GREEN WEEDS FOR PIGS.
If it is necessary to confine pigs in
a dry lot during the summer, see that
they get all the weeds pulled from the
garden or cut about the premises any-
where. Hogs will eat large quanti:
{les and thrive on them. It is an easy
way to get rid of the weeds,
VALUE OF MUCK OR PEAT.
Recent experiments at the
Hampshire experiment station
that, according to analysis of
and barnyard manure, three tons of
manure contains twenty-three and
one-quarter pounds nitrogen, fifteen
pounds of phosphoric acid, twenty
three and one-quarter pounds potash.
The same quantity of muck contains
show
the basis of these figures it is
mated, so far
ents are concerned that three tons of
manure are equivalent to ten and one-
half tons of muck The
value of muck, therefore, consid-
ered too low for long transportation.
The character of muck varies greatly
and it is only the richest of
that would likely prove of economic
value.
is
TWO FORMS OF NITROGEN.*
What is the difference between
nitrogen derived from nitrate of soda
and nitrogen from fish scrap or tank-
age, if the analysis is the same¢?—L.
S.
Nitrate of soda contains nitrogen
equivalent to ten per cent. of am
monia, in a very soluble and quickly
avallable form; it acts as plant food
without undergoing previous fermen
tation or change. It soluble,
however, that it is easily from
the soil in the drainage water. Hence
it is used where a quick, but not pro
longed, action is desired
Dried fish and tankage contain
nitrogen equivalent about eight
per cent. ammonia. The nitrogen is in
organic matter which must undergo
fermentation and be changed to
trate before it becomes and
the plants can take it up. Consequent-
ly its action is slower and more pro-
longed than the nitrate Dried fish
and tankage also contain about eight
per cent. of phosphoric acid. -—Mary
land State Chemist, in Orange Jud
Farmer,
is so
lost
to
nl
soluble
POOR FARM BUTTER
If Mrs, A. and Mrs. B
stand flve minutes in
leading to their cellars,
keep their milkpans, as weil as
winter vegetables, they would soon re
alize the cause of their
rottening apples, potatoes, cabbage,
onions and turnips, each throwing off
its own peculiar odor, together with
perhaps several cans of fruit
their contents oozing out Is it
wonder the butter made
milk has all kinds of flavors
the one it should have?
So many people in
keep their milk in t
with their supply
etables. It is a very bad practice,
it Is impossible to keep milk from
becoming tainted by the foul atmos
phere where vegetables are kept. All
cellars are more or less damp, caus
ing a musty smell that will affect
milk in an unpleasant manner. Milk
and butter are among the easiest
things In the world to be tainted.
The only way to prevent their becom
ing so is to keep the air where they
are kept pure by good ventilation and
cleanliness.
Keeping milk in the kitchen is not
a good thing to do, as the milk ab
sorbs the odor arising from cooking,
and there is always more or less smell
about a kitchen, no matter how clean-
ly it may be. The very walls become
filled with the steam arising from the
cooking of cabbage, onions, etc. In
these days, when so much is said
would just
the doorway
where they
the
troubles
with
any
the
from
except
the
1 country
he cella:
of fruits and
disease and death may be carried in
the butter we put upon the table’-
Home.
THE BEST COW.
the answers vary
animal that one
wonderfully,
man would
another. One wants and expects
quantity. He is not satisfied unless
his cows give a ten-quart pail brim-
ming full twice a day all summer
long. Another wants quality. It is
of more importance to him that his
cows shall give rich milk than that
the quantity shall be large.
What, then, is the best cow we
have? Is it not the cow that most
nearly meets the requirements placed
upon her? If It be a large supply, the
best cow Is the one which gives most,
regardless of quality. If we are sell
Ing our milk by the test, we shall say
that our best cow is the one that
stands best when her product is
proved by the machine. And what we
want to know when we buy a cow ls
Sot 80 much how she looks as what
she has been doing and what her rec
ord now Is. 1 would not give a cent
for a cow which had all the good
points of the typical cow unless her
work corresponded with her appear.
ance. The man who owns her knows
whether or not this is true. And if he
is an honest man he will tell me so
when I go to buy her.
+ And right here comes In a question
which involves something more than
success in dairying. It takes a man
to sell a cow. 1 wonder If any of us
think it is right or manly to sell the
ueighbor who needs a cow ome out
of his herd that he knows has been
worn out and outlived her usefulness?
Is it not far more just to say to this
friend, “That cow has been a good
one, but she is now failing. 1 do not
think she is the cow you want”
Would it not be right to spend a little
money putting fat on the back of that
cow and to let her go where she be.
longs-—to the meat market? [I think
$0. Then we can look our neighbor
in the face every time we meet him
without thinking that he mistrusts
us as being sharp dealers ready to
take advantage of any one who needs
a cow for his herd
Still another thing.
their best cows
will
re
Few men
unless they
They cannot af
do so But is it not really
ford to
one that is inferior? A cheap cow is
the most expensive property a farmer
can have. The leas we have of them
the better. —E. [. Vincent, In New
York Tribune Farmer.
ARSENATE OF LEAD
Arsenate of lead is a a compound
made of acetate of lead and arsenate
of soda. Both chemicals are put into
solution, then mixed in the proper
proportions, and arvenate of lead is
precipitated. This flitered out and
prepared as a manufactured product
called arsenate of lead The import.
ant advantages of this poison
is
over
First
is easily dissolved
water, handled
without danger to man or
process of application
Second--It is
cific gravity
remains in suspension
application
Third—It can be
strength on the
fruits without
It comes prepared as a paste,
suspended in
and applied
beast in the
or
safely
the same
and therefore
1
well during its
about ape
a8 water
in
delicate
used great
follage
to them.
makes it preemi
insecticide for the truck
0 many delicate foll-
protect Especially is
most
or danger
This
nently
grower
age
this the case in hot
It can
saiety
poison
one property
the
who has
crops to
beds or seed beds
perfect
much
given the
lead mixtures can be made
the require.
the slightest in
be applied to those in
Hence,
any
no matter how
insect requires,
arsenate of
strong
ments and vet
enough to meet
io not
$)
jur to the
i ¥
rop
Fourth--It of ad
consistency
the
ordinary
it off, and
a long period
after
well
has the
It is of
that once it has
plant after being
rains or
property
hesiveness such
time to dry on
{ applied,
io not
it remains effective for
A few hours of
application will
Inst
dews wash
bright
suffice to dry it
where drench
after appli
were made, and the insects
ravaging destroyed
Had this been an application of Paris
green the time, labor and ma
terial would largely have loss.
The four distinct
senate of
sunshine
e8 are on record
ing rains have f
cations
an
lowed
yet
the crops were
cost of
been a
advantages of ar
ited may be
given as disadvantages of
Paris green. First, it is a powder and
4 menace to man and beast during the
its application
than and
suspension well. Third, it
fruit and foliage if
2 Fourth, it
off by rains or bh
and Farm
jead just re
distinct
process of Second, it
is heavier
femain in
readily =
used
water does not
orches
too strongly ta casily
LO Ton y in easily
avy dows
7
washed
Home
CLEAN GRAIN
If farmers knew
jose
much they
cleaning their
grain thoroughly they would soon
have the most elaborate grain clean:
ing apparatus they could find. It is a
common practice many farmers
to dicker with the grain buyer about
the amount of dockage, of
dirt and foul seeds in the grain they
are selling. The result is always the
game, the buyer pays for the good
grain according his own estimate
and the farmer gets nothing for the
small stuff. If he had a first class
fanning mill, he could with very little
work not only save the screenings for
feed, but the expense of hauling and
how
year by not
every
with
because
to
can get, instead of demanding the
The advantatge of good grain for
market is multiplied several times
Seed breeders have learned by
experience that they can grow a much
larger yield and improve the quality
at the same time, by carefully select
ing the seed. A man who has learned
how to breed up grain, would pick
every seed by hand rather than plant
& mixture of good seed and poor.
While the poor grain is lost when sell.
ing, it is worse than lost when sed-
ing, because it remains to multiply
and feed on the plant food in the soil
at the expense of better grain, thus
compounding the damage.
Surprising as it may seem. there
are farmers In thiz enlightened age
who actually sow weedseeds with
their grain. This is worse than put.
ting a guard in the field to prevent
the grain ever reaching the grainer: —
A Successful Grain Grower, in the
Epitomist.
The Use of Silks,
Of the silks used in the United
States, $26,000,000 worth are import
ed and $107,000,000 worth home made,
Tne domestic silk industry employs
24.000 men, 36,000 women and 6.000
children in 483 mills, with $81,000,000
capital.
The consumption of meat in Eng.
land has reached the total of 113
pounds per head per year, which fs
more than double what it was fire
years ago.
Meteors which reach the earth al.
most invariebly contain a large quan-
tity of iron and a smaller amount of
nickel.
PERFORATED HEARTS.
Perforated hearts are used for the
young woman who likes an atmos
phere of sweet odors about her, and
they take the pace of the ordinary
round perforated scent balls.
EDICT OF HAIRDRESSERS.
A body of hairdressers, the leading
ones in Paris, have constituted them.
selves into an institute, and from
them the fiat has gone forth that we
are to dress the hair low.
meeting the hair was dressed in the
presence of spectators and a jury ap-
this
all
prizes Possibly
if coiffures is not
art. It
the hair
hatrdresser has
new
on the side of
ald
in.
and the
be called
dress well
of a
now,
to
PARASOLS OF 1902
they are mostly
with
handles
with few exceptions
a simple order,
long sticks Crooked
to be favorites, no
they are much easier
Later on shall some
examples in lace chiffon
the first spriag the plain
parasol to match costume
ways in good taste, while we
never imagine the fashionable
of the Thames without its puntioad of
scariet parasols and
of
appear
doubt because
to carry.
beautiful
but for
glace
is al
could
the
BO
we B60
and
days
one s
cushions,
A LINEN FROCK
blue frock had bands
embroidered
These
each band of
iich headed the pleat.
framed the
At each side, where
front,
A light
yf white
iinen
braid
leaf
side
iinen
with a silk
were put on
pleated
ood
front
the flounce
were wheel
menterie
green vine in
of a
linen, wi
and
breadth
flounce others
ended there
shaped hite silk
fs
of
passe
moti with The
Was
wit
bodice white
batiste
short £
ape of bin
taffetas
with
had
richly embrol + and
green, an trimmed with white silk
passementerie ornaments and fr
A red duck suit of
of
ape of
skirt had
waist
cape asd
2 blouse and oat t«
J
embroidered
4
rata
gestineq
was
harming
THE
Many
has
er COOK
ing.
room of
k
SOCAL Se
ving
mosphere
pans and
¥
been
from
the
steaming
kettles, while mistress
has on ndergoing the klindrying
4 g8 of the She
have
her complexion
pariors may
complaining that
¥
ns have been ineffectual
atmosphere
blame upon
ing
however h
proach the real
iie’s Popular Monthly
room
A COLLAR BEE
The hostess had drawn fifty collars
embroidered Each was num
and placed in a numbered en
with floss to be worked. She
slso had a large round bex represent.
ng a standing collar with a necktie
around it In this box all envelopes
were placed and passed. The guests
tach took one and speedily at
work on scallop only, for one
Luring this time
passed At the signal given all
teedies were unthreaded and collars
returned to the box were again
passed. Envelopes and floss were re.
taiued by each, as the collars were to
be theirs
turned with four prizes: First. col
lar and cuffs; second, moire painted
collar and tie with pointed top. Af
ter the awarding of the prizes the col
to
ered
velope
he
set
ly numbered envelopes as a gift from
the hostess, and refreshments were
passed. The afternoon, with
spersed song and chat, passed too
soon.
lows: “It will be very good of you to
participate in an informal collar bee
in honor of the Misses B-— of Loe,
Saturday afternoon, promptly
o'clock. Needles, thimbles and scls-
sors will be necessary,
ing.
TIGER HUNTING GIRL.
Your readers will again be very
glad to hear that tone young Hindu
girl shikari bagged a leopard. After
I reported in my last letter how this
lady had accomplished a similar feat
a report reached her father, the rajah
of Jatpole, that a tiger had made its
appearance in the nleghborhood and
killed a cow. Hearing this, the rajah
ordered a shikarl party, His daugh-
ter, the young lady in question, hap
pened to be there at the time and re
quested that she might be allowed to
accompany the party. Thereupon the
rajah explained to her all the dan
gars of the tiger shooting, and sald
that it is not 80 easy to kill a tizer
as to kill a leopard. But she could
be moved, She said that so long
as she was by the side of her father
she would face any danger. The
father gave in. All started and reach.
ed the place, when, lo! the tiger came
with its leaps and bounds and the
rajah aimed at its neck This shot
produced such an uproar in the
beast that 1 (who was one of the
party) began to tremble, but the child
stood steadfast. Not only this, but
the young lady was so courageous and
resolute in her purpose that she im-
mediately aimed a shot at its plank
bone just bove the armpit. When the
ing the wound, the father, thinking
have been killed
from his daugh
second barrel and
Madras (India)
the shot received
ter, discharged the
killed it on the spot
THE LAW AND WOMEN
esteemed, but
appears to
of
every
An Nervous, contem
worried by
favor
with a
the
the
man
ases as being In
others A Judge
may
giving cause
be
tendency the Courts
woman in
It notes two recent
line with many
to
contest
beat her husband without
for divorce. A Massachusetts justice
has fined a man $50 for opening a
letter addressed to his wife, although
wives have addressed
to their husbands and have been al
opened letters
as evidence
suits for divorce
The legal changes
century in this ountry
revolutionary [t has
man who marries
dependent on his
car fare
and in
in the son-in
It shows
men may
money
in
yf the past
have
#0 that
must
got
for money
wile s
sundr
profit
a1 fein "i oh dh a nf ia
and the means of ies
identals. There is little
what
reach
have no rou
married it is than
1¢ eve of the
one
stages
that women with
in
themselves loan
half
law
a century
the hus were
was the
woman
har
person nd that person
and
husband
jost
or
her legal existen and prop
the }
a man got
¥ paged into
*
band's
hands iay
married
money had any. A
woman
herself
ana
not left srmine
103% 123 FRE
ht : se ¥ N sia {i
that | { she not tisfied
.
r
sthes and he
what
with her
food, she the
may
will
Should the ref
annisy $2
apoiy ¥
she should
which
have ise to obey
He
as
The
the de arrested
ree, h
exempt
persons in
is not
ne iny arrest,
actions
id prop-
by
most
in most states, may ho
and dispose of it
iusband, how
properiy
consent
snarat ely
para
otherwise
his
widowers
deceased
widow's rig
sa sed
Plainly
highways 1 compiete indepen
dence, and
goal in a
No obstacles
automobile
progress
ontempor
an amiable
~-Philadeliphia
Straw
of the same
hata
White
ribbed
circles heads
waist
and
adorn
rail
shirt
huge
many
corduroy
coat for a
is worn
a wide
is charming.
With it jeather belt.
Bright green aigrettes, long, head-
ing toward the front of the hat and
iaid almost flat are seen in the trim-
mings of other hats
Many of the handsomest of the sea
gowns in etamine and canvas
are artistically trimmed with antique
Japanese embroidery, which forms
collar revers and cuffs
Natty little stocks and ties are made
tiaadg
child
a white
-
Tor
the same finishes the stock.
A velvet ribbon, or one of soft satin,
the hat buckle and
Colored embrolderea cffects are ob
These consist usually of floral
Many of
White waists of white sheer goods
Delicate tuck-
ery comprise the prevailing effects,
while among the more expensive there
are some of linen lawn decorated with
the most elaborate French hand em.
broidery.
State Vehicles of Spain,
No other kingdom in the world has
go magnificent a collection of state
vehicles as Spain. They contain price.
fess panel paintings by Rubens and all
the great Spanish artiste; they are
decorted with precious metals, exqui
gitely chased, and are inlaid with tor
tolse shell and rare woods brought
from the most inaccessible parts of the
globe.
Household Column.
KITCHEN KNOWLEDGE
Marcaron! should bolied about
20 minutes, and may ve served either
with cheese or with tomatoes, and wil
take tne place of potatoes with a roast
of meat,
Asparagus, when young and tender,
requires about 20 minutes’ cooking,
and should be served with drawn but.
ter for white sauce, as it is sometimes
known as toast,
Onions require from 39 to 35 min-
utes and a dressing of drawn butter,
A sprig of parsley eaten after the
onions will remeys much of the odor
from the breath. Onions are so whole-
some that they should be frequently
served in every household. As a rem-
edy for colds they may be made into
a syrup, when an attack of croup
threatens, if cut into small pieces and
made into a poultice and applied to
the chest, they will give relief, and
in case of diphtheria, if stood in the
sick room, they will help absorb
contagion, but they should be cov
eréd with disinfectant before they
taken away from the room
I.ima beans require hour
should dressed little
ter, pepper and salt. It is best to pur
chase lima beans in hulls when
necessary to keep them over night, for
retain their freshness and taste
a much greater degree than when
chased ready shelled
String beans require one and 1
and longer if oid
g of pepper, salt and butter
t 18 necessary,
with a
he
to
one and
be with a but-
the
they
to
pi
dresain
3
all
them
some like
butter
f
tha but
served drawn
dressing
Beets
hour
not
of an
boiling if young.
¥ trying with a
out and
looking.
into
been
require three-quarters
slow,
Lest
the
steady
them
color will
pale and sickly
boiled eggs are dropped
fork or leak
leave them
hard
the vinegar in which
pickled for a few hours
clear red and
to cold
beets have
will be.
tasty
fried
they
form a
meals or
come a
AH
ompaniment
from 20 to 25
it ilo water
and kept at that
dish may be made
boiling water in
covering the rice
are that it
tasty
the
ten
"ey oy §
minuies i
with boiling miik, taking
ig re¢ ced as it boils away until
taen
tea
lo
blended
eggs, a
sweeten
i
rice are well
add the 3» s of three
and
desert
vanila
spoonf ii
Cold as
CRACKERS.
crack
salt
PILOT
One pound pilot
one-half pound of butter and
Break up the crackers
a deep saucepan, with
’
cover
1
i
and
all
i1 then be soft
colanuer and
drained
They wi
put In a
that can be
should be
the
ti water
tressed out
Mi
the where they
bu g and
over with a cake turn
for ten minutes In the process
much of the water will have dried out,
v necessary to put in ad-
to time, and
sticking
KB
Py
can OR W
pa
”
n
in
¢
10UR n
er
be
itter from time
units often while they
ditional
aal hms i
ait shoud
as thes
half
that
time all the
butter will ween absorbed. Serve
‘LR a heated dish
WALDORFASBTORIA SALAD
Cover two doren sardines with vine
and for half an hour,
skin ‘hem carefully and again
in vinegar for a few minutes
Drain and arrange them around a
dish, three in a group, with a sprig
of cress and a quarter of a lemon in
between each group. Chop fine a Ber
muda onion, medium and a cu-
cumber; stone several olives, chop
and mix with the onion and cucumber,
half a teaspoonful salt.
and place in a pyramid in the center
of a dish Put three tablespoonfuls
of salad oil in a bowl with half tea
spoonful salt, a dasn of cayenne, add
the juice of two lemons and beat the
mixture until thick and creamy. Pour
ovr the vegetables and serve at once.
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
Good eggs always have dull looking
shells
To preserve the fresh eolor of veg:
etables boil fast in pienty of water,
with cover of kettle off.
Wash red table linen
which a little borax has
solved.
Never use soap when cleaning mat.
ting. When washing is necessary use
warm soft water, with a little salt dis
solved in it.
Meat may be kept sweet several
days by covering it entirely with milk.
let stand
Rize,
in water in
been dis
sweet milk for the purpose,
It destroys the sharpness of a knife
to put the blade into hot grease.
Soap and candies should be bought
in guantity, as they last longer and
are more effective when dried.
To remove stains from the fingers
caused by peeling onions, rab well
with a lemon.
If the hair is falling out make a
strong solution of salt and water and
apply it regularly.
If the gelatine in an earthen mold
Ses not come out readily at first, set
it in a dish of hot water for a
minute, or wet a dick towel and set
the dish on it. Be careful that it
doesn’t stay too long.
According to some cooks jam will
not only taste better but last much
longer If the scum Is mot removed
during the process of making, but the
jam {8 allowed to boil itself clear and
then placed in warm lara
i
i
|
THE LOCUBT'S OPINION.
Though man owns the
earth
On which his days are spent,
The locust comes and eats his fll
And never pays a ceat.
declares he
And then the locust
Within the orchard
And sings “This creature they call
man
Was made to work for me.’
Washington
sits on high
tres
Bitar,
A WARM DIBPOSITION
‘She shines in society,
‘Yes, and she blazes at
informed.” Chicago Post
they say.’
home, I'm
EASY TO LEARN
rfe-—Do you there is any
chance of your learning to love me?
She—Why, I've loved worse
men than York Sun
suppose
yes
you.—~New
iTS TRUTH ON ITS FACE
“Do you believe the oid saying that
misfortunes never come singly?”
“Well, 1 should smile! Did
ever hear of a single twins?
more News,
you
Jalth
HER OWN FAULT
“There is nothing
sound of her
young lover,
“She seems to think so’
jealous Baltimore
as the
lared the
sweet
ded
ROY
voice,”
lady American
HIS VACATION JOYS
Husband—Hurrah! My employer
has given me a week's vacation
Wife—How Now you car
take down the clean out the
cellar, and whitewash the kitchen.—
Chicago News,
ice!
gloves,
A DEADLOCK
First Man (at summer resort)
are ¥ that J
am engaged that you lady you
went out walking with this morning!
Man-—Well rhat of it? Se
New York Sun
sir, aware
to
Second
am |
A BENSITIVE EAR
in music Is
the pro
“Your
ta vine % TL 4:1
fmproving perceptibly,
daughter's taste
said
fessor
“I think it must be’
Mr
piay
answersd
Bliggins doesn’t try to
nearly
ington Star.
as she
{OW IT MAY BE MANAGED.
“How did Gillig get
being so profound?”
“He thinks before
of
person “He
anything that
that he is cor
attention.” —
takes m0 long to tell
than
Star
het
rect rather
Washington
pay
QUITE SURE WHICH
remarked, “it is
has real courage.”
-l t know,” returned the elder
spinster with acer “whether it
alled courage or foolbardi
ft is unquestionably true
girls who m at all usual
marry quite young.”"—Chicage
NOT
“After
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ALL HE WAS
“George,” demanded Mrs. Ferguson,
with flashing eyes, “am [ the Z:istress
of this house, or am | not?”
“You certainly are” replied Mr.
Ferguson, with alacrity. “What's the
matter now?’
“I've discharged that impudent
hired girl, and she refuses fo leave,
I want you to go to the kitchen and
bundle her out, neck and crop!”
“Settle it between yourselves,
Laura,” said Mr. Ferguson, weakly.
“1 won't have anything to do with it
{'m only the master of the house.''—
Chicago Tribune.
FOILED AGAIN.
“Villain,” said the blonde and petite
heroine resolutely, for she had at
last pierced his disguise and knew
that she must pase him up effectually
or live unhappily ever after, “you are
2 wolf in sheep's clothing.”
“Bah!” said the villain.
But this attempt to prove himself
a sheep did not land, for the heroine,
peing a stage heroine, was not bora
yesterday or even twenty-three years
from yesterday, and she knew a vil
ain when she saw one. Consequently
the hero came for her in the fifth act,
the audience hissed the villain off
che stage, and the curtain fell on the
anion of two hearts that beat as one,
Portland Oregonian.
London Transit Projects.
Arropos of London tube railways, a
Jouse of Lords committee commence
wl its eittings recently to consider
10 leas than 14 fresh projects, says
Se London correspondent of the Elec
irical Review, and the enormous in.