THE FABM AND GARDEN. WHEW TO WATER IIORSES. A writer in somo agricultural paper says: "Never water a horse within three ' hoi'rs after eating." Thts must be a mis take. He was right in saying: "Water them before they are fed." But some times they will not drink before eating if more hungry than dry. Now, it would b« cruel to drive a horse, especially in a hot day, fifteen or twenty miles before giving him drink. How would a man like such treatment? A horse may be given a little water in half an hour after eating when he is being worked. Some think it safe to let a horse drink all he wants while going right along on the road, but many valuable horses have been killed by doing this. A little and often is a better way— New York World. CRASS FOR TIGS. Various agricultural journals are re marking that there is meat iu grass for pigs as well as for cattle and sheep. It is very true, but it is a mistake to sup pose that the natural diet of pigs is grass, as it is for ruminant animals like cows jnd sheep. The two latter have a very bulky double stomach, and will thrive ou coarser fare than the pig, that has only one digestive apparatus. With out doubt pigs are often fed on too con centrated food, and are benefited by a run at pasture, especially by the exercise it involves. But the notion that grain or eome concentrated food is not needed even by growing pigs is a mistaken one. It is true pigs thrive well on milk, but, even with the cream taken from it, inilk is much more nutritious and therefore a more concentrated food than it is often supposed to be.— Golman't Rural World, HOW BEST TO USE FODDER. Tho hay crop is scarce in some parts of the country; corn fodder, like the poor, is always with us. Now, learn how to use that fodder to the best advantage. If you have a silo, cut the fodder short and put it in. This is undoubtedly the best plan now known, but if you have no silos and the chances are about oco in a thousand only that you have such a "modern improvement," then cut the fodder and shock it in the field the best you know how and can atl'ord. Take good care togo through the field every week and set up or haul to the barn all the shocks that show an inclination to fall apart or get otherwise injured. There is no economy of tho farm like carefully looking after things, and this is particu larly the case with corn fodder in a yeax when hay is scarce and high.— American Dairyman. ; EFFECTS OF SPRAYING PEACH TREES. t«* Professar Bailey, in a bulletin issued from the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y., gives a full re port of experiments made with spraying peach foliage with London purple and Paris green. Following is a summary of same: • 1. Peach trees are very susceptible to injury from arsenical sprays. 2. London purple is much more harmful to peach trees than Paris green, and it should never be used upon them in any manner. 8. Injury is more liable to occur upon full-grown foliage and hardened shoots than upon young foliage and soft shoots. i. The immunity of the young growth is due to its waxy covering. 5. Injury late in the season is moro apparent than early in the season, because of the cessa tion of growth. U. Injury from the use of London purple may be permanent and irreparable. 7. The length of time which the poison has been mixed appears to exercise no influence. 8. London purple contains much soluble arsenic, and this arsenic is the cause of the injury to peach foliage. 9. A coarse spray ap pears to be more injurious than a fine one. 10. A rain following tho applica tion does not appear to augmunt the in jury. 11. Meteorological conditions do not appear to influence results. 12. Spray ing the peach with water on a bright and hot day does not scorch the foliage. 13. Paris green, in a fine spray, at the rate of one pound to 300 gallons of water, did not injure the trees. Probably one pound to 350 gallons is always safe. Professor Bailey does not discourage the general use of London purple, as lie uses it freely upon other plants than the peach. ENSILAGE AT $1 PER TON. In regard to the cost of harvesting and storing foods for ensilage, Professor Hay ward, of the Maryland Experiment Sta tion, says: An accurate record was kept of the cost of harvesting and storing of forty-five tons, put into tho silo in three days, beginning the lGth of September. The force employed was as follows: porta ble engine, power cutter, one two-mulo cart, one single cart, one mule hauling fuel nnd water for engine (making four mules), one foreman, one engineer and fireman, two drivers, three corn cutters, two men at cutting machine, one man packiug in silo and ouo boy helper on water cart. The items of cost were these: Hire of engine and engineer threo days, at $4 per day, sl2; fuel, $3; teams and manual I labor, in all $4(5.40; putting cover and weightson silo, §3,total, §G4,40, or $1.43 per ton. It was estimated that the tan gled condition of the corn in the field fully doubled the labor of cutting and loading it. Had tho feed cutter been larger the same engine and fuel could have doubled the quantity cut per day, although another cart would have been needed in hauling. It is easy to see how these improvements might have reduced the cost of storing per ton to übout one dollar. The season for growing and cultivating the crop was so exceptional, and the crop itself so small, that no computation was made as to cost of production to time of harvest. These figures, if recorded, would not apply to an average season. But it may bo roughly stated that the cost of makiug tho crop, exclusive of harvesting, need never ex ceed $1 per ton. BEETS FOR MILCH COWS. A bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural Ex perimentaUStat lon give B>tha result of an in feeding j sugar beets to milch cows,tmao\edurii ig tho "past winter, together wiih a taimma ry of two similar experiments,* one unadei by .the station in 1889 and onoby liho fr am. department of the OhiotState ■Urtiven titynn 1879. In the last named experiment eight cows were \ kept rinded test for eleven weeks; in ' 1889Kwelvn cows for eight weeks, .and in; 1890 tv iclve cows for nine weeks, the cowvs in ( cach case being weighed&daily,»asVwelljwsdry, as-cormmeal and dry fodder, or as corn ensilage, tho dry matter ofiVhe corn crop will bo found about as' effective, pound for pound, as the dry mnatter of the boet croip. It is pos.'iblo to raiset,much moro than sixteen tonsyof beets to the ac/.-e. Ono crop of twon'.cres is rcpiprtod at thirty seven and oia'i-half tons" per acre, and smaller areas have given still latter yields, but such crops* requiro'very-ricih.land nnd thorough cuKrtrc. Whether it is possi ble to produce n pound of drjOmatter in beets as economically as,'it can-be done in corn is not yet»definitclyfsettled,«,but tho probabilities aic against, it. FARM ANDiOARDEXI NOTES. Keep tfoe'wagon*welli greased. Neglect isHhe wotrst weedfon a farm. Prepare giwuml well fomvfoter wheat. Manure oniland is\ coucuatrated,activi ty. Always hitching \post at your door. Long evenings > coining ;V? read and study. If you work early andl late, rest at midday. Buy nothing you caa produce as cheaply. Put the manure where 2 it willjdo the most good. Always plan tosavc laboE andfctlicreby reduce cost. The market is seldom S overstocked with the best. Have you done all you can(for your fowls' comfort. The best time to do aithiug{is beforo it is actually needed. Do everything in tho' simplest and most sensible manner. Better pay a good price for*sccd than use poor if given you. Getting money out of dirt is dirty business, but it is honest. Have you mado your plans for! nest year? It is time you had. During the rainy days repair thet tools, oil tho harness and lix up the constable. Remember that one of the most impor tant cares of the farm is tho care of health. Add the uncounted comforts to the money income before you say the farm does not pay. When thresliing.'take good care of tho straw. Bright, clean straw is better for bedding as well as for feeding. If you have nothing better, lay in a good supply of dry earth',to use as an ab sorbent iu your stables when needed. Many diseases of tho lmrse's feet are due to wearing shoes too long a time. Knock oil the shoes during vacation. Apply lime whitewash.in your stables, your hen-house, your pig-pen and every where that insects can lay their nits. When you dig your potatoes, dry them before storing, but do not expose them to the sun, if you can avoid it. This is a good time to open up the ditches or to putin tilo from that sink hole that makes ugly jog 3 in all your work. It is a bad plan to clean out the poul try houses and throw the refuse just out side the door. Barrel at once and put under covor. Clear away the masses of foul stuff around the trunks of your fruit trees. They are harbors for vermin and in jurious insects. Eggs are the most marketable product that" 3 the farm yields. They are ready for the market tho minute they are laid, and tho sooner they are gotten to market the better. A solitary yellow-dock, burdock or mustard plant is best preserved by being carefully cut oil close to the ground, gently carried to tho house and con signed to the kitchen stove just beforo the water boils in the tea-kettle. Commencing to breed high class fowls, solely with the object of making money from them, is the rock on which many an enthusiastic beginner has split. Profit must always be a secondary con sideration at the outset. It means hard work and plenty of it for a year or more; the profits come later if you only stick. Aa item in making tho most of tho corn crop is to begin feeding the fatten ' ing stock early. Under average condi tions tho moderately cool weather in tho fall is tho best time to fatten stock, and 1 with good, thrifty stock a much hotter ' gain can then be made in proportion to ' tho quantity of food supplied than at any other time. General Bid wall's ranch in Chico, Cal., Is eighteen miles in length and three in width, and coutiyus 1,500,000 ■ uurea of orchard ground. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. HOW TO MAKE AN EGG -TESTER. Take a piece of leather five inches wide and six inches long. Now bring the edges togetLcr (with the dark side of leather inside) and sew them, and it ia ready for use. Take the egg to be tested, hold it up to a bright light, place the eye at the other end and you see ex actly what condition tho egg is in. The leather adjusts itself to the egg so as to exclude all tho light. Another good point in its favor is that there is no dan ger of breaking the egg by accidentally letting tho tester fall or by striking the egg against it. A COOD LAUNDRY POLISH. A laundry polish that is recommended by an authority on such questions is made as follows: Dissolve on a slow firo one ounce of white wax and two ounce of spermaceti with one large tea spoonful of salt. Turn into a wet cup to cool. Mako boiled starch as usual, cooking slowly for twenty minutes, and for every tablespoonful of dry starch used putin a lump of tho preparation the size of a cherry. Use no cold starch and do not sprinkle. "When the starched pieces are dried, lay them iu a wei towel for two hours, and with a polishing iron bring out the gloss.— New York World. NOODLE PUDDING. Three eggs beaten light, a little salt and flour to make a paste that will roll. Roll the paste an eighth of an inch thick, lay on a clean paper for live minutes, let ting it stand either in the sun or iu a warm oven with the door open. Aftei taking them out cut in strips two inches wide; cut tine, then put them in clear, salted water which is boiling and allow them ten minutes for boiling, but do not let them stick together. Take them out and drain well; add two well-beaten eggs, mix them in a quart of milic and stir in the noodles; add salt, sugar and spice to suit the taste. Bako forty-five minutss. Noodles are very nice used in soup instead of maccaroni.— New York World. TVfIOOriNO COCGII. A physician of well-known repute,talk ing about whooping cough, says it is a contagious disease peculiar to childhood, although it occasionally attacks adults. It is spasnjodic in its action, generally protracted, aud is always accompanied with inflammation of the mucous mem brane of tho windpipe, bronchial tubes and tL e cells. A dry cough, an occa sional sense of constriction in tho chest, fever, quick respiration and other symp toms of a common cold mark its begin ning. These disappear and tho spas modic stage ensues, in which thero is a frequently recurring and obstinate cough. At times the child is convulsed with a paroxysm of coughing which is con tinued until the lunirs seem to bo incapa ble of further action. Tho spasm after a second or two is relaxed and the breath is drawn with a prolonged, almost con vulsive sob, or "whoop" which is pe culiar to this disease and prevents it from being confounded with any other malady. Children who are weak teething or being wcaacd are liable in whooping cough to iuflammating of the lungs or brain, which often results fatally. Vigorous treatment in its earliest stages is of tUo utmost importance, and great care should be exercised in regulating the diet and avoiding sudden changes of temperature.— New York World. IiF.CIPES. Potato Pie—Slice eight raw potatoes and cut into small pieces one-hall' pound of bacon. Line a basin with some suet pastry and pu 1 12. in tho bacon and potatoes; add boiling water and a little flour to mako gravy. Put to steam for four hours. Cocoanut Cream—One pint of milk, yolks of three eggs, one-half cup of sugar, flavor with vanilla. Cook as for boiled custard. Put one dozen cocoanut cakes in a pretty dish and strain tho hot custard over them, When cold, whip the whites and pile on top. Crab-apple Preserves—Take the red Siberian crab-apple. Wash, and dry, leave tho stems on, putin water to cover, and let come to a boil. Tako up, let cool, and carefully remove the skins. Weigh, allow ono pound of sugar to every pound of fruit. Make syrup, flavor with the juice of ono lemon to every three pounds. Put the crab-applcs on, aud cook until clear; put invars while hot. Blackberry Mush—Bruiso one pound ripe blackberries and add a very little salt. Putin porcelain-liued or granite kettle, add one teacupftil of boiling water and stow for three or four minutes. Mean time stir smoothly in a bowl two heaping tablespoonfuls of flour with water to make a thick cream; add to the berries, aud stir constantly till thickened. Re move, set in very cold place. Serve with sugar aud crcaui. Beef-Loaf—Get two pounds of lean beef and chop tine. Season with salt, pepper, a little parsley, summer savory or something of the kind, and chop aud add a very small onion. Press into a square or long baking pan and fit a tin over it. Bake an hour and a half. Put a weight on it when done, and do not turn out until it is perfectly cold, when it may be cut in nice slices with a sharp thin-bladed knife. Rice Cream—Lovers of rice will enjoy this: Bake one ounce Carolina lice iu half a pint of milk with three bay leaves. When sufficiently cooked, re move the scuui and bay-leaves. Dis solve one-quarter ounce gelatine, previ viously soaked in two tablespoonfuls of milk, in half a pint of boiling milk, add the yolk ot an egg and two ounces of loaf sugar. Stir over tho fire for five miuutes, mix with the rice, pour it into tho mould, aud let it remain until set. Iu Florida sugar cane grows luxuriantly without fertilizing, and the aveiagocost of prenaring and planting a sugar crop Is $lO per acre, as compared with $lB in Cuba and $24 va Louisiana. LINCOLN'S MELANCHOLY. Ill* Srmpmhftlc Nature and Hla Knrly Mlafortaae.. Those who saw much of Abraham Lincoln (luring the later year* of his life, were greatly impressed with the expression of profound melancholy his face always wore in repoM. Mr. Lincoln wan of a iMjouliarly sympathe tic and kindly nature. These strong charac teristics influenced, very happily, as it proved, his entire political career. They would not seem, at first glance, to be efficient aids to political success; but in the peculiar emer gency which Lincoln, in the providence of God, was called to meet, no vessel of com mon clay could possibly have become the "chosen of the Lord." Those acquainted with him from boyhood knew that early griefs tinged his wholo life with sadness. His partner in the grocery business at Salem, wa# "Uncle" Billy Green, of Tallula, 111., who used at night, when the customers were few, to hold the grammar while Lincoln recited his lessons. It was to h s sympathetic ear Lincoln told the story of his love for sweet Ann Rutlidge; and he, in return, offered what comfort he could whpn poor Ann died, an 1 Lincoln's great heart nearly broke. "After Ann died," says "Uncle" Billy, "on stormy nights, when the wind blew the rain against the roof, Abe would set thar in the grocery, his ellxiws on his knees, his face in his hands, and the tears 'runuin' through his fingers. I hated to see him feel bad, an' I'd say, 'Abo don't cry;' and he'd look up an' say, 'I can't help itj Bill, the rain's a falliu' oil her.'" Thero tiro inony who can sympathize with this overpowering grief, as they think of a lost IOYJMI one, when "the rain's a fallin' on h«r." What adds poignancy to the grief sometimes is the thought thut the lost one might have Iteen saved. Fortunate, indeed, is William Johnson, of Corona, L. 1., a builder, who writes June 38, 1H90: "Lant February, ou returning from church one night, my daughter complained of having a pain in her ankle. Tho pain gradually extended until lier entire limb was swollen and very painful to the touch. Wo called a physician, who after careful exam ination, pronounced it disease of the kidneys of long standing. All we could do did not seem to benefit her until we tried Warner's Safe Cure; from tho first she commenced to improve. When she commenced taking it she could not turn over in bod, and could just movo her hands a little, but to-day she is as well as she ever was. I believe I owe the recovery of my daughter to its use." Animal Worship. Among primitive peoples all animals nre supposed to be endowed with souls, which in many cases have formerly ani mated human beings. Hence a likeness is often recognized between an animal and some deceased friend, and the animal is addressed as the person would have been, and honored with a kind of worship. Many tribes call themselves by the name of and even derive their pedi gree from some animal. Its cries be come the omens of the tribe, and thus originate the divination and augury of more civilized nations. Iu the modern world the most civilized people among whom animal worship vigorously survives lie within tho range of Brahininisin. Here the sacred cow is not merely to be spared; she is as a deity worshiped and bowed to daily by the pious Hindoo. Siva is incarnate in llanuman, the monkey god. The divine king of birds, Garuda, is Vishnu's vehicle, and the forms of fish and boar and tortoise assumed in the avatar legends of Vishuu. Perhaps no worship has prevailed more widely than that of the serpent. It had its place in Egypt and among the Hebrews; in Greece and Rome; among the Celts and Scandinavians in Europe; iu Persia and India; in China and Thibet; in Mexico and Peru, and in Africa, where it still flourishes as the state religion in Dahomey.— lirooklijn Qtizen. The number of lunatics tinder restraint in the district criminal and private luna tic asylums of Ireland on tho tirst day of this year amounted to 1G,159, being an increase of 474 over tho total recorded in the previous return. Is it economy to save a few cents buying a cheap soap or stiong washing powder, and lose tinllar* in ruined rotted clotlies? It not, use Dotibins's Klcctric Soap,white as snow, and ns puri . Ask your urocer tor it. 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