l / \ ' Y/ ah 1 ’ THE QUINCE. It is important that the quince should | have proper pruning and cultivation. Distinct directions for performing the | work, instead of loose and random cut- ting, are given substance as follows: see large bushes with nothing stumpy branches on them, one-half or so to get a good stock of young wood. Then cut them back a little every winter, topping last season’s wood a little and cutting older growth more. This will give fine, fair fruit and plenty of it, if the trees are cared for in other respects, and are kept sufficiently thinned.— American Farmer. but old NEW FAD IN COW FEEDING. The newest fad in cow reduce it to two meals a feeding is to lay. A few | harness oil, by Joseph Meehan, in | How often do we | Cut these back | properly | | harness, dairymen have tried this plan for the past | two winters with satisfactory results, No saving in | expected or desired. The object ght to be attained 1s that a great amount rest for secured, She lies quiet or sleeps during the middle of t wad in doi better results are reached in the of milk. To feed twice a day warm stable and the Most ace ptable form of quantity that the co Under such cor claimed dairy cows will prosper in a larger meas- ure than me ad im ood is sou the cow of Oi is he aay, ng so impli Dest quality of food ir ws will iditions it 1s re Ire Ju nt feed Fd rican Dairyman. will ORN AMENT dumping gr few shade pecially os la road so slowly after each other standard fru . care, can be made to flourish valuable along the roadside tivated flelds, Weeds an be cut down each year, and little time to make the roadsides that the grass along th cut with a mac They | peater when thus trimmed, and the hay alone will compensate for all trouble in. volved in this road impr American Agriculturist with i and be as m the « 1 bushes sh it 4 it takes 80 em can be smooth ine, DOK SO muc! vemient, RIDDING THE GARDEN OF SLUGS. A subscriber tells us how to trap slugs. Jaiting slugs with bran is as good 8 good a way of catching them as aay I know of, Take some Pieces of slate, or some flat stones, and lay them here there about the garden where 2 do the most mischief. About sundown go around and put a teaspoonful of bran on each piece of I'he slugs will soon find out it there and col lect to feed on it. About an hour dark take a lantern and a pail filled with salt water, and go over the garden, picking up each piece of slate or stone on which slugs have gathered, and drop them into the brine, where they will in- stantly die, It is well to go around again in the morning, as many will found hiding under the slate acd stones By following up this method persistently for a few weeks, garden may be effectually rid of this nuisance.-—Success With Flowers, and the slugs slate or stone after slugs ye the REMEDY FOR The old method of fumigating with tobacco, so long considered the most efficient method of destroying plant lice or aphis is almost, if not altogether, abandoned by professional florists, write A. Charles in the American Agric 1. tu To accomplish the desired re. gults tobacc > dust was also used, This, when dusted over the foliage of the young plants, by means of a bellows, de- stroyed the lice quite effectively, and with much less trouble. Bat its gave the plants an untidy appearance, so that etter methods were sought aad soon found, Now, the favored remedy ito scatter tobacco stems among the pisots, If bedded out, the surface be- tween the plants is entirely covered with stems. placed on the water or steam pipes. house plants, the stems should be cut short and scattered over the soil in toe PLART LICE. use { fits one hors a cloth, taking pains to rub in carefully. Harnes ss oil can geusmally be bought at | the stores or harness shops, but neats- and lampblack In many cases it will be harness twice, | foot oil est to go over the es pecially when, as is often the case on the | farm, it is a long time between oilings. The hanging the harness behind the horses is that the arising from the manure leather very much, The hanging it in the horse stables obection to is con- venience, While there is leisure it is a good time to overhaul the harness and repair and , oil thoroughly before t hard ins, he season for work beg Another item, but the harne not only in saving ths as well, is te rly fitted so far ae horse on tho ar and set of har- A collar that fter has vill rarely, if ever horses } have the 38 prope is possible; work farm should have a coll fitted to him. inlly a every ness properly proj } he worked ir y and comfortably as 117 snugly tightly as to fitting collars sores, and as snu I'he t anoth it ought. haraess should , and in a shor hape shaj sure that % A5 A wWeax FARM AND Id be COTY ry day. fixed Jap Good drainage is an important requis- te for an The C white | icehiouse, Aberdeen isa pure foliage. mmtess ol + with handsome wed heavy muscu lar teams b i them satisfactory. It is a gO the cream every tim 1 plan to aerate e a fresh skimming is added to an ordi- special | shade, the atmosphere, temperature are fuct e prejudice DATY Warm needs of the isin in certain sec ry heavy There is so tions against the use ol ¥ | » far 1OTHES 10% farm wo If the butter won't ¢ because the cream brine may 1 If you turnips, { not all, 181 Go) id, & litle ye the best remedy. is too ¢ WArQ, weas sell milk and it is flavored with gerating it will rid it of of the obnoxious flavor, most, Sawdust makes about the best pack convenient leaves wil ‘ ¢ $ bat if it is not ing for ice, but if iS 15 not 5 to get that, straw or wall, lo. By pouring slowly from one pail into another the cream will t snd thoroughly mixed sad will ripes evenly. Tue efficacy of the Bordeaux mixture prevent the leaf blight has y proved at the New York Experi. nent St can OM Ww aired ive © { ALION. If you churn in cream in the churn may yet too the butter in coming cream with the thermometer, cold; of is long test the If you warm the enurn thoroughly by means of hot water before you put the cream into it, there will be little danger of the outside ¢ cold temperature affecting the cream. (Garman sugar-beet growers and man- ufacturers use oxen instead of horses for their working stock, and thea fatten them for beef upon the beet-pulp refuse. There's economy | As the tillage of wheat, under our present methods, must consist almost | wholly in the proper preparation of the ts, which not only kills the lice that | infest the tops, well. but the root aphis as view, and often kill the plant without our knowing the real cause of its death. The water applied will carry sufficient | strength of the tobacco to the roots to free them from insect enemies. At the same time tobacco stems are one of the best fertilizers that can be use Re They contain more plant food than can found in the same given amount of any other vegetable substance, and no danger can arise from a too hiberal use of them, THE FARM HARNESS, The proper care of the harness is an | be Tobacco stems are also | seed-bed, no effort or labor should be For | spared that will help to make that prep- aration complete. The woney received for cattle sold is easily enough calculated. But the ben. efit to the land which results from their These "underground enemies are | proper handling can never be told in more injurious than those presented to | dollars and cents, Usually one estimates it too low rather than too high. Fruit-growing pays, but don’t go into all at once. Start with a small amount of land and plant a good variety. Then | while learning practically tow methods { of culture you can also find what branch important item in farm management. If | kept clean and well oiled and hung up in a convenient, tight closet when not ia wre 1t will last as long again as when bung up behind the horses in the stables and allowed to accumulate dirt and filth and go without oiling. Harness that is in use the greater part of the time should be thoroughly oiled at least every three months, and in many cases, especially during the winter, it will be better to ofl it every two months, In oiling it should be taken apart and every wiped clean with a wet rag. “I tis dirty water and soap should be used to clean it thoroughly, Apply the oll with : i of the work is best suited to your needs, The purpose of all agriculture is to make a plant (or an animal) grow to the | best advantage under the conditions sur. | rounding it, and to surround it with the | conditions that will best minister to such | growth, You are all rignt if you are | working along this line. Ouve thousand bushels of potatoes per acre, 255 bushels shelled corn and 105 bushels of wheat have shown what the possibilities of the soil are. And the average yield of about one-tenth these amounts shows how far farmers usually come from achieving these possibilities, It is surprising how lightly most farms evs treat their poultry interest and how paraistontly they continue to regard it a small afta Yet in this Wages Jie great possibilities to every farmer, for on every farm the conditions are such as to make poultry profitable if they are haudled in a common seus” Wane, | side and Baturn’s outermost ring make a good | ammonia | injures the | advantage in but it is questionable economy. | a very cold room the L SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL Aluminum horseshoes are now made for record breakers. If sneezing be induced it will stop & disacreeable hiccough. Rome of the stars move with a velocity of nearly fifty miles a second, Flash light pictures of dinner partics are quite in order all along the hne. The weight required to crush a square inch of brick varies from 1200 to 4500 pounds. Place gide by could 500 earths like ours easily inclose them. No living germ of the antispeptic power of essence of cin. a few hours. disease can resist pamon for more than The that all th motion - has demonstrated fixed in in one direction, some in Spe ctrosc ope so called stars are ome another, Electricity is being applied to the dry. | HAVIN ‘4 old the process than the ing of tea in Ceylon, proved more e method. Newton, in hi earth was gradually momical day. | becoming ntiy later the opinion. De. WW. A. has to the ion Lancet about a new uurce of wture, Ciean- { tliat ientisis writlen } manu e pial f storage soning, i recoatit Sense of Direet ‘report of | amily, the dog bad ached there time he had lo was more than seventy-ive days from the as the distan dog if this had he that the Now, what certain aome, { direction, what the stra when he had passe aver t ¥ raid him § take we believe to be Py for home, or two sides of the angle 1 , Or even ot Who does not know f-.grown Kitten, in a bag, y always ita way When | in Ni Michigan | had a cat we tired of, 1 took her g way finds th . yriaern a bal sken a lon from home Dear back 7 ving directly across the turned her lk es around n a boat about two miles, and Although it was about six mil lake, a cin and certainly unknown to sight, the next morning she Was back at the old place. Another case is just stated to me of that taken by rail fully twenty u les in Bo st Missouri, x! yraer ake ’ MORE, ! the #41 3 21014 " the end of UIT tous « one a Cal was 3 . Ha nnw and the n day be walked io at his § home. ———— An Important Difference, > make it ag themselves (11, thousands who think parent t that they are not affected any disease, but that =) in hearts, as a costive condition is easily « Figs California Fig Syrup Co cleans! to bring comfort home tot using Syrup of Manufactured Ly Mow's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for | any oases of oatarth that cannot be cured by taking Halls s Catarrh Cars, Cuexzy & Co Props. Toled Oo We, he undersigned, have known ¥ 4. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable io all business transac tions, and finan inlly able to carry out any ob ations made hy their firm, .’ & Tau ax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, War - Kixxax & Manvix, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O, Hall's Cat starrh C ure Is taken Internally, act. ing directly upon the blood and mucous sure faces of the system. Testimonials sent free Price (5c. per Bottle. Fold by all druggists Disoase Is unnatural and is but the proof hat we are abusing Nature, It is ola'med that sarfield Tea. a simple hort remed 5, helps Nao ture to overcome this abuse, Fon Covons and TRroaT DisosnpeERs use Browx's Brosomian Trocums, “Have never changed my mind respecting them, exos think better of that which I bognn by think. tng well of." Ree, Henry Ward Beccher, Bold oy in boxes 1 afMinted wit ym Dr. Issac Thom son CS Eroaton Dracuiets antl at Benger Bottle —————————————————————— her by | ail right | with | the system simply needs | heir | ured by | the | Peas and Beans, Although peas were known and used ns food many centuries before the birth of Christ, it is singular that green peas came into use in Western Europe only 200 years ago. Mme. de Maintenon wrote in 1606: «All the talk now about the new dish--green peas. The impatience for them, the pleasure of eating them, the triumph of finding them 80 enjoyable, and the joy of pating the repetition of the treat animating points of conversation at our court. And many ladies after going home from a royal feast must have a dish ready to eat at home before lving down.” A Beans were in antici are 2000 Christ, but in the Egyptian temples they were under ban, Priests must not eat them or the growing plants, They were ved at funeral on the dishes placed bef the lately Hee | 100K at ser feasts only the seats of Thus a prejudice was created which prevented much use of one of the cheapest and best items of food even in until a day. We have gained the shaking off of new ne deceased, LAr Pe nearly as late h by ttoars az he er 1s DY kK Tribune. Bit, such discoveries Cannot Take the O rented a maxes take the LIT no bit to ged with ap over the horse's nose, and a steel +) n irb und h nat hard pull or very up y ile aaving One great It fio Batt] ley sd O95 in | Curions Death Customs of Fiji. The Fijians believe that in case a mar riageable youth or maiden dies without having gone through with the elaborats nuptisl knot-tying ceremony of the { islands his or ber soul is doomed to wander about forever in an intermediate | region between heaven and the | regions. When anyone dies, { woman or child, | in the hand of the corpse, to be thrown at the tree which stands as a guide post to point out road that leads to aven and the one that . Louis Republie. man, the missile the sheo! years before o ariel ir ana WA hich e> the us finest fi not H yO, obtainable y =" eM ph Kill. ity (Mo.) | ] B aking Powd de re “ wins 1f5 ifs Rqueror” lower | un whale's tooth is placed A Rider's Experime carrier are be. of my. Hts hed several important and jotted opes and berated, Experiments with cyclers | pigeons for transmitting messages ing made by the Gymnastic in the interest of the Bociety It a small cage | Rome, The rider carried to his trained observations bh they # Inn ar machine, in which are Ww en taken wi Pi cons, ave been dow n, affixed to the In every instance thus far the fi and mre i birds bay Own pr ti monty romp: y in leads to |} Rove AL BAKING POWDER r lightness, sweetness, a slale A naij $i. MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS WITH SLOTTED Po Q tr Aytve o . t Fi 3 re u are strong, tongh end durabie. Miilor * nus All ‘ pnd Ask your dealer for them, vis pn for & box of JOU, sssori sizes. Me JUDSON IL. THOMSON MFG. “co. WALTHAM, MASK, or sen d #0 in — MERCURIAL” com | JUSTiCE to All. 3 1B seve Ch 1a rescribed the Heine ny relief mere sash rem but which br hen wan ul of there res wht rheumatism tL} ad fre or - ~ RHEUMATISH | After sufferis FN emedies An A bagan los 1 1100 Ww -— ine for blood warket on an at ir several b 1 able to res is the greatest medi Tel AL soning touay 3 Lhe i Bk Irineases mailed i’ 1 Atlanta. (sa # THE KIND . THAT CURESH - MRS. OLIVER ( HERRIR Rn, Malone On Crutches 0 Years! EATING SORES THAT WOULD NOT HEAL! CURED! CURED! DANA Sammaramiia Ox GENTLEMEN | wid My oh heed +, oe of hewn Nw Tr RR, ne ears oR wore, Ry nething wou) alas beaks oat on my Hmb as & FF RE, Yo ‘monte 1 we ponfined to my hed od Yee A unable tv walk without cratehos Lr aver ten Fears, Law Fall 1 parctinond Byres bootie of DANA'S SARSAPARILLA of Davis Bron. It hed me from the fret, 1 took 0 falihtuily, andl 1 can now attend i» wy house hold duties ond walk » well that happrae of the present day atm ery Re br NY VER cmmmmin GENTLEMEN ~ enclose testionominl of Mn Cherries, whieh in 8 drong endorsement of your Jatiahie sompound. We believe her statement bo tree in every respeet, ay pe AY In AVIA ROS Mualowe, X.Y. Wheiesaie & y Draggins Cares Consumption, Conghs, Croup, Sore Throat. Sod bv pu i Dower a Guarsnien, PROFITEEE: EE Coke 18 way Now TO YOUNG MEN. STEERER n Lr 1 rent Tw "ma W | ) i apparen ) Exposition that millions of people w the possessors of | World's The extraordinary and growing demand for these Coins, a sire on the part of the Directors that Directors of t Ww Columbian ill be denied the hi of beconmung ac Fair Souvenir. Qoins The Official Souvenir of the Great Exposition— nd the de- equal opportunities may be afforded for their purchase, have made it necessary to enlarge the channels of distribution. ac To relieve themselves of some re ponsibility, the Directors have invited THE MERCHANTS Fhroughout the Nation to umts with Dollars on zale. This is done that tie Banks in placing Columbian Half- th. masses of the people, those an living at remote points, may be afforded the best possible opportunity to obtain the Coins. THE FORTUNATE POSSESSORS of SOUVENIR COINS wil new advantages $10,000 Was Paid | be those who are earliest in seizing upon these For The First Coin They are all alike, the issue is limited, and time mus? enhance their value. The price is One Dollar each. HOW TO GET THE COINS Go to your nearest merchant them. or banker, as they are likely to have If you cannot procure them in this way, send direct to us, ordering not less than Five Coins, and remitting One Dollar for each Coin ordered. Send instructions how to ship the Coins and they will be sent free of expense. order, or bank draft to Remit by registered letter, or send express or post-office money Treasurer World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IIL ad : LICHTNINGC —Th, 60 Day Cabba °. This is ahesintely the sarliost oabbage in the w very soatos WI be in great demand thie spring and will Te ave 3 pps Bariient Vegetable Novelties, §1, postpaid - fo he foes pebiinhed, Coste us over 90,0001 moaliod upon roos pl of Re. postage. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO, La Crosse, Wis. Pie, Je 3 on, Be i Ih, 52 postpaid THE EARLIEST VEGETABLES fete big priem be earliest, plant Salsers sends FOR 14. mit é rt pwr ow Six Wook Rad ioh ad Filver State Letpnna, 18 Loinmt Prolifie Te (WITH CATALOGUE, '9¢ sie our seeds every here, we pend. postpaid, apes i Te a1 ® Parkapes, ed mevhore oats, Ne. - Lang Ghent Cosmas, ie wwler Bho. “Brill Flower Sects, Me | ALL FOR 14s SALIER'S SEED CATALOGUE i pally eral ar SRRNeNY Gand A Tegan 1 “Well Bred, Soon Wed.” Cirls Who Use SAPOLIO Are Quickly Married. WORN NICHT AND DA DAY | ali] ny
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