ES er gra with and ber, 1 her her name was ““Dorsie’’; that y had pet le, and so on and so on, ing | des a white cap on Le Dorothy courtesied and kissed and smes at the and many revealed fii el nanies re glasses and aer side of nid see me “aud then and said: (queen pui 3 10 86 10 #0 that Hy expialins, she co 5 EWel Case ing and saw § dar little ith a diamond V and a dia turquois I. and a little wade of rd enamel 1 hand and She courtesied aid, ‘Thank ) ovked very nice and kind, and liked ber ve ym nel,’ Ti the kissed the little debutante again and Dorothy and her mother returned to town The story ix also told that at Ha. warden one morning Dorothy refnsed to get up. When sll other means had failed to coax her out of bed, Mr (Gladstone was called. “Why won't you get up, my child ¥” he asked. “Why, grandfather, didn't you tell me to do what the Bible says?” asked Dorothy. “Yes, certainly.” “Well, it disapproves of early ris- ing; says it's a waste of time. Mr. Gladstone knew his Bible better than most men, but he was not equal to Dorothy. For once in his life he was non plnssed, “Yon listen, then.” went on Doro. mach, en gqiieen astonishment, and turning up her Bible she read the second verse of the 127th Psalm, laying great em- phasis on the first words, ‘‘It is vain New Disease for Women. Some local doctors are treating a new trouble known as dog palsy. Most of have been traveling about the streets, each holding a chain or cord, to which is attached a dog. The lively fox ter. riers ave responsible for the most ag. gravated cases of the palsy, as they jump about so much when out for an airing. The hand, vsually the tight, shakes and swings when free, just as it a dog were pulling at it on the end Bulldog palsy is less pro. noanced, though it is =aid that the steady pull of that breed has length. ened many a pet owner's arm. The treatment for the palsy is sywolute rest for the arm, and an admonition not to lead or, rather, follow the dog with a chain. Philadelphia Record,
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