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ITEMS OF INTEREST ON ACRICUL.
TURAL TOPICS.
Utilizing a Dead Animal—Hay in the Stack
—Bees and Clover—Leaching of Soils
What Trees and Shrubs to Plant, Etc,
UTILIZING A DEAD
"It is a loss of valuable
bury a dead animal. Cut
up as small pleces
placing them in a large box or cement
od and
well as the entrails, Dry dirt
used to fill the spaces between
ANIMAL.
material to
the carcass
into 18 possible,
pit, using both flesh bones, as
may be
the
pleces Use one part sulphuric acid
and
ture oy
ly saturated. In a few days the whole
twa parts water, pouring
ar the mass until it Is thoroug
ill be fi use, but little odor being
HAY IN THE STACK.
that stored
While the
mueh in
far
that
Feed
tne
stack hay before
harn to joss
dry out
ne place as in
avoid
will neariy as
andther, there is a
iter loss in feeding value in
due to
put up Is stacks, g
top by the weather and on the bottom
by E the The
Colorado experiment station the
to 12.4
value in sta«
that
ference af 10 per cent.
of hay put in barg will feed
much as ten tons put in
When
tions w
average
dampness from ground
found
loss be cent, in feeding
«1 hay and but
cent, In stored in barns,
"hus nine tons
the as
stack.
made the cond
ere more rable
than
season
that will
which
wrter tubes or
las
into to gath
Parties are working n each
reach
the nectar at their
bees can
nl
and ceeds
reap a
double the
ines
should
will
country.
best In
tongues,
those
beads of cloy
d, for the
of
ances are
crop
We think the eb
growing with the
longer
but discourage
who are vin for smaller
Cultivator.
ther condition
Upon
I fertil
chit loam,
ched were
when il was hard a consider:
proportion did les
+1
file
ms
six ot hes wh
LaTOUgH
he
ash and phosphoric
but that little of the pot
id did leach
used,
even when applied in much larger
than is in what
is called a liberal use of fertilizers
When the soll
covered
amounts
was allowed to become
with a green sth of grass
and weeds this so took up the nitrogen
that Thus it fol
containing much
very little escaped
hat fertilizers
should not be applied until
there are plants to take up that el
ment. But
is well Alled
will
“
3 i 3 si] | +i] +3 #
as a) i, and soil that
ge “lo y # vp
getabie matter,
abxorb more water than a
would
thoroughly
wis of many
per than his
time nitr 5.
s+}
sanay
the
ntil
saturated,
loam fers be
less n
loss by
had Come
the re
plants penetrate much
box, and in to
be brought ug ! aj attraction,
if the surface pt we stirred it
probable that the of
fertilizing ele:
much less
fing
and as
idee
a dry seem
iu
any our
RYE FOR CATTLE.
for pasturing sheep, cows, calves and
hogs, and I have found that better re-
turns were obtained from the crop in
this way than any other. The rye that
I have raised to sell hardly ever paid
me, certainly not as mach as when I
converted it into meat. In some lo
calities it may pay to sell, and in fact
the market to buy, but personally I
have never been abies to see quite the
profitable side of it.
Nearly all cattle, sheep and swine
love rye, and they fatten on it, and
keep in excellent health better than on
almost any other farm crop. The best
of September or early in October, If
doubtful if you ean get a good stand.
By drilling in one and a half bushels
of seed to the acre, where the seed bed
is made smooth and good, pasture
froin the latter part of March on
through most of the summer can be
had. I do not pasture iater than the
middle of May, for at that time the
plants begin to joint; then I take the
stock off and let the stalks ripen. A
week after the stock is removed, I run
a roller aver the field fo mash it down.
3 3 :
This forces the roots back into the soll
If they have been pulled up by the
grazing animals, The neads of the
these will
sprout. When this occurs I
hogs on the field to fatten on
grain, and they thrive better than
| a clover or grass field. In fact, they
will come up to early corn period in
i the finest condition {fmaginable, and
i will then proceed to fatten up for the
| fail market at a rate that will surprise
In this way the sheep, cows
goon to
the
the
soll, and begin
turn
i best kind, and later hogs have an
early spring and summer pasture that
is unsurpassed.
way pay a mnterest on
and labor invested. —A. B
the Boston Agriculturist,
good the
this
time ar
rete, in
LOW LAND AND POULTRY.
We :
stthseriber,
from a
land
DO
receipt of a letter
the
are in
who describes on
which she proposes to rise
try as
aimed
1
:
Ia
il
lin a
land which has been re
a gulf but is well diked ane
“tide
from
of cultivation.”
has nothing to do w
far as the
and runs
poultry ho
sandy land, stony
0
Houses
best
not
have
{escribed Is
wet, it is
poultry, which must
The failures in
y often be
Upon such ground disease is
poultry
traced to wet
n level prafrie se
chicken
the
is black,
» because of
of the soil, If
¥
i
condition
a high on his farm,
igh spot
and the soil is sandy or stony,
deal spot r plant
Indiana,
Ohio and
When
re of Enemies of
do
i ir
itself.
not prey Foes
upon
AND USEFUL
ying
with the most brains,
Success dep nds fully as
breed of dairyman
bres d {
O35 COWS
hired man who
hig employs
r
akes an interest
in r'a
the
It
NE seasons a ye
A dozen
business {& the op
armer ought to keep.
8 sald that geese have three |
1 lay as many
eggs during each one
ay-
as
ar, an
3 1 ¥ #
Ma seasons cost the farmer a oo
»
deal of money, but not near so ma
does bad management,
If your hena are allowed to eat all
eggs that are of good quality.
Many light appiications of manure
are better than a few heavy ones, and
the same thing applies to tillage,
a good thing to remember that
male bird generally imparts the color.
| that it cost.
Professor Rebertson has been
ean be cheaply produced.
corn, English horse beans and sun-
flowers fill the bill, either put in sile
or cured as hay,
| Experiments in creaming at the
| Utah station show that for thorough-
| ness the separator stands first, shallow
{pans sccond, and deep-setting third,
| Of deep-setting cans, those are best
| which draw the milk from the bot.
| tom. Submerged cans give no better
| results than those that are mot sub-
| merged.
; hn —————
In China coal miners work twelve
bours a day for ten cents a day.
ADEPTS AT RECOGNIZING CRIMI
INALS BY PHOTOCRAPHS.
Be the Data They Cenerally sag Their
Man if They Run Across Him Some Fa-
mous Cases,
It is by no means easy to recognize
a man never met before by a photo
graph, and still less so by a mere de-
Pete
to
to do them
scription, however accurate,
however, inosed he
ndepts at such
fives, are si
a feat, and,
Wustice,
they are rarely wanting in this
particular, No matter how scant and
inaccurate may be the
disposal, vy generally
rut
any
the
earning
No few
re Dre
re pre
wo of
nent
wro
oh
He
red
oma the officer
wrdin fF DuUmis
ile for wh
exceedingly
1ndds some
a elu r even afford a
proof An fHioer onee ace
Atlantic liner at liver
steerage pa ger who seemed
an
wrt!
ried
was,
had d
a trade
laborer
band.”
right
#aid the detective,
“Oh you know that tip?”
the man soolly. “It's all right.
want me for leaving the missus, 1 sap-
pose rr
He knew immedintely that the bar
ber's trade mark--a lump on the sec
ond finger of his right hand, caused by
the constant use of the scissors—made
further denial useless,
do said
deal of misconception besides that
the value of photographs, ete. It is
generally believed that a bearded
wrongdoer runs a good chanes of
avoiding recognition by detectives if
he gets a elean shave, This i& not so.
Apart from the facet that the police
take into consideration the probability
to it almost Invariably “gives himself
away.” Unused to haviog a smooth
face, he keeps stroking his ehin, while
his hand sometimes travels in search
of his missing mustache, and thus he
betrays himself to a close observer.
Tit-Bits,
Lord RMosebery har aroused all Bn-
g4ind by telling them that America is
the center of the Anglo-Saxon race
and that If Pitt had lived longer
Queen Victoria would be ruling from
Washington, .
GURFACE CIVILIZATION.
A Young Zulu Cirl Who Couldn't Resist
Her Natural Tendencies.
I think
stance
the curious in
thinness of surface elvi
quite most
of the
to me in the case of a young
had carefully trained
family. She
when
and
and heen
Wis
gixteen years old she came
my nursemaid. wis
very
and comely, with a beaming counten
and the volee and
4a v ; , Rlie
ance, sweelest pret
performed
sar oid
Not a bit of it
host
in our
“You
hogs
know bow people
they get at their
We pulls taffy
blistered
pairs and in squads,
with taffy Ir our i
our shoes The
neighbor stuek
she sat to got
warm up
childhood
till om
sports hnnd«
We pulled singly, in
We were dabbled
the solre
gown of .]
the n
hraath and
iT aw to
of silk
to chair
ter
knife.
a harber and have lis mustache taken
off. The young wotaan he [8 engagad
to is soaking her head today, Lie door
knobs have all to be cleaned with tur
pentine, the vestryman, who lives in
the next block, went home with his
cont tails sticking to «he widdie of
hiz back, and my wife vows that the
furniture will ave to be filed. Be
tween yeu and me, that is the las
I have any say abont [t,
you'll have to Hoil that blamed suit,
it." Detroit Free Press,
London agents will ask the govern
ment to establish a national art gallery
in this country. They have an idea
that the taste for art Ia Amerie
of Men Mend Their Nets,
(iospel Strife Deplored-~World's Heart
Is Bursting With Trouble.
{Copyright 1801.
Wasminaron, D, C.—In this
Dr. Talmage describes the cose!
how it is to be repaired after 1 ing dam
aged; text, Matthew iv, 21, “James
son of Zebedee, and John i
a ship with Zebedee, their
ing their nets.”
“1 zo a-fishing!”
his comrades, and the mos
tles had hands hard from fishis 1
The fisheries of the
trac ted attentions
dizcourse
net
his by
fa thar
iasher,
eried Bimon
the Queen
£470.000 rece
Moeris
{
pe
*
Be to
the on
styles of behavi
Ry And
miamion an 1
rough this opening
tearing the net
the ils that
a w belfare
&iy
verie
as
we ox!
we kr
deep sea of the wo
8 goupel f hing, les 1
possi tie for
as possible to get out
Is the Bible langus
when it A
keeping the b
mg the nary
straight gate,
eros? I= there
whether
make
souls get
ran u
talks a
under,
viage
iY
(
hie t
temper
urthermonre,
to pieces by
nets. It is a sad
fighting about se:
opposite directions
both nets damaged
losing all the fish
there are more than 70.000.000
there are at jeast 30,000000 not
Sunday-echools and churches. In such an
Atlantic Ocean of opportunity there is
room for all the nets and all the boats and
all the fishermen and for millions more
There should be no rivalry between
churches. Each one does a work peculiar
to iteell Jut there are cities in thus coun-
try where there is now going on an awful
ripping and reading and tearing of fishing
nets. Indeed, all over Christendom at
this time there is a great war going on be
tween fishermen, ministers against minis
$x
wher
£ men
2 3 .
1-3 ng
each to get his
by the struggle
! and
in this land,
where
propie,
in the
re
Now, 1 have noticed a man cannot fish
and fight at the same time. He either
It is
my own net. You see the wind is just
right, and it ig such a good time for fish
ing. and the fish are coming in so rapidly.
There are about 200,000,000 souls
uire all the nets and all the
fishermen of Christendom to safely land
them. Oh, brethren of the ministry, let
us spend our time in fishing instead of
fighting. But if I angrily my net
across your net, an you jerk your met ane
££ across mine, we will soon have two
nets and no fish. The French
revolution nearly destroyed the French
possible while hank he
whi aniing son
into the . om, My friends, A ie
in the text that James, the son of Zebe.
dee, and John, his brother, were busy not
wending some else's nets, but mending
their own nets, and I rather think that
we who are engaged in Christian work in
worst thi
i
century will require all our
time to mend our swn nets. God
help ua in the important duty!
In this work of repair we need to put
the nets more threads of common
When we can present religion as
a great practic we will cateh 38 hun-
dred souls where we now catch one. Pre
sent religion as an inteliectuality, and we
will fail Out in the fisheries there are
set ROTORS waters what are called gill
nets, and the fish put their heads through
the they cannot withdraw
are caught by the
mnot be of any serv-
Men ars never
sir heads: it in
No argument
keen lysis
of
ay
your gill nets! Bympathy, helpful
if
oh
2
this opening
spare
nto
Hey Re
LHaLy
the
ineRbes
becsise
But gill nets
relig
gills.
we in
by tt
ever gay
ever brought
(God, Heart worl
1
eq an
Kees E
ang
anch
the waters
Ware
jerressing
% sere!
ao not immedis
We are
I will never
I dear bre
ong, afflicted w=
ad better go to n
reaking them. Def
aid religions |
sacrifice
ope
one,
and
ye grave the third
Th who prog
a new
Win
who has
six of the
1s art; t ie h will not bite,
and late on Saturg night he goes to his
home with empty basket!
Ales! alae! If, when the Saturday night
of our life drops on us, it shall be found
that we have spent our time in the libra.
ries of worldly philosophy trying to mend
our nets, and we have only a few souls to
report as brought to God through our in-
strumentality, while some humble gospel
fisherman, his library made up of a Bible
and an almanac, shall come home laden
with the results, his trophies all the souls
within fifteen miles of his log cabin meet
ing-house, :
In the time of the great disturbance in
Naples in 1640, Massaniello, a barefooted
fishing boy, dropped his fishing rod, and
by strange magnetism took command of
that city of 600,000 souls. He took off
hie fishing jacket and put on a robe of
gold in the presence of howling mobs. He
put his hand on his lips as a signal and
they were mient. He waved his hand
away from him and they retired to their
homes. Armies passed in review before
him. He became the nation’s idol. The
rapid rise and complete supremacy of that
young fisherman, Massaniello, ve no
parallel in all history. But something
equal te that and better tham that is an
everyday occurrence in heaven. God takes
some of those who in this world were
fishers of men and who toiled very hum:
bly, but because of the way they mended
their nets and employed ir nets after
they were mended, He suddenly hoists
them and robes them, and ters
and erowns them and makes
over many sities, and He
of saved ones before them in
Massaniellos unhonored on earth,
diated in heaven. The fisher boy
ples soon lost his power, but
of Ged who have t their nets men
and rightly swung t shal
their exalted piace,
ever and ever and ever.
in he