What Do the Children Drink 1 Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It Is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more <IBAIN-0 you give the children the more health you distribute through their sys tems. GBAIN-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costs about as much. All grocers sell It. 15c. and 25c. The largest staroh factory In the world is in Oswego, N. Y. How's Thin ? We offer One Hundred Dollar* Reward for any ca eof Catarrh that cannot bu cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. , „ F. J. CnENEY & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney lor the la't 15 years, and believe him per fectly honorable In all business transaction* and financially able to carry out any obliga tion mule by their firm. WEST & TnuAX.Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Oh o. WALDINO, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inlernally, Act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of tho system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Oiugglsts. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Malleable glass was made In the Nile Val ley years ago and the process lost. Absolutely Free. Ts introduce Flndley's Eye Salve I will send by mall absolutely FBEE a 25 cent box to any ODe writing me a postal card giving name and address. It curis sore eyes at once. Address J.P.HAYTEB, Deoatur, Texas. London Is to have a school of Instruction {or wireless telegraphy. Plso's Cure cured me of a Throat and Lung {rouble of three years' standing.—E. CADY, Huntington, lud., Nov. 12, 1894. The fly lays four times each summer, and tighty eggs eaoh time. "Do It and Stic If you are sick and discouraged 'with im pure blood, catarrh or rheumatism, take Hood's Sarsaparilla faithfully and persis tently, and you •will soon have a cure. This medicine has cured thousands of others und it •will do the same for you. Faithfully taken, J^^SaUapotilla For Pet Animal*. Cemeteries for animals have long been in use iu other countries, and now there is one in our own New York City. Two hundred acres of land on the banks of the Hudson have recently been purchased and beauti fully laid out for the bodies of pet animals. The cemetery is in charge of a superintendent, who reoeives all consignments sent to him, and promptly attends to interring the ibodies in the lots of the owners. Out side of the purely sentimental side, the schemo is in many ways admir able. It will tend to prevent the burying of pets in the city yards in violation of the laws of the health boards, and it will prevent their lying in the streets or in garbage recep tacles. The Dell Wood National Cemotery Alls another "long felt want." Klectrlc Tramways. Holland is a country of short dis tances, audit ought to be an ideal location for tramways. There are two electric tramways in operation. One is from Vaals on The German frontier which is only half a mile in length, and the line from The Hague to Schev eniugen is somewhat over six miles. The cars are actuated by accumula tors, as the trolley system is forbid' den. Sick Women * Advised to Seek Advice of Mrs. Pinkham. (LETTIB TO KM. riNXHAU NO. ' ""I had inflammation and falling •of the womb, and inflammation of ovaries, and was in great pain. I took medicine prescribed by a physician, but it did me no good. At last I heard of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, and after using it faithfully I am thankful to say I am a well women. I would advise all suffering women to seek advice of Mrs. Pinkham."— MßS. <J. H. CIIAPPELL, GRANT PARK, 111. 1 ■" For several years my health was miserable. I suffered the most dread ful pains, and was almost on the verge of insanity. I consulted one of the best physicians in New York, and ho pronounced my disease a fibroid tumor, advising an operation without delay, saying that it was my only chance for life. Other doctors prescribed strong and violent medicine, and one said I was incurable, another told me my only salvation was galvanic batteries, which I tried, but nothing relieved me. One day a friend called and begged me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I began its use and took several bottles. From the very first bottle there was a wonderful change for the better. The tumor has disap peared entirely and my old spirits have returned. I heartily recommend your medicine to all suffering women." — Mas. VAN CLEFT, 410 SAUNDERS AVE., JERSEY CITT HEIGHTS, N. J. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS • GIVEN • AWAY. • ' The first five persons procuring ttio Cudless Chain s<arcli Book Irom their grocer will each obtain one large 100 pnokage ot "Red Cross" Starch, one large 10c package or "Hnblngrer'* Beat*' March, two Shakespeare panels, printed In twelve beautiful colors, ns natural as life, or one Twentieth Century Qlrl Calendar, the Oncst of Its kind over printed, nil absolutely froe. All others procuring the Endless Clmin Starch Bauk, will obtain from their grocer the above goods for sc. 4, H«d •Cross" l.aundrr 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. II has won for itself praise from all parts ot the United States. It has superseded every, thing heretofore used or known to science In the laundry art. It Is made from wheat, itloe and corn, and chemically prepared upon scientific principles by J, C. Ilnblnger, Keokuk, lowa, an expert In the laundry profession, who has had twenty-five years practical experience In fancy laundering, and who was the first successful and original Inventor of all fine grades of starch In the United States. Ask your grocers lor this ■Starch and obtain thess beautiful Christmas prtsents (res. Llk« Finding Tloncy. The aso of the Endless Chain Stare I Book In the purchase o( "Red Cross" and 'Hublnger's Best" starch, makes it jus' like finding money. Why, for only 5c yot are enabled to get one large 10c packagi of "Red Crops" starch, one large 10c pack age of "Hublnger's Best" starch, with th« premiums, two Shakespeare panels, print ed in twelve beautiful colors, or one Twen tieth Century Oirl Calendar, embossed it gold. Ask your grocer for this starch and obtain the beautiful Christmas presents fret '•Stayln' Up Lite." Every one who lias ever been » child will recall that sense of injurj entailed by being sont to bed early— that conviction that you are being de prived of the most interesting part o! the whole day. There is really nc knowing what the elders are up tt when once they get the youngster? tucked up safe in bed, but it stand? to reason it must be very interesting, or why would they be in such a hurrj to get the youngsters out of the way" With some children this amounts tc more than mere feeling. It was a lit tle girl of the latter sort who begged so hard to sit up just for onoethat he> mother one evening, not long ago, said that she might. How the little girl's eyes danced at the prospect ol all the wonderful things she would see for herself upon this, her first oc casion of "sitting up!" How com miseratingly she regarded the othei children, who were as usual packed oO to bed at an early hour. She seated herself in her small chair, aud eagerly awaited developments. But imagine her surprise when hei parents, as was their custom, seated themselves at the library table, and unsooiably, but hygienically, turning their backs to the light, began to read. For some time the small girl rocked away in her small chair iu silence. Then came a sleepy, plaintive voice: "Is this all you do?" Cincinnati En quirer. "Kent-Hamper*' Picnic#." The phases of life in the great citj of London are so infinitely varied that very few people indeed, even of those who have read in the newspapers of the iniquities of "key" money and the like, know that over whole miles of ground in the East End of London the landlords of poor dwellings are expected to give their tenants a treat or picnic annually, just as great coun try landlords give a yearly dinner. The custom obtains also in regard to the whole of Deptford and district, even where the lowliest dwellings are concerned, and the landlords take all —men, women and children—on a Bank Holiday to Greenwich or to Blackheath,the children being treated to sweet nuts, whelks, swiugs and so on, while their elders enjoy more full flavored delights. Itf the Mile End district, the customl has become so universal that the land lords' treats are known to all a? "Rent-Hampers' Picnics," and the dwellings of certain landlords are in the greater request iu that the lattei are reputed to give such downright "proper treats." There is a perfect run on one man who gives all his ten ants, down to the babies, a free day at Southend each year.—Tit-Bits. Mr. Chamberlain Forge fa. An incident which is probably unique in Mr. Chambeilain's Parliamentary experience occurred yesterday. At one stage of the Colonial Secretary's three hours' defence of his policy in the Transvaal he suddenly lost the thread of the argument he was pur suing, looked up at the ceiling witb a curious expression, and then ex claimed: "Where was I?" Mr. Balfour, in an undertone, supplied the cue, and Mr. Chamberlain, with a jaunty "Oh. yes," immediately re covered himself and resumed at the point where he left off. The incident was so rapid in its action that it doubtless escaped general observa tion.—London Chronicle. Bussia's Asiatic possessions are three times the size of Great Britain's, but hold only 23,000,000 inhabitants, as compared with England's 297,000,- 000 subjeots. Florida, Cuba, California and tli* Son ill. The Southern Railway announces for the winter season the most perfect service evei offered to the winter resorts of (Jeorgia, Flor ida. t üba and California. Operating froir New York the most elegant vestlbulea train everyday In the year, with dining, library, observation and drawing-room sleeping oars to the principal winter resortsof the country Excursion tickets are now on sale good tc return until May lilst, 1 930. If you are think ing of taking a trip, write to Alex J». Thweatt Eastern Passenger Agent Southern Railway, 271 Broadway, New York, tor full particulars In addition to the perfect through car ser vice to Florida now in effect, the New York and Florida Limited, between New York aud St. Augustine, the most elegantly appointed vestlbuled train over built by the Pullman Company, will resume service January Kith 11*10, composed exclusively ot dining, library, compartment, observation and drawing-!oom sleeping cars New York to St. Augustine. Also attached to the train is Pullman draw lug room sleeping car New York to Tampa via sanford aud Winter Park, and to Aiken and Augusta. Wooden legs are used by over 1,000,000 English-speaking men. A FABLE. From the French. K plowshare that long hail iille lain, famished witli rust's corroding stain, Soulnic his brother puss that way, VH raidant from work at close ol <l"y, Addressed him thus: "My brother, why Vloro brilliant and polished art thou than 1? Jar substance, is it not one in name? A'ere we not forced by hands the same?" His brother replied in proudest tone: •I am what I am through work alone!" William West. j WINNING THE CAPTAINJ i. "Women aboard ship," said the bo'sun of the -British Cjueea, " is like jats in a conservatory. They won't »eep still for a minute. If they ain't ap aud asking the skipper 'ow far it is to the next port, they has to be get ting themselves in a muddle with the ropes and spars, and a-trying to turn i businesslike ship into a sort of 'tar sal boudoir, or whatsoever they calls em, as is decked out with ribbons and fancy touches. "We 'ad a woman once aboard the Liza Jane, as was crossing from Oar- Jiff to the Thames with steam coal, and back ageu with anything as we jonld get hold of. She was on the books as a passenger, and when she same aboard at Oravesend with a red parasol and a brown 'audbag and asked the way to her room we kuowed on the instant that there was sonie .liing going to happen,and we changed our lives just as if we'd bin born ageu an' couldn't help it. Why,afore wejwus off the Nore blest if she 'adn't begun a-talking to the cook about the greasy knives aud teaspoons, till the poor teller was in such a llutter that he iook a two hours' turn a-polisliing every bit o' brass as might 'appen to :ome under 'or eye. And then she started 011 the men. The ropes was ill sticky and nasty, she ses, and so ivas the bnl'arks, as she couldn't lean ageust without messin*'er blouse. And I lie men never paid nothing, but just ivent below and fished out their best ogs and took to scraping away the ?oal dust and tar when they ought to ha' been below aud in their bunks. "The fact is, we was all knocked 'ead-over-'eels and silly with lear aud admiration. For, no mistake, she was as trim a gal as ever set a parasorl. That is to say, we was all struck 'cept the skipper, aud he wasn't that sort. They did say as 'e was nVoman ater, aud iidu't see no use in 'em; and I dare say as that was so, for when she was an deck a-airiug her best things, and a-making us poor chaps wish we was j;ood looking enough to lay our hearts *t her 'e was a-slinking ct{' of the way aud only came on de 'k when he snowed she'd be below curling 'er 'air or getting 'erself up for another at tack. "Well, this state of things con tinued for a couple of days, aud then one morning she came right up to me as I was a-s|)licing lashings and puked me in the cbest with 'er puiasorl. " 'Sailor,' bhe ses. 'What's your uame?' " 'Bill Sniggs, miss, if y;ir please, [ sos, with my knees a-shaking as if they was sprung. " 'Well, Bill,' she ses, 'you look to lie to be the kindest-'earted and the aouestest man aboard, and I want you to do me a favor as T can never ,'epay. Will you'?' " 'i will!' 1 answers,serious, just as when they take 'em for better or wußs. Aud when she smiled aud showed Vr pretty teeth and 'er eyes shone like melted stars, I thought I should ha' had to back on the deck 'ouse for support. " 'Now, sailor,' she ses, 'l'm ago- Ing to take you iuto my confidence. First of all, I must tell you I'm in love.' I was almost a-falling on my kuees to tell 'er I kuowed it. 'Now, ;an't you guess with whom? Why,of course, with your dear good skipper. Cut, oh, dear; he is so horridly back ward. He won't even look at me. Ho knows I came here on purpose to be near him and to talk to him, aud see how he neglects me and keeps out of my way! Oh, sailor, am I so horrid and ugly?' " 'I told 'er as well ns I could as I didn't think the old man need take on so 'cos she wasn't 'arf bad to look at. On the contrary, he was about as pretty a picter as you'd see iu a month's cruise. " 'Well, sailor,' she went on, 'what do youjtliink I've determined to do? I believe he won't have anything to do with me simply because I'm a woman, au I some silly people think a woman can do nothing bnt receive admiration. Now, if I could show him that I am brave and strong aud can think aud act for myself perhaps he would learn to love me. So I want you to help me. I want you to fall overi oard.aud let me jump after yon.' "It come 011 me a bit sudden like, and I sorter reeled with astonishment. But she took 'old of my 'and and squeezed it till I thought I should faint away iu 'er arms. " 'Now, don't look surprised,' she ses; 'l'm an awful good swimmer! I'vo won lots of prizes at our baths, and I'll see that we throw a 1 uoy or two overboard, so that wo sha'n't be iu danger. And wheu it's over, sailor- I'll give you £5. Now you cau't say no to 111 c, can you—you dear, kind man?' "No. I couldn't, and that was a fact. It's bad enough when you've ' got a tlovesick maden grasping and a-leaniug 011 yer; but when it conies to five quid in 'ard cash dangling bo foro your nose it's too much. "So we arrauged it that next day, if the sea was smoi th and the weather fine, I'd sprinkle a few life-buoys over-boavd aud accidentally tumhle among 'em. Theu, with a cry as 'ud bring the skipper on deck, the gal would di?e after me, aud we'd go through a sorter life-saving perfor mance; aud if that didu't make the old man fall on 'er neck and ask to be forgiven—well,then we'd 'ave to throw 'im iu next, aud let 'er 'ave a try at saving 'im." 11. "Well, next day was fine, with just a bit of breeze as kept the 1 arque steady under all sail, and as we were only making about four knots an hour, I reckoned this was the time for the fiual scene. So I whistled to the gal to get ready, and then 1 got 'old of all the buoys I could find and pitched 'em astern when uol ody wasu't looking. Next I slipped off my boots and dropped quietly over the side. "When I looked up I seed the gal a-looking a* if she was a-wondering 'ow cold it was. And then all of a sudden she give a yell, aud dived in and come swimming toward me like a fish. "Lor, the commotion there was on board when they heard that yell! First,up come tho skipper from below. He looked astern and saw the girl in the water. Off went 'is coat, aud splash 'e came after 'er. Then I seed the cook rush out of the galley. 'E took in the situation, and the next momeut 'e was taking a header from the stem. Two seaman as 'ad 'oard the cry next tumbled over, and 1 efore I 'ad time to 'oiler out and tell 'em it was all right the olher two seamen and the boy was a bobbing about in the water. "By this time the gal 'ad got to me, and we was each of us 'angiug to a buoy. Away in the wake of the barque we could see seven 'eads a-bobtiug about, and one by one tliey tliey came up to us and collared 'old of a buoy, to wait for what was going to 'appen next. And all the time that blamed barque was standing away under full sail as if nothing 'ad 'appeued. "Suddenly the skipper looked round and said something as didn't seem to just tit the occasion. " 'Who's left iu charge of that bar que?' he yelled. "Nobody answered, and then 'e looked round ageu and counted us all as wo was a bobbing about together. 'E counted us twice, and then he swore ageu. " 'How dare you leave the ship without my orders?' he shouted. 'Don't you see that there isn't a mau j 011 the barque,and that we're left hero like a tloek of fools while she drifts J onto the nearest lee shore?' "Somebody begun to giggle, and the skipper swore as 'e'd blow 'is I brains out if 'e found out who it was. i Tho gal said it was 'er, aud suro I enough she was a-laugliing away as if | it was the best fun in the world, while there was the crew of tho Liza Jane a-bob) iug about in the water, while our ship was a-sailing steadily away j by 'erself, without a 'and to guide j 'er from the cruel loclts. It was an awful moment for me, as 'ad bin tho unwilling cause of it all, and it se.Miie 1 as if the utter uselessness of women was a fact, after all. "But there was the gal, still smil ing, and when a tramp steamer picked us up and carried us to Plymouth (-lie wanted the skipper to report us to the authorities as a picnic party as 'ad got out of our depth. But the old j man was wild with tlielops of 'is ship, and 'o couldn't do nothing but stamp about and threaten to kill us all. "We did 'ear afterwards that the Liza .lane 'ad stood out to sea and went down in a squall somewhere iu the region of the tropics. Aud that's i as likely as not, for we never set eyes ou 'er a?ain. "And when the skipper got over it | aud come to look upon things iu the I l ight spirit he sorter veered 'round to the conclusion that a comfortable 'ome aud a good-looking wife wasn't such a poor conclusion after all. No more was the fifty pounds each of us got for our shave, either. Dewey After the Manila Hay Rattle. Admiral Dewey in conversation with some friends, told an interesting ; chapter in his Mauilia experiences after he had destroyed the Spanish | fleet. The battle itself ho declared, was nothing, but it was after the bat j tie had been fought and Spain's power 011 the sea destroyed, that his troubles j commenced. "There were at that time," he said, ; "thirteen ships of all nations iu the i bay, all of them, with the 1 of the British, unfriendly, all of them I officered by experienced men, all of them watching for the slightest mis take that we might make. "ilie situation was full of complica tions. There were any number of delicate questions coming up to be decided, questions which ought to have been decided by a lawyer well | versed in international law, and not a I sailor who know only such law as had beeu able to pick up, and whose law li rary was extremely limited. "The situation at onetime was such that it took almost the entire time of two officers to search the books to see | w hat we might do and what we were not allowed to do. Why," said the admiral, with au expressive gesture, "a good lawyer at that time, a man ; familiar with international law, would have been worth his weight in gold ; and diamonds aud rubies." "And probably, if yon liad had a I lawyer 011 your staff," said one of his i audience, "he would have made any i amount.of trouble for yon nnd the government, which you avoided be caus.s you have made common sense take the place of law."—Boston Daily | Globe. An Antrlo-Saxnn. Simsou—Willie, where did you get that black eye. t "It's all right, pop. I've only been civilizing the boy next door."—Tit- Lils. |FOR FARM AND GARDEIII Knot* KxlialtM tile Soil. All kinds of root crops are ve-y ex haustive of soil fertility. They are nil great users of the available nitro gen that the soil contains, and the turnips also reiuire mineral fertility as well. We once grew a patch of turnips in a field of corn, where, owing to the wet soil, the coin was pulled out by fowls, audit was too late to replant it. The turnips were a good crop, but wheu wo came to harvesting the oat crop that grew ou the field the next year, there was such marked inferiority of tbe crop where tho turnip crop had grown that every passerby noticed it. What the root crop appears to take is tho available nitrogen. Wherever it is grown a clover crop should follow as soon as possible, to restore the kind of fertil ity that the roots have exhausted. I'otMftli for Clover. A crop of clover requires a great deal of potash, we thiuk iu round numbers about 45 pounds to the ton of hay, not counting that taken by the roots which is returned to the soil as they decay. Naturally potash would be one of the best fertilizers to buy to grow clover, if there were no potash in tbe soil. But is hard to fiud any soil in the eastern states which has not a good supply of potash. The trouble is that it is not in a form that ran be dissolved and taken up by tbe plant, or ut least dissolves but slowly as the sand disintegrates. To assist in this work, of which nature does a little each year by decaying vegetable matter, the farmer needs to plow in more vegetable matter, green crops of almost any kind, heavy sods, clover beiug the best, and sta do man ure. It has been estimated that a load of stable manure literates more pot ash from the soil than it furnishes. I'm or Lime. The Rhode Island experiment sta tion, in reporting the results 011 a ton of lime per a.'.re applied to their laud in IS'.)}, say that the average of the crops for four years since that time, upon ten different plots, show that alter paying for the time, $7.50 per ton, there was a profit of $15.10 per acre iu the fivo years, due to the lime, as by comparison with unlimed plots. The teu plots were all treated with phosphoric acid in different forms, but supposed to be of e jual value. The best result was where an alumina ph sphate, ignited, was used, £ 62.35 per acre, and the least, $'27.1)! 1 , was ou basic slag. The first year on corn tho stover was increased in every ca'e aud the grain iu all but two cases. Iu 18!)5 the corn was followed by oats and ou limed soil the straw increased in eight cases out of teu and the grain in six cases, and in those cases the oats lodged badly. In the next three years all were iu grass, and the limed plots showed best results iu every sase, being more than double in se\e:i of the plots. With such testimony as this we shall expect to see a return to the old custom of liming land, espe cially for grass. Cement Floor, in the Rarn. Where cement floors are to be con structed ill the barn the work should be done before eoid weather comes 011. The quality of cement to be used iu these floors will be decided largely by the purpose to which tliev are to be put. If the floor is of a busoment cellar for the storage of roots and other products, the cheap cement will do as well as the more expensive kind, but if the floor is to be for the use of the stock it must bo of the best .-etnent, preferably,tbe Portlaud ce ment. The constant trampliug of tbe stock, especially of sharp-shodden horses, will soon wear away the floor if it is constructed of inferior material aud the whole floor will prove an ex pensive and unsatisfactory affair. But if the cement be of first quality and the floor well laid, it will give complete satisfaction and will last for a generation. If the floor is to bo outside of the barn where it will be exposed to all kiuds of weather, to frost and beat, it should be not loss than 14 to 16 inches in thickness, but iu tho barn, where moderate protec tion can be had from tho heaving of the ground, seven inches will prove sufficient. The final coating of ce ment need bo only one iuch in thick ness, except for tho horse stable, where two inches of the final coat will give better satisfaction. As a foundation for this, crushed stone is better tliau jo espe cially if tbe floor is to be exposed to hard usage. Comont floors should uot be used by stock till some weeks after completion. In the horse stai lo at least three weeks should elapse,and theu tho floor should be at first well covered with bedding. When tbe floors uro to boused for cattlo,sprinkle sand over tho surface 1 ofore the ce ment has set, to make them rough and to prevent tbe cattle slipping on them. Itnrren Orrhiirili. The barren orchard is a distressing sight, and is, of course, protitloHs;and barren orchards are increasing. Cer tainly no sane mau wishes to waste laud in growiug trtes that bring him 110 return. If that is true, the barren orchard must usually be the result of not knowing how to prevent the bar renness, and it is. Orchards ly the tliousauds are neglected, and their owners are utterly ignorant of tbe cer tain consequences of such neglect. Out of 100 barren orchards taken just as they come, in any part of tbe couu try, 5 per cent, of them will be found never to have had good tillage or ade quate care in any respect If a farm er plants corn and leaves it without cultivation, ho will liardlr expect a crop. If ho is foolish enough to <lc 80, lie will be disappointed. If the stock-raiser turns li::: herd or f'o k into the lields and compels it to shift for itself for months uud years,he w : lf realize nothing from it. Th se are recognized fn'ts. Put au orchard that has never been cultivated and a fruit tree that is never fed are upon the plane of the uncultivated cornlield and neglected herd'or Hock. The fanner who will carefully cnl tivate his orchard, at least during the first few.years of its life, who will keep the ground sup] lied with humus, who will annually prune under an in telligent system, aud who will spi av every season, will have a live orchard, unless he has planted it on an unfav orable site, made a bad selection ol varieties, or has been unfortunate enough to get trees that were propa ga'ed from stock that was unfruitful. There is, however, another cause ot barrenness which in time will work out the result, nnd that is overbear ing. If we permit our orchards to en joy off-year vacat-'ons, the time will come when the trees will bo unpro ductive. Why? Because in the bear ing year they overbear, and their vi tality is being sapped. If the fruit were thinned in these bearing years, we should get as much fruit aud bet ter fruit aud save the life of the trees, —Agricultural Epitomist. The Dairy Food, Formerly the dairyman planted the smallest amount of corn possible for fool for his cows, and depended on grass and hay whenever possible. Today we are going gradually more to corn and less to hay. The reason is that we can get more from an acre of com than we can from hay, both in quantity aud quality. Corn far out ranks hay for the dairyman's need if it is properly fed. Whether we cut the crop for the silo before the grain is ready for harvesting, or simply raise it for the grain and feed the stalks to the stock, we get more foi our labor per acre than if the laud were used for raising hay. Corn is a wonderful food plant, and is undoubtedly the finest in the world. The ignorance of feeding the grain too freely to animals as au exclusive diet, nnd causing sickness thereby, does not in the least injure the real value of corn as a food. It merely shows that the true way to use the crop for food was not understood. Wherever corn does its best,oats and peas thrive also, and these crops are intended by nature to supplement that of corn. They should be raised in a limited way with corn, and fed iu conjunction with it. Then the dangers to cattle so often threatened by injudicious feedingof <orn will be averted. With au ample supply of corn and some oats and peas we have a stan dard of ration that cannot well be ex celled. These erops should be raised so that the dairyman need buy as lit tle by-products as pxiil'lr. The fashion has become in recent years to reconimeud the feeding of by-products of factories, such as linseed and cot tonseed meal, and to ignore the by products of the farm. Undoubtedly this fashion bas helped the large con cerns operating iu these by-products, and the prices for them have steadily advanced under the demand, so that today when a farmer pays a good round price for a ton of auy of these by-products it is a question whether it would not pay him better to buy a ton of oats or < oru from a neighboring farmer at the market price. We should learn to depend upon our farm crops for feeding, so far as pos sible, aud with a little skill in man agement, it is an easy matter not to be forced to buy any food for the stock. In this age of science and in te ligent farming, evqry dairyman should know something of the rela tive value of foods, and of the relative cost of raising them in different sec tions of the country, but by the way, that some neglect their opportunities aud drift with the tide, it would seem as if the business of dairying was crowded with many left overs from other professions, aud took to this business as a last resort, Sooner or later such p ople will learn that it takes skill, industry and intelligence to be a successful farmer or dairyman. F. P. Smith iu American Cultivator. l'oultry Note*. A quart of feed for a dozen hens is plenty. It pays to raise broilers the year round. Foil * meal is excellent for making leathers. Don't feed heavily today aud starve your fowls tomorrow. Keep fat hens on ground oats aud avoid corn and wheat. Care and feed affect results more than the breed you keep. When shedding their feathers fowls need rich feed in nitrogen. Vary the food sufficiently to keep the fowls in good appetite. It is not difficult to feed a. complete rat on. The addition of <•. si nple ar ticle to a hen's ration 'uav make au ex cellt nt layer of ho:. Poosts should be kerosened every week to kill lice. The platforms should be e'eaned daily and covered with dry earth or plaster. Moulting hens intended for the show must be well kept in order that they get their feathers early aud iu consequence be ready for early wiutei laying. It is said that the United Stat ft uses more eggs than any other coun try in the world, 1 1 000,000,000 being required during the year, or 133 to each inhabitant. There is quite a difference between the green,fresh bone, rich in its juices as it comes from the butcher, and the LfWrd dry bono which has laiu out iu the weather for weeks and months until it has lost all its succuleuce.
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