THE RIGHT KIND OF PLOWING. work can entirely overcome the ef fects of bad plowing to begin with. Plowing is the foundation of the crop to follow. A man who can drop a straight furrow is one who keeps pretty close watch of his plow. He may hold his handles loosely, and ap pear tio very easily and perhaps carelessly; bul ing every movement of the plow and ghifting the handles slightly one or the other that it may take more or less land. The plow of course, should be plowing do the sity for the plowman fo bear « ft with all his weight, nor to raise up on its hut ertheless ticn team lown on it point plowing constantly. needs ots os 2h sei Intelligent which is to plow portant even. The horses’ gaits should span. work king and {he ther I: in behing stant ki sometimes some! 3 out of tho furrow another thing best smite 1 eryly rpiy is and A sh 1d board will and hard and suitable for a s! plow v high curs th and Scot will tur erican plow | ar Fry n draft be S500 for the pal in. Let it steam can be ke and f a few | soaked, then hat Is wed mix water wi and put that to the and th petite more over ii, stiff mass. Feed while a little warm it with a ravi: ap Such a mash fed two or three times a week during winter will the healthy and the eo basket full-—~Correspondent and Fireside. forms a chickens a - 5 ey will eat on ke chickens vey of Farm | pork than others on the same food and even with a selected breed there | will be individual animals that will In | crease more rapldly than others. In { the winter season, if the hogs are ex | posed, twenty or thirty pound of corn may be required to make a pound of pork. Care and management im- | portant, as well as breed and food.— Epitomist, are OBSERVE SANITARY Roup may generally be traced to | uncleanliness or unsanitary condi tions, lice, dampness or drafts, or un due exposure to wet and cold weath: While roup is more prevalent in winter than in the summer time, cases of this disease are ent met h in the summer Over improper ventilation, flith ym rains and common sum CONDITIONS jer ‘the fr 1 Via freq bor i ly wi crowding and lack of protection Ni dampness are the most | ner causes of roup FARM NOTES a staple food greater be § hickory Nuts are are coming may into be good those land vi aE EL Keeping Dandelions From Lawns. who say the Lens 3 Li a pit when x 1 ex. aw Now goed in i tract the dandelion from the sod grass grows up quickly, fills the hol chokes dandelion ~Denver make a at ae THE PIG IS A BUNDLE OF PRO- TEIN. It 80 easy to throw a few scoops of corn to the bunch of broad | is out f sows, and I is the way many of them | are fed. The brood gow must be | looked upon as a pig factory, and the pig is a bundle of protein, as it were The sow:developing a litter of pigs must have this protein her food. Her system it, and she ravenously chance flesh or her way, The few wisps of alfalfa or clover hay falling from the load are eagerly licked, and if she is al lowed to go to farrowing time under. | going this protein starvation she ia feverish and constipated, and the con ditions are all there to produce a pig eating sow. Even If this does not occtir the pigs are lacking in vigor and vitality, and oftentimes the moth. | ¢r does not have a proper supply of milk. —Weekly Witness, supplied fairly devours in craves the carcass which comes } DRINKING FOUNTAIN, After sixteen years’ experience and | with varying success with different sorts, 1 have found the following the | most satisfactory and simple; Take a basin or crock that will hold two quarts of water and fill it! with pebbles a little - smaller. than | eggs. When, level full of pour in the water until the spaces between them are full, 8ink the ves sel in the ground until the rim Is an inch above. the surface, - The .chicks can run all over this, stépping on the pebbles and can drink the water without getting wet, as they cannot crowd each other into the water no matter how much they try to do so. It is easy to clean and will keep the water cool for several hours.-—Mary A. Lee in the Epitomist. i FATTENING HOGS, plied With Thumbs. Seven with twenty-eight rather men the remarkable rec Hoge and his six son on a ranch near Blacktower, thumbs is {i of John a, who NM The elder Hoge was born with two thumbs on each hand, both fully d veloped, and both under perfect mus- cular control. He is f six big healthy sons, has two exira developed and father’ The I'S live » the father of of wh each figut am thumbs, as well trol ontrol as their gnffer under ¢ men say they rity All wear gloves during certain sea. year, but In order fit their hands they are forced have them made to order, each with a dou 10 to M.} correspondence Denver Post - as Wedding Rings As Curtain Hangers A handsome tabernacle of sliver gilt has been erected in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in the new Roman Catholic Cathedral at West. minster, For years past, a —— in anticipation of gold rings on which the inner cur tains might Hang. She has suceeed- od in persuading many of her friends and relatives to leave at death thelr wedding rings for this service. At the present moment the curtaine cof slik Inside the tabernacle are sup ported by about fourteen golden rings which she has obtained, and on each bof them the namé of its donor I= egeribed London Globe, cane sugar to Loulsiana’s ten. The sugar estates of Natal represent more than $7,300,000, and gave employment Tt Is well enough to lay down the rule that ten pounds of corn ‘will make one pound of pork, but rules may not give the result expected un- less under certain conditions. Some last year to 7,137 indentured. cooiles from India ira Slain has an area of 0,000 square breeds of hogs will prodiva more > i miles. ——————————— ——————————— srid Ta yon, by Ketten, in the New Yor) IP ACROSS THE ATLANTIC Mr. Walter Well- vow York City writ f record ant airship i r with the pres clence of aerial navi 10 twO favorable Known with ar BUCCOEs condi to m is epoch convinces a scep- ticability of air- fits engines of as uments earth otherwise Inacces- the great unknown area Nit Pole iemonstration ure the rapid rth without bullding of aerial navies Powers in fact, Germany, France, Great Britain and the United States are already moving in that direction France has the Lebandy and La Re- publique alrea in commission, and Count Zeppelin's ship, it Ia under. stood. is to be taken over for German army The modern loon w 2 iy fe bal- en. id OF +» an effective make posit ing 's guns. © uable informa attacks upon 1 as cities, bridges camps of hostil explosives down motor She ran fon a mn her she pe Can Drop Esplosives on Enemy. f the aerial warfare of soni declared imprac- critics because the This phase o future has 1 ticable some dropping of a thousand pounds of ex- plosive from a ship of the alr would instantly cause her to shoot up to a great altitude. The critics who think this is a fatal objection are not famil- jar with the art of airship consfruc- tion and operation Dropping one thousand pounds of ballast or weight of any sort from a small balloon- {rigible like the one Captain Bald- win has built for the United States Government would, of course, the by a Q ous if she conld carry it But that weight suddenly released is a baga- telle comparad to the total lifting ca- pacity of such a ship as the Zeppelin or my polar airship, the America. {of between 21 the The gh droppi 000 and 30,000 pounds, America lifts 16.500 altitude gained by such one thousand no p thr . . 4 fv #5 pounds in a He ik resents ia shi 15 inmp j difficulties whatever In the airship of the futun sd for military or s¢ size ig sure to b importance Inter may be made and im hing ships, prac- tical i GRE, eriments requir ginesrs admit of the em {other metals, in | tures of bamboo Breaks All Records. Count Zeppelin has broken ords for length of run. But no reason why the military cri should bave a nt of three or {our Of course the the aimed at the gv quantity fuel that must for a given distance. A ship like th America carries three tons lene in her stecl tank, and of the be regarded as she can motor 130 miles about twenty English miles Count Zeppelin's remarkab is only a foretaste of what done with motor balloons in the nea: future Within a few years 1 expect to nee the Atl Ocean Cre an airship of the Republique or J ica in fact, the America er $1 the future not {of movems igand miles speed of © if in- the fluence winds neutral is nti type ars the of accident with winds A voyage fre Chicago, or vice vi scope, and 1 am st bring her over and give Americans a nonstrati of what a first class engineering con struction can do in the way of a lon voyage through the air in view of the success of the Zep- pelin, of the Lebandy, of the Re publique, and the undoubted abil of the America to make a longer voy- age than Count Zeppelin bas just made, many experts regret that the first venture of the United States Government in military motor bal looning should be with such a small affair as that of Captain Baldwin it has no class. It is too small. It has no endurance Pi d fo 0 To = give him a chance against United States Government enters the aeronautic field it should not be con- | tent to begin where foreign experi be up to date in size and engineering CONSUMPTIVES French Dodlor Finds In Chest LUNG CAPACITY. Paris. — While awaiting the discov. ery of some means to cure tubercu- losis scientists are searching for some erto has been most difficult Dr. experiments whereby an easy method can be established He examined women and girls thorax at the every year 1200 He measured the moments of extreme the difference | he found that the difference always {exceeded two and one-third inches, { reached one and one-sixth. He then measured a thousand sol |diers and found a differenece of from {half inches patients show that in ninety-eight per cent. of the cases the difference never i exceeded one and one-sixth. Audubon Society's Efforts Saving New Orleans.—The census of the bird islands on the Louisiana coast has been completed and shows a con- the birds In spite of Leavy losses through recent storms, The islands are nineteen in number and were given Ly the Federal and State governments to the Audubon Society as a bird reservation. At the time of the gift the sea birds on the Gulf const were nearly extinct, The census shows that 62,000 more China Bars Morphine, Asks Japan's Ald. Pekin. China has asked Japan to consent to the restriction of the im- portation into China of morphine, as well as the instruments used for the injection of the drug. All the other Powers long since agreed to this ro- striction. It is highly desirable that Japan consent to this proposal, particularly in view of the opium congress to be held in Bhanghal in January, When measures for thecontrol of the oplum traffic are to be devised. Taw wrod Many Species Now Nearly Extinet are mainly laughing gulls. Next In number are the Louisiana herons, the royal cabots and Forster's terns and black swimmers. Some of the varie ties are nearly extinct. There are twenty-two black crowned all once abundant on the Gulf coast, but killed off for their plumage. A number of eggs have been destroyed and young birds killed by recent storms. France to Use Posters to Gain Recruits, Paris. —The vote on two years of military service releases a number of men in the French regiments, There is also a scarcity of re-enlistments, The Colonel of the Twelfth Dra. goons, station at Pont a Mousson, has decided to adopt the Americab sys. tem of recruiting through brilliant and artistic posters depicting the ad. vantages of service, Including fancy cloth uniforms, the regular life in the service and at 10 p. m. bed for the petty officers. | What the American Newspaper Should Be By Secretary of the Treasury Cort HE 5 1} that elyou. dally newspaper | fcr the most part hastily made up pre. its news and oftentime i editorial are pared under the Urgency ration, but attacks upon must it 1s to be condemned all in; and rece purge itsell be true 10 1 i ne at ui) upon insinualion; i1. the fal should Case 18 man I his untii ALOYe ail ullied to a counting can find a couservator of opu yme it Of room cheap scribbler criticism public office but than that of | accountability. It the di Cady 65% raer of the land can be a great How &F The Age of Fraternalism. By Dr. Lyman Abbott, HE civilized We no fault and pre the CAD can eminator It can the &F Church a Workshop. Whe Seeks Life, 3e He Capitalist or Laborer. it Cannot Refuse Its Help to Any One Hletter By Bishop Daniel A. Goodsell, of Boston, fe tha : tie yn oe obligat &r Why Immigrants Like America By Prof. Emil Reich. FE manifest | States 5 iE influen of kind By locality 1 me ach’ ng many other ma of any of gishyadiv i 11 % sub-divisic ritory Bach that kit reonality of division eh § S13 gn HME p2Cu Throo 3 f yoe of me own 1a cijmale, sw Pes 11 u ly upon living fn and won nery and menial opie nfivence of the wh have been 1 gironges!, nor that Deopie the tha! the natives” tha that much in The nature, However, it jocality becomes inhabiting that certain locality for generations, the most valuable specimens of the c¢ffect of the It rather the persons who come 10 dwell in the juft their own in another district It is on 1 foreigners, that the jocality experis a most marvellous influence The man who in his own io« ality has become stale and inert will fregnentiy change conipletely upon his settling down in a new jocalily The new surroundings, the new iypes of men and women, of scemery, of climate, act upon him as an irritant or Incentive of a high order His energies, which In his old surroundings had become slack and somnolen!, now, in the new locality, wake up 10 a new life From having been an idler, a casual worker, or an indifferent laborer, he now feels electrified. The greater the difference between his old home and the new the greater will be the vitalizing power of the change of locality. A person leaving kis native Somerseishire for Oxfordshire will invariably feel a sound change coming over him in more than one respect. Should he settle down in London the change will be ever so much greater Should he decide to leave and actually settle in the United States, the change will be enormous, Few Americans are aware of one of the secret causes of the fact that the Yankees assimilate, without even thinking of it or without troubling much about it, milfons of Europeans not one per cent. of whom could have been really assimilated in Europe by the Pnglish, the Germans or the French, Millions of Germans become in the United States rabld Yankees in the cotirse of a few months, without any Americans so much as asking them to do so, while all the wisdom and power of the Prussian government has these one hundred years been unable to assimilate 100,000 Poles, fut when the German peasant arrives at New York, he has not been thers a single hour but what half a doen people have done him what is to his mind an exquisite and flattering honor. They have “stirred” him; they have sald “Yes, sir” or "No sir” In Europe the honor of being addressed by “gir” hae Wever been done him, although he was always expeoted “gir” every better dressed person speaking to him. For years this had rank in his heavy soul, and now a new flood of sensations shoot to his heart and brains and in that very moment he is a new man The Americans are guite unaware that that meaningless “sir” has do mote for the assimilation of millions of European mewcomers than have the paragraphs of the American Constitution, is are { the ocalit after having outsiders, is these very
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