[FOR FARM AND GARDEN.]
Ktiftilaffe in a Dry Sea soil.
Ensilage is proving a great aid. In
deed, our dairymen are learning that
it would be u most profitable adjunct
to dairying in a dry summer, like the
past one, when the year's profits de
pend on keeping the herd from shrink
ing in quantity during a critical short
age of feed.
I-'rult Tree* Alon-jr Illgliwavfi.
In some sections the farmers have
set out fruit trees along the highways
in place of the more ornamental shade
trees. When properly pruned and
cared for the practice is a most com
mendable one, and if others would
follow the example it would result in
a great profit to those interested. A
fruit like the apple should be chosen,
as plums and cherries sprout from the
root and grow readily from the pit.
If neglected the road would soon pre
sent the appearance of a jungle. Eate
varieties of applet should be chosen.
Stone Crock* in the Dairy.
A word about stone crocks. Their
weight alone should decide everyone
against their use in the dairy. With
the most careful handling they are
soon cracked,and then it is impossible
to keep them sweet. Seamless tin
pans are light and easily kept clean,
with no possible lurking places for
microbes. Of all substauces milk is
■ most susceptible to adverse influences,
and from nothing else is so variable a
product evolved. Over the purity of
the milk the housewife lias little or no
control. Hundreds of women all over
the land are daily disheartened by its
want of cleanliness when it reaches
their hands. Slovenly milkers are
responsible for a great deal of poor
butter. Prime butter can never be
made from milk having the slightest
taint. Milk should never be ullowed
to stand in the stable while cooling.
Cream begius to rise almost immedi
ately after the milk is drawn and agi
tation causes more or less loss.
Money in Ginseng:.
Few crops offer as promising re
turns as does ginseng when properly
cared for, and where the climatic con
ditions are favorable, lu my experi
ence 112 have found it more satisfactory
to make the beds in the open field—
giving artificial shade—than in the
forest or under trees of any kind.
Whether the plants are raised from
seed or from roots the beds must be
well prepared. lam in favor of plant
ing the seed three inches apart in
rows in which the plants are to re
main until the roots are ready to be
dug for market. Plants raised in this
manner and properly cared for will
mature a fair quantity of seed the sec
ond year and a good crop the third
year.
Planted in this manner the roots
will be much larger at two years'
growth than when the seeds have
been planted closer. Then in trans
planting the roots nearly one year's
growth is lost, and the small stunted
roots that result from too close plant
ing are far more apt to bo destroyed
by grubs and worms infesting the
ground than larger and fully devel
oped roots. On sowing the seed it
should be borne in mind that not
every seed will mature a plant. In
the fall, after the first year's growth,
the vacant spots can easily be tilled
with roots standing closer than de
sired, or these may be trausp'anted to
new beds.—E. D. Crosby, in New
England Homestead.
Ground Food for Poultry,
Every once in a while we see in
some of the papers articles attacking
the feeding of soft food to poultry.
Yet soft feed, like most other kinds of
feed, is of great value when properly
fed. It may indeed lie a detriment to
the fowls if improperly fed. It may
easily be conceived that making soft
feeds a constant ration would throw
out of order the entire digestive sys
tems of the fowls. It would probably
Lave this effect if fed to fowls that had
a very large ration of green stuff, es
pecially in the summer time; as in
that case it would be substituted for
'.lie grain ration instead of being used
to balance the grain ration.
The real value of ground feed is in
'ceding it to take the place of part of
the ginin and so render the work of
the grinding organs of the fowls less
severe. The fowl that has nothing but
grain from the time the ground freezes
n the fall till the time the grass starts
tn the spring is the fowl that develops
symptoms of a ruined digestive system
it the time the most eggs are expected
in the spring.
A warm feed of ground grain once a
:lay has a wonderful etlect in prevent
ing those disorders that are so fre
quent with fowls confine.! and heavily
r ed on grain feed. The reason that it
•.s not more universally adopted is the
disinclination of farmers to tnke the
trouble to scald this feed over iiiglit
or even in the morning. It is so easy
to toss a measure of corn to the fowls
that many of them get no other food.
—Farm, Field and Fireside.
Care of tlie Apple Orchard.
Keep the ground stirred about the
trees by using the garden rake after
-■aius heavy enough to pack the ground.
This will conserve the moisture and is
better than any mulch that can be
applied, and the trees will takedeeper
• oot. If weeds or trash of imy kind
tiave accumulated about the trees,
:-lear away or cover up in the fall with
soil, making a little mound to prevent
» harbor for mice. Bemove it in the
spring.
There are several reasons why the
young orebai d should be planted to
:orn. The cultivation of corn is the
proper cultivation for the orchard,
lhe ecru liel'\3 «i<e! f er the trees from
the wind. The stalks help lodge and
retain the snow, making winter pro
tection, and if the coin is poorly
husked there will be plenty of food for
the rabbits. Crop to corn uutil the
orchard is fruiting well, then seed to
clover.
Spray with kerosene emulsion just
befote the buds open, or npply white
wash with brush to the body. A so
lution made thin and strained can be
applied with a spray pump to the
I tops. This will destroy mauy of the
enemies of fruit and fruit trees that
; find a breeding place and winter har
' boron the trees.
! Bruises from any cause that deadens
! the bark make an ideal spot for the
: propagation of the borer. In the dead
i bark is where the egg is deposited
and by nature's law is brought into
i life and his work of destruction is
! commenced and done. Carry a roll
of grafting wax and a roll of old cot
ton and twine to do up any bruise or
i break of bark as soon us done, before
the wood or balk becomes dried, and
it will grow fast again,but if left uutil
the sap in the wood and bark becomes
dried you will have a scar that will
take two or three years to grow over
and if the borer gets a lodgment there
it may be a lasting blemish- It's bet
ter not to break or bruise the trees,
but accidents will occur, and the rem
edy should be applied to save the
blemish. Wax a bruise, if the bark is
not broken; if broken, put the bark
back and wax and wind with cloth and
tie fast.—American Agriculturist.
Mineral Constituent* of riant*.
A correspondent wishes an explan
ation of how mineral substances get
into plants, that is, as he expresses it,
; "Minerals that are insoluble except in
acid." Insoluble mineral matter can
not get iuto the plant. But the min
eral elements of a plant are carried
iuto it in solution. If it is a mineral
that water can dissolve, wholly or par
tially, the ] articles that at e held in
solution are carried by the ehurged
..ater through the roots iuto the tree.
If salt is added to water an unglazed
; earthen dish, like a flower pot, with
the hole in the bottom stopped up, it
will be found in time that there is a
deposit on the outside of the pot, and,
if tasted, it will be found to be salty.
The moisture has none through the
sides of tl;# pot and carried the salt,
with which the water is charged, with
it. This is what water does with sol
uble minerals when it enters the roots
of a plant. There is, too, at the end
| of roots an acid that aids the water in
dissolving minerals. It is not true,
however, that the water takes iuto the
plant all the minerals which it holds
in solution, lu the economy of na
i ture, the roots, in a natural condition,
' permit the entrance into the plant of
; only such minerals as the plant needs.
There is an important lesson in this
connection, for the tiller of the soil to
learn. We all know that moisture is
necessary for the growth of plants,
but if it is necessary for dissolving
mineral plant food in the soil, it will
be seen that too much or too little
moisture in the soil must be injurious
to the plant because in the one case
the solution will be too weak and in
the other it will be too strong, or fail
to take up as much mineral ns the
plant needs. To illustrate: If we
place just a little salt in a glass of
wate 1 ',the water will have but a slight
ly saltish taste. If a plant was in
need of salt that weak solution would
not supply it with what it required.
Now if we keep adding salt to that
water there will ultimately be a de
posit of suit at the bottom of the glass.
There will not bo enough water to
hold all the salt that we have added.
We have too much salt for the water.
The tilkr of the soil, therefore, can
see that if his soil contains too much
water at any time, the sooner he
drains it, the sooner he lyill feed the
crops as they should be fed; and if he
is irrigating he will have no trouble in
perceiving that too much water will
have the effect that we have men
tioned. The necessity of frequent
cultivation and of keeping a soil mulch
uijon the surface in times of drouth
will also be apparent. The use of
water is not its entire function in rela
tion to plant growth, but it is an im
portant one.—Agricultural Epitomist.
Poultry No'es,
Never allow the mother lien to take
her brood out in the early morning.
Brooder chicks should be allowed to
go out during the warm portion of the
i day.
Heus will lay more eggs when con
fined in yui ds than when having free
range.
Do not let the little chicks get
; chilled or wet. Either means death
for tht 111.
Do not (Toss pur a bred poultry.
There is enough variety now fur all
practical pnrposes.
One breed is enough to keep on
any farm. More than that usually re
sults in neglect of all.
The time to nue » sick hen is
wasted. If she lingers longer than
two dajs it is better to kill her.
Do not put over eleven eggs under
a setting hen in the early part of the
season. Later thirteen will not be
too many.
If there are any rats around the
poultry house gdt rid of thein before
the chickens hutch. Otlieiwise they
will soon make way with every brood
that is put out.
I Fmnily Illinois Co to the Dead.
i In China when an honor i;» cot
ferred on a family it is the ancestors
and not the descendants who share
tne glory. If a Chinaman, for his
meiits, receives a title of noiiiiity, his
son can never inhorit it or have the
right to use anj but an inferior title.
Thus the nobility in the family goes
on diminishing from generation to
generation till it linally becones ex
tinct.
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NEW YORK CITT (Special).—The
furore for the pulley belt necessarily
meant a stock to match, so when mi
lady wanted it, of course, it wasn't
11 fa '
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PULLEY STOCK FOB AN ASCOT.
long coming. The stock is very much
the same as the belt, only, of course,
longer, as it goes twice around. The
pulley principle is carried out by the
two rings in front, and these allow the jf^!
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PULLEY STOCK FOR A POUR-IN-HAND.
ribbon to be drawn us tightly as de
sired.
Flexible bones hold the ribbon well
up in place, yet are pliable enough
not to interfere with its being drawn
closely into shape.
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A QUINTET OF SPRING HATS.
It can be tied in several different
ways, two of which are here shown,
namely, as an ascot and as a four- in
hand.
The pulley stock comes in all
shades of satin ribbon and in all wash
able gauze ribbon for summer wear.
Five Millinery Noveltle®.
Women are already buying hats of
white straw, lovely soft creations that
look light as thistledown. The
shapes are about what we are used to,
the Pompadour and the face hat, but
not horrible, plattery things that look
as if manufactured by the thousand.
As yon see, the hats are not large.
Of course, there will be large hats,
but they are for carriage wear, garden
parties or for bridesmaids. That flow
ars figure goes without siiyiug.
One of the most charming face hats
is a clever affair of soft, satiny bluet
braid. It seems built on Louis XI.
lines, though these are not definite.
Creamy Renaissance all-over lace is
gracefully draped over waves of white
chiffon. Two turquoise pins hold
the front folds in place, and a bunch
of daisies rests on the hair at the left
back.
The alternate rows of gray satiny
straw braid and gray chiffon ruffles
form this toppy little Pompadour,
which is finished off most effectively
up at the left front with a splendid
pink rose and a liberal buach of soft*
ly purple violets.
Such very good stylo is this attrac
tive hat of pearl gray straw, the crown
being of black straw. A black velvet
drapery rests on the rounding gray
brim, and rises in front to form wing
like loops. A plume-like strip of
corded white silk is drawn through
the black jet buckle which holds all
this down at the front.
For dress occasions this dainty little
pink Pompadour, composed entirely
of thickly-laid folds of malines, is
most fetching. It is strikingly set
off by the big black velvet chou,
which has a l-hinestone ornament
stuck in its very neart. It is so very
shapely, too, especially where it rests
on a pretty girl's night-like tresses.
An altogether exquisite little dress
hat is of pastel blue straw. It has a
soft crown and n full, soft brim. Mi
roir velvet in pastel blue is drawn
Bnugly round it, looped in front,
drawn over the crown, and looped
down under the brim in the back,
where a steel buokle catches it. A
generous bunch of lilies of the valley,
backed by their foilage, is planted ii<
front.
Popular Styles For Hoys.
Geographical location determines
to some extent the juvenile fashion,
and garments fashioned in a style that
is in large demand in Boston would
meet with poor showing in New Or
leans or San Francisco. However,
the sailor will be in demand all over
the country and there is not a doubt
that this style of suit is the most be
coming for nine boys out of ten.
One innovation is particularly no
ticeable this spring, and a good one,
too—the discarding of braids and
fancy nautical emblems, also the cur
tailing of size of the collar.
Next in importance is the vestee
suit. Perhaps we state it wrongly.
Perhaps vestees will lead the list.
Certainly they are suits after our own
heart, permitting as they do the use
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Ivory Soap, and allow it to cool until lukewarm. This
solution, while very effective, is perfectly harmless.
Ivory Soap contains no alkali. It will not destroy the
surface or texture of any material, however delicate.
Ivory Soap differs from other soaps. It is more
carefully made, and the materials used in its manu
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A disaster second only to Naseby,
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:o Oxford under the humiliating pro
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The fall of this famous stronghold of
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sustaining a long siege were thought,
jven by those who had no reasons to
oe tender of his fame, to justify the
turrender. The King would listen to
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ingry letter, declaring so mean an
lotion to be the greatest trial of his
•on&taney that had yet happened, de
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lidding him begone beyond the seas.
Hupert nevertheless insisted on fol
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lome debate was declared to be free
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ndiscretiou.—John Morley, in Cen
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