THE SMALL CROPS. Do not miss having small patches of sage, mint, thyme and other pot plants. Parsley can be grown from seed the first year, and will last two or more seasons if cared for. Spear mint will grow and increase from a location. Sage, if once established, will remain for years. Pot plants take up but little room and can be made ornamental in a garden PLOWING THE GARDEN. Plow the garden location deep and work it well with the harrow the ground is very fine. One half i covering of the well when the ground is fine. small garden there is no tool so ser- viceable as a steel weeds. FERTILIZERS FOR PLANTS. the and will best plant are not desired. Plants have power of selection of foods, invariably select that which suited for their purposes. is A tity of phosphoric being plentiful in the but will make an effort to secure the potash; hence, it is not economical to use fer- tilizers without attempting to select the kinds which will be favored by the particular crops to which they are ap- piled. soil, EXPERIENCES WITH SCALE. I have had considerable experience with various oils as a remedy San Jose scale. Experience teaches me than these. The best thing | have yet found is an emulsion, the composition of which is as follows: Refined kero- sene 10 gallons; whale oil soap 8 pounds; water 40 gallons. [I am sure this more effective than gion of twenty per cent. kerosene, laundry soap. With whale the oil and water mix much than with hard soap. I believe fifteen per cent crude petroleum will kill as many more scale than twenty per cent. kerosene, but the troleum more apt to kill or the tree. Petroleum is harder to mix with the water in an emulsion, a good point in favor of kerosene. I believe a tree will stand much oil when th when perfectly the safest is with soap, better £1 Oil or injure is twice sap in it Deci » to spray is when the sap ting, about the time the buds begin to swell the spring. It may applied in summer or early fai:; this last ing is very effective. T he scale easily killed then and fit great breeding in progress time —R. W. iand Homestead. ere 18 dormant peat as dedly and 1 late spray- is very the be stops at Coviness, in ROT ATION OF CROPS The six years’ rotation of a very good system of on because you can bring the land a high state of cultivation at cost: First year, corn; second, ley or oats with clover: third, fourth, pasture; fifth, pasture: wheat or oats. Much attention should be given the part with the corn. It should be well cultivated, the weeds carefully picked out and made garden clean. The first six years your farm will require a good deal of work in weeding; after that it will not nearly so bad. Every particle crops is into little on the farm in any given year, should be carted out on it. In the following spring when sow- ing it done with barley or oats with clover; finish off with a dressing of lime. The lime should be newly slack- ed and put on the land as hot as pos gible, with the land perfectly dry, about one ton to an acre; on clay, a ton and a half. This quantity of barn- yard manure in the land stimulated with lime, will insure a fine rich crop of grass. The secret of good farming is plenty of grass, and plenty of it to plow down; all other crops will grow equally well. One crop of hay will be enough, as hay is hard on the land; its tendency is, of course, toward tall, slender grass. Two years of pas ture will incline the grass to bush and riches it.—Henry Matthew, in the Epi- tomist, TOMATO CULTURE. The tomato has come to be one of our most important garden products though elderly people tell us it was once raised for its beauty, The and yellow plum are grown for pick ing and preserving, but for the late market, when large quantities are wanted, the large varieties are prefer. able. The first step toward success is good, early plants. We plant in hot bed about the middle of March if the weather permits, if not, we sow in boxes in the house. Soon after the second leaf puts out we transplant to larger boxes, and if short of room we have taken the plants up, thorough- ly stirred the earth, and reset many of them in the same box. This pro cess is gone through with three or four times; then if the weather is still too cold to plant out, we transplant to a cold frame. The more transplantings they have, the stronger, better Plants we get. The cold frame is a simple frame of boards, banked against the side and generally covered with cloth, although glass is sometimes used. In this we put about a foot of good rich earth. cold frame, seldom give any trouble when transplanted to the gar den bed. In cold backward springs I have kept them in the cold frame until taey were budded to blossom, yet seldom lost a plant. The several transplantings give stronger roots, stouter stems and branching, bushy tops, instead of the pale spindling things kept in the hot bed without transplanting, awaiting suitable weather for planting out. We are never in a hurry to plant in the garden untit spring is well advanced. The consequence is, we generally have plants enough and to spare.—Jennie M. Wilson, Agricultural Epitomist. PEACH CULTURE. An interesting and exhaustive paper on “Commercial Peach Culture” was read by Professor Taylor at the an nual meeting of the Ohio Horticultural soclety. He advised proper business caution in going into the business, and did not think it best to invest one’s whole cavital in one line of production. For in years of scarcity, prices would be very high and favored locall ties free from frost and winter-kiil ing would sell their whole output at three or four times what they would bring in seasons of plenty. made the business very profitable had mostly passed was so diversified in cli mate and means of distribution were 80 perfect that there was an abund ance of fresh fruit in the large mar not pay fabulous prices He make peach-growing other business, eithe eral fruit growing calities for peaches would therefore a part of some r farming or gen Plant only in lo favorable, freedom especially i i The winter climate shouid also be considered. For se first careful lections for of planting the growers in the foolish for some plant to plant varieties which cause had failed. He would a number varieties suiting season, and varying tastes and markets. Yellow peaches delight in a heavier than white fleshed sorts. He would propagate from well known types of bearing trees. There was no question that in some way there were several of several lea ing sorts, some of which were de cidedly better than oth For the first tw ) years he we lant corn or beans in the hard, t after that it not pay, as it interfered so much in cultivation as to make the crop un profitable Finally producing grow only the , which end reached ultivation, fer tility and I In pack ing and shipping carefulness and econom yY. of soil types ’ ners mid p Ore it did ris in finest by good severe this tiga THE VARIATIONS IN CATTLE. One of the which a most exasperating things breeder of cattle has to en counter is the variat in individuals which constantly crop up. and which in some instances exceedingly annoying It is ted in breeding of scrub or common cat tie to find a considerable variation in individuals the first few generations, but according to all laws of breeding this variation should be come less noticeable each year as care ful methods are followed. Some cat tle appear to show a special tendency to considerable variation in the indi viduals. I remember particularly a good Berkshire sow which could be depended upon to bring about one in fertor pig existence in each lit ter. While all the others were up to the standard and showed remark ion prove prove eX Ped during ¢ into littie fellow invariably inherited some poor tendencies from remote ancestors which condemned it. ‘I'nis tendency was not eradicated in some of sow’'s progeny for two breedings which followed. The variation in the individuals is of course, one of the points which help the breeder in his work of selec tion. It is by discriminating between the excellence of the best and the poorest that we are enabled to mount to higher standards by persistent ef fort. Yet this tendency to individual variation is also the weak point in the chain. It is the opening in which the wedge of degeneracy can easily enter. Let the animal with poorest record and virtues be bred, and the poorest of her progeny likewise be selected for further breeding, and the dowuward course would be marked and rapid. Nature seems to have placed this as a stumbling block in the way of those who are not careful to make their selections according to merit. Whether accidental or other wise the perpetuation of the breed depends entirely upon the selection of the best. If we once let down the bars there will set in a flood which will carry us down to the lowest depths. To understand this one should some day reverse the condi tions usually followed in breeding Take any fine breed and note the var lation in the individuals, and select for the work the poorest of the lot. Then make each succeeding selection from the poorest for future breeding, and within a short time the stock bred will not be worth the keeping. Not only this, but the variation In the in dividuals will increase rapidly until it becomes almost remarkable. It lg by careful selection that we eliminate this tendency to variation in the indi viduals, and to that alone must we trust—Prof. A. 8. Doty, in American Cultivator, The lightest automobile runabout ia one of three horse power, which has a speed of eight miles and weighs 250 pounds. R THE ADIES THE QUEEN'S LUCKY SHOT. Many years ago Queen Alexandria vaited Bisley and was invited to try * -— rss a of 600 yards. The rifle was placed in position for her, and with her first shot she hit the bull's eye. This rifle {3 now one of her most treasured pos- sessions and {8s preserved in a glass ‘ase in one of her private rooms at 3andringham.—London Standard. ARTISTIC COMBINATION. An artistic combination that came rom a modiste’s workrooms showed 10w three blues and white might be 1mappily toned into a perfect sym- shony. frieze the rom which Fhe frieze was cut in a habit backed rained walking skirt garnished nands of blue French serge. snough frieze was left from che skirt to give a very Was this more of the serge, and portions of a 2alf yard of handsome cream white melton formed the double collar for a front made from a bit of cream white sparkling with tiny dark blue Just enough of the panne on a remnant counter hed front, which was lining that buttoned in and though every inch of the had to be purchased at a bar effect was rich and Chis y Record was found to supply a on a vest he rear, poun ultimate slegant to a degree ant IN CELLULOID COMB ays PERIL A physi ian # in the care rxarnings agai: Most ¥ 8 faa t ed DOona-nae 101 ‘ore expensive, ‘n, are made of co red assume that eight wome ten wear: things q jestion may liege The tin: tion f every east one o in her hair calls fact that celinlol that it may at fect from iangerous her atte: o the filam any BOVE an og that in wi than bollin; or ieductions 0 pur hase this hig oronamont On pe} HOW TO WALK If you are a be altogether that it is 2 fascinating ‘ered the art o It is also imp how to walk It is fallacious to as graceful woman how to climb stairs teft out of nature's chnarmis upstairs ime that knows by instinct it is a little trick ategory of charms, it has to acquired with are and difficult) jut it pays if you question nex watch carefully the next soe going upstairs and you will be vinced The woman art going fashion wer gait, may some And for it woman you aa ity Of who has upstairs in the be liken mastered truly one who ed of as to a Diana So enthusiastic fa is me with of a man interested, “Place in we are thing my rival in whom and the first This would be the very last thing she would dare attempt if untrained in To mount stairs properly there should be no waddling from side to side-—none whatever; no trudging. as in the steps: no apparent should remain erect, be taken with the toe, ment to the next step made with a springing motion--a caress of the structure, if you will, instead of a kick. This produces a gradual, grace- ful, poetical elevation, instead of cumbersome hauling of the body up ward. New York World. no leaning forward and weariness. The THE YOUNG-OLD WOMAN “However do you suppose they manage to keep it up!” exclaimed a comfortable looking matron, indicat ing by a glance a party of four impos ing looking mondaines, dressed in the height of fashion, who were seated at a nearby table in a well known res taurant and talking together with the vivacity and loud laughter of untamed schoolgirls. “Who would Imagine’ she continued, "that those women were my contemporaries? And yet they are all as old as | am.” The contrast was undeniably strik- ing, only Mrs. Z., who made the re- mark did not realize how much it was in her own favor. Middle aged she undoubtedly was, and her hair was silvered, but the sweetness of her kind face and the dignity of her figure and dress were far more attractive than the pseudo youthfulness of her old companions. The latter type were in their way, however, rather wonderful, and Mrs. Z. is by not means alone in her won- derment as to how these modern ex- emplifications of the merry wives of Windsor contrive to keep up the pace. Their spirits seem quite perennial. Year after year they continue to play their elderly pranks, and are convuls ed with merriment over what impress an outsider as very childish jokes, while their laughter which sounds too much like the Scriptural crack- ling of thorns to be altogether pleas- ant, still gives evidence of their vi- vacity., To sober people the way they clutch on to their juvenility-—gown themselves in splendid raiment and lace their figures to youthful slimness —{8 not attractive. Poor women! Al though they know It not, they grow ghastly through it all, and sooner or later, in spite of themselves, they must succumb. These merry dames cannot keep old age at bay forever, and the surrender under such circumstances will not be Dbeautiful.—New York Tribune, TO PRESERVE BEAUTY. I think a few hints on the hygiene of the skin may prove of service to The world of women is apt to get divided Into two classes --the women who make a fetich of the nature make that not try to gifts best of the natural has be- Without entering on the vast sub of the value of relative washes or tonics for the skin, I wish to give a few hygienic hints which may be found of service to those who have the womanly instinct of wishing to make the best of the beauty and health that Providence has given them Sleep Is one of the great of vouth. Eight hours of regula at night and a short nap d day will do much to keep the from wrinkles bedroom wind at the top, n sumim A daily bath, tepid in w and cold in summer, with a brisk to follow, will be ind skin fre At gpent ing preservers r sleep uring face few ind r and winter. OWS both i open a morning rub walk games, as » avoided, ns and 1d many a careful fqurs food with tion and 17 was famous beautifully from o tell The aom ollent 8 worthy of rial i to ms waders with that it has proved su than beauty an only r i the as surance Case It jong in more one and ir is ROGS A 1088, ~— JA Embroidery done expensive but in ribbon is a very eX dress yery usive A novel new French corset opens at the thie dcing away with the open space in the back aide A face veil of point d'esprit, finished with a narrow ruffle edged with black satin bebe ribbon, is exceedingly new Fluffy muffs of dainty-toned chiffon carried almost until summer weather, as they are ornamental rather than protective. Baroque pearls of large size are used clasps seen on many of the purses of There is nothing prettier than the three-tunic effect in skirta. The three apparently overlapping skirts may each be piped with a different color. The ever popular knife pleated skirt is now greatly enhanced by applica tions of lace and beautiful embroider fes, which show sprays or garlands of flowers. Navy designs, such as adorned the juvenile sleeve, are the latest addition to the front of the white cheviot Ascot stock, being placed on the tie just be low where it knots over. Some of the hats of Irish lace have the lace stretched over wire frames with ne lining even in the crown Others made all of the lace have a thin lining in the crown. Waists of cream white crepe de chine or India mull are tucked all over from neck to belt with matching sleeves, and made with a slightly loose and full dip front overhanging a belt of real gold filigree, or a bebe sash with loops and long ends at the back Savings Bank to Assist Brides. At Moscow a savings bank has beet opened for the purpose of assisting prospective brides to obtain the neces sary dowry for catching husbands Dowries are expected to range from $100 to $1500. Current Literature tells of a For the Housewife. FOI0:0019:910004 DAINTY CANDLESTICKS A table of dainty yet :andlesticks In the second-floor halls sf country houses, after the English style, is now a fad of fashionable folk. Nothing costly is considered good Aste, just plain pressed-glass ones or shina decorated in Dresden flowers or & quaint pottery plece or two. inexpensive CHUTE TO THE Among the latest reniences is the soiled clothes chute, This is a zinc-lined, boxlike chute sbout eighteen inches square, run- ing from the top floor of the house © the laundry in the basement, with small doors opening or gach floor. The soiled clothes are dropped into this, *alling immediately into a receptacle Y¢low, in the laundry. LAUNDRY. household con- A DAMP-PROOF WALL. If you are troubled with a damp Bouse wall, brush it well over after frst removing the paper with the fol- owing mixture: A quarter of a of shellac dissolved in one Give the wall two sr three coatings, letting it stay sev- sral hours between the applications repaper, and you will have ne further trouble SAVING BOAP. SBeraps of soap should never be it he carefully lected and When needed for washing is they can be cut in small ples to a jelly and afterward rainwater This will Small ple ted and them col PUL away es boiled with and iiuted lather eR be Then jittie milk a be of toilet by up agai into make soap should colle Kept themselves melt with and form cakes COOL: PORTIERES irtieres nots tia the and Calcu features of ate and this spring their offer excellent possi- the place rooms and their lightness Other fabrics Rope p tant summer home, wwinga COIOTINE impor take of hetween recommend beauty that will colonial rints in ruffled materials have colored wwe borders sharp ad Ereen ana tapestries, HANGINGS The mer newest effective and There are Algerian hemp and decorated entri patterns, Ctlags original made very TUEs, with the most © showing gree: grounds, glant sgainst a background nd other old but striking and de conceits These hangings heavy in weight and well suited ward off the cool dranghty sf the ver soft or ary particle lodgment Some of the ARONS on brill of soft Sows ers of ora Live 100 doorway ar ex anda, but as they of dust posed they do not in the their mes new madras ignse One white squares by lines of gold, and some of these squares frame a conventionalized dragon in dull ~olors. When this stuff is held it has the effect of a stained Another madras is in light brown and green, re not woolly vicin hes ity in are des of is divided into glass window tapestry —New York Commercial Ad vertiser RECIPES Apple Dowdy-—Butter a dish, line the bottom and sides with buttered slices of bread; fill the dish with sliced apples and grate into them a little nutmeg: mix haif a cup ful of water and half a cupful of mo lasses together and pour over the ap- ples; sprinkle over this half a cup of brown sugar; cover with more but tered bread; cover the top of the bak ing dish with a tin plate and bake in % moderate oven two hours; loosen the edges with a knife and turn out on a dish; serve hot, with sugar and cream. Potato Croquettes— Beat the yolk of one egg until thick, then add to it one cupful of mashed potatoes, one table spoonful of cream, a few drops of onion juice, half a tablespoonful of butter, teaspoonful of chopped parsley, a very little nutmeg, salt and cayenne to season; mix and turn into a small pan and stir until it leaves the sides of the pan; turn out to cool; when cold form into cylinders; roll them in egg, then in bread crumbs; fry in hot, deep fa® placing several in the frying basket, Jellied Walnuts—Onefourth box gelatin or one tablespoon granulated gelatin, one-fourth cup cold water, one-third cup boiling water, three fourths cup Sugar, one cup orange juice (scant), and juice of one lemon. Make same as other jellies (recipes have appeared). Covor bottom of shallow dish with the mixture, using one-half. When cool and firm place over it one inch apart halves of Eng. lish walnuts, cover with remaining mixture, chill and cut in squares for serving. Lemon Soup.—Heat threes pints of bouillon or any clear stock, and pour it upon a wellbeaten egg piaced in tureen. Add juice of a large lemon, balf pint croutons and serve at once. A census of Berlin, COMMERCIAL REVIEW, Geers! Trade Conditions Dun & Co's * r Rev “Two lege; strikes sched- RG Trade” uled least mailier ones We iew of BAYS: to begin on May § g temporarily, and were settled, b ui many new begun { fewer exten controversies have lections dre more prompt, as a rule, asked traffic cc thus ions being Shipments are less and rail for April by armugs exceed last § de iay ed gestion ; way ¢ far reported year's by 7 prices speculation than they were last per cent : Cereal have been less inflated week was from tenor of news AIDE, hich general TOL crop i i more aside Kansas wheat needs and oats have good pros Failures in the United States this week were 227, against 212 last week, 261 the preceding week and 226 the cor responding week last year, and in Can- ada 17 , against 18 last week, 24 the pre- eding week year encour indicate that corn despate hes although Pre is moisture, 1 and 24 last LATEST QUOTATIONS, £2 goa$3 15; F amily, $4.05 yu Sprir it, $4. 50 - New Y ig clear choice do 3 each, per wl, flve rs ind mongrel 11a1 1 £2200 Pigeons, ol aif. 2%530% Butter feam, trong ~Separatn 22323; ati i-1b. 242235: Rolls, 2.1 Md, Pa, Va, —an3 Eggs —We quote: Western Maryland snd Pennsylvania, per dozen —aifc: Eastern Shore (Maryland and Virginia) ~ath: Virginia —at6; West Virginia (sles 16: Western —a1fh: Southern —a 13V4; Guinea Bag: duck, Eastern Shore, fancy —17: do Western and Southern -a10: goose —a20. Cheese Large. 6olh. 12a12%5¢: medi- am. 35 Ih. 12a12%; Picnics, 22 Ib, 12362 12% Hides —Heavy steers, association and salters late kill, 60 Ibs and un, close se- ection. 10a10% ; cows and light steers a8isc. 23224: Gathered . 10a20; Prints, 23324; Dairy pts Live Stock. Tica LCattle—(ood to prime rive i £a7.30; poor to medium $4.50 16.40; stockers and feeders $2.50a5.00; ows $1.40a5.75; heifers i§azsansn; can- ners $1.40a2.40; bulls calves $200a500; Texas fed pr ig 25ab.2% Hogs—mixed and butchers’ $6.70a7.15; good to chojee heavy $7.00a7.25. Sheep «jambs lower; good to choice wethers §5.50a6.10; fair to choice mixed $475 5.50; Western sheep $5.2%5a6.10; native jambs 75ab.50. ; East Liberty—Cattle steady: choice, $680a7 : prime $56.50a6.75; good 3380 6.35. Hogs lower, prime hogs, 7.30: best mediums $7.1%5a7.20; i Yorkers, $7a7.10; light do, $6.50a6.75a 6.00; Pigs, $6.4026.50 ; roughs, $s5a6.75 Sheep steady: best wethers, $35 70a3 8S ; culls and common, $2.50a3.50: choice lambs $6.50a6.70; veal calves, $6a6.73. phol are organizing hao Greater New York for the bette ment of the industry. Chi railroads running into icago will be hed to scale of
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