VOL.* xxxvi ;: inow^> < \ That the dread house cleaning is over the next ( > < > and more important work is picking a new carpet, i > j > To pick a carpet in our well stocked carpet room, / > > L is a pleasure, so say the many who have done so. / > We have the famous Hartford Axminister, Wilton J > I Velvets, Hody and Tapestry I'russcls and Ingrains |' in all the up-to-date patterns, only, and prices V that will astonish you. Then our China Mattings, l * I Floor and Table Oil Cloths, Linoleums, Rugs and S * > Art Squares, deserve a passing notice. Ask to \ O SI.OO Axminister Rugs, V { / Neatest thing for the money ever shown in Butler at \ fPUFPy'S STORE j; Osenenexse 'ALL PAPER. | lead in Low Prices, call and see. g -PICTURE FRAMING--® S lity. Just received a large shipment of all the 0 Uk latest styles in PICTURE MOULDINGS. It will pay Uh you to see our line before you buy. S ALL WORK GUARANTEED. £ g Elko Ready Mixed Paints. f: . The best that can be made, call and get a |r color card Contract painting and paper hanging. | Patterson Bros., I 5 236 North Main Street. Butler, Pa. £ 'A Wick Building. Peoples' Phone 400 [T7Xjfei /V\E IN - Won't buy clothing fcr the purposeofspend f \ /(?s'' ingmcnty. They desire to git the best I t H It/ \ possible results for the money expended. » V Xj/OI \ \ \ Not heap goods but goods as cheap as can \\ /| i Vbe sold and made uj> properly. Call and « Xxyf | ( r examine my large stock of R\ nfiSf SPRING SUITINGS. Y 1 ' V "~i| u P to date, the latest styles, shades S f\J \V—>J nd colors t hat could be bought. Call and I j A ' xaraine them. //I'! \ $\ i P' ts a nd Workmanship '' 11 111 Guaranteed. G. F. KGCK, 142 North Main Street, Butler, Pa. PAPE'S. JEWELERS. Diamonds, watches. Clocks. Jewelery, Silverware, Spectacles etc. We have a large and well selected stock. We Repair all Kinds of Watches. If you have broken jewelery that you think beyond repairs bring it to us anil we will make it as good as new. We take old gold and silver the same as cash allowing the highest market price. 122 S. Main St., Butler, Pa Aslo Paints Wagons, nm TO PAINT Decorative BUILDINJS WITH • Work. cet. REDICK & GROHMAN. 109 N. Main St.. ______ Butler, Pa. Rockenstein's Summer Millinery. We .-all your attention to our large and well selected stock of Choice Millinery. We have endeavored to make our stock surpass all previous years 111 style, (lesir ahilitv duality and prices. We feel sure we have more than maintained oui reputation in the selection of CHOICE MILLINERY GOODS. We can show you an immense varietv of Hats, Flowers, Ribbons, Hrauls and Chiffons and all tl at goes to make up an UP-TO-DATE MILLINERV STOCK and at prices that w 1 wrnrise you. We would call especial attention to our Ladies'. Misses and Chil dun's TRIMMED IIATS, in which we have always excelled. \ou can always get the right goods at the right prices at ROCKRN ST I N'S, 48 South Main St., - - - ~ ~ ~ ~ Butler, I a SEND OWE DOLLAR 5£S S \ g IHAt HKTAIL ATifin.ooto •t&.oo »»d THE ORANDJIT BARGAIN YOU EV£R SAW, \ / jffuTS u. frrirti «'.< OUR SPECIAL PRICES3B.9Q, i^-': *nd freight ch»rß«9, lets tho ll.uo bent with order. /V I'A MIC klll/C TUIC THD RllftftY OCR OWS HfTORf IN CHICAGO* r~/ \ WE MAKE THIS TOP bUUUT fr , >m tw>tf „ P than most / !>/ maker* put in tTh.no burnt'**- Latest Stylo For 1899. I / 1 IliM from the Beat Seasoned Wood. He»t That Money tan , ' *? tTpf : rT 'Mf " Build. M Hprl.r*. •» Illustrated, or Hrewster Side liar. /A >VWVVj fllirb Oraile Kerewed Kim Sarven'n I'aU nt. Top, t« ounce. Daily V< Kul.lMT Hearlly Lined, full side and back curtains. P»loll«*,Ouar»n. 1 .\/Vl\yyiJ( lei I eiiual to any tiM.OO buKiry work. Ilody black, (ieardark preen V.. Or Ked. I BkoUUriai. b»»»J »'«■ » reneli h«ilj elotkar I»«» - .U«lk.r. ' •tn BO IS OUI SPECIAL PRICE fur top l>o«»r «■»!»<•. »IJ» or n.rrrw LT.rk. rail Irntm nide anil hark fort.ln., .tor "p": - "rk. a«l folllir. «aJ .k.n.. GUARANTEED TWO TEARS wilt last a lifetime tor B.nlr. .I*l S.9i •. n WRIT* rOK IKKK Bl 1.1.Y i'ATAHMiI'B. YOL' CAN MAKE SSCO 00 This Year Sellinn OUR 538.9 BUOOIKS ORDER ONF, TO-DAY. YOU CAN SELL IT FOR SBO.OO. DON'T DELAY. Address, SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. (Inc.), CHICACO, ILL L l»r»r>" .i u, T— j THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Tonight li your liver is out of order, causing \ Biliousness, Sick Headache, Heart burn, or Constipation, take a dose of j Hood's Pills On retiring, and tomorrow your di- j gestive organs will be regulated and 1 you will be bright, active and ready j "for anv kind of work. This has been the experience of others; it ' w ill be yours. HOOD'S PILLS are _ gold by all medicine dealers. 25 eta. FT IS HERE! 0 >© We mean the season for Buggies and Surries. We never had such a trade before. We hav>- been nearly 20 years in business. We know the kind of liuggies and Surries that wear. We pay spot cash for everything we buy. We pay no rent and our expenses are low. We are the largest dealers in out line in the State. We offer you the best stock to select from. We never misrepresent. We never try to get rich ofT one customer. We do exactly as we agree. We sell Surries as low as $49. We make and repair all kinds of Harness. We sell Wheels, Tops, Cushions and everything belonging to Buggies and Harness and would like to have you call and see us. Yours, &c., S. B. Martincourt & Co., 128 E. Jefferson St.. Butler, Pa. S. B. Martincourt. J. fVI .Leighner I'. S. We forgot to mention Kramer Wagons, Trunks, Valises, &c., a hundred other things. Butler Savings Bank Hcitler, Pa. Capital - f 60,000.00 Surplus and Profits - - $ 170,000. 00 JOS. L PURVIS President J. HENRY TROI'TM AN Vice-Presidiut WM. CAMPBELL, Jr Ca> liier LOUIS B. STEIN Teller DIKF.CTOKS-Joseph L. Purvis, J. Henry Tro'ttman, W. I>. Brandou, W. A. Stein, J. 0. Camubelt. ; The Butler Savings Bank Is the Oldest Bunking Institution!n Butler County. General banking business transacted. We solicit accounts of ..11 producers, mer chants, farmers and others. All baslness entrusu-d to us will roceive prompt attention. Interest paid on time deoosits. I'M K Butler Count; National Bank, Butler Penn, Capital paid in $ 1 x>,000.00 Surplus and Profits - $130,703.95 Jos. Hartman, .President; J. V. Ritts. Vice President; C. A. Bailey. Cashier; John G. McMarlin, Ass't Cashier. / general banking business transacted. Interest paid on time deposits. Money loaned on approved security. We invite you to open an account with this bank. DIRECTORS—Hon. Joseph llartman, Hon. W. S. Waldron, I)r. IS. M. Hoover. H. Mc- Sweeney. E. E. Abrams, C. I'. Collins. I. O Smith, Leslie P. nar.lett, M. Finegan, W. 11. Larkin, Harry IL»asiey, Dr. W. C. McCandless, Ben At asset h. J V. Itittjv Braun's Pharmacy. Cor. 6th St. and Duquesne Way, Pittsburg, I'a,, L. D. Telephone 2542. Wholesale and Retail. Importer andjobberol Drugs, 1 Chemicals, Perfumes, Soaps, . Btushes, Etc. The only house west of New York carrying a full line ot Meyers' Grease, Paints and theatrical goods. Physicians' Prescriptions Compounded Day or Night by "Registered Pharmacists" only. Wholesale and retail dealer in Lubricating and Illumniating Oils, Capital Cylinder, Dynamo, Water White and Standard Gas .. Engine Oils, Gasolein, Ben zine, Paraffine Wax and Petrolatum. Address all mail orders to W. F. Braun. ■ Rare Bargains! We want to dispose of our present stock of '99 models, and in order to do it quickly have cut the prices from fy), $35 and S4O to $22.50 and $25. These _ are s'.rictly high grade and up-to-date bicycles, and can't be matched for price and quality. Don't miss this opportuni- Ity 10 procure a good wheel for little j money. We sell sundries cbeaoer than | and odicr house in town. WHITE, WALTER & CO., 303 S. Main Street. ) J VJUanthi -kvkkai. ikistwobihy pkhsons L "in this state to manage our business J j their own and nearby counties. It u mainly otlice work coudncied at home. Salary ™ straight iUOO a y.-ar and expenses definite, bouatlde. no mor.', 110 less salary. Monthly 5". Kvfore 11'e-.. self-addressed I I stamped envelope Herbert E. Hess, l'rest. Dept. M. Chicago jfMiM GREEN CORN UNDER GLASS. A \i-n Idea In UardFiilnß I'cir Profit. I Crrrn Corn (Kit of Scn«nll. The forcing of sweet corn is practi cally unknown. That this crop can be grown under glass, and. if properly bandit 1. be profitable. Professor F. W. Kane of New Hampshire undertakes to j demonstrate in a recent interesting j bulletin. He says: The idea that it was j possibly adapted for forcing occurred to the writer when studying the root de velopment of corn under glass. During the season of 1*9(5-7 the only house available for the experiment was a '.arge vegetable house. 25 by 100 feet, Hud as lettuce, cauliflower, etc., which demand a low temperature, are grown in this house during the fore part of the season the sweet corn was not plant ed until April, when these crops were marketed. The nature of the green house is very important, as it is neces sary that the plants have sufficient roc in for development. The honso ordinarily used for lettuce and cucumbers in New England answers very well, while those filled with benches would not do. The plants vary, according to the variety, from four to eight feet in height. The corn was planted April 10 and matured July 0. While we have not | grown an extensive crop in midwinter, ! our results from the corn fruited in ex perimental boxes lead us to believe that with proj>er culture an entire house de voted to this crop would be highly suc cessful. Sweet corn does not appear in the Boston market until about the middle of July. At that time it brings gcod VARIETIES OF SWEET CORN FORCKD. prices and the entire product is from the south. Without any sweet corn on the market, therefore, before July, w« have a rather long period even in spring when this vegetable lias no competition. While it has no established market price at present in our cities like other forced greenhouse crops the returns should be at least in proportion to its cost and doubtless until commonly grown would be much more profitable. Sweet corn when first in season is doubtless as highly prized as any of the green vegetables, and wo believe that when offered out of season it will be in great demand. The varieties tested and shown in cut have been Early Minnesota (10), Cros by's Early (13), White Cob (14), First of All (15), Early Fordhook (26), Ad ams' Extra Early (31). All of these are grown to some extent in New England and are popular generally. The stalks grew taller, if anything, than they do in the garden in every case. The Adams' Extra Early is not a true sweet corn, but its merits are earliness and productiveness. Crosby's Early, a standard early white variety, yielded at the rate of one ear to the stalk, with a small cob. White Cob was the same when grown In and out of doors —one of tlie earliest, good quality, many ears under size. First of All is a new early to second early variety ; ears good size and long, quality fair While one of the heaviest yielders out of doors it fell be hind in the greenhouse. Early Fordhook was not given a fair trial. Early Min nesota was not as early as most of the others. If proper heat, moisture and a rich soil be given, a crop will mature in the greenhouse in a shorter time than in the garden. Treatmcitt For Seed Wlient. Smut annually causes much loss in wheat. This loss is now recognized as preventable by seed treatment, for which the Ohio station presents the following simple directions: Fer Looso Smut of Wheat.—Modified hot water treatment is to soak the seed grain for four hours in cold water, let stand four hours more in the wet sacks, then immerse for five minutes in water at a temperature of 133 degrees F. Spread at once on a smut free surface to dry and sow. Use one-half more seed to replace that injured by the treat ment. For Stinking Smut of Wheat.—ln all the methods employed for stinking smut it is probably advisabble to im merse grain first in cold water with stirring anil to skim off the smut balls which will in this manner rise to the top of the water. After this is com pleted the following treatment may be employed: Immerse this skimmed seed contained in gunny bag or suitable wire mesh vessel for ten minutes in hot water at a temperature of 133 degres F. ; then dry on smut free surface, cooling quickly by thoroughly stirring, or cold water may be employed to cool the grain. Re member these temperatures are to be determined by a thermometer. Longer immersion tliun ten minutes at that temperature may injure the gr tin CASES FOR HONEY. A. Neat Pneknr/e Help* to Sell Honey. Convenient Shipping CiiieN. "In selling honey much depends on appearance. Extracted honey put up in a neat package is mere likely to meet with ready sale than if put up in any sort of style and without any label. Es pecially does the matter of looks make a difference in the sale of cemb honey. Remember that a good part of the dif ference in price between comb honey islPrp TWO K IN I>S OF SHIPPING CASES: and extracted is paid for the nicer looks of the former, and if you pack your lonib honey in any sort of box that happens to be at hand it may make a difference of 2, 3 and A cents a pound." With this advice Dr. Miller presents the following information in The Na tional Stockman about cases: BUTLER PA., THURSDAY, JUNPJ 1. lSiii) snipping cases tor noney are maue that are especially adapted to the pur- i ji, ,-e Not only are they convenient in shape and size for packing and ship- ! ping, but they show off the honey to good advantage when placed on the counter of the grocer by means of the j glass on one side tl.at allows the snow white comb to be seen without allowing the flies to light upon it or the fingers . of meddlesome urchins to be punched into it. Two kinds of shipping cases are shown in the illustration. The upper one holds 12 of the so called one pound sections, two sections being seen through the glass. The lower case contains 24 sec tions, four of them being in sight. Cases for 48 sections have also been made, but these are little used. The tendency seems to be rather toward the 12 section case. Al2 section case that is a com promise in appearance between the two cases in the picture is very popular. In it three sections are in sight, there be ing four rows of three sections each. This last style of case will cost you somewhere from 8 to 10 cents each, de pending on the number bought. At this price you get material ready to nail to gether. everything complete, including nails and glass. Injnrcil Fruit Trees. A way in which fruit trees have been injured by the severe winter has been called to the attention of The American Cultivator. In some cases the bark, and perhaps the wood also, has been cracked by the frost: "In snch cases we should cut away all the bark that appears to be loosened from the wood around the j crack and cover the wound with graft ing wax. or, if that was not at hand, with a plaster of clay, around which we would put a cloth to try to hold it in place until it had opportunity to heal ever. We have with such a plaster covered a space where some one had wantonly or maliciously girdled the limb of a tree, and it not only lived, but i eventually new bark grew to fill the 6pace." Ilotv to Make a Whltlletree. Durable whiffletrees never coine amiss, and the kind pictured herewith can be made at small expense, accord ing to an Ohio Farmer correspondent. All that is needed is a piece of hard wood of proper shape, grooved at the ends so that the piece of round iron A -STi:' >Nli wait i LETUKK. which is bent to a ring in the middle cf its length may be brought over them and there fastened with large staples, work which any blacksmith can do, and the ends of the rod then bent to hooks. In this way the strongest kind of a whiffletree is obtainable, the wood hold ing the iron in proper form. Best of all, doubletrees cr eveners can thus be made. Tlie figure shows the construc tion. rnlque Celery Culture. In a talk at the Cornell "Lazy club," reported by American Gardening, R. A. Emmerson told of novel celery cul ture in Nebraska: The celery industry along the Platte is unique. In some places the river channel is seven-eighths of a mile wide and is full of little sandy islands where the water table rises to within a foot of the surface. Celery just jumps on those islands. This illus trates two essentials to successful cel ery culture; the roots must be kept cool, and the water supply should be un stinted. Xewi nnd Note*. According to Dr. S. A. Knapp, a for eign explorer for the department of agriculture, all fear of competition from Japan along agricultural lines may be dismissed. On the contrary, it must be a large consumer of farm products drawn from the United States. It is told that an agent of the depart ment of agriculture is experimenting with the date palm in Algiers on the shores of the Mediterranean, and when the young trees are ready to be re moved he will take them up and carry them to Arizona, and we will produce our own dates. An increasing interest in the sheep industry is manifested in many sections of the country. Avoid light, shrunken grain seed. It is claimed that tests have shown an in crease of about 20 per cent by measure of grain from selected plump wheat over that front shrunken seed. One great source of damage from weeds is the amount of moisture and plant food which they consume to the loss of the growing crop IrrlKntioir In the Eaat. Some years ago I noticed how an in genious eastern farmer had taken a unique way to reclaim a pasture through which a creek flowed. When this fann er was a boy, the water flowed steadily in this stream all through the summer season, and its bed, being shallow, the top strata of earth on either side ab sorbed .moisture therefrom and kept the field green. Later, when the woodland above was removed, and the savage floods came down in the springtime, they gouged out a deep bed for the creek and overspread the rich bottom land with gravel and silt. Then, when the creek fell away in volume in mid summer, it flowed feebly over the bot tom of a clay bed ten feet deep, with the water so far removed from the upper strata that there was no seepage of mois ture under the grass roots. So there was no adequate pasturage except in spring and fall, and thus it remained several years. One day the farmer, reading how ir rigation was conducted in the west, went up this stream half a mile and, cutting out a ditch, brought the water down to overflow his drought stricken pasture whenever it needed it. The re sult is that now the grass there in mid summer is as green as a ricefield, while the hill pastures are sear and brown. From this and other instances I con sider that irrigation in the east, as a reserve expedient, has great possibili ties in it. —American Cultivator. A (load Tent For Bordeaux. Bordeaux mixture is now so generally used in gardening and fruit growing that its proper preparation becomes all important. The surer and simpler ferro cyanide of potassium test is largely su perseding that of the knife blade. Fer rocyanide of potassium comes as a solid. According to a report of the Cornell station, one ounce of ferrocyanide of potassium dissolved in one ounce of wa ter will be sufficient for testing many barrels of bordeaux mixture. In mak ing bordeaux it is usual to pour the di luted milk of lime into the diluted cop per sulphate solution In order to ascer tain win n enough lime has been used, after p tiring a small amount of it into the sulphate solution add a drop of the ferrocyanide solution. If a brick red color appears where the drop strikes, more lime is needed. Continue adding the n.ilk of lin.e until no reddish color will be produced win n the ferrocyanide is added A little sin plus lime will de no harm !'• rr< cyanide of potassium is a poison and sleuild be kej t out of the reach of children and carel = is persons. MATING. fhe .Mule l» Not toy \»y M.UIIK the \\ hole Herd. Many are satisfied with having* pnr«i bred male of reputable pedigree at the head of the herd, regardless of whether his type and ] ints of excellence are in harmony with the requirements of the herd or not. forgetting that defects that are common to both parents intensify themselves in the offspring, says The Homestead. Just what it is that at all (Miints goes to make up the obscure thing known as "a good nick" would be difficult to define, but one of its ele ments undoubtedly is that weakness at certain points on one side of the house should be compensated for by strength in those particulars on the other. The fact involves a careful selection of the females in the breeding herd with a view of securing uniformity in them. For if they be widely at variance with respect to their physical conformation no sire can le chosen that will nick with them at all. If, however, the females of the herd be uniform, showing in a general way a similarity in their strong points and their weak ones, the sire to be used on the herd can then lie selected with a view of correcting de ficiencies, and to the extent that the uniformity prevails on the one side and the selection has been good on the oth er uniform results may be expected in all the offspring. In too many cases the purchaser of a sire relies upon some body else's judgment to pick him a good one, the person intrusted with this duty perhaps never having seen the herd on which such selection is to be used. If. however, the sire is cbosen with s; : r.l i i'crence to the n-, that is to be made of him, outstanding defects can, to a large extent, be corrected, and by pursuing this policy for a series of generations great improvement can be effected. If the female herd is of one line of breeding through a series of years, the defects will be likely to be of one general type. Suppose, for example, they have too much length of leg, then a sire that is particularly low down will contribute to breed out the defect Suppose there is a deficiency in the heart girth and consequently in vigor and constitution, then a sire having a large heart girth will measurably cure the difficulty in the offspring. If there is weakness in the flank, a male should be strong there. If the females are coarse and inclined to be rough, fining down can be accomplished by the use of a closely built, compact sire, and on the other hand, if the females are smooth, small boned, pretty and in clined to undersize, the selection of the male should be made with a view of correcting these faults. T) i»ionl Kerry Hnll. The Kerry brill. Prince of Leinster 3. r >3, the property of C. Brinsley Marlay, Belvedere house, Mullingar, has had a most distinguished career in the show- KKKHY Bt:LI. I'KIXCE OF LEINSTER 358. yard, having been first at the Royal Dub lin society's shows for several years and also first at last year's Royal at Bir mingham. He was bred by Viscount de Vesci, got by Gort Admiral 140, dam Princess Mary 778. The accompanying illustration is from the London Live Stock Journal. Cultivate niuentive Power. The ability to digest its food proper ly is, after all, the most important and necessary characteristic of any really valuable animal. It is possible to in crease digestive power, and it can be done even before birth, by seeing to it that the dam bearing young is always supplied with good, nutritions food in proper quantities. A sow with pigs which is kept in cold quarters and poorly fed will almost certainly drop two or more runts in her litter. It is hard work making a runt pay its keep. The extra food it gets would have paid much bet ter if fed to an animal properly born. All young animals have weak digestion. If they are never allowed to surfeit themselves, this will grow stronger. By the time a pig is 4 or 0 months old it will make faster growth, though not in iiroportion to its size, than it did first, it is a larger animal and can digest food that it could not while it was younger.—Boston Cultivator. lllae Itltlue For Sheep. Maryland and Virginia are both ex cellent sheep states, especially so along the southern and easterly slopes of the Blue Ridge mountain? and in all the hill and gently undulating districts from the foot of the Ridge to the sea. It is naturally a blue grass country for the most part, generally well watered and all near to the great lamb markets of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. BREEDING ON SHARES. A. Noted Breeder llelleven the rlan Mutually Prott I n ble. T. F. B. Sotliam, the noted Missouri Hereford breeder, in a letter to The Breeder's Gazette declares the share system to be profitable to the man lend ing the cattle. It is like taking sheep to double. The profits are largely in fa vor of the man owning the sjjeep. The experience of James A. Gibson, a Mis souri Hereford 1 reeder. should lie of in terest to every one desiring to start a herd by the investment of a moderate mm of money. In a recent letter Mr. Gibson says: "I started with a ball and heifer in 1H0:S and have 16 females and four liulls at present, all from those two. 1 have bi-ight four females since, but have paid for them with money I sold my bulls for. It seems a slow way to get a start, but I had not the money that I cared to spare for more. I now have a fair start to grow into a herd." There are plenty of Herefords for sale in this country as low as SIOO, and among these low priced Herefords are souie splendidly bred animals. The low price named need not scare any one, foi many of the very best Hen fords fell into the hands of parties who got them at a price that enables the cjipjied off and the flow if milk started by the fingers, so that the lamb can get its food without difficulty. Some ewes, especially the young ones with their first lamlw, will be disin clined to permit the lambs to suck and by restlessness prevent tliem. This, of course, is equivalent to the loss of the lamb. Such ewes must lie restrained in some way, the easiest being to inclose the refractory animal in a narrow pen of laths or in a small stanchion, while the lamp gets its meal. A few times will be sufficient to subdne the ewe and make the lamb safe. Another matter that needs immediate attention is the clearing of the anus, which is apt to be clogged up by adhesive excrement, by which the discharges are prevented, and. of course, this is fatal to the lamb in a short time. It is an easy thing to loosen the hard crust and separate the adhesion of it to the wool. In some cases when this has l>een neglected for two or three days the opening of the bowel will lie attended by a copious dis charge which by its volume will show bow great a detriment and inconven ience it has been to the young lamb. To be successful, a shepherd must be well supplied with untiring vigilance, ample knowledge of bis business in even such small details as this and t*ifH cient painstaking industry and prompti tude to set everything right that is go ing wrong, as soon as it happens. llreed Stralifht. Whether breeding draft or road horses, breed the best yon can of the class you decide npon. Avoid violent crosses. Don't imagine that you can, as a general rule, succeed in breeding a cress bred animal with the size and weight of a draft horse and the speed and activity of a race horse, nor that by cross breeding yon can, ordinarily, get a happy combination of many of the good qualities of both. It may be acknowledged that, occasionally, an individual horse will be found that is an excellent animal, a good general pur pose horse, and such a horse may have been the result of cross breeding. But ench instances are rare. They are ex ceptions to the rule. Such crosses usual ly result in a "weedy," ill proportioned animal, that is fit for neither the one purpose nor the other. Snch individuals are. when used for breeding purposes, detrimental to breeders. They are not of a fixed type. They are composed of say 50 per cent of each of two incon gruous elements, and their the next generation will generally tie disappointing. —E. F. Richman. before lowa Institute. Amiable lto(i. Different breeds of hogs vary in the degree of their amiability when it comes to handling them, so do different ani mals of the same breed, says A. N. Springer in Land and a Living. Mucb of their seeming fierceness is due to a fear that you will harm them or their brood. Once they have perfect confi dence in yon, all restiveness will van ish, as a rule, and you can do for them whatever necessity demands. So far as is possible, one should always select pigs to raise for brood sows from a gen tle sow. Then their treatment should bo of the kindest, no dogs should be allow ed to worry them, and they should nev er be chased about wiih sticks or clods. They should really be made pets of, and with a little time and trouble it can be done. Begin by rubbing them when eat ing or drinking, keep this up at inter vals until they seem to expect and enjoy it, and the task is about completed. Ulo«vlng a Cork Into m. Dottle. Ask some of the company if they can blow a small bit of cork which you have placed in the month of a bottle so that it will go into the body of the bottle. Lay the bottle on the table npon its side and place the bit of cork about an inch or less inside the open end. The uninitiated will blow until they get red in the face, und the cork will invariably come out of the bottle instead of going into it. There is a simple reason for it too. The direction of the air forced by the one blowing brings it against the bottom of the bottle. The air compresses within the bottle's walls and must find an onjlet; therefore it is turned and forc ed out at the only vent the bottle hoi necessarily Mowing the tfoA wtth fl But take a common lemonade straw, place the end of it near the cork in the bottle neck, blow very gently—and the cork rolls in. Ortlerinn llreakfaat In India. Shortly after her arrival in India a young woman missionary was allowed to order breakfast for the household in order to test ber progress in the lan guage. She intended to ask for fresh eggs, but used the wrong words, saying to the astonished cook, "Yon may bring Ms, this morning, an old blind man, nicely boiled I" Knee to Face. "I've got the money to back my of fer," said the ponderous citizen, "and I'd give a fortune to anybody who could show me how the reduce my weight. " "And I'd do the same for anytody who would stop my hair from falling out By the way, how did you make your money V-—Washington Star. Bombay is one of the chief gates to India, and a lovely view of it is obtain ed from the sea as the vessel gradually draws near to the harbor, which puts inland, and is surrounded by the town. Brazil has 3,200,000 squar-,miles, or is about the area of the United States, excepting Alaska. Vlritlnh Appetite. Some idea of how much the British people eat may tie gathered (from the amount of butterand oleomargarine im ported last year. Of butter tholimports were 320.9011.300 pounds andiof oleo margarine 89.897,500 pounds The but ter imported cost the people of Great Britain $U9»800,855 and the oleomar garine (1 1.918,870 Denmark tarnished nearly 60 per cent of the batter and Canada only about 3 per cent #|PN MAMMOTH SQUASHES. Ttir Hmj at i nn»il« lariarr (imm I Ita-ac and I tiratr MrUaa llm. Tilt- squashes here pictured. with the Itrower. Williuui Warm < k of • tntario. Csnsda.standing 1 • bind tbetu <«n th.- rail of tli. wayn, the rail ls*iug eigi.t ir.. he* high. weighed B**', S.ytt, and 344 pound* each. according to Mr. War nock's description sent, together witb the photograph of tbr>« colossal speci twiM. to The Country Gentleman. In that i«i|M-r Mr Warwick further tells the system by w huh he growa not only squashes, hut t'»e largest witiruidrM and i itrolls in h s j>art of the country: "My land is made in nood condition, being heavily manured every year. It MiVUdTH KiriiHU. is a gravelly formation. with about IS inclu-.. of clay loam on top. A 300 poutiil squash ran lie grown on any part of it by the following method of culti vation : For each hill I intend to plant, about the Ist of April I take two g<*jd wheelbarrow loads of hen manure and mix with fonr barrows of gi«*l soil tak en from mine other part of the lot. This in mixed a second time the middle of April. The Ist of May I add fonr bar rows of well rotted mannre and mi* thoroughly; then, about the 18lh of May, make the hills and plant, dig oat a space 7 feet in diameter and 14 inches deep, till in my compost mixing and with it gome of the best earth which was thrown ont. When finished, ths hill will lie abont ten feet in diameter and six inches higher in the center than the snrronmling level. Then plant the seed, llills want to be about 30 feet apart Work the ground well until the plants commence to run. When about three feet long, I mulch the ground all over for 20 feet in diameter around each hill with horse manure three inches deep and stake the vines down with sticks to keep the wind from rolling tbeui about, so that they way root at every joiut. It is of gTest advantage to keep the vine from fruiting as long as possible, by pruning all fmit bloom off until alnint the last week in July. This will give time enough to mature a 800 pouud squash by the Ist of October, for there must be a big vine to produce a big squash." Mr. Warnock practice# fertilizing a few of the tir.-t blooms that come, and when the first perfect specimens have set well he cuts off all other fruit and blossoms and nips the end off vines that show bloom. He uses liquid manure twice a week while great growth of squash is going on. and is particularly careful to give plenty of water. Notes un the Sewer F»l«lor«. The Ohio station reports: Bovee.—One of the best early whits sorts that has b°cn grown here for thrse years or more. The yield in 1897 was 850 bushels per acre, and ths average for the two seasons was >36 bushels Ita record has t>een good in previous seasons. It is about as early as Early Ohio and far more prolific, excelling Early Har vest even in this particular. Carmen No. B.—A valuable midssn son variety. The tubers are white, smooth and nearly all marketable sixe The yield in 1897 was 395 bushels per acre, and the average for two seasons was 272 bushels. It has uniformly done well here, and reports concerning it are generally favorable. Early Trumbull. —An excellent ear ly white variety, which has besn on trial two seasons. It has the distinction of standing first in point of yield of any early variety and falls but little below the best of the late sorts on an average for two seasons. In 1897 the yield was 462 bushels per acre, and the average for two years was 998 bushels It is fairly a rival of Bovee. Hir Walter Raleigh.— A medium to late white variety, resembling ths Rural New Yorker No. 3, but rather more prolific. In 1897 the yield was at the rate of 317 bushels per acre, and the average for two seasons was 291 bnabela. Livingston. —A very beautiful late white sort. Its yield in 1997 was 40# bushels per acre, and the average for two seasons was 271 bushels, giving it a high rank as to prolificacy. All KirrUililS *»*>•»■ For sn everlasting anchor to the end post in a wire fence the following was originally presented by a oofTsspr C. P. Rolwrts from a *uc.-e**fnl farmer of western New York, who raises from SO to Mil acres of l»ans each year, are presented in The Conntry Gentle man: _»_» The land devoted to t eans is seeded to wheat as soon as the lieans are bar vested. Mairowfat leans require at least one bnsbel of «eed per acre, pea l>eans one-half to three fourths busb»l In western New York any land that will raise g.«*l corn wheat «>r potat.iee will produce g.««l ■ r-i-of bean, when intelligently cultivated. A good loam with a stibs< il of clay is regarded as the best. It seems tbst marrowfats are most largely grown on the heavy lands ami the ]iea l»ans on the lighter lands Light lands should lie supplied with ar> abundance of vegetable matter ' "hi lands n«nally are less deficient in hnnin. and therefore so much attention need not be |>aid to the humus on the heavy soils. On light lands S weeder isnsed to ad vantage at first, and afterward a two horse sulky cultivator is sometimes used. On the small farms ■ 'Si' bmsi cultivator i« a** l instesd. ijoine hand No. 22 dn in* will lie we. ~ary If tW bedß sre kept , U~aa they *hneld ha. M they are n.nally rai«*d in drill* and IM inltiva'.r i f net eeeity •aanot the Weed* which ar* muanataly MB* riated with the heana '! Tii' pri - rang- a widely. Dm if tfcg la-t thr- e year* they have rarsiy broagM #! prr bnsbel Perbafw *4 rents ralgM be tak< u as the average pries tor that tun. The cultivation at the bisa hag extended qaite largely into Kichtgga an 1 »veu • altfornia. an.l thia laslta la a full t.r over supply and hence low (Wit.* Twenty bushels t* aatdered | goal sverage. A few g«< more. bat many lew Abont three f., art ha. 4 a ton of bran »traw is secured per acre. al though this varies a- • ->rding to virMtf and sesx n The bean straw >a highly vaiueil for la>th sheep and cattla by thiw wh are well qualtftad t>. jadge at its mtrits. It is rated among Ik* bans raisers as equal to clover bay « Haa4r r»l Utter. This illustration of a fence punt liftag, repri .luced from The Farm and flm aide, tella its own etury at the maaa m of iu use The lifter ia n stoat. >«nsiMi i f F) urriva a fost. ad post about fonr Inchsa la dtoa^tor and six or seven feet lon* It with a heavy pises of iron wilk an o«»- turned point. With this lnfhawi as a corresp<>ndas they aaknt whst were saying?** ••I don't know." said Mpa aa symp*thetically "I doa'9 bskaff 9n A* same species. * take* La** Was 9ssfe«*(4 "Ah. * she -aid. sarohtog Mi m* mrls snd W>kiag ragre«fhßy >#o Me upturned face he wns ka i iHag Mb her "you win not thlab neensi wtß yoa? Yoa will b* brave aad try to bar get me. woa't y*iat Ye do not harw how snrry I aaa to be c i.,y»u*l baf •ao' to yoa. I'nds* other etoegartM**" we might haee been happy togatfcrv hat as It I* I most b* wttb yaw There Is no hope " Hl* whole frame wns shataa hy n greet sab Tbea he V- bsd appeehagly toto toa fnwnlike eysa aad asked: •Why is It. Virglata. that yea aa*so sore ws ennaot be happy * Why may I not bop*T" "There is sn impnssabls liaailis be tween ns,"sb* repUsd. "Tsa aas the champion golf player of thto sy mother ia pseeidaat at the ientoty For the Huppresstoa at Dtalsct, m there yon are " Realising that bis drenaa at hMss wss st an end. he weat nwny basaauna softly Alaa. that lee* toaato than Mm pat M fas •> a*. Aad wa mar aeeae ea*« KaeS otAer to a *eet -Chicago News