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, :