FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
NOTES OF INTEREST ON AGRI-
CULTURAL TOPICS.
Points in Caring for Sheep—Clny Soll
for Pears—A Substantinl Granary
A Handy Cattle Trough, ete,
Caring for Sheep.
Points in
Visit the
regularly. In
maggots, 1
its feet and
A thinly-wooded,
cellent place
flock
Soil for Pears,
Clas
phosphat
is bearing.
always
pear
nflected
it doubtle
from the
of grain a
It
Substantinl Granary,
and mice
Make
lengths and
ing to en
dese
and
{Wo m«
Make tw
upright posts
feet high and
to be 1
either nalle
The upper
inches from
other nea: }
these two benche
bolt a
them
brace
unning
the crossboard
foot of the
box 12 fee
deep
your
on support,
nailed bolted
lnmber is used,
inches
or
trough will
Orange Judd Far
How to Make nn Cement Tank.
in i
pre f
or obl
building cement wat
the
ing
cement
within seven
the bottom of «|
the le
up as
ore, After
tnx
1 of the ¢ tinned it
$ # § 100 Erol it
piuch as three or four
this is done put
inches of concrete, which
six parts cleat
Portland cement, just damp enough
firmly pack. This
work to Yory
gravel and
is A
be about,
better
Is
the
AR soon
as down, and
the Lies
cont
concrete is put
fore it any, put gn a top
one inch thick, which is made of two
parts sharp, clean sand and part
cement thoroughly mixed and just wet
enough to be like common mortar,
The side walls should be at least
twelve inches thick, ten inches of the
coat on the inside and outside. A wall
of less width than this i= apt to spring
if the tank is very large. The walls
must be built inside of a frame, and
a8 soon as the wall begins to dry the
frame ean be removed. In building
the wall the frame can be put up as
the wall is built, After the frame
started, take some of the finishing
cont and put an inch thick on the
frame, #0 that when the frame is re
moved it will make both the
and outside of the tank smooth.
plastering up xix or eight
this manner. fill in the centre with
concrete and firmly pack it. These
operations can be continued to any
height fdesired. The boarda should be
dries
One
in
After
inches in
when the frame is removed. A tank
any size or shape can be built in this
care is taken In bullding. It is not
practieal to build a frame, and then
lath it and plaster with cement, for it
is not only hard to make the cement
stick, but fn a short time the
ill decay and the work Is lost,
an Agriculturist,
Ww Oond
Aer
Poisonous Mashirooms,
fille mushroom
food
could
and
heeping the Cans Clean,
mtent "on th
but
braodhes
1 v4
} ;
i for
will
tual nnd economi
run by
dairyman
be found just as effe
eal
ket, which the
ordinary
The ideal way to be sure of having
would be © the patron to
of for fresh
othe” for taking bome the
have two sets
milk and the
skim milk. Then, when he emplies the
fresh milk eans, have them thoroughly
cleaned and steamed at the ereamery,
and at the same time have the skim:
milk cans cleaned and likewise steam.
ed] before being filled with skim mil:
The creamery always has the hot
water and steam, and it could easily
fix up a ean-cleaning place in addition,
This method would greatly help the
creamery to get sweet, pure milk, and
help the farmer longer keep his
skim milk sweet Hoard's Dairyman,
eans, ane
to
Snfegunrds,
“he cashier informed me,” sald the
president, “that he was strongly
tempted to skip with the funds, but
that he locked himself ap with them
and prayed over them all night and
overcame the temptation”
“1 know 11." sald the ehief director,
“1 had a detective at his door, one at
Leach window and one on the roof-—at
| the chimney flue--while he was pray.
ing.” Atlanta Constitution,
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OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
INDEPENDENCE
I.
On the Fourth of July long age,
That honored and fortunate day,
Our ancestors boldly said *‘No ji!
To t perion
DAY,
we stranger's 1m
11.
And undaunted by hard
nrdy ]
SWaLY.
hip and pain,
} 1 it i
old heros deciarea
\ 1
all wonld main-
uy
a, and
ie i
He was up
i sappeared
like an flash
I opened the front dod
stairs before
sr, and when 1
thers be was,
rag, ap-
room
gtrefct oti the hear
deep slum!
are
ITH OF JULY TRICKS
There are any number of tricks that
vary the Fourth of July
firecrackers and torpe-
are home made, interest
inexpensive, What is also
of great importance, they are per-
fectly harmless, although fire plays
an important vart, tempered with
water, however,
Some of these experiments are im
itations of Greek which is de-
scribed as wildfire, hiquid fire, wet
fire and fire rain,
To make a well of fire, for instance,
to twelve onnces of water in an earth-
enware basin add gradually two
ounces of sulphuric acid, then add to
ths, also gradually, about three.
quarters of an ounce of granulated
gine, Arapid production of hydrogen
gas will instantly take place. Then
add, from time to time, a few small
pieces of phosphorus, A multitude
of gas bubbles will be |rodneed,
which will fire on the surface of the
effervescing liquid. The whole sur.
face of the liquid will become lnminons
and fireballs, with jets of flame, will
dart from the botiom through the
fluid, with great rapidity and a hiss
ing noise,
o illuminate the surface of water,
wot a lump of fine loaf sugar with
phosphorized ether, and throw it into
a basin of water, The surface of the
water will become luminous in the
dark, and by gently blowing upon it
does which
ing and
3 ”
ire,
which illuminate the air
body on fire,
To set a combnsutible
by the contact of water fill a
SANCer
with water and let it a piece
of jr tassinm i
the
burst into
i pepper
corn; potassinm instantly
flame,
ion, and burn vividly
darting at
{f 1
ON
A Was tted Farms
Are
Which
Sometimes Hopelessis
in irrig
Huined,
Ly salts
reventing the gros
last
thy
year's investig
sonrce of this
ing shales and oth
prodaces thie wis
humid,
in soil
but in this arid regi
accumulate Too much wi
been applied to the soil in irrigation
and the consequent evaporation diaws
to the surface the water that has per
colated into the soil. This water leaves
at or near the top of the ground all
mineral matter that has been in
and in time the snow like
crust is formed,
Ile result is that though one farm:
er may be exceedingly eareful not to
water hie lands too Hberally, his farm
may be ruined by the carelessness of
neighbors working at a higher eleva
tion from whore land the excess water
may slowly percolate to pores of
the more careful landholder carrying
the load of saline matter in solution,
The Department of Agriculture will
carry out shimilar Investigations this
season in the Pecos Valley of New
Mexico and the great Central Valles
of Utah, paying partienlar attention
to the occurrence of alkali and the ovil
offoets of Ite development amd spread
over the surface of the ground. New
York Sun,
wore
the
terials
ling
thie
solution
the
Kallrond Man's Perfect Record,
It Is sald that YL. Lo Mathews, ap
operator in the employ of the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie Railroad, has
worked 1.523 days without a break
and bas received pay for every day ol
that time,
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
It is predicted that the of
1900 will show a total of accumulated
of £110,000,0600,000 this
CEenuin
wenlth in
country.
lay the
the labor-saving machi
United More
Ep) B30) HY i
: ¥ Of
productive
State
i
the Stanf
Iarger by several
wien ii ) Der,
i from it wil
wi from 11 will
purchaver
We refer, of course,
i we hands
sy 43
Iy ia oi
(rermany,
round Ey
to E
any other Earopean
they have become, prac
to Spain since the loss
POSKOSRIONS iD Asin
lie New World,
¢
ner jormer
five 1 gallons
of
Hin ATG LOW wi annually
and one
in the Um
world. i This
are pre
aud two
fwe
duced
one-fourth
billions in The of
refined ilinminating oil supplied by
the United States is more than double
that produced by HRnssia. This is
due to the fact that a given quantity
of United States oil produces three:
fourths of its Lulk in refined illamin-
ating oil, while the same quantity of
tnssian oil produces only abont three-
eighths of its bulk. The United
Kingdom is the largest cor me ner of
mineral oils exported by the United
States, our total export to tiet conn
trv in the last fiseal year being 212, -
265,568 gallons, against
to Germany, the next on the list,
ted States and
Russian, amonnt
A very practical nse of the antomo-
bile is promised soon in St Louis,
the initiative having been taken by
whose jnrindiction is the Lridge over
the river to East 8t, Lamis, This
bridge is used by an electric-car ser-
vice, bat it is intended to supplement
this by the employment of automobile
stages, to be propelled by electricity
or by compressed air, relieving in
some measure, the growing burden
on the street railroad, and providing
additional accomme dation for the in-
oreasing travel over the bridge, I¢ is
thought that the antomobile-convey-
ancer system will greatly serve the
convenience of the public moving
over the principal business streets in
*
| the city, stopping at the hotels and
| other public places, and taking their
passengers or receiving them
from, the network of street railroads
n East 8t. Lov hi converge at
fie bridge en
tq
to,
:
4
:
scare has again
ind, There
ii, no
g that
ie £X-
now
wWOoNI
J oh AJ
ER.
Hird Worth Considerably
Weight
More Than
ftw in Gold
Oriental Judgment on Mixed Babies,
niained
were
not Ix
1 that
he religion . } of
the affeir in 8 same
ad indeed the beaut
daughter on the ground
her firsy oocasion
wag not to be made one of humiliation
and disappointment, whilst the elder
mother conld afford to forego ber claim
had already had several
handsome children
ful child to the
that, it wing the
“ince she
Voice and Perinme,
Etiteh, Jr. of Denver,
who has very successful as an
animal trainer, of her methods:
“After getting inthaate with them by
feeding them 1 follow up the soquaint-
ance by being Kind to them, never
teasing them, and always carrying
them something of which they are
In speaking to them 1 always
my voice in the same key, 1
Tone of
Mrs, John
wens
SAYS
sleep, awakening at the scent.”
One Grave Fanlt,
The milliner displayed the hat with
some pride,
“Oh, it will never do!” cried the pa-
tron. “Just look at those flowers”
“They're splendid imitations,” pro.
tested the milliner, “They look like
real flowers” iow
“Precisely,” answerad the
“And real flowers are so cheap it this
season of the year. 1 want =
that looks more expensive.