FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. NOTES OF INTEREST ON AGRI- CULTURAL TOPICS. ——— Muning, Eee. Alfalia for Stock Peed, All through the arid States of the West the alfalfa clover succeeds better than our commen red varieties. It has the advantage also of remaining in the ground several years when it is once fajzdy rooted. The alfalfa roots go down much weeper than red clover roots, and in this way keep green in dry weather that curls the red clover Yet the alfalfa undoubtedly evapo rates more moisture than red clover, as it makes a larger growth, Secure Cood Milkers, Thete are comparatively few where the milking is now done by women and children. Their hangs are not strong enough to do the work ef fectively, and a slow milker tires the cow that she is apt to hold up the last milk, which Is ric This dries the cow off. It is the interest of the farm er to hire only men who are used to milking, who are kind to all animals. and especially when they are milking Whoever beils 8 cow, or even speaks loudly to her to frighten her, sens her product in the milk pail ‘hest, ns les. Necessary for Intelligent Pruning. In pruning should be governed by the habit of grow and nature of the plant to be operated upon. If an apple tree nursery the orchardist Id have a wellde fined object in mind as relates to the symmetry and proper development of the tree in future irs: incidental these are the production of fruit and the ty of the tree ruined be fore they attain to the middle. period of usefulness profit by family praning trunks down and stubs of large branches and hollow hearted. A knowlsdge of the habits of grawth of the speci to be pruned, as well as particular of var Ces, one th from the recently shou % Ver i well-being and longerd Many trees become and split rotten “ trees Is necessary Beekeeping the Farm, Any farmer for keeping bess i would soon find that twenty or of furnish ith several hu honey annually, a family's needs, with a converted into enue on the hn probably less tr pensive om Wier bees world hii colonies Ww lireds pounds of sufficiency for his own fo handsome res surplus ber gia «+ a as isin Keeping bees is sirdiler and less ex of SOE department pendent than any other farm table luxury bes tained from ness iS an extremes the work Inde of the financial revenue to and ol pk jealture, the busi fascinating one to persons who enjoy a study patare through this partic nin Where it of GUree ww are planoed 1 Td Arges Ae : " ¥ » is propose i and y devote one fire ri el on try, the stant such profit would make the entre Ye speak with advisability o S on titpe to the ind in pany = work is very watehfulness is IRiry as tious of hard required to £ an £ btisinoess desirable, cference to (he ral colonies ie £5 } of tlivers is =o earnestly All KI of bees to th far which Has nnmbered 3 the various profi hie ent orprise 1 a syvsien fied undertaking advocated for the rural districts, whieh ean be the moneyed oro cessfully operated in our cllinate should be studi and develonod if “Xpeet we tard easful Atlanta J to realize =u prosperity in the futor yrnal, Turkey Raising, I have been raising turkeys for sev eral vears and find it ng Turkeys {0 manage when acquainted with their wavs Keep them gentle by feeding them day: it keeps them closer to the house amd they not apt to go off findd n Wheat bread is the best food for them When laying time idea to drive them vard and feed then will beolikely to Ins make a4 nest turkey as well as chick have timber. Make by putting some straw in it, enough for them to cover their eggs with: put an egg in it, and if the turkey is look- ing for a nest drive her to it, She will often be satistied with it, she begins sitting, if you want to change her to a different place it is it tie trouble to do it. Have the nest Of eggs ready. put the tarkey on the eggs, cloge the nest for a couple of days, The second day let her ont, is quite a pas not difficult wrt REN business, are wane every ate 10 a nest comes it Is a nto the hen house Some of them there, or they will You ean make on nests if yon a nest in the brash good close hy About the second time she comes off, she will be apt to go back of her own I seldom molest ny turkeys when they are sitting. They are very quiet aud are careful with thelr eggs. When eggs are ready to hateh, 1 examine them once or twice n day, gentle with the thon not do much harm, off : otherwise she will flop and kill the | have to sit on the eggs In order to mother young turkess, After she com. meneos to sit, If you have poults that | have been hatehod under chicken hens, you can give them to the turkey, she will be gs proud of them as If she had natehed them, Always raise the young ones with the turkey hen, It is a good fdea to put a few drops of conl oil In the drinking water for poults, Car bolle acid Is one of the hest things for fowls when they have the cholera; put a few drops in a gallon of water, —8, 12. i. Bancroft in the Epitomist, Stomach Worms in Sheep. A. W. Bitting., the veterinarian of claims that the numerous losses of sheep, especially spring lambs, Is large. The symptoms of the disease produced by this worm are characteristic and therefore not admit of a close description, They are dullness, languor, loss of ap- petite, increased thirst with or with- out diarrhoea, usually some accumula- tion of serum in the space between the lower jaws, and paleness of the muc- ous membrane, In acute cases there are symptoms of colie and the animal will ent decayed wood, earth, ete, In die. The duration of the disease is from a few days to a week or more, The parasite which causes the dis- is found in the fourth stomach, It ix quite small, being only about one- half inch in length and as large around a leuen thread. They have the habit of collecting in masses and are thus readily mistaken for fibres of the food. If the sheep is killed and opened at once, the worms have a reddish ap- pearance, due to the blood w hich they have estracted from the wall of the stomach. In a short time they become pale. They entrance the stomach with ool while on pas. ture. The vermifuge, wetter than wormwoonl CH Ne as obtain to the in giving a and found ne siantonin, powdered When single indivi duals are to be treated, the former is nreferable, and given in doses of ene to four grains, depending upon the of the sheep. The a day for a week. When makes its appearance, eat the whole flock, and accomplished by mixing swowdered wormwood Salt fre- «OL wit treatment consists we have ye or 1 Wind = ze and age dose liven ouce =: ever the disease it Is well to tr this is best part of seed with eight viently, or stactly Ole the parts of salt, where it is Weekly Keen it accessible. The HOSS, Feeding Crain on the Farm, at unwilling the old Carme rs to fed g they are oblis ged to « have grown up with the be- fodder and hay are more economical than grain, and as to economize their raling try grain the grows if farm were to be sold in its original doubtless the grain would bring in propor- tion to the cost of getting it to market, Indeed, there large of coarse fodder grown on that are thelr nutritive sold, If it some good out of There is purt of many fo gHess on grain stock unless to NO, hey lief that even CORSE a desire is to save all the to 1 idea, farm ail the they urn into money. proiuee state, the most are amounts most farms proport aon to profitably ton bulky in to bw value to get possible them by feeding to be allowed rot into manure. Yet in feeding this bulky fosd so much of its nutri animal were pot stock, they must to down rough, tion and mak there is it with to hent, work animal Ommon experi feed thus to flesh all winter, nt if % make the expen ment of feeding grain with food it wotild minke their thrifty the manure pile cher, and would make the advantage instead of a goes Keeping ing the di little not up gestive organs that gain for the itself, ne ence who gave } Eis PW ” fall off in ‘spring #ioek pon its close, siel farmers would SOT this bulky stock nore make much ri bulky food an of loss to i Concentrated if we Source % Owner, nutrition is necessary would d Aros of a large coarse feed with profit, Eastern farms corn is the grain at can be most easily and profitably furnishes in its stalks amount roughness that re all the grain grown, with it to dispose of to the best advantage. But we helleve it possible with good stock to foexia for feeding to plement the corn grain that will be of even greater advantage. Linseed and cottonseed meal are so rich feeds tha great care is required in feeding them, hey are nitrogenous feeds, and are therefore better fitted to supplement of the foods, like straw whose nutrition chiefly carboneceonus, When we feed corn grain amd corn stalks, together there is not wide enough differsnce be. tween them to make the best ration. When we add a small proportion of linseod or meal, most of whose Inereasedd cost will be returned in the manure pile, it enables the ani mal to digest the whole ration more perfectly, Where the policy of purchasing these concentrated meals to feed with coarse fodder ix generally adopted, it will amount «f rough Om 10st +5 cwn, umd that a great quires & of purchase sup- fost COnRrse is cot ton seed it is generally fed, does neither stock nor its owner much good, The farmer, instead of throwing it ont as will care for his fone before. While they are of little ts be fed alone, they become valuable as an adjunct to feeding a them, ~The € Sultivator, A Salvation, Yet His Ruin, “Yeu, his business reputation blasted.” “How did it happen?” “le dropped a can of his new-pro- Ceoss dynamite” “Blasted him, eh! “No, it didn't go | Plain Dealer. ia Blew him up?” oft." Cleveland any of the papers this morning. ~ Punch. : UNCLE SAM A SOLDIER'S HEIR. | Musician Benson's Saving of $4,000 | Revert to the War Department, Principal Musician George VW. Ben- gon died as he had lived, a brave sol- dier and an honest man, In his long service with the Eleventh Infantry, U. | 8. A. he had saved $4,000, He left no i heirs and the money, under the law, | will revert to the War Department. Benson's body was buried in Cypress | Hills Cemetery a few days ago, A sol dier’s burial was given to him, Ben. son's regiment is in Porto Rico guard. | ing the new possession. Boys of Bat. tery A, Fifth United States Artillery, fired the three rounds blank over his grave, i Benson entered the service eighteen years ago. He was then thirty-seven years old, He never marrieu and his near relatives died vears ago, He laid aside his savings with the adjutant. As they Increased hey were turned over to the paymaster, Benson rose steadily from the ranks until he gained his coveted appoint ment on the non-commissioned officers’ staff of the Eleventh Regiment. Then came the eall for foreign vice. Benson was fifty-five, With his regiment he went through the Santiago campaign. He Inid aside his cornet for t “Krag.” and when not in the trenches he helped bring up tions to the front A year to a day before was on the hills before Santing ing for Uncle 8am and the glory of the Eleventh. From Santiago the Eles went into the Porto Rican cam Days on the and nights told Benson The got into his bones, He fought wks Hee to die, and death's dis the pital at ew York World. srr ammunition or ra he » ight ix death enth paign. in the fever off all winter, wis sent home march trenches on bit =iXx w i HEO charge came lo hos Gos ernar’s Island. —N A Baby irl Mascot. The officers of the Seventeenth reg ment of Freaeh Chasseurs have ed a girl baby The French regin ally have Americans the Spanish men American n papers published them, and always eager for Now, the Frencd dogs and goats adopt as a regiment mascot ents do not usa pets, ish do Mascols as the and Br American war the or Iruring Freach heard & gre about hee ASCOT “Xi quite Anglo-Baxon does of fair sex and the selection str th the 3, 1 14% ph kes the Fret improvement of fdea Several hasseurs doused in a bouillet, ti ken to a fo floors officers found little aban railway carriage at Ram here tt) wird t ' where € regiment is = onsdd. The babs wotild have beet ndling asylum, but the ind hearted and gmor, decided the fate. Tix barracks and all Brees) of being K good h to save her fre to heerfully to adopt v daughter the regiment Arrangeinents sergeant’'s wife to little the f girl will in regit ita expense nent go ft It has wen suggested that will trouble when the regiment goat or a mo cot entail a great deal me wide than had Key Rows up 3 ‘ id OR. adopted a Boston Giols 0 In Winter. asked. "Where sinter?” Thix i= a for and of natural are no litle flies of the small ones being different in Ores, i Wanere Flies Some one flies in question of some fiy is born fully gize, and tlhe same easionally kind from the large fils bite but gathers its has gO the interest, a house grown there Species, Oo observed Lions skin Of he or pieree thie by a tongue, the varnish from it thus tickles upon whom it to feed upon the perspiration and ix a vehicle diseases ar look not weil comb rake or brush®ike with which it is able to scrape cavers of books, aud the skin persons nlights, A fiy i= a scavenger, by which contagious spread. It poisons wounds, and may carry deadly virus from decaying ganic matter into food It retires from sight at the beginning of winter but where it goes few people Know If a search of the house be made | flies will be found in great numbers secreted in warm places in the goof or between the partitions of foors Last winter an architect had ocean gion to examine a roof. and found around the chimpey myriads of flies hibernating comfortably, and ciently alive to fly “in overpowering clouds.” thiz Is a favorite winter of or resort The Dog and the Roothinck. iginator had reaped quite a harvest, The bootblack hax a dog, one of the ordinary boardyard beasts, which is very susceptible to training, and the shiver, when business was slow, be. theught him of a good plan to make it brisk. As a result, he went to work as a trainer, and soon had his dog well enough trained to spring the pew invention. Neveral weeks went by before it was discovered that the boothlack was not only in the ghoe- cleaning business, but also made practice of dirtyiog the shoes and trousers of men who passed near his stand. Young “Shine themaup” had taught the dog to walk ln the muddy gutters and then jump up In a play. ful way at men who passed by, with thw} result that the animal made the shoes anything but "presentable, nine cases out of ten the bootblack was called upon to clean the shoes The not to loiter around the stand, and thus the fact that the bootblack owned the animal wis not found out, Finally the boot black told the secret of his brisk busi. near by, who it his duty to inform the po Now the cleaner of footwear is allowed have the dog at his place of business.--Philadelphia Rec comm to Costly Care for Osiriches, There was a happening at the os trich farm recently which disproves the theory that the ostrich is fied] with eating nails, barbed and the like. A man who had visited the farm the day before that his gold watch Thinking that he might ut the farm, he returned it, When he arrived of a youth quest, withont hope of finding first thing an ostrich It been miatis wire discovered missing have it for fies thi and® started entertaining mudd About tie youth LE lowe look enlisted LEH] the watel. ed In something wateh, swallowed if noth the Ww in the wort le Hol Bap as Tossing air, the and have been a wis had it 301d ae it glass-faced watch, both sides were he the pened that todged in the beak next day the of birds swallowed a an of oue it setting ol valuation hanesd E50 the inadyve the hird by Arizona Hepublican Wilk on diamon from wWolnan visitot who rtenly console caressing Most Popular Wedding Day fis the day of the week is We wedding day. So far concerned, © Anti in th juarinn te weekdays final Frid of godde ax after ought to be luck and misfortune ike Juno, a patross mit no English or ever devold of to take the risk Friday has Frea we given Wednesday, bat ti weekday Frea, as an who vYorite seni aay of Mig the olix, To the ny © Wade ably « aused than Ly any Wiosder the either day in and therefore it affords the preceding Sunda) before Rem ved Lonis Glass fnyention 1n of date ¢ Machine Blower for A new Blow pipe Working. out i glassworking fr Jil maxes Instt chimpeys and five LiDDes as by Hs is it a hlank ArTies nade band and the mark fakes the and blows the hie regularity of rate of about mi Only four men ana boys are required chine, and it Hiss A Satisfactory Explanation, of Hustontville, tells (his Coulter, of Middiehs On Mr. Coniter was at 24 Frye of Jim re day when A Yery Young man fiend this ranger COIN INeN him “My friend, 1 am not you. but 1 would like to kuov comes that sO Follllg a man is bald? “is “When my sald there told them I di any.’ As Contlter wis : bers i x 343 Basis Was 0 ¥ with hotel A very He by on into A ug a came and way of rast sald t MY asking to gus how it ee was in this way he replied tine to get hair came Lie was none left but i dl. SD n't believe 1 cared fo red head du conversation Tonrnal, fi Yery satisntied fet stanford lute has in fie drop rior Heights of Which Birds Fly. Very few people realize at what tre mendous heights birds sometimes tra verse the air. Herons and wild ducks goose and swans, when traveling long distances, fly at great heights, often as mach as 2.000 feet, But it is tis hawk, and more particularly the vul ture tribe, that constantly wing the alr at far greater limits than these The common buzzard sples for carriot above the earth, an great condor of the Amdes har been watched through a powerful tele sweope floating at the amazing helgh of 27.000 feet, over five miles above sen level Fair All Around, George Selwyn had a strange pas sion for seeing dead bodies, especially those of his friends, He would go any distance to gratify this pursuit. Lon Holland was laid up very 1 at Hol land House shortly before his death George Selwyn sent to ask how he wis, and whether be would lke to sec Him, “Oh. by all means!” Lord Hol land answered, “If Um alive to-amor row 1 shall be delighted to see George and 1 know that If 1 am dead he will be delighted to see me.” ~The Argo naut, In 1880 it was “ewtiated that there wore 650,000 princes and other hered! tue number ins increased, NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX. ITEMS OF INTEREST ON NU- MEROUS FEMININE TOPICS. To Ward Of Wrinkles, —~A Woman's Unique Distinetion~Togues for Fall To Ward Of Wrinkles, Tepid baths are considered best for the skin, They are supposed to ward off wrinkles, and with the addition of a vigorous rub will keep the youthful and glowing A Woman's | nigue Distinction, A woman professor in a college fac- ulty of men is a novelty provided by Stanford University. Miss Lillian J, the work in psychology of Dr. Frank Angell, next year, Miss Martin Is gradunte of the class of 1880, at Gottingen University for vears, working in psychology, and in collaboration with Dr. G. E. Muller, professor of philosophy at Gottingen, prepared a treatise of 300 on titled “Analysis of Sensibility.” a She was several pages Togues for Fall, Toques, whether of tulle or straw, are now turned up in front or more decid- edly xo on the left the latter ar- rangement almost invariably need for trim wide, being chosen when flowers are ming. These are arranged in a large cluster covering the whole of the por tion of the turned.up brim, which rises rather higher than the crown, Medinm sized blogsoms—half ox eyed dalsles, poppies and for the early autumn asters and small vinhline most appropriate the purpose, For trimming bats, the yatrars. large blossoms are preferred. A wudden furore for grandifiora « lematis has lately been evinced, The perticular shades of and are the favorites in these and has belped to bring them Millinery Trade Review, open FrORes, cornflowers, are to on oe the mauve rstura to it onlors 1a 1ashion Wilhelmina's Beauntifal Neckince, Wilhelmina young Holland Queen, wore a recently in Paris that It was a thickness, snake colled the neckiace attracted much long gold chain of attached to which about eight around the chain. The head made of a magnificent diamond, and the flexible body was composed of various stones so closely set that not a belt of gold show 1. the olors gi realistic effect of scales. |1t the time that no matter how many yes she changed Ler gown in a day, WHE never k chain immediately surmised, arrived The charm ax “ratch snake tations were demanded at attention. medium was a inches In length, wos ving a Was sa nt i'n she wenn Without the Bomances were but nothing was at some known the once Quick Wit of An American Girl. A= one of onr conpirywomien was ; the rather the ing down fead from the A or four DArrow Bouse to 1K Em Young aita Were rican bassy, shi lies of foreign lega ons, who entire strangers induced them but wwrovent their Their politeness for did pot i personal “0 stand aside her to pass their making They that to CONTIesy audible weenie ments to take it for granted unknown ton ery v* I'rench sue wag an Americans “look at her yellow prety,’ sald Na, 1 i “Yes but she has { announced No. 2. “She has good teeth” “And an No, 4, “And she understands fectly,” said the owner of the enor mons mouth, turning suddenly upon thew, “and wonld like to say that her dress on white gaid No. 3 added en Yimous mouth,” French per This in French and with such an air of giving impersonal information no. twxly in particular, that it was quite had kindly helping to information out of a fo as if she been strangers gnide Daok. The men had janet enongh of mind flee from the premises London Correspondence Bt, Louis Globe Democrat, fo Concerning Feminine RBenaty., Is feminine beauty on the This is a question that is frequently asked nowadays of portrait painters, Rir Bdward Poynter, the president of the English Royal Academy, is empha. side of the question, Philadelphia artist gives several rea. sons why woilnen are less is that the men of the present century, especially American eu, fection In womankind, The gentle sex the change. and has prudently decided not to waste time in nourishing bodily charms, but bas turned its attention to more fmpertant things. This notion, according to the artist, is considered really deplorable, for in underestimat- ing the great gift of beanty the mod ern woman ix as busy as possible de- stroving it. She Is doing it by over. study for one thing. In payment for her book learning she is contracting her chest, extinguishing the brithtness of her eyes and ruining her complex. fon, Those who are carried away with athletics become horny-hapded and ruin the contour of their limbs; their faces become wonther beaten, and their hair rough. Io summing up his argument, the artist concludes that the whole course of our civilization is aguninst the growth of feminine beauty, % W—— . Miss Reel's Little Adventure. One of the most energetic as well as efficient officials in Washington is Miss Fatelle Reel, Superintendent of Indian but Is enthusiastic, and although she TOT, only received her appointment from Secretary Bliss two years ago she has | occomplished much for Indian whools i and scholars, Miss Reel is 8 Wyoming | girl, young, attractive and with lots of | the breeze of the Western plains. She has that “go-aheadedness” so charac teristic of the West, and for this rea son she has sccomplished so much for the Indian schools. Before her ap pointment she occupled a similar place {in Wyoming under the Rtate govern- ment, and is thoroughly familiar with her work, Miss Heel recently com pleted a two-months’ tour of the In | dian schools in the West, | Miss Reel had a number of experi ences during her tour of inspection, but perhaps one at a school in Oklaho- ma was the most exciting. During her i visit there, while was attending one of the sessions of the school, a des perate character of the neighborhood entered the school bullding and began beating the superintenfient. Miss Reel did not lose presence of mind or seream, as women would have done, but with her Western pluck she went to the assistanes of the superin. tendent and, grabbliog bis assailant by the coat tails, managed to pull him off and then gave such a thorough shaking that he stopped beating the superintendent, and 1 Wo man was getting him he turned and fled out of the schoolhouse, New York Mall and Express, she her most him seeing that the better of High- Since women have sible, broad toed, ff of the chvropodists have slack. But if Dame Rumor correctly, they'll soon be their and working meet demands, Our British cousins men's feet can girls always bad th about this matter, toes into narrow bleq like the dainty lit indies of China, 1 and the bicye been a change. are all right to dance in amount to a row of pins boating or wheeling or fis ing hills. And that mer girl of to-day ix doing most time. She up helpless, and air of heaven and the ture. The was a godsend Heeled Shoes Again. been wearing sen at-heeled boots most found business foretells up to brushing signs overtime that wo- Ameri ir own ideas and crammed their until they hob should look slioes le almond-eyed it, since the golf girl le girl, too, there louis XV. shoes but they don't where one 1g or climb the sum of the pinched fresh of na- shiome came has in & what doesn’t want to bw or CNIOYS the sunshine broad, comfortable after sharp-pointed her toes twisted raised like a after salvation ance more don from which she unchained? Every woman will declare that she will never again be a victim of short, narrow shoes, whatever the fashion may be. all right to say, but how have the courage to when all the rest of beskirted humanity is weariag Not it Fs ure years of misery footgear kept and her in And now, Colne, must with that together step flagpole lias painful horrors been but recently just she the has That's will sort of a many wear one shoe ROINe is io advo and ous other style? be feared. The ill be weibly the ¢ many phy cates w among the minority for exent. advanced women minded, it and « an Alexan rees of fash Alexan emininity’'s Times- I irls who go in ad an how i " low OO sx rts io un usual But matier may become, takes the of a Julius Caesar der to war against and Julins C are rather il das * > {hose no TO or strong energy nerve and Our Or en asesars and age tf 334 fon ders rare in b ago ranks Herald Noveltiea Seen Much white pigue Jade bangles wily or Plenty of new for the skirt Many black steel buckles, White-beaded elastic mond-shaped buckies, Separate bands In brig plaid ribbons for sailor White felt golf hats crepe de chine and long quilis. Gray felt golf hats adorned with birds instead of the regulation quill. Large shade hats made of shirred or lawn for the seashore and country with and without strings. Many quill-trimmed felt golf hats in the Shops. neckwear mounted with sterling ideas in sets of pias 3 velvet belts with cut belts with dia- ht plain and Aix I tr immed with | travelling, with shades of ferred. A great variety of whole birds, breasts and wings in white, gray, black and combinations of these for trim gray pre linery.—Dry Goods Economist, A Tame Mot er Bass Perhaps some of your readers would be interested In a little fish story by the way, is quite trae While on a short stay at Lake George 1 discoverad a large black bass abou per bed and hatched out the largest brood of young ones I ever saw at om time, Other fish seem to anboy her and I have seen her chase a pickere. twice and three times her sine, ; One of the small boys fishing off the doek hooked her, and Mrs, Bass gave him quite an exciting time, until some of the men came to his rescue anc succeeded in landing her on the dock where we took the hook out of her mouth and put her back to take care of her young. ¥he is now so tame thas the children throw her worms; and i is very interesting to see one of the gamest fish that swim eat her meals to the satisfaction of young and gs Forest and Stream, - A Bright Hea. mato aa In We cellar where 1 ally keep them, and 1 had a concealed then in a. 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