PLANTS. com- I'he DON'T CROWD THE When plants are crowded they pete for plant food and moisture. thinning of plants in the rows will en able the grower to secure a crop during a dry season when it would be impossi ble to do so if they are crowded in the rows. Every weed that grows near an- other plant takes from the soil the ele- ments for the support of that plant and appropriates moisture that may be de- sirable. The best remedy for drought is thorough cultivation, which destroys FIXING PHE QUALITY OF HAY. The quality of depends largely upon the stage of growth at which the grass 1s cut. When the grass flower, and before seed 1s formed. is the best period for mowing. Nothing is gained by waiting longer, and if past the seed-forming the stalks will be hard and woody, while if cut too soon the grass will contain a large proportion of water. Good hay is someti 1- cult to procure, much of that market being of inferior quality and hay stage coming because b = of being mowed too late also Cause Of improper curing FILLING THE It used to be thought that of the silo was all be filled so fast that no layer could before it another, and thus the ginning at the bott work u reached or rotting downward the surfac going this idea SILO. wilt was ¢ mentation gradually > through ¢ prevented : Naturally sent down une, When Xx fuan ds his busis has the machin do the There are some men in every who are bungler:, and abomina- tions on the farm a bungling thre man 1s the worst, et nan that furn- ishes whole outfit complete, with hands to do all the work except hauling the thresheg grain. And let him board his ova help. He you can and it relieves the women folks of a great deal of hard work and worry Threshing time, not many years ago, who und occupation of all ) sher- tI Lic mingled anxiety and dread. was worn out before the job was done orm by the “threshers.” All was hur- ry, flurry and waste. With better sys- em we have more civility on the part dreaded as it used to be. the work of threshing is to have every- thing in readiness when the thresher ar. tives. See that plenty of fuel is provid- ed and water accessible. If you thresh tnd men to get the wheat to the ma- thine. It is quite convenient to swap work with your neighbors to secure ‘uch extra teams and men as you may need outside of your own force. If there is any unnecessary delay let the fault rest with the machine boss, an. then you will not be fussed at. There is much less grain stored on the farm than there used to be, and the amount is gradually growing less as the years go by. If you have farm scales weigh your grain as it goes to market. Mistakes sometimes occur and if you know just how much you have sent to ‘the mill or elevator it may prove to be money in your pocket—American Agri Prof. James S. Doty, in American Culli. . IMPROVING FARM VALUES WITH IRRIGATION, The universal use of irrigation in the West has practically Hy revolutionized values in hese supplying crops with many, but they all show an amount of adaptation to conditions that proves the existence of Yankee genius here varieties of windmills for pumping up water than one could describe in a week, These windmills are not expensive affairs, but in most cases are built of ordinary arti- picked up on the farm or in second- hand shops. They perform the work re- quired of them satisfactorily, and that is all one can ask of them. The construc- tion of a good working windmill on any farm, and a pumping attachment, with irrigation canals and reservoir, adds a hundred or two hundred per cent. to the value of a farm in a region where sum- farm many regions, J 5 the " 1 1 { meinods ol are yet. There are more ' CIOs droughts are heavy drawbacks ta With a little extra work dur season it is an easy mat- such improvements I'he on al system can be en 3 {0 mnaxke most farm. larged and extended season by and any season, in the f arm gradually enhanced E s he ne -made indepen- A farm that has a fair irrigation pant 1s + weather, practically I'he farmer is then matter how ihe his crop no hot or dry the season may derived from an irrigation plant prove, great benefit it seems strange that It is not al- for natural apparent that tence. build a windmill often advantages which When can into use for would not | he ne reservorr was dug and HOrovemeant v Hal take ten very f ¥ arm i poultry attention and that n live stock the profit De same care that far greater accordmg and m Fifty iid a invested ney pen, yard pry moments” i" nis Aime, sixty MT hens will give a ¢gR:. Anyone can he amount of profit there would | ing tie over ' , 5 ippiy Of summer, with fowls the farm, it is not placing the figures too high to say that half the eggs yarded you can easily teli whether they are making or losing money. With fowls yarded. a stray chicken soon be- comes a curiosity about the firm to which all the men folks will My amen Maud Steinway, in the Epitomsist, FUL POINTERS. stock SHORT AND USE As soon as any profitable, sell it. ceases to be Milch cows need more water than dry COWS Or steers, Keeping the cows clean is a good way to cure stringy milk, A mulch around a tree will greatly benefit it during its early life, or until it has got a good start, For a month or two before a cow is about to calve give her some succulent food that will keep her digestion in good shape. A sheep that has died of grub in the head should be carefully burned. This ng help prevent any spread of the trou. ble, Hogs and dairying naturally go to- gether. It pays to keep hogs on a dairy farm if for no other reason than to dis- pose of the skim milk profitably. The surest way for the farmer to add to his capital is to add to the productive power of his farm. The fertility of the farm is his working capital, It's the even-tempered doctor who never loses patients. SALON HIND - ANCY ~-* FOOT NOTES. The becoming dal slipper of the and three five straps. Very becoming also is the shoe with a fairly large buckle and tongue. This Greek or court shoe. Very dainty are of gray suede, destined for all-gray costume, sometimes ur 1s known as the 0 SHOeY WOMEN'S WORK IN RUSSIA: t is well known that women enjoy in few countries greater equality with men than in Russia. This fact is attested by public positions in Russia now open to women : Dentists, teachers, apothecaries’ chemists’ assist ants, physicians, assistant prison direc tors, telegraph operators, post officials and various railroad offices, including that of station master. assistants, CUBA'S FIRST POSTMISTRESS The distinction of being the first post mistress in the island of Cuba belongs to Senorita Ysabel Maria de Los who holds a commission to handle the mails at Gibera, She receives a salary f $1,200 a year, she displayed so much executive that her appointment to take charge f it meets with the fullest approval of department officials and patrons of the office. Senorita de Los Rios i ! est of a family of thirteen children is in her twenty-third year. Sh daughter of the late Judge Jose de Los Gibera at ability Rios, who the time of his death recently. e 15 a possibility that Senorita de Los Rios will not office long. She is engaged to be married, was postmaster at hes remain in TO GROW Avoid sweets of a in greater quantities quench your thirst; water with meals is booed. Saccharine has become SURAr men substitute for that by w mon who in the reducing « 1 hour preceding London Genticwoman, TOIL} LOTION. feoretically, on account cream and albumen, this is valuable, but the advantages are more ti anced by the very irritating the salts and milk. As a rule, red in a pat hy way greatly in their sensitive tion of milk. When i out irritati ways be warmed--not | It must be borne quickly undergoes septic change, used as a lotion, and skin is cleansed daily with hot water, soap and rinsing, pimples may be expected t subsequent m nund that the not made, is never adopted as a routine agent for treating exposed parts of the skin. It is always followed by carefui clearing, and at the first sign of irrita tion, popular or otherwise, by pr per remedies—~F ome Notes. SOCIETY LIFE MADE EASY. ways been considered more or less of a rents to the practice, Th ta. k of mak- mg anywhere from a score to a hun- dred of these very brief visits per week, even when the “call” consists only of leaving a card at the door, is not to be lightly considered. London society people are patronizing a “so. al bureau” which advertises in certain society pa- pers that it is “prepared to send out visiting cards—the work sndertaken by experienced ladies, with accuracy and dispatch—by coupe if desired.” The extent to which this enterprise may be developed affords opportimity for much cheerful conjecture, If “experienced la- dies” can be engaged to send out visit- ing cards, why may they not also be employed to attend dinners and balls and other social functions, to ride in the park of spring afternoons: to and even to attend church? There seems really no limit to the scope of the work. Harper's Weckly, CORDOVAN OUSTS ALLIGATOR. Cordovan has taken the place of alli waar imported fr gat ir f ir largely in parts { 1 durable Germany, of the horse leather, It IS INpervious 10 walter, and has a urface. It 1s not imported in sides as most kinds of leather, but comes blocked to the shape of the vamp. Un like calf, it does not stretch in wearing, but retains the shape of the last until the very shoe is Formerly It was very expensive, but recently the tanners many of preparing the and with reduced cost it is now popular. I'his season, in all the many original designs for tasteful footgear, ooze calf plays a conspicuous part, Its soft, vel vety feelmg and appearance doubt made from certain hide, and is a very very smooth worn out. have conquered the hide, no selected. The dyes are per colated or oozed throufh it; hence its Ihe velvety feeling is given te | the flesh side by a series of sand paper- grain side of skins pebbled, This permits of from the same skin. I'he peculiar texture of a calfskin per “fast calor” m from jet black Gray Net ooze calf being used in the mawu of shoes, but it is used te an by the makers of al- hand bags, while the the color and shade to a bright orange or cream white. +} O51 15 facture now (lite extent card a thousand other spatch, cases, pen wipers and ~Pittsburg novelties - Tt H There no end of pretty wuegli made of sOft, artistic They are most effective when made 1 are the liberty on rather aesthetic lines, s0 many of th liberty materials reflect the tendencies ith their worked out hgured nouveau color dull greens and i { vel her SCHACMCS more sages of ravishing piece Of £14 the artastu oer All mt is made of deep « ered a yellow rose de SEN, 1 3 . 3 lowish green cave heavy giving a certain character to the one piece and at the waist line 13 teimirrrendd th a orout i rimmed with a group is und vad Sale H through a a wer oor tenement view of the pos at it 14 hal i id holes ot nyeatigated por.er ve Rate whose dress wis 3 mixture * i and ball gown answered | was | Ji holes here?” button 1ske i “Naw: we make with as much ‘ "a i. em!’ she excl: as a very , 3 Sit chowing the window says -- in pped ! med squeaky voice was capable Well, the sign i ind the sign!’ she ‘What do you want She was fing persuaded to tell scmething about hes “You AT . NEVED Muna with m 3 usIness, 3 new $ way, YL an, who pretty well and d Most of "em makes 18, but they Lisve not too their macn Now, if you it wa: in. cially by hand. Poor girls can’t afford machines. ‘They make up] the dresses and bring ‘em over to us, An’ that's FASHION NOTES, Many pretty hats are bound around the edges this year, White alpaca is extensively used for outing costumes and frocks for cool days, The ostrich feathers which are worn so much, not only on Gainsboroughs, ! but on all kinds of dress hats, are but little curled. The Gainsborough hat hardly knows itself when it looks in the mrirror this year, It is masquerading in all colo and materials, and there are even large and small Gainsboroughs. Animals are growing large in jewelry. | One can get a brooch in the shape of a bulldog's head which seems half the size of life. There sre other animals if one Is fond of the jewel menagerie. Remarkable Tests Made by Dealers tha Bourse. were talking trength brokers of Bourse of the paper. A wucilage turned of ordinary writig paper, and a heavy paper weight had be (nie the A party the tensile bottle had been ove on a sheet Come io the sheet, of men { up the weight from it. Then, in a curiosity, he piled ot the edge of the sheet, to hold. the slender sheet before it gave The experiments attracted the atten- fon fastened the and dangled pirit of picked Jape y weights on fastened 1 * aarrats) ee how much the paper would the one to In a half dozen or 50 of men. and formed a group and chatted progress in paper buckets, mallet ol and he wondered of abont mak they the wonderful wheels, and made i med, that paper ome one : 3 importer of Japanese arti and he had an article tissue paper that would bear the weight said he made of any two men who could wagered to be a bundle ny concealed but he placec rzle and O00 sape of for Next to break the bag with their heel il importer three men watched the endeavor to make his 1 then $ wet, Wn collapse lor awhile, gussed he had won the This was agreed to, trength of 4 made. A | 4 3 rocured and : ag was and placed bench. Five men i bag collapsed hat sounded through the expiosion. An ¥ over the ai on like an exXami- the broken bag showed ated with 3 i rey Herr 5 34a 3 e paper Record WATER BY CAS. A French Device For Supplying Several Rooms at Once. HEATING e hot water, supply may be received : i Ge apparatus contains a by not consumed mulating mn the apparatus, losions are obviated, In experiment consul, diately the one faucet at the some hifty feet away hrst lighted the apparatus, then the water feed pipe faucet Upon opening the discharge faucet the main gas jet was instantly lighted, and ten seconds later about twelve quarts of water of degrees was issuing from the faucet per minute. On opening the faucet half way, the supply came cold; on opening ? was apparatus Ad and iminulive gas turned into 12f was and turned closing it, the gas was instantly ex mguiched, to $70 each for the machines Siberian Labor Cheap and Efficient. its cost and kind, is an im- factor in the future develon- Labor, portant are exceedingly low—from fifteen cents a day m the region of the southern Urals, where much grain is raised and where the country is thickly settled, to $1.% a day in northern and eastern Siberma, in the regions of intense cold. and where the mines are remote from the sources of supply. In all cases the laborers feed themselves. The reason of the cheapness of mining labor in Siberia is that the wants of the people are few, The workmen are of the peasant class, and it may be said that the larger proportion of them can neither read nor write. Their food consists of mutton, black bread, do- mestic fowls, eggs, milk and tea. Most of the necessaries of life are supplied by their own farms or gardens, and their purchases, besides tea, sngar and vodka (the national stimulant), are few, Their clothes cost little and their en- joyments are ustally limited to the cele. bration of the numerous civil and re- ligious holidays by mutual visiting and the consumption, in greater or less quan. tities, of vodlm, In no country can be found men who more cheerfully sustain the hard labor, privation and sudden and severe changes of climate than the Russian and Siberian pesants, Frenchmen bases that i$ 100 dangerous and rough to suce ceed their national game of dueling. have decided Krupp. head of the great can- reported to be not careful sen, 18 225000. If he is may “die disgraced.” Mr. Vanderbilt i name large on entors he only shade on both sides of If young | write hh has only one lighthouse in a little concern sanall favor, increased between 1880, twenty-three per cent. 1880 and 1800, and twenty-five per cer between 1890 and 1900, but it i: Cities, forty 1870 and between ner ’ cent, in dion » OULE hay Hav h as 12,000 wney, they } Peazilss a Lraziiiar Greece and a law against the export of iquities with tal Owners of antic Herre e » reference to the Spanish are to r reassures bool and OE [OTS and brasscs the PACCIVETS i i i. i 5 £105 As George sngland, this : houses Ors ’ bury. New ou s Leaiand penny of the general time ago, bu mstituted the ten the resent fo lage gy Vear. p he the plan some neither Me United States no agree to lower the rate ie penny postage sysiem the majority has been the United joining the ranks. The United ] department has never but has a deficit each La ster there ate etinaste there at i tempted found Australia would ! 10 one cent. 11 inclodes Great Britain and of her and there strong talk States tates i made year lores years of {or TN posial CXPORCE, It appears that the modern sweet inger does mot live by verse making alone. The announcement that after | forty-five years in the British civil sery- | ice Austin Dobson will be retired on a | pension reveals the fact that the chief | employment of the poet related to fish, { For his services in protecting the finny denizens of Englick waters from the spoliation of illicit fishermen Mr. Dob- son received a moderate wage, and the pension which will follow is not regard. ed as adequate in the case of a man whose peeds include books. Hence Mr, ting for the gontle poet an additional allowance og $1,250 a year “for his dis- tinguished services to literature and his | erainence as a poet.” “Are there undeveloped enterprises left over from last century open to the capitalists of to-day?” asks O. P. Aus- tin, Chief of the Treasury Bureau of , Statistics, m Everybody's Mogarine, He answers with a lone list of possibilities in which wealth may be invested and earned. In the development of our own resources 80 as to produce at home the 800 million dollars’ worth of food stuffs, manufacturers’ material and manufac. tures now obtained from abroad, #s the line of endeavor along which great chances lie. We import sugar,’ fruits, teas, and fibers which can be grown within the United Stites. OF our own manufactured imports there are few which cannot be produced in America, Mr. Austin’s solution of the opportun. ity problem is that of converting im- sorts inte products, :
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