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food raised on
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located
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for the hen
No
make it
your poultry
Feed enougl
motes dig
fowls healtl
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hens
you can
oreed
pay il if { iismanage
in
a surplus
will pa)
It
into the
is
the experiment,
March
ence in ga
ous
slightly
lamb for
Oa March
slaughtered
ages of the
and kidney
lot 1, 53
lot 4, 51
The
13, 1506 marked
yur lots
per
rations
pounds
G
in lot
than did
were cons
block on
Card
fat those
and
the
more internal
lots 2 and 3,
desirable for
count,
dered
thi
Lis
FOR THE HARNESS
The following formula is sald to pro
duce a blacking that possesses all the
elements of vitality to the leather and |
resistance water It is excellent]
for harness, buggy tops, ete.
Old harness, if hard may be wash. |
ed in warm water, and when nearly |
dry, grease it with neatsfoot oil
The ingredients of the black are: |
Three ounces turpentine, two ounces |
white wax be disstlved together
over a slow fire. Add one ounce ivory
and one dram of indigo, to be well pul.
verized and mixed together.
When the wax and the turpentine
are dissolved, add the black and the
indigo and stir until cold. Apply to
the harness very thin, and brush well
terward, The polish resulting will
be fine.
Another good black is made of 1
dram of bone black, 60 drops of con-
centrated hydrochloric acid, 12 drams
of alcohol, 112drams of gum arable,
and 3 ounces of water,
A good soap for general leather pur.
poses is made of Castile soap and
lampblack. Melt the soap and mix in
the lampblack while warm, Three
to
10
parts beeswax, two parts sonp, and
1
1) Mg aie
TO BREED POTATOES,
apply
HOW
Sto K bre ©
producing
fers
watiiral
superi
cing me
hogs with a fifty-cent a
: i a in
g a pretty big return
noy
sal farmer
+
one.
of one per cent i8 not a very
advertising charge, One of these
the farmers
and shrewd
will get to be as
as the fell
real estate and stock
IDLE MARES
Idle mares are not so likely to bring
forth good as are mares that
} The brood mare can be worked,
but it needs to be worked with judg
ment. Some men go to extremes and
woik the mares too much. Hard work
is bad, but light work is beneficial.
colts
WHITE CLOVER ON CLAY SOIL.
On heavy clay soil lawns may be
made with white clover, which grows
rapidly, improves the goil and
pares it for grasses. An ounce will
plant about ten square feet,
sony
Old Game of Football,
Foothall with unreformed rules
was played In Atherstone in War
wickshire, England, the other day.
The ancient custom of playing it in
the thoroughfares was observed.
Business was practically at a stand.
still, the windows of private and pub-
lle buildings barricaded, and a huge
crowd, made up of mill hands, miners,
quarrymen and others, chased a huge
football through the streets, The cus-
tom was Inaugurated some time be.
fore the granting of Magna Charta,
and has been observed annually for
upwards of seven hundred years,
————————
During 1906 172 climbers ost thelr
lives on the Alps,
| F.xaggeration
By Beatrice Fairfax.
XAGGERATION is simply a dressy
Very often much harm is done Db; 3X ng
form of untruthfulness,
a fact
‘The Dead Man ano His Money
By Elbert Hubbard.
it
oF
The Great American
Office Boy
gtonographers
their #0
:. a device
is a term
to the gods, f«
ily capable stenog
4 Mee but hi
30083 ONC i
Fr
Fashions In Crime.
By Former Police Com missioner McA doo,
of New York City,
OMPARED with what it is today, New York thirty
a mere village, Cr was then congested In sp
wore the City Hall
places, mostly
lables try
Years ago was
ime is;
The
south
known as
certain
as well
wonld go
headquarters
time sleuth down to
Fourteenth street, and
New Yorkers, and get scme
last job, or probably have the ti {ef himself give up the property.
Start the old-timers talking about old “joints” and you will give them a pleas
ant hour. Twenty years ago | stood on the steps of a downtown hotel with
a celebrated detective, and in the coarse of an hour he pointed out twenty pro
fessional crooks, all gpecialists, They were as well known as the big men in
the financial district, and it was considered a privilege to meet them.
The old veteran burglars, with a dark-lantern, a bottle of chioroform and
a sponge, half of a candle, a bundle of keys, a big revolver and a knife, a
kit of tools, and a black-jack, belong to a school entirely different from these
people. The ¢ld-time burglar survives now, mostly In suburban places. He
operates in New Jeraey or Long Island, and attacks the isolated house; he has
to make sure of the dog, and he goes armed as aforetime, prepared for a
hard fight and a long chase, it necessary. Then the army of confidence men
is constantly changing. The old fellows are either in jall or dead, and the
pew ones are not yet sufficiently known to the police; they have not bulit up
their reputations, as it were, Strange to say, however, the old swindlers
still remain staple goods in the oriminal market, Advertise it as you will,
the deacon from the mountains of Tennessee or the peaceful villages of In.
diana still comes on to gel his bundle of counterfeit money. ~~Harper's
eastern end, where the outlet is, the
flow over the Niagara cataract ls
sometimes Increased 40 per cenl
above the normal volume,
Wind Increases Niagara's Flow.
When strong westerly winds pile
up the water of Lake Erle at its
A WOMAN UNKNOWN
HEALTH
the
AND BEAUTY.
finger nails are bri
If
break
around
will prove
Warts
painted
a8 week
easily, rub vaseline
hom afte
Laem aii
het
very
quickly
*
Those who desire oO
pot fall 10 eat a
before retiring; an empty
feeds upon the flesh of body
Common table salt is of the
pest dentifrices known. It will whiten
and preserve the teeth, harden the
gain flesh
light
stomach
the
one
Dont go to bed to worry and
{
i
AE AES C27 2 IDE
» EMPIRE SCARS
St BB Nh pe ee
ION NOTES
girls are in
exceed
well as very fash-
concealing any
and add
the gar
ioose
cut
f the figure
general comfort of
» erage for plaids and checks ex:
& to auto wearables as a matter of
se. some of the plaid silk coals
especially handsome
Very few will bear gevere line
caused by she abrupt upturning of the
hat brim at the front, therefore every
being
the
Cold sores may be very
lleved by bathing them with camphor
It will reduce the
When it {3 necessary 10 use the soap
fn a public toilet room take the pre
caution to wash it. 8Kkin diseases
are easily contracted through soap
Too much sleep is rarely possible
during the childhood and exhaustive
states: on the other hand, too much
sleop is harmful to those in full tide
of vigor.
Sleeping apartments should not only
be ventilated at night and ia the
sorning, but eurrents of air should
pass through them freely throughout
the day.~~Woman's Magazine,
THE PASSING OF MATRIMONY,
it is woman's refusal to marry, and
o- for
the Immense majority of ~ur ivarees
i
the before adopting the
mirror
style
much
won-
fifty
Children’s dresses grow
prettier each season that we are
dering what they will be like
years hence, The simplest are al
ways the prettiest, and how can a
simpie dress be different each year
and always prettier? We cannot ans
wer the question and yet we know that
their styles change.
An exquisite effect is produced by
embroidering large white dots on a
coral-pink linen gait. The dots are ar
ranged in ‘design so as to give the
effect of an allover embroidery, and
one can do all this embroidery herself,
even to the stamping of the dots
Mark them by a small thimble or oth.
er round object that will make a dot
one-half inch across when completed,
Ws an II 515
ns
80
Charity begins at home and gen
erally stays there,