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
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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.—<Isaac Brown,
ninety years old, living on a farm in
Otselle, Chenango County, took his
first trip in three-quarters of a con.
tury last week, when he visited Syra.
cuse. It was the first time he had
ridden on a ralliroad, although he had
seen steam cars a few years ago. On
the trip he visited his mother's grave,
at Stockbridge, twenty miles from his
home, for the first time since he was
a boy of fifteen. The hue buildings
and eleciric cars amazed him,
ve sv av Ware vi
o v4
oTarTasiasia viata astoste er’
2
Household Notes ¥
Pav, CC Ct a a Se
ats 289, ’,
LC SEAL ALT ET EEE A
FRUIT
Drain the syrup
slice the
SALAD
from a can of firm
peaches, Arrange on
erisp lettuce
with chopped
cherries,
raives,
leaves and sprinkle
nuts
Put a ter
and reserved
D
spoonful of may
onnalse on each te of salad an
witt
Chefs,
pla i
serve toasted crackers and
cream New York Wor
NUT CARAMELS
Heat in a saucepan a
pound
fate, f
of
quarter
unsweetened choco:
of butter, ons
of grated
ur
grown
ounces » pound
sugar, a hal
half cupful
teaspoonful
of va:
dropped
lasses, a of
ream
(11. 1
iii. Ox
water it will become
in add a
into square as
len ~—New York World.
pound of chopped
the cara
PEAS IN PASTRY.
Take three-fourths cup of flour, a
teaspoonful of half tea
1
i
one wel
SUgAr,
a cup of milk
iTié
spoon of salt
Benton o ow vw
Jeailen egg Olive
oil Whin the
beater
the hot
hot fat
and drain
alt nennes
salt, penper
the pastry
and a teaspoon
vor
GER
batter with
tly
iron
Have the pe
until perfec smooth, in
ir
rosette ani fee A tan
rosette and fry I i8en
well sd
m with
as
them, then seas
butter D
and
rogeties
OO
ready to
gerve
of
Serve with olives and
New Yorl
squares
Sharp World.
cheese
SMEL
AND
POTATOES
dry the fish ar
well-seasoned
Set away on ice for an hour
fry in in a
basket,
own
ryving
iden br
brown pap
oh
tarough
notatoss
chopped
with
butter and
potatoes brown sligh
ng hot-—New York
STUFFED
ial
Wash two dozen
keer
clean for
has
hy > 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.
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