{INFERIOR SEED NOT CHEAP.
Inferior seed is not cheap at any
srice. Do not Be tempted to pay high
srices for some new variety of which
vou know nothing. Every year there
are wonderful yields given of new
varieties of which nothing Is men-
yvfoned the next season. Get the best
to be had, but do not venture too
deeply on things that are new.
SHEEP AS WEED
One advantage in using sheep as
destroyers of weeds is that they
graize very close to the ground,
as soon as a young and tender weed
DESTROYERS.
sheep.
eradicated. A plot of land can be
irst cut down and sheep turned on the
and, as they will then keep them
down. No kind of plant can thrive
that is frequently cut down as soon as
{t appears.
FEED FOR DAIRY CALVES,
Jegin with sweet milk and gradual-
{y replace it by sweet skim milk, add-
‘ng a tablespoonful of oil meal to
take the place of the fat removed. As
he calves increase in size, keep oats,
shorts and hay before them so that
they will learn to eat all of these.
Young calves should never be given
t0la milk Under auy elrcumsianoe,
anor should too much milk be given.
Four quarts twice a day is
sufficient for the first month. After
shat it can be gradually increased.
MISTAKES IN PLANTING.
One of the causes of complaints
with garden seeds is that many farm-
ers make mistakes in planting and
saring for the crops. Lima beans are
planted with early peas, and string
beans are put in too soon. While the
peas will endure ¢ weather and
thrive, the beans will be chilled and
fail to make growth. All tender
plants, such as beans, melons,
squashes and sweet corn, should be
planted only after the ground is
warm. Beets, carrots and pars
may be planted as soon as the ground
will permit.
ol
snips
COLD AFFECTS SEEDS
The degree of cold
may be probably
npon the vitality of the seed and
amount of moisture contained. It is
claimed by that merely
which seeds
1ds
to
subjected deper
the
some cold
suspends the of germinatio
as seeds of barley, squash,
sumbers, sunflowers, peas
plants have been kept over
at a temperature of from
degrees centigrade, by
Nquid air. The
slowly (50 hours), plauted,
them germinated
SECURING SEVERAL CROPS.
Small gardens, intended for supply
‘ng the families of farmers, should be
made to produce two three crops
iuring the year. As is known,
there are early and late crops, and
the land can be made to do service
rom spring until frost appears in au-
tumn. Early peas can be gotten out
of the way for late cabbage, and kale
or other early greens should be con-
sumed in time to permit of using the
plot for egg plants, tomatoes or other
ater crops. Of no good re
sults can be obtained unless an abund-
ant supply of manu as
plants in a garden should be forced
from the start. Many inexperienced
persons will secure an early crop and
then allow weeds to take possession
»f the garden Not a single weed
should ever be permitted to grow on
garden soil at any season of the year.
By persistently destroying weeds as
fast as they put in an appearance
there will arrive a time when
will be no weeds in the garden.
poser
Oals, cu
and other
183
the
were
an
to
use
192
of
thawed
d many
rds
ge
of
ar
well
course,
re is used, the
LOOK AFTER THE HORSES
TEETH.
When a horse drops the food when
it is partly chewed the cause is gen
srally in the teeth
Wear. They will become sore some
times, and the gums and mouth in
flamed when the animal's health is not
good. The safest and surest way to
sffect a cure is to take the horse to a
veterinarian for examination and treat.
ment. We had a work team out to
pasture one summer, and at one time,
when the horses were brought to the
touse and stood before the kitchen
ioor, eating some clover, I noticed
that one of them dropped nearly all
Yer food while trying to chew it. 1
noticed, too, that the horse had lost
Aesh since 1 saw it several days pre
viously. When examining her mouth
we could not detect anything amiss,
$0 we took her to a veterinarian, and
he found a small stick wedged into the
roof of her mouth. As soon as reliev-
ed of this the horse could eat all
right. It is best for farmers to look
well to their horses when feeding in
the pasture.—E. L.. H, in New York
Pribune.
TO RENOVATE A HARNESS.
I notice in your paper an Inquiry
about cleaning and olling buggy hay
ness. I give a method of caring for
harness as practiced by an expert horse
trainer on my father's farm many
yoars ago. First take the harness
ppart. Have a tub of warm water and
oud hard soap. Wash each pleca
ly, using a cloth. Hang the
parts on nails to dry. Make
repairs. Provide neats-
some other oil equally as
good, heated to a temperature that
will ‘not burn the hand. Then while
the leather is a little molst, draw the
parts of the harness through it, wip-
ing them with a piece of cloth, Hang
the parts up and let them hang for a
day or two. Provide a tub with warm
water and good castile soap. Make
a strong suds and draw the several
parts of harness through It. Wipe
them dry with a cloth. They should
now be about as pliable and nice as
new leather; and the sun will not draw
the oil out and make the harness dis-
agreeably sticky to handle.—Milton
Logan, in New York Tribune,
SCAB ON SHEEP.
Some vears ago I had an experience
with scab in a flock of sheep I had
bought. At first [ did not know what
but after careful invest!
it was scab. Driv-
gation concluded
examined every Individual.
Where we noticed wool pulled out, we
opened the wool and poured in a solu:
acid and water. In a
quart bottle we put a tablespoonful of
acid and then filled the bottle
with water. his we used at about
The ram was the worst affected of
his shoulders were a mass of
sheared the wool from the
poared on the solution
and scrubbed with a corn cob. We
kept careful watch on the flock, and
whenever we noticed any of them
rubbing themselves, they were caught
and given the above treatment We
had perfect success. We eradicated
the scab and at the same time killed a
large proportion of the ticks with
which the sheep were infested —Will
fam Dougall, in Orange Judd Farmer
SAVING FEED FOR WINTER
I spent twe
way
USE
drive
stover
large
SOTE
ive hours filling a
of our barns with
corn, two
f bright wheat straw,
and kafir corn, and one load
all cured In fine condition
I have a large shed open on the east
in which was stored all the above
pt corn stover, which was in rick
power was set between
and shed so we could reach any
at Wao first and
another so that they were fairly
mixed n cutting. We had
only a twelve-foot and it re
quired to run back the cut
feed doing it was pretty
ywhner of a large
emp to fur
* of
i running.
and feed, It
ed one
and to
latter, and
e cut product.
in and
knife
in one
loads each «
hum cane
soy beans,
side,
exce
The
rick
feed
then
Cutter
will cut one
the
carrier
some labor
and in so
well mixed
traction engine
nish power at a cos
»
ir
hour for time
was loyed
30 cents per
We fur
required
to
cut
one
nished board
one man to fe cutter,
ties and place
place feed in reach
two boys cared for th
The soy beans, planted
cultivated, were cut with
thrown in suitable for «
and were left turned over
and two or days tied in
bundles with shocked up for
some days hauling in. The
cane and kafir corn were treated in
like manner, only the latter was left
standing in shock much longer. This
season has been an ideal one for cur
ing all kinds of forage, as has
not been sufficient wet and cloudy
weather to discolor any but standing
feed. We will put under cover all the
stover we can and do the next best
thing, rick the remainder, to be put
in as we make room for it. We feed
nearly all cover. We have a
few tons of cow-pea hay that will
fed. peas and all, along with our other
feeds, to all kinds stock that we
handle except hogs, and the latter are
very fond of peas —C. H. McCorm
in New England Homestead.
on cutter,
of
TOWS
corn
urn
irin
piles
a few days,
threo were
* wine,
before
there
under
be
of
ick,
QUAINT SAYINGS OF A JUDGE,
Some Philosophical Comments Made
by a British Jurist
Judge
London (England)
one of the wits of
ary. He has to deal with all races
and all classes, and has become fam:
ous for terse decisions and qnaint say-
ings. Here are some of the utterances
that he recently delivered from the
bench:
On the veracity of a woman—"Wo
men tell stories so much more easily
than men.”
Concerning
who nresides in the
County Court is
the British jndicl
Bacon
Interpreters—"People
who translate a languige they do not
understand into one they know less.”
When the evidence was contradict
ory=—"There is nothing astounding
in perjury. It bas long ceased to sur.
prise me; it only saddens me now.”
About money lenders—"My own im-
pression is that the leader is about
as honest as the borrower. As a rule
there is no misrepresentation that a
man will not make when he wishes
to borrow money, and when he does
not want to pay it back he will repeat
the operation.”
To a defendant who declared she
“couldn't stay there and listen to
such Hes"—"Think of me; I have to
listen to them every day of my life.”
A woman pleaded iaabllity to pay
a debt on account of illness. Four
doctors had attended her-—Judge
Bacon: “Four doctors! and you have
survived, Wonderful!”
Suggested by a sollcitor's undeciph-
erable signature—"It must have taken
a good deal of time and trouble to
hit upon such a signature as that,
with dots and scrawls all over the
place. [I suppose he considers fille
gibility a sign of Intellect”
At Whitechapel County Court
“The morality of the Hebrew ought to
be as high as that of the Christian.
It is derived from the same source,
snd the rabbis inculcate a standard
of just dealing of the purest and high.
est character.”
cise for the figure, and it is one of
which our grandmothers were fond.
it is usual with children to throw the
throw it
chest
backward, far
much better.
better to
the
far
-
DEPARTMENT
tall
STORE
enough,”
FITS.
“You're not Nellie ®
store who had been spending a
SHOES AND
Shoes and stockings,
exactly matching the costume,
at least harmonize with its color.
White, however, should always be
worn with a white dress and black
with black; the rest as nearly as pos
to match the costume. Other:
wise wear black, which is always safe.
Plain black silk stockings, with black
satin shoes, may be worn with most
evening dresses, There no more
becoming footgear.
STOC KINGS.
even when not
should
sible
is
OF CORAL.
revived, both in
“strands” and in carv-
brooches, sash clasps,
ornaments. For
girls nothing
youthful than
er white
THE
Coral has also
long, rough cut
ed designs for
pendants and
children and
fresh r
when worn
ws fabrics
layed for summer
or brilliant
neck and
beauty the
the
REVIVAL
been
other
Young
more
with the she
Lil
looks
ro |
COUR
or
and open embroider
wear Unlike
when
INES
gems, worn
arms
comple on instead
on the oul
the
of empha
flaws of
an nhealthy
ARDEN HAT.
the fan,
with wnite
has a
asd
ana
doubtleas adorn
cars, air
inventions.
tose fs
tor 3]
A GIRL'S PURSE
Poems 1 stories i
ten about
“joa
Girls de
an
to
the worse
they stow
would put
emptied
have
“avery
my burea
of the thin;
dollar bills, a
quarters, a five
ten pennies; a "jucky”
Japanese “pocket two red
three bills heck,
street railway transfers, five mut
stamps, matin
pons, paper
and a cleaner’s check for glove
was at all an unusual
most any girl can mat
York Presa.
to cles ut explained,
in a hile, just as I
drawers.” These are some
s that were in it; Two «
fifty-cent piece
cent pi
once do
ne
orn
Italian
pie Fg
parior car
three news
Rey's,
not
CATCHES SNAKES FOR A LIVING
Miss Grace Somers is a young wom-
an of California who spe days
chasing the deceptive snake Miss
Somers has never forgiven that first
snake of which history bears evidence |
for causing her grandmother of re |
mote ages to be expelled from the
Garden of Eden; but finding she can-
not undo the harm she has deter |
mined to get even. She starts out |
every morning to a range of moun:
tains where snakes abound, and many
and exciting the adventures she |
san relate, She is accompanied by a
dog, Buster, who shares with her the
dangerous sport. Miss Somers cures
and prepares the skins, and sells them
to be made up into purses and belts
it may be added that Miss Somers
was a typewriter girl, but disliked the
drudgery of office work and abandoned
it for the rattlesnake chase -—-Wom-
an’s Home Companion.
BENEFITS OF EXERCISE.
Next to bodily cleanliness, exercise
may be reckoned as the greatest aid
to beauty. In fact, exercise is almost
necessary to cleanliness, for it is a
great incentive to perspiration, which
is nature's way of throwing the im-
purities of the body to the surface of
the skin, from where they are then
removed by the use of water. Open
air exercise should be taken every
day, but according to strength. One
should return home after walking,
riding or cycling with a sense of being
pleasantly fatigued, but without any
feeling of exhaustion. Exercise should
be taken regularly, and, if possible,
dumbbells should be used night and
morning. The corset should not be
worn while exercising with dumb
bells. Skipping is an excellent exer |
nds her
in the country.
cloak department,
“If I put you into our
where you would
have to pulling and holding and
reaching up all day, your arms would
be ready to drop off at night We
have to employ six-footers, or women
who are near that height, in the cloak
department.
“You would best at a counter
the superintendent went on, “say the
dress-goods or white goods depart
ments, where customers are likely to
sit down while they are being waited
upon, That's where you would have
the advantage over a tall girl, for
there {8 a good deal of stooping over
to be done, and a tall girl would soon
get a ‘erick’ in her back
“Perhaps the glove counter
suit you better still. You
plano, don't That means that
you are strong in the hands and have
a good fingers. When come to
try six or eight pairs on a
customer before she vou'll
find that the piano thened
your hands did od turn.”
Youth's C
be
do
would
play the
you?
you
of gloves
fitted
streng
is
that
YOu a very ge
ympanion
AIGRETTES VERY POPULAR
the
the
We have frequently feted on
i
importance given to algrette
in
are now
Here, too,
i to keep
of
women | meet” x
other
by a
hat
scribed
woman
waving her hair treated
nd is firmly convinced t
oft As the pre
trea tment is over,
abundant silky lock No
how heroic the treatment
they are to follow it
45
Lae
have
matter
prescribed,
ready i if they «
keep their hair from becomi
scanty and faded. ‘1 shounid
have my sittings oftener, Mr
heard a woman say to the well
portrait painter the other day,
am to have my head shaved as soon
are through with me.’ An
other one of my friends, who has be
to this prevailing
mania, has her face covered with a
curious rash, which she says is the
temporary effect of the prescribed hair
remedies, and goes about in conse
quence heavily veiled. And yet I do
in the end one of these
women will be one whit better off
than I, who use only soap and water,
and let nature take its course.”-—New
York Tribune.
only
like
Cl
known
‘as 1
you
WHAT TO WEAR.
Heavily corded folds on silk dresses.
smpire ceats with Russian lace ap
pliques.
Narrow chiffon folds herringboned
together,
Heavy hand
waists,
Any number of little slender silk
tassels,
Embroidered taffeta discs.
Striplike vest effects of moire ve
lours.
Sleeves broadening at the forearm.
Fish net as a foundation for dainty
frivols.
Touch of narrow black velvet rib
bon on everything.
Etamine as the star summer fabric.
Black English thread lace In ex
clusive evidence.
Repousee lace fn the same quantity.
Llama lace collars with chenille
embroidery.
Fine linen with embroidered
dots.
Barege with Renaissance appliques,
Satinstriped trouville shirtings.
Paris muslins with Pompadour
printings.
Dolly Varden hats for misses.
Velvet or moire ribbon hat bows,
embroidery on silk
silk
i
} For the Housewife.
-~
PO PIOVY
SWEETEN
MING THE DINING-ROOM,
sweetening your dining-room after
to have it announced. Into a cup of
elicate,
results,
lavender extract: a d
ing, refreshing odor
goon performs its duty.
fresh air and sunshine, nature's disin
fectants, this is one of the most prac
tical and
of. If you care to Invest in
of lavender salts you have
means of perfuming your bedchamber,
by leaving the stopper out; but
takes more time to be effective.~
Louis Globe-Democrat.,
penetrat
which
-St.
PROPER WAS SHING OF FLANNELS.
Of all
suffer in
nels are
delicate
scrubbed
muslin
this treatment at
flannels usually succumb
first washing and shrink
or both. There are so many
that be made in the w
it i#& no wonder flannel washing
difficult, In the first
rub the soap
but they sh
the unfortunate
the laundering
the most unfortunate,
handkerchiefs sometimes
if they
but
once
are
were
they
as
sheets, can
least,
to the very
harden
mistakes
that
fa
in
or
Can Org
place,
mistake
the
Ty fe £
directly into
which
jelly
to each
or :
gooa
ry hot
4 5
If the
after
#} ‘
left
another
are
they
ately,
For
oo slowly,
eat of the
“am
TE F rug ls
ihe 1g shoul
ent du Jit’
Tug,
"ges
which in
» heavily
regular
uid be
light
shut
that
darkened
These
prevent
of the room there sho
urtains impervion
at night
early sun, so
in a
rable
18 to the
nay be drawn
rays of the
nay re
i tant
as is de
and
wig #
L
must not. however,
onstant current of fresh
netant i f1
through
that no direct dravght
air flowing
y arranged
will flow
ha a " Paras
the sleeping room
of air
wun the
upon ti
AN per
'
leeper
manently
of
H
furni
OE room.
ounges, Caniry or foot
d be so arranged that they
as movable as the pil of a
The light bedsteads and
washstands of metal h have
taken the place of cumbersome
wooden have everything to
commend them. We have not. how
ever reached in this matter, the ideal
and our simplest bed
rooms are still comparatively fussy. —
New York Tribune
CLEANING
A great deal of modern brassware
including brass bedsteads and
mental pieces of brass, are now lac
guered, and such brass cannot
cleaned
crack, as it invariably
cess of years, the brass must be re
lacquered.
Fire irons and any
place in a sleep
lows
simple
open whic
furniture
of the Japanese
BRASS
be cleaned. The best material to do
this is the old fashioned rottenstone
The English use two kinds of clean
ing paste for brass. The first consists
soap over the fire. This paste should
be applied with a little water and
rubbed vigorously over the brass with
a soft chamois skin.
The second paste is made with four
tablespoonfuls of rottenstone, one ta
blespoonful of sweet oil, and turpen
tine enough to make a thick paste. Ap
ply it to the brass with a little turpen
tine, and rub the brass smooth with
chamois. Some cleaners polish their
outside brasses with nothing more
than rottenstone and sweet oil, rub
bing them vigorously with chamois
skin or leather afterward. Bath brick
should never be used on brass, as it
scratches the metal, however finely it
is powdered. Whiting is of no value
in cleaning brass New York Tribune,
Tha following ambiguous advertise
ment recently appeared in a Detroit
paper: “Notice--If . who is
supposed to be In Chicago, will com:
municate with his friends at home he
will hear of something to his sdv*
tage. Hia wife is dead.”
Recent discoveries have glvem a
fresh impetus to boring for petroleum
in Japan.
COMMERCIAL REVIEW,
General Trade Conditions.
R. G. Dun & Co's “Weekly Review of
Trade” says: Varying weather has pro-
duced erratic fluc prices and
affected busine
tuations in
s very differently, accord.
Retail of
aimned a good av-
are well
disputes
distribution
merchandise has maint
fants
employed. wage
interrupt ver touched low
prices, but verage oi com
+
agvanceqg
Manufacturers of cottor
still behind
slowly
Lack
hieat
ia
8 O08 are
with deliveries. Wool moves
aisture has checked
growth in the South and
as retarded farm somd
States, but it 1s probable
exaggeration
pur-
week
of m the
west
Work In
wheat
the customary
peculative
Or the
104.47¢ against
year ago Meats were
Cotton
Dress € a sultry Chickens
* old TOO8T -
ng stags. 11a
ng to size, 28a
Ducks—Fancy,
, do., small, 11a
mongrels, 12a
do., spring. accor
winter, 18a22¢
--at3c. pound; do
do., muses and
guinea fowl, each. 15a20c. Pigeons
. “Old, strong flyers, per pair, —-a2sc.;
, young do., 20a25¢
Dressed Poultry. — Capons,
large, 18a10c. per pound;
1oatyc
Hides —Heavy steers, association and
salters, late kill, 60 pounds and up, close
selection, 1o0a10%ic.; cows and light
steers, Ba8'%c,
: do,
vy
2
fancy;
do., good to
Live Stock.
Chicago.—Cattle — Good
steers, O
$6.50;
to prime
73a87.25; poor to medium, 46%5a
stockers and feeders, 2.350a$5.25;
cows, 1.50285.75; heifers, 2.8 25;
canners, 1.30a%230; bulls, 2.3 00 ;
calves, 2.50a95.50; Texas-fed steers, 5.252
$6.25. Hogs—Mixed and butchers’,
0.80a87.30; good to choice, heavy, 7.2%
$7.40: rough, heavy, Ggoa$y.15; light,
O.75a87.00; bulk of sales, 6.95287 20.
Sheep—Good to choice wethers, 5.25
$6.00; Western Sheep, 4.75a%6.00; native
lambs, 4.75a8685; Western lambs, 5.509
700a87.25. Hogs—Mediums, 7.33a87.45;
pigs, 0.80a$5.00 ; roughs, 6.75a86.00; stage
45028528. Sheep and Lambs—Top
lambs, 7.40a87.50; fair to good 7008
$7.26; culls and common, 573528675;
yearlings, 6.50086.75 ; sheep, tops, mixed,
6.02086.50 ; fair to good, 5.50a$%5.73.
AA
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Montreal's electric workers are still
on strike.
New York city has appropriated $300,
000 for new public baths.
ation ia A er in
a
ing trades p council.