Try Ornln-O! Try firain-O! Ask your grooer to-(iay to show you n package of GBAIN'-O, the new food drink tliat takes the place of coffee. Children may drink It without Injury as well as the adult. All who try It like It. GRAIJJ-0 has thnt rich seal brown of Mooha or Java, but Is made from pure grulus: the most delicate stomaoh receives It without distre<_. the price of coffee. 15c. and 25c. per package. Hold by all grocers. The Japanese government In the Island of Formosa has a monopoly of the camphor trade. STATE OK OHIO, CITV OF TOLEDO, I LUCAS COUNTY. I FRANK J. CHKNF.Y makes oath that he is the •enior partner of the firm of F. J. CHKNKY * DO..doing businessintheCity of Toledo, County ind State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDIIED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARRH that cannot be #ured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my < —' — I presence, this 6th day of December. ■( SEAL V A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEABON. ( —, — I Nnlmy Ptiblif. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. .T. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists "sc. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Germany manufactures seventy percent, of the world's production of coal tar col ors. I*o Cure, No Pay, Is the way Flndley's Eye Salve Is sold. Chronic and granulated lids cured in 30 days; common sore eyes in 3 days, or money back for the asking. Sold by all druggists, or by mall, 25j. box. J. P. HATTER, Decatur, Texas. Ten denominations have established and maintain missions in Alaska. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. J2 trial bottle and treatise 112 roe DR. K. H. KLINE. Ltd.,9i)l Arch St.,Phila.,Pa. Outdoor musical performances are not permitted In St. Petersburg. For Whooping Cough, Piso's Cure is a suc ;essful remedy.—M.P. DIETER, O7Throop Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 4. 18'J4. New York City has twelve times as many 3hur"hes> as Berlin. 44 The Best is Cheapest We learn this from experience in every department of life. Good clothes are most serviceable and viear the longest. Good food gives the best nutriment. Good medicine, Hood's Sarsaparilla, is the best and cheapest, because it cures, absolutely others fail. Singular Successive Drowning*. A Bath man, noticing (hat a paper would be read before the Historical Society giving an account of the loss of the ship Hanover at the mouth of the Kennebec River November 9, 1849, recalls the strange case of what might almost be called hereditary drowning. Charles Weld was a seaman on board the Hanover, and was drowned when she was wrecked. His father was drowned by the loss of a steamer bound from New York to Charleston, 3. C., and hi 3 grandfather, the Hon. Benjamin Weld, once Secretary of Legation to France during the Ad ministration of President John Adams, when very aged, fell from a factory Into the Androscoggin Kiver and was drowned. They were all residents of Brunswick, Me.—• Lewistou (Me.) Journal. * The young Maori men who have been to college apparently become as white men in all their ways, but after i couple of years at home drift back nto their gypsy customs. Mrs. Pinkham's Medicine Made a New Woman of Mrs. Kuhn. [LETTER TO MRS. EINKHAM NO. 64,493] " DEAR MRS. PINKHAM—I think it is my duty to write to you expressing t»y sincere gratitude for the wonder ful relief I have experienced by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. I tried different doctors, also different kinds of medicine. I would leel better at times, then would be as bad as ever. " For eight years I was a great suf ferer. I had falling of the womb and was in such misery at my monthly periods I could not work but a little before I would have to lie down. Your medicine has made a new woman of me. I can now work all day and not get tired. I thank you for what you have done for me. I shall always praise your medicine to all suffering women." — MRS. E. E. KUHN, ÜBRMAKO, OHIO. " 1 have taken eight bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and used two packages of your Sana tive Wash, also some of the Liver Pills, and I can say that your remedies will do all that you claim for them. Before taking your remedies *1 was very bad with womb trouble, was nervous, had no ambition, could not sleep, and my food seemed to do me no good. Now I am well, and your medicine has cured me. I will gladly recommend your med icine to every one wherever I go."— MRS. M. L. SHEARS, GUN MARSH, MICH. Tbe first flve persons proourlng tbe Endless Chain Starch Book from tbelr grocer will each obtain one largo 10c package of "Red Cross" Starch, one large 10c package of "llubinger's Best" Starch, two Shakespeare panels, printed In twelve beautiful colors, as natural as life, or one Twentieth Century Qlrl Calendar, the finest of its kind ever printed, all absolutely free. All others -procuring the Endless Chain starch Book, will obtain from their grocer the above goods for sc. '-Bed Cross" t.aundrv Starch Is something entirely new, and is without doubt the great est invention of the Twentieth Century. It has no equal, and surpasses all others. It has won for itself praise from all parts of the United States. It has superseded every- j thing heretofore used or known to science in the laundry art. It is made from wheat, rice and corn, and chemlsally prepared upon scientific principles by J. C. Hub!tiger, Keokuk, lowa, an expert in the laundry profession, who has had twenty-flve years' { practical experience In fancy laundering, and who was the first successful and original iuventor of all line grades of itarch in the United States. Ask your grocers for thi» Starch nnd o'jtnin these beautiful Christmas presents fres How to Get Through the Winter j Without a fold. "This idea that many people have, | that winter is an unhealthful season, is all wrong. Winter is just as healthful as summer, if people will take care of themselves. If you want togo through the winter without a cold, observe these few simple rules: "Don't overheat your house, and don't stop all ventilation. Sleep in a cool room, but keep warmly covered. Always take off your outdoor wraps when you come in the house, and al ways put them on when you go out. And, lastly, just as long as there is snow on the ground, don't go with out your rubbers. This last rule is the most important of all. for two colds out of three come from wet feet."—The Independent. Why Men Are Bald. Men grow bald,women do not. Why not? Because women do not patron ize barber shops where there is no such article as an individual comb and brush. It is the joint stock business in comb and brush that scalps a man before his time. The communism of participation leads to universal depi lation. Why does a man's hair fall out be fore his whiskers? Because it is at least twenty years older.—New York Press. I.lku Finding money. The use of the Endless Chain Starch Book In the purchase of "Bed Cross" and ''Hubiuger's Best" starch, makes it just like finding money. Why, for only 5c you are enabled to get one large 10c package of "Bed Cross" starch, one large 10c pack age of "Hubiuger's Best" starch, with the premiums, two Shakespeare panels, print ed in twelve beuutiful colors, or one Twen tieth Century Oirl Calendar, embossed in gold. Ask your grocer for this starch and | obtain the beautiful Christmas presents free Instinct of Animals Their Salvation. The instinst of animals sometimes leads them out of the depths of caves from which a man not knowing the route would hardly escape alive. An j illustration of this fact is the story Dr. I Hovey tells of a frisky young puppy j that knew no fear and would boldlj ■ follow the explorer to the remotest i bounds. One day the dog lost him- i self in a gallery he undertook to ex- ; plore on his own account. A lamp was set for him at Echo River, and the party returned to the hotel. The next , morning the dog was found sitting by the lamp patiently waiting for aid. No j sooner, however, had he been carried \ over the river than he ran away again, ! aud was missing for two days, and , then appeared on top of earth once ' more. In the darkness of perpetual midnight he had floundered through \ mud banks, swam rivers and threaded intricate passages. He was guided \ by his mysterious gift of orientation j to the exit miles away from the place 1 in the bowels of the earth whence he ; started. The scent that took him to '• the only outlet is probably similar to : that which pilots homing pigeons on their voyages through the air. Kruger'n Mi*ain£ Thumb. An amusing Kruger story is going the rouuds. The president is minus . the tlimnb of his left hand. In his ! youth it was badly wounded, aud , rather than nurse the troublesome ; member he laid the thumb on a block aud chopped it off, a heroic cure! j Some time ago, in discussing the pres- ; ent situation, and wishing to illustrate how he would do Sir Alfred Milner, j as he had his predecessors, he began with the little linger of his left hand: ! ''l was too much for Sir George Gray." , Then, annotating with his third finger: j "I was too much for Sir Howard Berk- : eley." Passing to the middle linger: j "I was too much for Sir Bartle Frere." j Next with the index (inger: "I was too much for Sir Hercules Robinson, and j I shall be too much for Sir—alle i maagte!" he exclaimed, for he had como to tho place of the missing thumb. This incideut, which is a true one, is said to have impressed and de pressed him not a little, as he is very superstitious. Kind of StovM lie Wanted. A gentleman from one of the town ships north of Somerset came to town one day last weok to buy a stove. At one of the stores he found what he wanted. It was stauding on a low truck on which sample stoves are moved about the store. The man bought the stove and ordered it shipped to his home. On Monday the stovedealer received a letter from the customer in which the latter said: "The stove yousold me was oq wheels; the one I received is not; I will ship it back." The buyer probably had heard of and wanted a stove like that invented by the man who had to "get up and make the fire"—one that with a rope could be drawn np to the bed and be lighted.—Somerset (Penn.) Standard. Leavenworth, Kan., claims the dis tinction of being the first American city iu the shipment of apples. j MY LITTLE SWEETHEART, My little sweetheart of lonif ago! I see her oye9 and her wlnd-tosfted hair, And the long, louk way that we used togo On foot to school when the day was lair, The momim; sun on our faces shone. And the world before us was all our own. We crossed the bridge at the end o 112 the town. Beyond the hedges the meadow lay; We could look across where the sky came down To the ends of the earth, and far away— And we thought, for the distance seemed so fair, That surely the gate of Heaven was there! We passed through the quiet woodland doll, Where the great trees met In an arching screen, And the glittering', waving sunbenms fell, Like golden harrows,the boughs between. Lighting the moss where the win d-flowers shook. And the violet slej t In her velvet nook. Always new was tlJat morning walk; 80 much to think, and so much to say. How full of wisdom our grave, sweet talk. What treasures we found along the way! Mid all the wealth in the haunts of men, Nothing so rare have we found since then! A tiny nest, where the eggs w>»rß ftve— An empty nosi, by the pathway's edge; The myriad nreatures that toll and thrive In mossy crevice nnd nook and ledge Ant, and spider, and wood-mouse shy, Butterfly, moth, and dragon-fly! My little sweetheart of long ago! Though school was ended, and life's sa 1 page Has taught us more than we care to know, Have we wiser grown? Are we qulto as sage As wo were in that far, sweot dreamland, where We walked to school when the days wero lair? —Youth's Companion. I4AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA4A4AA4 • w wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I CUPID ... I % -IN A- | 11 . . CYCLONE. I Vlasta looked wistfully out of her I small-paued window, deep-set in the ! heavy sod wall, aud sighed. The piles of unwashed dinner dishes over wuich she was at work hardly ac counted for that sigh aud tho view without was pleasant, rather than | otherwise. It was a Sunday nfternoon in the ; late Juue, hot and unusually still for that windy country, but the rolling stretches of prairie grass and the ! green fields of young wheat and corn I still held the freshness of early ; spring. But the cloud "no larger than a i man's hand, "is always preseut in some form or other. One was at that moment rising lazily on the western horizon, over ! the low, green hills, just a faint sum -1 iner cloud, unseen by the girl, whose | eyes were fixed on a nearer and, to i her, uimli more attractive object, i This, as is apt to be tho case wheu | maidens sigh, was a young mail, who, ; on the other side of a barbed-wire fence, some little distance away, was busily engaged in washing his buggy, which was rolled in front of his own ; little sod house. He was of middle size, dark-haired nnd featured, like herself, and clad in ' the careless costume of overalls and ! jacket of blue denim, and dingy from | exposure to sun and weather, aud the | battered sombrero of light felt, which i were usual iu his everyday occupation of fanning. As any one familiar with that part I of the country could tell at a glance, j they were young Bohemians, members of that great army of hardy settlers ; who have made homes for themselves I in tho previously untitled west. But hearts will be hearts in every ' place and Juliet may pine for her j Komeo in ancient castle no more than | in humble sod house, as did this com ' mouplaee little heroine, with her plain but kindly face. Now,by custom immemorial Sunday is the rural holiday everywhere and it is especially so among our foreign born citizens, who on that day sally forth, clad in their best, ready for visiting aud merry-making and seeing no incongruity between church anil mass in the morning and a dance in the afteruoon and evening. So, considering this, it seemed that the young settler, Albrecht Hollub, should be on pleasure bent, and tho signs indicated to that so he wus, or soon should be. Herein lay the sting which changed for her the sunshine of that glorious June day to gloom. For Albrecht was"going riding" iu his new buggy—going without her, and, no doubt, with some other girl when it really was her place on that seat beside him. And had she uot proudly occupied it until that unlucky uight not yet two weeks ago, but seeming half a lifetime, as a girl's short lifetime goes? Such a little thing, too, us is gener ally the case, to have caused all this trouble. She was not sure how Albrecht felt. Perhaps he was glad to get rid of her—here two great tears dropped into the dishpau at the thought. Just a dauce at a vouug friend's wedding—it being their cus tom for a bridal party togo to 11 justice or country judge to have the cere .11011 y performed, and then to return to the bride's home for a grand ce'ebration, which usually lasted all night. Then a foolish quarrel, when Albrecht, heated up by excitement aud beer, had insisted that she danced too often with the bride's elder brother. She had refused to listen to him,of course, with the result that he hal walked out into the darkness and had never seeu her since. Perhaps she had sought covertly, and, no doubt, awkwardly, to find an opportunity of making amends, but he had ignored or avoided her, though j they lived on adjacent claims; hence, ' for her, at least, bitter days and nights. She felt vaguely, in her sim ple fashion, the hardness of the ' woman's code which bids her "wait and weep" in silence, a rule that has | broken raauy besides country hearts like hers. Aud all this time the clond in the west was rising. It looked much like a puff of black smoke now, and there were others, not so dark, climbing up beside it The dishes were finished and put away in the kitchen "safe," or cup board, and the girl sat down by hot window—she was very fond of that window in those days —and gazid ab sently out. The landscape was loft desolate to her, for Albre ht had dis appeared, probably to attire himself for his outing. Her father nodded in the shady doorway over his long, curved pipe. In the inner room her mother dis coursed volubly to her second daugh ter in her native tongue, which is never forgotten by the "old people,' at least The shouts of the numerous younger children came from without, whore they romped among the farm wagons and machiuery,and the horses and cattle grazed contentedly on the fenced-in prairie that formed the pas ture. It was all homely,but pea eful, and presently the girl's eyes, heavj with unaccustomed vigils, closed. She did not see the cloud rapidly swelling and taking on the ominous shape dreaded by the prairie dwellers, the so-called funnel form, which in this case was a much flattened one. It seemed but a few minutes later wheu Vlasta roused abruptly in (lazed bewilderment. A distant shout, one of alarm and warning, seemed echo ing in her ear. How dark it had grown. Aud there were Albrecht and his little old mother, who kept bis house,stand ing before their door, exclaiming and gesticulating wildly. At the same mo ment there came a rush of furious wind, bringing the sound of a low, menacing roar, while the mass of dusky green cloud seemed to quit tho horizon and sturt swiftly on an earth ward path. Vlasta guessed instantly the peril 1 that threatened, aud sprang up with a terrified cry. "My father, mother, quick! The j cyclone! The cyclone!" Then followed wild c mfusion, screaming children running to their j parents, frantic exclamations, bustle j aud hurry. Whither should t hey flv for refugs | in that hour of terr or? It was the good mother that solved the problem j wiili prompt presence of mind. "Tlie henhouse, children! Lot 11s . run to the henhouse! ' she cried, and j she crowded her stout self and her best feather bed, brought from the fatherland, valiantly through the nar row doorway,followed by her husband ; carrying his pipe and armchair, and ; by the others with whatever they ; chanced to catch up,all racing through | the thick whirling dust to tho desig- j nated place of refuge. | In fact, it was tho most suitable 0110 within their reach, being really a low "dug-out" in the side of a small hill, the front or oj en side facing south ! and filled iu with a sod wall, contain- j ing only a small, rough door and a tiuy window, whose four small panes wero thickly coated with dust. In they rushed pell moll, causing ' wild discomfort to the usual occupants of this abode, which flew flutteriug ! and cackling wildly from their rude j nests aud perches. The father was in the act of closing the door after the last one was in, whou it was pushed ; violently open from without, nnd : Albre-lit anil his mother,lacking such 1 a shelter of their own, Hung them- ' selves among thani. Then the door, like that of the ark, j was shut and bra ed by the father's stout shoulder. And none to soon,for | the air was thick with flying del ris. There wore twelve of them—more souls ttiau the ark carried, and crowd- ! ed into a much smaller space, but that ! mattered littlo at such a time. The fowl screamed, the children wailed,the big mother and littlo mother : rocked and prayed in each other's j arms, and tho father bemoa"ed his farm a d stok; but as for Vlasta, the I cyclone had given her what the fates had otherwise denied, and the uproar j and danger were all dominated by the joy that Albrecht was ngaiu beside her, so c'ose thaW she could almost feel his deep, hurried breathing. It was 1 ut a moment,and theu.with a deafening roar, a rush of darkness, a choking breath of sulphur, the s orm centra was upon then. Vlasta remembered not how it hap . pened, but when she was able to real ize anything her arms were around Albrecht's neck and he was holding her to him aud murmuring words of eudearment, which she felt rather than heard. "My love, my little one"—though she was as tall as he— "do not fear. I will keep thee safe j I, thine own beloved." Vlasta's pet white pullet fluttered on their shoulders like the wliite wingod dove of peace. The storm wont swiftly on its resistless way, leaving desolation behind, i Their houses were in ruins; their little possessions torn to pieces or scattered far and wide, even a large part of the growing crops rooted up or ground into the soil. But their lives were spared, and 1 they are liardv and courageous. Sod houses can soon rise again, and other crops grow green on sunlit plains.and before loug in the new home there will be "sounds of revelry by night" aud another merry wedding dauce. Tainoni Landmark Sold. ' The old Henry house, one of the famous revolutionary mansions of I Germantown,standing at Qerinantowu avenue and Fisher's lane, has beeu sold. The house was erected in 1735 by John Gottfried Waschsmud, and w.'.s sold to John Snowden Henry. Di rectly opposite on ground formerly belonging to the Henry homestead is the Hood cemetery, where wore laid the bodies of General Agnew and Colonel Bird, both of whom died from wounds received at the battle of Ger mantown. —Philadelphia Record. I FOR FARM AND GARDEN. Soil Texture Important. The most important business of the tartn is to control the Roil texture. If this is looked after carefully the sup ply of water can be regulated. This texture is modified by the addition of liuie, applying barnyard manure, growing clover and the like. Of course every farmer must work ac cording to a system adapted to his particular soil. Lim« Liberate* rolmh. It is quite probable that in the ex periment spoken of above, no small part of the good effects of the lime was due to its liberating the potash which was locked up iu an insoluble form. This seems evident in part from the fact that the form of phos phoric acid, the basic slag, which was used when lime showed the poorest results, was that which itself con tained the most lime. Lime produced better results wben usod with dis solved phosphate rock than it did with auy form of bone, raw or dis solved. The rock after treatment has less lime than the bone. lleef Cnltlp. The wide range of prices at every market on what are called good to choice beef cattle, which often show the choice to range from .$ I to $2 a hundredweight above those that are simply classed as good, indicates that there are many farmers yet who feed poor grades of cattle, or fail to prop erly fit them for market before they send them out. We do not refer to the low grades of bulls or old cows,or to the stockers and feeders, but to those supposed to bo beef cattle. Theie is no sufficient reason for this astheie are enough of pure bred males of the beef breeds to give an admixture of beef blood to all the stock in tho West,or so it would feein to read of the numbers imported or bred there, and there is no lack of com to feed them on. Tin* Muting: of Qupens, Probably the moat uncertain feature abdut queen rearing is to get them mated aud safely back to their respec tive hives, says a writer in the New England Homestead. I Generally ex pect 23 per cent, of the younsf queens will get lost. When a queen is from six to ten days old she goes on her wedding flight, and after meetiug a drone, returns to her hive. If she is successful iu finding it there is re joiciug among the bees, but should she enter another hive she is immedi ately killed. It is, therefore, well for the apiarist to help in some ways > the queen may mark her location. Where the hives are far apart or where there are trees or other ob ects iu the apiary there is uot so much risk, but where the hives are all the same kind and in straight rows and an o 1 nal distau' e apart, it is more puzzling for the young queens to liul their respective hives. The ap'arist can help by put ting boards or an old coat ou some of tho hives, or by painting them differ ent colors. I have just had some forty queens mated with a loss of only four. My hives are painted various colors, anil are placed alternately iu the rows. Protection From Lightning. Barns are frequently struck by lightning soon after the new crop lias boeti putin, and large barns,in which a large quantity of new hay lias been stored within a short time, are most liable to be struck, especially when there is a ventilator upon the top of the barn. It is said that the heating of the hay causes a column of warm air to arise, which acts as a conductor for the electric current as naturally as would a column of water, if one could be forced up to tho same height. It is, theu, a good idea to ventilate such barns by windows in the gables, bo that the heated air will be spread abroad by the wind instead of goiug directly upward. Tho ventilators on the top of the barn should be so ar ranged that tlioy can bo closed, and they should be kept closed during the time wheu-tho new hay is throwing off this heat. It throws off much more siuce farmers have begun to cut then grass early, and to put it iu a little green iu the heat of the day, than it did when it was usual for much of it to get over-ripe, over cured, and it was not hauled in until after dark. The machinery of the present day al lows much more togo in in a day than did in the days of the hand scythe aud hand rakes. Keeping Osibbige* an I Turnip*. Burying cabbages aucl turnips in the ground for winter keeping seems to be the simplest plan yet devised, and if the work is done properly a very small percentage will be lost. There is always the question of un certain winters to consider, and this makes the work sometimes more dif ficult. In fact, if we could gauge be forehand the kiud of winter we were to have there would be no trouble in deciding what to do. A cold, dry winter would bo welcomed by farmers who make a specialty of these crops, for tho turnips and cabbages would keep all right piled up aud covered with a little dirt. It is the alternato freezing and thawing, the rain aud the snow, that provoke trouble. Cab bages not buried deep iu tho grouud would soon rot iu a warm, wet sea son. The best way is the surest way, and as is generally the case the most la borious. Select some high and dry ground where the drainage is good, oither naturally or through artificial cultivation, and dig a deep aud broad trencb. The Bizo of this trench must depend upon the quantity of vegeta bles! BO be stored i:I it. Lay the cab bages in this t.ren h, side by side, and pa. king snugly in two layers, one on top of the other. Shovel the dirt over them carefully, letting it filter in the spaces between the heads and stalks. Pack the dirt firmly until all parts of the cabbages a' e concealed from view. Then on top of this put four or five inches of dirt which will plai e the vegetables almost below tho front line, certainly below the line where the thaw extends. A good hard freeze will do tho vegetables packed away good, and if they do not thaw out until dug np for use, they will keep well all winter. During the ex ceedingly cold weather, stalks or lit ter shouid bo placed on top of the trench and removed when warm weather comes again. By using a top mulch in this way, one can regulate the temperature of the vegetables very well. When dug up in tho spring, the cabbages will be in excellent con dition, and they will sell for good prices. When spring opens the ground should be shaded over the trench, and a top mulch put on top to keep the frost in the ground. In this way the vegetables can be kept very late. But as soon as the grouud be gins to thaw the cabbages should be dug up and sent to market. Decay will set in very soon af er they have thawed out, and it is useless to at tempt to keep theiu much longer thou. In digging up the cabbages in the middle of winter care should bo exer cised to disturb the others as little as possible.—\V. E. Farmer in American Cultivator. lull Weight Wheal. Shriveled wheat will not "weigh up" and is useless as seed, and also of slow sale even at cut rate prices. Such wheat is immature, and tells a story of bad farming methods. Immature wheat is rarely due to any form of disease, unless starvation may be called a disease, for it is caused by plain, simple starvation. Farmers must not expect to grow good wheat on impoverished soil. It is certainly true that over-lining will cause sliri . eled wheat, but it does so because the effect of lime is to quickly make available the fertilizer ingre dients existing naturally iu the soil, particularly potash. Now, it happens that potash is a most important factor in making plump full-weight grain. It must be clearly underst od, though, that pot ash alone will not make good wheat; it must always be accompanied by tho proper amounts of nitrogen and phos phoric acid. Over-liming with the use of clover and 1 one products is a common practice with even good far mers, but it results in making a poor grain soil. Hie clover and bone products sup ply nitrogen and phosphoric acid only and the lime draws heavily on the soil for potash. Iu a few years, of course, theie weuld no longer be any available soil potash to draw from,and the crops would suffer iu two ways: the nitrogen would make a rank g.owtli of straw, while the phosphor ic acid in the absonce of potash, will cause early maturity. The heads are light and the grain cells loosely packed and few iu number. In well fertil ized wheat the gr.au cells are packed closely together, and the grains block out both ends squarely. The use of fertilizers not well bal anced, in a measure, cause the saino result. Most fertilizers are usually rich iu ph jsphoric acid, and nitrogen, but low in potash. Now, taking iuto consideration the fact that tho whole wheat plant, grain, straw and chaff', contains more potash than phosphoric n< id, the results of feeding year after year more phosphoric acid than pot ash becomes evident. The soil be comes comparatively rich in phosphor ic acid, which forces an early maturity and consequently more or less shriv eled grain. The notion is precisely the same as with over liming. At first with an excess of nitrogen and phosphoric acid present, such supplies of p >tash as may exist in tho soil naturally are quickly taken up. Sooner or later this sonrca of potash is exhausted,and a starved crop is the result. The remedy is very simj>le; a grain fertil izer should have as much potash as phosphoric acid, and if such is not the case, make up the shortage by sup plementing the complete fertiliser with some potash salt. Any farmer who may not I o posted as to the use ■ 112 fertilizers should write to his experiment station; that is, the experiment station of his state. These stations are maintained for tho purpose of giving farmers just such information.—Farm, Field and Fire side. Poultry Not PA. If hens are o\erfat do not attempt to carry them over. Study poultry from a practical stand point, just as other stock upon the farm is studied. There is no fear of losing anything by sending clean eggs and nice look ing poultry to market. Moulting is a strain on the system aud the bird should have good feed and protection from cold winds. The farmer's family should consume more poultry and eggs and less pork. They are among the most valuable foods. The fact that so much poultry is , sold is prima facie evidence that poul try raising is profitable. Poultry, tor brings quick returns. There is nothing in its relation k. the henhouse that is more important than whitewash and a whitewash brush, if they are used. Feeding corn night and morning is the sum total of poultry management on thousands of farms; and there is no money in that sort of manage ment.
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