ADVANTAGES OF CROP ROTA. 'TON. Rotation of crops not only enables the farmer to get the best results, but large- ly aids in preventing discases of plants Rotation, which includes clover, distri- butes the plant foods to advantage and prevents loss of any particular elemei required by plants. HE FLAVOR OF MILK The flavor of null the food. On | there an utt the handling of known that sickness and death which of wick of cleanliness ¢ tO mwindreds is er k milk, although are imtoo mm milk ed by the germs enter through lack of carelessness 3 1 cleanness in other details, and 'HE BEST BRED inimals KEEP best bred of breeds. oure n pure THE MILK PAIL Many people who have ti and milk do not their trouble "OWS of with ream i Wooden or used for milk they can not be so perfectly cleansed soon, with bad flavors ot ter, is due to the rT 3 paper pats shoul AS has catchers, fectly brush warm washn rinsed {hi ing apples caten the bees is not up by m the exceptions prove the rule. wdvise any ma wig without | to give much ti uit. Fhe real dificul problem, which is the cause of bee keeper giving up the gust, even those elves and are up to the times, was an easy and sure method ing bees everybody could have them and raise some honey; but as it is it is only t question of time before y bee keeper i give wann Greiner, in Farm and Fire many who hay it $ forced to up. ~Friede fide SHOCKING CORN Two men should work together, and the shocks should be started on a Jack, which is made by putting two legs, well foot scantling, and having an auger hole near the upper end for a broom handle As soon as four armfuls are set up against the jack the shock should be loosely tied with a stalk and the jack removed. In commencing, each cutter should take two rows, and all the shocks should be started thay the cutters expect to cut during the day. so that when they again start the shock has wilted and cured out all that is possible. They should now take only one row each and cut from shock to shock, making each armful go half way around the shock. in order to allow it to wilt and cure out After they have cut clear through, they should again go back to the beginning and cut another row each, continuing this until the shock row is complete | always having in mind the perfect cur. ing of the corn. The shocks should not be violently compressed, as is the usual practice, but lousely tied with a cornstalk to pre. vent the outside stalks blowing down An average shock that weighs three hun. dred ponds when cured will weigh one thonsand to twelve hundred pounds when grecn; and who is there who woud pie in a shock twelve Fundred ponads of green grass aod (rpect it to curs $ : i | i 5 Nn i aut perfectly, especially (7 heavily w 1! nyone knows gotier this; so why corn shock that way? Just as sure as a green corn shock is tied up tight, without any chance to cure it so sure will a chemical change take place that unfits it for feed even if it does not turn black or moldy Uo avoid this chemical change in new ly cut corn fodder, green, most farmers delay cutting until the leaves on the stalk have cured out standing, and therchy se cure a very poor grade of fodder.—]. C. Norton, in American Agriculturist, o t thi 10 + i fireat a ¥ out, ast A WHEAT CROPS AND SOILS. I'he wheat crop is the most important at this season, farmers making prepara and harrowing, Al is considered the prin 1g section, yet Penn. in plowing h the West wheat-produc Ons o houvg cipal leading wheat station of wheat gely practiced i lene » s sylvania is one o growing States. clover and co +} Fox of i $ 1¢ fact tna i prom i tent ore is \ soil of this Sta pot exhausting the ral vears' experimental work, how strates (atl when wical eignt ’ re secured rogen from the NOK i Oounas yr pounas, 1 1 uty f that grown with clover on, and farn fease in followed the gain, woul wheat } at thi COV» of 1 $ me King rop that } fan grow fertility Wheat not an exhaus grown in a rotation. but TAC as crop whe vhen grown { 3 f ¢ oul “4 land the loss of Mant foam 1s It tility, very great self that red ea fer of systematic meth nitrogen and humus of conserved by the and the production ated by the if twen r 3% bushels of wheat per were reured. Old wheat soils readily recup- erate when humus-forming materials are returned to 1} and by rotation of crops manure and the growing of «l the heavy | | from the soil can lds and a bet secured rea is not the crop it i £ PACK When the but the ads soil f Crops, a5 aemonstr the were rotation of clover, experiment, an ty bu l orn and SII ES Of 4CT¢ ¢ KO, the tise of barnyard _50% i 3 ana i yie cked ter quality of No farmer should rely entirely upon barnyard manure or rotation, however, in order retamn fertility of his soil. There are «0 many losses of plant food from rainy, heat and failure properly care for manure, that at tempt to discard fertilizers prove disastrous from the fact that it is much easier and cheaper to keep the soil fer tile than to endeavor to restore fertility after the soil has become more or less impoverished. he danger to our farm grain i AOwW S to Pe to nay that fertilizers repay their cost by giving increase of crops, and that every dollar expended for fertilizer is one of the lest investments the farmer can make It ie claimed that if a farmer must go in dels and mortgage his farm he can dv so safely only by going imo debt for fer tilizer, but while this claim may not be relied upon, yet when a farmer expends capital for fertilizer he buys the very best raw material for manufacturing salable crops on the farm.—Philadelping Record, 0s SNH ABN The barber may have a poor memory for names, but he remembers mugs. I HOW QUAIL HIDE. Although the Man Could Not See the Bird the Pup Was All Right. We are all more or less inclined to dispute the unusual incidents reported by observant brother sportsmen, and if persuaded will excuse the bigotry shown by The claim has been made that a quail will lay a dead leaf over its back when “laying close” in the woods, and this I have always thought an appropriate ex- tract from a pretty tale, and pitied any one who could be gulled by such a very transparent fable, Last week while hunting quail, a covey flushed wild and scattered in the woods. My companion took the old dog and 1 the pup and we proceeded to beat up the cover. I'he first point the pup made at the foot of a small ground stony and only with thin patches was where the { overed Ie aves [aking t i pas sed close 3 hie direction of the dog's eves i § L$ Or tin # eyes YY y the tree hich he walked or , but flushed tes nothing Going carefully ves, and look sitting between ithin a span 1" well « LATEST HAPPENINGS ALL OVER THE STATE. State Treasurer Authorizes (he 1: sue of School Warrants for Over $9,000,000, SHILOH BATTLEFIELD COMMISSION, Many New Corporations Chartered Philadel phia Bridge Painter Meets Death Through Fall of » Scaffold Whip Lash Destroyed His Eye Pensions Granted Pennsylvanians Rural Free Delivery Letter Carriers. Pensions Granted Pennsylvamans:- John Morgan, Canonsburg, $6: David Plowman. Duncansville, $: Thomas Scott, Allegheny, $6: Wm. Bell, Sol- mvince me be Ot that the syed and mteresting strange P. S.—~We got the bird. kins, wn Forest and Stream. Keynotes of Nations. Queens of England, of the since Matilda, daughter Howing ing Queens of Engh quest: 1. Maude or of Henry 1, heir to the wet m attempted 1 feiga- the born 1101 throne, her claim was Stephen, She throne by arms vas crowned, reigned a short time, but, defeated by Stephen, 3 aside favor gain the elded her n married Geoffrey and brought in antagenet dynasty 2. Lady Cirey, davghter of the Duke of Suffolk, reigned ten days, was beheaded in 1554. aged seventeen 3. Mary. called “the bloody” daughter of Henry VIIL 1553, married Philip II, 3 Elizabeth secured the She 1 a thus and son Henry antagenet, SUCCesss . 3 neu row Spain, reigned five years daughter of Henry VIIL, reigned forty-four rt of William Years, S. [11.. davghier of cons band, crowned 1689, reigned five years. fr. Anne, daughter of ed iz, married George, Prince of Denmark, had thirteen children, all of vhom died young, reigned twelve years. 7. Victoria, daughter Duke of Kent, born May 24, crowned June 20, 1837, reigued sixty two years~~Ladiess Home Jowrnal of Duke's Long Trip. When King Edward visited America in 1860 his itinerary covered from first to last some 12,300 miles. How much the Duke of Cornwall's tour will ex- ceed that of his father in distance cov. ered may be seen in part by the reporis of the St. George and Juno, which were replaced by the Diadem and Niobe at St. Vincent, and have since returned to England. Their logs show that they have covered 27.865 miles at sea in 107 days; other details of the service from the same source are that the 51. George burned 8700 tons of coal; that the long: est day's run was 438 miles, between Durban and Simon's Bay; that the highest temperature regisered was 93 degrees, at Singapore; lowest, 37 degrees, at Hobart, and that rain fell on seventy days of the trip.--Toronte Globe, i 3 diers’ Home, Erie, $12; Alired Osborn, Osborn, $8; Jacob Zimmerman, Pitts $8: George McDaniel, Everett, Joseph Rager Hairsville, $17; John S. Champion, Millstone, $8; Wm H. York Youngsville, $10: John S Campbell, Cheswick, $10: Ephraim S Walker, Saltillo, $10: Benjamin Frank lin, Bradford, S10: James W Everhart, Allegheny, $12; Maria Honard, Erie, $12; Elizabeth Stough, Miles Grove, $8; Jennie S. Richards Monroeton, $12; Silas C, Johnson, Ruff Creek, $6; Wn, B. Dunham, Windham Center, $17; Reas Smarr, Connell $10; Phil- i Cal burg $17; 1 ile, Edward Shel W. Fox mont, $8 rd aney Robert Crawfor 33 years, while hunting near Edgewood Park, ; the accidental discharge of n he had just finished loading. T muzzle of the weapon was chin and the heavy load blew off | Several dent was fatal shot by ‘ SEIU DY Ri wih rawiord friends carried ( face Italian, was of candy tshurg Landucci burned by an expl Novelty Candy Works, | was standing near a kettle ndy on the second # exploded, deluging him [ syrup Landu son wl DOT CCI wast where police siation Detwiler dropped CAL The State Treasus Warrants | districts BT TR Lepartmes er S000 000 tO 1h bemé vod Stale id 1% that f civead $ 20.350 $2 xX 1 l.anca $10.600: lebanon his, $100,000: Wilkes ah, $6800; York. § s $1,400,000 to be n the “5 next h Hat ' recently appointed to erect 4 monument the Shiloh | tlefield co iemoratin Cr Sinn SCTVICE the iment, Pennsyl Noaldiers fe John Dr. S and reas vania Volunteers, met at the } Orphans’ School at S« and and e ed the following snization Obrieter, Lancaster, « airman; T. Davis, Lancaster, secretary Capt. G. W. Skinner, Scotland, urer Charters were issued by the State De partment to the following corporations Ruth Street Railway Company, Pitts burg. to build two miles of road; capital $12,000. Duquesne Heights Street Rail way Company, Pittsburg, to build three miles of road: capwtal, $18,000. George W. Wilson, of Pittsburg, is president of both companies While painting a Wilmingion and Northern Railroad bridee below Read ing the scaffold on which a number of men were standing fell ; ; When a fellow can’t raise & besrd he feels that that is one of the ills that flesh is hair to It would naturally be supposed that a nose is broke when it hasn't got a seent Catarrh Cannot Be Cured. With loca! applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is s blood or constitutional disesse, and in order to cure it you most take internal remedies. Hall's Ca- tarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts direct- ly on the blood and mucous surface. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine, It was Js country for years, and is a regular pre- scription. If is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers acting directly on the mucons surfaces, The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in snr. ing catarrh. Bend for testimonials free F.J Cuxwyy & Co., Props. , Toledo, O Bold by Druggists, price, 78¢ Ball's Family Pills are the best The newest leather seats for hall caars are laced with thongs of the same mate rial. Liater acturers © Powders Planters pf old LRTI rookiyn, N.Y field Tea Co., man Garfield Headache Syrup. Garfield lelie! 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