sla AN EXCELLENT COMBINATION. Oats and peas are grown early in the season and the combination is an ex- cellent one. The seed should be broadcasted as soon as the ground can be prepared, in order to escave any dry weather that the crop may possi bly encounter. Oats and peas provide early green food for cows, and may be cut at any stage of growth, but the nearer the milky stage of oats the bet ser, * THE COW'S PRODUCT. The cows on many farms would be considered first-class producers if each product amounted to 200 pounds of butter per year, yet it is claimed by some of the best dairyman that 200 pounds of butter per year from a Cow does not pay. Those who aim to make the standard up to 300 pounds per | herd reach for better members of his amount by breeding every year. Cows AN D Cc SORN STRAW FODDER, i i of the way. market for it excepting at points where to exceed the could sell it. Now at nearly every market in the states the price of good were some who would not burn it, but mals to pick what they wished to of it, and to trample the rest into ma- nure. After a few years it was found that the farms of these men increased in fertility and productiveness, an the practice of burning straw was nearly discontinued, even before the common use of the bailing press made it profitable to ship it to Eastern mar- kets. A change almost as great has taken place in the opinion of the value of corn fodder. It is but a very few years since the corn growers of the Western States cut no corn fodder, but aft.s picking off ears, let the cat: tle and hogs in to pick and break down the fodder or what they would of it, and then it was a task in the spring to break down the that it could be plowed under. Now it is nearly all being put through the shredder, and made so fine that any stock eats fit, and it is thought as valuable as the average Western hay. rest so DAIRYING A DRUDGERY. This fall I visited two friend, milking about the same number of cows (twenty-five head.) Both of these friends worked in thelr fle'ds un- til dark, then milked and cared for the milk, and by the time ail the work was done it was along toward 19 oclock. Drudgery? Yes, but whose fault From such dairying, drudging and slaving deliver me and my family. We do sometimes put in twelve bours a day, but never sixteen to eighteen, as do these friends and hundreds of other farmers. Our dairy work has its place in our system of farm management. and is done on time. Milking time comes and milking begins at a cer. tain time, not at this that time, but at such a time, and under ordinary cir cumstances’ withous anv variation The time is gauged according to the time of the year znd nember of cows in milk, but we always begin in time, £0 that all work is dons in good sea gon. In the summer {ime our teams leave the field at 5 o'clock and our | milking begins at 5.30 o'clock. With | five milkers, milking is done. milk geparated and everything fed by 6:30 o'clock. Thus we still bave plenty of time for rest, recrealion or reading before night. If such a system or a better one were generaliy adopted by farmers who, like the writer, are in- terested in dairying, wo would hear no more about dairying being a drudgery. Let our motto be “Svitem.” Let us write it in our houses, in our barns on our farms. It will lighten our Ia bors and gladden the heart. 't will bring prosperity, contentment and good will to all who in their work strive with a system. —M. King Is Kansas Farmer. or HOW TO FEED COWS. The cows requires not ouly mater! als for her maintenance, but must also have proteine, fai and carbohydrates to make milk from. The milk contains water, fat proteine (caseine or curd), sugar and ash, and these are all made from the constituents of the food. It insufficient proteine, fat and carbohy- drates are contained in the food given her, the cow supplies the deficiency for a time by drawing on her own body, and gradually shrinks in gwan- tity and quality of milk, or both. The stingy feeder cheats himself as well as the cow. She suffers from hunger, although her belly is full of swale hay, but she also becomes poor and does not yield the milk and butter she should. Her milk glands are a won. derful machine, but they cannot make milk caseine out of carbohydrates or coarse, unappetizing, indigestible swale hay or sawdust, any more than the farmer himself can make butter from skim milk. She must not only have a generous supply of good food, it but must con tain a sufficient amount of nutrients needed for making milk. Until this fact is understood and appreciated, successful dairying is out of the ques. tion. The cow must be regarded as a living machine. She takes the raw ma. terials given har in the form of food and works them over Into milk, If the supply of proper materials ig small the output will be small, The cow that will not repay generous feeding should be disposed of at once, aud one Thore are certain inbred characteristics which even lib eral feeding cannot overcome, —Cali- fornia Experiment Station Bulletin HARDIER recall TO PRODUCE Gardeners will PLANTS. havior of plants subjec’ to frost. Two plants of the same variety, side by side, may show altogether dif ferent results, the one being killed or ing practically untouched. At times ing atmospheric conditions, of it must be the in inherent vigor the individual and resistance plants. uals which show greatest to develop a hardier This question has { with garden beans. strain. been under test Three varieties After they were well up the sash was removed, exposing them to frost on a cold night. Mary of the plants were killed out right, others severely hurt, while a showed little injury. Seed from hese was saved and subjected to sim in the spring of 19800, This time an unusually hard frost oc- curred on the night when the sash was first removed. The temperature re- ported by the meteorologist of the station, occurring in the village was 28 degrees Yet a few remained unharmed, others were less severely Injured, and many ther seeds sav: the resistant plants were in the open ground in com- with ordinary seeds. The have shown as planted parison ge $ conditions, and at the present writing are decidedly in advance, The ques tion asked at the beginning of the ex periment cannot be some time, the Indi catious that careful selection may valua- iring plants less Rhode Island Ex Report. answered fo- but now are nroduce sub- ject to frost periment injury. Station APPLE CULTURE Appl erly any ¢ culture when conducted prop pays better profits than almost other branch agri Wire, but an intensive system of scientific treat. ment of the trees and soil mu be closely followed. An acre of apple trees may barely cover expenses of and marketing them, while an may yield a profit of $100 Returns of $300 and $400 per acre are not unusual, but then of $100 and $150 per acre unusual. Figured on yields one can readily work is profitable or not Spraying is absolutely get good of appl gleet it may reduce a $300 yield to $150 In a single season. It is almost useless to try to make a success of ap- ple culture without spraying have his theories about tions, but they not count in of the vast amount of facts obtained from thousands of farmers and ists who have shown the value spraying. The spraying should made just after the blossoms have fall en, again two iater, and more when the apples are half grown. The conditions requiring such spray- ing may not be apparent the way Is do the season without fail | The mixture may consist of any of the approved formulas, such as half a | pound of paris green and three pounds i of disparene to fifty gallons of water. Such systematic spraying will in all make the yield of apples large, and the fruit fine, free from pecks and rot, and handsome in ap pearance. The orchard draining, and protection, if properly. of theas necessary to crops les, and to ne Une it and convie. do View scient of be weeks once to eve, only safe to praying every needs fertilizing and the trees the work the prevailing heavy winds slant. Protect the trees from mice and rabbits by surrounding them wih fine galvanized wire screen, which may be wrapped around the tee an inch or feet above it. This pro ection will last for vears, and costs Sily a little for each tree. Low and wet grounds are bad places for orchards, and the fruits will often fail there when they suc ceed on the hilisides and higher grounds. On heavy clay soils good tile drainage is essential, and will benefit the trees a good deal. Trees should be fertilized every yeur just as regu. larly as a field of corn ur wheat. Every dollar put in fertilizer in the orchard will be returned twolold. The trees need thorough pruning every fall and gpring. This should take the form of cleaning out the mass of inside twigs fo the sun can get at the middle of the tree, and also to shape the tree so that the branches will not hang on the ground nor shoot straight up in the air. Good shapely trees are gen. erally the best preducers, and they are also the easiest to pick.—C. T. Mildron, in the American Cultivator. The most extensive cemetery in the world is that at Rome, in which over pix million human beings have been interred. When a woman is Bb isu ed in bar gain hunting she might be lw to be shop worn. . THIS MOST USEFUL OF ANIMALS | ORIGINATED IN NORTH AMERICA, Some Strange Catastrophe Swept Continent—It Afterward Came Back From the Old World. Historical questions dreds of thousands of years are begin. ning to exercise the wits of that new school of historians, the and the bones of ancient vertebrate giants from the rock-crusted beaches of van- Mountains, says Garrett P. in the New York Journal. Among the most interesting discov- eries of these investigators is the fact that that most useful of animals, horse, originated in North America, grew up and little animal no bigger than a fox, gmdually acquired the stature and pe. culiarities which render its race so indispensable for companionship with man, and then continent existed! The completeness of the series fossil horses obtained by the explor- ers sent out by the American Museum of Natural history, in Texas and Col orado, is astonishing The representation Serviss, of the equine etons of these animals, progressively increasing in the resemblance of their organization to that of the modern horse, is as beautiful and impressive as the series of inscribed tablets and cylinders from which the records of ancient Babylon have been read, for it tells an equally clear story to those who can read its, characters, But while the story is uninterrupted during the long ages in which the American horse was slowly acquiring perfection, it comes to a sudden end; and, by the manner in which it broken off, suggests some strange wonderful catastrophe, or some pli change conditions ing upon our continent, and resulting in the complete sweep! f the equine race, which reviously 1 the wh ocean and from Al Fortunately, before this unexplained misadventure o« the American horse had, it is believed ita y Asia, perhaps across the bridge of land near Bering's Strait At any rate, the old develop after it had first de in the new world, and when the discovery of America by Europeans occured the horse came back again with its natural companion, man And then, as if zing its an cestral home, and rejoining in the op portunity to reoccupy the former para dise of its race, it spread with surpris ing rapidity over the plains of Western Forth America and over the pampas of the southern half of the continent, and became again dwellin with n Was and inex able of occur ng AWAY o had p land from ocean to ska to Patagonia COvereg ole curred made way world saw the horse ¥ 3 eloped recogni 2 wild creature, ture From the horses brought over b Spaniards In the! sprang the wild prairies, and when, later on, other European settlers took possession of the land, they hunted and tamed wild horses, as the Indians bad al ready learned to do, never dreaming of the wonderful that lay hidden in the ancient hi ry of those fleet and beautiful cre {f the plains The discoveries above referred and the mysterious the record that they reves] she yw far back of the furthermost of ordinarily designate vestigations of us 10 go. And the kind of history, though it which science thus fers us is much more trustworthy. as fas as it goes, than the records, ammals and reports that man has com- posed of his doings, fo nature prevaricates, and Las no ultesior de ¢ign when she writes in a layer of r.ck F the r earliest EX Pir iti equine herds of the story to what we as history the in lence are enabl ai DE be, of a n foasils It should not be tai n for tha: the blanks which at present pear in the scientific s‘ory earth's history cannot or will rot be filled. ap- set been deciphered. is, perhaps, the most perfect that has yet been read from of the wonderful promise of equally tion. story that compiete give reveia- dinosaurs of the West has been fully we shall have a new idea of the possi. bilities of life on such a planet as ours, and a broader conception of those pos. sibilities among the greater planets that surround us, Lead All in Savings. An advertisement in a city news paper recently asked ior information regarding a certain depositor in a savings bank. The depositor saw the advertisement, answerad it, and learned that thirty-nine years before he had placed $2560 in the bank; then he had gone to Europe and forgotten the deposit. The sum had increased to more than $2,000 and came to him at a time when the money was great ly needed. Recent statistics concern. ing the savings banks of the world show that the United States leads all other countries, having over two and a third billion dollars so invested, with an average of over $400 to ench depos: itor. Buch figures make cheerful read. ing for depositors.—Youth's Compan: a Street Marriage Procession and a Funeral Cortege. “A procession one morning, came up the street making a terrible din and the most unmusical music I ever heard. Beveral small boys were in front dressed in red and carrying gol den banners, holding between them a little palace hung with yellow fringe, in which were two geese, as quiet and uncon- cerned as if they had been lovers al ways. Third in line was a roast pig. It had been cooked whole and the ears were carefully preserved. roast ducks followed close swinging from a pole. Then last, came two sedan chairs closely cur ! tained so that none could see the oc- cupants, In these sat the bride and | groom, The following day I was standing in front of the Hongkong ho | tel, i Down the | cession, street came the same the nolsy crowd that | | seen the day before but the pig's ears were gone. [| turned to Tommy At kins and said “Can you tell me the meaning of the ears?" “This is what told a Chinaman has decided to take unto {himself a wife, or more than likely, some one has decided for him, are married. the ceremony a pig Is roasted great care being taken to keep ears from breaking. Then the company proceeds down the so that the public can see the pig. If on morrow the groom is satisfied with his the same crowd goes again, with the ears of pig intact, but if in any way his bride does not eome up to his expecta- tion he exhibits the pig, ears cut off, which shows to the world his disregard for his wife, who no doubt will shortly away with' the part of the one afternoon | heard a great racket ahead alley. 1 hurried on to the trouble Up the came a ng of boys ng brass ed greatly like a ariations. A carried by a dozen men The death box was rough sides of a cedar bark left on. Following were tWo men carry ice and fish. Another had created.” — , Omaha (Neb.) he me: ‘When Eoon whole, the mar riage street, the cholce done “In coolie city down a narrow what could be dark passageway men. First which Bee stir 1 three How! gound without horns, bagpipe the v huge coffin followed next. ¢ from the , with the in the rear ing pots full of r good Ch { Corre 1 Close inaman been sspondend jee, THE GIFT OF RESPONSIVENESS. The is What far. Ability to Sympathize Makes a Woman Popu The responsive woman, although not necessarily “wearing her heart upon her sleeve,” cannot hide its beautiful, lities It is at the core part of her life, to in her to the sur. wessity of her being veness into play Her magnetism red men and of polite social but is feit along all the ways where men and women work, strive, suffer de feats, win victories and wait in Sespaly or in hope for the final outcome of life. here is a spurious sort of respog siveness that nothing more than a vulgar curiosit y in the affairs of oth- Thia develops meddiers and busy bodiea, and associated with narrow. cgotiam and and in reveal itself in all the ite meanin Nnan can go down gate of death with the and can bubble with humor in with the mirthful. Her quali- being held for occasions, the of her sympathies are always in place to answer telegraphic messages { from souls that constantly and instinc- tively appeal tc them. It is a delight. ful study to watch a responsiv as she carries her beneficient influence | wherever she goes. She travels a queen's way--every one along her | path springing toward the privilege of { receiving her smile. Woman's Home | Companion. unselfish qu of her nature, a force what face, and this n« brings her upon all ox draws not only the cultu women { is best responsiy CARIONSN the circle, is ors Ifishness, ime is sure to nloveliness of The te to the sufferer, { company ties not sponsive wi very wires The Road to Dyspepsia. It requires about five hours for the stomach to work on an ordinary meal and pass it out of itself, into a state of repose. Hence, ach must | the twenty-four. After a night's sleep | bodily vigor which is faithfully por tioned out to every muscle of the gys- ers. When the external body gets weary after a long day's work the stomach bears its share of the fatigue, but if when the body is weary with the day's toil we put it to bed, giving the stomach meanwhile 8 five hours’ task which must be performed, we impose upon the very best friond we have the one that gives up one of the larg: est amounts of earthly enjoyment and if this overtaxing !s continued it must as certainly wear out premature. ly as the body itself will if it is over worked every day. And if persons eat between meals then the stomach has no rest from breakfast in the morning until 1, 2, 3 or 4 o'clock fext day; hence it is that so many persons have dyspepsia, The stomach is worked so much and so constantly that it be comes too weak to work at all.—Lon- don Family Doctor, About 600,000 trees are planted each year by the school children of Sweden, under the guidance of their teachers. A Philadelphia bank teller recently contracted smallpox by handling monay that passed over the counter, 2 ¢ * : ‘ KAISER WILHELM'S UNIFORMS, Two Complete Outfits of Everything to Wear. Kalgser Wilhelm, as Is well known, regiments In and as many his own army more ip the other armies He hold several actnal and honorary commissions in different fleets; belongs to numerous orders of military and civil distinction, and to other organizations which have re. galias that must bs worn on cere monial occasions. Hence, when he visits a foreign country, or is travel ing about his own domains, he never knows what uniforms and regalia he need, and, therefore, must carry He has complete outfits of everything, yacht Hohenzollern and in a baggage or wardrobe built especially for the purpose, a part of his private railway train. The master of the robes, assisted by several valets, las charge of the emperor's wardrobe, and when the in motion can produce at an instant’'s notice any uniform ‘or re. galia in which he may desire to appear the next station. If he happens to passing through a garrison of his favorite regiments is stationed it them and it him to officers and men from the platform of care in the same uniform they wearing If he the border another country it is considered a compliment for him dress in the uniform of the army navy of that country. Hence it is important to his wardrobe car with him on all his jour neys.~—~Modern Soe. the car, nd be town one picases pleases greet the are Crosses of io Or have A Rattlesnake Trap. Rattlesnakes were the most gqanger wild animals with which the early settlers of New Jersey had to contend. They were very numerous, and their bite, If not treated properly at 3 in Americar istory F cites once, was general ‘Stories from R. Stockton which gives an idea { in the f att] ors i ratiiers an In men foyw ¢ fi \ from which the work iin getting out stone the foundations of Princeton Col 5 Of the rocks were Crack in which led a REC, A discovere wnward to = large cavi and in this « WW { i abot % ound about t aye were enty rattie snake bones There this was a was ag BNA KC the creatur posed they of their doubt, a great The ing ing ing to i 1 t tive to ters retired when were approachin but it rattiesnake days, was hout trap. DArrow lead attra etired quar h to take its long winter igh the cave at the bottom k was easy enough to arranged that it impossible for a ff It, especially in these creatures are wour passage have been very a snake seeking in whic nap. Altho of the great cral into, it was difficult, to get spring, when get an was not FnaxKe out « the very thin and weak ished all Thus snakes have gi CAvVIlY, withoit Knowing could never gct out again having been their own the winte fat rattle to that they r by ar after year $e st down in mu ne & Sy oud vaal Sunshine fur Consumptives. inbath, in the centre the Ccloraco desert in Cali fornia and Arizora, be made a Na tional health reshirt. A large building The new “City” of 5 of is to laid out The sixty tents, A ma a town site has been city consists at presext of all by c¢onsum jority of tenters are, consump tive in the Iast stages, given up to die by the phyeiclans of Phoenix, As a last hope. these “luogers” decided to try the lath {reatment, and went to the location in the desert. In two years there have been but two deaths in the coleny an! the majority occupied ives or were. sun Fif their Eastern if only the vast consumptives in the life in the air and sunshine of the arid Southwest would save their lives, what great hap piness it would bring to many aomes! -Santa Fe New Mexican. Origin of a Joke. Dr. Pinders Fletrie, the eminent archaeologist, announces that he has deciphered the cureiform inscription on a tablet he excavated in the plains of Assyria, and believes that it is a copy of a prehistoric comic paper. Among other items, it contains the following merry jest, which bears a strangely familiar sound: “Now, there were gathered together at the place of the telling of stories, many of them that have lived long in the land, and one of them lifted up his voice, and said: “ ‘Behold, it groweth cold with much extremeness.’ “Whereupon another made answer, saying: “ ‘Verily, it doth. But let us sep arate and get henco, for here cometh Methusalem, the aged, and if we tarry he will even tell us again of the cold spell of the year 40. “And they got hence with much speed.” of dying She Draws whe Line, A Wisconsin real cstate dealer's widow has refused to pay for the stone the ordered placed over his grave be cause they carved upoa it the words, “By his deeds he is known.” She probably doesn't believ? in running de votion to business into the ground. Chicago Record-Herald, PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFLY TOLD. Special - Dispatches Many Points. Condensed From STATE'S TRAVELING LIBRARIES. Thirty -Four of Them Created, Which May Be Secured by Any Place That Lacks Library Facllities— Crushed Under a Big Boulder Coaster Killed by a Trolley Car— Carnegie Gives $30,000. Penns Pensions Edward ] ylvanians: Pittsburg, $316; Har- vey Thorpe, Burgettstown, $6; Leet S Moore, Pittsburg, $12; John E. Ganger Stahistown. $6 ; Phi Miller, Warble $12; William Fitzgerald, Georgeville, $8; hnstown, $12; Harvey A Ly Homer granted Skees, ip se he ICES iherger, New LON Phila mens- that SION libra- y-five we I created and will To secure cation must any town r f~om any fifty vol- hen it shipped to ¢ ther an applic 1 3 been i books in these libraries cover history, travel. fiction arts, etc and the demand for INCreases as facts about them become known At Redmond’s Mills, near Homestead, a large boulder fell from a hillside, where a gang of laborers were work: mg, to the tracks of the Pittsburg, Virginia jn Charleston Railroad and killed Raffaele Diuseso and Antonio Bo- ralo Michael Surra, Gusippe Ciralle and Laurent Falletti were injured. While coasting down Hygienic Steelton, Julius Shade, age g years, :tlled by a trolley car. His companion, William Marks, escaped death by roll ing off the sled when he saw the impend ing danger. Andrew Carnegie has given the larg sst library donation on record. taking the population into consideration. North Bessemer, a borough but a few years sid, and with a population scarcely of Y.000, will receive $30000 for a library. The annnal banquet of the Dauphin County Bar Association was held ar Harrisburg, with Hon. Robert Snod- grass as toastmaster. Toasts were ‘re sponded to by Judge R. W. Archbald Tudge J. W. Simonton, Congressman M E. Olmstead, Meade D. Detweiler, Sena- tor John E. Fox and Hon. Lyman D Gilbert. Judge Ferris permanently restrained the Avoca authorities from interfering with the construction of the Scranton Northeastern Railway through that town. They had repeatedly arrested the workmen for alleged violations of ord: nances. Louis Paschuck committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at Shenan. doah. The storeroom and postoffice in J. A. Schwenk's building, Proveidence Square, were destroyed by fire. The Collegeville Fire Department saved the dwelling part from total destruction, The loss is about $1,000 The eighth annual itt of the Vir- appi taxpayers in ; $ jaciiities of months, w library SIX is ne att has useful them tis SIC Hill, was inia Fire ny of Columbia was eld in thas city. © ‘Among the guests bers were present. were C, C. Hormin, ect the Lebanon, and Vila niinte of Columbia. ee rae Coiireant ect urns A kin, and was killed.
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