RENOVATED AN OLD GARDEN,
I have a garden planted thirty-one
years in succession. At one time it
was in bad shape. Radishes and beets
were rough and wormy. Cabbage was |
club-footed and scab on potato com-
mon. In fact nothing grew well,
1 had no place handy for a new gar:
den, and tried to overcome the trouble,
and did. I plowed it in the fall and |
again in the spring. I sowed three
bushels salt, and spread three barrels
of slaked lime, including a little sul-
phur, on one acre. I then cultivated
it thoroughly and planted it as usual.
For five years radishes and beets have |
been as smooth as glass bottles, and I |
have seen no club-foot on cabbage and
no scabby potatoes.—S, F. Scott, in
New England Homestead.
there. It will grow then through the
fall and into the winter, and in the
spring it may be plowed under to
enrich the soil, or if the catch is a
good one, and it makes a good crop,
it may be cut twice for hay and then
add more fertility to the soll if plow
ed under in the fall or next spring
than if the first growth was plowed
under. Clover likes a mineral fertil
izer, even if it is as cheap a one as
sulphate of lime or land plaster, and
also likes the phosphates and potash,
but many supply these sufficiently in
the fertilizer for the grain crop.—
INTELLIGENT FORESTRY IS PROF
ITABLE.
Sylviculture, or the culture of forest
trees, agriculture and horticulture can
not be separated by hard and fast
One
great difference between them is that
the two latter give a yearly return,
while the former takes years or even
centuries to mature, Such a distine
A GOOD SALVE FOR HORSES.
A salve valuable to horsemen may
be made of equal quantities by meas.
ure ¢f pine tar, sulphur and lard. Mix |
the sulphur with the tar and stir it
well, then add the lard and stir again.
Set it on the stove and simmer for six |
hours, occasionally stirring it. It will
cure the scratches on horses, and galls
from the harness,
For scratches, thoroughly wash and
clean the parts with castile or some
other good kind of sap, and then rub
in the salve. I have tried it and
recommend it to others, I never knew
it to fail. It is simple and cheap, and
the formula easy to remember. It is
not patented; any one can use it. It
will also relieve sores, ringworm and
most skin troubles on men -—New
York Tribune.
A TEST FOR GOOD BUTTER
The good housewife who said, '
way fo taste good butter is to smell it.”
was surely an expert judge of butter.
The fact is that a really good judge
of butter seldom tastes it, but depends
rather upon the sense of smell and
sight. The dealer who really knows
and deals in good butter can at any
time when he is testing a crock or roll
of butter be seen to very carefully pass
it in review before his olfactory nerve,
and to break it and note the appear
ance of the broken surface.
The true flavor of butter
quickly tested in the entir of a
package in this manner while if the
sense of taste alone were depended up
on and the package was not of even
quality the fact might go unnoticed.
The quantity of salt in the butter car
of course, only be determined by tast-
ing It. The surface exposed when a
package or sample of butter is broken
should what is known as a
good grain. That means that it should
have a clearly defined granular sur
face, similar to that found on the
broken surface of cast iron good
quality. Do not fail to apply these
tests when passing judgment upon the
quality of butter Their careful
servance and a little practice will
make you an expert.—Michigan Farm-
er.
"he
can be
ety
exhibit
of
oh-
A PROBLEM OF DAIRYING
While awaiting the breeding
growth of the betler cows we 80
much wish for, it will be well to give
increased attention to the securing of
greater profits through a reduction in
the cost of feeding. This can be
reached far more promptly than can!
a marked gain in the powers of pro-
duction of the cow. Not enough atten.
tion has been given to this factor of
the problem of successful dairying.
Providing fodders and feeds for the
cows at less cost, thus leaving a wider |
margin of profit to the operator, is at
the present time the problem that de-
mands the leading attention of the
dairyman. The scramble after the
cow of five hundred pounds of butter
a year can well be given a rest for a
time for the study of the growing of |
choice beef, and when the fact is well
drilled into us that type governs pur- |
pose and that dollars follow, type se- |
lection will be made with special ref- |
arence to a lower cost feeding. |
A suggestive idea was that brought!
forward by a leading dairyman the
other day in reply to complaint over |
the high cost of grain feeds for his |
cows. "I raised all the grain needed |
by my cows, save a little cottonseed |
meal, and I guess I can stand the in-|
creased cost of that.” That grain
feed, grown, as it was, on his own
farm, was costing that dalryman no
more than in ordinary years. The!
one was finding it a hard problem to |
get his money back, while the other |
was realizing a reasonable profit,
Maine Farmer,
i
and
all
SEEDING WITH CLOVER.
When clover is sown early in the
spring on the crop of wheat or other
winter grain it may cost nothing but
the price of the seed, which is not
much, whether ten or fifteen pounds
is used to the acre, and the labor of
sowing. Yet we would prefer to in-
crease its cost by going over the
wheat with a light or smoothing har.
row before sewing the clover seed.
This will benefit wheat or rye if done
at the right time, when the ground is
not wet enough to cause the harrow
to sink too deep and uproot the plants,
This makes a good seed bed for the
clover, and in a day or two after the
first rain the little plants will be send.
down Into the soll.
erly managed sylviculture wil give
annual returns. A spruce forest will
show per almost innumerable
seedlings, yet ten years should con
tain only 4000 trees, at 2000, at 40
1000 at 60 500, at 80 350, and 100 250
trees, should be
removed in 90 years agricultur
and cultivates
acre
at
20
at
Fifteen-sixteenths
The
his It
has never been demonstrated that tim
ber trees could not
tivated.
Sylviculture
ist stirs
Crops,
be profitably cul
properly inaged will
for § building
purposes, Poor land and land not
fit for other purposes can be used and
it can be readily combined with
culture, It protection
natural but destructive
adds variety and beauty to the land
It permits the
of many other industries, such as small
sawmills, pulp, box and kindling wood
factories, alcohol manufactories
sugar maple camps, Forests could
¥ pastured except
great difficulty
tilled
yield wood 10]. fence
eto,
agri
gives a from
forces and
scape establishment
wood
D ele
be advantageous!
while young. A
fires. Wide fire lanes
bare and established
public roads will
in
kept
made as are
remedy.
or
or
prove a
American Agriculturist
FERTILIZERS FOR CABBAGE
In order to get some understanding
of the requirements of a crop of cab
bages, we must first bear in mind that
it is just the which draws most
heavily on the plant foods in the soil,
especially on potash, and next on ni
trogen With plenty of humus from
previous manure applications still in
the soil, we may well infer that there
ig a fair amount of nitrogen as well as
mineral plant foods already in the
and if the present supply of
manure is insufficient for a full ration
to be now reasonable to
suppose that the broadcast application
of lime rate of from forty to
fifty acre, would help to
give additional supplies of plant food
made available by the action of the
lime
To supply directly as much
and phosphoric ad
a good crop of cabbages
the application of about fifty ordinary
two loads (of a ton each), and
where only a part of that quantity ie
ly
apply a good dressing of muriate of
potash, or of wood ashes, if they can
be had cheaply enough and in quan
ity. - | that for cabbages an
application of five hundred pounds of
muriate of potash an acre (or at least
a ton of kainit is only a moderate
dressing where the soil is in moderate
ly fair condition, and that much more
may be used to advantage on land that
is not abundantly supplied with potash
in available form already. There is
not the least danger that liberal appli
cations of mineral manures will make
loose heads of cabbage —T. Greiner in
Practical Farmer,
one
Qs 3
25 18 i
barnyard
it
ig
given
at the
bushels
an
potash
in
would require
id as is removed
horse
believe
SHEEP FEEDS DISCUSSED.
Of the appetite of sheep for weeds
and a variety of other plants old shep-
herds need not be told, for out of six
hundred known plants of our country
there are scarcely a score that the
sheep will not eat. We once thought
among the rejected plants, but later
experience has demonstrated that if
sheep get at them when young and
tender they will eat them, and even
the pestiferous morning glory is only
allowed to get enough above ground
for the smallest bite. But like the
other domestic animals, sheep have a
preference, and will manifest it when
given the opportunity. Last year our
sheep had access at one time to corn,
rape, bromus inermis and timothy, Of
these they preferred corn, even though
it was cut and dried. This corn was
thickly drilled in double rows, three
feet six inches apart, with the grain
drill; had no show of ears, and was cut
when in blossom, as it was beginning
to scorch from extreme drouth and
heat. It was cut with a corn binder,
and in a week, on account of the heat,
ft was well cured,
We thought the sheep would not
touch this when there were plenty of
other feeds yet green, but we had to
keep them from the corn shocks to get
them to eat the other foods, which
they did in this order: Timothy rowen,
rape and brome grass rowen. The
brome grass was the least palatable to
them, and they had to be held on it
to make them eat it while any of the
other plants were left. Our experi
ence teaches that corn fodder Is with.
out a peer either as forage, fodder or
fat forming grain, and this year we
shall make a liberal provision for corn
and depend upon corn to plece out
from the middle of July
is ready in the stubble,
THE LADY'S MAID.
“A good lady's maid can do more for
one's comfort,” sald a wealthy woman,
the other day, “than anything that
money can buy; yet there is nothing
$0 hard to find in America. The girl
stand for the restrictions of ber work;
she misses her independence and can-
not bring herself to give in to the
commodating and amiable of people,
mood.
“The
only
maids if
in
French make good
because of their taste
there is nothing to equal a good Ger
man. They are less flighty than the
French and demand fewer privileges,
It Casy woman to
make a confidante of her maid,
less the girl of the right sort,
tress soon may find herself
in her cervant’'s power
Ge
is for a come to
and un
the
un-
In
Swedes
for they
for
is
mi
pleasantly
this res and
rmans
of
genuine
spect
most reliable
more
are the
show a
those
any
French inveterate
ntrigue, Hkely
to get a hold their mistress, which
they to their
own ad age if opportunity offers
New {orl
any,
affection
whose hey
nati
their
always
in
other
of
cheme
1 %
with love
10
’
NEW
Earrings
barous though
a rule, do not
women's
to the s
not
and he
DESIGNS
IN JEWELRY
are worn again,
may by
Cars,
olitaire
does drag
long
tury ago.
Algerian
for a
delicate that they can scarcely
when worn A
of gold fi » got
almost
chains with a diame
the center also form
ful earrings
A Maltese cross
another pretty
studded
diamonds
It is also very
circles to wear
refined taste, are
Yyery pre
with tiny
as
nd or ped
pret(ty
in
pattern
with tiny pearl
fashionable
arrings that
match, as a white
a black
mond in one and a
other, and so on, accor:
and the color of the dress
the earrings are worn
The present
takes strange
instance, In
and nec
ropes
precious
should
This |
inl One §
> srl
yean
pear] in the other
ear
Craze
forms
stong
(lets
of pearls,
stones
'
sr and almost covering th
very Asiatic looking
arm
TALENT DE
The yor
youth of the
VELOPED IN AGE
pare pany un
fortunately just as the former attains
its best development and is most fitted
to appreciate intelligently whatever
the world offers in the way true
enjoyment. A healthy mind in a
healthy body never grows old, and un
less suffering from some of the
that flesh is heir to a man or woman
is quite as able to enjoy life at sixty
as at twenty-five. Young people seldom
realize this because mamma's time is
always occupied with worries that as
body
of
preasing their bright spirits With
housekeeping cares that, although
seemingly not so onerous, become so
time that they require, and with her
never ceasing projects for their en
tertainment and well-being they fancy
ures and pursuits that used to absorb
her when she was younger. The fact
of the matter is that it is only the un-
selfish mother love that causes her to
relinquish what she is more than ever
capable of appreciating and enjoying.
With paterfamilias it is the same
thing. He has assumed responsibili-
ties, and spends his days in hard work,
and it Is absurd for those for whom he
taste for the cakes and ule of existence
because he has apparently become a
mere money grabbing machine,
It not infrequently happens when
families grow up and desert the home
nest that latent talent in the hard
worked mother of the family develops
surprisingly, and many a clever wo
man has only then found opportunity
to devote herself to pursuits that she
might have excelled in if she had had
the time to cultivate them earlier in
life,
Several instances might be cited of
grandmothers who took up the pen
only when the marriage of thelr chil.
dren enabled them to lay down (he
needle, and become successful author.
esses, And even gray haired art stu.
dents have often developed into artists
of no mean ability, :
“I went to call on Mrs. B. the other
day,” sald one of my acquaintances,
“and she excused herself, sending
word by the servant that she was
taking her German lesson. I expect
after she has finished her education
ghe will become a debutante; she
seems to get younger and younger ev.
ory yoar."-~New York Tribune.
THE WOMEN OF NORWAY.
Norwegian women who have reached
householders—rate payers and taxpay- |
erg—for five years with an annual in- |
come of not less than 881, or who have |
husbands who pay taxes upon this |
amount, are qualified to vote in muni |
cipal elections. An unmarried woman |
living with her parents is disfranchis- |
ed unless she, too, has an income |
| equalling the sum fixed by the law
ithe newly amended law being based |
upon a property qualification, with no |
| distinction as regards séx. The exer
{cise of the franchise as a matter of
| course, qualifies Norwegian women for |
| holding any office in the gift of the |
{ municipal authorities, whose jurisdic
tion extends to the various depart |
ments of public works, the public
i schools, and even the harbor commis |
sion,
The suffrage agitation, which has |
i been carried on since 1884, has beep |
planned by Miss Gina Krog, who has |
been called the Susan B. Anthony of
Miss Krog is a woman |
{ahout fifty years of age, of much cul
{ture and influence, with the
| natural gift of leadership. Thorough
ly fitted for the work she has under |
taken, regards her present tri |
umph as encouragement for fu
ture agitation, and is pledged to con
what she has
¥ *
women are equal before
| Norway.”
sotial
she
only
tinue begun, until men
and the law
particular
ight
On
40 nmi
| ta
growing
erect a
that, if
change
shut
ltering kitchen, with her back
en of mortar
It is probable
wold not
sister
Casily,
mast
consulted, she
places with her feeble up
in AR BWq
washtub
The fisherwo
steaming or a
y stove
IAanding
with the nets
curing the catch
and th 80 live to ripe and vigorous
old ase
The
¥ than the
and rich ¢
women of Norway are more
women of Sweden or
DOOT dress with
Denmark,
taste The national dress is
scarlet, and
blue-eyed, flaxen-haired wear
includes a white
coquettish white cap and ornaments of
Even
in the market are pict
their neat bl
hats
and
iz mos woming to the
re The
bodice. a
blue
costume
the fishwives
With
black
tied
ir falr
like
man
silver
antique
Straw
lown with a white }
skins, bright
they are
an 0 ADPOATancs
roses,
ners
i
i
a
Light flannels with narrow satin
stripes have been introduced for shirt
waists
According to tha
rose is the favorite color for spring
old rose being the correct tint
is another fashionable shade.
The
jet, gun metal, ivory, silver,
and enameled wood topped with dim
inutive heads, Scwme elaborate de
‘signs in crystal are embellished with
gold and silver and studded
jewels
Green
Very fetching ar the long straight
handles of cut jet, either bright or
(dull, and of the same order are attrac.
i tive handles, suitable either for a para:
i
garnets,
i Narrow box pleats all around the
{akirt are to be worn. In fact, pleats
and tucks are introduced with a lavish
hand, and nowadays it almost seems
question of tucks first, with the other
details of the gown an after considera.
tion.
White silk hats are also pretty with
rolled rims, some of them on the order
of the threecornered hats. These,
too, are made of several layers of the
silk, with the sides of the crown and
part of the rim simply stitched. These
are exceedingly stylish, allsilk bats,
and need very little trimming.
Smart little caps are offered for
spring wear. They are short, extend:
ing only to the waist line, At the
front there are two long ends, which
reach to the edge of the costume and
form the finish, These capes are
made in every color and material.
A pretty flat hat has the crown made
entirely of foliage, soft golden brown
velvet leaves, with touches of yellow
in them, while around the edge of the
hat is a frill of brown tulle.
One of the ideas of the season is
the revival of the box pleat in the
back of the skirt. The pleat usually
is stitched half way down the length
of the skirt to give a flat effect. The
double box pleat also is employed in
handsome cloth gowns, and the idea
probably will meet with some favor.
The Tyrol, following the example
Norway, Is trylng to encourage the
tourist business by offering
for winter sports
COP DOV 0D IOVDIDIe
: For the Housewife.
!
IIME FOR THE PIANO.
of unslaked lime inside just under
neath the cover and it will absorb all
moisture
BED ROOM BLINDS
If you have a sensitive eye
a good plan to screen your windows
with red blinds or curtains.
specialists report that a good many
some
certainly a very bad thing to do.
scarlet light reflected in the face
the sleeper in the morning and allow:
The
bad effect on the eyes and brain.
best and healthiest color for bed room
blinds green, and dark green at
that it is aiways recommended by
both brain doctors and oculists. Dark
blue next best, but not nearly so
good ns g To induce the sound
est and most restful kind of
however, apart from brain sens
ness, make the room absolutely pit
dark by means of a thick black blind.
If you t have light, let it be green,
and you will slee;
fer Red,
keeping one awake.
in
in
reen
mu
well and never
at factor in
:shington Star.
100, is a gre
-—
we
THE
oom is
row, and there is
the end
%
on both sides, «
BOX ROOM
The i! nar
y one window
Of COUurse, ong al
onl at
leaving unbroken wall spaces
xcept at the door, and
given Ver
that garments of
end One side is to
one
double rows of hooks,
and
"Ying siz may hang
the
for
thereon;
above upper row there is a wide
i sum
and in
The
two
summer
and
piled the extra quilts,
shelf boxes, which hold
nats and
headeear
mer, all winter
winter, all sur
Caps
imer
for
103
ymmodatiolLs
winter or
may be
end has ace
chost
large
a8 3
as th:
clothing
season
upon these are
tocted
On
f fur
blankets and counterpanes, pre
t by a light chintz cover
elf above them all articles «
through the summer. These
in manila t
shaped bags of unbleached
inid flat in big pasteboard
contents of cach box mark-
the But
speaking) gathers
the painted floor
make the task
Agnes
wrapped paper,
mus
nk on outside,
t {comparatively
in this and
and easily moved boxes
f its removal an
OF ILS
Warren, in Good Housekeeping
room,
¢asy one
A SAND BOX FOR BROKEN
ARTICLES
Since breakables have
8 knack of fracturing
such fashion that they cannot
stand upright one needs a sand
It is only a box handy size
eight clean coarsish
in the bottom. Along with
small leaden
in them, running from
Two
use,
the
Jus
in
possibly
80 NAIC
themselves
box
with
sand
there
of
inches of
it
weights,
with
an
rings cast
ounce to a quarter
are
the ri
pound
needed. In
ngs, and
outside
are tied in
of weights swung the
edges of the box, so in
place the upper part of a broken thing
to which the tapes have been fastened
Set broken platters on edge in the
sand box, with the break up The
sand will hold them firm, and the
bit can %2 slapped on. It is
the same with plates and saucers.
None of these commonly requires
weighting. But very fine plecea where
invigible seam is wanted should be
as to press
the pair of heaviest weights accurate
they shall not get out of
kilter. A broken, as is so
common with them, can have the tape
passed around it, crossing inside the
handle, then be get firmly in the sand,
face down, and be held by the hanging
weights pulling oae against the other.
Fran
Sy
RECIPES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
The Latest Happenings Gleamed From
All Sources.
FLOODS RESULT IN MANY SUITS.
Twenty Berks County Farmers Claim Damages,
Declaring Along th: Schuylkill Were Ruined
Decp Deposit of Coal Dirt High Winds
Causes Flames to Spread Rapidly at Skip.
pack Ampulsted 8 Thigh in 58 Seconds,
These
vanans :
gheny,
Tyrone
George
were granted Pennsyl-
Cyrus M, Carnaham, Alle.
car truck; Ulysus G. Crampton,
soap holder for shaving cups;
H. Fernald, North East, thill
coupling; Frank 1. Fleishman, Alle
gheny, calculating machine; Matthew
Griswold, Jr, Ere, tumbl machine ;
John W. Houseberger, Pit srg, door
strip; Washington DD. Keyes, Kittanning,
apparatus for delivering glass; John H.
Koons, Waynesboro, lifting jack; Wm.
J. McCauslin, N hull-
and °
er
patents
and wi
Bell, Rose h
Oakley, Homes
hine : Robert
{he fifteentt
‘on Y«
was observed in the
Church
Secretary
MATH Revs
WwW. 7.1
Twenty
Me 1’ %
Reformed
Field
Arms
esses were made
harles W. Harvey.
er BM 13
HM hinge Ai.
Kieffer
by
HH
Havice
and
Bm un gn
or damages
wnty farmers
bave been
who
Jjowland between Reading and the
line against the
i Iron Company and
lavigation Com-
meadows were
late freshet by deposits
of two to four feet of dirt and
black mud. It is asserted that hundreds
of acres of the most fertile land in the
have been rendered
valueless by these deposits, and the loss
susts ff
own
Montgomery county
Coal am
the Lehigh Coal
pany. All
declare their
x wal
Many of the sufferers are truckers and
over the fire, when boiling add quick-
ly and stir rapidly half a cup of flour;
stir until a stiff dough forms; remove
from the fire; let cool; add one egg
unbeaten and beat well; after three
of melted butter; dip a spoon into bot
fat, then take up some of the dough
and drop it into the fal; when they
are brown lift them out with a skim.
mer; drain on paner, then roll in cin.
namon and sugar mixed.
shell sufficient peanuts to measure a
quart. Pound them into a paste, add.
ing a teaspoonful of salt. Put this
paste in a saucepan and add, very
gradually, three pints of boiling water
Season with a hailteaspoonful of
black peper, half that quantity of red
pepper and simmer until it thickens.
At all of the collieries throughout the
Lackawanna Valley notices were posted
announcing that the rate of wages now
19003, and thereafter, subject to a sixty-
day notice. There 1s no general feeling
in favor of a strike among the men mn
this region. Work has been steadser dur-
ing the year than at any time within
twenty years, and the average pay drawn
every two weeks the best in the same
period.
For some time workmen have been
drilling for an artesian well on the prop-
erty of the Citizens’ Ice Company. of Al
toona. Friday oil was found after the
well had been sunk to the depth of 248
fect. The drilling has since been con-
tinued and the oil's flow 1s becoming
more pronounced. This is the first ol
that has been discovered in this part of
Pennsylvania.
A six-year-old son of C. G. Hollinger,
of Elm, was caught by a shaft at the
Acar mill of D. M Hiestand, Lancaster,
=r the boy was whirled around and so
badly mnjured that his death is expected.
Tour barns were dest by fire and
tw houses damaged at Skippack. The
broke out in the barn of William
Stephen, and the flames were soon care
ried by the high winds to istian
Steigner’s barn, and in a short time both
buildings were in ashes. The fire con-
OFM. 11. Ziogler and Mess Mary Ber:
of M. H.
tolet.
Mrs. Samuel Nace, wife of a West
Rockhill led a full
il oo The DOSY hid or dh
home, near Argus, a :
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