SUCCESS WITH POULTRY. Those people who do not have good success in hatching eggs under hens, They may be divided into two classes, one that is careless and neglectful, and the other that \s altogether too fussy, who wants to yo stirring the hen, or feeding her, sr handling the eggs three or four ‘imes a day. For either of these to succeed with the incubator there must he a thorough reformation; a deter: mination to follow the given exactly, and do no more and no he incubator. to do it be jone, of or will by the clock. This can course, but how many settle down to those rules? DEEP PLOWING. We used to believe in what we read when young about the value of plow- ing deep to bring up the fertility that Yad leached down through the surface soil into the subsoil. “hanged when we tested the deep plow ‘ng upon a field with a clay subsoil ‘hat we planted with corn. periments have more thoroughly con- vinced us that deep plowing, by which we mean a depth of more than four to six inches, is seldom beneficial in this climate, whatever it may be in sther sections of the country. The srops like corn, that like to spread their roots near the surface where the very deeply for them, while those that send their roots down into the subsoil, as onions, clover beets, ete, can do so almost through the hardest subsoil yr anything excepting. a gravel in which there is no moisture.—The Cultivator. A BEE NOTE. When a hundredth part of an inch is mentioned the measure is consider sd but trivial and of little consequence, hut scientists have figured that if the bee, whose tongue—the extractor of swestness from the flowers—is but sne-twenty-fifth of an inch in length, is capable obtaining a plentiful store of honey, then a bee with a lon ger tongue must necessarily gather more sweetness, Clever beekeepers, by selecting only those bees with naturally long tongues, have succeeded in lengthening tongues of a number of bee a hundredth of an inch. It does sound much, but it enables these jects to do a quarter as much again in the same time. Man has done more than this for the bees. He has given them ready homes where they are safe from wasps and other enemies; frames for making their combs without using large quan- tities of wax for outside walls, and food during floweriess weather. He has also brought them to America where there is an abundance of bearing flowers. of the colonies not in- work honey MARKETING BERRIES Picking is a very important part the business. Women make the pickers; too many young pickers have too much fun It is always have a certain number of hands by the day, so they will always be on hand. A picking shed must have been pro- vided, with suitable shelves and plenty of carriers. [I prefer eightquart car- riers without legs. A supply of boxes should be on hand, with plenty crates, If the fruit is sold in nearby towns, most of the crates can be turned; and with a machine for mak- ing boxes we prefer them fresh made, only one day old. Most growers pre. fer to have them made up ahead Never ship red or purple berries in quart boxes. If it is possible, do not pick while the fruit is wet Distant markets must night refrigerator cars must be and everything arranged ahead every shipping centre, fruit asso tions should be organized to the fruit. A great deal of fruit is consumed in every town. The nearer it is picked, handled and sold the bet. ter the profits. The marketing trade by itself. the family and easily cared for, of oest best to of re. be sought, had, In ia- In every fruit cen. and facilities for drying the surplus. — George J. Kellogg, in New England Homestead, NURSERY TREE PROTECTION. Nurserymen should find it to their interest to protect their buyers of trees from introducing inferior stock of infected stock on their farms, and I have found that the honest nursery- men who try to do this invariably get the best trade. Farmers and fruit growers should co-operate in trying to drive out of business, by neglecting them, those who deal in diseased stock or inferior grades. a good many or the State legislators are passing laws now making it necessary for all nur- serymen to register, and then to have their stock examined. in this way it is hoped to prevent the spread of noxious Insects, blights and other tree and vine diseases. Some states are lax in this respect, and the trees sold In those States should be examined critically by buy- ers. The fact is, more harm has been done to the fruit business by irrespon- sible nurserymen than most of us im- agine. It was a common practice a fow years ago for such men to offer nursery stock that were not according to the variety advertised, but the pur chaser could not tell this until sev. eral years had elapsed after planting. When a fruit grower buys a certain variety of apple, peach, pear or plum tree it is exasperating to find that he has a totally different variety several years later. Not every purchaser is supposed to be able to distinguish one variety from another just by ex amining the stock. Therefore he must depend upon the honesty of the nurseryman. It is not sufficient to be told that the trees will be replaced at half price or at no cost. It is the time lost in raising the trees than can be made up. We should pimply drop from our business list all such nur gerymen.—S. W. Chambers, in Ameri can Cultivator. TH STRAWBERRY PATCH. As soon as the last strawberries of first crop are gone, go through ners from the central rows, that is as they were first marked out; cut to within three inches of the crowns. A few davs later remove the straw and cultivate as deep as possible, cutting The advantage by using a lever plow drawn by Turn a furrow about two throwing the soll from the plans. After this use the double shovel or cultivator on the middles and leve: them up nicely. Now give the row a thorough hoeing, and where the stand of plants is perfect chop out the mother plant—the one that was planted the previous spring In a few weeks vou will have plenty of young runners, and probably plenty of weeds too. Give a second cultiva tion, and lay six or eight runners from each plant as you did the previous sea son. If there is an excess of runners clip them off. Should further cultiva tion be found necessary to weep down the weeds give it; but do not stir the the soil very deep after August. When winter comes put the old mulch back between the rows and cover the plants with a little fresh straw. Follow this plan of cultivation the third season, and where the land is not “strawberry sick,” it may be kept up for a longer period, although [I should not like to risk it without starting a new bed once in four years. These directions are for the care of berries grown by the “compromise method” described in my former article, but will answer for a plantation under hill culture, except that is no need for the use of the level plow and no laying of plants, since runners must kept off. But as this latter system affords no opportunity for renewing the bed by starting fresh plants, the bed should not be expected to bear more than three crops.—lL. L., in Agricul tural Epitomist one horse inches deep there be THE BEST IMPLEMENTS Do not make a mistake, as some do, of becoming to a tool to such an extent that can’t see the good any matter how meritorious it be, or can't appre clate a better when gee {it This is an constant improve ment, the new things you see hold on to tha which is Don't start in work win & poor wor low... The best plows for general those with rather moldboard that break the up and pulverize 1t to a consider able extent as the ground is turned, and that turned in not too flat a ie harrow wedded points in no You age some of best to short will S01 leaves the soil adition can then its work of pulverizing much better than if the ground is turned completely upside down We need then a good, sharp smoothing barrow, and drag to put most in firstclass condition for spring planting. Oats should be sown early and it doesn’t ordinarily pay to wait to break up land. Here we need a good harrow. Two disk ings, one at right angles to the other will put the oats, sown broadcast, in the ground in good shape. Many far | mers think that when oat ground is broken with the turning plow, it is easier to turn oat stubble for wheat, but [ doubt this very much, if the land is thoroughly disked After the early spring rains the soil usually gets packed down hard, con sequently the first cultivation of the corn crop should be deep to pulverize the soil again. For this purpose we | need a good bulltongue cultivator that can be spread out to cover the whole space between two rows at one time can be used [I prefer a spring-tooth | cultivator for this after cultivation, | for laying by the crop. On clay lands weeders don’t pulverize the ground deep enough to suit me. They will do {in dry weather, or after the ground | has been stirred with a deeper run | ning tool. Corn will probably be the best paying crop for farmers of the Ohio valley to grow the coming season, 80 be prepared to do your work we. | by getting the very best implements to begin with -—W. W. Stevens, in American Agriculturist. Canada’s Septuagenarians. The census department has issued a bulletin on ages, which shows that there are 1,321 more cli'drea J I'l . do 30118 the diak the and Prince Edward Island, but, what ever the cause of the decrease in the number fo children may be, the census commission remarks that it is obvious ly not a decrease in the number of married population. Tha provinces showing the largest proportion over 70 years are Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and On tario. Out of every thousand in Can ade thirty people are over 70 years of age and 234 are children up to 9 years. The largest proportion of chil. dren under 10 is in the Northwest and Quebec, with Manitoba closely follow. ing. ~~Halifax Mail MAN'S CHIEF YIRTUE : :% COURAGE 3 Goodness and Faithfulness Are Not the Greatest Qualities / dmired by Women, By Grace Duffie Boylan. OME one, not knowing me, has appealed to my judgment, “What,” he asks, woman's eyes?” [ smiled at the simplicity of my task. Who could not answer such a riddle without thinking! But there is the rub. lost in the mazes of the question. The greatest virtue that a man can have in the eyes of a woman? == Goodness? It is a hollow word. And generally fits itself to some lank, damp-handed hypocrite, who has no more right to wear it than and merry Bohemian, who has to bear the brand of wickedness. : Charity? Faithfulness? They are virtues, but neither one can make a character to stand alone, And there remains for my naming but one an af o tt quality, which glorifies all others and makes the humblest man a being to the ; The greatest, finest Temperance? reverence and adored, and that one quality is courage lordliest thing in human nature, I do uot call the brute strength makes a fight courage. stubborn pride that will not yield wi madly wrong by such a splendid name, mean to which bully win 2 I do not call the fate thing or the savage temper that runs 3 B13 wurage is a nobler dangers ready to rend and hurt without a cause. Courage is a nf : than that. It is a forgetfulness of sell. lea ta lita $Or The fame that lights the spirit of a man who gives his life f t is a thing too base 10 make a and fights fear or hint dba his friend; 3 yarrier for »s him scorn a lle because A man who fights for a will part with it if nee that mak him between death and life. te good cause i i 1 ] be without a who loves his life but k e fights was the end; 5 / 1 fa var al ror { i lady 8 1AaYOTL, protest: who will love as h and dare all perils ior his a4 the 4 3 fa of even i not less popular now than he in the brave days Oi 04 I have forgotten to praise him folks in it! meistersingers We are that that lieve soar Bo arned to prate of peace. But never be war and its horrors; we Lave le We in training to become women we sincere say we have done with We are a nation of lotus eaters. DBut even as speak hearted Frank Baldwin has by a deed of splendic f hilippines, and that the stars of @ our talks comes news that bluff old lion yn in the | heroism cut off the arm of rebeili general have fallen in recompense on his shoulders and we [Orgel $ in our feminine tred “Hurrah for Baldwin. 1 Jie of peace and cry % “5 ¥ Pe But 1 did not mein to speak of those who have cos n Every tH war as thei profes lrems rho flings slon: they are not the only “captains courageous. fireman who Ring omo the 3 1 the og y . £ £ v of gigier. ae I burning building is as brave as t avest sold t the stok himself into a , Jo who literally go down to sea in sSQips and io just over the heat ant and un. tive engineer, ; " i whirl of the waters, sal rifice scorching air of the furnaces, UOTE ones who laugs f the themselves for the safety « those unknown nowing inne are brave as an) under God's open voyage is done, are as brave a laureled heroe | honestly That ga brave coward, and ye foun than can mer iy anxious to re T™ The Spartan women t sound and measule the heart of mothers today i IZENPES soldierly disregard over lingn x ander the qul dark And the wee chap who hide { under the q i : 3 3 n the wall, ang i» whimper or cry out when tae rs on th 3 t : have mentioned. ein’ things at ni I i i * ago three Altie eviden a were busy nd a child v women r at sta led i 100} p and alter moment 8 stard gathering flowers, whan sudd iY One 00Ke up and after a The probably harmiess TE iz } s after her path was Ui wi backed bog pause gave a ory and a flerge-looking razor bear would not hare b his yell reassuringly “Don’t he advanced, as not three ¥y¢ een more Ler was 1 A head was as yw as a dandelion be ‘fraid. 111 taxes oi 00 fo wd a 1 a 1e enemy ft was & UN cha~ged nem : knees, and that He WOImMman Sans woman smiled, well ple with her in ner had given her a brave peen the way of glory Silly? Well thanked God wy s+ hreast har crushed again F breast aero : . ! oh ol ts had ¢ went the mountain as UOURA it LL maybe! UBERCULOSIS S CURABLE. By Dr. H. M. Biggs. New York's Health Officer, 1 unicable bu 1 reulos! UBERCULOSIS {s infectious and communicable, but a tuberculosis for dava or years, with a patient ve in the same room, il jaya Or Years, ith may ii : If nraner DE ti nerson without danger tO the latter, if proper precau ions pet itl healthy thrown out from the The chief danger is from bacilli - Bi nv as three thousand millions ar in differen’ multipl are taken In advanced cases as ma They are inhaled as dust, and lodge they respiratory tract thrown out in a tracts in the aystem. there But the general insusceptibility i i under certal ditions that a large only at certain times and under certain cond gingle day. if conditions are favorable to growth : to tuberculosis is very great It is proportior of persons are susceptible Tuberculosis 18 preventable putting into effect gimple rules of conduct. It ous cleanliness in regard to expectoration and which have once housed the a It is not only preventable, bul curable. It is insiduous go a declare no indications of it whatever and in i When there is any question om So alilitw absolutely ard {ts preventabiily soiut Al : a question soley of scrupul gurrounding: is disinfection of disease the most diseases. A specialist few weeks it may be manifest to any on= : examination i3 not enough. Where a cough continues for more than SE 0 eight weeks, in a large majority of cases, there is back of that So : tuberculosis focus, When any one talks to you about chromic bronc ela aa : o 3 v Ty Ee “ § 4 continued colds mak? up your mind that in a majority of cases a tubdberc focus is back of it. hen is the time to estabiish this fact, for curable: later it may not be. may WHO PEOPLED AMERICA? —— A TAA By Charles Hallock. HE primoval peoples of both North and South America originated trom a civilization of high degree which occupied the sub equatorial belt some 10,000 years ago, while the glacial shee was otill on. Population spread northward as the ico re exodus diverging from the central point of de ceded Routes ii marked by ruins and records. The subsequent sot partivie {n Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and California indé pri successive stages of advance, as well as the persistent struggle te po i tain the anclent civilization against reversion and the catastrophes of na Han The varying architecture of the valleys, cliffs, and mesas is an intel gure. xpression of the exigencies which stimulated the buil.ers. The gradual ss of population over the nigher latitudes in after-years was supple dintrivation accretions from Europe and northern Asia centuries before the matted Ye lumbus prisals were the natural and inevitable re ha mized and degenerating population with different dialects. The volts a which cover the mid-continental areas, isolated and in groups, on er The Korean tion of the year 544, historically cited, # reof. {fmmigra! which led tu the founaing of the Mexican ‘Empire in 1326, was but an incl dental contribution t5 the growing population of Norus America. So also were the very much earlier migrations from wentrai Ametica across the Gull of Mexico. COMMERCIAL. REVIEW, Cieneral Trade Conditions, root's says available data confirm reports ast good trade and foreshadow as g yod or better yet to come It has been es sentially a week of active buying in dis tribetive trade, and sellers have oo pied an enviable position, Reports as to August trade have been almost uni- formly favorable, and the records of failures show business mortality to have been confined to a low Summer ming- mum. Prices show persistent strength despite the fact that agricultural pro- ducts, except corn and prime tend lower, owing to the growin strength of raw textiles and other terials manufacture. Corn 18 yet out of danger $ fendi rif northern nai ol 4 cattle, 10F frost in » i { & and tims, C4 supplies, from the belt, short cereals generally {i cotton Crop detent dry wl st nd i led with moar: s pica with impart Reports aused by street 1 rengtin 1o weather tifened 1 week LATEST QUOTATIONS. $y 1023.30 . ohoics Family, $3.75 New York Nao 2 7 ) Baltin New York No - . elphia No. 2, 39 Oats ’ Balti: a Hay--No. 1 timothy, $17. No. 2 timothy, $16.00a16.5 othv$14.00a15.00 (sreen Fruits and Vegetabl fri, JADCY (XK $1 0): fair } ou Apples : “good bide@6ic; Beets, native, per 1%c@2c: Cabbages, native, flat per Ma, 3 2 "3 (5 Canta. ves, Anne Arundel Gems, per basket 0c@die; New Yo he@d0c; Eggplants , Gea The; p Rappahannock rer ion basket, Boa Qo, Ww eatert Maryland, per 5-1 b Lettuce, native, per bu box Lima beans 60c: Onions, Maryland nia yellow, per bu, 70c@ native, each, 4c@ie; Arundel, per basket, heaus, native, per bu Tomatoes, Potomac, Celery srk. pet - native per Lrrapes 1 : paket Gow le; L00@0e native, per bu box, H0ca and Pennsviva Toc; Pumpkins Anne String green, 20c0@3c; per peach basket Wea32e, Rappabann wk, ber bu box, cable; Watermelors 100, $12 oco@14 00; primes, per 100 86 COG #9 00: seconds, per 100 $4 Wa $5 00; calls, per 100 82 00@%3 00 Potomac, bri, No 1 $1 00al 25: do, se ToaR0c: do culls, H0a%00; do, Eastern Shore. bri, No 1, $1 00al 25. Butter, Separator, 21u22¢; Gathered cream, 20a2lc; prints, 1.1b 25a26c; Rolls 2.1b, 25426; Dairy pts. Md. Pa, Va. 23a24c. Eggs. 19% a20c Cheese, Large, 60-1h, 10al0ic; me. dium, 36-1b, 10yalliy; 22.1b 11yallsje. Jdve Poultry, Hens, 114al20; old roosters, each spring chickens, 12a13%e¢, young stags, 11%al2¢. Ducks 10alle Hides, Heavy ateors, association and i alose se. Squash, i Ik gr @& A Sejecs, er Potatoes, per yids, per Fresh.laid dozen, Las, £8 per picnics, Halide: lection, 12%a13%c; cows and light steers 9% al0Me. Provisions and Hog Products. —Balk sides, 12%c: bulk shoulders 10% e; bulk belliss, 15¢; bulk ham butts, 10% ¢: bacon clear rib sides. 12¢; bacon shoulders, 1134c; sugar.cured breasts, 11%¢c; sugarcured shoulders, 11%c; sugarcured California hams, 10Me; hams canvased or uncanvased, 12 lbs. and over, 14}4¢; refined lard tierces, bris and HO 1b cans, gross, 11%c; refined lard, second-hand tabs, 11%ec; refined lard, half-barrels and new tubs 11%e¢ Live Stock. Chicago, Cattle, Mostly 10al15e lower, good to prime steers $3 QUa8 85; mediom $4 7547 50; stocksrs and feeders $2 50 6 00; Texas fed steers $3 00ad 50. Hogs, Mixed and butchers $7 30a7 50; good to to choice Western sheep and lambs slow %o lower; whethers $3 6val 75; $2 50ad 50. East Liberty, “=%tiv steady; choise $7 4047 50; prime #6 H0aT 00. Hogs, rime heavy $7 75a7 50, mediums $7 05; vy Yorkers $7 50a7 D3. Sheep steady, Best wothers $3 T0ad 80 culls and com. moun $1 50a 00; choice lambs $5 2040 L0. LABOR AND INDUSTRY Expressmen at San Francisco have organized. ovfolk (Va) street railway men are taking steps to organize. Omaha (Neb) street railway men have recently organized a union. About 1,000 diamond workers in Ame sterdam, Holland, are out of work, The Seattle (Wash) Central Labo: Union has secured the necessary funds to build a labor temple, At Sacramento, Cal, 100 women were secently initiated as nmiembers of the Retail Clerks’ Union. THE KEYSTONE STATE. News Happenings of Interest Gathered From All Sources, Pensions granted —Jobhn 1. Kerr, Apollo, $12: William 5. Conner, New Brighton, $6: Thomas A. E, Russell Russell, $8: August Fiedler, Sr., Pitts burg, $8; James L. E Connells ville, $8; Mary Mayeretta, Bri $4 Hannah C, Dysart, Altoona, $8; Mag gie Pegg, Charleros Rebecca KE Brumbaugh, Altoona, Hench, Elhottsburg Harris, McVeytown, H 1c heock, Connor, Brookville, Washington, $8; er, Braddock, $8; / gheny, $8; Sarah / eles 10 Stevensville Elizabe son, . Brady mans Mills, $14; Ch 8: Henry C, Denni L. Reed, Clearfield Ww ile Ox, New wen compell vast week for I'he Pennsylva company, a rk, fas been issued a is $1000, ar sy paid Paia Befo liam State and national n Five milk Easton on Agent charged them with pl tives i milk and coloring cream. lhe guilty and were found $: amounting to about $100 is After a Evans, a tnred one of three men wi pects of having looted his int market produce and of a two~horse load of wheat and com dealers complaint Simmers, of Ph chase of ten farmer of Ra wl ol Secretary G. W. Nicely, of the Young Men's Christian Association of Chester resigned his He 1 study for the ministry position will St Driven insane by the heat working in his tobacco field, S Weidler, a farmer of Rotsville mitted suicide by hanging himself Governor Stone appointed G. W Klump, of Williamsport, and Charles B Bratt, of Allegheny, members of the State Dental Examining Board Deputy Factory Inspector E. R. Pen rose 1s investigating charges that there have ‘been many violations of the law in Easton in the matter of justices of the peace and aldermen issuing illegal certificates in cases of children under age who are employed in factories. The dead body of a man was found in the sheds at the church at Zionsville In the pockets was found a carpenter's ‘illiam Westall, No. 2583 North Ninth street, Pailadelphia. It is believed the man Bagein Bickle, aged 17 years, em- necessary to wait an hour and a hall ton, he uttered no word of complaint. Several New York attorneys repre- senting a number of manufacturers, ar- rived at Herndon and entered into a contract with a number of farmbhands ‘0 dig coal out of the Susquehanna Heretofore the farmhands make $3 a week on farms. Now they can earn from $25 to $30 a week. as the river figgers collect from four to five tons daily. So many farmhands have lately heen mining coal that ‘farmers have not smough help to gather the crops. In an address at Mahanoy City, Dr. 5. C. Swallow, Prohibition candidate ior Governor, advocated a compulsory arhirention law as 3 remedy for strikes.
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