FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. ITEMS OF . INTEREST ON TURAL TOPICS, ACRICUL- Indication of Bad Management Portable Racks Preventing Hog Cholera—~When a Horse is Worth Most -Clipping Clover | Fields—Etc.. Ete. Indication of Bad Management. Lice on animals indicates bad man: agement, Horses or cattle in good condition seldom are afflicted with lice, | but a low condition of the animal, the | skin being hidebound, affords excellent | inducements for lice. Good feed and | the use of a brush will rid animals of | parasites, with the aid of other reme- i dies, Portable Racks. For cattle, a good rack may be made | with common rough boards and a few | pieces of scantling. Make them four | or five feet wide, ten or twelve feet | long, and two feet deep: have four by four inch seantling in the corners, and | also in the center of the ends, running up twelve or fifteen inches above the | top of the rack; to the latter nail in a | center partition lengthwise; thus you | have a double rack where cattle will] eat contentedly. Do not have the end boards or pieces of scantling reach down as low as the side beards and then by rounding up | the ends of the side boards, after the | manner of sled runners, the racks may be easily drawn from one place to an- other, Choose the bright days for during the middle of the day. With the best of conditions and best of care there Is quite a loss and more | depends upon time and manner of sathering crop than all else. Because the squash has a hard shell and does | not show the effects of a slight frost, it is often left too long on the vine. | I' plan to gather them just before the | first frost. This can usually be complished If 1 am ready to put all] my help to work as soon as 1 think a frost Is on the way. I pick them and | place in piles about six apart, covering them with their vines, As the weather becomes colder I draw on truck wagon with springs | and hay rack with about six inches of marsh hay on that. I handle them as carefully as possible, loading only three or four deep on the wagon and carry ing them into the cellar in baskets and placing on shelves two deep. I am careful to sort them, using the soft and bruised ones for feed or sell them for immediate consumption. —Delhert Ot ter, in New England Homestead, ac rods own The Cucumber’s Foes. Professor Charles DD, Woods, direc- leaflet dealing The essay | has issued a valuable cucumber enemies, takes up the striped beetle as follows: This well-known insect, with its yel. covers, feeds on all kinds of cucurbi taceous plants cucumber, melon, squash, pumpkin, ete, and often ap wars in such numbers as to ruin the entire growing crop, : Plow amd destroy Remedies: 1. out Preventing Hog Cholera tules for the prevention of the fall | outbreak of cholera in herds of swine may be summarized as follows: 1. Cleanliness in pens, water, feed and everything. 2. Give plenty of pure water and do away with stagnant pools, 3. Use disinfectants such lime and carbolie acid. 4. Feed a variety, condiments as charcoal, salt. - wr, is essential, yards, us ashes, such and especially ashes (lve 1: much range as needed, 6. Breed from stitution, 7. Feed all, 8. Allow no chance of is STriss hogs of strong con new corn caut if at ously + fy tion fron oi infed diseased herds by visitors or dogs When a Horse Is Worth Most. The age at which a horse the most depends very iis breeding and raising In nearly | all cases well bred and well kept| horses will stand hard usage better at an early age than that have had a struggle for existence and have inferior quality of blood in their veins, When a horse has been well fed and cared for from birth so as to maintain a steady growth, he ought to be well matured by the time he is five years old, and from that time till he Is séven ought to be at his best. Othe that are let run, receive but litle are not fed make a slower may mature until A should be fully matured before he can be considered at matter what his breeding way is worth largely upon horses Horses Cire, will as they should be growth and not SOVOn Years horse best Tue his no Clipping Clover Fie ds, A writer in Ohlo Farmer mdvocates the clipping of clover the first ye: ter the wheat off, and if necessary to prevent i soming, as that weakens year's growth. This on August 1 and clipped again in Sep tember. He has for years until year last, said he would omit it again. The hay last year where it not clipped was very dirty, full of stub ble and trash, while where too large a growth was made wintér, i lodged and smothered out the crop He cuts high, removing the board, and lkes to cut just after a rain, leaving all the growth on the ground as mulch, which protects the roots in winter and keeps the ground more moist in summer. It might be pastured off and get some growth for cattle or sheep, but they will not feed on the ranker growing places, and feed the other too closely, thus making them liable to be winter killed. He | does not think this pays, and would | prefer to grow green crops to help out | the pasturage than to .use the newly! seeded fields, He wants to leave clover about six inches high when | winter comes. 5 i ir af is even twice from blow the next he clipped year done =o several before and he never wa before swath | Winter Preservation of Squashes. My method has been to place the | squashes upon shelves in a well-venti- | lated cellar. The shelves are four feet next to the sides of the cellar. The re | maining ones are six feet wide, with | alley on each side. The first shelf is six inches from the floor and then they are two feet apart until the cell ing is reached. I use two by four inch studding for uprights and crosdpleces and one by six Inch strips for bottom of shelves, One of these strips Is suf - ficient for the side, The uprights should be placed four feet apart, as the load they have to sustain is consider able. The temperature should be as high as possible without using arti ficial heat and interfering with good ventilation. This Is best accomplished by keeping the cellar closed on very gold days and particularly during per lods of foggy and rainy weather. that may then be in the roots 2. Planting an excess of seed, to dis tribute the injury, Is a common pra tice, as 18 also the system of starting the seed In boxes or sods, and transferring the plants to the field af ter they are well established 3. A free dust, f or land plaster about the bases of pots, f of lime the use tobacco youpg plants is often recommended. 4. In large fields “driving” times practiced. Before the middle of the day the slaked lime with REPS sufficient is soe farmers sow air the wind, and this " * * ¢ ' Ts to drive most of the Insects to the leeward, large hills he planting of a few the o of squash cucumbers, as among traps, is sometimes recommended since the Insects seem Spe inlly partial to the squash, the plants 0 Npray Bordeaux and being careful to reach the under mixture paris-green ormula 2 leaves of the hill at the time of plant of bh 7. Une surest prevent to cover the ing a mosquito $ t Ove HE placed box IN with nett Artificial Broilers. A flock of four or ers pays a handsome profit if YLaastacl ved] Brill aundred Dro five Oe raises them in time for the best markets, and then gets his price $1.50 to $32 per pair in the best but the averages wore than 75 cents to $1 per iat I hat the from broilers sell HENSON, oie who raises them rarely pair here are those who get the ter on the average right along receive more than this in ix, they he sen the and Jess during t but they sules of $1 per pair But on the other hand there who find broiler raising a total failure, and they do not get thel back from the Feasons this success or failure be To start a of broilers for the early markets the in should be early In November, and then the broil best season, son of plenty, average are some money investment Some should colony for or good apparent. cubators started to work ers will be ready for market early in March, the prices are paid broilers when highest Hy the season For one needs at least 800 eggs, for one cannot than SO cent hatehing. Mhese eggs should cost all the way from £10 to £15, according to the price of fresh eggs in the locality I'he cost for time, labor and similar itemns cannot be taken into account, for these represent the working capital of the farmer, and must be given in turn for a living and anything over, Careful attention to business details is necessary for success with the broilers depend on more per re until they are sold. The chickens can not be fed for nothing, and the ques tion of profits will largely depend upon how this work is done, yrofits are cut down and turned into losses at times, One must study the economy of winter feeding more thau anything else. Granted that the whole expense of winter feeding for a living. But added to the other profits from eggs, and the farm crops to make more of our winters, Usnal- ly this seems to be a season of idle ness on the farm, and if we can con- vert it Into a season when we can make $100 there is no reason to com- plain.—Annle CC. Webster, in American Cultivator, Short and Useful Pointers. A farmer can always profit by ob- gervation as well as experience, It does not take long for the reck- less farmer to realize his foolishness. Some farmers feed celery to their liens to linprove the flavor of the meat, be used as a grit for soft for that pur- Charcoal cannot poultry: it pose, When handled rightly torkeys are among the most profitable products of the farm. is too the last more 100 years dairying progress than any During has made lurnt corn with the cob Twice a week is often enough to feed it Farmers should keep themselves in formed as to the markets, as they are constantly changing year by year, Don't imagine that poultry do not re. quire any eare. It Is only those flocks OUR YOUNG FOLKS. Mary s Lamb Up-to-Date. { IF Mary's little lamb, my dears, Had Hved In "OK, The little, fleeting, woolly thing Would have met a better fate, | Por if It followed hier to school, The teacher kind world say: [| “Why, Mary. dear, I'm glad he's Liere, I think we'll let him stay.” Fhe children all would gather round Discussing every feature, | As though a treasure they had found, | They'd draw a picture of it, too, big profits, A point in favor of bees is that they is an Important matter that the Amer | They'd draw a picture of it, too, "I'would really do them credit, And then a story each would write, "would please you if you read it, realize, The care of poultry is not There much the to slight it. or female, afford 100 money in Nobody, to slight work." is men can the hens. pigs to make hogs of themselves, and aftes they ve reached the hog stage them off market “Haste waste” keting stock marketable condition It is sald that an to deal with mice in an orchard is to pro cure small blocks of bore one and one-fourth inch holes in them, ith tallow nssist to doesn’t apply to when they are once in excellent way wood and placing some meal mixed w rat polsor® in the bottom of each oreh and hole ard, leave these about the other and No animal can reach the bait. CHINESE NEWSPAPERS Cheapest in the World and Dear at the Price, Except as Curios. of the envied by the calling of try; indeed, it is sald to be Ii of SAVE London He mete chance of living 10 The lot one to Chinese editor is 1 wr ft hose wii follow i literature in this coun ttle short writer In a or »~ martyrdom a re ver life nas # lou Express ¥ unless the organ a powerful and ar : y¥ remote « dying a if a returns is one, hance of NeWSsHDR wer a profit equivalent to £100 per annum the proprietor mint think him fan exceedingly lucky man, but not are so successful as this va sheets, as they might trmedd, Is losy, the absurdly wages asked by Chinese compositor fled with 2 taels (two oun a month aed, falling th ff »i Of 1) juantity Again purchased made from rice ana ! id + tent! of a f advantages of think of ¢ 1 0 No Person won than 4 cash a cnrrent I'he Copy paper fy the Tee Dress are, of course, unknown, amd the edi i the who offi nmn tor attacks government ot Any als of high degree in his ool ul bh wi iy fi imself in prison at any moment, th a warrant issued kb h a trial in large towns without in the are to a certain extent for his decapitation a few days’ time these measures modified, for the authorities are per- fectly aware that to behead an editor unless his offense is a ver to the w ond y grave of ane would be his re- in- incur anger comrades, whe promptly venge his death by the tured to Ceath f stirring of or doing so up an surrection at risk being tor tit they ean amd do imprison an obnoxious edi tor fit, and in should not whenever they think such a calamity affect a journal a man ix always sm- ployed at a small salary to take the himself and go to prison in the editor's stead. order that who is will ing Mame Gpon Thus, the literary lights in China con tinue to flourish while their substi confinement, War news seldom finds its way into these obscure papers, amd when it does it is based on rumor solely, for in and such institutions as press agen cles are altogether unknown, There not the slightest doubt therefore parts of China will read their paper war. Of course, several of the more freedom and do not Night Life Active ia Mindanao. Surgeon MeKenna, who has passed tain that the number of quadrapeds and insects enjoying existence in the moon light of the troples exceeds that of thelr daylight rivals; so much so, indeed, that whole species and groups of species are represented only by noc- turnal creatures, Forests that re mained as «till as the grave under the glare of the vertical sun are all in an uproar within an hour alter sunset.- Indianapolis Press, The Mikado of Japan has under his subjection a population of over 46,000,. 000 people, and they are about as happy as the average people in any part of the world, | The Inmb would be allowed to roan | Around the room at pleasure, t And when at it trotted home it's joy would knew no measure, noon glad that time change has wrought Regarding education, Now children's minds thought, Their eyes for observation, i I'm n gre used for Primary Education What Becomes of the Old Moon ? Till about the year 1817 there lay few miles to the east of Nalrn, a small village the of Mavistoun, natives of foolish folk. horseshoe found it the first the village, and nobody could tell what At last it a hit moon new moon oldest, of as dere a of the as name which One fishing pleasant were regarded day shore fn Wis on the was ever seen in one sald really and it was, wns the a Wines! his +1 mi But the fisherman head, tauen therefore, Mavistoun shook this to twlieovedd lared be a He sul not but not bar on oon, would 1 wondered what oons: and this dis Mystery After old this Lh, the OOS Linrseshoe and Little Folks, 11 wus oue of th Boys an d Cirls In Korea. little lass the Korean girl is domesti work, and axsist her mother in f¢ i fy hold of Know It i= of ult ar as | Koreans monde fuesis the tet IEA 1 aie After no" in water nix are ald o wk of wood or stone and sticks policeman’s are or th ironing Those wll a ¢lul rises two Girls and HOys wear their hair hang y » plaits until engaged to be fearried, alien fastens girl necy which the boy head the nap of her marriage in high nr w a married man pro while a bachelor with his on top of his and the twists hers at hold $ $3 Koreans gard found treated tempt i and re spect, in hs them marked con bave seen men greet a slip wearing a topknot with deference, to “He man; about to married.” while of man, and possibly a r.cher, his two plaits, they of a boy core manions saying cach other is a he is In much older who wears remark that “he get a wife. He a" His always is a will in i Korean leaves everything to the all other have ten tunkes hix own sclection pig cannot bw a boy.” the grey and the choice of his first bride, It ween” tut wives the Women are well irented, and, as a rule, live hap py. contented lives. They are gentle, attractive little bodies, and devoted to Chicago Record 1 Korean may their homes, A Peculiar Florida Spider. In Florida they have a curious large | yellow spider, which is remarkable, | both for the Ingenuity it displays in onstructing Its web and the mar | | volons faculty It has of hiding itself | Mm the slightest approach of danger. | Fhe insect swings a strong web from | two pliant. twigs on each side of a | [path or closed? space of ground, and | waite for lie prey. The web is in the | "shape of a hammock, says the Wash. | ngton Times, and tapers at each end | {io © fine point, though quite broad In {the middie. The bright color of the | ipider seems to mark him out for de- struction—he is so clearly defined sgainst the white sand and dead leaves hat you wonder what he would do for | defense In case of attack, Approach quietly and he watches (you intently, Then If you raise your hand suddenly he will disappear. While you are wondering what be sme of him you see first a blur where be had been, then several spiders, then ‘yon catch sight again of the yellow hall you noticed at first. Repeat the verformance and the stage effect is renewed, The disappearance is ab tolute: there can be no doubt about it, (and the little magician trusts to the trick entirely for his protection. How w it done? Well, us soon as he is Aueatened be starts the vibration of | sla airy hammock; these become too | ! i i | rapid forthe eye to follow, and he vanishes, blur, eve geyvernl him nt until spiders, different finallv and then catches see 0 ns the The Bear and the Boy. vo hundred years ago a rieh nobleman named About powerful [40 The duke was very fond of ani mals, Among his savage pets was a great hear, whose name was Marco, Marco was housed in a rough hut in a corner of his royal master's park, He the keeper of the animals; and on state asions he was led out by a big iron and made to dance for the Marco was flerce; and, when he swung his shaggy head out of the door | In an ugly snarl, no one dared to go near him. One blow from his paw would have knocked a man senseless, and those white teeth of hix were very sharp. One cold winter night having swallowed his supper at a few gulps, shambled back into the farthest corner of his hut, and curled himself up sleep. He just the “falling-off” point, he heard a sound at the house door. He started up: and what should he see but a small boy, hopping first on one foot and then the other and shivering with yg 1 boy was a homeless child, lost his way in the duke's forest had run the for Marco to was ft when on cole A who had ind into bear's hut shelter Marco did comer might be, but know who this he prised that he quite forgot to growl thing this not new Wis 80 sur Then a strange happened were not sou to to Marco, shaggy ange that, if trae 1 a should not ask mn into the “\ hy, boy over and, face, cried you are the duke's bear, othed day! Won't you be riend? so much! Marco did but he understood my I need one understand The bear not stroked his head I love vou.” all not been loved ng h, the in his ro at least, since » had been caught in the ol ghtened screaming for his mother a fri baby at answering love art He ‘ jo little warmed by his they allowed 1} ie wi beside him, oat: and together the nieli Ue IED Horn morning g the h happened » boy went awary, came back to his friend in the 8 Thi Marco shared bh % several ith hi cronies, for days 8 food w fast as surprised to ® viitor and they became One day the that Mar hed iwas Keeper w oe o left his One and, feed the watch the | instead urrying to other animals, sitansvedd to WaT Marco sat in the door of his hut 1a tiently walting f er offered he or his boy T he kee to take away the food: but received such a look that he pid hap n fierce # wel It ag i. what to down behind a vx t a ain, and | would his tree, fo In child 0 see ni 8 moment, amazement The koepe snatch hi had B41 Mis nj forward to ran y to the hear r sprang { 3 2 out o arms way: but the Boy thrown already faithful friend, and in a twinkling they finish his arms about ed the waiting supper together Duke Leopold was brought to the pagr, and the boy and the bear bad spread thronghowst the land Duke Leopold gave orders that the child hint to see this wonderful soon the story of poor should be to his palace, to? be educated and cared for. The little lad made many friends in his home, I think that found a dearer one than the pear Marco. Cora Haviland Carver, in Little Men and Women brought new Uni he never Her Majesty 2 Hesanitarian. the Belgians whip. but also a When she isin in the stables The Queen of is not only a first-rate great lover of animals, that the horses are well cared for. It was mainly owing to her majesty's efforts that the dogs there are longer muzzled in the streets. Apart from her personal interest in creatures, her majesty’s tastes and habits are most simple and unostenta-. tious. i sl Gentle Sarcasm om Athletes. With reference to the delfication of the athlete at public schools, the Ox- “it appears that a few days back the vice chancellor received the following letter from a gentleman: ‘How much would I have to pay for the education of my son in your university? Let me know if I shall have to pay more in case my son, besides rowing. should wish to learn to read and write". London St. James Gazette, A 00 Deer in Matanzas Mountains. A gentleman came to the city from Matanzas for the purpose of securing hounds with which to track deer. He stated that he has a large sugar plan tation there and that the deer come down from the mountains frequently, Havana (Cuba) Post. a A MA THE INFLUX OF FINNS, i | Why These Trifty, Honest Peasants Are Leaving the Czar's main. | It is announced that a large number | of Finng will come to America this | year, Btenmship have made estimates as high ax 55,000, but there are only and one-half million people In the grand duchy of | Finland, these figures seem 1o be ex It is hardly probable that fifty will emi grate, is certain that the policy of the new Czar of Russia is driving from country large number of his most valuable subjects. Until last year, the usoal namber of Finnish cmigrants who landed an pually in New York was under 2,000, although in the early "SOs many more | came, attracted by prospects of work year companies HE two taggerated, fone person in every Nevertheless, it his fn on railways and In mines, Last the nun:ber had risen to 6,420 The Immediate of unrest among the Finns is the edict of a year by which the Russia army con scription was introduced into the grand duchy. The Russian pavy has been successfully manped by Fin nish sailors, and the Czar has evident ly concluded would make good soldiers. Cause ago, these sturdy This violent departure from what had been Russia's policy toward the up to ten years ago. The grand duchy was ceded to Russia by in 1809, The Czar Alexander |. issued an edict, guaranteeing thelr constitutional Each Czar similar people in A Finns Sweden rights “for all perpetuity.” that time bout ten bas Issued Years 11. began steps for the of Finland gince a edict ago Alexander Hussianization by abolishing its ‘postal criminal ia system, suspending its code and introducing the Russian R Ni onsc in ngnage i into the schools holas 1 did ia adult Was until hi Within a signed a to St nothing 4 ription proc mation, week 522.931 Finus protest, which carried Petersburg by a delega tion of HX men, but the Czar refused them. teside officials grand duchy and abol = : sending lussian throughout the Czar Finn the the nnish and fisg has now * tm op postage aga inter probably n +} h The 1 2.134 student There conntry, ish schools Europe Helsingford niversity has 8, 285 f whom are women f the 40K (xX) are forty four lyceums in ind out hildren of school : of a total of age, fewer than 195,000 Her only cent. do not recelve tion Bs nstri imperial edict hereafter th inguage is to be used exclusive 1 about half the subjects taught he fear are declared sedition is are good Lutherans ¥ way the religion of the 4 $ thrust upon rit is still Li € action g to fear The and in from peasants ight iz Al are In upr joss is n Star. The Siagiag Mute. Joblots attended a concert one even- ng. and not having been edocated to the subtleties of classic music, it to that hored _ROON evident his friend he htly Joblots almost groaned when the vio lin became was «li soloist ad appeared and quietly justed a queer looking bit of metal to of But human tones of the bridge his instrument. almost to manifested interest and At the conclu of Johblots, first time that evening. applanded vo to friend when the soft violin began float through the Joblots the hall, considerable pleasure, selection for the sion the ciferously, and turning his said , “Say Bob his thing he it sound what was that put on fiddle to make | that way?’ “That” replied Bob, ‘was a mute” “A mute,” repeated Joblots, “Well, | that’s the first mute | ever heard that { 1 liked.” Colorado Springs Gazette. Where Wir Is Wid The Rocky Mountain jester delights you with violent, boisterous, unpredict. able whimsicalities. He is manperiess iy frolicsome. There sat next me at table a married man who so reverently adored his wife that In our presence he uniformly addressed her as “OM Sweet Apples.” Looking up from his plate one morning at breakfast, he soliloquized in this fashion: "Folks" | sald he, “I don’t know where I'd be If {it wasn't for my wife” The lady beamed affectionate appreciation. “Nope,” continued the proud husband. “1 don't know where I'd be If It wasn't for my wife—she's a great drawback!” i i Rats Ruin a House In Rt. James place recently Nos 7 and 8 collapsed as a result of rats gnawing through the supports of the gable end, which fell with such force as to break through the floors below, London Express A Hungarian has discoversd a meth od of spinning wool pulp into yarn, so that it ean be woven into a fabric that A new ring for clerks will cut twine or erase pencil marks : may be converted inte various articles of clothing.
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