NOTES FOR THE FARM. for as water object be temperature of ses Is much an the purity While it have the cool, it portant to it free purities. While horses may ooped up closel gain in strength The flesh thus ed is tco often to usefulness, keep the feet in hoes should v six months o1 nation of many to the careless of the reset 0 not of it. water 80 to im is best nore have gain the gair detriment cood condition, once | I'he can be penurious emoved oftener, Le i horses’ feet 3 3 owne getting tae ™ mats that ing a doubls quired to p irom sufficient remain which period an Milk should not that contains a less the sick bird will more easily than the supervision ant and changed daily, free from disease, milk beet and cheapest of foods, but it not a substitute for water, nor it take the place of iaeat.- Home Journal then excelent lox mn removed, as milk serve to distrit If given under careful attend. the flock being nte disease water of a is WEANING THE LITTLE ROOTERS Pigs are, or should the profit they bring. cal time for them weaned, Taking The most criti the natural food instead only a trough with a limited amount of feed and no knowledge of what to make of it Is hard on the little cnes, It is easy trongh where the little fellows may be fed until ready to be weaned Then they will have become almost inde. pendent, and taking away the mother does not interrupt growth, We have found it wise to supply at the wean: ing time an extra nice green pasture, fill tarnish young for the Know- \ something rooters to do eat, there Is nothing for the pork do but ahead. Our cortalnly show benefits in these meth. Farmers Home J er to EO results ods, urnal ALFALFA Alfalfa silent, aud favorable is a persistent Unde; alfalfa subsoiler thea roots of will depth of twelve feet or more, instances being on record of r rcots being found more t long. The the of plant, the cro Vi! thirty feet with of the r slze the iL varie the diame age ter al ving from one aalf to two and one-half inche in ler these conditions it is little won land should be greatl) the growtl if alfalfa that the men HOSOI Pacific ail “1 ! "i car Book Agric prices in om ents a ents for ents for manurial i6 nr} phos wiash those early to intend ket Feed with ground Provide warm the Turnips, with a little rye bran good to eke out the pasture Keep ram with the flock early lambs mar these, rye ’ quarters for sheep, are the for GRAVEL FOR HENS Hens often suffer in midsummer for want of gravel when confined in a yard, Throw in sods, cracked bone, shell or stone, and give water freely. Why? | It dough is do, why shouldn't bean i be spelled bough? If bough is bow, why shouldn't cow | be spelled cough? If cough is coff, | be spelled tough? If tough is tuff, | be spelled flough? If blow is blo, why shouldn't brow bro? If doe dough? And if doughs do, and doe is do, why shouldn't dodo be doughdoe? And {fw h ¥ DU HO WO VOT conn, why shouldn't toff why shouldn't fluff be is do, why shouldn't do he In 1904 the number of new houses built in London was 23.269 By the Rev. Dr.Cha WNERBH!IP, clalism, is pret when interp tenure in the | exclusive intep This, It is not the denial o conglderad as a differing in thi that name, that whil la the public for and Christian Halism their tenure ave viewed | hem as f invested or disbursed, ilso, sich fund for the kind of s« concerned with and sordid individualism tivism in expendin it When a Ol sstended heathen f th ol 10 sition pi , { he is Fa wheveat dL 3 communism; it individuall vidualism means: to a “trust,” under drawing that blood od blood to OXVE® enemy t mn with rolerence 110 been this artic mat MaKe: getting ait have IRE m tha the wa \ perauil low ment of operl cale of msiness Wie which yielded with competing ent he rains of { O0Oking By IL. H. Bailey, Prof Cornell Ih rlecg H. Parlch ui rst { ted by the i vie understand hristian negation wealth it is it is the Insi collectiviss It i8 a wnown not the m, buat stence upon wholesome i npnstitntions HIT POSe the How ons n ithheld provided ds that to he bestowed OI general defiunce advertising are and regula Lo requirements d in le is his money as made i ST1é*11 1 2 of general ement one that 1s as much with 1 Way he flambovant not ron] the conversion ¢ man is in # ng about 10 whether mane SCHOO anac olieges, no ometh Hes HOWE ntained 10 whethe essor of Agriculture, niversity, clkenbos H i : i i Rosas, A. fox By XK. L) para gociety, po Tf Ovey chance Oo Some of the m reassuring record of Not that virt that often t ginnes him the high place he abuses the boodle when he finds he cannot by his friends to his own hurt. The The corrupting corporation pre sident 1 en editor never guaite overcomes his « In a word, the big ani formidable according to th jong and villainy genuine these deco talwg the into 8." so that chastisement ar in perseveres in the rtue that The legisiato; deliver the lobbying 8 loval raft-instinet to » sinners are gray of eir character rathe: The Atlantic has conscientionsly The 1 faithful ROOge hoOsg iwyer is 10 ' ki to his stockholders print “all the 1, but n according news ————————————————————— ——————— —————— The Doughnuts of England, In writing of the little English town of Hythe in Harper's, W. D. Howells tells of an amusing discovery in a pastry -shop. “In the window of the little pastry. Hythe where we gol some shop at tea, tere were certain ob: excellent tity we, with wildly beating hearts, scarcely ventured to establish, but, ‘What are these? we finglly asked, “‘poughnute,” the answer came, and we could not gasp out the ques tion: “‘But whore are the fish-balls?"” “We might well have expected them to rise like an exhalation from the floor, and greet us with the sol emn declaration, ‘We are no more American than you are, with your English language, which you go round with, here, disappointing people by the baked beans, not even speaking it through your nose, We and you are of the same immemorial Anglo-Saxon tradition; we are at home on either shor sea; and we ghall attest the unity the race's civilization in all the to come." of the of ages Rural free delivery of the mails hae had a remarkable growth, observes the Atlanta Constitution. It began inine years ago with an appropriation of $50,000, The routes now number 36874 and the service extends to 228,660 familles, or 13,667.98 persons, Last year the expenditure for rural routes was about $21,000,000, and the amount appropriated for the present fiscal year is $28.3560,000 The land area of the United States is 1,900947.200 acres. The area of Great Britain and Ireland is 77,671, 319. ” why THE SANDMAN sandman, world yon Sandman, Round the 3 Sandman, sandman 1d } And Sandn Round Sandma msaial Fris garded 1 3 100K Cd 43 aised Kit- ho Sie RIOW EO in tures”? I mother?” aske t Kitten Katten think 1 will go ot ni ¢ rie i will slay with you alwaj) un when wou are old an vourself dea Mrs 1 and white at her ow: hid a next n Katten saving, and the and kis That is rig his ambition pleased he Suddenly a small, scrat reached Tom's “Listen, sharp ears dear i weak had mother, hear a he cried i voice, all noise i & tiny not at like the one he used before “Yes. it is coming nearer. | frightened! Mother dear, take of me!” walled Frisk in a voice tiny and weak as Tom's Little Kitten Katten now took up the wall. “Mew! mew!” she sobbed piteously ‘1 really think it is a great big rate O-0-0h! Mother, he will eat me!” “Hush!” whispered Mrs springing up with a lithe, graceful movement, while the Kittens lay whimpering in a forlorn heap. Quick: ly and steaithily she moved across the oaken floor, nearer and nearer her hapless prey, that all unconscious of his peril, ‘was peacefully nibbling a large plece of cheese. There was a spring, a squeal, and Mrs. Brown emerged triumphant from the pantry, carrying a limp black form in her mouth. She Iald her burden down near her now shamefaced children, one powerful paw resting on the black body, but the: kittens shrank back in fear and could not be Induced go touch it, For fully an hour, Mrs. Brown play am so Brown, Bzisk terri while Tom on in mazement lucklens shadow of the dead 4 il & ©OY tt or Hiligur incapable words : animated ut when a rat comes come shrewd hunters rat PETS like adde she 43 ii BIER anes WW wift enough to spear the fastest with their All 2 lista about the le dagger like JLiS squat ungraceful poultry yard. With the approach of night, which is their us ual hunting time, they are all activity Behind the granaries they hide, alert prey. Perhaps a rat appears and t vard. It ig closely the silent herons One yard and it, shutting egs wobbling their bodies, is a sud from ome of beaks, a dying is dead The only for the sport of it, and never eat their game it ig not unusual for the keeper to find twelve or fourteen dead rats iy ing about the yard in the morniag. WHERE GAMES COME FROM Many of the games played by the today are of very day long they our 107 plarts across the ved $3 ww ¢ into 1¢ centre of wats get the the herons sneak after off its retreat With as oo weak to supp they draw near den rush, a the Then there hiow long, sharp the at to hunt swift squeal, and herons seem of ancient origin. Marbles, for instance, have been found among the rains of Pompeii The more modern marbles, how ever, came from Holland and were in troduced into England about 1630. The marbles of that time were made of clay, stone and agate. Hand ball goes back to the fall of Troy, and the little people of ancient Greece used to see who could hop the longest, Blind man’s buff also originated with the ancient Greeks, but grown people, not children, played It in those early days. From Greece, likewise, came skip ping the rope. Vins stripped of thelr leaves were used in place of ropes, Top spinning was lodulged In in Virgil's time and Themistocles is said to be responsible for ecck fight ing.