Pre. SORETARD -and™ A { 1 : ~ = ATARDEN RNS THE DRY FEED PROBLEM Rice of Corneil i been Professor ral Coll mg the dry feed for 1. while he seems to experiment ollege has experiment poultry have « more espe ains his findings and hi COnCiusion: mths’ experi ath la he twelve m ghrink in boiling ne of Celery plants time and aching Four-inch drain tile ers the inport: Large growers ol the ting then on, they do put on grown wrap them on in put it in the home garden They plants acconnt of inconvenience well the WAY very when Another the banking up he half ia should are of doing to atalks with paper before Thiag keops the soil away from the stalks and saves them from rusting. Heavy but any kind may the purpose better there i8 more Good celery can be if it is made flavor Is superior mucK brown Best fa it ge paper used than work a ne rves cards. but yout ing it. ralsed on sandy The on rich to that grown soil enough But an abundance of is required. To tl chiefly due the failures with on high land. In ted dis. tricts of the west celery of fine quali ty is produced, moist ie lack of water is celery irriga the BETTER THAN SPRING ING. Farmers frequently make a mistake py not plowing more of thelr ecultl vated fields in the fall than they do, Some are constantly crowded with work and “can not get around to it” others are somewhat fail to realize that crops too often givo poorer yleld from spring than fall plowing. Deep spring plowing Is likely to re sult in disuinished crops, especially if followed by a period of drouth. The loosening of the soil to a great depth admits alr and facilitates the of soll moisture, It breaks off capllari- ty and the moisture from lower depths is not readily drawn upon. Consequent- ly, in a dry there will not 1 we enough to support loss summer, | moisture a good | erop. The advantage in plowing, parti in the still oist, i8 not ploughshare loamy soils, the land merely that the easily through the soll but rather that it elf and forms spring, is slips falls earth, furrow-slice, as dries, the down of 10080 its ILS is evident that fall plowing can recosy for all soils and ities. The plow does not grind merely ful Lo powder, but up into little ridges, in this and throug! or and while condition winter he the particles of torn al ind i of wened Mii fine clay together and of th thi Loosened soils admit ab and thereby tion upon Manure ho iid in growing not order t 0 Keep condition Healthy certain amount tt wae, and this small part in preventing MAKING A COLD FRAME id is to used winter it frame be dar made «On should ionth., To make it simply a fri of boards the desiped size and dig a hole so that it can be into the ground about half the sunny board cold ight of boards. Choose the of a building or tight fence for the location of the frame. A regulation hot-bed sash can be used to cover it or & covering of unbleached muslin cloth can be used. The muslin will answer very well it tacked tightly to a light frame, Lettuce and spinach can be Brown during the winter and a frame of this kind will be found sufficient pro- tection for various flowers if cover ed at night during the cold weather, a heavy matting. fs good plan to do the prelim. this month involved in construction of the hot bed. The pit should be dug in the fall and the frame placed in position, as weather conditions will not be at all favorable for this sort of work at the season when the hotbed should be started [ndianapolis News, aide a with it inary work the Denatured alcohol is used in a hat factory at Manchester, England, Ths manufacturers use the puirit, recov. of it, and redistill the produce in thelr own factory, and use it over again until It fs used up, The Indicted Icemen throughout the country are seeking delays, It will take a vengeful jury, indeed, remarks the Baltimore Sun, to send an jceman | to fall in the middle of winter, Women Who... | Work For Wages Are They Injuring Their Chances of Marriage by Flusniness 7 Tompkins. Going Into By Juliet Wilbor my dear! gays the If they ! whatever O one will marry you, alarmi young women of business. are young enoujl thelr hearts, “Nonsense thelr lips maj the It is grow older, inner repudiation may Decoms a faint doubt ie that the nod and olten i) educated world father, and the turn given by and men do marry. the alert, self-hel sion or the one whose trained fer or a deal in May wheat; in time I yet, a limited pe: way marries any grandmotnel an give you 1e gnee Knew and bi spite of making, many ly for profe in snite helm of affairs, mind { heey onal experience Dr, fe gense fi since the odious Maginn made hear a few words of wom they om a Are 80 UNexXped ted: buat the level whether w i » the admissi it ha Choice, thirty, Inaccessible Wealth. By J. Marvin Nichols Select Your Wife With Care By Tom Masson. ES : sv or have of trave and train it Oovely, home you niggardly a aweet igelic atient, gerving womanly woman will good Do not her confidential without having Hen {oval nes : wi . 116k siyi ¢ * yy ¥ § 4 he develops OD ring nus ng ym 1¢ opportunity fiat because she has any 3 just woman You with her money Become of it in to dle = Ww The Passing of the Buffalo. By Ernest Thompson Seton, The instead ill make as much out the end adviser live HE buffalo as a wild animal is gone herds wil] never roaming the plains, great be #00) is ras again Who profound there t at the bora too late? What days and people in their romantic prime gret that Sir does not feel “Why the that himself generation ask give to 1 of the present was J ave buffalo ?7* All the hungry re valter Scott felt over the departed glories of the | feudal life js felt hy every boy and young man of our ocouniry now when he | hcars of the buffalo days and ‘he stirring times of the by-gone wildest West. Why was it allowed? Why did not the Government act? And a handred sad “might Bave beens” apring forth from hearts that truly feel they have lost a wonderful something when the butchers drawn from the dregs of bordet towns were turned loose to wipe out the great herds that meant so much to | all who love wiids and the primitive in life There is one answer--the extermination was absolutely inevitable. The. buffalo ranged tho plains thal were needed by the out-orowdoed human swarms of Burope; producing buffalo was not the best use for those plains; possessed ! of vast size and strength, and of an obstinate, impetuous disposition, that | would stampede in & given line and keep that line to the utter destruction of | all obstacles or of himself, the buffalo was Incompatible with any degree of possession by white men and with the higher productivity of the soil. or He had to go. He may still exist in small herds in our parks and forest | reserves. He may evea achieve success as a domestic animal, filling the gaps where the old-time cattle fail. But the buffalo of the wild plains is gone for ever, and we who see those times in the glamor of romance oan only say: It had to be; he served his timo and now his time is past. Scribner's Magazine A member of the 8 family Is] pines. You can’t keep ‘em down, de pow Governoreneral of the Phillp | clares the Montreal Star. and would 1 not thought seen people whor That was Hadn't he cured thought die ure 44 yp it WHE worth nce would being proud when Ned w had ordered for him a ver) He fell in love with it fterward wanted te3 his not onos mele bath. ROWING When Ison biggest i wis old boat. N with years a real row boat Nels a and he BLIrong-iil i and away yw when came join that city of the place saw that bridge with th would be, have to be ree ends. A q! indeed for who ever heard of a bridge with more than two ends was not such thing in States. But had to have go they made it. And it was the only bridge of the kind in the world, ex- | cept one in Switzerland that it some- | what resembled. To look at it, one | would think that each town had start. | od to build a bridge out to the others | and all three bridges had met in the | middie of the river. Each part of the | bridge had four hallways, two big | ones for horses and two little ‘ones | for people walking. it had a shingled roof over all the length of it, and windows in the sides, so that it was a gort of housebridge. When it rained | you could go out on the river and | be out of the wet. Where the bridges | came together there was a big room | out in the middie of the river, with | the twelve hallways opening into it. Can you imagine what a roomful of | horses and wagons and people of three town all was with the people of the town crossing from hall to hall as they came and went in aif. ferent directions? Everybody in the three parts of the city had to come out here whemever they went to any of the others. And so they all mot in the room out in the middie of the river no matter where they were com. ing from or where they were going to. ~8t. Nicholas. a jeer bridge that to it? There a the thes DOCTOR NED. Ned's uncle was a young physician and Ned admired him beyond meas vi ¢ few years. spiendid sw er and is a freshet tan a industrious, having aa YO i as io 0 yards He brownish been varies in color, a deep being natural, he has and in white remarkably small, as little need for such lux- u his nose and {he digs with them) are highl; developed. Philadelphia Record AN INDIAN HUT Boys, do you know how the In- dians bullt their huts? They selected trees aboupding in sap-—usually the linn. The trees, being cut down, were stripped of their bark from top to butt by the use of the tomahawk and {ts handle The bark for hut into six or eight foot lengths and pleces dried and flat. by laying heavy stones upon but fi in Orange His eves are he has vers while claws ries Now. to build the frame of the hut, poles were driven into the ground six or eight feet apart, according to the tength of the bark pieces, and these poles were strengthened by Cross beams. This framework was then cov. ered insi®e and outside with the pieces of bark bound together with jeatherwood bark or hickory withes. The roof ran upon a ridge, and was covered in the same manner as the frame. A hole was left in the roof for the smoke to escape, and one on the side of the frame for the door ~ Philadelphia Record, Drilling native Malay levies by word of command emitted from a gramaphone is the latest Instance of modern ingenuity. New York city has seventyone Wo men on the polieq force. They are known as “police matrons.”
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