4-(TARDEN
In view of the panic which over
came some people when automobiles
got thick on the roads, here is part of
a letter about the growing demand for
horses, by a writer in a Chicago pa-
per. This doesn’t look as though tha
horse was sick. The writer says:
until the vines interfere. The size
for pickling is from 214 to five inches,
A great difficulty is to keep the crop
closely picked. Cucumbers allowed
to ilpen will greatly lessen the :rop
and the work should be done by ex-
perienced and careful hands. Tha
crop may be taken to pickling fac
tories or shipped to the nearest large
city, or galted in brine and later made
{ap into pickles on the farm. The
last-mentioned plan is most profitable
where there is a local market for the
pickles, The pickling crop is an easy
te grow, The great difficulty ia
recently (and I verified his statement
80 far as was necessary to convince
able market. For this reason it is best
to begin with only a small area.—
twelve years ago, a colt, paying $60
for it.
tice till a few weeks ago, and then
he sold it for $175.
incredible to you but if you knew of |
some of the other horse dickers that |
occur at the present time you wouldn't |
be surprised. In the same Illinois |
i
i
blind horses sold for close to $150. |
Those blind horses tem or twelve
years ago wouldn't have brought $10
apiece, |
I traveled lately from Chicago, as |
far East as I could stand him, with a!
horse buyer from a good town in New
York state. He showed me a list of
the horses he had bought in the Chi:
cago market, with the prices annexed,
He had purchased one carload for a
town in West Virginia and another
corload for his own town. The prices
raad like fairy tales. Bat I have been
close enough to the horse market dur. |
ing the last six months to know they
were the bitter truth. Ome span of
black horses weighing about 1,400
pounds each, ha had bought for $480,
and they were not fancy horses either.
One of them, on the contrary, was |
touched in the wind—"“not heavy, ¥
know, but jist a little thick, y’ under-
stand,” as my informant put it
Teams of draft horses that rum in’
age from § to 12 years and in weight
from 1,100 pounds to 1,800 pounds a
horse sell for $300 to $700 a span.
These look like fancy prices, and they
are. In addition, not half the care is
displayed in regarfd to blemishes that
was shown formerly when prices rang-
ed more than 50 per cent. lower.
This and much other evidence that
easily might be secured ought to indi
cate conclusively that the horse has |
triumphed over handlebar and honk;
that he is here for keeps, and that the
demand for him will not soon, if ever, |
grow seriously less, But, of course,
the breeders will go ahead and supply
the demand and put the prices back
where they belong as measured by the
intrinsic value of the animal—In-
diana Farmer.
- en
JBRAINING MEADOW LANDS
- There is a certain carelessness
-about the care of meadow and pasture
ands which is hard to account for, It
may be that we are not yet far enough !
away from the wild lands of a decade |
or £0 ago to forget that they grow |
WPaxTrinnt grasses without care or
plow Any one who will take the,
pains to examine a dozen meadows
cannot fail to be impressed with the
lack of attention which these lands
receive. If a piece of ground is too
poor {0 grow a grain crop it Is turned
to grass: if it is too wet it is turned
to meadow, with the result that lots of
this land is not producing enough to
pay taxes on it
Drainage is the only thing needed to
these low, unprofitable lands
into meadows that will produce two or
mare t re of commercial hay,
The e growing now on much of
this i y practical value, but when
oner: The is subdued and dried out,
readily take hold and
‘gmake bountiful crops. We have often
worn why many continue to
BOW OXpens grass on these lands,
withont first getting rid of the surplus
avator and other vegetation that is not
congenial to grasses. Some of
tho fincst adow lanis we have ever
seen were a {ow years ago marsh
lands, whore marsh hay grew five or
six feet hich lands were first
drained Ly big open ditches, and then
were covered by a system of dies.
Within two years after the opening of
the ditches this waterlogged soil be
came dry cnough to work, and then
the sun and rains did the rest. Stag
nant water kills vegetation, Drains
carry off this water and let in afr and
sunlight and enable the soil to digest
she rain water as it falls and sinks
into the carth.
GROWING PICKLE CUCUMBERS.
A profitable crop for summer plant.
ing is the pickling ewcumber. It may
be grown to good advantage on a piece
of runout pasture land of medium
soll. Suh land should be plowed
early nnd thoroughly worked to set
loose whatever plant food is available
¥Freuh land of this kind is likely to be
free fi..0 the various blights and dis
eases . hich a0 commonly attack en
cumbers in old land. A gravelly or
clay ‘vam will be satisfactory. The
crop =houd be planted some time In
June. .. is a quick growing specialty
and “arvest beging the last of July
or the first of August and continues
aintil the vines are killed by frost
The best fertilizer i8 barnyard or
poultry manure, but good crops may
be grown with 4 small amount of mars {
are and an addition of fertilizer con-
#aining considerable nitrogen. The
sual plan in this locality Is to plant |
in hills about three feet apart in rows
six foet apart. On fairly clean land
spost of the cultivation may te done
with horse Implements. After all
danger of injury from insects is past |
the plants are thinned to five or six
convert
ns per ac
other grarzses
lered 80
‘Ve
tame
These
ie
MAINTAINING FERTILITY.
It is an old rule that proper field cul
ture should be the same as for a gar
den spot, which is te use plenty of
manure on small areas, work the soll
to a fine condition for seed, keep down
the grass and weeds and make every
inch of space produce to its fullest
capacity instead of wasting time, la
bor and manure over large fields that
can not be properly cultivated, Every
farmer knows that plant food in the
form of manure and fertilizer give
increased yields, but it may be a waste
of labor not to perform the work ol
applying such to the field at the prop
er times. Work improperly done is
sometimes a waste of labor and on
many farms there is often too mucl
work done for the results gained, fre
quently the mistakes made being pre
meditated and in deflance of experi
ence and reason. All plants require 3
sufficient amount of food, heat and
moisture to enable them to reach ma
turity and yleld to their fullest capac
ity and where the ground is annually
devoted to crops the gr at difficulty is
to retain its fertility and to secure
from it all that should be derived
under the best possible conditions.
Any diminution or deterforation of the
plant food in the soil must be
plied in some shape and it is import.
ant that the farmer attend to keep
ing the land up to a high standard of
fertility at all seasons, for land that
has been bountifully fed will be in a
better condition for a succeeding crop
while that which has been overtaxed
will gradually lose fertility and entail
an additional expense every years.—
The Epitomist,
resup
WHAT THE TRAP NEST
It shows which hen lays
It shows just what each hen is doing
It picks out the 300-egg hen, the
200-egg, the 100-egg, the 50-egg and
the drone. Feeding the is one
of the greatest leaks of poultry
man.
It picks out the
DOES
the egg.
drone
the
winter layer. It
acquainted with
each individual hen
The frequent handling and moving
hen from the nest tames her and tha
tame hen is a paying hen
It prevents egg eating, as the
prit is easily detecte and killed
It picks out the hen that
infertile egg, the brown, the
the vellow egg.
tI picks out the hen that raises the
best chicks Not always the high
est scoring hen winning
chicks,
it is the only practical way
breeder can pedigree his
try will in time be
other purebred stock
may placed in a buil
away from the laying
nsed sitting h
be
water. When
they shu
hens ( y cannot
and break the eggs
The trap nest
ance by which the
trigger which is
when enters
and she cannot leave
removed by hand.
A numbered band on each hen's
leg enables the owner to tell exactly
what each hen is doing by writing her
number on the eggs in the trap nest
~-American Farm World
cul
the
white and
lays
raises the
atock
pedigreed
be
for
removed once a
they
elves in and the
out so th
is
she
the until
nest
TO PLOW AROUND YOUNG TREES
First, get or make a short eavener
and whiffletree. The latter every far
mer will have anyway to cultivate in
tall corn. Fix the lines so the horses
will walk close together, and you can
throw the furrow toward the young
trees without difficulty with an ordi
possible, and without barking trunks
or breaking limbs.
To throw the furrow from the row
of trees get the beam over as far ge
ft will go in the opposite direction,
plow shallow and use one horse for
the last furrow, letting him walk in
the furrow. This will leave only a
narrow land along the row which the
harrow will smooth down, and no
trees need be injured.
Do not plow around a young orchard
from the outside each year or you
will have hollows on ona side and
hills on the other. It might be plow.
ed from the center every second time,
but the best way is to plow in lands
corresponding to the tree rows, throw:
fng toward a row one year and from
it the next Cor. Buccessful Farm:
ing. .
——— ani
When a wedding ring has worn so
wife will soon die,
|
“BLACK HAND"
———
WILL MEET
Washington, D, C
York and clsewh
to the bar of justi
the Knights of L
“
In the meantime,” he sald,
of the Italians as a race
people There {8 no more
than there was in the im
few vears ago.”
These statements
the Division of
danger
were
work of
Powderly, tormerly Grand Master of
of Immigration and now
Immigration.
are sober, law abiding, industrious
country in Italian immigration
races a comparatively
the
Mr. Powderly in a discussion
which was established by
the South,
fe
>
in Penn-
I was
were active
tion.
ization of marauding cutthroats
when its leaders wore hanged
“The Black Hand Society
Maguires
It
will
the Black Hand was organized
vomen and young girls
fal
ine
On
nt, patriotic organiza-
1 in Pennsylvani
fate that beled! the Molly
I found that on its native heath
-in fact, for the protection of
Hows
The black hand of
case of the Molly Maguires, brought
the sea, was ed and
planted io d States.
Molly Maguires.”
If Chief Powd
running the bigges
he d servants
Powderly did not say
Information will sol
ehol
ive t
being for noble purposes across
to ignoble purposes when trans-
All
y sunnlied
sung 4
forms of labor, from
Mr
Division of
d States,
on short not
intimated that the
was something
than
taten
“1 do not
any one country, We do not
¢riminals. Neither do we Ww
to let as much blood as they
less or gseased and w have
these classes do not come from any
have labor that we are
timber
want
ant pec
ho
t
i
have labor,
i year which
127; *
rhood of ;
Judge
ining
immi g come wholly from
who
litical beliefs want
who are s
citizens But
is because we
per cent. of bad
from other countries are
because of pt
on to become
ilar society, and it
rtal
uaa
reflected in Europe.
We've got to
We cannot very well exclude all
Every
d States,
but we must have laws that
States
United
-
may be
place as New York in a day or a year.
localities,” he sald. “When a family from a certain State in Europe setties
fn North Carolina or Texas and becomes satisfied its members write to the
with people of the same race and from the same common home in Europe.
{fmmigration into New Orleans and Galveston increased greatly. During the
vear the greatest number of aliens came from Italy, Austria, Hungary and
Russia. Those who went to Galveston were mostly Russian Jews, and thie
is an indication that the agricultural fields are offering more inducements to
such people. All through the South the number of foreign seitiers is grow-
good fields to bona fide settlers,
“1t is only a question of time when foreigners find out they can do bet.
ter in smaller places than In the big cities, but it is going to require a great
many vears for that fact to become general knowledge throughout Europe.
«rill shrink. This has been the history of immigration. The fact that the
United States pays higher wages than any country on earth brings immi-
grants here.”
ACCUSED OF KILLING BRIDE.
————————
Philadelphia.~—~A Coroner's jury
here decided that Mary E. Eilchen-
laub, a bride of only a few months,
was killed by her husband and his
mother.
Swearing to kill a druggist who
gave testimony against him and a
Coroner's detective who worked up
the case, G. Russell Eichenlaub, the
husband, was led out of court.
The testimony led the jury to be-
lleve that both the mother and son
procured cyanide of potassium.
DEFIANCE TO U. 8. COURT.
Young appeared before Judge Buna,
against the Northern Pacific Rallroad
Company to compel that road to
into effect the commodity rate law
recently declared fllegal oy Judge
Lochren, of the United States District
Court. ;
Judge Bunn fesuod the writ, which
Dipers were served on the rallrocd
fale,
A WOMAN RULER OVER
000,000.
The abdication of the Dowager Em-
press of China, which is announced
to take place the Chinese New
Year, will bring to an end a hall cen-
tury of imperial rule by a woman for
which there i8 no parallel in history
Catherine of Rus BOImMe-
thing like her But
Elizatbeth, ruling a nation as
large as New York the
day, and Maria Theresa withstanding
Frederick the Great,
sovereigns by comparison with
autocrat of the destinies 433,000,
000 Napoleon himself never
an aggregate of tribes
on
sia enjoyed
despotic power
about
of present
were as petty
of
people
ruled vast
and peoples,
What a tale of Oriental intrigue and
barbaric glory the secret chronicle of
the court of Tzu-hst or Tsian, or by
whatever name she should be known,
would make! What an opportunity for
Chinese GCramngnt or
a
Saint-Simon!
BO
of Greville
ived through
f the
In this court there sury
nineteenth century many (
ires of the Byzar » court of the
Greek emperors and
mediavel It
gla aspect
den faking
in 1871
the
who
the
Was
off
presumably
{1 iin
"yi 8 sis
romantit
at
palace
DOW
becams
i zu-hsl
favorable time
Her
to the
reactionary
best
ing fron
ening irom
possi
ern
y
mm iines
ih
reseed the
ng lessons
rom the West
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t
»
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§
i
potic mistress
York World
AN ADVENT
An adv
of her
RESS
enturess w
life in this «¢
begun 1 erve a
and horses and
away before the
riage arrived
man fell in love
ried her, and for a
to be content
8 quiet Jif
her
became the centre of the most vi
and
But
and retumed to New York and
set in the escapades in-
volved her in difficulty with the
and she to 1.
she consorted with thieves, blackmail
ers and crooks of other kinds. With
one of them she planned the robbery
of an express company and saved her.
self by a fight to Paris
taking with her the spoils of the rob
bery. Her protestations of innocence
and her remarkable beauty won
interest of an English lady famous
for her philanthropic efforts in the re.
formation of the fallen. Sha behaved
herself well for a time, but soon re
verted to her former life, She mar
ried a man who took her to South
America, where he had an appoint-
ment in Brazil. She ruined him and
he committed suicide. Returning to
London, she became acquainted with
a wealthy man whom she almost mur.
dered. Another plot to murder in
which she was engaged, ended her
criminal career for a time, for she
was caught, convicted and has been
sentenced to fifteen years’ imprison.
ment. She might have been a happy
wife and have made others happy, but
she chose the evil and became a curse
to the world and is reaping the fruit
of her sins. Christian Herald
THE VIRTUR OF A WHITE DRESS.
“0, mother, how pretty you loos!”
“How sweet!”
“Where are you going?”
“Guess!” 1 erled. “I'm going--going
~-going to stay right here with you
this afternoon.”
1 ended enthusiastically and |
smilad, My little ruse had succeeded,
Just a simple white dress had creat
ed the atmosphere that | wantel.
O00
escaped ondon There
from arrest
—— ———————
The chfidren were cross: 1 was
tired and irritable: yet 1 wanted to
patient and agreeable, | remem.
red, when a teacher, how the school
children had taken a dislike to a cer
tan dress 1 wore; they fancied 1 was
ulways crores in ft. 1 recollected how
pleased they were over a new gown
and especially over anything white
They begged me always to wear
white, Now 1 was resolved to test
again the Fower of the white dress
and see if it might not
my tired nerves
It was a dull
t warm fire.
react upon
but 1 had
1 selected a white waist,
thin, and alas! a little out
Then 1 found old
bit mussed, but clean
rainy day,
too of
yie. my plgue
I wore
neck
¢ halr A string
st sir
compieted my costume
a fainty blue ribbon at my and
to match in my
f beads
all a
with
blue
of lacetrimmed handker
sh of
used 10
chief cologne The
clas admire
‘teacher's handkerchief, s0 nice an
Now | wa
felt quite
restiess
the
“ohs!” and
gn my
of the
than
for the afternoon
to entertaining
children just
At
and
ready
equal
these
ing from
recover
chorus
gentle
touches
measles the
“ahs!” the
hair, the
string
repaid 1
loving
of beads, 1 felt
was actually
more
rested
while
low
0
the children were eager to fol
suggestion that 1
of a white gown!
Motherhood
every
the
mage
vi a ord
magic
SPINE
Here ig a
able to tell
1
general importance of
looking at
iackbone
if a
have fine
ge 3
i fie end
reget hard-won
ch woman has crisp feet
Beauty is one of
In
more bea
df a nation sink
are utiful
in rising ones women ex
means
strength
married
which is an
ribo og § 1
paysica:
Jeauly
parents
J of
do
out
shee; ideal to
f not alway
dying glory
their hay
# a practical one. The un
of the mes from
beaut! whatever they
if thirty vears
Lotties, Bettys
day
pon boys,
authors
given to
Herald
the nam
and
little
as
queens
Nn are
ristian
A RAINY-DAY PARTY.
the rainy day, which all hos
dread a barn-party great
clean, carriage-house
gwept out and made empty
For
is
fun A
casily
roomy
in decorat
Corn stalks
selves a whole afternoon
ing it for the evening
may be stacked in the corners and
of corn festooned across the
ceiling, with bunches of wheat and
on the walls For lighting, of
course, jacko'lanterns are the proper
and these are the funniest
squashes, for long, quaint, dis
faces result from their narrow
shape. These can be swung from
ceiling by strings so they will
down over the heads of the
lancers below,
For music there should be nothing
conventional, of course. The very
best thing possible is an accordian, if
that is obtainable, If not, there may
As to refreshments, doughnuts and
clder—<the latter served with straws
bread cat thick, and po and mo.
in keeping with the spirit of the
party. — Harper's Barar,
The value of settlers’ «fects taken
into Canada by American immigrants
in 1906 fiscal vear was $1.15895.8
against only $11.227 by Britisa Ime
migrants and only $6,244 by all other
Immigrants.