THE FARM AND GARDEN. WORN-OUT APPLE TREES. An orchard needs manuring as well as a cornfield, and the cause of the failure ol the fruit is no doubt the poverty of the soil. Small, gnarly fruit indicates starvation of the trees. The treos should be well pruned as soon as convenient and a few loads of manure spread over the orchard. It would be useful to plow the manure in and in the spring sow clover, which may be turned under with a dressing of lime next fall. —2ieu> York Timet. HARVESTING TIIE APPLE CROP. The gathering of fruit is at all times an operation requiring care and tender handling. In the case of apples, a squeeze, or drop, hard enough to pro duce a bruise, renders them unfit for keeping purposes, on which much of their value depends. There is an additional reason for careful hand ling the present season, owing to the scarcity or the crop and the high price of the fruit. In picking from the trees, baskets with smooth bottoms should be used, and the apples laid, not dropped :uto them. By a rough handling of the basket in the interior of a tree or care less movements of the ladder around its outside, a careless picker c.in easily cause more loss iti an hour than his wages for the entire day would be worth. The same man or the same ones, where more than one is required, should always re ceive the baskets and do the packing. Place the first two rows stem end down against the head to be taken out when the barrel is opened for sale or use. Uniformity in size should be observed as closely as possible. It is always best to make two qualities when barreling, and the present season, when even very in ferior apples will sell, the latter,if packed at all, should make a third class. Leaves and twigs ought to be carefully ex cluded and the apples should be pressed in, so there will be no shaking when moving the barrels around after these are filled and headed up.— Neu> York World. GETTING RID OF QUACK GRASS. Quack grass, or witch grass, is some- . thing not easily gotten r.d of. It may | well seem a waste of labor to plow and ■ cultivate this weed, for the more this is done intermittently the more it spreads. Every root will grow and make a new plant in the course of a few years after it has been nearly eradicated, being as bad as ever. Yet continuous culture during a single growing season will entirely de stroy it. The cultivation must be often enough so that not a single spear of the | grass reaches the surface. Where quack j grass has grown unmolested several years it is a good plan to plow the piece just j deep enough to throw to the surface the | network of main roots which are found exactly on the hard pan ieft by the keel ! of the plow in previous years. It is often possible in this way, by careful plowing, I to throw most of the main roots on the ! surface, where during the winter they will freeze and dry so that they can be raked up in winrows and burned. Con tinuous cultivation with some hoed crop will do the business in one season, though to make sure that none escapes it is bet ter to plant in hoed crops the second year. Great care is needed to prevent this plant spreading from one lot all over the farm. It spreads by its roots, which sometimes penetrate potatoes, niid are thus planted by careless farmers. Its seed usually ripen in August, though we have seen it ripened in July enough to grow. Quack fields should not, there- | fore, be sown with oats, as both ripeu at i the same time.— Courier-Journal. IT IS A MISTAKE. To try to save axle grease by letting the wagon go uuoiled. To save clover by keeping the hogs in | pens. To save blacksmith bills by letting the j plow go unsharpened. To use a plow that compels one to wait ! till the land is neither too wet nor too ! dry, too hard or too soft, before plowing ! in order to save the cost of a first-class j plow. To let the stock eat the pasture too close to save the labor of cutting up a few acres of corn fodder. To cut down the milk of the cows to save the cost of a ton of bran. To raise a small, cheap horse in order to save $5 or $lO in stallion fees. To keep a cow that produces only enough butter to pay for her feed to save the money that a profitable cow would cost. To make ten-cent butter in order to save the cost of good dairy utensils. To sell all the hogs because the prices are low. To put an ill-fitting harness on a horse expecting he will do as well with it as with a well-fitting one. To crowd the work horses to their ut most every day and drive them for pleas ure Sunday. To use cheap breeding stock when bet ter can be had. To keep an animal of any kind that costs more than it brings in. To shrink the milk of the cows $lO a month by letting a boy run them from the pasture in order to save $2 worth of a hired man's time. To keep hogs in filthy pens when there »re good pastures at hand where they will do better at less expense. To expect boys to enjoy farm life if they are made to work every day and all day without recreation and no means of enjoyment in reach.— Western Plowman. WHY BUTTEr. DOES NOT KEEP. J. T. Fowler, Wayne County, N. Y., iesires advice how to prevent butter from lading and losing its quality, but as we are not informed how the milk was set, the cream cared for, how long the cream remains unchurncd, etc., ourauswer can not be very definite. It cannot be the feed, as butter coloi is used; so the fading must be looked after elsewhere. It the butter is packed in small crocks, the glazing of the butter may have been imperfect aud the porous material of the crock absorbed the finer oils of the butter, and color along with it, and so bleach out a circle of butter next to the crock. That the butter get* "salvey" would indicate that the tem perature of the cellar was subjected to great extremes, hot cool, alterna ting. This would cause a chemical eliange togo on in the elements not butter, and the heat would tend to fuse or rather cause the butter to lose its globular form or granulation. By some "chance" the salt may be charged with too much lime, amAo act upon the butter as to cause it to lose color. From the fact that the butter is all right when made, and becomes unsalable only after being "made two and three months," raises the inquiry, why this butter was not sold as fast as made. In the long run, the butter maker who holds butter for two or three months for a rise, pays fifty per cent, interest on the ven ture. The market and the consumer do not want butter that is "old," or has been held for a rise. The butter that brings highest price is that freshest made. The good butter made yesterday always sells highest and is first inquired for. Holding butter only clogs the market when it does find its -way to the city, and its depressing influence injures all alike from maker to consumer* The most successful butter makers are those who sell their butter as fast as made, and try to make the bulk of their butter be tween October and June. Whatever the cause of the trouble may be, we would suggest that when the milk is put into the pans or cans to add to each four quarts of milk one quart of water at 125 degrees, and if possible set these cans in a tank of cold well water. Temper the cream evenly, and churn at the first sign of acidity. As soon as the cream breaks up into distinctive globules add two gallons of water and a half tea cup full of salt to the churn before trying to remove the buttermilk. This will give a perfect separation of buttermilk and butter. Wash twice more with clear water. Salt this wet butter with one and one-fourth ounces of salt to the pound and churn it in. Let it stand an hour nnd work over lightly, and pack into well-glazed crocks. Cover well with a cloth and a paste of wet salt; set in a cool, dark place where the temperature is as near stationary as possible, and sell this butter every week, and if the cows are well fed and have wheat shorts nnd a little corn-meal it is not likely that the butter will fade or get salvoy.— American Agriculturist. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Sawdust is an excellent litter for duck coops. The income from sheep Is always sure, at least. Now is the time to weed your flock, if you have not done it before. Overcrowding is a fertile cause of the breeder's worst enemy—roup. There is nothing better for your tur keys than curds squeezed dry and crum bled. Unless care is taken, hogs will begin to fail now, unless extra feed Is sup plied. Cool, sweet water is one of the most important factors in the health of the flock. In managing the teams it is best not to use unnecessary words in giving com mands. If you have not feed sufficient to keep the pigs growing, some of them should be sold. Do you believe the health of a horse largely depends upon tho cleanliness of his skin? A dairy school in every State would revolutionize the dairy and creamery business. Better throw the grain feed among straw or leaves and make the fowlsiscratch for their living. A small lump of pine tar in the drink ing water supplied to the fowls will b« found beneficial. In purchasing a horse, always reject one that is not a good walker. It is an important quality. The failure to make sheep pay can, to a considerable extent, be traced to failura to give proper care. Destroy old blackberry and raspberry canes as fast as they become useless, and thus destroy insects. Two full crops—one of weeds and one of grain or roots—cannot grow on the same soil at the same time. Set out groves of sugar maple as wind breaks. In a few years you will have both a windbreak and a sugar orchard. This is the month you will have to de termine what birds you will exhibit at the coming shows. Make your entries on time. In many cases it will pay to purchase and feed bran, shipstuff and oil meal to the growing pigs. It will be better and cheaper than corn. Sugar beets are counted worth ten dol lars per ton for feeding, and they are as easily grown as corn or potatoes. They will keep as well as mangolds. Blemishes, os well as diseases, are often transmitted to offspring, and for this reason it is very important to have the sire, at least, as perfect as possible. In these days the fascination of a "pure bred" is not strong enough to | loosen the purse strings of a business : man unless you show that great profit , may be had. Raising pl'ig horses for market rarely i pays. They cost as much to raise as the ; better class and sell for much less. Re member this this fall when engaging a ; horse for service. It is when prices are low and tho , margin of profits is small, that it is im portant to keep a close account with each class of stock in order to determine i which is the most profitable. The idea of diluting milk, set for I cream, with fifty to sixty per cent, of j water is fust gaining headway in tho ' practice of go ahead dairymen. Try it and see how it works in your case. WHAT CURES 1 Editorial Difference of Opinion on u Im portant Subject. What is the force that ousts disease: and which is the most convenient apparatus for applying it? How far is the regular physi cian useful to us because we believe in him, and how far are bis pills and powders and tonics only the material representatives of his personal influence on our health? 'the regular doctors cure; the homeopath ic doctors cure; the Hahnemannites cure; and so do the faith cures and the mind cures, and the so-called Christian scientists, and the four-dollar-and-a-half advertising itinerants,ami the patent medicine men.They all hit, and they all miss, and the great dif ference—one great difference —in the result is that when the regular doctors lose a pa tient no one grumbles, and when the irregu lar doctors lose one the community stands on end and howls.— Rochester Union and Advertiser. Nature cures, but nature can be aided, hin dered or defeated in the curative process. And the CommerciaV s contention is that it is the part of rational beings to seek and trust the advice of men of good character who have studied the human system and learned, as far as modern science lights the way, how far they can aid nature ami how they can best avoid obstructing her.—Buf falo Commercial. It is notour purposo to consider the evils that result from employing the unscrupul ous, the ignorant, charlatans and quacks to prescribe for the maladies that afflict the human family. We simply declare that the physician who knows something is better than the physician who knows nothing, or very little indeed about the structure and the con ditions of the human svstem. Of course "ho does not know it all.*'— Rochester Morning Herald. I have used Warner's Safe Cure and but for its timely use would liavo been, I verily believe, in my grave from what the doctors termed Bright's Disease.—D. F. Shriner, sen ior Editor Scioto Gazette , Chillicothe, Ohio, in a letter dated June 30. 1890. Prehistoric Cave Dwellers. A remarkable cave was discovered on Monday afternoon near Pilot Knob,about four miles from Galena, by a party oi Galena sportsmen while out hunting for ducks. Lights wero improvised and the euvc partially explored, the hunters tra versing a distance of a half mile or more according to their best judgment. Vault ed rooms lined from top to bottom; stalactite and other beautiful geological formations; a lake of solid ice; a beauti ful rivulet of crystal water and a room with sides and roof covered with glisten ing cubes of mineral and unmistakable evidences of a former occupancy by a pre historic race, were some of the sights which were revealed to the explorers. The party, who wiii continue their in vestigations at a future day, brought to Galena a number of fine specimens of stalactite and stalagmite cube minerals, broken pottery, etc.,as evidences of their discovery.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Artificial Diumonds. Diamonds cannot be attacked by any chemical substance whatever, being almost pure carbon. This fact has in duced many persons to try and crystalize carbon so as to obtain a precious gem out of it, and they have partly succeeded, but while these artificial diamonds possess a brilliancy and transparency worthy of comparison with those of the real thing they are microscopic, very small, and always colored. Perhaps they would re semble real diamonds more could they be made larger and quite colorless. As now manufactuied they are not of the slightest value to commerce. There can not be any serious doubts as to the pos sibility of producing diamonds artifici ally, but up to the present no really prac tical means have been found in making them respond to the necessities of trade in the two continents. — Chicago Jlcrald. IIOW'N This * We offer One Hundred Dollars reward tor any ca-e of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall'- Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHKNEY & Co., Props., Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F. .T. 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