SHEBP IN DIVERSIFIED FARMING. Sheep pay well when kept on 2a general farm where grain is grown and where other live stock is raised. They are economical feeders under such circumstances because they gat their living mostly from fence cor- pers and other out of the way places Their appetites are peculiar compared with other animais because they seem to prefer weeds and brush te the ordinary tame pasture grasses, An experiment at the atation showed that out-of 480 cf weeds there were only fifty kinds that sheep would not eat. A farmer in Livingston County, !tnois, said that h!s sheep had made him $1,000 in three years by rrineipally in the fence rows in curmer time. Bes'des the money re- ceived he has got rid of a great many xious weeds. Mr. Winter, another Illinois ar, figures that the *ambs sell nuch as the ewes cost, and that wool pays the cost of their keep estimates the walue of a full grown healthy sheep at $6.00. A flock of ewes will average one lamb each. A 100 pound lamb will bring nix cents per pound or $6.00 which returns the original value the ewe. He may reasonably expect a 9 pount fleece which at twenty cents will bring a dollar and e'ghty cents, : ta inds the farm: a8 the for of ennsuzh *o pay for the keep of the mother and offspring. The mest advantageous tin» to gall ifs when the pounds. At comparatively better satisfied, more convenient to weighs the cuts and tie buys as the ruts use bei lde ing The is assured that he is buying of mution. pcriant have should be such oimnnot gide of lamb hia this weight small is more economical. stead Of course to the fat that you If the a wash lamb on its ribs easily lam feels lika marke. fis Ai%a in feel con the is not health maintained by individual atten heep down it is a 0 investigate bao:u board it The iops food his I8 one siz the sheep is not in gerd healthy There are msny health signs that must be \rarned crder to make a success in mring them. —Epitomist. condition other PROTECTION OF CHEXRIES One the raising of gages of the birds very great loss, erly vears the of inziden is the This $ Lae annoying cherries rav of fru cherries are can | without i that one we a few them bad sion great depredations mad trees hy does not notisin recently the * take n countries thi: meth : rrnon. The of dolrg this in the demand for tough to manu winre it of pro i aerries is ¢ in count such netti make it It has been imported net ting can be gecured at 135 yard. If a demanl ean this kind of netting should be made at a low cost, eotild be large and pensive, In the case of protecting the tress with this material, the be kept trimmed to the shane would make the covering »f them with netting the most zimple In Eu. rope, trees are trimmed into al kinds of shape, and all kinds of fruit trees are bound to trellises, or made to grow in shape of fans against tha side of houses. Trees so controlled In their growth are easy to protect ~Mirror and Farmer. obstacle this WAY that large vent gquare yas ereated, as the meshes whole the inex. cold that trees FARM NOTES. Wood ashes make an excellent tilizer for the lawn or garden Appir at the rate of one to two tons an acre. An ordinary barrel vill held about 200 pounds. far. get 40x40 feet apart yield more apples an than those set 30130 feet althovgh a much less number Hf troey to the acre, The standard apple barrel th this country has a 17% inch hes), 2814. Inch stave and 64 inches for over- bulge, outside measiremens, holds an average of about 118 fjuarts Winter injury to orchard trees conln be avoided to a great extent Ly keer ing the trees in a thrifty, Yigorone condition. Weak, unhealthy tees are less able to stand extremes of tem perature than thrifty ones. Wateh the weeds in the straw berry pateh and don't let Whe fan rains give them a fresh start The laxative effect of wheit bran as a stock food Is due to an orgaule phosphate compotind known as phy- n. Chickens should not be neglected because they are smaller than other domestic animals. Their needs are just as big in proportions When two or three cocks are used with the flock, some careful poultry. men feel sure it Is best 10 let only are | Ihg Kept in confinement and well fed till a rotation brings j day of each, } 3 Is to grow | fruit well colored and good size iin a crowded, shady orchard. The | trees should have plenty of room. In and buying ewes very careful not to get disease. Watch for scab. They should always dipped before leaving their old yards and if dipped agaln reaching home. Look that systematic a to impossible freedom firat-clags ¢ i selecting possible the new show good SELECTING BREEDING SWINE, In selecting his breeding swine the farmer and breeder should give at tention first to the EOWS | pecially all are to pred to | the same boar They { uniform in size nnd thereby incre: for breeding. | ewes es if be should be as possible, point of age, i ¢ Lorin, uniformity young and very dividuals i he herd. By this rule type is established and vigor t 1 to good account in maintaining that type in the herd young s-wg are §e. be following th the Ag soon geparated fr that are fed and grown lected the ¥ 3 being and is mixed wi ities before them. boar, 2a *h they faults he special y deflicien ve. Do not intens {y although the upon the pics creatiug form the genera new other tha sir * 8ireé 1a more an the dam uniform. es fT rH weighs fourteen ounces five 14 \ e'ghteen and twen eight ounces: 3 seven weeks old, 2 ha't vo ght two cunees ning ounces ai ten eleven Or modi birds ounces; -81X fortv.one OUnCes ounces, will be care the normal favorable conditions, true of the American the Wrandotine, and Rhecde Island f O:pingtons and Brah- News, weeks old figures feed and show corso fled by ti these 16 go but thes the des velopment under This iz nn re varieties, such as Pivmouth Ro Reds. also « mas, ks Indianapolis A GOOD SUGGEITION been s:id that a simple eo* on a farm is not at all a and would furnish an Inter ingiructive ag well as 2 task for evennz's employ the gon or daughter Suel would not be at all! com ould be easily learned, anl result in a lasting benefit 2ll concerned. Added this of unts a reliable market a number of good agricul wlicals, the farmer's occupa conducted on busine:s and made a'wa'g to pay profit Weekly Witness, nt esting an fitable ment { Dr nr 1 &ystem ated, «¢ could but pli +0 to sys aoe tural tion could be rinciples a busines peri DENMARK COWS AR™ TESTED. It is claimed that in Denmark the have succeaded in making pay profits. This wis or more owners of animal by thirty every upon the results from ind! vidual ws. After carefully watch ing and weighing the milk for a gv time the inspector reported on the individuals in each herd. The re sult was that poor cows went to the meat market and the producing value of dairy cows increased in one year from $13 to 360 each came from a svatem of working every thing for profit. That fs the spirit that controls in successfol agricul ture Weekly Witness. a — Blasting marble is impractieabls, those who quarry it having to split off blocks in the same method ia vogue when the Parthenon was bulls, more than 2.300 years ago. The death rate of Russia is the highest In Europe. It Is 41 a 1000 a year, C Millions of ¢ Western lands will Ye by President Taft for during the next nine the policy which the Deg The set } any one 2 9s Fa rea Montana art of » absorbed Into the American ¢ wot q Asie mtinent for him nfade yr homes Ameri been ar is the tine readinkes of ty States each to go to the sections where the openings took place, which is one of the requirements, all the applicants for the new 1ds come from east of the States in which the new lands are lo- cated, but very few leave the Atlantic try thelr fortunes in the Twenty States furnished the part of the applicants last year, Nebraska headed the list with 27,268 applicants. This is accounted for at the Land Office by the fact that he in Nebraska were plo- 8, and while they have been sue- nl! they have in many in- ifficient wealth to establish their sons in the high priced lands of that State, This is true, perhaps in a less of the fertile State of Iowa, is credited with 232.413 appil- cants South Dakota furnished 17.- 124; Illinois, 7985; Indiana, 918: Kansas, 6571; Kentucky, 1 Mich- ie 726: Minnesota, 3020: Mis- sourl, 6058: New York, 191; North Dak 654. Ohlo, 544; Oklahoma, nnsylvania, 190; Texas, 134; Vest Virginia, 19; and Wyoming, 38 red last year in the P., at not less after having been ra $2.50 8 previous. These grazing, ‘but in hao made 10 it 14 the word of that frye iour 14 if siope 10 Nest, greater settlers CASES which an Landa town of $1 guliect Gregory, 8 an to entry than acre, te of an acre for is the the statement ands In that locality entered years before Rave not E but were time the opening $ to $50 an acre. : only produced the at selling at advertised 1 crops, m was 20 JAMES J. HILL Predicts Country Will Its “Wheat to Feed poattie, man of Directors, corner, sald “It is a Patten t is merely Wash. ~JF J HiIl. chalr- Northern Board of the recent wheat the Great discussing to say James A wheat market f a man taking advantaged of opportanits it has been but a few g was os timated that the average consumption of wheat annum in this country was git bushels, but now the experts argue that it is seven bushels. The census of 1910 will show that we have a population of which will mean that we will require for our own use €30,000,000 bushels hereafter “We ralse now probably 650.000. mistake cornered the a Case © an years si per will leave us but 20.000.000 bushels per annum food our own people eastward to feed the people of East ern and Central Western States “And in considering these facts it must be remembered that the number of live stock slaughtered last year of lowa can get When farmers Nebraska States with CELL SOLVES OF AIR. Not Fall, it Shot to that in the very near future, perhaps gome time this summer, he will have perfected a flying machine that will revol at jeast two important Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, of the telephone, detailed to American Philosophical Society particulars, the hat are to come. In hia effort to evolve a perfect ma. chine Professor Beil will aerodrome type of machine and place his dependence ifn what he has de- nominated the fetrahedral kite, a kite which has the form of a huge triangle and is composed of many small cells “All of the machines now in use,” the fuventor said, ‘even that of the machine construction, lack stability in the air. That is one fault. er and more dangerous flaw Is the Steel Trust to Drop Dealings With Unions Altogether, Pittsburg. —- Notices were ted at the various plants of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company that on and after June 30 the company will refuse to deal with the Amalgamated ATi Workers. ‘The company. Jn n te Workers. The ta Shien, Bf, n } deal with union labor, and it is as serted that the ration has now decided to drop g with the union altogether, hide fact that when an accident happeny to one of these machines it falls tc the earth with extreme rapidity, en Oy account of their lack of stability in the air the safety of the aviator de. pends almost entirely upon his skill, “The tetrahedral kite is perfectly stable in the air, as has been demon. strated by repeated tests. In case of to the would. It could even be hroken in half and still reach the earth in safe. ty. In times of war this would be an invaluable attribute, as the kite would be able to stand any amount of shelling.” . | It is these two things that will be the subject of the experiments thie | gummer Professor Bell has been conducting his work at his summer house in Braddock, Nova Scotia, a small town on the shore of Lake Bras d'Or, and in Hammondsport, N. Y. Chicago Roads Order Special Cars to Run to Cemeteries, | Chicago. ~Plans for funeral cars for the surface lines were sent to the | officers of the Ch City Rallway Company by Bion J. Arnold, chief] traction engineer. Haste in gelging | the cars has been precipitated by the | carriage drivers’ seks. The test on the surface lines 1s'to be made on the Calumet and South Chicago Railway, now operated by the City | They are rng used etropolitan West Bide Elevated FABHION NOTES Echarpes are much in vogue evening wear pretty ones to be seen of holdered in gold Although bright tints chewed, general soft, tones, li: vailing If Paris can have its way tendency millinery quaint effects, Now materials toward a toire style, though there are some very are not tendency i the delicate 1t shades pra in will be towarg edly point direc undoub! continuance of the there ig reason it will be greatly believe that it fled At mings ghades the trim- in blue the millinery shops £ 4 tein tina sw are ostrich tips mixed old and green and navy 1 an mauve and and mauve The tunic portant The in Yoane f the Oming Adress part o jacket is one of seen in some of ported ie coRtumes Cabonichensg of centers will be Tartan some suits these or Yin wit) black ost appropria‘e ” A Si and white mings, make a nn of mourning for a child. Salle of white be used wp” with red or blue decorations effective For the men and linen ms and, Yery white serge or for "dress occasions are suits. for little is no more dark-blue while sveryday women there satisfactory material than wool serge. It is well worth to select a good quality of this mater fal for this purpose, as it receives a hard wear and may have recourse to the washtub even as does a suit linen or cotton Of all the stvies of clothes for chil dren the regulation sailor suit is less quickly outgrown: therefore, as it may be for several it in wise to select serge of a good quality Naw Haven Register of need years OF OLD AGE The cure for hurry is the cure for old age-— bo take time every day, to become again as a little child, inter ested in one thing at a time as if that were the only thing. Instead of whirl ing all the time dizzily on the rim of life, we must take frequent times to get back to the center again for bearings-~back to the silent whence we came, At that silent cen ter we find all our child facultiea walting to be recognized and appro printed, Many cases of failing memory ars mistaken ones, due to unreasonable es pactations! How many grown-ups forget as mare; times & day as any child does? The trouble is we expect, or try to compel ourselves to remember a great burden of inconsequent and Irrele. vant things that the brightest child on earth could not remember; and we are so preoccupled trying to carry these things In mind that our minds CURE ee hi that Sught to have our full attention, would have a child's full at ~{Elizabeth Towne in Nauth on be a 2 erm rr RAISES FROGS FOR MARKET. Mrs. Laura Smith is the only wom- an frog farmer in the country, prob in world. She raises frogs Ban Francisco and los Angeles, her farm being midway between these cities. The Californians are confirmed frog-eaters, ut fresh legs gearce until re, Smith took frog raising. She got the visiting in Wisconsin, On the small lakes 7 TT the ably for were b M up her idea when nearly al) in that State frogs senda 3 illon. Indians croak by the un } to C iegs in Kee, Minneapolis ¥ fit nrofit prog bunches HICago and St in the wal | and the easy i A HTH known zero the stork NOW daily shipments taurants in and andag Angeles, Women \ the preliminary chatte { introduction murky gray goes by the name of “London smoke” Pa 5 with a { for which, it under The nani heen haust of the that out pre before comes a new shade, is hoetome green tons erence expected, name of ig drawn nopular linden the the fron nf the tree his green already has i geen In Fifth avenve in heavy with Rerge ars? are suits, a deep, usual trimming dull silver buttons clever woman present tendency ming. One of the stumes seen in the shop ently was of the new little more than a sug It seems a blow the | walking rib. The and The the trim | attractive oo | ping district | green with gestion of trimming. | against good taste to cover pres. gtreet suits with trimming. The | fines of certain these garment {| are more artistic than any other | gigns of recent vears. and the easy lines are at their best when goenting an unbroken surface to the eve~New York Press oo is fatin, is ex mos? { need however, againet | tensive to roc ent of de long “nro ’ An” Ba i A Living lHlustration, “Very few of us realize the terrible things that may result from a worl hastily spoken,” said the benevolent woman. “Well, 1 realize it." answered the { young man who sat by her on theo train. “I'm a daseball umpire” Washington Star. er Waiting Further Orders, Caller-Nellle, is your mother int Nellle-~Mother is out shopping. Calls er—When will she return, Nellie? Nel lle (calling back)-—~Mamma, what shall I say now?-—8hort Stories The German ‘Meteorclogical Soclety offers a prize of 3,000 marks for the best treatment of metesrological ob. servations obtained in the interna tional ascents,
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