Much complaint is made of the dam- age done to wool by marking with tar or pant which will not wash off. The following recipe is recommended as one which will resist the weather and at the same time can be readily re- moved with soap and warm water : Take lampblack or Spanish red, and mix with strong vinegar; mix it well | to the thickness of paint. The sheep | should be marked on some part of the back ; by this means the mark is not 80 likely to be obliterated by the ani mals rubbing together. By employ- ing the above mixture, instead of the wool being depreciated in value, as it 18 by the use of tar and paint, it will bring its full value. —New York World. LEATHER SCRAPS FOR GRAPEVINES, Any kind of tanned leather, whether in the form of a scrap or otherwise, decays very slowly in the soil and the best way to use it is as a mulch about your grape vines. If spread over the surface to the depth of two or three inches it will keep the soil underneath moist and cool, and at the same time prevent the weeds from growing. As the leather decays the fertilizing ma terial in it will be carried down to the roots by rain, and nothing will be lost by using such coarse scraps as & top dAressing for plants. If spread over your garden and plowed in the leather will decay somewhat more rapidly than when left on the surface, but in hoeing and weeding of your plants the large scraps are likely to become somewhat troublesome, — New York Sun. | the FEEDING MILK ro COLTS In England and Scotland it is an al 10% to feed draught new milk, gen most universal prac colts a daily tion of erally warm from the cow. Flaxseed jelly and erusl added, but skimmed before feeding. expected, colts fed on they piek their and the mother milk make an mous growth, often fully 1000 pounds at eight months old. For show purposes feed, but the flesh aud speedily falls away when actual werk begins are sometimes 18 carefully As might be this with what barns’ from rations enor this a good on is not solid is lsid Bones and sinews share the same condition, hence the preva lence of unsound joints, especially soft, puffy hocks, are sure to follow. Milk feeding forces & rapid growth in consistent with the nature of the horse and the work he is eallod upon to per- | form. Nothing will build up sn old or run down horse for show as quickly as milk. Nothing is so good as milk drink to remove an sppearance of gauntiness ws When = wering from stomachic tronbles milk may be fed in small rood advantage, but ae of colts great care must be used in regulating the quantity given To build np a run down constitution in a colt nothing takes the place of milk, but it should be well skimmed and fed in moderation. Two or three quarts three times a day is enough Taper off the feed gradually. Mik feed cannot be dropped suddenly with out injury to the colt It should never be used to put fat on to an al ready hearty youngster, and remem ber that would have supplied the mare with a large udder if needed much milk. —New Homestead, during sh and sales horse 18 reo quantities to iN CAs nature colts England HARDXESS OF New has ¢ BUTTER. The Hampshire Experiment Station mducted some experi ments as to the effects of different foods pon the hardness of butter, and though the work in this direction is not as yet extensive enough to justify the drawing of conclusions, their ex thus far indicate: That gluten meal tends to produce a much softer of butter than weal and cottonseed meal, and things being equal tends to lessen the churnability of the butter fat. That with the same the hardness de pends much more npon the character of the food upon the nuiritive ratio; that ensilage produces a much softer butter than does good hay ; but it is also favorable to the flavor snd texture of butter product that skimmed milk has a very favorable ef fect upon the chnrnability and quality | of the butter fat, and in a single trial apparently reversed the general rule that the volatile fatty acids decrease ae the period of lactation advances: that cottonseed meal tends to produce an unusually hard quality of butter, and that meal and gluten men! might be med together with ex. cellent results; that contrary to gen eral belief the melting point of butter fat is not a good index of the com- mercial hardness of butter ; that while in general a soft butter melts at a Jower temperature than a hard butter there ix no definite relation between | melting point snd sctoal hardness; | that no relation can be traced between foods ana volstile fatty acids except | in the case of skim milk; the! nsaally hardnens and volatile acide vary in- | versely, hardness generally increasing | and volntile seide decressing ae the | period of lactation advances. - Rocky | Mountain Husbandman, CLOVER THE REXOVATOR, No field shoald le idle withont clover. There is no tellicg how much land lies idle every sear bare of periments quality corn other COWS tien the cottonseed | after corn and other plowed crops, | the clover cannot be cut, but that is | sound { readily when brought near the surface {ally raised. clover, becaue the farmer had no time to prepare it at the proper time for clover seed, But it a mistake te suppose, as is too often done, that the land must be broken and put in fine condition for clover seed. Clover soad sown at the right time will take root on almost any kind of land. Tt stands a hard land some seasons the best. Of course, if the land is rough and very uneven, as it generally is 18 no reason why the land should not be in clover. It is better for the land if the clover is allowed to remain on it. It helps to put life in the soil and can | be pastured as well when the land is {in a rough condition as when smooth. The cost of seed is 8 mere trifle. One | bushel will do for eight acres, and one | bushel to twelve acres will make a big | show and be of great help to the land, When the practice of sowing clover | seed becomes general clover seed will be used without stint, as it should be | in order for nus to its full value, Clover, like some of the weeds, is hard to exterminate if allowed to go to seed. If the seed are plowed under six or eight inches they will remain in a | condition for years and grow Reo Where the the land will make their appearance time the land lies idle. led fed alone to work stock may be in many ways objectionable, but when fed in connection with tim that any ob Much of | as food by deep plowing clover has plants every clover when ever been on clover othy hay we cannot ses jection can be made to it 4 prejudice lover for work stock have too against es letting But no particu- larly bad results have been noticed from giving work horses all they can eat of timothy and clover equally mixed. It should not be forgotten that meadows with clover them the clover machine It el dead ripe its nutritive a measure lost. Timo ing, save a little wi early harvested stock ex from much. be cut as ready for the IW d to get in should sSO0on is ver is all inlities are in noth " from be ing loses mn Farmers’ Review, STER SHOEING. Shoes in the winter quired to discharge a doul afford foothold well as to guard against undue wear, William Dick- son, in the United States Government report on the horse, says on the sub- ject:” Various patterns of shoes have | from time to time been invented to | meet this dual requirement; but the SCASON Are re- le duty-—to As { commonest of all, fashioned with toe ! and heel calks or ealking, is, fanity though it be, probably, all things con- sidered, the one suits the quirement of the case, It shonld, v lost sight of that the shorter, the sharper and the smaller the calkins are, so long as they answer purpose which called existence, so much the better foot that wears them. High calkins, while they firmer foothold, are potent which best re however, never be 3 them into for the confer no ‘ means of inflicting injuring both on the foot it self and the superincnmbent limb at It is only from that portion of the eateh which enters the ground sur face that the horse derives any benefit in the shape of foothold, and it be apparent to the meanest capacity that long ealkins which do not trate the hard, uneven ground are so many levers put into the animals pos session to enable if not compel him to wring his feet, wreak his limbs and in- flict nntold tortures on himself I have laid particular stress on this subject, as I am of the opinion that the presence of the navicular disease, a dire malady from which horses used for agricultural labor should enjoy a Inrge, must pens | practical immunity, is traceable largely to the habitual daring our long | winter months of needlessly large oal Kins, only frectional parts of which find lodgment in the earth or ice dur. ing progession I will explain what I mean. When n horse is shod with the exaggerated ealking to which I have alluded the toe and heel calks are, or onght to be, the same height to start with, at all events, Very often, however, they are not, and | even when they are the toe ealk wears down on animals nsed for draught pur- poses far more rapidly then its fellows | at the heel. The result is that the toe is depressed while the heel is unnatur- nae The relative position of the bony stractures within the foot is altered, and the navienlar bone, which is not one of the weight bearing bones, is | brought within the angle of incidence of both weight and concussion, in- fluences which it was never contem- plated it should withstand, and which its structure precindes its sustaining without injury. « Farmers’ Home Jour- ual FARM AND GARDEN NOTES, Hen manure is valuable, and should be carefully saved, Keep fower hiornes, but give them better caro and feed, Wood ashes are much better for frit trees than coal, Never let a horse that hes been ex” ercising stand in a dranght, : A draught horse need not be im« ported to be a desirable animal, An effort is being made in the East to repeal the oleomargarine laws, ; In trisnming fruit or forest trees do not cut out tov much at one time, HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, THE KITCHEN FARMHOUSE, The kitchen of the farmhouse shonld have the best attention in the laying out of a plan for building. To slight ly alter Solomon's advice about the field, it may be said, first make the kitchen fit and then build the house. This is due to the most important part of the farmhouse—the wife and moth- er. Her health und life often depend upon the kind of kitchen she spends a large part of her time in. It is pre- ferably built ns an annex to the house on the east side, getting the morning sun and escaping the mid-dsy Leat. On the north side should be an out side kitchen tor storage, for « laundry and the refrigerator, There shonld be windows on three sides, and the fire should be on the side adjoining the house. —New York Times Or A PRETTY AND USEFUL, Convenient and useful cases for knives, forks and spoons are made of white cotton flannel. Half the ordi- nary width of the flannel is the width of the case. Make it long enough to fold onto itself the length of the knife, spoon or fork, and allow five inches at the top, with rounded corners, for the flap. Jind with pretty braid, the fold into twelve with the silk used for stitching on the braid, When and stitch filled with silver, by a piece of braid, and The silver is kept bright scratched in these cases Pin balls or pin neither name exactly put and AWAY un cushions —and 18 appropriate, may be made by covering six uniform circles of thin two inches in diameter, with silk different shades or may be used to suit about China cardboard, The same color, contrasting colors, one # tastes, two circles together, with silk. Proen baby and the different length Many Hew back, to mateh, ribbons three at looped TIN nd from = bow. Arrang circles, having, 8 from the different sized pins for each circle. This makes a useful and pretty for the parlor, as there is no room wherea pin Yankee Blade, » the pins like ray if desired ornament 18 needed more, EEEP THE BABIES WARM, A professional nurse of many years' experience tells me that she finds mors suffering from clothing among the rich then among the poor. For example, she was sum moned by a physician to a wealthy family the five months’ old baby was suffering from some mysteri- trouble that baffled everybody He could live only a few days, the doctor said, if something was not done He could keep nothing on his stomach, and was slowly starving to death, babies where ous pinched and moaning baby. was blue, and there was a settled look of anguish on his face, The nurse picked him up from the silk and laces of his costly erib and found just what she expe cted Dress and skirts of linen and about as warm ; shirts and socks like lace ; flannel skirts of the tion number, but so fine and thin ast “Is this the way baby from the “Oh, yes I've everything for other “Well, it's no wonder he is sick He hasu't enough to kee pa fly WArm in July.” The nurse ealled for the thick est blanket in the honse and the hot walter bag, the astonished mother downtown for the warmest flannel wrappers, however ugly they might be The that in a few days the child was taking his food perfectly, and was thriving as well a could be desire d Baby hood, fine as gossamer regu give little warmth you have dressed your first? always had the him,’ asked the nurse best of asuswered the m on and sent result was PES To Make Milk Toast of milk into a donut tablespoons of butter spoonful of flour to a the scalded milk thickens, Season six of Put one pint siler ; rub three and one table- cream ; add to and stir until i with salt Toast bread a light brown, slightly butter each slice and dip it, while it is hot, into the scalded milk Lay them in the dish and over each slice put a large spoonful of the milk, it the remainder of the milk and serve it at one Jorled ie b slice a pour over Bread Pudding a quart of boiling milk and let it soak one or two hours, then rab it quite fine with the hande. Add five well beaten eggs, two cups of sugar, half a cap of molasses, half a nutmeg grated, half a teaspoonful of gronnd cloves, the grated rind of one lemon, hall a pound of suet chopped fine and a pound and a half of raisins. Boil it four hours, Cheese Fingers Take bits of pastry left from other cooking and roll as thin as writing paper: spread with grated cheese, fold and roll again. Repoat this three times, then cut in strips as wide and as long as your finger. Brush with beaten egg and bake in a quick oven. Watch onre fully, as they burn quickly and re quire to be only delicately brown, Lamb Chops in Paper with Fine Herbs—Cut a piece of foolseap paper in the shape of a heart (and snffictentiy large to fold wn Jamb chop in), rab a littio oil over the pauper; then season the chop with a teaspooninl of chopped onions, one of chopped parsley, a little pepper, malt and grated nutmeg. Wrap the chop in a paper, which plait down at the edges ; lay it upon » griu- iron over a slow fire, turning it fre quently. It will take about twenty minutes to broil properly. When doue serve in the paper very hot, compartments | they Are conveniently rolled up, tied at one side back to insufficient | The | nurse found a distracted mother and a | His flesh | | fied and entertaining - Take a | pound of stale bread and pour over it | SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The engines of a first clus War cost nearly 8700,000, There are now 7500 miles tric railroads in this country. man-of- ( leo ol Children, plants and animals more rapidly during the night, grow The Inrgest const light in the United States can be seen tw uty-eight in clear weather. Slag from blast furnaces i pulver ized and used for fertilizing farming lands in Germany, The tongue of the toad is attached to the front of its jaw and hangs back- ward instead of forward. Water alone has been known to sus tain life fifty-five days. If only dry food were taken, death would result in a quarter of that time, The use of furnaces to destroy wu city's garbage and refuse is growing in favor. There are now fifty-five mu nicipalities in England where the sys- tem 1s used, : Professor Elihu Thompson says that an nmbrells with brass chains hanging from theends of the ribs makes a com- plete protection when held over the head during a thunder stor. Taking the earth as the cent the universe and the polar star me the limit of our vision, the visible universe embraces an serial space w ith a dinmeter of 420,000,000, 000 miles, r of A new chemical element was discov ered daring 1893, It 1 minum found in brought WA some specimens of from Egypt. It has been called Massrium, from Masr, the Arabic name for Egy It resembles beryllium in some of properties, and zine in others, 1 Both eyes are necessary Yision. reg to the new conditions, very difficult, for correct judgment of A man who has lost Ares some time to adjust himself He DLs it to fo distance object, as well as position, sometimes in attempting to ’ . small article, DICK like mistake of three ation. During the vear some the pr olor photographs by Lipmann, wh i that albuwenized gelatinized plates sosked vance was made in eo has discov re and bichro "31 | M ts} emploved in pl mate of potash ean be 1 Ors VOTE, tographing ec whi Appear alte; immersion in “col brilliant, interference of Pic indices, walter Fre winced by hygroscopi and not very and are hygrose avers wit} variabis fractive Experiments in magnetizing concentrating the low ft, red ores of some Southern and grade se districts process, and said to be so Are 1 : fer promis The © Teunesece ing of good results of the nsulting Iron and Railroad Company, operating uy on 3000 pounds at a time of the ore which contained forty per cent of iron and twenty-nine of silica, has Jbeen able to secure fifty-seven cent. of iron and reduce silica ten per chemist Coal, erude i cent. The Real Mrs Thbie Ts ERs, Who introduced 14 scribing the was in the win after Crockett Lh len ——— David Crockett, Cordon, rn i Congress in Crockett had fearing that through Clarksville, but ke ni old Trammell intended to meet him, Latimer, then a girl of eighteen, rode behind me, and Betsy Wao overtook Crockett and his party st the of E Deen, about fon: from Clarksville It was early morning. and when Mrs Des n 1% she said ‘Mra, Clark, what in brings you hero at ‘My horse and tl breakfast the wi 3 Latimer followed on a pony house ward miles in the aan the this brought me, told her I wanted s the hou had known Crockett in name of God the I answered, time of day ye weal int se, and a friend, who Tennessee, 10 dre a back trod need us Crockett was RR like a gentleman, aud not as woodsman skin cap. It has always disgusted me to read these acconnts of Crockett that characterize back- woodsman conver: He did not wear a coon him as an ignorant Neither in dress, sation nor bearing could he have er ated the impression that he was ignor ant or uncouth. He was a man practieal information and of wide digni- His Innguage was about as good as Any we hear now adays.” News Was Galveston The Toga Age in China When one sees a lad in China with his head shaved one may be sure that, however boylike he may look, he had | put aside all the things of youth and | become a man. In fact, this event is oelebrated in the household with great solemnity, for entrance upon manhood is a grave matter for the boys of the flowery land. Invitations are sent to the friends and relatives to » family gathering and each is expected ta bring a present -—in money for choles ~=for the hero of the hour, The boy himself is dressed in fine silk robes aod perfumed with Whes everyone has arrived, the father makes a speech in honor of the ocoasion, the presents are given and then a Chinese priest shaves the boy's head to prepare the way for the pigtail, which markd the man of the Colestial empire, — spice, | of the | jenlously guarded as it has been gen | the nddition of | snakes, the | plants of the | them the purple loco and finely ground { earths, that | teney to the combination, | tions of | the | acidity per | Chieago Herald. National Color Blindness, Color blindness has been found to occur in about four per cent. of civil ized and American males and among .2 per cent. of females, The Finlanders and Norwogiane ran up as high as five por cent, while the Dateh go down to 1.49 per cent. «San Chronicle, | Co —————— nou WA—————— “wee irl HA —————— R— SER JER Highest of all in Leavening Power. — Latest U. S. Gov't Report. f &.Z.CZ0)] A Seeret Poison Formula. formula of the poison | i The with which the deadly snake dagger | secret Sioux is coated has not been so | erally supposed. It consists primar ily of a base of tallow or the venom jnice of certain western region, suet, with | of rattle i" HOXI10Us are supposed to add po- | The con indi with the the under certain oo and planets magic formuls, but chief potency probably lies in of the rattlesnaks which slightly oxidizes the surface of steel at the high temperature at it is applied, so forming coction is made the aid of moon venom, which Bh Very sctive New Orleans blood-poisoning agent Picayune. ship was struck by what Captain | ris among | w Baking Powder Struck by a Meteor, The British at Baltimore, re ports having experienced a burricaue sud a off the Newfouudland | { steamer endows territ } storm The Har- teor, on snip istones ratty on dee F1} ng it # ly dangeron tl : r forced to rems Darkness we lv there etoy a report it MAK to Captain Harris believes Have : A IT Were deck working hard L nder control fil i iarg 141 ere x - tf treme wh po~ Sud were sitions WAS i at the masthead like that of a 1 artillery. Bri} thie flew vt th ing 14 from foretop for 161 Harris nasthead alter. ITICRI all was dark sgain he feels certain WAS sirnck by eis the Ww i ward fell int Py ‘my THE MICROSCOPE. A careful microscopical sxamination and chemical analysis of the urine, is a valuable aid in determining the nature of many chronic dissases, particularly those of the nervous system blood, Hver, kidneys, an blsdder., These aids make it possible to treat such dis- casos successfully at a dis tance, without personal ex amination of the patient Thus Bright's Disease of the Kidoeys, Inflammation of the Bladder, Gravel, apd other Diseases of the Uri nary Organs are suocosss fully treated. Nervous De bility, Exhaustion, Dropsy, Liver Disease, and many TG other Chronic Maladies are cured without seeing the patient. 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