DWARF APPLES. chards, It is the idea of Mr. Powell that trees of a low habit of growth will be required more and more be- cause of the need of ccuvenience for spraying and harvesting. The scale insects make it almost impossible to thoroughly treat large trees, and the cost of labor makes a saving at hay vesting time of great importance, Two styles of dwarf trees are un. der trial. The so called Paradise is very dwarf and is short lived. The Doucin stock is half dwarf, making trees sixteen to eightéen feet high, and promises good results in com- mercial orcharding. The trees are planted two or three inches the union of stock and top. Powell's orchard the trees dise stock are set as fillers between those of the larger dwar! kind. The rows in the orchard are twenty feet apart and the trees ten in a row. The wide spaces between the allow plenty of room by horsepower, ‘while the trees in the rows will be thinned out as soon as they become crowded. The drwar! trees give fruit in a few years from planting, and the amount grad- ually increases. The small kind lasts six to eight seml-dwarfs for about For dwarf trees the Jonathan and McIntosh gnccessful. They very fine appearance guitable Yor packing in the ocholcest trade. dwarfs the Northern Russet, Twenty Baldwin and Gr tory. The dwarf trees must receive good culture, with ple In Mr. twenty years. Spitzenberg, are found produce fruit of nd quality, for For the halt Roxbury boxes Soy, Cunce, eening are satisiac- yienty careful cultivation. ¢d and harrowed in is kept In a cover crop of clover during the summer. Seale and oth- er ‘ingects are easily treated in the dwarf! orchards The 1 Appears promising to Mr. that iz pruning his dwar! plan, cutting back the standard trees in to cause them to spread out and to remove the high parts of the tree, which maka 80. much difficulty in trees — Weekly Witness. DO CHICKENS We heard a farmer day that he had a quit raising chickens, buy his poultry meat lesz than they were now is doubtful if this man or farmer would stand by such a etale ment if it came a test so it be well to sound a note of warning against “knocking” poultry raising on the farm. . The man who stops to think knows that he would not buy one-fourth the amount of poultry and egzs so liberally on his if to go down In his cash every time Instead of going into his own poultry yard. Besides, it is not pleasant to be con- stantly paying out cash decidely inferior to those that could be produced on cne's farm. The buyer has not the advantage of am p¥ selection and certain quality iike the producer has. Then again, to money must be added going after the poultry products, which would sometimes amount to more than the cost of the products themselves. Very often the farmer is too busy to go to the eity at &1, when there are extra hands to feed. who expect (and should have) roast and bolled chicken and ezgs In abund- ance. What If such large quantities had to be purchased in the open market? As it is, they cost so little that the farmer always is, and can well afford to be, very liberal in the The the soil is plow- ring Xs SD ¥ i fea Powell trees on the the tops of larger order PAY? the cther say notion to he could eggs for costing. It any other great as avd to he uses table he pocket for for products this. payment of the trouble of them. The trouble is that very few farmers appreciate what their fowls really mean to them. They also fail to keep acocunts. It is only the city man who appreciates the inval. uable pleasure of strictly fresh eggs and milk and tender chicken meat, ~Epitomist. FARM NOTES. No cow should be™ allowed to be her to fit. being intelligent as long as he per. mits the good cows In his herd to pay the feed bill for the pror ones. The best bred Hog of the best breed In the world cannot give his owner something for nothing. If necessary to wean the pigs, shut the sows up and give the pigs ‘ the run of good pasture. ~The experiment stations declare that 100 pounds of ground corn and ®ob go just as far as the game ‘mreight of pure corn meal, the cob fAving it more bulk, and rendering #8 easier digested, i Shredded corn fodder makes good feed, good bedding and good manure hred when perfectly dry and store . ander a ralnproof roof, in not too great bulk, and it will keep all right, : Hogs can not be well kept on slop and slik slone, but these go a long J) way in furnishing them food. A pig Js “Hy difficult animal to raise In a healthy condition, but proper man- i will bring it through all 2 ti It can not be well dispensed with when there are cows on the place. : Pigs farrowed In March will over- take the fall pigs in growth, if they are kept under shelter and in a warm place. By giving them extra care they will get a good start and grow rapidly until ready for market. A wellgrown hog can never be stunted. You can never feed eco! nomically after that. CARE OF BROOD SOWS. Corn alone fed to the brood sow carrying a litter is almost sure to cause bad resu'ts; the pigs will bo j larrowed very weak, with hardly vitality enough to even hunt for { their dinner; and it is quite likely {to produce a feverish condition in i the sow, with a tendency for her to | destroy her pigs. One other very | necessary thing in the successful { handling of brood sows is that, they { must absolutely have abundant exer- cise for the best results... With the { above combination of feed for a reg- { ular ration and with plenty of exer- | cise one may be sure of good results at farrowing time, and that the young- sters will be strong enough to. meet {every little trouble that comes along ! during their’ first few weeks of plg- ihood. There is still anot“er matter in the care of the sows, and especial ly of the sow with a litter—an ab- solutely dry bed, warm i In winter but always dry. Keep this | iclean, dry and well disinfected with an occasional spraying of the anil | nals with crude petroleum some | other of the many disinfectants. and you will avoid that pest too often | found—the hog louse. —{Colman’s | ! Rural World. or CULLING OUT { It doesn't { longer than i that they ter for old stock now | be later on, and not good or breeders should { be promptly marketed. Close culling pays not only because it raisers the standard of the flock, but also cause it saves feed and house room { that may more profitably be spen® jon good fowls : ! Remember, in this connection, that roosters do not lay. Keep enough to insure fertility, but no more. Sun plus males only serve to make con. stant strife and extra feed and house paying any | profits, If the not for hatching unneceIsary | to have any males at all. The hens | will lay just as well and the eggs { will keep better. These not theories, but proven facts. The male has no influence over egg-production. | —Epitomist pay it 0 fakes carry culls any to determina Prices bet | than they will birds that are are culls are the layers be. require room without are to be | eggs used fa it > are TRAINING THE The task of training any colt, if | properly” managed, 1 a lengthy one. | Lessons must be repeated time after time, in order to make Sure that the ‘colt’ is learning, and after having béeén taught, to make sure that tho icoit has not forgotten. it is a wise precaution to always hitch the colt with a good old trav- eling horse. The colt iz thus apt to, acquire the same gait. After the c3t has been driven a few times, #0 that jt seems to know what Is (required of it, then it should be { driven every day.—~W. G. P, 'n American Cultivator, COLT. F FOUNDATION STOCK. When a man buys his foundation {Stock and gives it intelligent care, "he has a reasonable assurance of Success in producing the same kind of hogs; but no breeder should be satisfied with producing just as good stock as he started with. It should be his hope and ambition to pro | duce something better and he has more than a reasonable assurance (that with goed judgment and intelli i gent care he shall be able to do this i =Farmers’ Home Journal i ———— PRESERVE THE MILK. i Milk should be removed from the {stable and strained as fast ft Is drawn from the cows for some foul | ness may have fallen In it and this thould be removed before it becomes soluble and thoroughly mixed with the milk. Great caution should be observed in caring for the cloths used for strainers, for they are In many instances responsible for the loss of a number of cans of milk, besides being a source of danger ‘o those who consume the milk Farm. crs’ Home Journal — ——— Scott's Mount. When Sheridan was dying he could look out of his window upon the statne of General Winfleld Scott, “Mike,” sald he to his brother, who was caring for him, “if a gratefu republic should ever see fit to raise a statue to.me, for God's sake see that 1 have a better mount than Scott's got.” Mike must certainly he forgetful, else he would put ia a protest. ~Now York Press, € - mo sw ———— TER. Unfortunately it too ‘often happens that the beauty which would eit so well upon the elder sister passes her by and alights with all its light and | This is bard énough to bear, but | is preferable to the spectacle which one frequently sees of a flock of plain girls, while the only brother has long eyelashes, limped, melting eyes, a like a peach, and—heavens, O heavens! how can we bear {t?—hair | which curls naturally. That, I grant you, comes under the head of real calamitios, i However, whether the elder sis- | ter is plain or beautiful, if she re- | she fs obliged to contend a' last with : one enemy which women of every age dread, and that is the woman the Chicago Journal. Youth is the one dread foe which vanishes the most vallant spirit. Fre- quently thé woman armed with contour, purity of feature and is it Chicazo.— The erime and casually is the steady Increase im the number of suicides and the great percentage of these that are traceable Self-destruction monelary basis, is chalked up against bank officials and employes. The re. The homicide recordd—dea hs of kinds ing, 1004 by drowning, 825 by cut- at, 85 leaping from roofs or ys, €5 by throwing themselves in front of engines, 31 by stabbing, 27 by fire, 3 by dynamite and 1 by starvation Embezzlements, forgeries and bank wreckings, amounting to 638, are in excess of those year, Ten bank presidents, eight cashiers, eleven bank of twenty. $10,085,472, postmasters, sociation managers combined have while agents, forgers, public officials, loan as- and ordinary stolen only compensation was made on the part who committed suicide, highwaymen and thugs, being 101 toll for holiday sports aggregated 268 deaths and 35290 Injuries. press. steady increase of selif-murder: 1829, 6340; 1900, 6735; 1901, 7245; 1902, S291; 1902. 8597: 1904. 9240; i 782. and 1908, 10.852. The causes of these suicides are stated as follows, the classification, as in the ease of homicides, being a $ That more care has been exercised in hunting is shown by the decrease in casualties Daring the hunting season proper 75 persons werd killed and 91 injured, and out of season 166 killed and 128 injured, pared with Jured in 1507 The principal cholera, which prevailed Eastern Asia and the Philip- 7700 died in Russia, 12,000 30,000 In pines; the Philippines and China. In the innumerable baseball flelds 65 were killed and 59 seriously in- In the disappointed in love, 518. Three thousand one hundred and two persons shot themselves. In the remaining cases 2735 dled by poison, 1926 by asphyxiation, 1041 by hang- i i i | { : The persons who rock the boat have drowned 8. and the eriminally reckiess who didn’t know it was loaded have killed 41 and wounded 21 Parig.—Altkough general . trade conditions in France, as in other European countries, saffered in 1908, largely because of the reduction in American demand, following the financial erisis, figures submitted by M. Leroy Beauliea and other statis ticians at the end of the year regard- ing the wealth of the French people demonstrate the imposing strength of France's and her right to the title of “the world's benker.” France's fortune is grow- ing steadily, as the result of an an- nual saving of $1.000,000,000, much of which must seek Investment abroad. y M. Leroy Beaulien's res show that France now receives $360,000,- 000 as an asanal income from for eign holdings, which are principally government stocks, the amount hav ing been almost doabled in the last fifteen years. He estimates the jres ent wealth of the French people at $45,000,000,000, or more than $1100 for man, woman and child, and as estimate is based on de- clared succession taxes, it is ad. mittedly far below the real figures. In addition, Mr. Leroy Beaulieu takes no account of the great amount of gold and securities which the rench, especially the peasants, keep concealed. These probably rival the hidden treasures of India. During the last Afteen years $521.- 400,000 in gold was loaned abroad, yet the efcess importation amounted to $785,800,000. In 1900 the gold holdings of the Bank of France in- creased by $200,000,000; they now stand at $700,000,000, the largest ia the history of the bank. The other banks hold $833,800,000, The balances of trade, which in 1803 © amounted to $140,000,000 against France, are now In France's favor. Increased taxation, however, keeps pace with the increased wealth, the budget of 1909, owing to the pur chass of the Western Rallroad and extraordinary expenses in connection with Morocco, being the highest in the history of the country, not ex- cepting the war period. - Color Rays a Cure For Inebriety and Crime. Philadelphia. ~Cases of drunken. ness and of juvenile depravity cured by application of vari-colo were Jresented by Dr. J. Frank Hs, of the Norristown State Insane Asylum before the Philadelphia Medi. eal SBoclety, clared, "causes cri “With the development of the use of light as a curative aruokensess ess ‘aod crime o will disap: | sheer exuberance and her abounding youthful fered by the breeds troa- preced- | Between sisters that ble. The elder, having held ence so dong, naturally has her eve usurpers of her superiority, when she the eyes of her admirers wandering wistfully to corner where sister, with gees own little which should drawing attention to her own won supremacy. This, of course, takes {tz first form mother, because Father doesn't. perpetuate appeal to mother understands often “the self wishing that children” marry at i all, nt long time, because pleture to see around the fresh young or a it a very sweet the faces ta- and to hear make mmaic father would 4 grouped the volees in the house 8o 0 nothing to ad- understood Bat Cause as through with » experience when Was a 8he knows that each one of her girls must mar- ry or else work ft her living trade She doesn’t stop think that marriage is often the hard. anyway mother! Mother knows. Be. she had to go Hkely as not she "wr at ey east pay. interferes and younger girls So “has a She mother with the her chance” younger must keep out sight of the being hunted they Interfere with sister's “chances.” An odd thing, life Isn't It? ones prey lest FASHION NOTES. One form of wrist ornament is the band of black velvet clasped with black velvet buckle. The wide Gibson plait remains vogue for tailored blouses. nplecements of lace or embroid- of the season's bodice decorations. A considerable number of late evening wraps show buttons and but. tonholes, either real or simulated, olong the efftire length of the under- arm seam. Fashionable Parisiennes are wear ing face wells with an Inch-wide edge of fur about the bottom. As to belts, fashionable woman will wear house frocks of while silk or cloth, encircled with a wide, belt of colored velvet, four wide and worn quite plain In place of the becoming ribbon chous which finish the ties of auto. mobile bonnets over the ears, there | are often seen big discs matching the fur coats or neckpieces | of the muffs. i inches ty this year and are such a fas clnating finish to a dainty toilet. The thin silk and lace combined more practical than all lace. A very nice fan of marcelline silk, hand painted and lace trimmed, is only $1.50 for ninednch sticks, and another | eight inches In length, of silk with | hand painted and apangled lace top. | is only 98% cents. ! Even cheaper prices prevail pretty lace fan mounted on faney Sticks ‘Is only 25 cents, and a really | fs marked as low as 49 cents. The woman with shonld wear her halr arranged looso- ly and the lines should be in har mony. The uptodate girl fs using ivory instemd of silver mountings for ar ticle of the tollet, a hint to thosa who are thinking of making gifts of It is surprising how a hand-decorat. ed band edging the square neck open- Ing and arm holes, say, dresses up and individualizes a simple blouse or gown. Tae ivory is, of course, much easier to keep In good condition than the sliver, which requires conmant polish. SHYNESS, Bhyness Is usually the result of wo inexperience. Contact with the world will always “lessen. and often cure it of herself and fancies that Bhe forgets that each person is nec A friend of mine who lived in the She was distress. looking down, that was a hole in the hem of her The visitor also seemed to have his eyes fixed on this unlucky rent. Presently she could bear it no | and sald: “Mr. X, 1 see that you are looking at the hole in my gown. 1 must apologize for it, but the truth js I did not know it was Just now.” To which her replied: “Oh no, indeed, I did not notice your dress I was looking at a hole which has suddenly appeared in my shoe.” “Qui s'excuse s'‘accuse.” One should rarely apolo- glze —Florence Howe Hall, In Har per's Bazar. neighbor. to find, on visitor HERE 18 THE LAW. The National Cloak, Sulit and Skirt Manufacturers met at Toledo, issued this official decree on styles Two Plece Suits —Hipless Cutaway and Tallored jackets straight fronts. Bkirts.-—To be gored minished fulness with a high waisted effects. Three Piece th and of di tendency to Suits Without or with pre wi net lace yokes, worn Cutaway Long Dresses. —One waist fronts to over hipless jackets dominating small Tailored plete in dresses both raised + effects more juniors. ticularly misses and -—-Hipless and sem} ten Coats oth with some cutaway effects. Tailoring or Touring Coats — Half -fitted Empire or hipless effects, Coats.—All lengths Similar to suit trimming JAac¥els, toward Silk and Separate skirts, but mainly in ris vertical WOMAN'S REVOLUTION Woman is longer } make wory § Fon no afraid of free he r Own way ceased be in- Marriage when despotism pen- new may 3 can hood bas to a burden disaster or a no longer be borne of dependency in independence naturally enough suffragist States Is rtant among agitations Other revolutions have changed maps, and governmen A wom affect the An which no pru- safely under the her woman politics, in need as urn to movement far least the United thus fomi the whole race. is # presenting itself ¥y of ip can or ignore. IN NORWAY. Johannessen is a in social reforms is the national WOMEN Miss Marline Norwegian leader and politics. She Norway women have now the privi lege of the ballot. The Norwegian women can not only vote on all ques. tions, but they are also eligible for National’ Parliament. Single the country, and married women, whose husbands pay the said have the franchise. Johannessen has been fore in securing the franchise for the women of Norway, who now rank among the first women of the Miss of thelr opportunities —New York Sun. ——— GUIDE AT THE LOUVRE Miss Florence Haywood of Indian to the louvre in Pariz. She can nally are made up of her compatriots is original, animated, learned, and lectures on the treasures to her She has written a book des cribing and explaining the pictures in the louvre and dedicated 1t to Mizz Flora Wilson, daughter of the American Becretary of Agriculture, who is studying singing in the French capital —Argonaut. FIRST CLASS ALDERMAN. Mrs. H P. Gates has just Deon elected one of the six Aldermen of Magee, Tenn. For several years she bas taken an active interest in the educational work of her tewn and wanted to be elected Alderman be cause it would help her in this work She is reported to have made about the most aggressive campaign ever witnessed in Magee, If not In Ten nestee. The town people seemed pleased with her election, and even those who voted against her believe she whl make a first class Alder man.-New York San,
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