rolled oats at noon, with the best of |
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not He directly upon the plants; theres
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INTEREST ON AGRICUL. |
TURAL TOPICS.
ITEMS OF
Burning Over Strawberry Beds A Cheap |
Mode of Marketing—Cood for Fertil
izing Crops — Wintering Idle
Horses —Ete,, Etc
Burning Over Strawberry Beds.
As soon as the ground is frozen burn
the old strawberry beds over. It will
do no harm to the plants, while weeds
and weed seeds will be consumed to
ashes and returned to the soil, so far
as their mineral elements are con
cerned. In the spring the strawberry
plant will shoot out with better fol
age and grow more rapidly by reason
of the burning over of the rows.
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A Cheap Mode of Marketing.
Feeding the products on the farm is
the cheapest mode of marketing the
bulky materials. A hundred dozens of
eggs will bring than a
ton of bay, yet will be
required to produce the hay, to say
nothing of plowing, harrowing and:
seeding the land and mowing, curin
stacking and hauling the hay. Whe
corn is fed to pigs it will bring near
Iv twice as much as when sold by the
bushel. Nothing should be sold off
the farm that can be turned into some
thing more valuable, or w hich can be
marketed in a more concentrated
form. It transportation charge
that largely reduce the profit,
or
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more money
more ground
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Cood for Fertilizing Crops.
Many farmers sell their wood
regularly.
}
between throes
ashes
Perhaps thoy Ie ive on the
average Cens
per
jess,
and in some
they
bushel,
Could
t hie
only
realize it, 8¢
for fertilizing ct
authority that
ashes contains fiftee;
potash, and this very
the
ors
We
Foire 4 oor +
iO a grea
g
are put
we use
green on
a8 onions,
plant tha
needs a great
is what gives the
foliage. Pla:
and similar seed
quire
phorus in
main
soil
turity.
deal
undoubtedly
’
g
pt 1
like
prox
it
its
a
reason
bring a
For all
}
potash
to
of
the re
recommended
round
the ashes
pla odd
that
the element
velopment.
Epitomist.
Wintering idle Farm Horses
4 regy fr wt Fave rye oh
1s oun Wil a xi
fod
he
proper
care he stable sh
warm, well lighted,
fortable, ith good
free from drafts
time
in an average healths na, od |
on a grain ration composed two
parts oats and one part bran, and of
this mixture given one gallon per head
daily, divided into two feeds (any anl-
mal low in to be allowed a
little extra), with the usual roughage,
fodders, hay, oat straw or an occasion
al oat sheaf (a carrots will be
found very beneficial, as they are very
found of variety), watered twice a day,!
with access to =alt at all times, groom
ed once a day and given a liberal
amount of exercise dally out in the!
yard or some other sheltered spot, pro
vided it is not too stormy, by the time
spring comes they will be in good con-
dition for spring work. When it does
start. be merciful to your beasts and
tee that the collars fit nicely, as well
ns the other parts of the harness, and
save a lot of suffering to your horses |
from sore shoulders, Allan
Struthers, in Farmer's
ing and vial
and
ventilation
clean
Ww
If the horses at
of quitting work in the fall
conditi
of
condition
few
ete,
Advocate,
A Naw Chick Food, i
Rolled oats have long been a gtaple |
diet in the progressive poultryman’s
yard, especially for small chicks, The |
greediness with which the chicks de-
vour it when moistened and swelled.
and the speedy growth and sturdy
building which it shows, should com |
mend it to all who believe that there!
Is nothing too good for baby chicks, |
A new foodstuff has been put on the
market in the form of loose shredded]
wheat, the crumbs presumably from
the biscuit. It is sold in bulk and the |
cost is a little less than the rolled oats, |
while it has the advantage of being
fully cooked. It should be moistened |
the same as patmenl, and Hs swelling |
¢apacity is really marvelous, If milk!
is obtainable it induces a wonderful
growth. :
Now that the necessity of laying a
good foundation ls so largely realized,
it Is by no means extravagant to feed
these rather costly stuffs for at least
the first six weeks. Inst of slop-
py dough I feed crumbled cike In the
for profit, which In
Amnie 1. Rogers, in New |
England Homestead.
Cause of Suckers on Corn
We are asked to give the cause of |
corn, and to whether |
corn more liable to when |
drilled than when it 8 checked, Some |
varieties of especially of sweet
corn—will sucker badly, the
habit has been bred into them. All}
bred intol
important truth |
on say
is sucker
corn
hecause
such peculiarities ean be
and that an
is not well recognized,
stalks will pollenize other stalks and
may be ecarless it
instance of like producing like. ‘Lhe
best explanation that we can of
the cause, when {t is not a fixed habit,
is that the roots take u rl
ment than the stalk its
legitimate growth, and this additional
growth result, the Agri
cultural Epitomist. Tobacco will suck
er low land, where there
more moisture, than it will hill
that drains on Innd
Moist land, if it not wet, will
contain more soluble plant food than
dry land will. In town gardens, where
is
«corn,
Earless
another
is
give
| 4d nts
in
ore
©»
«on use
is the slates
more on is
on a
side the low
is tO
from works is available
and applied freely,
badly.
water witer
corn will almost al
ways sucker Close planting
+ ¢ . . 3 its if fv hein ry
may favor kKering, if ow Hen]
sucker
correct, because the corn doe
the proper conditions
the
i€ a mooted question as
the
it
it
plant food that
i nrotitabi move
is protitabi
from corn.
them,
Experiment by Bees.
ws the
S110
have
about
owner both learned
Is
in
pollen
difference
have been tanght?
both
very great the
Did they not
learn by practical experiment?
and that
and fully learn anything
people how to do things,
as well as the head must |
way
both
Yeos,
way to definitely
We can tell
but the hand
is the only
w educated
Bees and people have learned by ex
periment. Rome of the articles of diet
that familiar to us all. have
found to be good almost within the
are heen
recollection of people now living
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Extending the Flower Season,
The amateur gardener, the real
er of flowers, will find that with v
little labor and expense (he
of the enjoyment of flowers may
extended, often for several weeks
i= a peculiarity of this season at least
in the Northern that the first
frosts severe enough to injure tender
plants compe in October or
garden,
jos
ors
#egann
bw
It
Ntates
November.
vegetable tomatoes,
and the
petunias, salvias and similarly tender
flowers are not cared for.
frosts in succession, as if fo make
sure that the work of destruction was
ly followed by several days, even
weeks, of weather so perfect that the
term “heavenly” ean only adequately
describe it.
of leaf, flower and every surrounding.
if we could protect our tender
plants during these first days of frost,
bridge them over, as it were, into these
days of perfect weather, what a glory
of bloom would our garden show! This
Is just what can be accomplished, and
with but litle labor and expense,
When frosty nights threaten, make
light frames of slate or poles over the
beds and cover with some lght ma
terial, matting, sheets, or even a fqw
layers of large newspapers, fastened
morning and at noon, using shredded
#0 that the wind will not blow them
fore, the frame has to be a few inches
higher than the top. Some years since
we preserved a large eirenlar bed of
cannas, salviag and geraniums in this
manner up to the day before Thanks-
giving day.—American Agriculturist.
The Swineherd.
Neotel swine-growers glve pig-eat-
them of their cannibal habit, A few
spoonfuls of the sulphur are fed to the
gows ln swill several days before and
after farrowing. It is edaimed to be a
sure corrective of the pig-eating habit,
The sow that eats her pigs will some.
times eat them after they are three or
four weeks old,
have
with
should
pigs,
swine-breedery
ample pasture for
itbundant clean water
Malt and ashes ald digestion in swine.
Cholera will be prevented If sulphur
mixed with salt and
I'he sulphur may be mixed with slops
also.
Lie
plenty of sulphur.
A clean feeding
Every
the
be the ashes,
w rarely infest hogs that have
place for swine is a
prime necessity
All sleeping j
often and
of swine should
hly,
ilaees
ug
be cleansd thoro CR
in the weather
of
materials for bedding for swine.
fed to hogs
Worins,
pecially aot
Rusty oat straw is one the very
worst
will «
Green corn Use
them to have
k-
of
Every hoy sign of sls
should
134
Olt
taken
and isolated for
Cholera in the he: tras
ness
the herd treatment
from one anii
When a
5
fife Insurance o is thought
Bid =
due Ivowetors
from
har
many parts the world
cite the present ERrPREIYe figp of
nat
these drugs ures demand
without reaching
the
Pain |
it
{x to drug
w“
for reat. To allay
sentinel who
watches over the citadel] of health be
its cause
cause his footsteps disturb our sleep.
New York Post
Dogs in Pain.
A foxhound,
knows, if caught In
pain from injury,
ons to approach,
x overs sportsman
gy o8
ug
suffering
a trap or 8
an I= most danger
even if you assist him
out of a difficulty
where, but for
drowned he
from
hye
will
Pointers,
say,
pit or
hole you,
probably be show
his gratitude by biting you.
setters and spaniels, though not qaite
so ready with their teeth, will, under
similar circumstances,
girangers but their own masters with-
out scruple. The flatcoated retriever is
totally dissimilar in this respect, and
ean be handled without the slightest
risk. 1 have got them out of all sorts
of difficulties, and never once met with
In doing so you may fearlessly
let their head rest on your shoulder or
lie against your face. Quite recently
a wire fence, and a dislocation of the
stifle or some serious injury seemed
imminent, Running up, 1 lifted him
bodily, struggling and terrified as he
was; yot the idea of biting occurred
neither to the helper nor the helped.
Blackwood. !
Consul Warman, at Mualeh, is eof
the opinion that an excellent market
existe in Bouth Germany for Ameri
can folding beds, which, however,
must be single beds and without orna.
mentation, particularly without carve
ing. which is heavily taxed.
A mahogany coffin, with a gold mon-
ogram on the ld, is a pledge in the
windows of ‘a Cardiff pawnbroker,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
In the matter of educational fads in
the public schools it may be remark
ed that any fad is one fad too many.
Statistics show that in Nebrasa only
thirty-one people out of 1,000 cannot
read or write, This 1s the best showing
made by muy State,
fo he
tole.
to
The Duke of Abruzzi Is san
planning a balloon voyage to the
He much man
finish his career in that
is too fine a young
wi Y.
fhe
in
nineteen leading cities of
fifteenth
Of the
country Chicago stands
fire
boulexards
cost of protection, first in parks
and and sixth in cleaning
Kansas woman
fed
The
who
Wichita
imagines she is ma
ghost of
cheated by a little thh
young
4 &1
0 ine
her dead sweetheart is not to
be Ig
mma has
Alal
a hil
na red
iis, but it has so Governol
, and ining to think
I'he
fores
tion of
its
well as
him,
wolf
yefore ju
fully gather skirt as
she were CTOSE 3 Mind
st root shows how auto
dy
3 ssained ite
atic are minine acy
i
One of the
:alvesion to raise it
it
811
protection of i=
far enough above sen level to keep
it from Iw flooded by the
of the Glaf of Mexico when driven Ix
fore a hurricane, 1t is
it will cost £1L.000000 per square milk
ing
estimated
to raise the site of the city ton feet,
The latest plan suggested in Chieag
to utilize the Ferrie Wheel is the soi
what wild one to lay it on its side and
a locomotive house of It
The wheel, which necessarily would
i= still to re
seventy-two engines,
track, or
wheel is
rou
have to be roofed over,
volve and reeasive
if necessary
at most, two
250 feet in diameter and
from a single
tracks. The
The Italians have but
pointment in their new
one disap
Her language is French, and her for
its contrast with the homeliness of
Queen Margherita, who belonged to
well as by marriage. Queen Elena's
memories and personal traditions are
Russian, the friend and protectress of
her youth having been the empress
mother of Russia.
A prospector for coal in the Cascade
mountain district of Washington is
sald to have located a deposit of pure
anthracite conl, with veins nineteen
feet thick and more than 25,000,000
ons in sight. This break in the uni
formly bituminous quality of far
Western coal is not especially signifi
t at this juncture, but It will be
ed with satisfaction by the busy
dtizens engagod in the development of
the vast Pacific slope. The future
doubtless have smokeless hard coal in
abundance for every fuel requirement.
The last census in Belgium publish-
ed by the ministry of labor and indus
try was begun in 1806. No census had
been taken since 1846, and when
compures the two sets of figures it iy
easy to realize the important increase
in our industries. In 1846 there were
160,000 factories; since that time the
one
number has been doubled. The num
200,
number of steam
{Lier
advanced
The
the
ployed in the |
of S00.000 workers of
1844
only
engines used by different Indus
has
130,006)
from TOL 10
INU rensiis shows
crease in number of women
actories and mn
ION
bath sexes
were in TOK wWolnen, NOW
| there 115.000 w of
TO OMY
ire at
amen
workers
A very excellent plan has
into operation in some of the
cities It has been especially
Hamburg
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Whe
ful in and Altona
rangement reby posseng
and
instance
siore anda
do not «
mis fact
yeti it ix a cu
utter absence of memoria
fleweld
against Edws
Even
sn good a fight
shanks,
hero of the race, so far as a
country
and who is the great
ny memor-
ial is concerned, has been totally veg
| jerted This ix all the more curions
wikien the Ih the
| Welsh are guarding thelr guage
and customs ix taken Into count
{ They bave fought hard in parliament,
Land snccecded having Welsh
{taught In thei by
with Englixl
comession
whi
ia
jealousy with
have in
schools ide glide
=
of the
And
religiously keep up the Eistedd.
fod. not only in Wales, but wherever
the Welsh and with it
have maintained the old customs that
{ date back to the times of the Druids.
| Recently, however, a movement was
started to correct this fault. and now
They have won a
in the
| Welsly language in the courts
securing 1%
they
have settled,
in discussion is in progress ss to the
| kind of a memorial they should erect
to the stout Llewellyn. Whatever the
decision ix, a start has been made to
| give recognition to men and to places
in romance.
sm
A Clever Trick.
The Correo Catalan, of Barcelona,
vouches for the following amusing
story: An ingenious gentleman
of the city luformed the Porte that he
knew all the details of a plot agalonst
the Sultan, which he could bring
home to the eriminals if he had 81,000
for travelling espeneges, The Ottoman
Consul at Barcelona was Instructed to
pay the money, and to promise $400
more In case of a conviction. The
Spaniard took his $1,000, but be bas
not yet reached Constantinople. Some
oven insinuate that he never will
amt aa]
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In Tarkey the disappearance of the
sun at night is accounted for by the
periodical retirement of that plous
A PI ny
residents of that favored section will
luminary for prayers religious re
flection.
| THE JOKERS’ BUDGE.
Quite Sufficient,
Ch, fair unknown
Your name to mo
Is but a hidden
Mystery
nt that
Worth a
My nnme's
Vor
is hardly
foams;
enough
both of us
Free Press,
Detroit
Seen ed That Way to Her.
"ave read iow Men Pro-
yo
for fiction.”
Cood as an Alarm Clock
1 never afraid of burg
Tactics.
vf ed
A Bachelor's Opinion,
ofaily
1 OUT
An Uufortunate E
SL ur +
oti Re $Tlease
fect.
$y
wont »
made
Chicago
nd got
jilted him.’
Time Women Waste,
+ mathematician has figured it
that a man years old has
sree years of his life buttoning
Khe
out sixty
spent ti
his collar.
He
mans
forty
hat on straight
t s0? 1 wonder how
her life a woman of
wasted in putting ber
Ix tha
years of
five has
The Real Reason,
Angela—How careful your cousin
Tom is of his wife's health! She told
me yesterday that he never would let
ber go out shopping in wet weather.
flelen—Careful of her health! Not
much! He's ashamed to have her seen
out in that rainy day skirt of hers.-—-
Somerville Journal
The Child's Startlidg Query.
“Mamma.” queried three-year-old
Ethel. as she watched the servant
washing the windows, “is Jane my
stepmother?”
“Of course not. dear,” replied the
mother. “What made you think she
was?’
“iCanse,” replied Ethel, “she's al
ways climbing around on a steplad-
der.”
Chance for Him at Home.
Pslugger (the eminent pugilist, in a
high state of indignation)—He offers
me $5,000 if 111 lay down In the fifthe
round? I'll show ‘im, by George, I'm
a gentleman! . »
Mra. Polugger—What's the matter
with trying to show me you're a gen-~
tieman?
Heroic Treatment.
“Weil, 1 night like to go back to
school ag well as Johnnie Evans does
if you'd trained me as his mother
trained him.
“How was that?
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