DON'T LET THE COW FALL OFF. | When a cow is in full flow of milk she | should not be allowed to fall off as long | as it can be avoided. It she does not! seem to like her food tempt her with something else, and always milk to the last drop. Cows like a variety of food and will give good returns therefor if it is provided. BRAN AS A FERTILIZER. Bran is an excellent fertilizer for | eral matter, but it is made more valu- | able when it is fed to stock, not only | because it serves at food, but also be- cause when it is passed through the body of an animal it in better form for crops. Bran is a cheap material to pur- chase, as it brings profit as food and | produces manure of the best quality, KEEP A LARGE FLOCK OF TRY. The importance of keeping as many fowls as possible may be demonstrated by the fact that eggs are usually in de- mand at all seasons of the year and can | be sold for cash. In proportion to the | capital invested in poultry compared | with larger stock the profits are very | large. The fowls give returns every month in the year, and if the supply of | eggs begins to fall off there is some compensation in the higher prices ob- tained. Milk, as a rule, fluctuates but little in price compared with eggs as the latter in winter will bring nearly twice as much as in summer. Good quarters, cleanliness and varied food will induce the hens to lay, both in sum- mer and winter, and farmers will find it profitable to enlarge their flocks and bestow care upon the fowls. HURRY AND HAY MAKING. There is a time in the curing of every | is POUL- | has bern absorbed by the sun's raya, | and every hour added damages the qual- ity of the product on the upper side of the swath before the lower side is cured sufficiently to put in barn or stack | When this time comes, start the side-de- livery rake, which will throw the swaths each four and one-half feet in width into a narrow and puffy windrow, which will soon cure to the right stage to start the loader. Here is another important stage in hay making. It must not be too green, or it will heat in the mow; it must not | be too dry, or the leaves of clover and even of timothy will shatter off. With an expert in the field, who shall direct the speed of mowing machine and the time of rake and the loader, a quality of hay unexcelled may be made, and with a rapidity undreamed of by our fathers who used the scythe, hand rake and the hand fork. ; It is presumed you have a hay carrier | in the barn and it and the ropes are in | complete repair with the mow ready for | the first load of new hay be a surplus beyond the filling of the barn or hay shed, you should have ; store 100 feet of one-half inch cable, a cable carrier and four light tele- phone poles twenty-four feet long ready to run up tor use in stacking plus, or the entire wp, if there is barn. If clover goes int will no doubt te timothy, or what is better when it can be sec ured slough grass. As to sxtra help, it bet- ter be secured at once: if not of the kind desired, as good day laborers. there is just now being released from duty a lot of high school boys that would be the better of the tan and nerve they will cultivate in a vacation on the farm They | will need some training in the vegetable or fruit-garden with a hoe to fit then for making hay, or some practice in | corn plowing to make them good team- | sters for the mower or hay rake, but! they will beat the old men loading hay | on a wagon constantly in motion Be sure to put your strong, slow teams on the wagon that hauls the loads. for | speed in this work depends upon the | ability of the loaders keeping constantly at it, and for this reason no more swaths | should be put into a windrow than can | be handled easily wth a team in a slow | walk. Also put a safe team on the hay | rake, for a side-delivery is a bad thing | in a runaway. 1 know, for I have had experience.—E. E. Chester, in American Agriculturist, Should there Wire th: Lis SUr- Cre no 1 » the stacks yom ip with out METHODS OF PLANTING STRAW. BERRIES. As to methods of planting strawber- ries it' may be said that the old method has been discarded—planting in rows three to three and one-half feet apart and the plants from twelve to fifteen inches apart in rows, keeping off the runners until late in July and then al- lowing the runners to grow and root at will, making a matted row. In this old system many plants are almost on top of others, the roots barely in the ground, and they suffer in a season of drought. The rows are so wide that to pick fruit in the centre it is almost necessary to crush fruity on the outside of the row. This ysem gives few large, first-class fruits. he up-to-date grower starts with the assumption that the largest and highest colored” fruits are found on plants along the outside of the rows, and therefore he plans to have as many out- side rows as possible. This he accom- plishes by having the rows closer to- gether dnd ‘much narrower. The rows are made from thirty to thirty-six inches apart, and: the plants from eighteen to twenty-four inches, much depending on the capability of the variety ‘as a plant maker. If the plants used for a new bed are strong and start into growth vig orously, the rurmers are used, as it has been found that under most condi. tions the plants about twelve months old yield “the Fides number of fing fruits. These runners are usually “bedded in,” ie, planted by hand, train- log them along the wide way of the fant — Sov commie rows, using from four to eight of tle first runners and cutting off those grow- ing later. This method of planting al- lows cultivation both ways until the start, retaining moisture and saving labor in hoeing. Clean stray or swale grass makes the best winter mulch. The rows are cover- ed two to four inches deep. This winter and left between the rows as a protec. tion to the fruit and a safeguard against The use of well-rotted manure, plowed under when fitting the land for plants, gives the best of results in many cases. Especially is this the case when a dry growing season occurs, the plants being able at once to obtain available plant food, and growing without check and In many soils the manure adds the needed Green or half-rotted manure is cause of the many weed seeds it con- Many strawberry beds are prac- tically ruined by the weeds introduced use of such manure. Perhaps the method of using manure to rather ‘heavily to the crop the land the year before 18 apply 1t grown on crop with a cover before setting plants, —Cornell University Bulletin No. 18g, by Professor L. H. Bailey. SUCCESSFUL CALF RAISING. A calf rearer who has lost only one out of ninety calves born alive in five seasons, and that one an animal which was born with an internal malady, may be accepted as a safe guide upon the subject. With such credentials Mr. Law- rence, manager the Newton Rigg Farm for the county councils of Cum- berland and Westmorland, came be- fore the Chamber of "Agriculture of those counties a few days ago to de- scribe his experience. In rearing calves by hand losses are often numerous, but Mr. Lawrence showed how ‘they could reduced minimum by proper feeding, to sanitary condi- of De (0 a attention little medicine, chiefly to cure .” white scour” in its early stage. When a calf is born it is iwnmediately removed to a pen well littered w dry straw, rubbed well with straw and cov ered over with a little of the same ma In half an hour the calf is fed, by means of the fingers, with about a pint of its mother’s first meal of the day. During the first week the calf has no thing but its mother's warm milk, get- ting a pint and a half three times a day first, and a quantity gradually in- creasing to two quarts at the end of a week. On the third day the young ani- mal is taught to drink without the fingers. The food the same, quarts three times a day through the second week, while in the third week half the milk is separated or skimmed, half a pint of linseed soup being added 1, to take the place of the cream. In alteration is f:¢ 1 rh itt 1a Ia * 1 i terial at two th is sO the addition of twice a day. ful of sweet hay 2 handi In the fifth week the diet consists of two and a half pints of warm separated or skimmed milk, with half a of linseed soup mixed with times a day, and a night morning continued to After ' a handful each little and the end o the li of quantity of being given after the idday meal, or grass in summer instead From the beginning of the the midday meal 1s omit three-quarters of a pound of linseed crushed oats together being nidday, with half a gallon of swedes or some grass at noon, the separated milk and hay are in the morning and in the even- f desirable, the milk may be dis continued when the calf is five months old, and increased accord. ingly, but it is better to keep on with the milk till the calf is nine months old. Linseed soup is prepared by putting his nseed broken and a small swedes other food gallons of water over night, boiling and stirring it for half an hour next day, and. five minutes lefore boiling i¢ fin- ished, adding half a pound of flour pre- viously beaten up with a little water. — London Daily Standard SHORT AND USEFUL POINTERS. Have a box etall for your cows wo Good butter has often been spoilt by | poor salt The lambs should be fed in a pen which the deep cannot enter Good feed will sometimes make an ap- parently poor cow a good one An animal with a weak constitution should never be used as a breeder, you keep them in damp quarters. Never grow the same crop several years in succesiion on the same land. Remember that little lambs are easily chilled. This is a matter casily attenced to, Cows do not require much exercise, but they must have an abundance of fresh air, No dairyman should ever sell any of his best cows if he intends remaining in the business, It would be money in a great many farmers’ pockets if they would study how to save hauling and traveling. One of the many good points in favor of rotation is that it helps to do away with a great many of the insect pests, Do not try to economize on the feed of a sow who has suckling pigs. Do your level best to keep her from losing flesh, A cow that gives a big mess of milk always has a large appetite, and it is very important that the dairyman should satisfy it. Everything that you send to market should be graded. Sort out the poorest and the best and keep them in separate vackages. : 4 : . pap 145. TOO YOUNG AT THIRTY. to be fashionable this year.” son was distinctly a matron's season. The secrets of artificial youth have been fathomed to their depths, variably cut out by their mothers and even their grandmothers. The genera- their children.” —St. James's Gazette, FRENCH GIRLS AND PHYSICAL . TRAINING. and more popular,” writes Th, Bentzon (Madame Blanc), editor of “Le Revue des Deux Mondes, in The Ladies’ Home Journal. “Formerly nothing was taught but dancing and swimming. Rid. ing was reserved for wealthy girls in Paris, although in the country it was more generally practiced. Now all gym nastic and calisthenic exercises are in favor, and a great many young ladies play tennis, ride bicycles they do in England.” skate, or SUCCESSFUL FARMING BY KANSAS WOMAN, Nine years ago the husband of Mrs Amelia Bruning died on the family farm near Ellsworth, Mrs, Bruning had led the simple life of a country woman with no business experience than tak- ing a jar of butter or a basket of eggs trade for calico, and her friends expected hardliness for her and a. large family of children ut Mrs. Bruning had within her the capaci- ty for great deeds. Slie took up the man- agement of and stich a SUCCess ers of the wealthiest agricultural families in Ellsworth county. She has nearly 360 i large has equipped more mito town to 1 small the farm made of that | 15 now one acres under cultivation, Owns a heard of fine cattle, and her farm with the est buildings in the vicinity. And she money in Coming on w lars—Kansas City Jou - Everything in of the tidy i automol and no have autom which 1s much heavier ths veding and finished with edges. Be sides looking very nice it has the f being durable and of being a great protection One we hem-sh virtues for the Int on Fifth Mf«oxion brought many has avenue tire ar ith VORCLIeT wilt others of t more fa For spending ung hemstitc 4 sdinthiest mar sort ney i + In the Many fancy effects on white veiling are a large : firest tlie made by using way around it Again t white chet dium large « i i 1 Of «¢ i MISS SNYDER'S IMPROVING VA. CATIONS Miss Elizabeth Snyder. 3 member of staff of the Woman's Medical liege, of Philadelphia, passes her vaca tions Living with Indians in their villages, or descending the precipitous walls of the canyon system and explor ing ald mn of ethnological relics With the exception of last vear. Miss Snyder has made annual visits to the far West since 1893. At that time she spent over two years in Arizona, ex- ploring the region of the cliff dwellings and unearthing many valuable relics of a prehistoric race. One year she spent several months reser vation and the Moki In “enake dance.” While the Indians she talks to them in their own language Miss Soyder makes a specially of ex- ploratioh. She has gone far into the re- | of the Grand Canyon and jis branches, much farther than any other woman, and has descended into the gorge of the Grand Canyon by all of the by which the bottom can be reached. Philadelphia Press vy ! the Col WN the . the fiver courses quest on the Navajoe with lived woetd With COsses NEW WAY TO DISCOVER A WOMAN'S AGE Every man seems to te born with a desire to know the age of the ladies with whom he comes in contact, and women also appear to have an innate curiosity concerning the number of “summers” which have passed over the heads of their female friends. But there is nothing more difficult to dis. cover than the exact age of a lady who wishes to keep the fact a secret. Now, here is a little scheme by which | you can find out the age of any person. | Having engaged that person in pleas | ant conversation, you proceed something | after the following manner-speaking | very innocently, of course “There is a very simple problem in arithmetic which very few people are able to see through, yet it is as easy as possible. 1 wonder if you can do it?” | This sets the person on his dignity, and he or she wants to do it at once. Then you go on: “Think of a number corresponding to the numerical order of the month in which you were born. Oh, no, you need not tell me" (To make the explanation clear, we will assume that the figure is 2-stand- ing for February—and that the age is 2.) “Now, multiply that figure by 2,” continue, “and add 5. Done (hat? Well, multiply that by 50 and add your own age. From the total sub 363, and / § have you got?” "230." replies the person addressed. “Isn't that correct?” “Exact!” you exclaim. “You are one of the very few persons who have man- aged it!” And you turn away to hide your smile of satisfaction at having discovered that your victim was born in Febuary and You have And you can do this with everybody's Try it on your sweetheart — KEEP THE BOYS OCCUPIED. That is a vital thing—to keep the boys occupied. Not much use to scold them, still worse to preach at the boys. Prac tice is better than precept. Let them have work and play that will occupy their activities. If they are not thus bus. ied at home or under good auspices they will be doing something in bad company The boy who is brought up to work in a reasonable way, who early discovers his capacity excel in useful endeavor, thereby develops a strength of purpose that will stand him good stead in the battle of Life. If the boy is busy with hands and head, be it at work sw play, he is pretty sure out all night, Witness the transformation to some in io come manual trang. Indeed, the sons of poor parents may have a better chance in life than rich men's boys, simply because the latter may pampered, while the former are gaining in strength through honest endeayor. With well-to-do parents, avoid the temptations of the very rich or the difficulties of the very poor, the boy has ideal possibilities. He acquires the abil. ity to do, to work, which is the priceless heritage of the poor; he also has the benefit of other forms. of education, training, experience and travel but of immeasurable value in de- } in be 1 wiho that are costly, veloping character and capacity. St from sensible noney, ability and industry, boys acquire experience as about » time that their moral fabric and their pl al and 1s strengthening physic growing Good powers are keeping, mental House THE BICYCLE bicycle girl will down through history as on wid rae of the LK 8 OF GIRL The deservedly gO of the most notable tion uneteenth pr entury. No other century simple 1 prior of the woshd have been tolerated Would not have Deen tolerated as a rosy-faced thietic-limbed maiden produced her, for the to the advent red-lipped 2 ugh rider hat, 411 apparition mounted up attired In a nr 8 i ¥ waist, and a skirt to expose the ankles and even Prude and Det hund ven twen per of one hundred or even twenty ked I, and " hirt sufficiently ab FEE ureviated more, Pre five years ago would ret Grundy, have been shox 0 a state of speechless amazeme the are seen far less frequent! would like t New over Ideal examples of type tely AVeTage man Singularly enough } , means the best in question One woul } Drive. Fifth and Pro avenue Park the mo pecimens date bicycle girl, bu : Occasion ide Path places spect to hind true be petite she ! } y be tall trong, with the tinge lity s and the §¥ of Diana figure . Whatever the phy the essentials in the make-up true bicycle girl are there grace of pose, correctness of position, command of the wlicel, a mas tresses wert athletic ‘¥pe, the absolute figure that excess of that prescribed by recognized authorities, upon the basis of sex and height, and absolute faultlessness of at- tire, from the modest but tasteful bit of millinery on her head to the dainty tan or patent-leather shoe that presses pedal. There is no possibility of mis taking her, as, cleverly swinging around a group of slow-moving ahead, the is away like a perfect mis tress of her mount This is the ideal Licyde girl as one sees her in the city. In the country, at the sea-shore and in the mountains she is none the less charming, though a bit less dressy, a trite more flushed for there are hills to climb in the coun- try—and considerably more tanned than would be looked upon as admissible in the city. . In the country the bicycle irl is legion, and it is in the country, the iders just city drives who are in no sense bicycle girls that a true representative of th type feels an uncomfortable sense of con: picuonsness because of those graces that she displays so lavishly and with so much self-gratification in the country — Collicrs’ Weekly, ————“—— -DITS OF FEMININITY The soft pineapple straws are much used this year both for sailors and al pines for cycling wear, Black and white has grea: vogue, but to be quite up to date, should show a touch of blue, which is best found in collar and belt, where the collar suits the wearer, So much narrow black velvet ribbon has been used previous summers that the narrow colored velvet in vogue now has made a welcomed appearance. Of course, a deal of black is nsed as well, for nothing else suits so many gowns, but the narrow colored velvet is newer. For wearing with a shirt waist of cheviot or gingham, try one of the new summer belts, A smart affair is made of white pique. As it is lined it will not stretch. It fastens with a nickel buckle. To be careful about the fine points of dress, you should wear this with a stock collar of white piaue. “NATIVE BUTTER” IN PORTO RICO It is of Queer Make and Far From At. tractive. Porto Rican butter, or “native butter” as they call it, is of wonderful make, the product itself being scarcely more It is only eaten by the people so poor #3 to see no possible prospect of get- ting any other. Mr. Pearson was waked from his sleep one morning by the cry of a young voice under his window, announcing “native butter.” He lured the boy to his apartment and purchased the lot for inspection. It was pale and limp, with an overproduction of caseine and water, made into small pats, laid on a tray, and sold for the merest trifle, but a price which Mr. Pearson decided after tasting it was an imposition upon the people. This acquaintance with the article in- duced him to find the country home of the small and picturesque pedler. The father was employed in the country as a caretaker of a government road, and the mother made “pin money” and but ter at one and the same time. They had two or three cows, and when milk- ing time came she followed them up over the pasture with a bucket and milked 50 long as there was milk, or until she or the cow became tired. At this period Mr. Pearson wanted to photograph her as a specimen Porto Rican dairy maid, but she protested she would not | e photographed unless “dressed up” and having nothing to dress up in he mis. sed as fine a shot as presented it elf in the whole journey, The process of making accounted for the flavor of the butter. When it reached what the woman considered a favorable stage for butter, she put it into a jar with = tight lid and “joggled” it ito butter. The result was not worthy the effort. When she tired of th method of butter-making she put the liquid in a tin pail or anything else convenient and proceeded to agitate it with a spoon or paddle until the butter came. The milk, however, is of excel. lent flavor, except that it be boiled to prevent it | Washington correspondence cago Iribune { 1 Qur Debt to Napoleon Nr he The | clares that Louis Globe-Democrat a monument ft de- Napoleon on the | Louisiana Purchase Exposition grounds {early in the fair of 1901 and France | should be given the piace of honor | the festivities tha: day. : Democrat | “By giving Louisiana tu us B | kept it out of England's hands | land's possession it might have other Canada, shutting us in « the | =ast side of the Mississippi and condemn. jing us to a place beside Mexi 0, Brazil or some of the other secand | rate powers. Possibly we might have | wrested Louisiana from Says the Globe. or third. but Of a tens and hundreds of England, Cost war which would have | of thousands of lives | millions of doliars | “To Bonaparts more than to any othe | one man who | United States indebted, not only { fact that it possesses Louisiana that it has Texas, Oregon Calif | Alaska, and all the t consumed has ever lived is res of | tory which has come to us sin m made all acquisitions inevitable Without f this | territory would ever have been gained by the United States.” ——————————————— AA —— Americans Are Thrifty and Saving. The savings banks of New York State, with a population of 7.000.000. contain more deposits than those of Great Britain, with six times the num ber of inhabitants. Another bad sign is found in the increase in the con- sumption of liquor. Although the manu. facture of beer and spirits in Great Britain has very largely increased, her exports have fallen off, and the annual consumption of beer and distilled spirits is mow about thirty-one gallons per cap- ita of population, while in the United States it is only fifteen gallons. The records show that Italy con. sumnes seven pounds of sugar per capita anaually, Spain thirteen pounds, Austria sixteen pounds, Belgium twenty-two pounds, Germany twenty-seven pounds, France twenty-eight pounds, the United States sixty-eight pounds, and England eighty-four pounds. The consumption of sugar in England has increased from sixty-seven to eighty-four pounds per capita during the last ten years The same extravagance is shown in other imported foods. The per capita exports of Great Britain are less than they were thirty years ago, while the per capita imports have doubled. Eng. ham from foreign producers than she did fifteen years ago; $8 per cent. more butter, 89 per cent. more flour and 162 per cent. more beef —Record-Herald, Favored Oaly Famous Authors, I know an editor who, some years ago, reasoned along these lines: “People say we do not read their manuscripts; then why maintain this manuscript-read. ing staff? We might as well save the money which it costs us to do the very thing which these people say we do not do.” And forthwith he closed the de. writers said he had he continued doing PENNSYLVANIA NEWS. The Latest Happenings Gleaged From All Over the State. PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED, Patriarchs Militant Meet -New Oificials I» Control~Armor Plate for Russia--Four Men Killed by Lightning--Lsncaster Man Says His Wite Has Negro Blood la Her Veins. Other Live News. These patents were issued to Penn sylvanians during the week: Herbert lark, Knoxville, printer's galley; Hi- ram W. Eaton, Jr., and A. Benson, Bradford, bull wheel for oil or artesian wells; John Eichert, Pittsburg, ruler: Harry Etheridge McKeesport, cosgu John C. Fitzsimmons, Pitts- netailic railway tie; Walter B Homer City, framework wildings; Harry G. Grubbs, Allegheny, ushing cuspidor; Reuben M. Head, Al egheny, reversible driving gear; Julian Kennedy, Pittsburg, metal device, al boss plate; James R. Klippel Jeffers, Allegheny, switch of H. Lauman, burg. or J i treating Fal als ions were granted ’arker, North Verona. $6: $8: i g " iring the week: Zublon | rast, $6: Wm vi Dague, Washington Warren, $6: Seer McCardle, resided st year Cogswell, of Philadel Major General Ed ( vice-president, Colons] Lieutenant Colonel George W. Skilkorn, W. C. Cowlcs, heutenant, Seranton ; Harry J Andrews, Altoona: aide Colonel Philip H. Gilbert, sentinels, Licutenant Colonel Wilkes-Barre was selected as the next place of moeeting ; A fierce electrical storm at Grove City resulted in four deaths and the injury of others. A section crew on the The men hastened tc a de- serted house at the Pinchalong mine, where they sought shelter. Hard had shelies when the house was struck by lightning. Luther Camp bell, foreman oh crew, and Howard Cornelius, one of the section men, were killed. Wm. J. Hinden. of Lancaster. made an application to the court for a divorce from his wife, Elizabeth Hinden, on un- usual grounds. Hinden claims that af- ter his marriage in March of this year he discovered that hus wife had negro blood in her veins, her mother being a full-blooded negress. Prior to thor doing obtained the marriage by fraud. He has not lived with the woman since his alleged discovery. Joseph Suskey and Edgar Moore, of Steelton, were commited 10 jail on the charge of stealing a quantity of tobacco from the warchouse of Justice of Peace Abram K. Stoner, of Collins. Andrew Subetski, a Slav, aged 6 , a laborer at the Bethlehem Steet Tomian 's plant. was instantly killed by a large bl of cinders striking him, A freight train on the Peunsylvamia Railroad separated near the bridpe crossing the Concstéga creck and 1g cars were smashed. A factory will start operations in West Chester In a few days.
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