MARKING SHEEP, The best ear marks for sheep are the metal nickel plated loops, upon which | are stamped the owner's name and the numbers of the sheep. To distinguish the ewes from the other sheep they may be marked in the right ear, the others in the left, An easy way to further distinguish any special sheep | is to put the marks in perpendicularly in the vars, the others being put in horizontally. The numbers are used in the record book of those sheep that are so desired to be distinguished. - New York Times. THE PERFECT FARM HORSE, The perfect farm horse has not been developed yet, and it is prob- able that there may not be entire con- currence in the ideal summary of its accomplishments, how ever, 18 not beyond attainment. It must have the size and strength to draw a plow with ease; the style and | action necessary to make a trip to market and back in the least possible time; of a docile disposition, but not to the detraction of nerve, a most necessary qualification of a good farm horse ; and, lastly, it must be such a horse as can successfully meet compe tition in the sale ring.—New York World, TREE PLANTING Mr. N. Ohmer, the well known hor- ticulturist of Dayton, Ohio, recently made the following statement with re- gard to tree planting before the stu dents of the School of Agriculture of the Ohio State Unive reity : ‘I give special attention to plant ing. Iconsider this matter of plant ing a very important one, It is really very much neglected. I set my trees I little deeper in the orchard than they stand in the holes for setting twelve or fifteen inches deep, and when I come to the my trees | hrow the them In paring the trees for planting, 1 cut off all bruised or muti lated roots. In the peach tree, I cut the top also, in order to give the tree proper shape, otherwise you will have long branehes that will break beneath the weight of the fruit. If your tree has good roots, you need have no fear that the cutting of the top will injure | Ne ‘‘Have you a plan for keeping your trees in line in planting “I have always exercised great care in setling my trees to have them well arranged. 1 use a very simple device of my own. Under proper arrang ment the orchards look better, and I think do regular order Irsery, dig cultivation of earth toward POULTRY FOR RUN-DOWN FARMS New England has always used the raw material of oth er State 4 An i ma ufsctured goods of all kinds in which her people have excelle Pith fewer advantages as an agricult yet she excels i nral country, proportion to ACR cuitivateq, m al or ps Are grown Massachusetts produces m re acre than any other State, her people | bring the highest prices in Bo far as pure breeds of poultry are concerned, New England leads all other pections, and lerives an enormo sum from that source alone, while } farmers also get the best dressed carcasses Of late vear vertised that many farms in some tions of New England no lon [Er PAY, and that their owners have ceased yield extensivel elsewhere but it pay to grow articles that market and Oras t has been largely ad drawn. This | giving them manure water two or { three times a week. Not absolutely | necessary, of course, but it will pay any one to go to the trouble, for the blooms will be not only more abundant but larger and more brilliant. They | should be removed to the house early enough in the fall to insure against frost, but should be put in a room without fire at first. Indeed, the cooler the plants are kept after they { once begin to blossom the longer the | bloom will lust, and by a little manage- ment may be kept for Christmas | blooming. | To do this they should be more shaded than the other plants and not cut back so early in theseason. Then when brought into the hous they should be kept as cool as possible not to freeze Some persons do not sow the seed until the season is so far advanced that they may be sown in open ground. They grow all summer where sown, but are potted early in the fall, being trimmed back at that time. They do not bloom quite so early as where the seed is sown earlier, and the plants not disturbed by fall potting, but some as fine blossoms as I ever saw have been grown on ploxts so treated, — Farm, Field and Fireside, THE PARMER'S GARDEN, It is probably true that farm gar. dens, vegetable and fruit gardens, will be more generally cultivated this year than ever before, for the reason that we are daily learning more of the re- juirements of life and discover them only in a well supplied table, and that the latter is found only where the kitchen garden affords the necessary material. Man is not altogether a meat indeed we have learned that with fresh vegetables and fruits froma properly conducted gar len with ‘TOAMm and butter and eggs he is much bet ter oft and likely to joy better health than with more mes Less meat and pastry, less high living eater; a nearer approach to nature's health giving products will non ish and sustain the animal econ with less irritation of the mental anc physical systems, less indigestion and constipation and a heartier, happier tone gend rally A good sized two acres near to the ionse should be laid off, thoroughly plowed, well manured and put in the finest possible tilth. Then determine | what vegetables you want for spring, summer, sutum and winter use, Take a piece of blank paper, make a map showing where the roads through it then where this that and the other thing is to be planted. currant and are to be, berry, raspberry bushes may be planted in straight rows only m end to end, so as n tt : but they » ) interf hould be + the road "yf pathways alo er the fe: Deep cultivation, perf Hage and rough manuring ith stable or : STH Yara msn: main 1 it have the: m #0 as to supply continuous variety from the earliest spring till frost comes, and even then Nave stor of such as will keep arough the winter. The American mld be the best fed man in rid, princes and kings not ex. ; aud he will be if he only lays produce for his own fresh poultry, and it may be convenient i f fruits and vegetables, , butter, eggs and | the stain. { soft piece of silk. | appear as soon as the HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, TO REMOVE WHITE SPOTS, The best way of removing the vhite spots caused by water drops on crepe in an exceedingly simple one. Lay | the crepe on a table with a piece of | black silk beneath it. Dip camel's hair brush in ordinary ink and go over Wipe the ink off with a The stain will dis- ink dries, —New York Journal. TO DRAIN THE DISHES, An appliance that will at once recom- mend itself as a useful accessory to the kitchen is a table grooved and inclined | 80 that all the water upon it drains to an outlet at the front into the basin in which the articles have been washed, and which is placed under the outlet. A great many cups, saucers, jugs, decanters and such ware can be plates, drained at the same time, Jy a bar, which is fitted across the table, all articles placed in the rack are held quite securely, without possibility of It is made entirely of wood, 80 that no part will rust, and the ware pla ved upon 1t is not liable to be chipped. The rack, legs and all parts can be folded up into a very space, and quite flat, without the least ouble, so it takes up little and ean be hung upon New York Ad- y sipping. small room vyhen not in use, he wall if desired. ertiser, EEEVING HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS, To one who has never kept an ace eount of the expenses and income of the house it may seem like quite an undertaking, bat when it is once be it that There is such satis- gun, one gets so interested in it becomes easy, fact nl ing just what the fam- faction In Knowing just what the fam ily expenses are and what proportion of them we have paid by our own ef- forts vourself with a book, inches long lo begin, provide firmly bound blank small; twelve wide is & convenient less than fifty o r single entry will give more r size named B gin both ory LOO von have words Cloods, intended for “ote.” stand one nor the nee may such as things bought for the kitchen in the way of cooking utensils, dishes, snd such articles. The dry goods page may + set down with them, also hold entries of furnitnre, of Wh + FEE Gy kinds of ¢) books and papers and such things. Date each entry at the left hand and place the amount paid in the Space pr Vie ior 1t at the right At the end o bh month add the wounts up and se lown under their wiive columns, sud at the end of vear 1t wil mly necessary to ok at these fig ‘ soe what the expenses for hL 5 nave Heen p the credit = int carefully credit Consist cows and the any other source nansgemeut of the y avoid th OOK en in an entry 1s neces- vy, make a ‘day book” of a common ol tablet. Tack it to the kitchen keep a calendar a pencil hanging beside it just above it and Only » equired to set down an item, and the leaf AY be torn off and op wied up” r, or as ofton as ne moment 1s wn the book each even Farm, 'CORSATV Field and Fireside ¥ CR ——_ ———" A A——— Ong shall be of finer ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO, used. It flavor conomy requires that in all receipts calling for baking powder, Royal Baking Powder will go and make the food lighter, sweeter, NEW=YORK and more wholesome. | Sy -- -. -- To Keep One's Youth, A distinguished English Mr. Wil article, insists that the secret iam Kinnear, iu of per ennind vouth isto be found in the use of distilled water aud phosphoric acid Ho says that death, or disease that produces death, is caused posit no the human svstem eons or earthly matter, and drinkixg of distilled water, tself a great dissolvent, an also of from diluted phospl blerful of water posite and pro very atest limit reat hotel Wale! 8 provide SOIR 18 Dis na RIFCRAQY (HH) invest {10 G00 G00 1.060 i) » W Biitousness indigest \ : DOOK. 18 By VW rite to | York sequences for the | book on reach of a drugg ju Brevity i is the Soul of Wit.” Cood Wife, cientist, BR IusagazZine and correction): sent rist, the pills will 1 $42. 30 torn Farm Wagen, A Brantitnl Seavenir Spoon Shiloh's Care 1at They Are For low skin ¢ Allen Company CONSTIPATION free. 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" : , ‘ varieties needed, but, as a rule, y ern farmers. But our farmers can use | toll how they are to be cultivated so the cheap foods, a% to insure the best results The them into more naking of the garden and the planting may be mentions hereof may come just when all hands and horses are wanted for other work, Have ready but better employ extra help to make two medium-sized lobsters cut into it than not have a garden at all. It dice Cook slowly for five minutes, Lounld be so planted ss to admit of | Season with one-half teaspoonful salt, horse cultivation, —Colman's Rural | one saltapoonful pepper and a slight World, coating of nutmeg Remove the Job- "ar You Need : SAPOLIO a R. R. fw EBSTER'S ADWAY'S 4 INTERNATIONAL aries Jnl emis DICTIONARY READY RELIEF A Crond I dwar CURES ASD PREVEXTS Coughs Hoarseness take an interest in them, even going 80 far as to abandon them that have been 1 ental - S TFs . : . Veal Kidney Sauts Melt a lump of itter inthe chafing dish, a of an chopped fine, and brown it in the butter. Have the kid ney ready, eut iu thin slices, and pat with the onion. Season with salt and red pepper Cover the dish tightly and let the kidneys cook until tender Serve with bits of lemon Lobster a la Newburg . have a quar ( > f i noticed, iarmbouse in the onion Ix PAY mw RES fut the bit ro ghee of 5 ua & “ENY "ot to Tar yt LFEROTOR 3 however, and chang. salable products d that quality of the soil i2 concerned, poul 4 far as the 4 Nuoonssor of the “Unabridged | Everybody I should own this | Dictionary. It an swers all questions concerning the his try ean be made a specialty on the poorest or the best, and the frozen stock of the West has never interfered with prices in the East. Strictly fresh, nearby eggs and choice carcasses ean Colds Sore Throat go COLCHESTER » not be brought East, while consnmers will not diseard the good for the in ferior. — Mirror and Farmer. CHRYSANTHEMUMS, Who doesn’t love ehrysanthomums ? Yet comparatively few raise them, the reason wanally given being that they are too much trouble, Many others, not knowing that they can be raised from seed, thinking the plants must be purchased from a florist, do not raise them on account of the expense One nice way to manage them is to fit lot of egu-shells into a box, fill the shells with sandy soil, and in each one plant = seed, covering them to a depth equal to about twice ths thick nesn of the sced, Caro for them as for any other seed. If planted about the lust of February they will be ready to transplant by the time all danger of frost is gone, Transplant each plant into a five or six inch plot. Sink the pot in the earth in the garden where | they will get the morning sun, but | will be partially shaded in the after uoon. Water if necessary, but they will require little olse. In August they should be trimmed back to twelve or fourtecn inches in height so that ther will branch out and thus bear wany flowers, la Boptember it is well to begin FARM AND GARDEN XOTHS, is in working the butter that the fine art of butter making comes in, Ts Eggs from pullets are not apt to hateh as well as those from adult fowls In every country school agrienlture, hortienlture and dairying should be taught, Poultry powders are rarely required for flocks that are fed and eared for properly, The secret in growing large and fine chickens is to feed often and but little at a time There is a better market for small cheeses than for those weighing forty or fifty pounds, Propet eare and feeding are even more necessary thau breeding for early maturity of stock. Little ducks require almost twice as much food ns chicks, but they grow very rapidly, They should be fed | four times a day and given all they will | ont, | Tt in said that unrendered beef tal- low chopped into very small pieces and mixed in the feed for two or three days will put » fine gloss on the plum- age of show birds | salt and cayenne [and serve on toast | leave it to cool, ster to a platter, Beat the yolks of four eggs with a cup of cream, turn into the sancepan and stir until it be- gins to thicken Remove before it curdles, Pour it over the lobster and serve at once English Monkey--Have ready one capful of stale bread erumbs which have been soaked in one cupful of milk for fifteen minntes, Pat a heaping tablespoonful of butter in the chafing dish and when melted add half a oup- ful of mild cheese, cut fine. Stir nntil the cheese is melted. 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