I I A Sr ———. yo CRCHARD ~and™ = (TARDEN Aging - og TE di - ~~ HOW HEN LICE BREED No bird or animal Is tormented with lice more than the domestic hen, yet care of herself than sho ev she takes greate: any other living creature, her toilet dally, arranging feather and resorting to every method to rid herself of the pests, which efforts would be ghie could control the ¢ who us HARKS ery mnditions for build poul- much of doing leave so many hid lice that it is almost reach them except labor. If were y UNE bro Those Houses to save as cost as possible, and by so . i y are liable to places [or impossible to 18 and patient walls of poultrv-houses the presented would great. of the plastered walls are than boards, generally hiding reached with liquids, the house must be in order to $0 breed in The roosts to the hem off with the d i from the breed never They tedion the plastered, smooth surface facilitate the keeping uouse of 1k but expensiv and will not be breed in the y clear more rough adopted places de the red hen, IST the roost supplied goes on gray hens, and lice on arge the are poultry-house« . at as they of the 0 remove the skin kind of of increase or The n in is perfeet- chew in a thorough Crushed oats of the or and nanner grin than require on the the horse former ding part whole and to animals that therefore more suit the latter with their teeth ven long experience horses generally held faith that crushed oats are not so suitable as for that hard condition fast pace oats, for feeding Are able roubled are than with of the whole oats be in at a horas are required and to do Times to word Indiana CORN OR CORN MEAL FOR HOGS. A careful line of experiments Station to of shelled corn fattening pigs and corn meal for It was found that the corm meal was something bet. ter, not always enough better as fattening food to pay for cost of grind. ing. The higher the price of corn, the greater the saving through grind- ing, since cost of grinding becomes advances. Thus, with corn at twenty. five cents a bushel, the saving from prinding was only 1 1-2 cents, but the corn at seventy-five cents a bushel the saving from grinding was 4 1-2 WA Sn The corn meal quicker matur ity than whole corn The pigs eat more of the and make some what larger gains It is sug gested that meal could be used to good advantage in finishing off of which were at first fed shelled American Cultivator, bushel, somew. at per produced a meal daily corn hogs corn lot DON'T SELL THE GRAIN The experience of farmers in Ohio Indiana and sections of Illinois should the importance of keeping on our farms in order to Keep fertility It is stated that farms in Ohio began to decline about emphasize | stock up soil and the next census | showed that live stock was declining i in the state very rapid rate | What has been the result? Look | the smal) grains, tell the story of reduced better than this, farmers out more commercial of Ohio is ol) years ago, at a at vields of wheat and other They anything else Be in pay than $2 year fertilizers What is true of parts of In. and southern Illinois Under cropping there {8 no under the keep up our without buying fertilizers, or by the crops grown upon the | farm. The peas in { southern Illinois and feeding more | live stock is helping n there { And since the alarm ound ed thousands of are tur their are soils sides | ing | fcr | true { diana | our Ohio are LOO UW a system of way sun to soils | feeding Erowing of ccw atters been farmers fields to clover their Indiana filling live stock up with YOUNG HAY FOR On most ity of hay Fi land plece of grown and on account handled 80 rank Marine Monster of iNGor other nat our fo would have a leading uava ‘The size have reached its The French, indeed lv built a 172 beam, of ship of most extraordi nary size feet k tonnage about she Is pronounced for service.” And marine monster 1500, whose size made her so unwieldly that ‘she hath never been out of harbor,’ was but a third as long as our latest eriiser, little more than two-thirds the width, and a sixth of the tonnage fact, she was relatively so small that she might easily, one would think, he een carried on the Indomitable's deck Although a fifty-acre had pro vided her timbers and it had taken shipwrights a year to build her, was than one-tenth that of her successor of today." West minster Gazette nches bs the X50 but unfit tons: to ww entirely thia An vet of ve forest iM her total cost leas A Florida Shark Story, A tarpon pursued by a sbark aear Garden Key in one of its tremendous leaps fell across a skiff containing {two fishermen who were so busily en gaged with a net that they did not notice its approach The skiff broke tin two, the fishermen became entang led in the net and the shark togk a huge bite out of the side of one of them, Belton Larkin, cutting his body inearly in two, It is thought the shark | mistook Larkin's body for the tarpon {it was In pursuit of, for sharks in {these waters have never been known | 10 attack a man Punta Gorda Herald, IS MARS INHABITED? ASTRONOMICAL OCCURRENCE. Home of intelligent Exists With Reference to Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, cir some Of the eight cling around the respects the very small, having a more than half as great and only twice that of the moon, while the case is far rea planets which go sun Mars is in interesting It is diameter not as the earth's most ver, to sus intelli from proved, there is better on that it is the gent beings, not ver man, than can hold- ing such a theory regar other member of the sun's family except, of the earth nothing can be seen on the surface of Mercury and Venus Jupiter Saturn have their curious other mark- ings, but a fancy that those two bodies are yet hot to life N and Uranus only far but afford no which judgment based next the planet is a next to In copic examination which home of different for ding any pect be presented course, Next to and belts and trologers too sustain not on be are sign can Mars earth, ptune away any Now. outside that orbit of lies the door neighbor, so of and the next place, teles. reveals n speak any cur lous features cannot be i other doubt, thi planets internreta tion nterpretations » wonderful lines 5 oun ' ge “canal convenience word and of canals from thirts bundred and fifty theory. one miles wide dis credited the too, for a while A Boston however, notion dently black astronomer, Percival Lowell, hit more plausible He and now confi believes, that these grayish markings which come and go, indicate vegetation made possible by irrigation. He thinks that the belts represent follage, but that the foliage is made possible only by an elaborate system of small channels, radiating from a trunk canal which is itself in visible. The changes in distinctness which Schiaparelli noted, Lowell ex plains by the succession of seasons which shut off and the water supply The lines, it is admitted, arc more clearly visible in spring and summer than in winter. Mr. Lowell is a firm believer, also, in the genuine- doubling of the Many astronomers hesitate to g0 far, and prefer to express no opinion on the nature of the lines. A few are outspoken on their skepticism about the existence of the finer ones and the phenomenon of doubling, re garding most of the stories on the subject a sthe result of some sort of optical delusion .- To get around any suggestion of that sort, Mr. Lowell undertook to photograph Mars two years ago at his private observatory in Arizona. This vear he sent a party to South Amer fea with a powerful camera on a sim. flar mission. A few days ago he re. ceived a telegram reporting that some. tine of the sort had already been upon a fancied, roeatore ness of the reputed lines 80 Until it is have the ones known thus how many depicted, ae well ag recorded, done. canals whether the wide and whether any been HDATrTOW ones have been evidence of duplica the narrow well the wide ones have been recorded, and whether Ones as as evidence of duplication has been expressed clew the of obtained, however, light to be hie Piao any safely, If no to nature lines Is on their genuineness seem assured. The full report the tographers will be awaited with eager Ness, Now of RABBIT SCALPS IN TRADE. In Western Kansas They Are Ex changed for Groceries. Did ever hear of rabbit scalps being rated as an article of commerce in the ut you exchange butter? the or as a medium of manner as eggs and Kan , Wakeeney, cents each same in Trego which is five scalps, no matter whether tuna 1 full W. J. Williams, who is the in Wakeeney, months County, country seat of the mer chants pay for rabbit the unfor te “bunny” was grown or not proprieion of a store bought 2,840 during the March, April and May this year, John Keraus, another bought BTOCeryY merchant of the same place, scalps, while no fort merchant in little town paid fot rm legs than 500 scalps farmers and punchmen to the county Umbrelias, 3 rom Pompeii, Naples, dating ut S00 B Beaten, shman some old Ir who had wale ions given by a de them for sale among A smart American touring the Emerald Isle, try his old one of and “These small apples over here, my friend. In America we have them at least twice the size” The Irishman slowly removed the vipe he was smoking from between his and coolly surveyed the speaker from head for a nd two. Then, in a tone of mingled pity and reproach, he exclaimed “Shure, sorr, you must be Ireland and know the fruit av our country, can't tell apples from Chuma to rT and exposed his student who ai % y him friendly other goods wae wishing to wit on the man. ook sald 114 ui th va lona ne mei are you grow to foot soe or a stranger very little about whin you gooseberries!’ in a A A AL A, “Was the deceased in the habit of taking any drugs?’ asked an English coroner of the witness. “Oh, yes” sald the witness” “What drug did he take?” asked the Coroner. "Oh, re plied the witness, surprised, thought you sald ‘grub.'” —-—— The average rent paid for New York city tenements and apartment houses built within five years amounts to $146 annually for each person living in them, - NOW THE BRITON NAY Famous Bill Become: London galized in The H« at its third re: Throughout by Lord Salisburs used every trick being reached The peers, retrospect | aw rei ively legitimati These marriages, though lawful the colonies, were void in Ei The whole country rejoices passage of the bill into law King Edward notified that he thought the bill and thiz had much ing through The passage of Sister's lative struggle, dating early history of the church Previous to 15633 marriages of con- sanguinity and affinity were wholly govered by canon law and such mar- riages from 1532 to 1835 were void- able In the latter year the Lynd- hurst act made past marriages of af. finity valid and future marriages void. The House of Commons at first rejected the prohibitory clause as re- gards marriage with a deceased wife's sister, but afterward accepted it. A royal commission was appointed ————— in the Lords should pass, to do with its go- ack to the Belmont and Ryan Fall Out. Friends of August Belmont and Thomas F. Ryan practically admitted there was a grave breach between the two financiers, and an effort by the Belmont interest in the Interbor- ough-Metropolitan to throw the Met. ropolitan Street Railway syetem of New York City back on Mr. Ryan's hands was predicted. Money Market Relief. Secretacy of the Treasury Cortel you aranounced a new plan for money market relief. \ Tor wARy Tets // (» in laws, and attempt House of Ommne LOMmMons examine from 1849 uy madi lords and the Commons were i tO pass As a rule the 1 t bill by a e majori been thrown out by the rough the aggressive oppositio: he bishops and a few ultra peers, although King 12 when Prince of Wales. set example of voting for On August 20 last and animated debats Lorde. by 111 to 79 votes, second reading of the bili, minority every one of the seventeen igh who are members of the Hous Lorde, and as the measure had ur viously passed the louse of Com mons this law arg i erdies lay after prolo the Sister's the SERRiOn it nov becon Mrs. Dills Buried Alive, | Mrs. Susan Dills and her sities: year-old grandson, James Co were | buried alive in a mica mine near Syiva, N. They were visiting Mr {| Dill's mine, when an excaval.on oe. (curred, and they were smothered io death. Haywood's Tour Abandoned, William D, Haywood, teeiing 12° i Strain of the trial through which he , passed in Boise, ldaho, has given un { his proposed tour of the Kast, and + will return to Denver
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