BROADCASTING AND DRILLING SEED. A year ago an experiment was tried at the Rhode Island Agricultural Station comparing broadcast and drill seeding. The same was repeated this yoar, divid ing every plot, sowing the north half broadcast and the south half with an Empire grain drill, using the same amount of seed in each case. The broadcast oats came up first and gave a little better appearance all through the growing season, but the harvest showed an increase over the drilled oats of thirty seven pounds per acre.—New York World. KItEP CLOSE WATCH ON THE SnKEP. It is a proverb among shepherds, "Count your sheep every time you see them." This is the only safeguard against trouble, and when one is missing it should be hunted up without a minute's delay. When the weather is hot the sheep are subject to diarrhoea, which quickly becomes dysentery, aud this ii infectious and hardly curable. A sheep thus suffering is apt to be fly blown, and there is no more miserable sight than such a sheep. Any amount of trouble is repaid by an escape from such a calamity. Medicine alone will not stop an attack of diarrhoea; absti nence from food, until it can be digested by the restored stomach is as necessary as medicine, and no astringents should be used for this trouble. A mild laxative and mucilaginous food are the best remedies.—American Agriculturist. SKIM MILK FOR COLTS. In the production of horses I beli ,'ve one of the worst things to contend with is the nebulous ideas of the farmers. They breed a mare that is not good for anything else and to a sire that don't cost much. You get a horse that no one wants. When you get a horse that some one wants there is some one's good money to pay for it. The horse most in demand is one weighing about 1200 pounds, with showy action, trotter's lore shoulders, good strong limbs and crest to make a show before a carriage. lean produce, with the right kind of mares, three or four colts every year in connec tion with the dairy. Get a fall colt and feed him 011 the skim milk along with his mother's milk. In this section far mers generally produce a colt aud wean him as he is coming into the tnee of a northern winter. At the farm of Miller & Sibley they have used skim-milk in raising colts; and Mr. Sibley told me he considered it worth fifty cents per hun dredweight for that purpose. —Hoard's Dairyman. CHURNING BY MACHINERY. Where the churning of the cream is done by hand it entails a most arduou3 task upon some member of the farm household, and in many cases it falls to the lot of the housewife. During the summer, where from three to five cows are kept, there is half au hour of this heavy work every day. There is often a large dog watching the operation of churning that he may obtain his usual fill of buttermilk. A treadmill can be obtained for a few dollars, and the dog made to do the work, and you may watch the operation or devote your time to other household duties. With the improved, or even the common powers, a dog, weighing fifty pounds, can do the churning ot the cream from five cows, and not injure himself. Such work in hot weather should be done early in the morning while it is cool. The butter churned then will be firmer. If the dog is treated kindly, and petted, he will gladly do the work and be ready at the call, or appear as soon as preparation are observed for the operation. - Calves, sheep and goats are often used in tread mills, but the dog is the nwst cleanly and is best adapted to the work. Human life is too short to spend much of it manip ulating the churn dasher, especially when other power is so plentiful. An attachment can be placed 011 the wind mill, but calms interfere.—American Agriculturist. PROGRESS IN DEALING WITH FRUIT INSECTS Dr. C. V. Riley read at the late meet ing of the American Pomological Society an instructive paper 011 "Recent Ad~- vancesin Dealing with Insects aud Affect ing Fruits." In this he discusses the methods of combatting the plum cur culio, codling moth, red scale, fluted scale, and other injurious insects, giving the result of recent experiments on those insects. Contrary to the expressed opin ions of many horticulturists, Dr. Riley questions whether more injury is oone to-day to our fruits than was done fifty or one hundred years ago. In fact, it is patent that with the advance made of late years in our methods of warfare against those fruit insects, less injury re latively is done; but as the area of fruit culture increases, so does the aggregate of injury and also the number of species that we have to contend with. lie warned pomologists to be on their guard ageinst two foreign iuiects, likely soon to appear in this country—the peach coratitis, a sub-tropical insect, resem bling the apple maggot, which is ex tremely destructive to the peach crop of Bermuda, and likely to be troublesome if it once becomes established in Florida and Georgia, and the Japanese peach fruit worm, which is allied to our ood ling moth, and in some seasons damages ninety per cent, of the peach crop of Japan. He suggested that provision be made for the inspection, at ports of entry, of fruits and plants received from any part of tho world from which we know danger threatens.—Amerionu Farmer. TRAINING GRAPE VINES. A wire is better thau strip* or poles. The little tendrils seem to be able to grasp and hold to the wires better than to wooden poles or strips. Another item is of importance, and that is to have the wires stretched reasonably high. This admits more air and a better circu lation underneath, and in this way lessens the danger of rot or mildew, while at the same time it affords a better oppor tunity of working and cultivating around the vines. Generally two good vines will be sufficient, and the top wire can be five feet from the ground. Good Stout stakes will answer at each vine if good stout posts are set occasionally and they are well braced and then care is taken to stretch and fasten the wires tight. Care must be taken each year to prune severely. The greater part of the prun ing should be done in winter, when the weather is mild, and before the sap starts in the spring. Some pinching Lack can always be done during the cummer when needed. While the soil should be rich, it is easily possible to have it too rich, and the plants make too heavy a growth of wood at the expense of fruit. Potash fertilizers are especially valuable. Old vines, pieces of leather and wood ashes can nearly always be applied with bene fit. With a young vine care must be taken at lirst not to allow it to mature too much fruit. Nearly all young, thrifty vines will set more fruit than it should be allowed to mature. The remedy is to thin out some after tho fruit has set. A good sprinkling of air-slacked lime or copperas under the vine is a good pre ventive of mildew. Spraying in good season will often aid to prevent rot. During the early part of the season, and especially with young vines, thor ough cultivation should be given, keep ing tho soil in good tilth and clear of weeds and grass. The greater part of the work can, of course, be done with the horse cultivator, but some work will need to be done with the hoe, if clean cultivation is given around the vines. Care must be taken not to prune too much while the vine is growing. The plants breathe through the leaves, and if too many of these nre taken off while growing the plant will be injured.— Farm and Vineyard. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. When rye is fed to horses use a laxa tive with it. While oil cake is injurious to mares in foal corn is not. A poultice of fresh slacked lime and lard is said to be a sure cure for lumpy jaw. lvnee-sprung horses should be shod with a shoe the heel of which is thicker I thau the toes. I It is poor policy to turn the horses out I in the pasture at nights aud let them se cure their own food. | The rule of express companies in feed- I ing horses is ten pounds of hay aud four ! quarts of oats per meal. Prepare suitable sheds and a constant | supply of pure water, before you ar range togo very extensively into the j sheep business for tho winter. Labor-saving machinery is a drawback j instead of an aid to the farmer, unless 1 the labor thus released is turned again j iato other productive channels. A road tax may be burdensome, but I in fact it is not near so much so as the ; tax daily imposed aud paid by every j farmer who hauls produce to market over [ poor roads. When buying trees for your orchard this fall, be sure to learn how they have been propagated. if not grafted on whole roots of seedlings, have nothing to do with them. Exercise more care this season in cull ing out the ewes. Retain only the best for breeding purposes, uso the best sire you can obtain, and make the flock pay even better the coming year than you did this. The smaller industries of the farm often pay a better ratio of profit than the large ones. Giv3 attention to the fowls, the bees and the garden, and the aggregate profit from the three will be a snug little sum. In order to distribute manure evenly, so that all portions of the field will bo equally benefited, it must be made fine. It is not economy, although it may save a little labor to throw the manure out in lumps ami masses. The value of scientific work in the inter ests of agriculture should not be under valued, nor the honest effort of the un learned farmer. Hut practice, in com bination with science, furnishes the best means for the end desired. Those who have poultry to sell this year will be sure to get a good price for them, for there is none in store. And those who know how to raise the best poultry will get almost any price their consciences will allow them to ass. The best way to save tho valuable droppings of the hen house is to gather them up daily and cover them with dry earth or gypsum to prevent the escape ot ammonia. Wood ashes or lime should not be used, as they set the ammonia free. Before you turn the horses out for a lest in pasture, as you should do after harvest, take off his shoes. We know foine good farmers who even keep their plow horses unshod, saving money and keeping the feet in good condition at tho same time. Brown rot or gray rot of tho grape, also sometimes known as downy mildew, is due to a fungus which thrives in warm, wet weather. Spraying with Bordeaux mixture or ammonia carbonate is a sure cure. The vines should be sprayed every fifteen days from the first of July till the truit begins to turn blue. The author of "Common Sense in the Poultry Yard" says that he is satisfied from his own experience that less than an acre and a half for each hundred hens is not good economy. On less than an acre it is difficult to carry out the rotation of crops that is absolutely necessary, and the fowls do not acquire the vigorous health that is so desirable. It is useless for a beginner to try and experiment with hens. There is no business which is more injured by con stant changing, trying to find something better, and discarding the old before anything better is obtained than the poultry business. All breeds of fowls have some good points, and tho ideal one, satisfactory in everything, has not been discovered, and this is not the worst of it. There is very little chance of a fowl being discovered which will be an excellent layer aud reach a good weight for table use. Girls over twolve can make valid wills under the laws of Scotland, HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. ABOUT AIRING BEDS. In airing beda tbc moat thorough, care ful housekeeper often em through her very thoroughness. She will shake the sheets, blankets, etc., and hang them oat of the window and over chairs, hav ing them all ycposed as much as possible to the direct rays of the sun and in the strongest breeze, and this is just whnt should be done. Then the pillows will be taken up and shaken and thumped until they are fluffy and placed in the very sunniest spot, and this is all wrong. The sun will draw the oil from the feathers, and the pillows will have a rancid, disagreeable odor. Expose them to the air daily; be as thorough as you please in this, and place the pillow slips in the sun if you wish, but do not maka the mistake of giving pillows, bolsters, cushions or anything containing feathers a long sun bath, or you will do them more harm than good.—New York World. HOW TO POLISH A STOVE. " Women generally work twice as hard as necessary ove.- blacking a stove," said a lady whom we found one day en gaged in that unromantic occupation. She had on a pair of stout leather gloves and was applying the blacking with tho round part of an ordinary shoe-brush, which she said was lighter and therefore much more easily wielded than the us ual stove brush. The other side of the brush she used in polishing with light, even stokes like an expert bootblack. " I always keep soft paper bags from the groceries tuckcl in this box nailed up near the stove and every day I slip two or three over my gloved hand and give a rub ; tho consequence is tha' I only need apply polish once a week.' Another little thing worth remembering in regard to stove cleaning is to wipe the dust from the stove thoroughly be fore you apply any polish. There is always a right and a wrong way to do a thing and the wrong way doubles the task.—American Agriculturist. CAULIFLOWER IN VARIOUS WATS. No more delicious vegetable exists than the cauliflower, which has within the last dozen years become so cheap, though formerly considered a luxury. Cauli flower is now in market all the year round. In the spring months it is brought to New York from England, but the British vegetable does not have the flavor, after its sea voyage, of the cauliflower picked in the Long Island gardens under the hands of skilled cul tivators. There are many delicious ways of cooking this vegetable besides the fa miliar one of boiling it and serving it with cream sauce. An excellent way is "au gratin." To prepare a cauliflower this way, select a large, flue one. Tear off the leaves, pick the flowerets apart, cut off the roots, and wash it thorough ly in cold water. Then putin a sauce pan in abundance of cold water. Add a handful of salt and let the vegetable cook for thirty minutes after it begins to boil. When it is cooked, drain it, put it in a baking dish, and have ready a cream sauce, made by mixing a table spoonful of flour with two tablespoon fuls of butter, stirring in two cups of milk with salt and pepper. Let the creatn sauce cook ten minutes after makiug it. Add three tablespoonfuls of grated Par mesan cheese, and pour it at once over the cauliflower in the baking dish. Sprinkle over the cauliflower three more tablespoonfuls of Parmesan cheese, a tablespoonful of fresh bread crumbs and a few bits of butter. Let the cauliflower bake in a quick oven for about twenty five minutes, when it should be a rich brown all over.—New York Tribuue. BAKED AND POTTED PEARS. Among fall fruits the pear holds an important place, although its reputation has suffered somewhat from improper treatment when an attempt has been made to servo pears cooked, either as sauce or canned. The pear possesses some peculiar qual ities, and requires a different treatment from other fruits. It is the only fruit that is better for being removed from the tree when green and laid aside to ripen. It has no marked flavor of its own, and readily absorbs that of any spice or fruit. It requires to be cooked much longer than most fruits. When simply canned, its only recommendation to most persons is its looks; and the large, white, per fectly shaped halves do look nice, but are tasteless and insipid. Ripe juicy pears are delicious served with sugar and cream. The pears should be put on the ice until cold, peeled, sliced thin, sprinkled with sugar, and served immediately. Pears bake nicely and make a very rich dish. They require at least two hours to cook. Baked Pears, No. I.—Wash and wipe the pears, cut in halves, remove the core and all imperfections; putin a deep earthen baking dish, cover with water, and place in a hot oven. When soft, add sugar and brown. Baked Pears, No 2.—Select sound, perfect pears; place in a baking dish with a little water. Bake until thor oughly done. When cool, remove the skins, roll each pear in granulated sugar, and arruuge in a glass dish. Serve with whipped cream. A housekeeper whose dishes always prove acceptable and appetizing prepares what she calls potted pears in this way: Take nice ripo pears; do not peel but wipe carefully; cover the bittom of a stone jar with pears, stems upward, and sprinkle sugar over them, then Bet in another layer of pears, sprinkle over more sugar, and continue until the jar is full. Putin a pint and a half of water tp every gallon of fruit. Cover the jar close, and set in a slow oven two hours. Housekeepers remote from markets, who are obliged to buy their supplies of fruit canned, will find the pear 3 much improved if treated in this way; Re move the fruit from the can, aud if the pears are soft enough for a broom straw to pass easily through them, drain off the juice and set the pears aside. Put the juice in a porcelain kettle with half a pint of sugar and a pint of water. Tie half a teaspoonful of ground cloves in a piece of thin muslin, and throw into the syrup, which should be boiled until it looks thick and rich. Then putin the pears, and cook ten minutes. Carefully remove each piece of i>ear with a wooden or silver spoon to a giass or earthern jar, pour the syrup over them, and cover tightly until cold. The bag of cloves should be removed before the pears are putin the syrup.—Harper's Bazar. The Eton jacket still continues popu lar. "Serpent" green is to be one of the favorite colors. Never were the silks more beautiful than they are this year. Laced walking boots of the Blucher pattern will be worn a great deal. Narrow ties are worn with bonnets, but hats are minus either strings or streamers. Onyx bracelets faceted in squares and rimmed with gold is an old mourning fashion re-established. All traces of mud spots should bo removed from black goods by rubbing with a raw potato cut in half. London tailors declaro that the street sweeping skirt train will disappear with the opening of the winter season. Russian colors promise to be the pop ular tints for early autumn, and they are emeralds, a dull blue, a deep red, and black. Laces not in wear should be rioEsd in clear water to take out the starch, dried in the sun, and wrapped in dark blue paper. Denmark ladie3 are great lovers of the bicycle, and clubs for riding the wheel are found in many of the larger towns. None of the novelties in silver com mend themselves more than the tooth brush stands. They are both simple and pretty. Spots of grease in silk generally disappear if covered with magnesia or gently rubbed with water and tho white of an egg. Miss Alice Berry, daughter of Mayor Berry, of Newport, Ky., is an amateur architect, and has done much good work in that line. Miss Carrie F. Cochrane, the daughter of Colonel W. 11. D. Cochrane, of Nashua, N. H., was lately appointed Notary Public. A new pattern of bell skirt is made of a single piece, and buttoned on the side, or allowed to remain open over a panel of some other material. The round skirt for street wear comes near the ground, but does not touch, and the portion where the foot presents itself is slightly shortened. Fine squares of linen, wrought in the dantiest fashion, and edged with rare frills of lace, are preferred to the elabor ate 112 oint and duchess kerchief. Mrs. Caroline C. Ilodgin has taken her degree in the theological department of Earlhatn College, Ind. She will preach in the Friends' Church. A novelty very pretty for the dinner table is a silver slipper with a high heel and rosette, chased to imitate brocade. This is filled with small ferns as a jardiniere. The gauntlet glove is haviug a great run with the bl.-.zsr, jacket aud coat suits of all sorts, and for wear in the mornings, for driving and traveling, thu gauntlet is the favorite. Mantles and capes, excepting for pur poses of utility, have disappeared, and nothing whatever is worn to hide the glories of the toilet, which for the most part inheres in the bodice. A novelty in jewelry recently brought from London is the bib necklace. The bib, which forms a point on the centre of the neck, is composed of sapphire and pearls interthreaded in a sort of lattice work. White gowns of all kinds keep their color best by being tied up in bags of blue paper inside bags of Holland. The gauza or chiifon trimming should be removed and kept separately in tissue P per. Mrs. Mackay has again been surprising London with her display of diamonds, and one critic said that she showed more really line stones at one time than could be seen in all the shop windows on Regent street. Miss Mattie Walker is Assessor of Mackford, Green Lake County, Wis. The town has many residents of large wealth, which makes the choice of a woman for this responsible office the more remarkable. Lace of all kinds is used on every co>- tume till one cries for respite. In the coming season it will be replaced by very rich passementerie and embroidery. Narrow fringes will bo among the new dress trimmings. Mary Sheldon Barnes has been made Assistant Professor of Modern History in the Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal. Her husband, Professor Earl Barnes, holds the chair of Education in the same institution. An Indiana girl started out in a house dress and without a head covering, to visit a near neighbor, met her sweet heart on the way and was induced to board an approaching train, and was married at the next station. White or light brocades may be cleaned with tine bread crumbs, and plain white silks may be cleansed by shaking them about in a lather of white •oap, rinsing in luke-warm water and stretching over lines to dry rapidly. Mile. Jeanne Chauvin has presented herself before the Faculty of the Univer sity of Paris as a candidate for the de gree of doctor of laws. Her thesis will treat of the professions open to women and of the historic evolution of the woman in society. Patti, 07er her own signature, has at last announced her farewell engagement for the United States. She will appear in New York in Noveml>er, 1893. One clause of her contract reads: "Marcus Mayer has the right to announce this as positively a farewell tour under Madame Patti's signatuie,'' and so on. Utica, N. Y., is a great place for wo men who earn their own living. There are 11,022 women, or one-fourth of the population of the city, who do other than housework. The manufacture of men's clothing employs 6975 women, and 200 more make Scotch cap#. Fifty women make neckties, 337 in shoe manufacture, and 1696 work in cotton and woolen factories. Then there are clerks, stenographers, bookkeepers, saleswomen, teachers, nurses, storekeep- : era, etc. Once Was Enough for the Xoikrji. "I < nco went up the Amazon and Ori noco rivers on an animal-capturing ex pedition for the lata P. T. Barnum," ■aid Dick Cowper, an old showman. "I got quite a collection of snakes, birds and monkeys. I hit on a novel plan for the capture of the latter and it worked like a charm. "A monkey is a greater imitator than a Chinaman. lie will do anything he sees done, and that is what gets so manv of his kind into the cage. I rigged up an electric battery and attached to it an apparatus that would allow a score of the simiacs to get hold of it. I then took a party of natives and went into the forest where there were troops of monkeys. We put the apparatus down, attached the wire, and removed the battery to a con siderable distance. The natives then took hold of thb apparatus, danced and yelled, then retired. The monkeys made a dash for it. Half a dozen caught hold, and I turned on the current. They began to shriek and squirm, but the others thought their peiformance a part of the programme, and fairly fell over each other to get hoid of the machine. I could have stuck the whole troop in they could have got hold. We then made 112 descent on them with sacks, and soon had a score of them corralled. "But it would only woik once. We tried it a month afterward at a point fifty miles distant, but not a monkey came off his perch in the trees. They viewed the proceedings with curiosity, but without any desire to imitate our war dance around the machine. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The ''Seven" in Neck Vertebra. In a recent study of the anatomical structure of the neck, writes the author of "Curious Notes," I was struck with the remarkable fact that men aud animals alike are almost invariably provided with seven neck vertebrte or segments. Man thus possesses this number in common with the giraffe, whose extraordinary elongation of neck is produced, not by the introduction of other vertebue, but by the greater length cf the normal uum btr—seven. The only exceptions to this rule of seven are found in two species of sloth, one of which has six and the other nine vertebrte, and iu theSirenia or "sea cow," a species of whale, which is also provided with a six-segmented elonga tion or extension of the spinal column. In view of the fact that the seven in vudes eveiy department of life, is it any wotder that the Orientals have founded a regular syjtem of philosophy based upon that mystic number.—St. Louis Republic. Four Kniirontla Overlook**en not c vomit nor does it stupify the brain, a* nine out of ten cougk compounds do. Oh, yes! I)r. Hoxsie's Cert ait Croup Cure is a ble-nmg to every household Sold by prominent druggi-ts. oOc. Addresi A. P. Hoxsle. Buffalo. N. V. There are 3,600 000 men iu standing armies. ASYONK would IK' justified in recommendim tfeecham's IMILs for all affections of the live and other vital organs. Our Baby Was a beauty,fair,plum| and healthy. 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