WAY TO SOW CLOVER. As a rule farmers ¢o not grow safficient quantity of clover with grain crops. It is more than a useful practice <o broad- sast on the land occupied by grair crops, in this ¢ the growing crop affords shelter for the seeds, and the germination will Be perfect. The question froadceast drilling them is much a matter opinion, and method may be considered satisfactory season The earliest | broadcast just after ed, This probably of securing fall ters moist ing This tions; In th ing, t luxuriantly, and ously interfer of the crog Grain aud the rail: tent, might the sheaves other of clover see cutting off The most low barley blade and with an ordinary small seed-drill roll in afterwards, or sow seed broad- cast after a rim roll and There is always certaln of injury in a tender in a fine state of the harrow, with takes the bl The much have horse-hoeing with the seed. there as the passage of the would ti deposit tl only a roll sary. If sown or a bush cover the thoeing, the down 50w <olover seeds as ase of these seeds of sowing or of each if the following is favorable ed the grain is drill hod is sowing the se is the surest met he small the with a plant, as in the after and getting in earth coul- the contact strike once harrowed in by dight harrows. nla haa . » w - 3 .. plan has, however, three ) clover objectio sowing of late frost common or whet well out in seed and then her drill the harrow in a fone the young wheat +h he land . is when state unless of tilth. with frees tender blade APS om off that commen n season i followed plan +h i he seeddri T Hh in the would be no occasion to harrow; broadcast harrow would be needed If intended for hor should worked left harrowaed lades horse-hoe, the land detach a certain depth of soll, leavi a drill fe a level deg the small soon germinate However land may been prepared for the preceding on all i f there usual amount which are living with the in hi sood land too =olid Avi have CTO, ght-land is thistles, appear to share the I FEEDING THE dH ENS. riala © - eriais wet in they the sume then t while used COArser all hat time nécessary were is tw Ane geod, scrap, Eight quarts whole given daily, dhe h are ke n pens with three sides built of double walls filled with sawdust, dhavine two windows and a space 10x ‘B feet that open all day and alosed at by canvas door A aparm bedroom is built, floor Le fing raised three f from wnd here the birds #u with another canvas d Wentilators at gir. Conditions are sess anywhere and the hens h vigor and vitality Eggs are meaty and hatch better Chichs are fed grit first, then small Dard zrains and a dry mash, very similar to that furnished the hens Cockerals are separated at ten seoks fed a moist, appetizing masa and are ready for market at twelve weeks. Pullets are then accustomed to their brooder houses and then let hundred red each grains sth south, fourth facing the is night the the fl« are saut ont IE 0or . the rnish top furnish {deal. no damp- Ave more grain being always near, clean water also available, Work at the experiment poultry plant {is progressing About five hundred chicks have heen hatched and twelve incubators of 3500 egg capacity are being run at ull capacity The colony brooder houses have been made ready for the young chicks, and with a continuation good weather It is expected that this spring's work will be very success ful. About two thousand birds will fhe reared this spring. Prof. G. M. Gowell, Penobscot Counly, Me THE FARM GARDEN, station well + of better two acres be given to it worked with a horse, saving much hand labor which is required in small or plots. [ff more is grown than re- quired for home use It Can usually ket, or to some neighbor who will not have a successful garden, Or the ex: tra area can be devoted to potatoes or roots for stock. Being near the house it is access and the farmer can spend many half-hours working his garden, when he would vot think of going to the fleld for that length of time, The garden should { small fruits, such as berrie currants, ete. in single and far enough apart so they can be easily cultivated. The can | be some v which will working around the i shrub. If the gardener, upon lands ranging in from $300 $1,000 per acre, can upon half a dozen sell m dollars’ than off the of easy contain all the rows late space between devoted to egetable compel market price 10 acres ire worth of pro duce are sold many large not farmer grow articles of much exper commodities The garden can not ut labor, but amount for may own garden that of the for food G il the place more bought had consider- be with le roduced, quired several farm Crops and sometl grown upon n With hed ish produce {resi me made the le the year “We must alway: form th tdonl amount ding balk, tending thereby to preven ver feeding and at render. iz the food light and easy of diges roun ug n by the fiulds stomach rd worked one ration “Where horses are h should depart with « from he oat autfon ant arn by experience hed The and glaten for what can be | farmer might well gals “Remember tiall; probably ment STARTING AN APPLE ORCHARD While it is ) . te that farms ds some SHEEP CED FA Scotch developed veral stock especially adapt and The Faced Highland sheep is one lest of and in i none, The is extremely long and coarse, al in quality to that of some very heavy hardiness of the sheep has at some in this coun try, and a few flocks have been im- norted mostly to northern New York [t is a rather small-sized sheep wild in disposition. mutton is popular in the mar. because of excellent flavor and fine grain The fleece of the ewes aver ages 3% to 5% pounds when washed, Its place in this country would be chiefly in mountain pastures in storms the the breeds, ol iness is surpassed by LOD —_— 5 * other ut The tracted broads, attention State and somewhat The kot the the colder parts of the northern and eastern States.-—American Cultivator CARE OF HORSES. When the writer was given his first team he was told to curry the horses morning and night it is surprising what a rubbing down, after a hard day's work, will do in keeping a team in condition. If want to keep vour teams fat. sleek and ready at all times for hard work, here is the recipe: Let oats be the main grain, water regularly, feed bright timothy or upland hay, curry and brush thor. oughly every morning, and at night curry, brush and rub. That is all there 1s to it. Use a large plece of flannel for rubbing and your team | will be as sleek as moles and fit for the hardest kind of service.—Indiana | Farger, you —— QUARANTINE PEN NECESSARY A quarantine pen is necessary on every farm where hogs are kept and | ghould be made tight. Any new hogs that come into the herd should be placed in it and confined until all danger is past.—Rarmers’ Home Jour. nal, By Agnes Repplier, TIMELY English magazine unconcern with which perjury is committed in the An increaging regard for sanitation has provided for the use of wit- with celluloid, which article in an laments the jritish law courts covared can cleaned after accompanied nesses hygienie Bibles, nicely hut no corresponding this admirable innovation. alacritoasly as if they had, kissed the old paralyzed by falsehood in an earnest protest against perjury in and which English about any Our with nothing much as th illlancy and execution If an easily use” has be “swiftly and moral salubrity Witne 2g lie just as germ-infested leaths and justice |i There i8 something hopeful] even witness box, in the attitude of shame still to take writes criminal trials have sed us versatility of lying, with it ite br find out anything to belleve, they ve the wisdom of Solomon, multiplied by twenty. Mr. John Hay admirabi scribed an merican witness, who “went upon the stand, tu yubled by n tract principle in regard the adminis tration of ju and whose Was with perfect “singlens of purpose.” First know tha i, is ti of the courts: and the resul Nights are sober chronicle: sgclence to meet the demands upon 1 to meet demands it. dence, ‘here has been a gradual truth and honesty vouth. If the epidemic wuld &F The Workingman is First indignation th ¢ ning y an inevitable with the man is recent able when he 80 impre Sl] jurors « to timony and ing ing upon are among are no longer Carri By Haves Robbins. HE i pres commodity, As Dr relation of exchange; and the of a ADL the person: time, from If a co have dec If another even so takes fests ing Corpo Men Better Fitted Than Women Jo Teach By Edwin R, A. Seligman, Professor of economics at Columbia University. HERE Toi Teach Other Nations By Oscar 8S. Straus, Secretary of Come- merce and L.abor f#iont APAN, aA w : far of paths and rel prid Her people have no p a and all men of and equal to W ' in accordance in the fullest and widest lapan, wii learned much Persistency, 1f.econtrol and fficers exemplify the Idiers, rocks zt in humane along the thor following js the land of in advance national ' ores lHberty, civil ” yw wt 18 even fiations who © precious figious or i with f the vod tile own conscence accepia meaning . 8 8 ory oy tho wag t 3 #y tigions liberty has rom the west has reparedness are among united their bravery in and flity, teach the to a weat national qualities; aighest patriotism their own lives, are is served a more diplon men of relia FF &F &F Making the Human ° Race Healthier By Dr. Senn, Su rgeon, General ot lilinois, her highest skill her miformly wt while enemies even to their bod» ¢ x Bot by Com pels HE methods for the prevention of dizeases, w hich have developed wonderfully in the last few years, jad me to belleve that the outlook for the elimination of the white plague is very hopeful, Those affected will be isolated, and if this is done, preventives may be used until consumption wili be a thing of the past. The great work to be done is in medicine, for surgery long ago has reached almost its limit of perfection. Simplification in surgery will develop, but { think no great discovery in that branch of the profession remains to be made. In fact, | think that the greatest triumphs of surgery have been attained, and to make them more accoasible will be the work of the future. As the medical profession in late years has discovered the causes of the worst diseases. it will only be a question of time when preventives will he Siuatally sed. ‘The outlook then, is that the human race will be better phesically than it has ever been, innovation, “It neuld be a grave mistake,” sald the financier Why ths Notes Lost. { the advisabliity of the While the late Lord Goschen was | Chancellor of the Exchequer under | Lord Salidbury it was proposed to! “Why?” queried Mr, Goschen, bring out £1 notes, Mr. Goschen, as! “Well, you see, you can toss with he was then, was rather doubtful of ja sovereign but you can’t with a £1 the value of such notes, and he con: | acte,” was the reply, and the £1 notes sulted a well known financier ag to | wera «halved. ~The Cleveland Leader, én One of these northern woman found He DASE ower +h as women women as that often leads to dishon- wwas every detail of barking business as i in She started in the president fifteen at Bennett exists the was bookkeeper rose 0 the position of as * ss # after that the institn. and was ident 2 shier vice-pres of years ago she became pres spends business hours in financial] affairs, looking the interests of the Six fdent She touch with alt closels er bank Nirs tensive Bennett's father was an ex- lumber dealer in Ness City his death, and her husbahd is now in the business there She art a graduate of the Woman's of Techypical Design of New York City before lumber and Is Institute Hikes WOMAN IN JAPAN'S HISTORY Women played an important part in the early history of Japan, To a woman. the Empress Jingu, belongs the glory of the first conquest made by Japan, that of Korea, A. D. 201, says the London Chronicle Dressed as a man, she led her fleet over the unknown waters, across which she alone believed a country lay to the westward, “If we succeed,” she said to her “the glory will all be yours. 1 will be responsible for the infamy of a possible defeat” The Koreans laid their wealth at the feet of the conquerors, and the King sworg that so long as the stars shone and water ran down hill Korea should be faithful to Japan, This achievement: of the dauntless empresas gave rise to the proud boast of the Japanese “The arms of Japan shine beyond the seas” But the most important fruit of her victory was the introduction of Buddhism from Korea, as well as Asiatic at, chiefs, science, medicine, and I'terature, never actually The and nave Jingu, however, wag proclaimed head of first female since her time governod he empire, was Bulko, empresses ruler eight Japan, some of them great wisdom, LOCK DeCOIIng BEAUTY 31] hair g Silver and enviable old ft gives an alr « ness to the face with a nothing i | a3 BABY WOMEN Baby women ar individuals, no matter what who are always hurt whenever from home In church work they nuisance for no one them, If the baby claims to deal with for she offended if not asked recite on every New Haven Regis'er tt unfortunate their age ir feelings ture away having the they ven are a positive can dispose of woman has to celebrity some she is still worse h be to play or occasion. ~ to si possible FASHION NOTES One of the novelties of the seasod {s the linen hat embroidered in color No matter how cheap the material, i# a suit fits well it well. Earrings may really be said to des worn now, though they are not at all common. The vogue for white petlicoats 's increasing The bias front-panel of a striped skirt takes on quite the air of a gar niture because the sides and back are straight. The mousline sash has ridden into the sartorial world on the crest of the Oriental wave that drought the kimono sleeve into conventional dress There is almost no limit to the uses for point d'esprit, since it is equally appropriate for a gown or bedroom curtains or numberiass kinds of fancy work; and indeed, after {i has served one purpose it may often be pressed into other use, Trimmings are almost entirely con. fined to broad bands of insertion or embroidery on skirts or for the simp ler materials, bands of the material cut on the bias form the trimming. Navy blue {gs more in favor than it was at the beginning of the season, especinlly mixed with crude green and mandarin, yoks
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