Fe: A PLANT Unless one has an protected garden spot good window facilities plants, try the following The quickness with which the germinates in it will more than make up for the lateness of the start, for 1 did not wish to write of ii until we had tested the plan, Ours is a box tall enough to 8 common lantern, with a tray set in grooves above the lantern, much as a trunk tray fits Good loose soil was filled in the the tomato and cabbage seed planted in rows in the soil, not covered quite as deeply as if sown in a bed. A damp cloth was spread over this to prevent the washing when it watered. The lighted box, the tray over the tray, and The lantern wouldn't 80 augur holes end and sides of the necessary oxvgen. INCUBATOR. or for incubator. seed hold TO in. tray, goil is in the in, a glass laid there you are, stay lighted, bored in tha box lantern is set fitted were the each end of the tray, the tomatoes directly the center, nearest over the heat, but it would better = have two separate incubators, as the cabbage germinates much more quickly. in be 3 make nd t shouid } not hat much money is t much for feed row most of it at do the harvesting ade work h they They home, and Hog ive if a Ww let the | HOS ralsly can be m an used Feeding a ducing expen: to do KS © much feed before her in milk pigs are enough much milk me: use congestion of milk in her ud { ] the ind at Sow too to re juire 80 ! fx i ive SCOours and ie wot the plgs get or g reed her r 81 increase as Any of combined the clovers, alfalfa, or vet manure scatters do the th with hog as hogs 1 certainly improve the soil is will con- There- ming that en 1e land; and improv! the “ant Keen ng the good hefore farmer himself rests the kind of far t the farmer to jing! his pants.—Frogre "HE THOUGHTFUL COW ©O The ful 1 » wan will not ought rd any cow reasonably goo exactly hesitate &8 not fa is of doing ROL every that fog cabbages were all up nicely in hours, and the tomato seed beginning 0 sprout. i The incubator east window, in a One vear we old chicken incubator to start plants in, and it fine; there ba. fng more room be done so soon. It seems one could use an oil stove for this, placing the seed box on tnr of stove covering glass, and not turning the blaze high One could have the seed box over one burner, bage over agnother, and mato burner turned the Quick and with judicious makes by a small withont used stands Troon heat successfully an | tomato was the box wih too tomato | the the cab | the $ keep nighes transplanting, hardening off is what nice stocky plants for the gar- den Frequent ops fibrous f are ready to go frequent or food as soon as set and if the man fea fir shortest a great of food gi when given Of course f I wriat ¥ 00d must be the ven, how different Corn alone chicken, make most valuable would not as it is its fattening and Wheat contains bone, feathers. ee 80 he feeds corn, parts: one pam; oats, one pari, and secures ag fast-growing chicken any of these grains alone have all kinds but fast weak-legged, sore-eved. no and warming qualitic the material for oats for two muscle, whoa by this and we! growing, | feathers, | every conceivable | Add to these grain: a meat, which will insects, which form a natural food See that the fowls have plenty of sand or gravel, as they have no teeth, | and must have this gravel to grind | the feed in the gizzard. Give ovster | or clam ghell ground or pounded as | fine as wheat. Keep also by them | some powdered charcoal—It preven's | the digestive organs from becomine clogged with soured food if they have een too much, If all for them, the houses kept clean occasionally sprinkled with ~asye Reid and one a month girea a cont of whitewash, the should in if any of ease, to which are subject should appear, use a liberal supply of Douglas mixture, which is simp'y | one pound of sulphate of iron (cop. Yeras) and one ounce of sulphuric acid dissolved in a gallon of water, | Dose; two or three tablespoontuls to each one hundred chickens, in their | food or drink, for each dav until | they are better — Weekly Witness, | HOG NOTES. A man must be very poor not to be able to get a good small start in well-bred hogs, and they will multi ply fast and give quick returns. Paste this up where you will have to look at it every day: The Scuth uses much pork and raises COMmPATra- tively little; hence, Southern mar. kets must be good for a long time to come, Tt Is all right to give hogs good aitention—feed them with judgment, keep their quarters decently clean and free from wetness—but hogs are hogs, and there ig such a thing as wasting too much time with them. Never let the growth of hogs he checked. The cheapest gains in weight are made when they keep in- erensing in weight from birth to the block; and if one will manage well, he need not spend much for feed to do this. The reason many hog ralsers do deformity quantity of the place of part of their | take tha ‘hina hoege hinrs are provided } and | ti | chickens health. But or other dis keen signs nerfeet rouap they As Amongst before the «¢ A good tha 'X : deal if bridges and mean latter will be rut under days the date of + by Se thon arrive 16 producing the class i8 wanted by the pubile, i » and not delegating work to for the that mechanical orting It is a fact all contrivances for trans: HARKEN. gers and fre! increases the des on the same prin- a laborsaving machine in increases because it an army of material and Railways Each new mand for stuff f the i mand for horses cinle hat a factory labor men to get it must be fed line reOy requires the to prepare to the with dew the fal raw freight creates a more ho to hay! farms and factories to freight cars. Even the passenger traffic demands the service of a great many horses “oo haul the Bsassengers No horseman has even seriously considered automobiles in have a8 compel S80 far influence er. They have thelr uses and limitations, they am valuable in the right but horses wii! continue doing business as formerly. —Epitomist. tors the horse had one way or the ath busineas very little place BUILDING A SILO. When I built my silo [ did not put paper be'ween the boarding and had poor ensilage. Then I coated it wih paper and put on another lining of boards and had good ensilage after ward. Conclusion—Work well done first Is twice done.—Danie! W. Bill. in the Epitomist. GREENS FOR CHICKENS. er garden greens should be cut up fine and given to fowls confined in yards. When deprived of it, hens lack *he red color in their combs, and ers’ Home Journal CARE OF OHICKS, trees, {f the weather Is to eat and scratch all thoy lke.= Farmers’ Home Journal. has {its and eager to ilow coun- tryman the want, and always blandly misunderstanding every quest h § t Sigel's i 65ro pi police hapner to Elsie 3 certainly, white girl who 1 mits herself to get power the smu psaim-singing "Christian the nese Sunday-schonls. Such tragedies are grewsomely familiar on the Pa. cific Coast, where of late the Chinese mission is looked upon with disfavor. It was long ago discovered new religion became suddenly cooled New Rochelle, was in charge of a Mott street church a company of Chi- nese came to him and politely re- quested that he establish a Sunday- school for thelr benefit. Father Me Laughlin assented, and being a man of wisdom announced that he would teach it himself When his yellow visitors requested that they be taught by young white girls he indignantly the New York American, —— — Ministers ian Intelligence ble Chinamen together and per. to be instructed under the tutelage of young girls, merely ending themselves to the knavery of 1eir charges The Chinese are taught American hymns, and hymns transiated by mis- slonaries for them into Chinese. These {they troll forth Justily, all the while ‘squinting Insolently at their teachers. During the week they make frequent visits to the homes of the girl, bear ing Chinese sweetmeats and ginger At Christmas they shower upon the young women gifts of shawls and costly fabrics, with an object in mind which would probably make a mur iderer of any father that suspected it In manner they are always bland | and suave, being very careful to say +h Gtr Laem are look into thelr leering faces is enough {to convince a person of experience that a young girl would be better trusted with the worst cadet on the { East Side. At least the cadet’s lan- "guage would be a warning Artificial Berlin. ~The newspapers here de- scribe the murder of Elsie Sigel in have been enacted only in a religio- sexual atmosphere peculiar to Amer- fea. Bays one newspaper: “If the scandals that Involved Knights of the Round Table were characteristic of Germany, it can be said with equal truth that the trag- edies arising out of this welrd and unhealthy mixture of religious pas- sion and sexual passion are charac- teristic of America.” “Germany.” it adds, "can learn a lesson from decadents on the other pletists to be too prominent in lead- ing social usage; not to set up a wholly artificial standard of moral A brilliant evening newspaper of Dryan Would Withdraw From the Public Eye. Denvel Col.~*1 do noi wish to dis. cuss polities nor myself,” sald W. J, Bryan here. “No, I am not a candi- not wish to be considered one. “I bellove the public generally would appreciate it if my personal doings were left out in the future,” he continued. “The public doesn’t understand how I am continually bored by reporters seeking Interviews, I am ready to withdraw from the public eye.” { Berlin maintains, apropos of the Sigel | murder, that religious ardor and sex. ual passion are bound deeply and | abidingly. Their unity is sometimes { celebrated secretly with mystic rites; | sometimes breaks out openly in orgies { like those celebrated by devotees of | strange sects in America, Russia and | elsewhere. she who renounces it often degen. in character. traditional morality is more stringent. ly exercised there than in Germany. eyes of advanced New Yorkers to the fact that the rule of the too truly good is harmful.” Visits His Mother's Grave After Seventy-five Years, Norwich, N. Y.— 88 warow it cover. It will new and Rance 2 mattress mattresses When g#t burnt don’t is all waste, Jus: sand pan immediately into a basin of water five This have the effect burnt taste The fine ash of a cook stove used furnishes sliver polish equal market To make a : too tight, rub the ends well with a piece of fat salt pork. It wul give no further trouble Turn coffee mill tightly, fill the hopper w ed sugar, grind it through even three ti have an excellent To clean cut-glass with warm soapsuds gawduet an dry, and it your aappened to out, for that your for minutes of el the wend drr) a the found over in which {when used to any ayven iz on ie easxily, {if drawer sli down th granulat aofice your very or mes and Sugar wash thoroughly and cover with two, or until with powdered for hour or perfectly then brush a 857 brush will be clear a Oxalis acid iz excellent for remov. ing stains from your finger nalls, Dis solve the acid in water, and apply to the nailg with an orangewood stick, and you will find all stains will be instantly removed. Do not put a tomato aspie to hard the acid in the jeliy acts on the tin and makes the salad taste, while the black pan gives an unsightly black rim to the aspie. Try a Hitle lemon and salt mixed the next time a price mark sticks to RAISING DUCKS, case in Point Where They Did Detter Without Water, We n a confess that h after ral small way for three annot satisfactorily say ducks rofitable to raise withe ng them water ’ access to § we ralsed them Nave access to irinking purposes ners of 1806 to the after being ifter the with them water Alarm For Poultry House, ging a wire to ing on which During the da) n unhooked and thus relies 11 from duty desired, sugzests Pral the bell can be placed box, which will make it Cost of Food. New York Agri the cost According to the cultural Experiment Station, of food per chick, to weigh one pound on ground grain, is three cents; on whole grain, three and seven-tenths cents After making repeated in feeding, this station says ground grain ration proved consider ably more profitable than the whole grain ration for the growing chicks; and the same was true of capons of equal weight and age, fed fore caponizing. No difference noticed in health or vigor of or capong fed either ration tests he the alite ailing A Prize Bird brac. A sticky cake or bread pan should and make thereafter. is not desirable, all day in overheated rooms. in the open alr. Ventilate house night and day. Don't keep it an oven, and get yourself so tender that you shiver whenever the wind Slows on you A little good toilet water or cologne poured into a bath is delightful in its effects, BARRED P. ROCK COCK. Good Morning Feed, Two parts oats, two parts eracked corn and one part wheat, make a good morning feed to be thrown inte litter. Feed what they need to keep them busy till noon--about a quart to ten fowls, amount needed varics with different breeds, The beginner finds many stumbling blocks in the artificial methods, but experience shows the trick of how to sasily step over them. s