AND aM ESSN SN RAISING CLOVER My farm contains 160 acres, beau- Rifully lccated, bordering on the east-| orn shore of Lake Michigan. The] soil ranges from gravelly, sandy loam to heavy clay loam. Eighty acres is under cultivation, 20 acres fallow and pasture, the remainder, | 60 acres, being woodland and A splendid, never failing gives rise to a creek which is about 80 rodls long, when it leaves my premises, 1 have never made it a practice to wantonly destroy the trees on my woodlot, but have used most of the timber in some form or other. My principal crops are me- dium red clover, corn, potatoes, Oats and wheat, making a four years’ ro- tation. [ seldom let clover lie more than year harvesting one | crop of hay ana of clover 1 usually harvest the clover with the ordinary mowing macaine and horse rake, but do not consider it the best way. I hired a man with an old-fashioned cut my clover for year and left it in the gavels until I drew it direct to huller. It was the cheapest and most satisfactory of any work I ever had but it is a plan that cannot be upon, for one ‘a not always able to get a hullen when ready. . I think many people make ¥ mistake =£ Faro forest. | spring | sod one and seed. seed reaper to seed one the done: depended the leavin clover in the g days and i | means of rotecting my is before securing aave no seed, Soon ¢ it is dry of try- hay jus a practice of my and hantable potatoe on the market grains 1 To ing to 1¢ hay ¢ is in full bloom first and are use have the ¢cliover see hest crop dry commen up, 1 the seed or ripen, 3 duces bei worth very much A. Eaton, in American besides in for hay.—W., Agriculturist rop, less HORSE After tha their night fe fizld near rest on the ground Remove all the dried perspiration from the hair with a stiff be fore turning TALK. jorses have had in a small can work ed turn them the barn where they cool brusa out early for their and how brush them work way much for In this i111 will loo} very trying for horse a during road night the 1worning and Sprinkle land places in tae A stable filled ammonia is bad for and not good for the ge Various mixtures are sold to keep the stables sweet and dry. They are tinted and scented, but plain land plaster iz the and just as good | at much X a horse the other, there is The shoes do not fit hard and dry and feverish and ache. Find the cause and remedy it or a good horse may be ruined. Every stable should have a foot tub, and during the dry time particu. larly every horse should stand in it if only for five minutes every day. Let them stand fn ft while you clean tiem. They =oon learn to like it. Put fine wire netting over the windows and make a wire door to keep the flies and mosquitoes out of the mable i Use a gauze blanket on the horses in the stable to keep the flies off | and the dust out of the hair.—Farm Journal. plaster over the wet stall with the fumes of tha Hh ae Dor geg’ ¢ health oY a) al nerai base lesa cost shifts from one foot to pain somewhere, or his feet are i J HINTS FOR FIELD WORK. Dering spring and summer it Is! eimost necessary to expose many of the wooden implements that are con. stantly In use. [If those that are not Painted are given a coat of crude oil, the exposure to the weather will not Injure them nearly so much, When buying new baskets for farm use, give them a coat of oll, both inside and out, and they will last twice as long. The cost is not over § cents for both ofl and labor. hake up some canvas or leathe basis, with hooks on them, and just large enough to hold a wrench, an! oil can and a bunch of cotton waste: | hang one on the plow or harrow: when going into the field. The wrench and ofl will often save a trip back to the barn, and the waste 1s useful | to wipe off the moldboard after fin. | ishing a job In the fleld, Two or three galvanized iron pails are very useful for carrying fertil fzers for distribution. If left in the fleld or otherwise exposed, they will not fall to plecos as wooden omen will. When In town, better get an | assortment of bolts, screws, wire | nails, a few horseshoe nalls, an extra plow point, and any small tools nee essary for the repair work. Some tool is sure to break, and such things are often worth ten times their cost in an emergency.--New England Homestead. ROTATION IN FRUIT CULTURE. Here is a bit of important inform ation worth giving. Some time ago Mr. John Wright, at a fruit confer ence, mentioned that a fruit grower hand planted an apple orchard, In one corner of which they had no suc and they could not understand cause of the difficulty until an man employed by the firm he remembered, as a boy, there an apple orchard in that corner before. I never sight of this fact, and when [I reached Rochester N. Y. which is pre-eminently a d trict for voung fruit trees, I on Mr. Barry and asked you ever grow young apple trees the same ground?’ Never,” plied; “there is not a bit of ground all Rochester round but what we have had on at one time, We always frosi In Australia 1 “Wi death cess, the old said was lost called Mm, “D for about resin ground.” a ruit-grower, when you have to your apple trees other 1 Was, pe trees In FOOD FOR 1} SOFT f+ asked whether {ENS We Were 3 Say all means grain, We don't have m in balanced rations or soft fc we admit that a change lished, but becomes almost the Grain should form th ens get n 3 keep them healthy A meal of tables thicks rat table scraps, and vege ned with shorts two or aree times a week will be relished. but a full of 5 iii: always food soft i each m the given ornin rill soon di system sar pro given, it should in the evening, #e ; 3 the 3 may be kept at that { WOors during When hen their hunger fa and seldom 3 stop work, healthy, and fake them work, be profitable lazy lay and they Home and THE SCRUB pure-b chic and the same num Kens ware kens y-two scrubs, ber of average chi into equal and the The lot was as Group 1- ‘ight number fattened on Ontario Agricultural cost per pound of gain of follows: Pure 5; average, Pure bred, 52: average, 5.8 Pure , brad, scrubs, 687; average, 5.4 All the chickens in each group were fed alike, the fattening lasting for thres weeks, but the same in contain varieti rations College three hy bred, Group 2 4.08 cents; £ scrubs, Group ~» the results were CR80: t the most expensive chal fatten. Unquestionably they do not lay as many eggs: thon how can any farmer afford to “he summary of the college is that “scrub or barnyard fowls are very poor fe EvYary the gern were kens te koe hao > Keep them POULTRY OR PORK A hen may be considered to con sume one bushel of grain yearly, anl ten dozen or fifteen pounds This is equivalent to of sixths of a pound of eggs: but five duction, Taking into account the the pork is about three timos as cost ly a food as eggs. Therefore, it will pay better to feed waste milk to both --Mizs Anale Holiz, in The Cul tivat... Railroad System for Cities. A sys'em of suspended cars on an elevated structure in Paris seems to be meeting with approval. The cars are suspended by rolling wheels on a central rail on an fron structure. One of the advantages is that cars can go around very sharp curves at high speed. A curve of 1,200 feet radius ean be passed at a speed of 120 miles an hour. A woman who can turn a wrinkle into a dimple has a future bafors her TITLED BUSINESS WOMEN. England has been called a of shopkeepers, and not without rea- in both men and women, and in every class and every set in society, Wo- men of the smart London world show a special aptitude for commercial en- in 1887 this successful the ara. are immersed saw of business the plo- neer praiseworthy Park street, profit. part of a Her hat shop in gquare, proved investment as did more recent dres Dover str as Mrs, Jack making Picca able an experiment in dilly. Every year sees new récruits to the strong army of society Some time ago the Duche corn started a creamery sourt that of Aber- Barons- supplies cust Bel fast with the best Irish dairy pr an Ameri responsible for a flourish in the nelg Rachel By ford, has a not far from Hon. Mrs maker's and Mrs srhood of daughter millinery New square marrieq Frederic) relate Mani several this Mrs 8 manicurist Pi delicate Granvill Marqluse d'Hautepoule ried Knox, a Lord Ranfurly, She is a nating woman, and name of “Ducky she shares wi of Hesse, Several tea shops are Jon so Bond Robertson, The taste, ha and in to Granville pretty pr fod vr ely stree hous musii Lady have near Bond names are fore the public, ly interested in tries—Englishi-made Irish hand emb Some coquette turn fessional Scarlett-Synge, to ger, has become a fully physician and practices at fontein, in South Africa, holds the of medical the Government Normal The South African war left us a acy of society nurses; but years lady Hermoine Blackwood before her marriage—lLady Cheape, both worked as nurses in the London hospitals Music many gifted women The Hon. Mrs Julian Clifford, sister of Lord Hen- niker, is now a professional concert singer; and Mme. Lilian Eldee, a pretty and successful vocalist, 2 ol andg gh pre: Warwick both been street and, now leas yet the ; their lingerie ideries to and instead attention t g#erious pro Hon. Mrs Lord Abin qualified Bloem. where ghe officer to Hospital eg ago and women with commerce, society prefer not $ thale thelr CAresr 1 sister post combe, whose husband of Lord Feversham.—M is a nephew A. P. ATTRACTIVE, chaperone was talk- As she had weathered many a TO BE The popular ing. der her wing, the unpopular girl lis- “You need not wear clothes,” she was saying, to be smartly gowned. that they are expensive “in order But see to it stylish tasteful and “Don’t have any loose ends or star ing pins. Let your clothes be care. fully put on, Have an air of good grooming. Look as though you had used somebody's soap. “Don’t be conscious of your dress and gloves and veils and jewels and expect every one else to admire them. “Don't give way to nervous emo. tions or tears; they ruin good looks. ‘No emotions, no wrinkles,’ is an old beauty recipe. “Don't think the secret of a wo man's beauty lies in the nse of cos metica; it ls found In resplendent health and a happy mind. “Don’t be afraid to blush; it 1s be. coming. A sudden flush accomplishes more In a moment than the sustained efforts of statuesque beauty, “Don’t be jealous of the beauty, of others. Jeal- ousy plants ugly lines in the face, “Don’t think it enough to be a beauty; in order to approach perfec should try to improve morally and intellectually ae well as physically. “Don’t imagine that in order to be you must a great beauty of manner, a beautiful voice accomplishment turns many belle. SUCCess be Charm or an plain woman into a you want to be at bo beautiful or pos looking on the and ever he tractive clever, sessed golden given to more who -Palladel- attractive girls can boast only phia Telegraph. ING FLOWER Cr ng us shales always elegant about black, considers 1 black dress eveni offered Just most desi ng voted the yet be told, though a lilac may be the winner *hiladeliphia Record ALWAYS PREPARED ynal privilege is enjoyed writer in the acquaintance of in her generation She set up housekeeping two years ago, determined begin as meant to go on and to begin right Her housewifely and altogagher de lightful weakness ran toward dainty and these never you will and, An the except by wise to she vary. Step in when whether she is IJunching alone whether she and her husband down to dinner or whether they have guests, that table is always the same, A well filled silver fern dish stands on an embroidered centerpiece. The linen is fine, white and glossy; the china is delicate, and the water pitch er and tumblers are of cut glass. Ii the silver knives and forks were big enough you could mirror your face iv them. The food is just as dainty as its serving. When children grow that little woman is it likely that they will mortify her by uncouth table manners--Pittsburg Dispatch. THE TASSEL AT ITS ZENITH. The day of the tassel is indeed In its very zenith. It comes to us in divers forms and fabrics, but its presence is almost ubiquitous. A re cent fad with the Parisian is a pen delogque, fashioned of precious stones pearls, diamonds, turquoises or ame thysts. And in this respect it is al most superfluous to add that counter. feit stones are used in ita construc. tion. sit up around The Language They Speak. In Wales there are 500,000 people who cannot speak English; in Iseland there are 30,000 who speak only Irish, and in Scotland there are 40,000 who speak only Gaelic. HOUSEROLD. BURNT MILK. the saucepan off the fire and stand at once in a bowl of cold water. Pu! a pinch of salt in the saucepan, give the milk a stir, and you will find that the burnt taste has almost en tirely disappeared COFFEE AS A DISINFECTANT. with roasted coffee prove that .it is tae most powerfu means not only of rendering animal and vegetable efffuvia harmless, but of actually destroying them, states American Queen, On occagion meat in an advanced of decom position was instantly deprived of iu offensive roasted coffee was place In another | phurated could was Experiments one glale odor when a ae] nstance, hydrogen and be strongly completely ith il \ thre wit nreée while whl IMPROMPTU fa pepper. them out, in each mixture: fasten K: cook in tomalo slosely covered Toast, - teaspoon of Beat of Bombay add one dash cayenngs ne tablespoon of butter in : san: when hot stir in one tablespoon sf anchovy paste and the egg mix when it has thickened remove the fire; spread on thin slices wire; Blackberry Souffle.—Put a half pint and a half pint of the fire, heat to sweeten: thicken over and Viackberries oiling point shen it cooks clear remove from the when cool add the juice of half the beaten whites of Turn into small molds fecorated with fine large blackber get these in a shallow pan of . Serve with whipped sream or sweetened plain cream, Pineapple Pie Grate one pine Beat thoroughly ene-half cup sugar. Beat separtely the vhites and yolks of three eggs: to he butter and sugar add the yolks, 1ext the pineapple, Iastly the whites of the eggs. Bake and finish with a neringue. Cherry Salac.-—Stone half a pound sf cherries and save all the juice. fake the white leaves of a nye head of lettuce and wash them thoroughly. Slice a small cucumber, chop finely a foxes blanched almonds, mix all gontly together, arrange on the let. mee leaves and pour over a dressing nade of a gill of cherry juice, two ablespoonfuls of lemon fjulee and four tablespoonfuls of sugar, Serve very cold. THE KEYSIONE STATE Latest News of Penasylvania Told io Short Order, d State Joseph ApPproy hy the Mr. Honter oxy the appropriation is to be appo; among the various townsinps thst ap ly for it according to s1les of road in each The manner in which the young ne ern woman whose body was VII na ditch at Essington came 1 tr death is still ¢ finding of the be provement inst winter Orirone +1 the numbe I an's clothing wa ut 100 yards d dv la 4d to her identifi vvanced by the police i wan became suddenly meane and Mm vesting herself of her clothing wan ‘ered about the marshes until ex hausted. It is not probable that the Doyles town Bank directors will be able to raise $220,000 towards resumption, as + has been deemed doubtful if the $130, co at first suggested as necessary sould be raised. [It is altogether prob ible that the reorganization scheme will sesult in a failure, and in this event it ix believed a new bank will be founded When a son of Elmer Renninger, of Lancaster, returned home he noticed a ight in the house and found two rob. vers in the kitchen making preparations o carry off plunder. The robbers fled ithe gottie rane sonile here her b
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