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.