ADVANTAGES OF It is usually estimated 0 cents to $1 per ton into but Know SILAGE. that pt that mn it costs to corn Lae ny 810, cents that of corn yie tong on my one acre fourteen for 37, The 150 me ang or same his hol susael $8 for a good More raised It is Erow The ing may strap around the just of the udder, drawing it tight, The most profitable use for our’ skim milk Is to feed it back to cows | which are giving milk Uaed grain it Increases the milk flow great. ly, and Is worth at least half a cent | per quart for this use | When potting plows and bay tools | away for thes.sésson coat them with a mixture two parts bBenzine and one part parafiine olild. The benzine dries off and leaves enough parafiine make the metal rust proof. and | on n't good it is to persists he gio milk. placing a in front moderately bo iy with | to | } SHEEP BENEFIT ORCHARDS. The greatest value of sheep In an orchard Is found, probably, in their being used as a means of fertilizing orehards, I put In somewhat early In the gpring and fed a suitable supplement. ary food with the grass which the orchard may furnish, it will be found that the sheep will thus convey fer. tility to the land, and they will do 80 In a marked degree if fed on rich kinds of food. Suoh foods may consist very large ly of wheat bran, which is In itself a valuable fertilizer, It may be wike to emooursge the sheep to eat freely, to add a little grain in the A little oll-cake will the food. . The droppi chard will tend hment, +f i oats, also form improve thus left in much ngs very enrie outcome will portion 1 thus he ation t. of course thant sat provided of fertii © sition thers FEEDING ALFALFA TO HORSES yf the Breeder's clean seed aband infed | Satan and Flowers Diabolical Action of Certain Plants in Mythology PEG BYON PW OW INOW INI PRIN The traditional personified Power of ien is, he of the a ail, association lvil of course, familiar kindred or evolved of tl most fuscl comparative i tan scarcely in any lue that we find hig uring so frequent clature such mon: and Bil to and pie of ie nating siudies i Bat it that it be contended way As80¢C fig- hia folk nomen- But com Majesty iy of flowers and shrubs Cnses by far diabolic are Hs the greater num! refer to ations apples” of t devil's deadly par easy vil ‘s I the { the ries exon to underatan: the daisy his it to ber Gevi flower. nor the ox-ayed fay: still mos puzzling the gariic is ing oy vo dts ming for Ye him | when account “pos y."” wae cll to hy } made i sublimate «oak ng gtility Poyven orn. «= a COW should PAYING man HERD No dairy be satisfied stop Improving his of cows until has herd he vitght them up to producing yr annually nearly 200 to } pounds of butter iI requires a product | pounds of butter a year to a cow. There of - keep and is no at least nue no herd one should stop improving his of cows till they are brought to a profitable basis Careful bred bull of a butter ztrain at the head nd good management otherwise, are the factors underiying the making of will average 240 to 260 poundg of Lutter a year~-Indiana Farmer. EFFECT OF COLD ON COWS. The Department of Agriculture has received a report of experiments made in Germany with mileh cows. Dur ing a period of ten days In Novem ber In which they were turned out of doors for three hours each day a herd of 80 cows produced on the average per day 1.461 pounds of milk | and B88 pounds of butier, whereas during the preceding 10 days, In which they were kept the entire day In the stall, the same cows produced on the average but 1.249% pounds of milk por dav and 50.6 pounds of butter. The general health and appetite of the of doors each day. A man breathes about 20 times a minute, or 1,200 times an hour. of Chase i some. is which of il did and divine medicine.” This a tion of vervain with tion reminds us that there oug plants with which not written down” in. thelr names, | the devil Is connected The devil | fs sald to exercive the stilotent gnar- | dianship over the magical fernseed | (which gives the power of being In- vigibie), and the only time it can hw obtained from his cuxtoly iz on Bt John's Eve. Another jegend has for {tg subject the favorite sweetbriar, or eglanfine, always associated with the well known references to tof Shakes peare and Milton and Tennyson. The thorns point downward, and the rea go given lg that after his fall the devil essayed to clamber up to Heav. en by means of it, the eglantine then being a stately tree, But when it proportions wore reduced to a mash, “out of spite he placed its thorns in their present eccentrie position.” Still stranger fs the countryside legend that associates “our gentleman in black” with the blackberry, After Michaelmas Day-—and the folklore records Include both Old and New Stylen—it 1s wrong, or at least im- prudent, to pick blackberries, for on that day the devil--according to lo eality—apita on them, treads on them, casts his cloak over them or throws hig club at theme—the last in. jury being one of the very few occa: sions on which the foul fiend is as. signed a weapon other, perhaps, than the “pitchfork” of some old plotures. but dey venefie, wef Hou 1s reve : gsocia the diabolic ar numer “though it are be | i 5 ewen hinhiaddadedd INEGRU O*'NNERS OF LARGE | FARMS. | Bame of the Most Great Tracts of Cotton Lands. The | Caroll "used | has | cut | the DIgRest negro farm na in Marion to Tracy Alford, invested his far: helt, | of Sumter and even of field, who Land will | bales, and FOS sf C i is County be but Tracy in n do regard! and Wi hins is make Mu liam even o Hill, wh A year, Butler | ing five fa Wro, who Marion General, quiet, unas looking ns Foy lives ab miles Mn court hous iis truly the ! South a In i without a ACres acres (41 toa stag 1 Har ious of wn smooth clothes for a wardrobe o and thick aHoris: a gO a for the seashore wardrobes for 4d fen i gE ha _— NO RUSSIAN “Tell you repeated the Countess chine, the Russian Cone over 'o this CLUBS Rus about fan Lydie woman Couniry 1 to «¢ i lectures 316 h 4 waved su iject very her LAandas nany times, 10 expre topic, “You want women have clubs of the higher class 8 only iffled No, ' to piay countess of cards corresponding #* en haye Our would 141 koe tion dm oountionss pressive) FEVER view all ds IY ne Well. b use You ean't) things.’ was tl . Peraonally necessity one n goe the told him that t holiday oonsisted of oon gald se fe ¥ Wigs in Crushing you! the majorl companion at 4 “And iy my 7 inner them is a disease its which victim be the on OYMes in unab] forts In 8 to un tha 3 : the wom loss and elegant A very Margie grave Trympand nent wtnt Duke vas the iE Suddenly me shouted Maranuis: "There goes a hare! it!* Put the Marquis “1 can't, Duke he pheasant ~ costume.’ Star lot h shook his head sald. ‘T'm "weWash im have in ing fon “The Smiths” John Smith—plain John Smith—is not very higheounding:; it does not suggest aristocrat; it is not the same of any hero in dleaway novels: and yet It 1a good, strong. and honest Transferred to other languages {* soomse to climb the ladder of respect ability. Thus, in Latin it is Johannes Smithue: the Italian smooths it off ints Giovanni Smithi] the Spaniards render it Juan Smithue; the Dutchman adopts it as Hans Schmidt: the French flatten {it out into Jean Bmeet: and the Russian sneezes and barks Jonloff Smittowskl When John Smith gots Into the tea trade in Can torr he becomes Jovan Shimmit; ff he elambers “abont Mount Heela, the feolanders say he is Jahne Smithson: {f he trades among the Tuscaroras | he becomes Ton Qa SBmittis: in Po fand he Is known as Ivan Schmitt! wolakl: should he wander among the Walsh mountains, they talk of Jihon Schmidd; when he goes to Mexico he | fs booked as Jontl F'S8mitti; if, of, classic turn, he lingers among Greek |! rine, he turns to Ton Smikton; and in Turkey he fg utterly disguised as Yoe Beef -~Modern Society. y ¥n the darkest night fishes pursue thelr usual movements the Same ne I by darlizht. of all her rivals ly neant noth ing of 80 much are Tow as if an hour hore anything of the supreme to the that there least things waiting then not dol York Tribune. knowledge are at a them to do them.” New for ng OF COTTON NATE, Mre. Lionel Walrond iz the daush. ter of the English cotton magnate, and, according to The Sketch, she has inherited her mother's genius for en tertaining, as well as her love for and understanding of music. Few of the younger matrong in English so- clety, even among future pecresses have a more splendid jewel than Mrs. Walrond, DAUGHTER MAG a diamond tiara, containTng unique specimen stones, and she i often seen wearing the huge diamond heart which was one of her husband's many presents on the occasion of her mar. riage. OCTAVE THANET ON AMERICANS Americans are human; they are not always saints: but it is not often that an American gentleman will clutter up his conscience with the mess of memories of women who are the worse for having known him, in which a Frenchman shows such open | and artless pride. However, one must admit that this prevalent Interest in noteing of the memories, do give the Tatin wooer an advantage. He has picked up a good deal of assorted in. formation about the sex, although not so Huth % as ho imagines. He has woman's uttlo prejudices, her little ATED WOMEN caucated Poor Jehrated emotional Irish fine fre nzy af writes Dir Woman's Home Hq has mother's | of got oYveg your | lemper--now, ar i io op { and olvie and : for others If you will time—and set him a good Meanwhile preaching to him should possess these qual expedite matters preci devel your devotion only example, that ities ns little, he will and not at growth fige 10 onses oan is afforded exarple, all. Remember that life of all sorts are but a environment, and new res] { only oocur as opportunity for them. ays A resp AT HOME SEWING. George Eliot tells us that a woman is never so much at home with herself az when ghe is sewing, and a famous nerve specialist declares that the act of sewing has two distinct effects, one advantageous, the other detriment. al To sit down quietly with the body well relaxed, and ply the needle fs a recreation, but to sew under strain-~there is nothing that go quick. ly fraszies the nerves. $erhaps it is a good thing to have left behind the time when every spare moment was spent In erocheting lace that one conld purchase at a shop for ten cents a yard, and tidies and other fripperios nselesg except as dust col tectors, but it appears we have gone to the other extreme. If you keep on hand a bit of ruffling to be hem. med or some mending, It is surprise ing how much may be accomplished without losing anything of the inter est of a friend's visit, There is satis faction in the completion of any arth cle done In such odd moments.—Neow York Evening Post.