FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. INTEREST ON ACRICUL. TURAL TOPICS, ITEMS OF Crow Humus On Your Poor Land -Ducks and Geese Like Weeds Important Point In a Calf's Training Sows at Farrowing Time -Etec., Etc, Crow Humus on Your Poor Land. If your 0 Crop of red of id {8 too poot i ETRY up or store peas else that and will add is called, you will steadily farmet veget 1d an ine year, and ' except ling surface ol hold the a crust ad surface plant weed wonld were dil for i spot manner tron 20 « important Point One of ing by the makes it ant to un is but until here broken the fore refract bones of buying a ten dollars learned to called, and by the horn or that handled that for we was sort we are not were 1 no desire match wi Cultivato: Sows at Farrowing Time. condi dition, she farros I the BOWS work sho and fed | little cor water should feed during If possibl farrowing and handfuls not o til the take of savit die of out of twenty hours old and see that they a pnoved about each day Fat youngsters must have exercise and tin Place a small ty Ih net he ft to which the when a + i PION ceess, and month old a little milk and shorts to enough and wean them old, should Homestead, feed them Hemove them a field as soon as the grass is large at and New two months females England when the males be separated A Partial Soiling System, There hax long been conflict between the advocates of the soiling system and the advocates of the pasturing system Extreme views contended | for on both sides of the question. Those | in favor of soiling would have us adopt | that system to the exclusion of every: | thing else, that are extremists on pasturage would have ux do nothing in the soiling line, have been Those The natural homes of these two theories are far apart one the western shore of the North Sea and the other on the west: | ern plains of the United States, exclusively soiling system pays in| some cases on our great plains, Be tween these extremes of location part | soiling and part pasturing will prove to | be most profitable. Where land is high | in price and labor not too expensive a | partial soiling system should be adopt | ed, It has been proved by trials car: | ried on at some of our own experiment | stations that four times as great a weight of grass ean be raised gn on | meadow that is mowed us on the same | meadow if It is nosed for pastorage. This Is doubtless due to two facts: one, that the grass is being constantly | trampled on when the meadow Is being | pastured and the ground packed hard, | and the other is that the eating off of | the grass ns fast as it grows decreases | the total amount of root development. ; A decrease in size of the root means no | is on An i i i i aad for the hand the ten oll Transplanting Onions. g Confining Fattening Cattle ie siiitot et fiond © att conld obtain need ful At frst Kindly gee ned fhe fost CROreise confined cattle did not fun oll faxes te NArrow Paint restless and dis uring tunlly was almost prepared to freedom the impropet first e I believe § Hey ne y weigl and 1 fo say it it pad betteg give fat Had | experiment 1 “ii steers thelr ng 3 i not pops istedd in should have drawn conclu sions msny others have But after the first week the confined animals became bet ter to the and they contentedly chewed their food, rested a became fat, pound of food and it rapidly as | doubt not done heretofore, accustomed quarters deal, and sleek and lazy. Every then went to make fat tonishing to see how creased in weight It was evident within a fortnight that the tide had turned in favor of the confined cattle In order to make them lay on the fat they did it that they should contented, and this the sur good WARK as they In was essential kept quiet and be done where he oan nothing i= allowed to frighten A little green and tempting food nnd them, to make them peaceful and satisfied, In feeding them they should be given just enough to make them fat and lazy. but not to clog up their systems, Then the fat-making process stops, At the end of two months the confined cattle hind gained between fifteen and twenty-five pounde more than the five allowed fo roam loose in the field, and 1% it cost no more to feed them the gin was all profit William Conway, in American Cultivator, Short and Useful Pointers, sunlight is 0 good disinfectant for a stable, ' A% a rule, cattle are Kept in too close (unRrters, Overfeeding is a waste: underfeeding is a sin, | If your hens ary overfat don't ex Hany OEE fens : y he If the inst be Ke nrofitable pt seratehi , A covered and cement | will suve its The dr; 1 IHiAe cost avers TAM INE EN Taw is ang the nated at aboot 15 flies $i) EN) (HN) down IMM) Ey What the Kaiser Can De. nan on i Cont London 1 nen Yon LEE Mas Home of the Merry tUo"Round. in Sch after the comparative the farmers ig Holstein SOWIDE Is feaw | spring finished their season of leisnire with all sorts of festivities The favorite sport is Jousting, or rid ing On the isiand of Alsen there ix an annual tournament lasting two days The of are the contestants of considerable The jousts in the villages are less pretentions, but quite ax satisfactory we the perform wno are for the most part farm | laborers amd stable boys. From a gaily | festooned arch erected in the public | square hangs an iron ring and one rid {er after another gallops under the arch | and endeavors to impale the ring on a | wooden lance resembling a billiard at a ring wealthier farmers and the prizes are HOR the value, ors, | cue, He off the ring the [greatest number of times wins a mod- {est prize and is furthermore crowned “King.” leader of the dance to bw held in the evening. who carries or Origin of Camp Meetings In 179% John and William brothers. the first a Methodist lo. eal preacher, the second © Presby. terian minister, started from their set- tlement= in Tennessee to make a preaching tour into Kentucky. Such interest attended their work that at the next meeting many families en. camped in the woods. The coopera. tion of these brothers was so pleasing an example of fraternity that the earli. ent camp meeting inclnded members of every denomination, w " . cat Magee, "estendants of the missionaries In the Hawabian Islands constitnte abont 120th of the white population, exeln. sive of the Portuguese, NEW RELIGION IN LUZON, Says Its Votaries Need Not Work and it is Spreading Fast has been he Philippmes and will lead to trouble, relenses is followers The are relizl started io 34] same y \ peapie think it Its main doctrine 1 +1 ‘ from the Necessi Of working supreme being whom prayers direct declared, prov ide true bis Heveors Ti religi attractive not do any ary to keep him i i betel nut A man named Gabinl started the re and Cinbinists ligion its votaries are known f Gabinl and several of deacons, or quietly nformally a Apalit Od Passing of a Chicl 1 '" of endured w at Fort A voernment SI (nx Ww Iw re hie was ek and kes Deprived fx a penance for his crime the of his liberty he could sfand confinement For fot {een years he has been a pris 1 { fas sf war-—f ten at Fort or 15¢ For almost half a century Geronimo led Apacs on the warpath was a terror in the At his people crowned him a war chief be be led fight | siecessfully, In 1882 Apaches, a band of bloodthirsty He wort! hi west if to carly settlers sixtecn CAlse them into a bloody and Victoria with GOO attacked Mexican soldiers Victoria was captured and | beheaded, Geronimo escaped and be came the great war chief In March, 1886, after four years of constant chase, General Miles and Ma- | jor Lawton cornered Geronimo and his warriors in the Four Peaks basin, near | Prescott, Ariz. Four months of starvation and the In. dians brought down the white flag. | They were sent to Florida in a boxcar, | The climate the band, and ten years ago the govern ment decided to remove them to Fort Sill Philadelphia Bulletin, fie were hy Daring. This man i« not io the habit of flirt ing. but he really could not resist the temptation the other day when he en: tered a corner grocery in the outlying district, The preity, red-cheexed girl behind the counter looked so demure and said, “Certainly, sir,” so sweetly when he asked if he could use the tele phone that he was tempted to nse the electric converser as the means of throwing a complaint. Besides, had not she encouraged him by a slight arching of the eyebrows and a coy glance in his direction? She was wait ing on a neighboring honsewife, who wag herself attractive enough to canse nore than Pass both laughed hen he 5 remark to his fl “Where ar friend “Why.” T'm out replied here 11 watching a prett {Oo A customer here was splash, as the conf paper {yet 1rey Visited the Caves of Mokana 138 867.000 fo 250 NiKLiKK: while in 18% if was = to H28.228457, and rapidly hese figures at New York, mm known 1 boroughs of anphatian wend] growing » for the ) ty of as and nx, and are { passengers in 1860 ransferred there were t to above amounting 150.500 822 By the to DRKECn gers not included in nots United “ {omm arried on all the ei] i i interesting § for INS tl i ¢X on among pert Witnesses wi has come 10 pass such rates that even the poorest criminal need not We such recommend for ¢x despair of acqgnitial n roval decree fixing {oes pert testimony as shall place immunity from punishment f beyond the reach of all save the wealthiest and most noted criminals” “Fiat! commanded thanked them for This story illustrates how easy it the king. and their good advice was to accomplish almost anything by judi cious legislation. — Detroit Journal, Angleworms Five Feet Long. Occasionally we see in our gardens angleworms six inches long, or more, and we think they are unusually big fellows, But Madagascar sporis an an gle or earth worm five feet long. Aus. tralia has one which is named after Professor McCoy, and which is four feet long and as thick as one's finger. In Sardinia these worms grow to a jength of two feet and a half. The old saying that never was any creature created without having a purpose and an excuse for living ix exemplified by the work the angleworm does in ine proving the scl. It eats the earth, and then deposits it in small mounds on the surface. The mounds of the Madagascar worm are from three and a half to five pounds in weight. If left undisturbed, in half a century these mounds would form a strata of fertil fzed earth three feet thick. ANS Cool Dolags of a Powdermaker. A man samed Powdermaker and his associates recently applied to Congress for authority to dig wp the streets of Washington and lay aun underground system of pipes and conduits for the purpose of distributing cool air among the houses and offices of the city. SILK OF SPIDER'S WEB. Marvelous Product of Milked Spiders fo Be Showa at Paris, ne Tin Naa : pale metal being ton of ore. Quicks iv overmd 1 he th of the Transvaal Tonal Sela noy Mica can district, the and loetaba Rivers, Ralt is plentiful at Uitenhage, in the Cape Colony, at Craddock and Bloemfontein, 1a Rhodesia sulphur is being mined and in Natal oil has just been discovered Nitrate deposits have been located in the Dwoornberg Mountains, Besides diamonds, amethysis, berris, garnets, sapphires, opals, olivines, to pazes, carnelians, tourmalines, rubies and turquoises have been found. Ceol lier's Weekly. be found in the pans burg between areal near m— United States Transports There are thirty-nine t(ransports on the service of the United States army, of which thirteen are chartered. The Thomas, Meade, Logan, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Sumner are considered the finest in the world, be ing thoroughly equipped with electrical appliances amd all modern conveniences for the comfort of their passengers. They have an average carrying capacity of about sixteen hundred troops, with thelr baggage, equipments and supplies, These vessels are used for the trans portation of troops to and from the the Philippine islands. Other trans ports owned by the government are the Buford, Burnside, Crook, Egbert, Han. cock, Ingalls, Kilpatrick, Lawton, Me. Clellan, McPherson, Port Stephens, Rawlings, Rosecrans, Sedgwick, Sew. ard, Warren, Wright, Relief and Terry, which are used for the transportation of freight and animals, but have an aver age capacity for LOOD troops and are well equipped. The Relief and Terry are hospital ships
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