GROWING OATS.
As a general thing the oat crop
is neglected. A good many farme-
ers say that it doesn't pay to grow
oats but the crop is necessary in a
proper rotation. The trouble is the
average fanmer is careless in the
sreparation of the seed bed, he is
carelegs in the selection of seed and
he don't deserve the results he does
ret.
It often happens that oats are put
after corn and the stalks are |
properly broken up 80 the seed |
very unevenly covered, which |
makes a r stand. 4 |
Smut is a great drawback to tho |
oat Some fields developing as |
much as ten cent when the own-
er doesn't realize that he has smut
to amount to any thing.
The State of Iowa raises 2914 bush-
els of
in
not
is
po
ey
crop
per
when the aver |
least 590
oats to the acre,
age ought { be at
bushels.
Oats in rota- |
2
naturally follow corn
tion. If a is
may be put In evenly
the seed Set th
er from 1% to 2% It
in a! three bushels
per
lise dri ged the sce
stalks
great many § rs 5
experiment that
accurate
ut in every
tal
Lan
bushels of
and return
co™m
an
When after
tended
necessary
properly
: nos
to
LEON
fan
ara
run
sometimes not
The fact Is,
half, very olte:
it
mill
form
at
may take four times
but result
the
for sead
start oat
oats
plants
etermination to grow
bring that in
life w
yield
It
to take
come fron
jucation along this line
the:
the
aed
OE
handfu
i as
count
kernels sit the really g
i)
hy a wiagnifvine
V a magniiying £
ones 0
You may
seed 8 Out
vou have
you d
m
Te
h.—Epltomist
FARM NOTES
¢y COW cannot produce mi
mill ho
. than an
produce flour
so prodigal o
work hard to ralse
it
wasted
any
per
more
CAD
Some
strength
a Cro)
the mud
the
Sunshine, pure alr in the house and
well-rosked food make a combination
which produces health and optimism |
and to disccurage patent
medicine men,
The rural route poatal gervice comes
high, but it is deing more to educale
and uplift the vosng of
farm than y other influence,
How tenderly we nurse the ypuny
animal to give ii a good start ia life,
but neglect this caro
of our children,
It is as much the duty of a farmer |
to take an interest in politics as in
the church. But he can do that with. |
out becoming a permanent and val |
usable member of the Grocery Store |
Debating Club
Every hard-working farxer earng » |
vacation of at least two weeks ov. |
ery year—and generally the wife earns
four. But does she get it?
The farm telephone wire is the con.
necting link between neighbors and
the outside world. It banishes lone- |
liness and creates sympathy and a
spirit of optimism.
1f our troubles which keep us awakn |
nights were really as big as they seom i
in the dirk, we would never got
i
{
empty
men are f thelr
that thev
cf! corn
he trampled
cattle,
just to throw in
1
ta and
by
tends the
people he
any
how often we
over them.
A man may have a good knowledge
if he neglects the details he will fail, |
You can tell a good husband by the |
clothes kis wife wears,
The bank books of the dairymen tall
the story of last summer's drought.
Solling crops will prevent so much
logs hereafter.—From “Fence Rail
Philosophy”, in the New York Times.
TEST OF FERTILIZERS.
We are now testing some fertilizer
combinations to ascertain If we can
incroase the color of our apples. On
one row of these greening trees, an
application of twenty pounds of basic
slag or Thomas phosphate powder,
twelve pounds of sulphate of potash
and nine poumdas of nitrate of soda
were applied per tree with some Inter.
esting results,
The foliage upon that row of trees
entire season of most excessive
drouth while the apples were greener
at time of picking than in the other
rows which added to their value at
least fifty cents a barrel. We shall
continue this fertilizer work on sever.
al varieties with a view to producing
high colored apples here in the
markets from the Pa.
CLEAN COWS PAY.
There is still many a chance for a
slip between the possession of a good
anllch and the securing of a
profit from her production. And here
the colleges have undertaken to guard
owner. Dirt is
and againat this
making thelr most
COW
his
the
gtubb
greatest
COHLeEeS
rn fight
clean
nee
Clean
milk
esgentia
tables, clean cows,
lean
tion
and «
rodu
itacies, men
of clean
SA
rece
a ¥
1 to the
COWSR fire ¢©
and ye
mfortable are in use in col
1
Keep
Feeding of dust)
wrod. excep
hould 1}
and id 1
-{ 0lller's Weekly
opening,
PROPER PLOWING.
Ground properly
handle. and we can secure bett
wed is easier t
sults for the ant
the tillage ements
the sulky with a twenty inch
smooth.
On
the
harrow. Then come the
ing harrow, brush
ground ges
lise
and drag.
after removing
roller,
onditions with
also roll the
We mn the weeder, alternat-
the
rocks, we follow the above with
under
hoed
certain «
and
some
ground
ing with
vator,
bids
11 oo
Al
Orops we
cultt.
two horse riding
until th of the
cultivating deeply at
Thus a
enabling the
for-
very
is
oe gize crop
first,
mulch
to ge
tly later dust
pliant
the mois
ing down
and, in the
naintained,
best results from
ure keer
Le
conserved
growth —W
rican Cult
and
E
ivator
weed
Ame
STRICTLY FANCY BUITER
‘4 nA ird arp
1
conagilions
reivers' stand
Jutter marke very
isfactory from t!
No heavy
$ any fF tha
6 re
acoumulations are
jarge 4
point.
reported a jatribut-
ing points, and hol
steady for thi
usual,
¥
Renewed activity the part of the
oficial protect On
sha it lly bran 1 ord
anded
that
ure
gumers against
either imit oon.
moist tends
producer. —Farm
ation
Latter,
taining an excess of
honest
Home
BLOOD WILL TELL
“Individual excellen~e ia not a cer
guide to breeding powers, and
many ordinary Individuals are among
This" is neith-
2 fault in heredity:
the greatest breeders.
ar a mystery nee
excellence is
dividual development,
of
partly a matter of In
and not a sure
real ancestral possessions.
in
which case he will probably be a dis.
appointment as a breeder. Or he may
be exceptionally ‘well born, but only
wall davel“ned: in which case
he will breed better than he Is devel
oped "—Farrers Home Journal
SOI. WASTE
It is 2ald that a ton of wheat re
moves between eight and ten dollars’
worth of soil fertility, and that the
farmer never gets it back. Of course,
there are ways of replacing it by the
proper rotation and stock raising, bat
the dairy farmer who sells butler or
Po tpt
pens. — Farmers’ Home Journal,
Pin Traveled In Woman.
After traveling for four months
through the body of Mrs. Oakla Bay
Jennings, piercing the wails of the
astemach and penetrating the lungs, a
glas=headed stesl pin, accidentally
gwillowed by her, again made its ap.
extracted.
Mrs. Jennings was walking along
the street ome day when she swallow-
ed the pin. Within a few days her
lungs became affected and she was
attacked with severe coughing spells,
Her condition grew worse and sha
almost lost her volce. She was seiz
ed with a severe choking Attack Wed.
nesday night, and put her hand to her
mouth and extracted the pin from
the soft pa‘ate, from which one end
of it protemded. The pin had become
very rusty, and a hard substance hal
twice as large as it originally had
been.
Lire, Jennings experienced relief
upon Sts extraction, and 1s looking for.
ward to complete recovery —Cincine
was very much better throughout the
| nati Dispatch to New York Times,
¥
*
-
n by Iriges in the New
Adana, Asiatic Turkey, via Con-
stantinople The Rev Herbert
Adams Gibbons, of Hartford, Conn. a|
missionary of the American Board of
Foreign Missions stationed here and
at Tarsus, was an eyewitness of the
geenes of terror and destruction at}
the centre of the Moslem uprising. |
He gives the following story of mas- |
gacre, rapine and incendiarism:
“The entire vilayet of Adana has |
been visited during the last five days |
with a terrible massacre of Armen-|
tans, the worst ever known in the his- |
‘ory of the district The terror has}
peen universal, and the Government |
is powerless to check the "ditorders. |
Adana, the capital of the province, |
has been the storm centre, {
Conditions - have been unsettled |
for some time past, and there has |
been animosity between Turks and
Armenians, owing to the political s
tivity the latter and their
purchasing of arms
“Barly last Wednesday
while 1 was in the market, I notl
that the Armenians were closing their
shops and hurrying to their homes
An Armenian and a Turk had been
killed during the night, and the
corpses were paraded through their
respective quarters, The sight of the
dead inflamed the inhabitants, and
crowds at once began to gather in
the streets armed with sticks, axes
and knives, A few young Armenians
assembled in the centre of the cov-
sred market and began firing revolver
shots {nto the air. By 11 o'clock in
the morning the crowd had begun the
looting of shops
Military Commander in Seclusion.
“The military commander of Ada-
na was by my side in the market
when the firing commenced. He bad
not the courage to endeavor to dis-
perse the mob; he returned to his
residence and did not venture out
for two days.
“William Chambers, Field Secre-
tary of the Young Men's Christian
Association, and myself proceeded to
the Konak and found a howling mob
demanding arms with which to kill
the Giacurs. We then went to the
of
On the steps of the
gaw three Armenians
Their bodies
ish Consul.
building we
who had been killed.
in the telegraph office a mob burst
into the room where we were and
killed two Armeniansbefore our eyes,
The unfortunates were supplicating
the protection of the Vall when they
were struck down.
“We managed to make our way
{nto the next room, where we made
This of-
made no attempt to protect us. Some-
how we managed to get to the inte.
rior of the Konak, where we re-
ment officials for the next forty-eight
hours.
“That afternoon the situation grew
The Armenians
withdrew to their quarter of Adana,
which is situated on a hill, and con-
verted the houses that held advanta-
geous positions into fortresses. Here
the fighting went on for two days,
“Wednesday evening Major Daugh-
the British Viee-Consul at
Mersina, arrived at Adana and estab-
Police Place Him in Safety.
Yoanoke, Va.—To prevent a mob
of mad baseball “fans” from doing
him bodily injury, Umpire Robert
Virginia League game between Nor-
folk and Roanoke, which the aries
o
spectators declared that Pender, who
formerly managed the Norfolk Club,
feliberately threw the game to Nor-
folk. They swarmed upon the field,
resident, where many refugees had
been received. The wife of the Brit.
ish Viee-Consul, who was brought
into Adana under fire on Thursday,
tended personally to many wounded
women and children
“Adana was a hel.
were looted and set on fire There
was continuous and unceasing shoot.
ing and killing in every part of the
town, and fires raged in many quar
ters
“Moslems from
began pouring into
withstanding bur
The bazaars
the neighborhood
the city, and not.
protests, the Vail
“Major Daughty-Wrylie, at the head
of troops which he compelled the
Vail to supply, went to the raliroad
station of the town and was success-
Later, while the
to pacify the
and disabled
of the Central
Major was attempling
Tur.
a dis-
trict conference in the centre of Ad-
"Missionaries
received and protected hundreds of
refugees in the American Seminary
for Girls, and courageously endeav.
ored to pacify the warring elements,
Missionaries Treacherously Killed,
“On Thursday Daniel Miner Rog-
ers and Henry Maurer, American mis.
sionaries, were killed under treacher-
ous circumstances
“On Friday the Armenians yielded,
dering
“Adana is in a pitiable condition.
The town has been pillaged and de.
stroyed, and there are thousands of
homeless people here without means
of livelihood. It is impossible to es-
timate the number of killed. The
corpses lle scattered through the
streets. Friday, when 1 went out, 1
had to pick my way between the dead
to avoid stepping on them. Saturday
morning I counted a dozen cartloads
of Armenian bodies in one-half hour
In the Turkish cem-
are being dug whole-
into the water.
eteries graves
sale
“The condition of the refugees is
most pitiable and heartrending.
only are there orphans and widows
beyond number, but a great many,
even the bables, are suffering from
severe wounds.
unspeakable. On Friday afternoon
250 so-called Turkish reserves, with.
and compelled the engineer to convey
them to Tarsus, where they took part
Armenian quarter of that town, which
ig the best part of Tarsus.
work of looting was thorough and
rapid.
with kerosene and fired the great his-
most important building in the city.
They demolished marble statues and
Everything portable was
their attempts to burn it. Fortu.
where 4000
the American College,
sought and found shelter.”
A A ST SSSA,
Man Beaten to Death.
Thomas Brown, sixty-siz, was
found beaten to death at his home in
President street, Brooklyn, N. Y. His
son Edward, seemingly insane, was
accused of the murder.
Prohibition Closes Many
. Glassware Plants,
we Prohibition has
made such progress during the last
year or two as to cause a decided
slump in the glass and tumbler man.
ufacturing business. A. Ziblman,
head of the Huntington (W. Va)
Tumbler Company, sald that the
plant of his company will have to shut
down for lack of orders. ;
Mr. Zihlman said the temperance
wave has so diminished the demands
for glassware of the tumbler variety
that many factories have shut down.
Pittsburg, Pa.
0000
DON'T 1ASTEN TO GOSSIP.
There are some people who always
in their community or church. It is
“all the news” simply be
still lovely though unfashionable chi!
fon volles
Foulard comes In with the
pongees and marquizettes, and its pop
bordered
i
1
{
80 few trimmings were really
to it and almost every
ever,
For some time, by rea.
thelr business relations or
circumstances of their lives,
learn much of what people are
and doing, without being
sessed of either a prying, inqu
natvre or a malicious one.
We find other
ever ready if neighborly
are needed, do not
slandering tongues
who
receive.
son of
Pose
Ky
tive
while
who,
3 2%
neip
peopie
and
hear
ugly tales of
Know the people
Mrs
have heen mish:
HHeve our friend
wail a moment
net and
nit. 51."
we'll go
There
tongues i
tale to one with
wut whether
a We
Ba
dred rena
vad Y
the
aT 1
TH BRB OG
of courage of that sturdy gran
dame, everyone
teat, find
gossiping
simply decline to give credence
can utter some
some wavy Io
tongues. Some
statement refle
friends
Nothin
a
ig upon one oO
growg sO oaaily
mor. The
1
d to two
z and
ru simple
# 5 rr
: ndividaals
tive vers
ly different from the
like. Each
bears the words, but
slons
the narrator
quite un
from the volce
In retelll
reproduces often not
in
combined impression
and manner
amusing game called
story
heard words, but
made by
This can He tested by an
A brief
whispered in
the
scandal
or sentence is
v
present, then
seam. Now, however, the border re
Many of the fou
jards have three and four inch bands,
Persian in design and Orlental in cGi
it ridiculously at
which started.-
ing
the ne
Register
variance
INDUSTRY WINS FOR WOMAN
Of all the popular woman
face of so many repeate i
fortune from her play, “The
¥mpernel,” and her book of the same
name The Baroness gets her title
from Hungary, but she ig the wife of
an Englishman, Montague Barstow,
home of Anna of
novel, “The
Cleves Her first
Emperor's Candlestick”
publisher for her next
of the People” and
ed.”
two, “A Son
Then she wrote
This meant
In fact the bordures are
in
iid
silks
themselves
11 sorts of materials
and ~The
besides the
Delineator
pongees
THOSE W
»
ive ne
TO
I would hb
ENOW
mourners grieve
irom
fully
to
their sorrow out, and not stay
on their 1088
this, hey cannot
before
eel an
was apd
the present
r its mortal sur-
own again,
r thoug
WOMAN'S COURT
ha Van Rensselaer, direc
i purse for farmers’
New York
Agriculture, I£
the
for the move
a woman's court
eonditions New
Van Renss
imnrossed
;
downtown
to
of the
it » 3 » -
nessed In a
aking of it afterward
ve blamed her for
iss Van Rensselaer
jifference
oon
NO Woman
how degraded have
oth f ) man Had
8
answered
bench 1
told
almost a
the
there been 2a
the
girl,
woman on
convinced she would have
truth
and with the right woman on
question and advise her
would have been a chance to
her on her downward road. —
FOUng,
She was
io
MATINEE EXPLAINED
As everybody knows, the principal
etymological meaning of the French
word “matinee” is morning time, or
forenoon: how it came to be
not generally known Some twenty
five vears ago concerts of classical
therefore called “mat
but the fashionable
and
inees musicales.”
couragement. Fred Terry and Julia
a week the theatre practically was de
serted, then the play caught the pub
lie and ran for four years. Publishers
bid feverishly for the book once the
play was a success, and of the novel
Not
“The Emperor's
Candlesticks” in a fresh edition, and
all found many thousands of readers.
To women who write the Baroness hag
“Keen
at it."--New York Press,
CREPE-SPRGES POPULAR.
Crepe-serges” they call the new
woolen weaves that are as sof!
and pliant as the most fragile silk,
and yet have all the splendid wear.
defying qualities of the oldtime
porges. “Silk serge” is another of the
materials that will be new only to the
younger generation. It is a reincarna-
tion of the oldtime diagonal twilled
silk that went under that name years
ago. It is a finer material both in
weave and texture than the ribbed ot.
toman silks that were used last sea.
son. It will be worn freely in suits
and dresses, matarials that give it its
name, being firm but wonderfully soft
and pliant. ;
Volles and vellings have been pro
nounced “passe” in the fashion die
tionary. Nevertheless many of the
als of the previous night. The hout
changed to noon; then to 1
o'clock. The success of these con
certs prompted the (heatre directors tc
day performances also. From
the custom passed to London
then to Amerioa, the name matinee
being retained —San Francisco Call
VALUE OF LAUGHTER.
A good. daugh is the best medicine
in the world.
If we laughed more we should all
be happier and healthier,
True, we are a busy and a very
practical people, and most of us prob
ably find more in this life to bring
the frown than the smile; but, at the
same time, it is a pity that we do not
jaugh more-~that we do not bring our
selves to the laugh, if need be.
Physicians have said that no othet
feeling works so much good to the en
tire human body as that of merriment
As a digestive it is anexnelled; as 8
means of expanding the lungs there
is nothing better,
It weeps’ the heart and face young
It is the best of all tonics to the
spirits.
It is, too, the most enjoyable of all
sensations ~~Indianapolis News,
Mathilda Haska of Bada-Pesth
broke off her engagement becanse her
flancee, who is a nonsmoker, wishes
her also to give up the habit
Observes the Christian Register: As
the rich become richer in honorable
ways, the poor are Lifted out of thelr
poverty.