cn ——— SC ———————
LEAVES FOR THE GREENHOUSE.
Leaves from the forest when rotted |
sinks a most avsallant material to mix |
with soil to be used for greenhouse |
plants, but w hether it will be profita-
ble or not to gather the leaves for |
such purposes depends very much upon
the circumstances. The cost of labor
in gathering the leaves, the distance |
they are to be hauled, and other items
of expense should be taken into con-
sideration in order to get at the actual
cost of the material when it is ready
for use. —New York Sun,
CLEAN PIGSTIES AND CLEAN PIGS, |
Pigsties should be cleaned and |
scrubbed at least once a week, writes
a correspondent. Give the pigs
good scrubbing with a serubbrush of |
an old broom, and plenty of clean
weter every day if convenient. Pigs
enjoy a good cold bath and appreci-
ate a good serubbing and a clean pen,
with something for a nest on which to
lie. 1 give them oat straw for a bed. |
It smells sweeter in the pen than hay.
Never give pigs buckwheat straw; it
gives them the buckwheat itch. Clean-
hiness the pigs produces
healthy porkers.—New York Tribune.
among
THE STRIPED CUCUMBER BEETLE.
This insect may be driven from the
plants it infests, which are of the
melon, or gourd tribe, by dusting them
with fine wood ashes or plaster in which
a little carbonic acid has been stirred
a distinct odor. Io
bacco stems, that may be procure d of
the cigarmakers or dealers, sprea 1 un
der the pl a. or rags dipped in ker
gene, will also drive away thes: pests
The cabbage worms may also be kepg
away from eabbage and eauliflower by
goattering flour on the leaves; bran 1#
gaid to be effective, but hand picking
is the safest 1 most certain remedy
To do this easily take a pair of spring
nippers, which may be used more con-
veniently than the fingers. New York
Times.
80 a8 tO g1V it
mi
WHAT ONE HERD DISCLOSES,
Very recently there was published
fn an article on the care of dairy cows
statistics which fully prove that a man
feeding at random,
that have never been tested, 1s working
absolutely in the dark, and if he sue-
ceeds it is merely through sccident.
Facts very startling to the thinking
discl Out of this herd
cattle, Holstein,
grades, snd some com
and kee ping COWS
some
Man were
of sixty
Je rsey,
me of unknown aucestry, the
cow returning the greatest
butter to food
the untive Undonbte
prior to the test the presumption
all against this cow g
BONY
some
n cattle
RI {
mint ©
3
According eaten was
common
"his shows
breed does not always tell, and 1s con
soling to the farmer wi no
to stock up entirely with thorongl
bred or grades The
native cow beat all of the Jerseys, so
that even the rich farmer ecanno
afford to rely entirely upon blood
An sverage of twenty-seven pounds of
food was consumed for one pound of
fat, ranging from seventeen to forty
seven pounds The larger cows con
sumed a smaller amount of food in
proportion to their weight than the
smaller ones. The best yield of milk
gave the best yield of butter.
The entire test shows us what an in-
dividuality and that
breed and color and good marks and
appearances in general must not allow
us to lose sight of the paying qualities
of one and the losing qualities of an
other.— American Farmer,
who is not able
even second
there is in cows,
yeogr
ave
THE COLTS GOOD STALLS,
Have box stalls for the colts by all
means, but do not make them cells of
solitary confinement. Put in good
windows to admit the sun. If
opening into the paddock, have an
extra door two-thirds size, so he can
stand and put his head out and enjoy
the sir, and see and familiarize him-
self with what is going on. If open
ing into the barn, have the door in
halves; on the under half put a slat
work that he ean look through, hav.
ing it so the upper half can be shut
tight, in cold weather or at night,
I had » young stallion last winter
that could not see what was going on
from his stall. He was kind and of
good disposition, but when I went to
take him out would grab a halter and
chew it and nip at one who came near.
I had two extra hinges put on the
door, and sawed it in two at the
the lower half I built a slat work top
that he could see through. It changed
him st once, and now have a quiet and
pleasant colt to handle.
Do not have two half doors by any
means; it is dangerous. the upper
half gets unfastened the colt will
reach through, and is likely to have it
swing so as to catch his neck; aad in
wt -aggling to get free get hung, Chil |
to open the |
gin in good season, so an to let the |
sonl their stores
dren sre often round
lower half to seo the colt nod not
fasten it again. He stoops down to
get out, snd when part wy
t
straightens up and is caught by the
apper door in the small of the bok |
England | to your eh
yor peoan trees,
chased cheaply of any nurseryman, and
| glve excelient returns.
Trees which are planted in the fall
become thoroughly settled and get o
n addition to this they
ing snd summer for
which is of
and is ruined for life, New
Homestond,
———
FATTENING POULTRY,
No operation connected with the |
poultry Jord nires ter atten.
tion snd jai pi t fattening
fowls in coop. Ostmesl
and occasionally with a little drip
| nusist digestion.
| take
| sufficient attention 18
through |
| ways feed just at night.
It yon desire to leave an inheritance
Hdren, set out a few walnut
and barley. | have the entire spr
mol alternately, mixed with milk,
ping, is a good food. The feeding
troughs, which must be kept constant-
ly scoured, should be placed belore
the birds at reguinr ter vais,
when
better to remove them, placing a little
gravel within the reach of the coop to
Oats and rive are far
inferior to oatmeal in their flesh-form-
ng properties, Keeping the birds
without food for some hours after they
are put up frequently induces them to
it more readily afterw ard, but
; rarely bestowed
1
mare
on the various deteils of preparation
and supplying the food; hence, the
complaints of the fowls deteriorating
in the fattening pen are far from un
common, Access to water should be
allowed at all times,
Fattening must be completed in ten
days, for after that period they begin
to lose weight. The best age for table
birds is when they are irom four tosix
months old.
The coop should ba three feet high,
two feet wide and four feet long This
will admit from six to eight bir 1s,
according to their size, The bottom
and front should be of bars, three
inches apart, A board outside the bars
in front, six inches wide, will
a stand for the food and water troughs
The coop should be
lated outhouse, and if kept dark be-
times of feed ing. all the bet
he Many.
BOTrYe as
in & well-venti-
tween the
ter. — Poultry Book for t
FARM AXD GARDEN NOTES
anid that
and excell
An English experiment station says
that wheat is the cheapest food in Eng-
land for sheep
By
ke pt perfect and come 0
and attractive.
clusters are
it bright, clean
bagging grapes the
Young animals intended
ing purposes should be well cared for
and kindly treated.
is simply a severing
loot-praning
y roots in order to check growth
slnees 100 po
much for feed as ond
pall)
a great dimin
milk
faster now than i
1 that the
ere overfed
contest §
said that tomatoes gathered
n dry plsce
just as pears do
(x1 oOrest first
grain
they
LE
and
yarer
ve the p
mals grow dainty as fatten
instead of gaining if given pe
Os
food
I'he quality of butter made in wet
weather is inferior owing to the
tures supplying less nutriment at that
sine
pas
touched by frost,
and kept in a cool—but not cold
Ince
Celery blanched by banking in soil
anid to be more crisp and of better
than thet bDianched bDeiween
If yon have any trees in your orch
ard which have been blown down «
have been killed, remove them an 1 me
out new trees
wr
1
Now is the time to prepare the young
trees so that the ravages of rabbits will
not injure them. Do not delay this,
as it may mean s considerable
you
At this season it is important that
every colony contain a good fertile
queen and that a fair sprinkling of
brood is kept up during the fall
months
In the future the orchardist will con:
sider the Bordeaux mixture and kero-
senie emulsion as a necessity for the
success of his fruit trees in yielding » |
| good erop. !
middle, making two half doors. From |
It would be well for the orchardist
if more winter apples, pears, or « ther
late fruit were planted. Now is the
best time of observing the wisdom of
doing this
The quantity necessary to winter a
hive depends largely upon the weather
and the size of the colony, but thirty
pounds per colony is about the aver: |
age quantity,
Feeding for winter stores should be
bees have time to
aver before cold weather sets in. Al
They can be pur
good roothold.
their growth the first your,
great advantage.
they have eaten sufficient it is |
| of water
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS,
PALATABLE SOUP MEAT.
Although soup meat is esteemed nob
a very nutritious food, it certainly |
would be more palatable at the table if
served with a hot or cold sance, ns 1%
ix in many well-to-do French house-
holds. A hot sance, good for the soup
meat, or other boiled beef, is made
from a cupful of stock, thickened with |
flour and butter rubbed together, and
sensoned with a tablespoonful of vin-
eger, and salt, pepper and fine herbs
to taste. —New York Post.
CELERY BOUY.
n———— HO SP
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,
A lump of uikel weighing 4500
pounds is worth half as many dollars,
The python lays eggs and hatched
them by developing » high degree o
heat.
It is said that people eat twenty per
cent. more bread when the weather 18
cold than when it is mild.
Paris now gets its water supply from
six great springs. It travels through
eighty-three miles of aqueducts,
The Mediterranean has been com:
| monly supposed to be a sed without |
| tides; but,
Put a veal bone to boil in one quart
in one pint of celery, cut up very fine,
two tablespoonfuls of rice, one onion,
boil until reduced to a pint. Take out
the meat and pass the soup through »
colander, mashing and extracting as
much of the puree as possible, passing
the stock through it two or three
times. Boil a quart of milk separately,
y i ) re ut | . v
After skimming it well pu | nocording to Professor A. 8. Packard.
| of
| gnecies of blind creatures, nearly all
one teaspoonful of celery salt, Let this | ¥ )
| lighted by glectric light.
as 8
Venice there is a tide in the spring of
from one to two feet,
The eave animals of North America,
Brown University, comprise 172
of which are mostly white in color.
The campus at Yale College is now
This is said
| to be the first time in the history of
rub two tablespoonfuls of flour in a |
half a cup of batter, add this to the
boiled milk. After cooking it a few
minutes add the milk to the celery
puree and serve at once, mixing milk
and puree well ~New York World,
BAKED MACARONI,
One-quarter pound of macaroni, ont
grate d cheese, one
half cup of tablespo
of butter: salt and pepper. Break th
macaroni in convenient lengths, put it
in a two-gquart kettle and nearly fill
the kettle with boil water, add &
teaspoonful of salt and rapidly
the rapid boiling
from
quarter pound of
1
{ one ynful
Crean,
boil
twenty-five minutes
sticking
prevents the macaroni
together),
throw into
ten minutes, then
Put a layer of the
drain in a colander, then
cold water tO
drain again
macaroni
lish, then
a sprinkling of
colander
aking
, then
1)
ti
ta
hj
3} AD I bak«
twenty
PERF STEW
pounds of beef, tl ind, flan)
or any che ap part (if the
it. two snd a hall poun is will
one onion, wo slices of oar-
quired),
rot, two of tarmp,
tablespoonfuls of flour,
atoes, three
pepper
it
meat and put it in
tly for 4
two p
salt,
generous quart of water {
{at from the
ton or fif
getables in ve
: the pot wi
sinutes, stirring well
Now put in the
meat and m 3 bout in
’
y prevent |
the pot un
hen add the
ri et at
ve it
:
yl back where
or two and a half
wold water,
Pe us
than
walter fn th ar at
ng the rest when perfectly smooth
Taste to see f the »te
enongh, and if it 1s not,
and pepper Lat the
boil again, and cook ten minuies then
add dumplings Cover tightly and
boil rapidly ten minutes longer, Mut
ton. lamb or veal ean be cooked in this
manner. When veal is used, fry
two slices of pork, as there will not Ix
much fat on the meat. Lamb and mut
ton must have some of the fat put
aside, as there 18 80 much on these
meats that they are otherwise
gross, — New York Ledger
w is seasoned
add more
stew COme
wait
on
out
yers
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
wel 10 col
and
.
FOGRITIINE
A cloth
ACTO
tion
For bread and pastry have an oven
that will in five minutes turn a
of paper dark brown
ton
4 the eves will alay
pecs
Butter put into clean pots and well
surrounded with charcoal will
good for twelve months,
keep
In baking bread or rolls put a sauce
pan of boiling water into the oven
The steam will keep the crust smooth
and tender.
Peroxide of hydrogen will lighten
the hair. Put a few drops into a small
quantity of water and apply thorough-
ly with a sponge.
Much of the heavy eake and bread
is the result of the oven door being
banged when closed. Close the door
as gently as possible. Nearly every
one opens it gently enough.
Half & dozen onions planted in the
cellar where they oan get a little light
will do much toward absorbing and
correcting the atmospheric impurities
that are so apt to lurk in such places.
A pinch of sulphate of ammonia
dropped in the water in a hyacinth
glass just + hen the flower spike is ris-
ing will make the flowers come larger
| and more deeply colored than without
it.
For frying always put a pound or
two of fut in the pan. This is no
waste, as the same fat can be sed over
and over by pouring it through a
strainer into a crock kept for the pur-
Vaseline is growing in favor as an
ewolient for hv ® Poke a pair of
shoes, especially the shoes worn by
lucien, and when they hecome hard
and rusty apply a coating of vaseline,
rubbing well with n cloth, and the
leathor will at once become soft and
plisble and
almost impervious to
water.
him.
| at
| was enough
| ealled the student to his desk and de
| manded the watch.
| and he opened it.
| a piece of paper bearing the legend
the college that lights of any kind
have been displayed on the campus,
The pain caused by the bite of a
mosquito is caused by = fluid poison
injected by the insect into the wound
in order to make the blood thin ¢ nough
to flow through the mosquito’s throat
In calenlsting ‘exact time” at the
National Observatory at Washington,
the astronomers do not, as 18 ge nerally
supposed, ns the sun of
their Such deductions
are made only from the re lative posi
tion of the ‘fix | stars
€
HS A DABS
ealenlstions,
by
fall of
noted
PH ared the
It was 280,000 miles long and
190.000 miles wide, Four hundred
lanaets the size of the earth, could
bry ide in that
The largest sun spot ever
AMtronomers uj
4 ~
ING,
in
fruit packing
ments of Marviand and Delawar
more experienced workers sel
hand to a
finger, Sud
rn
A Costly Walk,
It has been left to a ™t
mn Lo
Lo
gravel
1s bn
ness 1 wai
peither long De rikingly be
that
41801
autiful,
brie
fet
81
5,000 hard cash
Kins la,
Kins
Edward P
Hanley
is the proud
It is com
of
pany,
nn
SL
41
vat
WhIK.
arket
ons
twigs, CAVES
we Istter gen
ped
a coffee berry
snd other impurities, ti
erally taking the
bles about the size
/ with
shape of small
§
ol
hese came such regularity and
h quantities that long ago the
ides they were accidentally in the sacks
was abandoned, and the o« re
luctantly reached that they were pur
nosely placed the to
The daily discoveries of these
in =
nelusion
in bags masse
weight,
Jrazilisn pebbles will fill an ordinary
water bucket. The importers pay for
coffee. Two years ago Mr. Kinsella
concluded to utilize this apparent evi-
de the far
coffee packer, and had the sccumuia-
tion of pebbles carte 1 ont to his hand.
on the West Pine street
432
ake a han some garden w
nee of dishonesty of AWRY
some residence
boulevard, No
used to m
The pein Siant Shunt In
coffee would be worth 815,000, Tha
gravel path is each month being added
to. and it is but a question of time
when Mr. Kinsella will have the most
expensive piece of garden path In the
world «88. Louis Globe-Democrat.
cn —
Fooled Him Twice,
examinations
3, where they were
alk
et ahead an
. - pe
JER FUPLUDTaY »
The certain
“ph ep The
boys were working busily over their
papers and the grim old professor was
watching sharply from his desk. Pres.
ently he noticed that one of the stu-
dents, a prominent ne'er dowell, was
at a
" school were in Progress,
| consulting his watch with considera
bie frequency. The professor studied
In five minutes he had looked
the timepiece three times
for the guardian. He
1t was given him
Acrows the face was
“Fooled.” But the worthy professor
was not to be so easily deceived. He
gave the student a sharp, knowing
glanoe, turned the timepiece over and
openad the back cover. It opened
with considerable difficulty, and, be.
bold, there was another slip of paper
bearing the information, “‘fooled
sasin. "Boston Badget.
Where Poe Wrote «The Raven,”
The house where Poe wrote ‘“The
Raven” is still to be seen in New York
City, & fow hundred feet from the cor
ner of Eighty-fourth street nnd the
#t. Nicholas Boulevard, formerly the
old Bloomi le rod. It is a plain,
old-fashioned, doubleframed dwell
ing, two stories high, with light win.
dows at either side and one at either
Ble. It has a pointed roof, flanked
bY tao Wik brick ch t.
matter of fact, at | ©
fifty
BAi mida h ai
| not be an abnormally deve loped sens
| for they
| water be a stagnant pool.
Blir.d Horses Smell Their Way.
The way in which blind horses can
go avout withont getting into more
diMeulties than they ordinarily do in
very remarkable. They rarely, if
ever, hit their heads against a fence or
stone wall. They will sidle off when
they come near one, It appears from
pareful observations, that it is neither
shade nor shelter which warns them of
she danger. On an absolutely sunless
and windless day their behavior is the
Their olfactory nerves donbt-
less become very sensitive, for, when
them, they will poke their
downward 1s of water
vards before come
Al LE}
Shap wa
Don’t Forget
it is
mine,
driving
BAKING POWDER
that makes the deli-
cious biscuit, griddle
cake and doughnut.
search
they
ow dove ww
heads
to
LSID |
of hesing which leads them to do this,
will alike though the
Mi n who |
act
| have been blind for any great length |
| stincts
| Herald,
This |
of time develop somewhat similar in
to blind horses,
Six Months’ Food for Paris,
The French Commissariat and the
Minister of War have been figuring on
another siege of Paris and the amount
of 1
I
Chicago
Persian Tear Bottles,
The enstom of bottling tears 1s pecu
liar to the people of Persian. There it |
sonstitutes an important f are
ood that would necessarily have 0
aid in for man and beast. Here
thi Breadstuffs, 343,000
weat, 118,100 tons | salt
of. 440 tors
milk, 6,6
1.000
part of figures
As the mon
una aril wed ping
phsequies of the dead
sitting r«
master of
dry vegetaliles
205, 260
Ars Are
Ceremonies presents each tones |
cotton
Ww 1p
meters © oof
net : hi,
o GRE 440 tone
with fi Prec wOOl Or BH
with which th onls,
his cotton
ward squeezed into a
AWAY
l or pone is wfter
bottie Are giv
th his NER L
mate
forthe 3
9 750. 0040
ana
LeRrs are pre 1 ne owerfual and on
BTV
forative ie One Wi 4 id La
efficacious re ;
other medicin the
It to this custom
every
Vive within what
lefense lines
cost $101
ha 141
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thou thy
cago Herald
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gists in H0c and §1 bottles, but it is man
ufsctured by the California Fig Syruj
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package, also the name, Ryrup of Figs,
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