| | YALUE OF KEEPING AZCOUNTS | ‘The expenses and receipts from api-| mals are unknown to some farmers, It] is estimated that ft requires four acres to keep a cow, and the value of the land | as rent should be charged against her | as so much expense which she must pay | pefore her milk will give a profit. On| dx other side, a cow will leave about | ten dollars’ worth of manure on the | four acres, which should be deducted | fron: the rent charges. When strict ac- counts are kept of all expenses the far-| mer will then know which animals are paying and which are not even self-sup porting. WHERE FOWLS KEPT. A great many Crops could be grown to advantage on farms where large num- bers of fowls are kept, and which create a home demand for the articles produc- ed. Seeds of sunflower, millet, rape kale. Kaffir corn, popcorn, and even sorghum, could utilized, the cattle and sheep consuming the bulky portions and the fowls the seeds. Where any ot such foods become too woody for stock they may be made to do service as bed- ding. Cow peas are highly relished by fowls, and so white clover, while crimson clover will supply green food late in the fall and very early in spring. the same as rye. The regulation diet of corn and wheat in winter 1s not con- ducive to ogg production, but when the fowls have a variety they will largely increase the egg product. By selling such crops in the form of eggs better prices are obtained therefor, while rev- enue from eggs and poultry will be ob tained at a season of the year when the farm will be producing nothing at all Poultry will afford employment in win- ter and with profit. CROPS ARE ' ne is compared do not they can but few farm number, I here are f with the whole who plant a larger acreage than attend to profitably. the consequence be ing smaller crops in proportion to COs! than should case. Instead of forty bushels of corn per the far- mer should secure cighty bushels. The sinaller yield is more expensive than the larger. while time expended twenty acres is much greater on ten, the manure also being distributed on too large a surface to permit of any portion of the crops receiving a sufficiency of plant food. If ihe expense and labor be stowed on 20 acres could le concentrated on ten the yields would be doubled and leave the farmer ten acres on which to grow other crop. In ei drought the farmer who puts his work on the plat give ut better cultivation save crop while other farmers may not be so for- tunate. Intensive culture leads Sy 4 tematic rotation of crops, and the lands will be improved by a diversity of crops All farmers have manure, but they de- herefrom, ecature Os er ty be the acre the on Sone periods will ns Har smasier and to rive but little beneht ti they endeavor to apply i land. ww Inuca 'O TAKE HONEY. take { care for looks or wish to sell BEST TIME fhe best time t oO honey it) i time to darken $i ett fore the bees have had which they will every ti very long. The cappings will be snowy white if are taken off as as fully It 1s cl aned th the dark sec i honey we do not believe it. left on the hive swopped gathering, much of carried down. The bees will fill the ¢ made vacant by brood hatching. Either omb or extracted honey sells etter after the weather begins to get cool. and right here let us say that hon- ev will sell better when separators are used between the They com pel the bees to keep within | and build straight combs, no bulging out I he farm bee keeper would find the busi ness more pleasant snd profitable if he had a few of the many inexpensive ap- pliances to work with. There are ex- ceptions, but generally speaking, the far- mer knows little, care: little and both- ers less with his bees than any other part of his business. His mind and hands are s0 fill of other more weighty) matters that the bees are left to shift for themselves.—The Lpitomst, do ne if SRO sections sealed it OME one contam bes but if the honey ; +} furs Sean is after thie Dees nave 1" It Wis ¢ usually 2 1 5) ‘sections mils (Bl COWPEAS. Acting on a suggestion received at 2a meeting of the horticultural society, I broke up an old sedge field of extremely poor character and planted it in cowpeas | in June, 1900. The field had not been plowed in twenty years and was in bad condition. | used one and one-half bushels of peas per acre. A severe drouth retarded the growth of the peas, but subsequent rains produced a rank growth. 1 turned them down in Sep-| tember, i I then applied the following mixture! at the. rate of four hundred pounds per| acre: S C rock, 1200 pounds: fine ground | ash 100 pounds, bushels of lime per acre and drilied two the English mutton breeds, and through tht transforfiation of rome Merino fam ilies into a combination sheep. Ameri cans cannot be said to be a mutton eat ing people. But the steadliy increasing of mutton consumed in this country during the past few years, under a steadily decreasing ability to buy, is evidence that we are learning to eat mutton, Much can be done to encourage the consumption of mutton by sending young er animals to market, The difference between lamb arg mutton is as great as than between a spring chickenanda three year-old rooster. The younger the ani mals also the the shrinkage in slaughtering. Fortunately, moreover, Tess for the producer. Careful experiments prove that the of grain almost constantly and regularly increases with age. The very cheapest gain is made while a lamb is yet with its mother. It is a growth, moreover, which if lost be regained by any amount of later in life I'he first two months of a lamb's life very largely makes or mars for a profitable pro ducer of mutton, There is a limited period of animals for growth. Every factor mn the problem of producing mutton points toward marketing, I'o para- adage, he early An eight condition in highest price per A very narrow period Cost feeding 0 § i . ' » in the ile earlier it is that -old CASON, pound « lamb weeks gets lamb, the prize. if in and commands t} ver { attainable limit of ume at this the of the tide of A lamb not meeting the requirements of the period must not Opens, 1 ang height prices passes, i market at that mito a cheaper find until another which calls for a lamb three to five months old, but a less price per pound. pass on class, to sale Cason Lambs sold at four months of age do not as a rule bring as much as those sold at two months old, If again the age doubled trebled, the market into ‘which they must go is such that in pite of their gain in ittle if any more of former continued until sheep at its price per head The lesson is is or they will bring ad s 1 i than at either periods 1 may mature the per x the iT 1 lave weight, Vary we maximum and does greatly not that mutton should be marketed in th of eight-weeks old lamb; not rightly equipped modations for ot But this general application that marketed raisers respectung ii aki skill or stable producing this aching the younger a are situated market in accom- mutton, sheep can be wien under grown tit conditions H. P the economical the larger Miller, in Orange Field farmer Nos will be the profit THE MIDSUMMER APPLE CROP. Not a st the profit of crop depends upon proper treatment of the trees. More and more are we beginning to realize that it is fine, fancy fruit large sound, bring their jepression have any the little the apple f mudsummer the s« which pay. The ' appies SEASONS always of that ace witl take, and stand trans Ocean Such grown, and withtut defect a few es yields more profit and only price, are pr sfitable in they the anes [hey foreigners that he only ' appies tha fe 4 1 ig OT y will ap- : ‘ 1 we periecliy maturiy * ree they or bushels of than defective X 4: with y api : another with twice as many and decides the nes it he quality not the yield that quantity of the profits A good through sumt Just are condition which need our particular tention. the apple careiessness nt many are spoiled . ' ne ie or $+ 3 chard. now the trees One should go through Ory con A good deal de performances of Some have a record of pro good apples in spite of the Such consequently than others, should be made an effort to dis- lodge so far as sible i and under:ized fronts, the trees will le t maining apples grow larger and fairer But in lcaving too many fruits on a tree with a good record the danger of break ing down the limbs is invited. This must be carefully considered. Even though we supply props later damage i< actually done to the tree by straining 11. As a be asked to carry chard and make careful dition of 3 peas E +} note Of the cach tree upon cach tree, ducing very heavy crop need i here the past irees Ott le thintin 3 gunning § 8 nyt . defective ved of t the re- bioao HES Ie ani } IARC rule a tree should more apples than its limbs can actually support without preps. These latter can then be put up to keep the tree from straining when storms and winds ary beating through the orchard. Proper thinning out of fruits, espec- ially the apples, one of the mos delicate of quetions, for one must learn how to do it from experience. One does no damage to the crcp by overthinning except as he limits the size of the crop The trees do not suffer therefrom as they may from overprdning. So in this respect one can decide for himself just how large a crop he wants, Allowances must, of course, be made for the havoc created by storms, These will thin out the fruit later in spite of all precautions It may then be necessary to leave a few more apples on the trees than you ex- pect to harvest. Another consideration Tot 1% specks or rotten centres, and later these will have to be thinned out. The thin- fair set of grass following, tig, in New England Homestead, YOUNG SHEEP DESIRABLE FOR MUTTON. The production of mutton is as yet the sheep industry in this country. It has not received as much study and at- tention as most other branches of be carried on by degrees, always looking ty fruits. These should always be pul: fed or knocked off. 8, W, Chambers, in aa Bound to Have an Education. TION. Florence Bassio, an Italian girl of ff. lied recently for an edu cation to the Juvenile Court of Chicago three years has worked in a candy fac- person made hin It seems to be very easy to-build a fly ing machine on satisfactory plans, Now let somebody do it, ce is two cents a pound in Dawson City, according to Consul MceCook's re- port. Coals will soon be $1,000 a ton| the source of supply. An American “College of Heraldry suggests something out of a comic opera But it is too humorous a thing for real life, commonwealth’s wil The Australian new navy-—the first line of defense $5,000,000 year to maintain, practical independence of the wew monwealth is proving a costly at this early stage of existence. The com luxury ts 1 1 "» states that (ac sda cl sed Hnives A corres Pp indent Sweden on Satur the are h is sal pay day on Sufdays here is di intensely practical bed i yy Pie Las Greenwood, lowa, pion sneak ing released from prison and stole hus rogues’ reports thief, | wo gallery. A census Bureau bulletin says that the average age oi Americans al which was 31.1 years in 1800, was in 1900 10 35.2 May a corresponding reduction jor?’ fy i gqeatn, found year have increased to insurance rates be lcvoked Leslie's Weekly says the woman who ! herselt on ence and boasts } or scrub a floor marrica ides her domestic u lier inabialaty has di no fee tum a dinner enerally would Fhe annals of medicine are records of the noblest and m ested it rifvce or the sake rgoulien who Dave joined ‘ssensarked and : MNarKca anda : graves lled by them noble army of as their legacy to formulatin sing of in medical science Much being of sembly s a mat of foreign fact seven districts voters are in registered vole of four six per per the foreign! very good Americans Wood Connec William in the For thirty ruff has ticut woods, long years been a all « fidy of a young wi ed Marry menor 3 fecCitise m account of the per wan who bad promis 1 i i to him: The other day old and came walk over impelled mil to Winsted for fond which will survive even an unhappy J affair, and m man the inher of t mm fo the lonely pie seven es from ' camn {here an are Ome We the case of a New England fondn for pie 13 ited ess one ne mm In 1ilinois, the marshes of the Kanakee River 10.000 acres of k 1: tani . se been reclaimed and planted to su gar beets mated at 30000 tons, number of beets, lected at rent. mn land ha swamp 1 he present crop A random, 1s esd hs showed fourteen per sugar and eighty-five per cent This, swamp land 1 i pur and a similar experiment n near Michigan Stale will probably determire the future of many of atarsh mn the Western States, the line, fae of thovsands acres The catle king of Australia i¢ Samuel] McCaughey, an Irishman, who went to Australia in 1856 with practically noth ng. He did not succesd well at first but started again with a emall Sock. and from year to year has added to his hold ngs, until now he has more sheep than any other man in the world, He has more acres of land than sheep, and his possesgicns are in the Lest parts of Aus. tralia. One of his farms on the Darl ington Downs is thirty-six miles long ind forty miles wide. Aliogether he, swt more than a million acres and leas =; about a million or so more, When the Trans-Siberian Railroad was projected it was claimed that it would reduce the journey from Moscow | 10 Port Arthur to seven days. But it! requires, in fact, nearly a month, The! predicition was made that a speed of! thirty-five miles an hour could be main | tained ; the average made by the trains sow running is about eight miles, The, trouble is that the rails are too light | I'he Russian Government has awakened | to the failure, and has now decreed that | Jie light rails are to be replaced by rails | sf aandard weight. The cost of the! ‘oad as originally planned was to have! seen about @75000000, The change of | rails will add immensely to that sum, i We get so nsed nowadays to the won. serful, not to say miraculous, things the wientists do that we are likely to take | sven their greatest achievements as what might have been expected, and; hus fail in some measure to appreciate them, There is wireless telegraphy, for example. The more we think about t the more wonderful it appears. states J+ writer in the Philadelphia Record Messages are sent over or through mountain ranges, and ships sixty miles apart can communicate with each other, in spite of the curving segment of the earth, An even more amazing thing in the method is the possibility of tun ing the instruments so as to produce a difference in the vibrations and thus send simultaneous messages. This sug- gests the thought that the electric waves huve at least one quality in common with the waves of light and sound, which we know pass and repass, crossing each other in every conceivable direction, without the least interference, THE HERMIT OF CAP: MALEA, Among the Grecian Goatherds. About twenty-five years ago there was a young sailor who, dint of herd integrity of character, and hem ness of will, reached at the age of twen- of ambition—be- would them be sone 900 to the girl of Ins wailed tor | swesthearts nung to OWners by work, ty-six the summit his coming master of called a good-sized steamship, ' register, {Ons Upon this CesSS0n had Oy choice, who him sin a parted sd rare nis ge deep stea Fhames be explained all the wonders sing for had oft repeated made bright days be tween he had been able to ie VOVAReS 3 vote to courtship. The ship was bound p. Mediterranean ports, the time in autumn, and consequently ide honeymoon Cadiz ghtful tour wherein to ent ing Greek way, and cut dg #t APPrecia water s qui poy 1 SIHENQOUTrs 3UC- wreckage, Cape Malea at tide, and itself enab battlements he was found gazing goat herda ¥ ' 64 them back He me of would live their L108 id un of deeply wate hing Ww thote mething with And rude peasants of his depth woe, syn without helped payment { : at hut any they fam and wept him sapped not sels of food and drink as sufficed for has stunted And there, with his gare fixed during all his waking hours, upon that inscrat. able depth wherein all Lis bright liopes had suddenly quenched, he lived until quite recent years, “the Wd to getting, by the world forgot,” a living monument of and patient complaining grick. 3y his humble friends, whose language he never learn el. he was regarded as 2a and when one day they came upon his life- Tess body fallen forward upon its knees at the little unglazed window through which he wont to look upon the sea where his dear one lay, they felt confirmed inv their opimon of the sanctity of the hermit of Cope Malea Fb. I. needs been wid CONsancy an saint, Was out Effect of Fasting. Professor Masso of the University of ienoa has recently compie ed a series of of the body during fasting and the rate of as- of carbohydrates, The ex. periments demonstrated the efficacy olf Upon the administration of sugar the temperature rose rapidly during fifteen minutes and in one or two hours reached ita maximum, After bread is given the temgerattire will rise more slowly than in the case of sugarfowing to the great. er difficulty the animal lias in assimilat- ing the food, Professor Masso says with sugar he has succecded in restor: ing the vitality of dogs in a serious state —— Sh 5 I po The faster a Wan sis in debt the | | i RUSSIAN LACE AND PEARLS. A ball dress of unusual beauty is of deep cream Russian applique lace em- proidered with paste pearls and silver] on a foundation of Russian the | same tint I'he low bodice with the jewelled and narrow | straps of cerise velvet brighten the] pointed belt, Another striking dinner | gown of white net ringed with black and | spangled with steel is striped with white satin ribbons and lacings of steel; thi is made black and net lace, somewhat a Empire, and in jet is very effective, FAILED AS CONDUCTORS. The street railway company of Madi son, Ind, which until recently employed | women as conductors, has dispensed their of passenger their because arou:ed jority of explained that ed with CIVICES the male par tially 1eAIOUSY the ma 1 the It 1s 1 ’ women were hirst empioy- because they were che than men, beloved aper and because it was the p l traffic the y would increase the over he line, On y tae instead of Wi contrary, atiracung conductors officers say Hiade passengers, ine nen invariably showed a prefer ence for lar man, and the wme pa others became SOMETHING NEA he visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and YX Austral 1 London perfumers to disull for the 1 i ia ds i104 certain Au Wy al rk tralian flowers B A benefit of ritishers. Boronia the wer said that tu greet an so fragrant t 18 ed on haps Gol fragrant are £1 perfume wal the breeze INCOMING den other which Car wattle and rock growing exceedingly All these into perfumes and labelled by fistinctive names. great rnivals follow the fashion, the most popular of the day eners ave perfumed =» i the Ww hie ODS blossom, Or hid * Ca mel! f smelling flowers made digtin the are sweel- have been their ae which making that flower Bath " ; hese perfumes Of carnation ISoenls, sO hets SaIne of HOW 10 Hands ma POSSESS NI he - undertaken should possible, Lut i young wile whenever ef a press thick, clumsy the protection i needs pratecin well from that exis as kid should be a ian as {he gloves ger than 1s »f what are Yu will them that you will be ng be done, Hy vena brat worn 1o allow freedom Mi NO FE h feel 30 helpless and clumsy ACCOUNT purciase 1 : known usemaids’ gloves, in constantly remaoyw them when any delicate job has to might A your § 4 o Goin n 1 #0 as well be without s alt +3 altogether, no Mi washing ther thin ficver 1. ol Nanus ' ¥ $ +} si grineg ih 1% 4 wili not Cleanse GENERAL KITCHENER'S MOTHER Kitchener’ interviewed faberts General mother being 3 UY a representative of 1h in simall town where she has been living 1 of Brittany Hose fume wed that she al h discreet as the issing Is (aener mself when mallers i public importance truth in the r Son § None whatever explaining that her news General Kitchener was a fortnight Lord Kitchener is not the man to short in the muddie of his difficult 1 may He 10 the end, provided that any wmor ; retarn *”’ asked © sad 1 ialest task, however be will remain His post gland does not remove him likely, seeing that he has, more than the confidence of Ins Government With regard to Mrs. Kitchener celf, a pretty picture is drawn of the lady in her picturesque home, among her “roses and geranium: “Lord vtchener's stepmother,” we are told “is a lady about sixty years old, very! distinguished looking in ber black dress and with the classic type of face so fre qrent among elderly English ladies. Her white, her long and thin and her accent in speaking French is the traditional one of the English.” Bu: at the end of what was evidently a pleas ant conversation, the French journalist knew little more than at the beginning. except that Lord Kitchener's bellt-mere has as much confidence in her eminent bean-his as his stanchest admirers, MANAGEMENT HAIR. Hair oils of every kind and all pre. Walch 1 un ever, her face THE OF THE parations for the hair are unneccssary | vo long as the scalp is in a healthy con- | dition. Brush the hair daly with a stiff | wral oil 10 permit, wash it once in two weeks with clear cold water. A litte white castile soup may be used occasion: ally, but if it is mixed with ninety per cent, alcobol it will be less injurious to the head than when it is applied alone with water. The failing out of the hair is cansed hy fever or a scvere derangement of the “wealth, It is checked by improvement in the health and by applying local rem- cdies, An excellent lotion for the scalp is made of two drachms of tincture of cantharides, six diachms of rosemary and eleven ounces of elderflower water. Apply a lide once or twice a day after brushing the scalp briskly with a «iff hair brash vutil it is in a glow, the hair is short it is an excellent plan tf dip the head in cold water night and worming. and, after thoroughly drying the hair, brosh it quickly and well for five minutes, An excellent hair wash, when a hair a of torewaler, ome ounce of aromatic spirits of ammonia, one and a half drachms of tincture of cantharides and ! Shake and the mixture well in a bottle, and it to the scalp with an old tooth- New York Tribune, nx HOW THE FALL WAISTS ARE MADE Separate waists of vivella: and Scotch and French will worn this autumn, The olors most used will be bright and dark tan, the light. dark and Freneh blues, gray, pink, and dark and reseda green. Buttons of steel, gilt and white and smoked pear! will be used on the new which are made with plain backs, long shoulder seams and stitched or tucked fromts with long-waisted and slightly bloused effects, The Rntest sleeve is a shape with a trifle at the top than that of last wristbands made large the hands to shy necktie finish” is new waists, particukarly Ladies’ Home cashmere, alba Lross, flannel tae red, waists bishop more fulness I he enough 10 through year. are pernst fen the on more dres J 4 / Journal, problem 1 artsst, an aut ile ams u ed to paint the port of women Wee fi the ages 0. Years Belore {wen which charms ing forward with jeal and i is an expectancy freshne hope At full of puzzling pr forty ti er 18 mises and stronger interven its expec- formed, nance are but in has lost ncy and is lu » be indifferent | he dy wom irty and forty bad experience of the world and of youth. In those years they were brightest and most author he ages then the th ‘ f {ween i hey the OVOUsne ss If Fhe society woman thought that it give general question mdividual in regard 10 the SUMe are most was impossible to answers Jmen the as Ww dGifter most attractive charming at forty have passed their prime at Irty Or upward the best will show to probably oman every the balance of f ir of from cighteen e Woman's Life GAMES.” ne K1fce past, says londowx [lady was considered adylike when ferminme weaknes ance charms hike af the overcrowding n nearly every osher profession at pres. the recent appoint- drown, a student raining College at he important position Games and Gymmastics of Durban, o all concern themseives with the doings of women. were SUPPO Now Brothers their sClhwols ws of nierest t who h lady, who is only twenty- the daughter . . at UWn 03 of Cantonbury entered the South- or age, Br She 0 1800 a two years the work most congenial ONSPICUOUs SUCCESS. ving qualified in the ts of physiology, hygiene ambulance and medical rope climbing. and silver and ck-nursing, work, and gymnastics openings for women he South be owns m 1 remaiis to seen | her appointment 1s worth $1,500 a that the authorities of having taken training wm a of their prn- En- engage a competent Moore Smith's chor, mguiries and investigation, we have seen, and there is that 1 prove a very all concerned, Wes 3 way : to the fact the Durban Pul the up subject « weal practical way, deputed one cipals, Miss Me gland in ord teacher. Miss after carefui has fallen as ‘ yore Smith, to visit er iO ttle doubt will salistaclory ong FASHION NOTES. ®aded materials are TOgUS agai I'he latest tag ornament: are made of coins or jewels in pear or round shapes A touch of scarlet introduced in hat or gown trinaoings is a Parisian fancy fer fall, Lenumine used for coming into 1% wrist brocade little Persian fa-hionable antwgue the ver sei with coral The dominant note of Parisian fash. trimmed with chiffon or net draperies or lace of every knowe pat- tem, weave and unt The awtomobile cockade 1s the latest shirt waist models The cockade consists of many loops of chenille or narrow width ribbons, The newest millinery ormamenss are of gun metal, studded with cut steel or rhinestones. Cut jet combired with gold will also be used for hat decoration in the antusgr. The fine, ser French organdie in lovely monochromes or in Marie An. toinette devices ix decidedly one of the marked favorites of fashion, and has for the autumn season a prominent place among her chosen materials. Batiste in lace effects and embroider. ed patterns figure largely in combina. tion with foulards, crepe de Chine, and the new delicately colored and rather
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