FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. NOTES OF INTEREST ON AGRI- CULTURAL TOPICS. fave a Rotation ¢ Crops--Tapplog Sugar Orchards ~ Feed and Drink for Cows Poultry on the Farm, etc. Have a Rotation of Crops. fertil time rotation which will maintain the Hy of his farm and at the same give a yearly profit, To maintain the fertility, the larger part of the farm should be should the ma be which and should as concentrated grains, be fed to the live nure of these animals turned to the land. stock, ie Tapping Sugar Orchards, We should advise those whose maple frees were badly injured by the forest caterpillar the past decide not to tap them next spring. Where sedson to wis in many there was a great drain upon the tree to replace it, oven there when a fruit allowed to overbear. It needs a the next year to recover from it, E is likely to as dt CHses, us is tree is rest yen In thin and of poor quality, making but little. sugar, and the will in Jured for future crops, if not killed by the drain. We expect the temptation will ba and high fa single crop than to if it yields some sap it free he Der sear ftor lose sreit. as sugar may hut a farmer had be destroy chard. There the Experiment Station say left by the © 20 badly Ss one encourag re entomologist of the cocoons mies fit of producti i f here wie wi Sut farn when eo are highest in price, what the be if the farmer build warm houses and feed properly? The town and eity make money after buying all their feed, The farmer need buy little. He has every thing needed on the farm, at first cost. except green bone bonemeal. Not to utiliz: this source of profit is simpls recklessness that verges upon positive madiess. ~The Epitomist, is noi profitable the thie fit in [tp prot n poultry it I8 on ine average when hens do not lay gas might profits should bir coders or Peaches a Profitable Crop The safest and location for peach trees is on an elevation, prefer ably a ridge with fairly “fertile soil and good air drainage. The grower should thoroughly understand bis soll end know something of chemistry in erder that he may be able to supply the right kind of plant food, as other wise the land wonld become exhausted and fallure result under conditions that in every other way are favorable, He must have confidence in the busi ness and be able to withstand reverses, for these are sure to come at some time, & As with most fruit, a large pereont age of the peach is water and conse. quently in order to be successful in producing penches the moisture mnst Ye carefully attended to, do not Hike stagnant water and will die if placed on land where the dralosge is not good, but the soll must be kept cul sivated and In the condition eof a sponge so that the moisture will be absorbed and retained In snfficient quantity to supply the trees when the fruit is being formed, and later when the dry season approssiios, Dest enltivation over a neres, prevented, Different soils of will require different treatment, I be lieve In growing first having the orchard This will require strict attention to but If this Is given, peach will be profitable. Keep the coil in the condition Eponge, ag stated fibove, sell peaches in baskets, class peaches and thoroughly clean. business, of a will be a sure sonree of profit.—John I. Boyer in Ovange Judd Farmer, Small Flock System, The poultryman who keeps a small of poultry in a village yard to think that he could much better if he was on a farm where he could have larger buildings and not in do amd we had a farm as Rhode Island, chicken should be en with a wire fence they could not get could not tried both that if we Nite of have now Wa Ways, large as the hen closed in a and yard that dogs and every Ni ont, or foxes got in. And the yards should not be so lapge that could not easily look over It every day to see that there were no that none were laying the house. We might have each fAock if we had and if we had no other We hens, and of sick outside two yards for them, to attend several flocks, but they should be Kept space for business to we might have separate every day in the year Nor should we want more than 25 or +0 hens or chickens in one Hoek, which arge house the would not require a very We kn Inrger outlay necessary believe and it that i diseases hegan In one Ow it this or large vard would make n for the same numbers out we extra profits would repay th advantage Cras $ in Orchards. Fog n They orchards sie Tes #34 : pro fgets rees wo low slight mulch of be grass from will rampant, and i that we soil i rains and {oO also t will It orchard growing ti loosen beneath so be easily pern able bs The Letter Hy ing “nows low trained will also b protected hy than the orchard trunks trained high with nothing near ground winter from sweeping the snow away, But the trunks of such trees should be banked up with earth In the fall so as mice from gnawing the thus destroying the tree should grass or mulch be al lowed to He under the trees In winter, as this makes just the Kind of harbor that mice like, If the limbs hang low some of them may be weighted down by snow. and the tender bark on the small branches will suffer. But this is “now are the winds whose to prevent the to prevent bark and Neither i bark around the trunk as they will often do, thus destroying it entirely. We have seen the same destructive work by mice where corn stooks were made in orchards, and left as winter trunks of young is a favorite hiding winter, as it fur and food. But mice have a strong liking for the sweet bark of young apple trees, and will not miss any chance given them of getting it when the green food that they find abundant in summer cannot be had. — American Cultivator. trees. A corn stook Some of These Fighting the Boers. It is well known that Lord Salisbury has a son fighting at Mafeking. that the Secretary of State for War has two sons at the front dha that almost every member of the government is nen kinsmen, Lord George Hamil dience that, bestdes n son at Lady. smith, he hag no less than thirteen nephews now fighting for the Queen, — London Tablet, Chileago uses 4,000,000,000 pounds of ice a year, WOUNDS IN MODERN WARFARE, Treatment, Boltwood, of Oitawid, who was in the Civil War, and manded a company in the hansas, writes interestingly of the ef fect of bullets ax follows: “Great as the Im rovements in fire SOE 10 that they have been as great in surgery, War a man was placed on a stretcher and carried back to the field hospital, without blood, paced the operating table, the wound probed for the or amputation performed If thought nee essury, the part bandaged, sod, rule, coll water applied for several dav <, Many doath wd, and often gangrene in the hospitals with very fatal effect, “Now, when a man wounded, the hospital men come up, and before the nn han There the men is 1 taken il remains until Captain nizo com Twentieth Lave been fnroes, if ue on buliet, ny rot Is sitbject is moved antiseptic daze is po field hos pital, streteher is applied but placed on a spot des. he can ! On i i Sole lznated, where he hae his mos removed to the base hospita arrival there the bandage 1, a new one applied ally pot disturbed applied, ans itil gen hia allowed In rae On fracture placed tin 10 get CVel appeared and up Heed filled four CInovYedd inch in places through. for a ballet passed axed as loopholes to fire * fire HOLS Although und at short range foaney twenty-four tot through the brick. many of them ] not even penetrating far enough to stick. every that struck tim through. Rice dykes one amd a half to two feet thick also prove a good protection.” while one the AFTER THE GOLD BOOMS. importance of the Reactions i Determining Population. “The law that settlers follow the line of least resistance suffers an ex- when men seek gold” says a writer in Ainslee’s who goes on to prove it, “In the natural order of things, population would have worked work the Rocky Mountains, them only by compulsion, as the Alle ghanies were crossed and the Missis. sippi and the Missouri Rivers. . But law, Humanity goes ints Alaska with the same blind avidity (hat it went into Californian fifty years ago, with the same fatoousness that it swept to Pike's Peak in 1858, Popula- tion forsook all its domiclles, its pa- tronages and its prosperity, in the gonaut period, and, as if driven gome monstrous wind, surged over the uneven earth to the Pacific and to the Rockies, The whole world Enows how it did so, and the sulfering that ene sued is as common a story as the for- tunes that were won, But the thing that is pot known, the matter of last ing importance that is most often over. looked, is the migratory reaction, the settling back of the big flood to the places in which, either by necessity or by cholee, It must finally rest. The character of the Great West, the Trans-Missourl, with its multiple var intions, Is determined by this phenom: enon, by of A map and a book eensus statis It is the story of the oll from the pitcher again, Men nnd totched the continent Leadville, 1808, back ngain ixties were expired The i the val 2 &1- fo the and women crest of the in Colorado, in plains it fell before bt into the the ¢ Mormon emigration fill of the Jordan in 1847, but eral tide of people either went lower valleys of the Sacramento the receded on Sue of the Sierra Nevadas, or tockies, enticed Northern but the discoveries into Columbia, cessive mining and British Comstock gliver set the Virginia many Oregon. Where the Consolidated mines once magnetized tlers as to beguile Congress into mak State of Nevada, there little the evidence of what | 8 ing a left been and the promise of what may be js now but bins when the immigration of the West be again for less promises than acres of oranges for the tilling of the soll, for the mere hewing logs, The mesas of the western te Arizonas and Mexico, hosts of traders and gins to move glorious monsier the South Ni Here and timber of Iwo rritories, absorbed the seein to have adventurers that went into them, as the sandy soll ol their great areas drink i fm from the mountains CONTRASTS AT CAPETOWN, Plucky British Officers and Ignobie Johan nisburg Refugees. Ralph tiie know they are going against r4, guerrillas and shary shooters” who pick off British officers the proportion of te of pri pro They wideawake, abounding “tushwhacke ) in n fo one vale well health and high spirits In Cape Town Mr, Ralph found an- other type of British civilization--the rich refugees from Johannesburg, He found the hotels full of these merchant millionaires, “faring on the fat of the land, idle, loafing all of every day, rath are informea, in animal losses the British government will pay when they put in thelr claims at the These men talk of the 2125000000 in danger of destruc. tion in Johannesburg, with never a thought of the precious lives that it will cost to make Johannesburg safe for them to return to build up larger fortunes on the solid basis of equal all. Here is Mr. Ralph's picture of the pusillanimous creatures, which should be studied beside that of the men who are hastening to shed the best blood of England on their behalf: “They are pulling their long faces all over the place and shedding their tears wherever you meet them. They bing as they drink whisky at bedtime. It is enough to make a statue ill to among them. Why don’t they equip a regiment of rough riders, or make up a battalion of volunteers among themselves? Why don’t tiny fight? The war has jeopardized their prop. erty. and they have a Keener interest in it than any Tommy or any officer now at the front. How can they see the crenm and flower of English man. hood rushing down here to spill its precious blood for them and never feel 4 blush of shame or a pang of any emotion except grief over Josses which will still leave many of them rich?” Such contrasts have always been presented where commercial interests and the sword join in the advance ment of civilization PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP, Fhilosophical View of the Advaatsges of American Love Making. Rinee the of {'nitedd States woman the re have gained new crnncipation especially in the of the sexes fun] aspects Intions Hite Caled youth of beth gexes now word “friendship™ love It allows What was Ising is now but introductory The better edu nue the tO cover investiga tious in ampler os periments Ones comprom in lands to invite a girl to a solitary walk With discussion, Ge Is equivalent Le a hundred nay will days marriag ta be Now and avenues may be “He tke to a proposal full of in a negative conclusion that In thant wstrolis, end other had View, be without bitterness, Wir nn eshte purchased on a distant many of plensantest visited at leisure heart may school, ix ETOVEeR who sees a woman's It.” sald one of the older that; To-day she may read sped Not only he was morally bound to inke it Hen pages to a score of men befor wd + the tinal listener of choos advantages for the The mainly fail to comy tion, and proceed and CENTRAL AMERICAN THRIFT. The Oaly Way the Could Have the Marderers Panished. . 11 brought to and wor $10,000 cas) their financial ager with ndemnity onduranean crateh IRI ri slop in iL fons to pay off the and the confounded row “Then Pears made his egic play. ‘If 1 allow money, he sald, in substance, “will you do as I asked at first, and punish my brothers murderers? Would great sirat you to Keep that hard it ix to get coin from a Central American Government you derstand with what avidity they grab bed that proposition, General Manuel Bonilla, the Coast Department. removed for di. rect complicity. Bonilla was supposed caution to boa constrictors, | doubt whether he has caught his breath yet. The other demand was for the arrest and punishment of the soldier who did the actual shooting, He was promptly hurled into a dungeon, and I wouldn't be in his boots for all Latin America, ‘Did the senor want anybody else arrested? asked the po. lite officials, ‘No. ‘And did he really waive claim to the £10,000Y ‘Yes “So that settled it, and everybody was happy except Bouilla and the sol dier. The case will have a salutary effect down there. Hereafter petty military tyrants will probably think twice before they jeopardize their own sking by molesting strangers.” was a Oom Paul's Autograph. Autograph letters in Dutel, written by President Kruger, Gen. Jouber: and President Steyn, are exhibited for sale in the window of a dealer in the Boho district. Oom Paul's signature has a substantial and Iesvsaeing ma ket value. An American paper says there Is a craze among collectors in New York for His Honot's autograph, and that There Ix more than a suspl- clon that several forgeries have been palmed off on the public. London Chronicle, : HA MR There are 20,000 beggais In old Ma. ' drid, and 5,000 thieves, American Discoveries In the Antartis, . Tl i of in Aiand IL 1B fevinnd, Wil ’ gromnd ii first important bins 1820 Myint ! ened, * good] field for a feet from Yankee refuge Stonington on hand in Harbor, then the otithiernmost The noticed ther south, and se Palmer, in the sloop Hero, rising known Commander, infty nt Captain N “but voestiga new 11 654 Caplan #till B. little Pendleton, £4 1300s br peak forty tons.” to make tions, Captain Palmer founda the bleak he promptly re. Harbor he fell Russian exploring expediiion under Bellingshausen I and to country for extensive hint and i osx sealing, and Near Yankes the Turneg in with famous The issians had supposed the South Shet discovers to find an As rican be a theirs and fina zed Ts up with, student he i to her “Dos G-reecq-e spell Greene or : pausing to look effect of his wit, a flash the young lady con- responded, “Does S.y-le spell and she had not time to The professor moment, but finally and now Miss the heroine of the co-eds, and the professor's class has it a lt tle easier. Alameda Argus, WE he inquired abot to catch the Quick as cerned Syle or silly 7” clouded for a Greene is Compelied to Let Her Baby Drown, The four-year-old child of Scott Car. town in the southern part of Saline county, 11, was recently drowned in an old cistern. The mother saw the child go down, and at once jumped in to rescue him. The water came up to her chin, For over an hour she held the child above her head, all the time crying for assistance. None came and she was forced through exbaustion to drop the child, allowing it to drown. For over three hours she screamed for ald for herself, but not until her hus band, who was at work a mile away, came home did she succeed in securing relief. She was rescued, but may die from exposure and nervous exhaus. tion. Arabian Horses for Indian Cavalry, The military authorities in India have remonstrated against the dis. placement of Arab borses by Austra liane in the Bombay cavalry regi. ments. It is pointed ont that the cay. alry waz excellently mounted in the past, when purchases were made only in Arabian and Persian markets, and that the new aninml is not only in. ferior but wore costly. Thirty years ago there were only about twentydiveexpiosive compounds known, Now there are more then 1,100, : nb - During May the total charitable, g liglous and educational gifts In | United States aggregated §3,220,60
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