Be
is A A on
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. |!
better buy one of standard manufac
| ture and pay a few dollars more, rath
INTEREST ON ACRICUL.
ITEMS OF
- TURAL TOPICS.
Cleaning the Milk Vessels— The Cabbage
Worm—English Wheat Deteriorating
Permanent Farm Improvements Spray.
ing Fruit Trees—Eté. Eto,
Cleaning the Milk Vessels,
milk buckets,
cream vats, butter workers,
not only be
All vessels, cans,
churns,
washed clean
but wuld be to
steam or boiling water at least a
By ing in a large
full of boiling and keeping
there for ten hey can
the
cleaned.
ete, should
every treated
day, % hi
once
Week, submerg wash
boi ler
them
be nicely
water
minutes,
©
The
no
Cabbage Worm.
1 5 Of us
to ki
There | ess
§
poisonous snpounds
bage Rift fine
4
heads or them with
and they
hour or
there
§
the m
and
to feed
is
Ost
on loose
thought
course an
the head
plenty it
wore th
Er gz lish Wheat Deteriorating,
that
3
from one
gome ef
ment
Ke
and
and
4
Lae Dus
i
Iwo, and
to
hes
even waen
he b
new bul he paint for
unatt
3 or t
are tinable,
Spraying Fruit Trees.
A corre spondent
er
trees wi
SAYS
eleven years, but only
Fe
satisfa
the
Then for apg I
to a gall
and two
ple, and spras
bloom «
Mrs
tory.
ordinary
» adds
sid of this two gallons of water
pu
the
thie
and
which
Foy 1 ofi
ces before
olnes nd again after
third
necessary,
one, Gives a
if
5 =
artiliont
a} pli ak
bloom
fourth
is not
while the as
poisons or kills the pollen. Uses
same Bo currants and gooseberries be
fore they bloom and after the fruit has
started. For peaches and pears he
weakens It, using
Hwme water and one
Loudon purple in two
Uses lime water wi
lon
the Novwer
it
often
bloom is on,
the
of
tepspoontul
gallons of water,
thout London pur
size, to prevent fruit rotting on the
trees, and has succeeded In saving it
by shaking slaked Lime from a can at
tached to a pole, right on the ripening
fruit,
Some Incubator Problems.
To buy or not to buy an incubator,
Is a question often considered at about
this time of the year, I will try and
usaaily occur in this connection,
dogbt there are many worthless and
inferior incubators on the market, but
I have carefully Inspected the merits
of alout all the good machines and
not wasted any time on those that were
visibly inferior. Speaking from ex-
perience I have yet to find any of
those that I have tried that would not
come up to the ordinary standard.
However, there are beyond question
many Incubators made and advertised
that are, from a practical standpoint,
not worth the price of the lumber put
into them, and pelwons contemplating
buying an incubator and pot being
femiliar with the different makes
4
fairs. They
the oud,
Inquiries are sometimes heard
small incubators for
re
garding
chicks As 1 have no fig
it
each season.
which to base an estimate,
would be impossible to say how
could hatched in an in
however, I would
nat recommend the use of an incubator
capacity than but would
ommend the 200-cgg size,
but principally for
ches
be
of less oh,
in general red
far various reasons,
economy in fuel, us experience tea
that it takes very little
fuel to run out a hateh of 200 than
100. It requires
mount of
and t
hatch
Hie more, if
any,
also
fuel
{0
it
it does a haich of
only about the same
and same amount of care me
run out a 100 or 2M-egg us
does a 50. and things being equal,
you can plainly see whe the econo
COCs
my
al
and natural med
cial
and car h all truthfulness §
1 te % i
eandor, Pros Vely no Qilie
excetds
The
#
a
is chiefly hard seeds animal
tion consists mostiy
iat !
i
nil
its
age
Boe al hivyr
apparentiy arisen
amber
irom
1d thers
Valley t
is no doubt that
ho
farther west,
uch
rests of the
in the Missiasi rod- wings
and
Eoin
» TOW
vivid
pi
and
rd,
the inte
yellow head
blackbi Are
er's
1h nt oral
bundant for grain
srower,
Provide for the Escape of Surplus Water.
porta of Is land
earliest
pretty
nee aving
the
moment In spring
acknowledged by
Tt iy
i He Pi
ready for cultivation at
possibile is
generally farmers in
all climates where the winter consists
of wet or freezing weather, The
Guelph Experimental Farm in a six
years’ test learned that barley sown on
April 21 produced an average of
four bushels per acre more than that
sown May 9th and 10th; spring wheat
Epey
ke
more, and oats about three and a half
bushels In favor of the earlier sowing.
These are telling differences, which
are not the only advantages of getting
surplus water off the land as early as
possible in spring.
draining will do much In this respect
after the frost Is out, but there are
very few fields that are not the better
of a system of surface water-furrow
soll, especially, if of a heavy nature,
the more inclined is it to become sad,
soggy and difficalt to work down to a
friable condition. In our judgment, a
field should not be considered plowed
at this season before the furrows be
tween the lands have been given an
outlet and all low-lying portions
crossed by water furrows, and then, at
least, the junctions of the crossing
whole cross furrow is not shovelled,
which will generally be found to pay.
This greatly facilitates the escape of
not only the melted snow, but it car
ries away the beavy showers that
would otherwise deter work on the
land for. bours, and perhaps days,
It will pay
to give attention to this matter, as it
will help the returns of the 1901 crop
either of
which is an
The general outlet witercourse
must be attended to, that the water
from one field may not collect and give
trouble on another field on our own or
our neighbor's farm,
Probably
Importance is
or
of greater or more
the matter of having all
and mouths of under-
before
open ditches
obstructions
We have
underdrains
by
drains cleared of
ng-up occurs,
yates of
mterfered
freezl
whole
lect
years,
gilt,
and
seriously
the
tile
with neg
il outlet for a few
arry
ing
All
especially in loamy
this
Rend
drains « considerable
Or mucky soils,
ut the out
wien cannot
general
Local Transportation is Perio Rice.
dan
the
and
But
His Oae Brave Deed.
HETO WH
Id read history, jus
Nhe was a wrahiper,
Often she wou to
find some new hero to worship
Otherwise she wonld read sach nov
“Reautiful Betsy, the
the
cls as elle of
the B
Bride.”
Of course this made her feel that she
had married beneath her, for her hus-
band had not grown round-shouldered
from wearing heavy medals,
Occasionally she would tell him that
she wished he was a hero.
Onee the foolish man told her that
Bie would be a hero if he had a chance,
“You would?’ she sald, in tones of
incredulity. “Did you ever do any
thing In your life that looked like
or that seemed valorous in
after years?”
He thought of the day when they
rags Works, or taronet's
and he gave the minister £10 and she
became his wife.
But he didn't say anything about it.
For a true hero never talks about his
daredevil deeds,
Ho she never knew that her hushand
was a hero,
Isn't It Baltimore
a sad story.
Sharks Work the Fishermen.
On this side of Pearl barbor the
sharks are said to abound in large
numbers. The natives have the great-
est difficulty in eatehing thelr fish, for
the sharks follow the boats and snap
the fish off the hooks while the fish.
ermen are deawing them toward the
t~Hawallan Star.
IO SAA
The man who boasts that he has no
nomics ib usually a nonenti ty.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
A faster boat than the Columbia, 80
it is sald, Is needed to beat Shamrock
11. Well, it will be built,
the successful lady
bonds of
Why Is it that
novelists when they enter the
matrimony have way of selecting
husbands much younger than them
gelves?
i
Poa dk
The recent feat of a Tong Tsland
d on
hel
as compared
changing the view commonly
the subject of masculine
with feminine endurance,
A hunter
paid
one
Providence
3205.45
pot
t
for Kil
penalty |
which birds
round
the nj
as
robin, HOW are pro
the year by
Switzerland,
writ » dopo
in a bax
upon it. the «
has a
to
gigantic ted sign posted De
the payh win whi
Hug
the
vari
npon
inonnt up to £1,000
annum;
oent
$1.00 to 83
per
i per cent
ficcount
LL EE in
# #
ii ha 03
3.000 hie red
One
an
cives only 3 1
Calife
swhia contributes from
State Treasury for the partial support
of half-orphans and complaint is be
ing made of the amount of money thus
demanded, For the six months end
ing June 30 last, $81.707 was thus
paid, and there are previous claims of
$175,000, which the board refuses to
pay, declaring that they were con-
tracted before the present administra-
tion took office and their correctness
cannot be established. Some counties
will sue.
G-y
255
The Philadelphia Press, commenting
on the remarkable bank defaleation
in New York city, says: “One might
expect that shrewd New’ York bank
officials might be interested In know
ing how their note teller could keep
seven thoroughbreds, and half a dozen
stylish traps, and let his wife attend
a neighborhood ball of wheelmen in
an imported lace gown, worth half his
yearly salary and ‘covered with dia-
monde! But so far as the directors
went, Mount Vernon and its social life
might as well have been in Indiana.”
There Is a theme for a novel In the
case of the man out West who had his
nose made over hy a surgeon so that
the wife of his bosom should not
recognize him when he returned to
her, after a separation, and stole thelr
child. If one may cast aside his fea
emption allowed to persons by law.
Miss Loffin’s counsel took the ground
that the services rendered by his client
were in the nature of manual labor,
not be legally cinimed. The court
held that the point was well taken,
and the exemption was not allowed,
on the ground tuar school teaching is
manual labor,
It 18 quite common for prisoners fo
the jail at
Theoretically the gov
loaf of bread
but the supply
be starved In Cpnstantl
nople, Turkey.
allows small
ernment fn
a day to each prisoner,
is never
always had to re;
or buy it
sufficient and prisoners have
their friends to
from a sort
All au
terestod in this institu
11
bring them food,
in the
Lhe
teen
thorities
and
tHe
prison,
are in
tion the thelr utmost
purchase ther
there,
gold story
SIR fis
nugg
litions ox
nds, indy
enterprise,
* than he
fon
could in oith
as tl
ho
at its
in tri es,
as it
Innds
J 0
Hberal tow ard colon-
The
Can
inte, 8 disposal are
to settlers on extremely
but quantity
quite limited;
farmer should Argentina
a capital of less than £2,000
tive is not astounded at
a little money and it takes just
much capital to go into business
Argentina as elsewhere,
iavor
»
of bes
and no
with
able the
i terms,
is now
go to
" he 3
the sight of
as
in
Latest reports from the Far East
state that Russia is bending
fort to the completion of her Trans-
play a large part in the politics of the
northern power, but in the develop-
ment of its resources and of the com
merce of the world, For while it will
bring the west into direct and speedy
overland communication with the Far
East, and so be of first Importance
from a political, military and com-
mercial point of view, it will open to
Russian colonisation and development
a region one and a ball times as large
as Europe, This region, known as 8i-
of territory reaching from the Polar
Sea to the borders of China, and from
the Urals to the Pacific, a total area
of over twelve million square versts,
or about forty Umer the size of the
British isles. Divided for administra
tive purposes into four great govern
ments, Eastern and Western Siberia,
the Governor-Generatlships of the
Steppes and of the. Amoor, it has a
population of something more than
8,000,000, but 8 per cont. of which is
in the towns, though several of the
THE JOKERS’ BUDGET.
To Kiss a Miss,
It is no bliss
To miss a kiss,
But, oh, "tis bliss
To kiss a miss,
But sometimes,
After you
You
have kissed [
y thunder
You had missed her.
Detroit Free Press.
wish 1«
ot
Defeated.
0 hear your engagement
» Roel off.
n away and enlisted
sward!-lica-
® is
The Resemblance.
Took Her at Her
i
when I told
rt cane rush,
ran od not to mix
Chronicle
Guick Collection, ot
a splendid library yout
Mrs. Flashington. It
him years and years
tog her.”
into house
had book shelves
and he done
Chicago
WOKS
#
aved a
' POON
Toon,
weeks,”
Before and After. —
“Do you think ¢ as often as you
did before we married?’ asked
Mr. Meekton's wife. §
| “Much oftener,” he answered, cheer+
‘fly, but absent-mindediy. “You see,
Henrletta, weren't in a position
to then remind me of yourself as much
as you at present.”-—Washington
Star,
The Proofs Were Paipable. pre,
“That man,” remarked the great de
; fective, “is undoubtedly a vegetarian
of the most pronounced type.”
“How do you make that outl®
gueried his friend.
“Oh, that's dead easy,” replied the
g. 4d. "He has carroty hair, reddish
cheeks, a turn-up nose and a sage
look.” ~Chicago Dally News.
a—
Literary Fame,
He saw that the mood of the hone
ralled for Concord philosophy. .
Happily, this was not difficult, :
“It matters little,” he wrote, “which
shoulder you see the new moon over,
provided you put the shoulder to the
wheel!”
An intuition told him at once that his
literary fame was Dow secure. —~De«
troit Journal.
of m
were
RB
you
Can
a
SE
His Pointed Remark. nr”
“I frequently hear you say that
money talks,” she remarked,
“Yes, it is an old saying, and a true
me,” he replied, “but unfortunately
While saucy talie ull taut taliads nub
“Why do you say “untortunately' 7
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