PUMPKINS FOR PIGS
pumpkins In
the
Farmers who grow
plenty will be interested in
“Rural New Hope
tnan has to them.
what
Farm
The
Yorker's”
say about
sends is equals
stock than
matter of
eding the
to other
entirely a
having
Here is
hogs
experimented
the Hope arm
apinion in repiyving to a query
I have found pumpkins good for
ut [would scrape
befo, . feeding. We had
we fod seeds ar
had tr
out the
trou
year when
number of
r kidneys,
hind
for th
though we
legs.
cause
without damage
they are danger
eed them. We pile
the fence, cut
Sure
il
orn knife or ax
and the
and sorag
easiest
you must remen
1ey do not furnish a fall
a fattening hog. Feed corn or
addition. As for
nd that a question of
or and fuel. By ot
up and b
with small potatoes, turnips or oi
make mash and
pasture
ay Enaw
rind. This is
toem
cooking we
the
you
bably incre
pumpkin
would
ing and
parts of
the
age plent
thicken
cornmeal
it about as
hand
whe
we
sr and
On a farm
many "
have
made good
16s
part .
addition
sweet
not h
equal
corn
he a
a
fond
lings
op
the bes
t animals
hough most
well ag cornmeal,
IN SHEEP
MONEY
These noteg have
el adding a
gdarm stock,
managed they will
cent. profit for
than almost
from
flock
believin
any
Apart other
most useful
renovators
the
§ ndustry
rh » 5 po ¥
chiel hindran
%
fences these
hard sledding
indefinitely
feeling of secur
3v inspired in the
the expense. An idea
in values of sheep, |
are gained from
Even, if, as
ontinue to
a Ct
appre
margin
and
lows
for profit
note resuails,
“Practical sheepmen
an the business
more that
nee was the sheep fndustry
able as it is today. W. W
the Warron Live Stock
feit the
wool prices almost since
twenty
SU y never in taeir
Gleason,
Company.
has ebb and flow of sheep
and
days says: “In 1883
head of sheep to Aurorm, Ill
of which netted us cents each
The average tol!
head Good ewes
$6 and up, while lambs are
at $2.
«In 1869 I think it was, Wyoming
wool was bringing as
We simply could not afford to
it at such a figure, and we could
hardly afford to hold it, but we did
until the following year, and sold it
for % cents a pound.”
Thomas A. Cosgriff, of
Brothers, perhaps the
men in Wyoming, =aid
men have had their
during the last twenty years, but the
present is about wuld ask
and the future brighter still, In 1896
we sold wool as low as 4% cents a
pound. This year we got 24 cents,
nearly a fivediold increase. In 1583.
1804, good stock sheep brought about
$2 each. The same grades are now
mesketed at $5 a head, and the price
is still rising. In 1393 and 1394, ex:
tra good lamb brought $1.25. They
are now worth $3 per head.
IMPROVING THE FLOCK.
Guy BE. Mitchell gives this whole.
some advice to “Cultivator” readers:
The chicken crop is looked upon
by most farmers as a small issue
which ‘is hardly worth: much con
sideration or attention. Look at the
crop in the aggregate and see if it
does not amount to something. Leav.
ine out the auestion of eggs. If the
was about a
now
are
low
Cosgrift
largest sheep:
The sheep
ups and downs
al iI we «
TARDEN
\ ' ths
La !
{ aya
Ro MN
Par
stock of hens number forty, twg hun
dred chickens should be easily raised
during the season. The scrub flock
will average four pounds each: this
makes eight hundred pounds of live
weight high-class meat, which cap
be raised at a comparatively
and entirely independent of
Packingtown. How many farmers
who have a good-sized flock of fowls
realize that they are raising as
they would in a and
worth several times as much
? Now, having reached this
not that it will
increase that welght
small
vost,
much
meat as steer,
step, does it occur
pay to
erirds
BTOSs
as much as possible? If those forty
are mated in
pair of blooded
spring
80
scrub hens the
cocks of
their two
welgh
3
large breed
ens will one
pounds instead of aight
Th Fy owr +51
ihen there will be s0 much
forty fine
blood
a chance >» select
pullets of 1
walt full
ful
lowing vear the cocks can
or traded off and other full
cocks procured {tO
ing This
way of
prevent
will be a very practica
flock
and the
hundred
hundred p
thous
ballding up the
inexpensive manne:
ng two
year chicken
another nds,
The one
pounds of chicken
welght
flesh
0 more t
MOVING |
A Florida man describes
“"Rur New j .
transplanting
to have Dees
using
and
less
more than
ir without loosin
and it was very satisfac
to see how rapidly the new tops ¢:
n. We had some frait
Moved this
Reade:
’
as much fruit as those
YW
second year
“Main«
year {
way [| believe
would the f
rth
trees
TTHOUT CULTIVATION
in ro TR FOMrnal tells Of %
who is
in the souther:
manag
evidently with the
the quid
The
Wis
Keoat
produc ng
east labor
work evidentis
ARO,
but the
ral weeks i
what
pertinent as showing
The SHAYE en
rows of corn planted June
are ready
ye gathered after 90 days instead
psual 110, Tomatoes are regd:
days, squashes in 110 Hie
neither cultivated nor ir
fall an 18-inch mulch
manure is placed on the
soil and allowed to settle during the
winter This lasts for years
and prevents evaporation of moist
ure. lettuce and radishes are plant
ire
be lone paper
Several
2) were Potatoes
matured
t * a
are
rigated. In the
four
beneath the
piece of the
earth
small
tomatoes in the
When a
left go, the stunting effect on the
nearest vegetable was plainly visible
NORSEMEN CARE FOR HORSES
“You never see a broken-winded
horse In Norway,” said a horse doc
tor. “That Is because the horses are
allowed to drink while they eat, the
same as mankind: Our horses, let
them be as thirsty as get oat, must
still eat their dry fodder, their dry
hay and oats and corn, with noth
ing to wash them down. But in Nor
way every horse has a bucket of
water beside his manger, and as he
eats he drinks also. It is interesting
to see how the Norwegian horses rel
tah thelr water with their meals, Now
they sip a little from. the bucket
now they eat a mouthful, just like
rational buman beings, You never
see a broken-winded horse in Nor
way, and the natives gay it is be
cause they serve water to the ani
mals with thelr feed New Orleans
Times-Demoerat,
NOTES,
Miss Mary Clark, of Galen, Mich.
enjoys the distinction of being the
made a sdceess of peppermint grow-
ing. | manages her distl se
well aa a farm of eighty acres.
When You Call
By Johny Vaughn.
ODAY instead of workiug a crank to get “Central’
ear. Lifting the
attention, you
receiver off the
The light
your
simply put the receiver to your
lights a tiny lamp in the
the switchboard operatoy
answering jack a metal plug, the tip of the answering cord, one
of a pair of thread-covered wie with your
line. The calling cord’s tip, plugged into the multiple jack of
the number you give to “Central,” lights another small lamp, termed a super
visory lamp. Pressing a Key rings the bell of the given number-—that 18, of
the subseriber with whom vou desire to talk, When he up his re
ceiver his supervisory lamp out Hence there is no lamp alight while
ation 18 In progress The return of your receiver to its ‘hook
supervisory lamp, When the other subscriber hangs up bis re
supervisory lamp lights again Both lamps aglow apple the
ition 1s closed +» pulls the cords oul of the jac
lines word of your couvel
of time has wasted What
i the days of Edison's |
1 » 2 ryt sy
language, and the lweni
hook electric exchange
goes out when thrusts into lines
cords associated
takes
goes
the conver
lights
ceiver, his
that
iguizhing and
your
operator the conver
g : { } Not §
ius ea connecting ae NOL A
sation has been overheard, not a se cond heen
telephoning ol
“Central
pioneer d
bad
change from the
crank ringing, hel {Oy
mit
Amer
advanc:
nad no
released
Now, if af r yo 1 rer mit do
fine of
‘entiral’
war
ers
till
have influenced th eleaphone’s
ring off
clored
the telephone u
nervousness
and then "¢
and the line
vs people would forget (0
mining when conversal WAS
ing questions along
wn oye
supervisor
Comparisor f the complicated and expen
would
nir red
holds his
apparatus prove
spared i ren
does ab
sSomet
ifting ths
Annive
Sd
Charms ¢f Washington.
By Sydney Brooks.
t inent to
NOVem.
Vashing
jt sur
cago
jiterature
cont
istinction abou
ty approaches
wiladelphia and
om the
of a rrecableness
an un-Amer:
existence
seTren]
Ch
£y
thiGgs,
hings, jeading
the galloping
Americ:
ral pause
terminable
f yen
outine ol { n
considered
word
By Professor
NOCEeREAry
England
WeeR
iO08es. WwW hict
jo Cceliuioss
d ad not gland
chemically
always oe,
Fiat ea)
fibre is thus
anufacture paper direct
devise some prac
and thus ob
pure and free f pape! practised today Paper
wrapping-paper, and aimost a the land, wade
rags. but simply of disintegrated deal boards pounded and mashed and
Any one of the large London or American daily pa
ten aeres of an average forest. Such paper does
not last. The wood fibre out of which it is made is, unlike pure cellulose, act
ed upon by light and air and water and the organisms of decay This is bad
but not wholly bad, for most of the literature appearing on this paper is made
as mechanically as the paper itself, and it is fitting that it should be as
ephemeral in fact as it is in nature. But sometimes [Aterature (with a capi
tal L) appears on this wooden foundation-—and that is a tragedy. Had Mr
Pepys written his admirable diary upon what we call “scribbling paper,” we
would. today, have no Mr. Pepys. England alone, every year, imports some
350.000 tons of this mechanical wood pulp to turn it Into paper. She imports
also some 200.000 tons of what is called “chemical wood pulp,”—i. e., wood from
which the encrusting impurities have been chemically removed, and whir®
consists of cellulose almost pure-—Harper's Magazine
Eg
Idle Thoughts of
Sa pals EA Busy Fellow
HE man who finds fun in his work doesn’t have to work for fun.
On the contrary, his work is at a premium, because, by getting
pleasure out of it, be puts more merit into it
Most men are happiest while hustling. The rust of illeness
fs what breeds the microbe of miisery in a man's mind, bat a
busy man even forgets his dypepsia and his debts,
If you're going to lead the procession, you'd better be sure
of your seat in the saddle.
Wishes without work do not pay any better than dream
in rainbows,
Ambition without energy brings about as much satisfaction as a course
dinner eaten in a dream.
Procrastination not only steals time: it is worse than a thief—it is a mur
derer, killing decision, poisoning ambition and destroying possibilities,
EUDRIADC
and fence wa
cellulose X
b bres, or 10
extracti
wood
4% «11nd Gir
from the Cceilinione,
lose of
substance
Both tn¢
i the
tical method of
ain it
HOXeSs,
: are
newspapers of are
aot of
amalgamated into paper
pers consumes each day fully
dollars Invested
happened, because he doesn’t know it,
The man who is selfish with $1,000 will be a hog when he gets $1,000,000.
gaulity of generosity is located higher up than the pants pockets,
When you crack a nut that is empty, do you condemn all nuts? No; you
simply criticise the bad one and try another, When you try one medium and
find it a failure, do you condemn all other media? Loes the one failure crush
out your faith in advertising? If you take in a lead quarter, you do not lose
confidence in all money because you've been “stuck” by a counterfeit, The
farmer does not expect every seed he sows to sprout, grow and yleld a crop.
«Profitable Advertising.
TALKATIVE MATINEE
GIRL
“It is a good thing
enough of the typical ‘matinee girls’
the Saturday af
TOO
theatres on
man in
would be a
“otherwise there
many Gradual
eats
the
vacant
crowd is
‘Give
Zrowing
girl’
o ticket for any
urday afternoon,
+» hear more and
me a
formance except Sat
request that
frequently
Ig the
more
geem to be an in
ts ole! 3
the glgeling that
part of a Saturday af
performance mar
rmance
ous
ey
i
THE
You
Was an
have
2 thorou
advice
besides
One of Lhe
n and the sther for the
That to
cards was
woman
When
After
If he is
If he is
When
When
When
him
When
him
if he is
If he is noble,
if he is confidential,
him
If he is secretive, turst him
If he is jealous, cure him
If he cares naught for pleasure,
coax him
If he
him.
If he does you a favor, thank him.
When he deserves it, kiss him
FOU mares
You marry
honest, honor
generous, ap
sad, cheer
amuse
he is
he
he ia talkative
CTOs,
he is quarreisome,
him,
him
giothful, spun
pralse
favors society,
stand him, but
that vou manage him, says Woman's
Life
THE AMERICAN WOMAN IN
ENGLAND,
been when the Eng.
lish-woman was called the worst.
dressed woman in the world, while
ever since the American woman “ar
rived” her position as the best.
dressed woman in the world has nev.
er been disputed. She has already
taught the world to desire American
halr, American complexions, Ameri.
can teeth, American “style” of dress,
Amorican shoes, and especially Amer
ean freedom of ming and manner
And the Englishwoman has gone
about remodeling herself along the
approved lines, until, goodness
knows, one has to admit sometimes
that she is running the favorite a
pretty close second. But it is only
the occasional Englishwoman, who
Aresscs really well, while a large ma-
jority of American women manage
in some way to make themselves look
well, as only an American woman
can look, which ls something that no
Wrench or English word yet coined
The day has
can quite
in Leslie's Weekly.
: WOMAN IN
TAL
most
MOST STRIKIN(
CAPI
“Who ig the figure
triking
7% said
streets of Washington?
fow ays
knew t
in the
a visitor a ago to a wo
thorough
guess many © Limes
right”
your
man who he capital
Youn would
was the
jiplomats
bil
the
Mille
inches
ighbor
BROWN IS QUEEN OF COLOR
mont
deepening
{ton
these
reed 5
blondes
Wear
look well
Russian
168, NOt
1 anart od
departed
A WEEPING
$0 many droop
Wearers Jook
are among the
Mathilde Town
Paris,
lent fan
weeping willows
Miss
from
new headgea
in less than
wzzled New York aad
five mountains
with feathers. Miss
returned to her na
sarple, and
with black ones to
which she seems
New York
with
pped
Townsend has
land with
gray gowns and
give a sombre cast
to like as
Press,
tive lavender
Kano
har
a {
FASHION NOTES.
Furs are charmingly mixed with
velvet and lace
Lace medallions, mounted on button
moulds decorate some of the dressy
coats and wraps
A touch of pink or yellow in vest
relieves the soberness
of the otherwise all gray costume.
Fashion struck a sensible note when
she set her approval upon the soft
gmoke gray that is having such a
run this season.
Fancy black blouses are quite the
vogue, the trimming consisting of lace
and embroidery or silk folds,
Many will buy the shoes with cloth
tops that are having a wide vogue
this season, for they fit the instep
and ankle snugly and give a trim,
well set up appearance.
One of the richest of fur coats is
of sable, long and loose, with deep
band around the bottom, wide cuffs
and tirned-baeck collar of the fur show.
ing the shaded lines running opposite
to those in the coat.
The wreath of soft pink roses that
entirely encircles the crown of an
artistic hat is supplemented by a
feathery paradise plume which
gprings from among the roses at the
side,
A pink silk lining for a semitrans
parent cloth gown of gray is a dainty
expedient for furnishing this reliev-
ing note.
There Is no more fashionable neck.
wear just now than'the hand-embroid.
ered stiff linen collars.