TO USE WITH PARIS GREEN. When using paris green allow one pound for 150 pounds of plaster. If water 1s uged, mux pound paris green with ten gallons of water, one IMPROVEMENT IN BEEF CAT TLE. Fifty years ago the average weight of pounds, but improvement of breeds has so greatly increased the size of beef cat- pounds at the present day. WHEN PLANTS WILL GEEMI NATE. Experiments show that rye and wheat will germinate in perature of which is thirty-two degrees; barley, oats, flax, peas and clover sprout at thirty-five the same thirty-eight beans at forty degrees. If these expen ments have been carefully they demonstrate that sprout degrees; , carrots at even below the freezing point. SCIENCE IN FEEDING. Foo ‘much science in feeding cannot be but some oi the to feeding according to of the animals is some farms. The for one and a third per cent. weight of the animal, of food per 1000 p Aa animals vary in also differ in quality to apportion the animals would 1 oo costly, and con siderable time would also be kt given, advice relating 1 t the jive weight almost impossible on German tables of the live or about 13 pounds unds of | I labor required individual the THE TREATMENT OF Dhring c n of chilly nights unless guarded roup will first symptoms appear as ga ible gasp in brea HS and sh IWS ad and eyes in an attempt to rei stage roup may ulceration has not set itself a cancerous v in the eyes and mouth, and not death will relieve them. ticed, the fowls should placed in bright, dr face washed with tile vaseline, A IMtle kerosene mjected in nostrils, and should be continued daily three days. work eve them ' ' Casily oe¢ cure 173 > When fir isolated ¥ rooms, Ww Varm Feed lightl for their food. —1 MASH AS A POULTRY FOOD A mash of half neal and half br ts one of th foods { 3 young or old I kn chicken I prefer to | but for the old on ordinary gardn like the boy when though any place and were good enough for buys horseradish on the the prepared horseradis! {1 18 remmn company any has grown to be on this matter purchaser of grocery-store does well if he gets a ten per cent. d of the teal root may be potato or or almost anything. What we need is a horseradish revival should be opened (spite of their weep ing) ta the merits of pure goods, and. The ninety per cent. turnip or excelsior, fully taken and planted in a good place in the gurden, and clean, sound roots should Be prepared for the dining table, Good Horseradish is a wholesome and grateful thing, but poor horseradish is an abomination.—The Country Gentle. man. LOSS BY FLIES, equal ins ¢ondition as they could make them, apd one-half were sent to pasture ers, tholigh in a small field with plenty of shade during the day, The others dows, Ht all pwed to feed in the pas- ture duging the night and carly morn- ing. It was found that these produced twenty ‘per cent. more butter than those in the ghsture during the day, as the fatter e kept moving all of the time by the ‘lies. On an lowa dairy farm they obtained more milk from cows kept ila dark stable without screens during jhe day and let out to graze at night, than they did from those in pas are all day and in stable at night. Sim. ilar results have been obtained by the sprayimggof cattle with something to re. pel the Mies, but most of these repellants have amt'odor that fills the air in the stable ad may injure the milk or but- ter, if nok very carefully used, We never found anything better than a sponge or damp cloth just moist with kerosene, and wiped lightly over the top of the head, along the back and over the legs using it every morning just after milk ing. The odor evaporates before the next milking, if not used too freely. The Cultivator, OUT THE PASTURES. [he success of summer dairying de- i pends upon the pasture first, and then on the way the pasture #5 helped out in the way of providing additional summer food. We have passed the age of dairy ing where a progressive farmer depends | entirely upon a pasture field, turning his COWS there all summer, and let ting them scurry fof a living. Such cows | live in clover the first half of the sum- | mer, end nearly starve during the rest HELPING SUMMER loose { of the season. They grow lean and weak { and their milk supply gets smaller and thinner every week, and by the time fall and winter comes they are pretty spect A farmer once told writer had tried summer dairying and the J Upon invesiigation, it dairying dairying cows in summer for winter and for ummes The i VICE Versa 1 + result was the animals never came 1 - * mark because it son to recover fre the starva tion process, Whether you inten i ry Ww dairying or depend simp! HDOn dairving, it is necessary to have sture through the sun summer and aut to help the pasture on us 15 simpler in many imagine. Sometimes it sim fencing oft so the grass has a chance the cows are fecding on the othe Constant daily weather kills cropping in the grass and field fence part of it off in in this way keep it green and healt ! tat Gown Do way Yareres argo, and not the weeds let than anytinng rb the weeds and t § iT ave 10g nsequently they RIOW At least in the give Face. not be Sparnng Liese even in summer, lonl Far oh tes full a good deat Tor he late fall pas ture, which oftentimes more to the dairyman than the carly sprin and grass. A system hik this will go a long way toward keepis up the quality Iittle summer of milk ant same Lime nd the the supply cream, and at for the amimals William ( the health of and winter work. — wan Cul mway, mn {mer frogtor INCUBATION BROODING ARTIFICIAL CERES cosung CAUSCS in a much lar Instead of broody hens can have them laying ho the income and saves pay froin hity 10 seventy ‘ brooders brotlers he wr and ng After nave is get off for and early gets a those fice vy ! ) Is own use if well cared for sure if the «are quite would be Jess s1ckne 1d healthier The farmer can avail chil himself of than one has chicaper any i as he raises his own grain and { the family may become just as | of a necessity as | The main point | and brooding is, {just when you want them. If you are | breeding fine fowls their health and ap- i pearance is much improved with an in. { cubator to lmtch your stock. Hens not be in better condition. We believe in incubators to perform the work of hens. i The birds will score more points, and { prove more profitable as layers as the vitality is not sapped from the ances tors.~J. C. Clipp, in The Epitomist. —————— A AS i iron Crown of italy. The famous iron crown of Lombardy is one of tht most precious heirlooms of the Italian royal house. The erown is only partially of iron. Tradition de- clares it was made from one of the nails used at the Crucifixion. This was beaten out wlio a thin rim or iron, which was magnificently set in gold and adorned wih jewels. Pope Gregory the Great bestowed it on Queen Theo dolinda, a Frankish princess, under whom the Lombards first changed their Arian faith for the Catholic. Charle. magne was crowned with it, and so were Henry of Luxemburg and sue ceeding emperors. It was also used at the coronation of Napoleon I. Tht Em- of Austria restored it to the Kine of Italy in 1866 «london (iravhis THE HUMMINC.BIRD Where to Find Its Nest, and How it Feeds Its Young. In St. Nicholas, Henry Hales writes of the ruby-throated humming bird. The humming-birds builds on the up- per site of a branch ,a branch gener- ally about the size of the nest. The nest is beautifully felted with fine white vegetable down and studded on the out- side with fine lichens and minute specks They do not seem to retire to se- cluded places to build; they are as ec- centric in their choice of a nesting place as in their nature and habits, Some suppose their nests are near the gardens or vines they visit: but that is not often the case. A few magic vibra- tions of the wings, and they are far away in a few seconds, I'he last nest I found wae on the outer end of a branch of silver poplar that hung over a public carriage-top that passed under it was feet of the nest—the last within a 1 place in the world where 1 should few hay I she was not have seen it except that | I saw, the ong, fine bill that happened stir, protruding over the side of been passed hundreds of times and been taken for a small knot unless thus be traved. these . 1 3 birds lay but two morsels, The tiny when eggs, birds first hatched are hittle things and feed by imerting their bills in the mouths and throats of their parents. As the food white young Curious of the parents is composed of insects, the little ones’ ready for achs, tiny stom- The Creatness of Little Objects. saying Ward FE -% the | f Henry little things most trouble.” favorite ywmfortabl intie things, ventors in this country $50 are for nechanical devices of general every that the Fhe electrical candi finger drop int utility the touch of your you Culs green tightly tinued to reiter tim I 3 ly her mother e the request before quitting the store appeared in the door, a very countenance. irate “Dye mean you haven't got a nut- that inquired indignantly to tell me she the grocer. cotton.” “Couldn't HG i You mother, I didn all was the final matron departed, ses to scene have amused ever since, asking the grocer hie doesn’t exercise greater detec skill in finding out what his cus. require when they don’t know FPhilode Iphia Record PE retorted the saw something in her hand, but kn Ww : Well, had 10 do was to sed] it,” which the this in her hand?” what it was” 1 4