———————— A ARO FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. TEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICUL. | TURAL TOPICS. Sheen's Loss In Weight—Removing Honey From the Hives A Little Feeding In- formation Seed Potatoes How to Fat ten Mules—Etc., Etc Sheep's Loss In Weight. Farmers who keep common and depend upon wool do not how specimens of some breeds may be made reach great weights, A two-year-old grade Lincoln wether in England was slaughtered, live | fat 34 pounds, the skin, bleod and en trails 90 pounds, and the pounds, Sheep weighing S00 pounds live weight pumerous in the | United States. sheep know to its 6 waste are Removing Honey From the Hives. To have honey in the best shape sell it should be removed from hives as soon as it is well capped over. The eappings are then white and very inviting. If allowed to remain long in the hives after being capped, cappings become stained by the and the appearance Is injured. to! the | i the i hoes A Little Feeding Information. | In Fall feeding cattle it seems, | by taking the at that the method ¢ wed is feed | grain il or r good i pasture, twenty pounds of corn feeders orn crop nences to sidered a the most calculated that it fifteen to twenty d chang steers from to diet. | Great care should be exercised to pre vent the losing any Hesh n the transfer. ol country le to best mp steers are sti while the feeding from ten 10 meal Nome to ysoe their commence just goon As it com dent, 1 geod practice ful Success! as con of and it is ut tin is not hy many feeders should require from ays to grass their corn steers from Seed Potatoes. important to guard They are fully should are prone 5 ia iL IN vour seed be | fine and large, to retrograde allowed to must broken off. To h plan gol su potatoes, for T he start. iu Matoes sprouts should not he they do, they the Dest We ex be ave " sed you read a change: ne must gestion wan sprouting away in sane ut then when GOD f wl ng s¢ A go few sed barrels rels as has Sun necessary; vy wi often. Ti but jus: Fhe potatoes will he when pour changed reasonable, the spring fall. -Farn ans How to Fatten Mules. Put them ean be up vxeept and Hang : burlap fastened at the te at it will blow in and out snd when quiet it will turned loose in barn, put in trough. If the tron hoopiron band on the edge, as are great to gnaw. Have a snu adjoining in which you at night to roll If the; well greasea w hed or barn whieh | into a = closed the windows doors these Lie with wind, keep the place igh is of pine, put a mules ill lot can turn them have collar ith axle do not like the smell and will upon the Have sorner drink I up that ) rink out of i not get any | rin it of salt an at comin HOT ON {hese Flies Hight 1. * REPL gregae not well greased sora if i 8 118 : 11f- in £0 witer One can and so hig} gai i" | Lhe LE box nals Now ence in creasing until will eat. ground or tle ollmeal iy or ninety fit for right Orang: Me soaked om and brov days tl market fy HIATR s Dros tiles Judd Farm Fatal Effects From Green Fodder, ecause they havi young first-growthand sorghum and Ka instances pretty them without apparent persons are ready to these green growths ous. Yet, under ¢ reasons which seen cattle ont second-growth fir-corn. and In nearly subsist harm, many maintain that are never danger cumstances and for is yet able 01 no ons to stances find to their sorrow plants are almost immediately fatal This suggests that uo one is justified in taking any chances by efittle to have access to such “groens.” Among others, Secretary Coburn of the Kansas Board of Agriculture three examples of thelr fatal effects, occuring recently. Thomas Feakes, Lincoln County, turned his cows Into an unused corral where a few scatters ing bunches of Kafir-corn were grow ing. In less than thirty minutes seven of the cows that had nipped the grow- were made very sick, but recovered, John Kaser, of Covert, Osborne County, was driving a lot of young cattle throngh a pasture where there were stools of green Kafir-corn and sorghum, Within thirty minutes ten out of eleven heifers that had eaten of these vats were dead. OC. F. game time, lost six steers In Losses such as these are of annual occurrence, and a list of them would be very long. The fact that results are always fatal should not farnish an for taking risks likely to extremely expensive, Certain is only assured absolutely preventing cattle from within of the named, even for excuse NO prove by getting reach plants The Season's Lessons From Dairymen, The season ended has many lessons for the thoughtful man, One of them is that general farming is in the long reliable. In many parts of dry weather has very ma terially shortened the hay crop. Where men did not foresee the coming troi- ble and put In liberal pieces of corn to supplement the shortage of hay, winter stares them in the face with and an abundance of stock on hand. This stock must either ried] through cold weather on turned off at The re cattle vers in in a lifetime do cheaply at the present jons which were most run most HIOWSs be loss, sult is, low price. Not se elling 1 In hot id | iously a ure once as as reer those oct the drouth. Good the by cows coming into milk In spring worth only And to-<iay from $15 to $20 per hecd many are selling for Calves, sheep and in price that % Lan lambs ro along COWS had t little more caut Ked w The pendulum we Merl ersto ith cows, ster off. dng toward dairying hack, and 1st get out should after for HOW We are We nt But resolve that tie not firmly vill not run farming? the wt, Again, om the experience of is wise to be prepared that that an we Veer «0 largely to branch of Mixed we shi les this for une ' ¢ » suf i i Al nin farmin il that it of a It enough year any kind SeASOU is said any to It when foretold would if we surely But wi ince {oo come, knows CRITY ui a when it rains. is a wise along have sky Is last Pree who takes one the ir Who could that the hay 19007 would Cron #4 rr a fall a faliure In known that we have ntl a wil plece of oft KNOW Short and Useful Pointees, fins sultry w wd meal Is excellent silt y Mouth hile u Damp stables are to Don't injurious tock have them Select vour f dairy cows | eu t Pop corn is better ti hens, as it contains more nitrogen, Iry churning if changing the fire of tempera the cream ihe butter long in coming. Fhe COMmes fut largoes the up in ! rofl always anim: that has been good Sap of the the eld is 1 OWE Are Dat If your « ere only it more way io Ne Be Ss feeding to eh pied aud better Poultry not amount of ireonl, do ned gninterr the re dle that of featln well impietients old Keep hens ha r pulling bad wially might as farm with sh irm aed Ww ith fie (00d beef ont only those tha tak and any Hrs re able to flouh fin fat s On stand 1 rapidly. ure early dwdy to be dd at f80 Don't & it hirine where the BLY The get it. The Im unupleasant JES Can well #4 to he in is a very as as profitable busine The way some people deprive them of it that quired instead of common road dust, think was gold dust was re who between The farmer hens tnke his lice or eggs. If he persists in allowing the he must do without the eggs. that the hog's apparatns is of the very best, to forty-five minutes has eaten, his food will be v # gested, keeps choice we fotsy It appears after he fully di If the hens receive better care, bet housing, and more comfort, it is equivalent to “pushing the button” The hens may be depended upon to “do A farmer should not satisfy his owe Find out what the purchaser wants and try to comply with his ldeas of what constitutes a If an cow can’t make at least 150 pounds of butter in a year she Isn't worth her keep. But before discard ing her make sure that the fault Is with the cow aud not the owner, A new educational plan is being tried in Copenhagen. No books are used but the boys are instructed orally wher they perform at the same time some at | ight manual work, «TWO STRIKE,” THE SIOUX. EP SODES IN THE CAREER OF THE UNCONSTRUCTED SAVACE, | i i" An Old Chieftain of the Dacotahs About Whom Much interest Centers Strate- | gem by Which the Tribe of Pawnees | Was Exterminated Custer Massacre. chieftain, savage, lying thundering hoof. tho plains that | yrites EE, B, | go Thmes-Herald, I'wo Strike, the Sloux uureconstructed bed of skins hears the falls of the buffalo on skirt the eternal hills, Clark in the Chliea 'wo Strike, the wily, the bitter enemy of the whites, is dying in his wigwam | firm in the faith of his fathers that he | will but close his eyes on earth to open them in happy hunting ground, | About none other of the elders of the | tribe of the Dacotahs does there centre | 80 much interest as about this old brave, heart holds “a nobility | of hatred” for the enemies of his peo The chieftain took part in the last uprising of the Sioux against the whites with the | on his | the of LY) hose ple. and when foreed up the body Years HEo, unequal com is given up, but There Tw 0 others to give bat he “The never said iri ’ api ders. surrel being on earth holds in g and that is t hom ed than the hereditary Is only one » Stein pan hie % tribe iw Pawnee warrior, ke bears between nen Indians wnt Sioux thnt No prisoner, Wir pappoose was taken ix uj jron sleeping ¥ il Knife in the 1 : iid were put to the tomahawk ln one of Cooper's Hea taunting thn + the Pawnee chiefs ince Soux has fy ahd trees § Pawnee ar path.’ Ol which Two Strike Rioux battie in hosts of the against Hess Wi Known thrashed which of that they caine About fon Wit y Tinos with the iiddie of the century the it children and stalwart arts inlity. The but ney In thawks ever in Pawnee. thie n nineteenth disen ravaged Pawnee nation off little ith of the was a carried warriors w equal imp nas sapped The Sioux ir weak to before wire tribe ngth spirit unbroken its Sit victories over the and forced them eser had with the won frequ CRemes a which they 1. au alliance whites, id killed scores of whites had the nd esiablish w the Sol pun courage o ery tf homes, to burn white doerness a sont them and pEninst the Pawnees, the ts Ti Xioux w Two Strike bided his chiefs he finally peace with were ftoem, ing witn unl eo Arriors punished With the i reed people the whites. It ol hner time his to make was the only time that words of peace had ever been Known 10 the chieftain’s lips, It wi of hating white Pawnee more, With the f the acti campaign the white from their Pawnee to their hunting illages Adabel who knew better, Bap=, than the fullness of the Sioux plot and the circumstances of the Pawnee annihilation, has told the story. Two Strike and his Sioux watched for opportunity. They would not battle in which warriors should be killed off, but they were after a chauce for extermi pation. They wished to root the tribe out from its place in the land. Early August, 1874, the Pawnees gtarted from thelr bomes on a great hunting expedition. They were led by Sky Chief, once noted for his prowess in ¢he Pawnee tribe. Sioux runners come from 1 not a8 caw the in jess but end o goldier OW allies, returned ground Ellis, others itd their [er an be con tent with a mere wy many # : it Two Strike. Then the Bioux took the war path, They cut down into the heart of (he buffalo country, and final Iy found the Pawnecs comparatively narrow canyon. floux wtarted a small herd of buffalo, and, driving them into the upper end of the canyon, started them down toward the camp of the Pawnees, The Sloux goaded the animals from the rear, but took themselves out of sight just before coming within vision of the Pawneer, The buffalo went headlong through the canyon and the Pawnee wirriors, hastily mounting, followed them out on the broad plain, leaving the women and children behind. Then the Rioux swept forward and began the work of extermination. They spared peither youth nor age, and had almost completed the slaughter When the Pawnee braves returned. Then lawed a conflict in which the twa: ot the howstring was heard oitener thin the erack of the rifle. The Fawaess fought as they had always fought, to but the Bioux, pot for the hunt and with numbers, won the day, and of the great nation of the Pawnees only a vestige remained. Two Strike vith his own hand slew Sky Chief, The conflict served to whet the Bloux ap for that other conflict less than two years inter, when the same war ked Custer and his band aod not one living Two Strike's is not troubling him as he lies in his wigwam, With him the slaying of the enemies of and about this feeling there 18 something that is not solely characteristic of the savage the war death, and riors nttac left congelence FRIENDLY SNAKES OF KLAMATIL Tons of Them at $500 z Ton. The snake Industry at Klamath Falls, Ore, fair to become important, A few weeks ago Postmaster Castel re ceived a letter from a concern in Min making inquiries as to the price reptiles, and if a shipment could mde toa M Although letter was written on printed let bids nesola of the bes 1 innesota farm terhends, the postmaster thought some ns trying to perpetuate a joke He replied, however, and stated that it would all the a pound. Ww Ole upon supply 25 cents ich to b $M) pound de nearest station, in wer { tate that rither or wanted at By BliReOs turn mail, mn I% surprise, came an order for of snakes, livered he Mi VEE at the iiiroad Hnesou would make io wounds n he sted, bi hie this fall order of the iness, as capture in a at least fifty Ar. 4 it would more Sake ning i OW Liu day her # paying bus one man can easily 100 and th day, eprescits pounds The Kla i! worldw i have town Falls utation, a is EON KON The he foot of Klamath F Klamath Lake through a narrow, rocky the jake. and the falls than = mountain dred vards or more wide, lakes. This Oar elbow, the le rep alls, at Upper and continue gule bh The nothing n gireain, » a mile, to lower t is gradual, rapid for descen ore hs wiween the two place and ndians, forms abitant doesn er HOaTs ones ckots, T erally CArry hey are and come down walk d are into here gel as eldom harmed Ley fiir WH town nd while the ry t of en bu They rawl between % a couple may girew scorn In going a block wriggle out of the the cracks of the plank sidewalks, off side, The snakes are regarded benefactors by munity, th SOME at parting witli M way Hove {io one 3 ns fhe 5 pad re is complaint 7 rE Th the few requ the nnescis Nan s order. The reptiles live cliffs i that th rattlesnakes from destroyit ud other pests that hey sttack a rattlesnake and alone has been known to kill . a number will wind the venomous reptile short time, slong the falls, ey have completely the rocks and it Is assert routed t en he tire section, besides mice place while one the largest rattler themselves about strangle it in a clatmed that before these snakes made the rattlers infested now seldom and their app the arance Rion, are clon is said to be a water iis hey will take to the water there is no ot crowded about in that ment with the es and skill of a fish, They are of a dark color about three feet long when full grown and have a Jittle lighter than the general their back. All sizes may them, from the three or id move 1 84 stripe a color do Ww ale bw soe nd wig On a warm day they are visible by the thousands, and In many cases they coll up by the dozens in hugh rolls, oles inquiry, all over the world. A living in the guich by the banks river has great difficulty in using The farmer low he finds great masses of the be reptiles rolled together all through the hay. it is believed that tons of the snakes nually without materially decreasing the supply. and the industry may prove a paying one. Snake oll commands an enormous price for medicinal purposes and it js known that a superior quality of the ofl can be manufactured from the Klamath Falls species. Sheep Guarding Birds. The yakamik, a species of crane, Is said to be one of the most intelligent birds known. The bird is used by the natives of Venewuela, South America, NOTES AND COMMENTS. There is such emperor. But he has evidently learned that discretion which is the better part of valor, Generally the woman who thorough ly understands men may able to write poetry, but sne pretiy good cook. not be i apt to be a Chinese laundrymen are sald to leaving America in large numbers for the purpose of returning home to do up the present dynasty. An English earl wants the American jockeys barred from the Kaoglish race courses. This seems to be a sad con fesslon of inferiority, In the estimation of his heirs the late Marquis of Bute was in every way worthy of his name, He left an estate valued at $25,000,000, The students of Amherst what a vote of 2006 against 33. Now, students will down the college Belgium was ita products Half a century a scarcely known. To-day and manufactures are in of every corner of ithe ranks the try of Wi or BO the markets globe, and it seventh industrial coun rid. as the Great Brita would seem rather on tir as the United for within tha about in short nber, at Kingdom ix t particular domain ther SEK) (XM) fnoTes remains only that can be classed even as wood] A Chicago ser tress arrested for egES as an alarm up in the srning. The the ( Union do not permit employers thelr hymen girl using a showel clock to ge of vant ner me rules wrk Ladles to turn | omeleties pervants into Manchester, England, fo be pro vided with new sewage purification works, which will cost $2.371.000 io construct. Nince the ship canal Joining the city with the sea was constructed, municipal improvement has been pros | scuted three with the 1B sre greatest vige i It has { the dikes of the more than i of all other transp enerally Netherlands had front pnbined been g supposed tha water pros it greater amoun dikenge Netherlands the Lie eu been expen Japan Children 91 } ge the 1 and cigaretts caused fires In inst ye 912: ele ors tric es and lights, 700; and ines, 387 incendiarism 6.544; light were eng SPONtaANCOuR « sinnbust ion 23h: 6 te the gun s t discos nos doe f 19% 10° The causes of 13.12 FAY= were ! ered. y . * ped uvenile A Western fo a lit retur 3 story book rary with this « | ment: “1 don't want any more of them books. The giris is all boly.” A young lady, fond of quiet stories, once requested a librarian, a laboriously written note, to send her light in the way of friction.” boy un OT $658 100 in ia Russia is primarily an agricultural | country, and must always be such Grain, vegetables, timber and cattle raising, with their closely allied pro | ducts, are the mainstay of the Russian workman. But manufactures have creased of late years to an almost ma vellous degree During last year the National Tele phone Company, of Kogland, {ished no less than 615,000,000 talking connections amongst its subscribers, or about 2,000,000 per working day. It is remarkable that this figure exceeds that of the telegrams received and dis patched by the Gene ral Postoffice dur ing the same year by vive times, esis D Turkey has been taking a {slam and finds that the number Mohammedans in the world 196 SO0.000, Of these 15000,000 are in Turkey in Europe, 99,000,000 in wes orn Asia and Hindostan, 20.000.000 in China, 36.5000) In northern sind northeastern Africa, and 23,000,005 are scattered in other parts of the world. census of is turkeys from the farm of the late Hor France, in which country the Marquise fowls for the market, has not done well heretofore on the European Continent. Railway Congress at Paris, M. Bandin, the French Minister of Public Works, commented on the fact that all the later improvements adopted on Kuro pean railways had come from America. European countries ought to realize, he sald, that in the construction and man. agement of rallways they are belynd the United States, A society has been organized in Wis- consin for the suppression of the man that rocks the boat and the fool who can’t tell a deer from a man while hunting. This society might be multi- plied indefinitely throughout the { United States with infinite benefit to the paople, and it might be added to by including the kliot who “didn't know it Was Toaded” - apart as forest re- goeves the island of Panay, and also {he island of Pantaul, which is one of the extreme gre of the Jolo Islands. Thee islands been found to be rich rubber frees, and with a view to and care of these suggested by the such trees, while ubber increasing. jan order setting ape have in the frees, a preservation alk of precant arcity growing the demand for is Farm lobor in gearce, and bringing together semablage in the harvest field The | other day there were working on a Surrey farm a couple of clerks, a com positor, who had been un able to scrape up the money to take his certificate; a medical man “down his luck” a pawnbroker's and of course a “journalist.” The journailst explained that he was { there for the purpose of “copy He intends to write an article and call it Eminent Hands.” Fuogland seems lo be result has been sirange as the t he of a a solicitor on asxistant, sible to It is Bometimes New York © for the neavy quite be too nessenger ilied Ff in a suit damages “How ing round the POS A little ity was smart boy in as witness involving gireet Car the car go the asked Cross was pretty ie CArs to-day fast when eh? “Na now,” people nad to plaint Company time plaintl savs counsel f or the examina the ans IPPose fall as they d las pring ¢ plaintiff says Tlie sir, a DO they don t run fast many £in as he sald; kille round : + sIOW up they Eoing tant The Loudon would if some read a paper on in the volved or recent Woman's not have of the in been complets delegates nad not the decline of manners This duty de Farnell, who told the vas 2 marked de good manners among the wom Great Britain; that mere rough 8 prized as an exce ce, and grace arer than in the past nmand sssent, on body says Cougress one present 8 Mrx congress that of of day there eS en ness lie that This on i theirs Levers author noers but the : same asserfod XR, Dow ting man and sey of assured going history. rll population of Lhe States containing tapis have been com { Bice. Those , have 2 popu as ¢ whokii with same cities of of 8983927 in that the jon showed a smaller ab in the decade just in the preceding one while the percentage of in- cent. for the as compared un the preceding de referred to, nine inhabitants, 100.000 and htween inhabitants and between 25,000 As compared having present, 1860 cities of aver 2H AK ind pleted by the Census ber 154 wg a2, a population in the 14.800,480 in 1800 and S80. It Is worthy of cities in quest citie tion © nots § | solute Increase ended than R2.420 less, was only 32.5 per in 1500, Cen se { decade ending % #3 46 ~ per with cent Of the citi ix have NXL(RE) Or more between forty have 106 (0 een i nineteen SEMIN Ly and have pulation, PSL 000 eighty cities have 14 tu nianis, One SOLON the rr 1x0 and with inhat thirty-eight cities inhabitants st twenty-eight in 1850, IVE there were only and twenty in humors of the aign in Eagland ontrit hy Captain Oliver { Young, who participated in the bom ' bardment of Alexandria and the con- of the Soudan, Despite these ex perio or perhaps because of them, Captain Young is an opponent of the Government, and his admira- tion of the War Office is not profound. | At a recent political meeting he told a | story to illustrate the amazing oom volutions of red tape. He was wounded | gt Suakim. he sald, and sent to the hospital. By some mistake he was re- ported dead, and a tombstone to bis memory —which still ornaments the battlefield was erected, When the error was discovered, the War Office bat josisted, that he notable amentary camp One of the Parli has been ited | quest 1068, Well, somebody had to pay for it, and evidently the departmental mind, ap palled st the ides of an inaccurate entry in the mecounts, could think of no other expedient than the imposition of a mortuary expense upon the living man for whose benefit it would have been pald if be bad been dead. A Gloamy Tragedy. 1t is 8 dark night. 11 is also a dark kitchen, The kind-hearted man in his stocking feet Is after a drink of wa- tor for his fretful youngest. He thinks be can find his way in the inky darkness. He ls mistaken. He turns 10 the left instead of to the right and
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