FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. | | { INTEREST ON AGRICUL. | TURAL TOPICS, { ITEMS OF Avani p- Seeding Without Grain -Thinly Planted | Corn Best-The Cultivation of Corn™ | Some Minor Plant Diseases ~ The Rasp berry Sawfly ‘Etc, Etc. Seeding Without Grain. conducted at the New | te the practicability IExperimenis Jersey station as of seenring tt good stand of Zrass with. | a nurse crop of grin showed that, was in good heart, or seeding, | was secured The were oats and pota- ot where the land ras fertilized at the time ol a good without made in old toes, and after cateh of grass ¢ trouble. after any {ests sod, OAs, Thinly Planted Corn Best. A few three- acre field of ‘it to four After it came up, grains to the hill, it looked hin and everyone told would not Hie much, | corn was laid bv some ach bor ded iid vears ago I planted a COrll © very f ¢ that tir» yiel amount to iv tl time the lls had only one stalk, but This field than drilled h had a 3 5 to the hill very mucl tar rn, aml ot ater number of stalks According ents made at the rang A in there the to experin which hill Where he yield was {four seonsin stat ields i was of iv produc 39 bushels here t WH were According to this 3 experience, he heavier own when each This SCN - can produced y stalks, If the land Hl. most The Cultivation of Corn. vi Corn the The Raspberry Sawfly. been will be killed § mature ir : examini- | in spring will | and the | and holes in the | leaves produced by their feeding. The | neriod of their activity is short, only about two Weeks, sects | small, but careful « young leaves 1 ii heneath ht above Simpis i CLR the If the infested pateh is a small one, the larvae can be jarred ! off by striking the canes lightly with a heavy switch or a brush from a pine | tree. The larvae are so small that they | find It difficult to return, especially if the ground between the rows has been | thoroughly cultivated, i Ordinarily, however, it is found! probably best to use hellebore, as there s some danger of spoliing the sale of fruit by spraying with arsenite when the fruit is forming. Hellebore may algo be dusted on by simply mixing it with twice its weight of plaster or cheap flour. Apply in the early morn. ing while the leaves are damp. In the station. arsenite of lime and hellebore applied with a sprayer so that both surfaces of the leaves were thorough- pest. Unsprayeu plats were entirely stripped of thielr loaves and but little fruit was developed, Dampness in the Hen House, If you mus: have a coll hen house, have it, but never have no damp one. Tn other words, a damp house i a hune dred times worse than a cold house, It 18 the damp houvse that always has alling inmates, Colds and roup make gad havoe there. In short, there never has been and there never will damp hen house in which the bird will be at all satisfactory. Sick, moping fowls never are able to ege basket. So, my friend, If your site, at your earliest opportunity pro first, then smaller and cover top with a few inches gravel, and then you will have a dry house, providing any outside water has a good chance to drain away, Frequent use of dry coal ashes will ones Ones, from the droppings of the birds, the and therefore keep the air of the house pure and wholesome Too we find Coop ran where the little chicks are penned, from one cause or another, sadly damp. This will do. Chicks, even than require dry quarters, and in often the or not more hens, even ducklings goslings their tible to dampness. We, as poultry Keepers at bay, or suceess in poultry culture. in National Rural must keep shall fail of AM. Sumnel dampness we Perkins, Dealing With Heavy Soils Nothing is more aggravating, and aften unprofitable, too, than to have a clay soll rost so late heavy n retain the in the spring uck or sand f ly plowing When is ont of the ques golls are in cond! Ling, other the vating each ns roots and FOS turns them down as + annhunil, n ’ 1 - an Cultivator. Short and Useful Paragraphs. Pruning 1&8 not studied by farmers ax it should be. oil culture ig the best means of war- fare against weeds, Prepare the seed-bed properly and thus have your garden started right. When thinning out fruit always se leet the wormy, diseased and inferior fruit. it might be termed a waste of the raw material to throw away good food on a poor animal Make pets of all the stock on the farm and you wili find they ean appre. ciate the kindness, Good tillage. a good rotation and lib. by a bountifal erep. If you didn’t feed the | wouldn't expect any milk. rule applies to the land COWS of sheep soundness and vitality are the principal considerations, Keeping up the fertility of the farm {fs a profit not always accorded to dairying and gheep raising. Wialeh would you rather do? Give the { birds humane protection or the vege {tables and plants insect protection. { The farmer with a brook or a spring i is fortunate, put the one who Keeps fishy in either of these is a fortunate hustler. Don't 16t the woods got started. If you do there will surely be trouble ahead not only for you, but for the neighbors, : A flower garden Is not a great deal ¥ adds considerable to valuation of a farm- {rouble and it and of er's home, 1t is claimed that washing in a solution of seed corn four ounces kill all smut spores, Feed has n value and a high one at that, Isn't this a good reason for keep ing only the best of stock that gives returns for the food con- According to statistics there has been a steady decrease in the produc- tion of fine wools since 1895, The sheep will be the best paying stock in Whether to raise or buy cows to re. fon, but there is this much about it, that if you ralse your own calves you know exactly what kind of calves you Perhaps farming is pot as remunera- tive as it was at one time, but wher. a little scientific illy find a pros. percus man apd firm good fruit gives color, flavor the fruit No iy + : ithout it Potash ness to oan In selecting a orchard per cent the best ralsed w for the elit ber fortilizer goeloct that one of pot. esults, has ol or ten IT WAS HIS GREATEST TREASURE. Modest Choice Which an American Made of a Sword, Somebody was day, of a ; wonderful which is in the of Minister to Simm. ex-Minister was a possession it was wh sentative of the majesty t he as invited 01d Stage Effects machinery regularly used y 425 gious plays for the simulation vik rious natural phenomena. Earthquakes always been most pleasing and taking of effects, amd we hear of them as far back as 1602, w hen Evelyn a puppet in | whieh an earthquake effect was nsed. | The old paper snow for winter effects was largely abandoned, aud in France waste clippings of glove manufactur ors are used instead, The white glove clippings fail hetter in the alr than gmall pleces of paper, and they sling better to the scenery and to the actor's The ordi nautical effects are of considera Full-rigged ships were seem to have the refers to show pary ble antiquity. The Proportionate Number of Churches. in New York city, according to the report of the Charities Organization Society, there are no less than 3.05 agencies at work, while 1,003 churches, benignant shade on twenty miles of New York streets, Our other great cities do still better than New York city, and the country districts doubly better than they. St. Louis has a church every 2.800 persons; Chicago, one for every 2,081; Boston, one for every 1,000; Minneapolis, one for every 1.054, but in the United States as a whole there is one church for every B87 persons, one Protestant minister for every 800, one Christian worker fot every 48, and one communicant for every B-Salvation, One battieship’s full supply of shot and shell costs about $400,000. NOTES AND COMMENTS. i5 Kansas pow storing its surplus wheat and corn in the empty jails, It seems a little strange that the gol den sands at Cape Nome Should found near Greenland’s icy mountains A eargo of American coal has been landed in Japan, A few p@mbers and jee men wou'd complete the task of re minding the young glant of the Orient that it money keep with modern institutions, COSILR 10 up One of the most interesting features of Manila industrial life is the wonder ful skill of its lapidaries and ters. These aredthe women of the pop ulation, and workman ¢ far surpassed t gon -set whose tastes ship hav he powers the men. In three months the school attend ance in Cuba has been increased from 4.000 to 80,000, This tells a of advancement that needs no emphasiz The American public school will story ing do thw of the Antilles quickly and v work of modernizing the Queen thoroughly. A French Nelence naturalist quoted by Pop News world should Ix ular could not a Cas operati holeeystentor omy. 1H hole my.” Ev know that t described of dealing Ww ar yvaiostioentierosio one will be relieved to je treatment so eloguen « only an advanced method by which it will in its march is en CATTiOS th ¢ be sewers that science ciimbered by the baggage it called it has taken 8 modern sense that seems appropriate in this case, Caesar fmpedimenta, which The regular soldier is expected to be a model of nbedience, patience, cour: age: but it appears be is also a pat tern as regards thrift The state. ter of the forces in the that sixty. dive per cent. of money sont there to pay the is either deposited with the paymas- ter, to be kept notil the end of the «ol dier’'s enlistment, i sent back all the or master's checks, gations, planner peculinely its own in the meet. ing of emergencies, It is apt to ap pear drastic, but it is singularly effec. tive. At present it is dealing be thie overproduction of medical pacts tiorors, This would be a complex question in any other clvilizged coun tdy. Not so in Russia, however. The winlgter of Education has sinply As. sued a decree restricting to a fixed anmber the admiseion of first-year «iu. dents by the several medical faculties throughout the empire. The Univer sity of Moscow is limited to 250, heft tr 200, Charkow to 175, Dorpat to 150, Tomsk to 120, and Kasan and Warsaw Taunus the total pum Freshmen In 7m ison ber of medical CANnol ex This clude burg % allewed numbet the Medico-Military ON firstly Indents The law whose text makes nse o [oegisiature fowa “pantorium” and “cleanery.” explains itsslf; for the uninitinted it may be stated “pantorium” is a cleanery of pants This i ix anothes proof af fu English fancy. lt immens the "pantol “pantativeness’ them, Cleanery other delightful varintions “washery,” “eatery.” restaurants, ment on i sot nded flown has th renaissance compensation from others il i vices are truly “labor men hether the amount they receive be urge or small, is so continually dis regarded by political and other popu interesting to the Kansas City Court of Appeals hax refused to recognize any between the two This was in the case that it is file Clouse of laboring men if of a Mrs. Bovard against Joseph Ford, Qeott and Memphis Railroad at a yearly salary of 8&5. To enforce a judgment obtained her husband against Mr. Ford, City, Fort O00 by cose of garnishment, to reach his wal. The company resisted this at tempt on the ground that Mr. Ford was the head of a family, and that Lis “ypnges” could pot be touched. Mrs Bovard clahmed that be was paid a ‘walary” and net Ww ages” The court, gall: “Although wages and salary have at tines a different meaning, we think that in this instance they have peen nsed interchangeably and as areaning the same thing, or rather that wages wae intended fo include salary. In its genbral sense, Mr, Webster has defined wages as compensation given to a hired person for his or her serv. fees, that for which one labors, stipn- lated payment for services performed. So, in this cnse, it is immaterial whether Ford's compensation be term. eo! wages or salary, they mean one and the same, and come within the class of earnings for personal service in- tended to be exempted by the statute.” ak THE INDIAN CONGRESS, Cherokee Senators and Councilmen Know the Ways of the Lobbylst, 5 Hountiorer write Magazine: CONETres of ede in Alngiee s “The tion, in appearance over i *tribws bust conneil great enity t probably capita 5 other body of lawmakers CONRuIne nor 1 | i an any : world NiwrTs Davenpo simi byet j 14% fis quarter oldest TOY py i: chamber ve of dign are freques ' the lax ar, whil swimmers.” to the Ta breakers This f affairs is wrong KRwimming is not a difficult art. Every healthy person, man or woman, can learn, and learn, to Keep afloat in the men and a large proportion of women can learn to sustain themselves fully clothed, even to their shoes and most persons prop erly trained, are able, under ordinary conditions, gave another person sinking. —Capt. Davis Dalton, in Put nam’s, giate « onght to water! most fo — Kitchener and the Donkey. in his Book upon the Soudan eam paign Winston Churchill, the war cor respondent in South Africa, fell this story about Gen. Lond Kitchener: He ordered a field telegraph to ac company the flying column to Abn Hamed, “Rat.” sald the officer in charge, "We have no spools to unreel the wive from, no saddles to carry it; no —-" Without a word Kitchener walked to schere the colls of wire lay. Some don keys stood near by. Selecting the smallest he took the little animal's Bind legs in his left hand, and put them into the coil. He lifted the wire up until it passed around the donkey's back, hanging between the fore and pind legs. He caught the loose end of the wire and smacked the donkey with » other hand. The beast moved for ward, tripping and stumbling over thy wire, which began to unwiad, Then, still without a word, but with 3 wave of the hand that sail: “There's your field equipment,” Kitchener walk. ~ BWAY. 2 Sho
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