NOTES OF THE FARM.
What can be done to induce farts
ers to be a little more thorough in
destroving weeds?
There are often crops on one
side of a Hne and poor crops on the
other, but ‘the cause ls often misub-
derstood.
For a
better than a
good
farmer a good
“good front.” Still
valuable alds.
Hens bred for phenomenal egg rec
ords are not so have sirong,
rugged offspring.
may be
apt to
ty eggs per hen per annum Is mighty
good laying, and good enough for us
Extra heavy
yearling
their second year as
There is no such thing as an egg-
laying type. The trap nest exposed
that theory beyond a doubt,
Hens fo for egg production will
in time produce a weak generation
Pure food is the safest stimulation
10 use,
Heavy winter
ummer lay
layers as pullets and
not so valuable in
steady layers.
hens are
reed
layers
“Hrs
largest eggs
layers.
more
the gize
3
COI01
egEs
as
have trouble,
or twice ti
Cowg
kindness
results
fal to
never
Was
Did
horse roliing afte:
work? is s much of
him as a bath Is to you
the narmess and give
then use the curry
For green feed for
nothing. quite
clover chopped
then fed as
thrive on
af 2 .
Said day s
treat oO
Take off
HANDI
One
know
the ti
them
them
ing
lusty brood
always condi
following
the b E38
ed all
mares
ble duty,
best of
them from
We have
have the trampling
the team all day in the
the coit in a
makes extra work, until the
a month old, but ft will save
and much annoyance after that
mare will have to be handled as care.
fully as the colt. She is apt to fret
until she becomes accustomed to be
ing away from her colt, her wilder is
apt to hurt her, if it is not relieved
frequently. All of these things. with
hard work, will naturally eut
down. . Feed well, be patient
both mare and colt, and after the first
six weeks, you will have
trouble Indiana Farmer,
found it
along
fleld
home.
Keep
This
colt Js
hii all at
ox stall at
PASTURING SPRING WHEAT.
A subscriber wants to know wheth-
er it will injure spring wheat to pas
soll and the season. If the grain
crop hag come on early and shows a
very rank growth, pasturing it mod
erately will no doubt do it good. This
will naturally induge shorter straw,
and the crop will not be go apt to
lodge.
grain for that matter, are sown on
very rich ground and the early grow
ing season ig favorable the grain ia
apt to grow too rank, heuce tha straw
and much of the
Hot
flelds with
to bite down too close. Of
the sheep would graze over the fleld
more evenly than cattle Another
don’t allow stock on the flalds
ground is ana
breaks
pasture these spri
sheep, for they are
COUrst
when the soft. —ind
Farmer.
HAWKS BENEFIT TO FARMER
Fortunately the economic
American hawks and owls
rest upon mere theory or general
without proof. Bulle
3 of the Biological Survey deals
the food habits of hawks and
United States,
examinations of
Such large se:
common
further
8}
upon
more were
that
species
investigations
and emphasize
verdict— that American
owls, as a whole, AMONg
friends of farmer and that
a few harmfu
beneficial,
The most
enemies of
are
the
species are more
formidable
field mice a:
and it may be of
that complaints
partment of Agricullu:
predations of fi
receive
l¥ numerous
cout
n wiere
bounties have
Crowd
BEDS FOR (OWS
ROOTS FOR THE BRROOD S80W
bulkey
ith BO
to £0 unchet
tral munst
Injudicious training
even depart
fOr
ious.
op and vices
to the horse which do not n
belong to Its dis
Journal.
position
CARE OF POULTRY
Poultry generally suffer from pre
Naturally they are
fow
overfed,
pure
st b-
diseases. If
not
food, supplied
and have an
abundance of pure alr in thelr roost
ing places they will live and thrive
without any trouble except in rare
Farmers Home Journal,
Jeet to
clean,
close,
very
not
fed
Kept
up
with
cooped
KEEP WATER BEFORE
Fannie M. Wood in the Indiana
Farmer, says If youg chicks
ard loft too long without water they
will drink too much when they do
get it: then we are very likely to
have sick chicks. Water should he
kept before them all the time. A
shallow pan covered with a light
board filled fall of auger holes is
good way to give them water so they
OHICKS
England has about 13000 square
miles of coal flelds,
Men with blue ‘or gray eyes are ab
the best
Aked Rockefellers
Pastor. Asserts
®
£
| Tells His Parishioners that
It is Not in Touch
With the Times
é Says the Church Needs
s Money----Clergyman
¢ Appeals for More
$ Generous Support
6
a
for It----RocKe:
feller in the
Audience
Pe@o@ WB 88+G No @+@ QV veg +@-G+Q+Qeag
The Rev. Dr
preaching in the Fifth Avenue
Church, New York c¢ ly,
{ hurel attend
Charlea PF. Aked,
decline ance,
*lared that the Church is
touch with
was
v
sald world ppeal {or
more support of ever ind, fing
i, wig heard b) I Hocke-
Rockefeller, and John D
The
us
“Whee the Church Loses.
fenoming
Take on
aptists « America
a
AWERS
“Let us
from us
look at this great
New York, Fifty years ago tl
here
hurches Now there
were
are
haz In
churches
we should
the population
faster. If the
port won
instead of 1.200
§ Ago was ofie «
New York for each 2200
iz but one church for 3.100
ine # “+ tatie 1
In Engilas
3. in aly. and
the same cory
Only lately 1 was falking to an
English clergyman. He that
not merely was there a great fail
off ir churchgoers in England but
that the class of
2.000
there
hurch
Now
ACAr
told me
people wi frequent
churches were becoming infer
What a great field
th Avenue for us
Yet
city who are
centre
of empire! there are one mil
ion in
Roman Cath
and who must
thiz million
churched it ia
this
not Jews
nor les,
fans
But
not classed in any
of there Protestant de Rominations to
which it should belong Vhat
is a church withoh! a congregation?
“The age gone
ahead, but we have made no progress
in the old formulas, the old theology,
the old sanction. We gare afraid to
gpeak of religion. When we co so we
peak with bated breath, get
iY.
fda
spirit if the has
anok
An Age of Ambition,
“This is an age of great schemes,
of great ambition.
to do for Christ? What
done? We are content to go on the
the same old way, unsuited to the
Himes We want to
the young men. We want to
to a higher class and In a higher
way. We want “pre achers of tho
highest type—aspiritual and prophetic.
I am not speaking of myself, but
though there may be exceptions
thera may be foolish men, even bad
ones, for a time in the pulpit--spirit
ually you can rise no higher than the
level of the pulpit.
"We wine more fsachers, more
schools, more churches and larger
ones, to hold the 40000 Baptista of
this city. We require a larger build.
appeal
is not elbow room for all who come
here,
“But when we make an appeal we
are met by a Sh of commercialism,
We have not yet
asked
recent article
“What are
“Is Christianity played out?”
man, quoting a
current magazine
causes?
the clergy
in
Lhe
“First, 1
is out of
would say
with
that the pulpit
the times. Ev
erything has progressod except Chris
tianity. Many thinkiug and progres
give young men and women have heen
driven from the Church by the
pidity of the preachers. The pulpit
touch with the times.
iife of grinding poverty,
the same old
years, hidebound
we have be-
parrots of
of preach-
touch
out of Com
pelled to a
treading always
of a
restricted in
come the
paths
thousand and
our actions,
laughing stock
dead Church cries Instead
he living Christ.”
then referred to
Dr. Aked
of the coll
the
clerical
. quoted flgures to show
serious falling of among
Methodists, and Presbyterians
ery
stu
the
ists,
the
ages for more
and
Bapt
for
More
want
Money Needed.
"We more more bulld
train for
look at the op-
with every race coming to
I know an Italls Baptist
4
minister 1 know none fitter for the
money,
young men to
ministry vast
portunities
shoraes
for
sion than he. He has labored
seven Rome Naples,
want
gion,
£4
Qp-
men
MAKING A HIT WITH HIS BOYS.
Sunday School Teacher Finds a New
Way to Keep Up Class Interest,
bought tickels
f and his party
bad a more
and the Sunda)
forget he
never appre
teacher won't soon
rRHoon’s experience
took six mont Sunday s
ons to wipe out the memories
afternoon, and teacher
an announcement that gave him
ute control of every
has of
the
made
boy for life
1 Sunday
who ever asked if any
the golden
merely sald that
that
know how to
{| arranged to have the
admitted to a “really
fc contest in a nearby
abso!
as the best
memorized
believed every
defend
out his prom
Sunday
school accom-
bovs. It is one
in which
developed a
out of the Christmas,
New York
very next each
Sunday
new
went 10
hree
by 1
few cases on record
ay school! clase
vrei hy
or picnic season
A Double-Sided Hole.
story of German “thr
at the expense of the pro
of a circulating library, who
charged for the wear and tear suf
his books at the handg of
One volume came back
to hiz serutiny., “See he ex.
claimed, “there is a hole on page nine.
my beautiful book. And see
wont on, turning over the
“there lz another on page 'wen-
ty "The Argonaut.
Rural Civilization.
If we can solve the problem here
of creating a rural civilization, which
{11 retain and attract the rural in:
habitant and keep him from the con
geated city Ife, we will not only have
done a great thing for Ireland, but
will have given something to the
world for which it is groping. There
are greater games than hunting the
fox, and more excitement! and delight
to be found in their pursuit irish
Homestead.
atest ir
prietor
fared by
patrons
here”
teen of
here,” he
cots and Scottish History,
Nobody is more proud of his na
tional history than the Soot, whether
he be “le moyen homme sesuel”
a pillar of any of our national Zions
But robody knows less his natdonai
history than does the Scot. The Scot
of any class {x proud, and justly
But go on to talk with him over the
victories of Byland and Brauge
Some
CuUsiLIons
Heavier flowered
trien #llk costumes
Gilt buttons
are
ip Berve
IX cord and
approved trimm! ngs
Insert Mare as smart
Hoen other.
gethe
Coslumes as on any
Folds of chiffon
may form the lar
The new
backed by a
or lawn,
Llered linens
whether
or hk
Perhaps no
combination w
soft dull blues
A novelty
shops are
contracting
pink or well
Dyed 1.4¢ made
lighted sade is
new mart blouses which
skirt in oolor
In some
gowns the
iated by
which
wanted
Polka
fagotted 1
on a dre
IW of
bow of white
are
plain or striped
makes a daint
ream lace
fash
seen In many of
color
ith ¢ than
NOW 80 ionable,
suits with straps o
shade pale
Ow
over chiffon
Ome Of
matlcn
nnial favorite,
and alw {
of the
they «
should yr
A di iVIRY
med lingerie
Brown will
ramarkable
shade” i
an exaggerate
Cap "
Gold and
gleamed on
ionable wedd
A large
short ostird
retie
iarge black
A gown of blu
embroidered bod
is greatly
The
very
ice over §
admired {
newes? {
short
enough to hug
The much
fect iz height
whose chemisette and
tucked mull by insert!
shoulders pleces of fancy
Among the new shirtwalsts Is
having no seam on the
requires no more ma than
of the usual and is quite
make
The gauze dresses with
coals are i
keeping
ty and
devise
Serge auite in all
with piping or
black or
probably be
bers
neck closels
fesired broad shoul
ened on those
“ioeves
i
HK
lace
shou!
terial
cut,
acoompan i
with
t hon
Laem
delicate
white and
collar and cuffs «
worn in about
equal num
PHILOSOPHY OF SHOP
“Shopping is not such a bad
for us women,” said one of
though the newspapers often ridicule
us and print paragraphs abow our
scandalous conduct at bargain sales,
For my part, 1 find shopping an ex-
cellent means of discipline. Without
ft women would not come into much
contact with one another, except in
a parely social way, where they are,
of course, on thelr best behavior, and
where they have, for the most part,
onl their personal acquaintances to
consider—no! the general public.
“Shopping, especially In the spring
and fall, certainly is a means of grace,
for the big department stores are
and no woman can expect
the personal consideration to which
she is accustomed at home or in
PING
thing
them, “al
loi and must take her turn at the
counter dike a man. She must be
patient, gentle, but firm, courteous,
both to saleswomen and other cus
tomers, quick to decide and careful
to ask no more than reasonable ai-
tention of sales men or women. She
also must concentrate on the busi
ness in hand and not be led astray
good Opportunities to buy things
really needs, although she may
have them
Nilo
of her
COIN es
hoide;
Enormous
“One cool and pleasant
avert a
of
torm or qu
80ine ent}
word
I like
mm .
he cievereg!
10 be |
adver}
factorily
fers a steady
breakers
“The New
wonderfu
fs
LEA FOR
In a
4
ing
Gibson
thelr
with
another
stance, and
WIDOW GOWN
who is eaid
late.
fash-
COR.
gensation
ng at a
{irectoire
h was cut
linging. was saplit on the
from to a point
Consum
art ig necessary for the wearing
ch a gown properly 8 We should
say it were ratlier a question of the
WeATror NOt ever
man
In the early years of the ninet
#
Wearer
mate
eenth
not
{reassess ”
only what
with
{ress
est respectabil
extreme] fine tus t the
skirts of gowns were of un.
length. The left side was made
shorter, either by being
No petticoat
open
their
Lael
Wwoped up
was wom
When Miss
altimore, married Bon
that all the clothes
have Deed
Alice Morse Earl
wadding gowns
wives in New Eng
ashed
under this
Patterson, of |
it was
robe
poke!
that
in a
the
low necked that
“incroyable.” slit
the waist.
worn un
outer cobweb-—desperately
attire, II would seem 10
Who knowg but that in
retvrn of
fashions slit gowns may yel be seen
here in pariors, and even in the street,
Boston Herald
Not French.
Who first introduced into English
that barbariam. “nom-de-plame.” un
der the apparent supposition that It
wae French? “Nomodeplume” would
seem to date either from the short
peace during the Napoleonic wars,
which enabled Girtin to produce his
beautiful views of Paris, or the period
when Charles Nodler wag accepted In
England as the final authority on
French Nterature: though, perhaps,
scant, «o
indeed
side nearly to
were
they were,
one
this
recent. At any rate, it appears nev.
or to have been French London