ALWAYS HAVE THE BEST. Nov one who produces a superior ar- ticle is compelled to search for 2a market if his products secome known. The market always seeks the best, and invites it, but inferior goods muat search for a market, and frequently such effort is fruitless. the price, and even when the market is well supplied, there is always more room for the best, THE RIGHT FOOD. To feed a variety of food does not require the farmer to make a com- plete change from certain kinds others, but to avoid not be discontinued, but cut be readily accepted, while bran or ground oats may be given regularly. mal, and when it refuses any particu- lar food tempt it to eat with some other kind. A PEST OF PLANTS. One of the greatest pests of plants in the greenhouse or in rooms is the red spider, a very little fellow, but full of mischief. Whenever the leaves begin to look unhealthy or to have a kind of grayish appearance, the presence of this tiny insect is indi cated. Water is his great enemy, and plentiful syringing conquers him. But care must be taken to apply the water not only the upper side of the leaves, but to the under side as well When the plants are not large, it is 8 good plan to place one or both hands on top of the pot in such a way that the soil will not fall when It is inverted, and then !mmerse the plant in water for a minute or two. to out SHADE FOR POULTRY While it is possible at this season to supply shade for the poultry yard by the use of boards set aslant against the building or by some lar makeshift, poultrymen able to se now, If they did not before, why shade should be supplied. Bear this necessity in mind this fall, and in October set a few trees in the poultry yard or, if they are not wanted in the yard, set them close together in rows just outside the fence. A few native trees from the woods will answer the purpose, although fruit will well in the poultry yards f one does not care to set trees try a few currant bushes; they make good shade, grow well and will be all the better for the late 3 should be f¢ trees do do. FEEDING AFTER FOALING Both mother and young housed at night in a roomy stall, and food must be given which stimulates the flow of milk, such as boiled roots and bran mashes; of being dropped off as the grass comes. The usual allowance of oats should be continued, for the mare's aystem re quires as much feeding to produce milk as to produce work. A mare and foal do best when they have a little fleld to themselves. A mare with a foal should, of course, do no work at all; great danger that the exertion and sweating of the mother will react on the milk and make it deleterious to the foal. In addition to this if the foal Is shut up while the mother is at work It goes hungry foo long. and may suffer in another way Many farmers, of course, manage work the mare part of the time-—sometimes even allowing the foal to run along side when the mother is at work— but it 13 unquestionably best to let them run wholly at grass, at least at first—P. McConnell ia the Massachu- setts Ploughman, these, course, to There has been all sorts of results with wheat following potatoes. and such results have largely followed ciosely In accordance with the fertil- izers used. Naturally, as wheat does best on a soll which has been well worked and prepared, following the potato crop with wheat offers every lzers are applied and in considerable quantity, for it must be remembered that the potato crop has not left much of the applied fertilizer for any fol lowing crop. and second, that the ac. be slower during the season in which the wheat gets its start. In following potatoes with wheat try this plan. Rake off the potato tops, #ad with the harrow level the soil and loosen It to the depth of two or three inches; then roll the ground and drill In the seed with 200 pounds to the acre of some commercial tertil- Izer rich In phosphoric actd. The po- tato tops may be spread over the seed bed as a mulch and will mater. hence Is worth a trial KEEPING THE SOIL FERTILE, Many Indeed are the means which the careful and intelligent farmer may use to keep up and increase the amount of plant food In his soil, and at the same time secure abundant harvests therefrom. Several years ago a hard. HHA» AW apa td LLB working and economical man lived upon a very poor Kentucky farm: but he lacked the one accomplishment of looking to the welfare of his land By and by it would no longer produce sufficient for a living, and he sold out to a Pennsylvania Dutchman. The neighbors felt sorry for the new starve out. Well, having no interest in the summer's crop, which was about made, he immediately set to work and hauled out &fl the manure about lot for sure, which a fine start toward gave him Then the mound of rotten People thought he was then at the end of his row, so to speak, but he thought differently. He made some stout wooden rakes and taking all the children large enough to help, raked the leaves in the a: joining woods, hauling them and piling in little piles thickly on the remainder of the field. the job was done and for plowing had arrived. Again children were called out and the bot- tom of every furrow in the portion where leaves were used for fertilizer, was filled with them. Already far on way to decay, they were fairly well rotted when wheat was sown. and the next year that field came up with & good yield of wheat all over. Other flelds were pastured, and whenever broken, as much green manure Aas could be secured was turned under Insects did not his 0 badly as those be cause trash in the and nearby woods was away and plowed under. graln in succession, short time the bother crop of his neighbors, the fence corners cleaned Neither » same kind raised tWO Years ng sfory itving, and in compared favor ably with any in the neighborhood, — D. B. Thomas in the Epitomiat. wera crops of the same fleld To made a good the in make a | he POULTRYGRAPHS, Very seldom are spe i for There means By we have any object) of buying winners to make an this winter not what we wanted of our own we should buy birds for we could afford to. Att the man who breeds should In some way be apecial prizes We knew ad birds bred by tight OUR to he this it is no nto the 1 : If we were going exhibit at a big and show have quite fing showing, if recognized by a man who kept two hun winter part of the t time be bought ough one severa During a ty, for table use T “average” lusively. The were full of The house first wav man did He fed irinking most of the was seldom cleaned was {oul and damp. No ani mal food was given, and no green food, nor any aubstitute for green food, and yet this man expected re turns from bis hens. He soon sold ut his poultry, and is pointed to by some to this day as a “horrible example” of the folly of trying to make any- thing out of poultry. There is good ground for argument regarding the respective merits of the score card and comparison meth ods of judging, but really we do not See any ground for the great amount of feeling that exists in some quar ters. It is right that we should hold firmly to our method of judging and even to fight for it, but we ought also to try to see the other man's point of view, Not to do this betrays nar rowness of mind. The fact is that among the most competent and experienced fanclers—men who have | the interests of the poultry fraternt | ty most deeply at heart—there is hon est difference of opinion on this gues tion of judging fowls. To impute un worthy motives to who from ns is the settled habit ’ vessels ice time cold thosa f some mark of a Herald. Beautiful Feng Huang. The newspaper correspondents in cannot go when and where they please. But they seem to be in pleasant summer resort, anyway. One ‘of them writes: “Fair is the scenery, wonderfully rich the coloring, and the mountair of Feng-Huang is an unfailing pleasure to look on. Its picturesque crags and preciptious pinnacles are buttressed by steep wooded slopes cloven by scores of wild ravines and gulleys. It is a mountain that ever changes In its coloring and its shifting shad { ows from the rising to the setting of ! the sun. In the heat of the day it Is i often of a glorious blue purple, In | cloudy weather Its summits, like rug i ged aerial isles, shoot high above the rolling vapors, and under the light of the full moon it possesses a wonder ful beauty.” Jules Verne's Nest. Jules Verne, the great French nov: elist, had a peculiar hobby as a small boy. This was to construct nests at the top of high trees and spend whole days In them. . By Henry Schuler Townsend. HE government of the Moro province is, In general, called upon to promote the natural deve'opment of these people, and not to “Americanize” them, after the manner of the American Indians. The conditions are altogether different, and in this particular the problem Is simpler than was the Indian problem. The Indians ware an exceedingly sparse population, occupying a land which the white race needed for the purpose of establishing homes. For centuries hoats of homescekers have been crowding into the lands held by a few Indians too primitive to real'y use the land over which they and their ancestors had freely roamed. The manifest destiny of the red man has been and is either assimilation with the white race or with the ashes of his an- cestors. The fact that the changes he {a called upon to make are contrary to the laws of nature as reveal:d in the history ¢f human development, that at best he cannot be expected to become more than an inferior imitation white man, may add a touch of pathos to his destiny, but cannot alter it. On the other hand, the peoples of this province are ¢ ymparatively numerous, aad thelr lands are at present neither needed nor desired for homes by the white race, White men are here to make money, not to make homes. They are not likely to become predominant in numbers for some centuries to come They are sure to be an important, though transient, element in the population; but their interests must be bound up in those of the lower ps oples. The development of these peoples can be best promoted with due and full regard for the laws of nature as revealed In history, The Moro peoples have attained the of vivilization which fits them for feuda'ism, and not for any of the more advancsd forms government Cannot this and some of the historically succeeding stages of d veiopment be skipped? An awering this qaestion with another from the laws of gravitation and learn to without having de strength necessary to sustain h's natural weigl and without equilibrium? The lessons of f=udalism are as essential to the f RTOBA of these peoples as are weight and equilibrium to the act of walking, Feudalism has its place the ee And its place 3 good Nature revealed in history, calls v government of the Moro province assume the feudal peoples, to teach law as betwe far as possible and hy fo: resort, to amel| Moro come to feel hardship to lay aside his feeling of security wit apur Lo industry, " dogroee of cannot my child obtain release leveloped the reforence to ture pr in momy of nature, in pon and € a3 tribes by the datos Thus én tri fairy LUTh & Ty A Sun Theory, How It Manages to Give Off By EE. BE. "ANTE ARRHENIUS which the sun is ab Negative Electricity, Fournier d’Albe. fr that far a are driven tricity BO great charge -. ®n 16 BIN * radiation A hours RK 8un storm ug spot calculation Battleship Versus Torpedo. BY Park Benjamin, FAINST And in the line- submerged and armour do not protect 90, even waen we consider the actual fight of ships fit to lie battleships against battleships the torpedo instantly Are we superstruc in 1 must be huge floating forts, heavy armour and exp. osion under and plunge to the bottom? ms weaker than the merchant ships dang“rs of torpedo attacks? They are not influenced by the truism that the posed of the best units. nor do they depend upon “command of the sea” as their pereptual refrain. Neither are the answers to them anywhere discernible in what Nelson or Lord Howe did, or in the dusty archives of libraries of naval annals. They belong to the future and not to the past, and the world nesds clear, practical brains for their solution, and not those supersaturated with antiquated and obsolete traditions. The most immediate of questions is whether thers any protection obtainable by any method or means for the bottoms f battleships against torpedoes. It is widely believed, for example, that by devoting less weight to superstructure and guns, and more to strengthening the framing and bot tom plates, a hull can be made which will resist such attacks. This would probably involve elimination of the intermediate battery and the re striction of battleship guns to a few of the largest calibre—a result not im practicable in view of the great celerity we have recently attained in work: ing these huge cannon. [t also would probably require the giving up of some speed, as well as of armored protection at the ends of the ship. This, at least, ia one possibility merely by way of suggestion Is it not time we en obtrudes itaelf to go on bul tures and them knot infallibly to “turn turtle’ them with bott not as a factor whi fae jealt with with great guns plied high Walter may cause them We 19 go on buliding because hitherto we have These are vital questions fighting line must com endless platitudes with the up Tre believed in the be 11 a yo i is i the building, say, of 18,000-ton vessels at a cost of elght millions each, esily de structible by a few dollars’ worth of gun-