[FOR FARM AND GARDEN.] When Lime I* Needed, Lime may prove to be a wonderfully good tiling for some soils. If the land is acid, lime is always beneficial. Buy it when it is cheapest. The amount to apply will depend altogether upon the character of the soil. I have used all the way from 1500 to 0000 pounds to tha acre. Stone lime may be used by placing it in piles containing about one-half bushel each and covering this with soil and allowing the lime to slake.—G. A. Smith, in New Eugiand Homestead. Ah to ZtaUing liroiler*. Any of the large breeds of fowis» such as Cochins, Plymouth Books, Krahmas, Wyaudottes, Langshaus, Dorkings or Indian Games will pro duce tine broilers—that is as far as breed goes; but in raising broilers it should not be forgotten that it is a winter business, as the birds are sup posed to reach the market in April or May, which makes their hatching time start from about October or Novem ber. Wheu birds are hatched and marketed at the dates mentioned they" will command about the highest prices that are offered during the year for any kind of poultry. Fertilizer for Out*. Oats, like corn, require a highly ni trogenous manure, and must be sup plied either in the natural fertility of virgin soil, well preserved barnyard manures or commercial fertilizers, livery farmer is, of course, the best judge as to the natural fertility of his different fields,as proven in the grow ing of past crops, and also best knows his ability to apply manures which cost money. If he has an abundance of cottou seed, either composted or crushed, or barnyard manures, he can apply them as liberally as he desires, as ho can hardly put down too much of either, if broadcasted. If liome inanures are used, about 150 pounds of acid phosphate per acre should be used in addition to the barnyard man ure or compost heap. If the fertil izers are to be purchased, then a for mula consisting of 1000 pounds of good acid phosphate, 750 pounds of cotton seed meal and 250 pounds of kanit, mixed well, and applied at rate of 500 pounds per acre, would furnish a good amount of tiie necessary ele ments of plant food to secure satisfac tory results. The fertilizer should be applied broadcast and harrowed in at time of sowing, or putin with seed drill, if a machine is use.l. As a top dressing to wheat or oats now grow ing, but which need additional fertil izer, an application of the above for mula at rate of 300 pounds per acre would be exceedingly helpful. Pear well in mind that the crop of spring oats to turn out well, must be forced, for they have only half the time in which to mature that the fall sowing have. The forcing process must be done by sowing in good ground which has been properly prepared, by fertil izing with quickly available plant foods, and then leaving the balance to the handiwork of nature. Fei'tlinc Hojj*. We did not think pumpkins as valu able for feeding to hogs as we did to cattle, but when they were plenty the hogs had some every day, for we could not keep them late in the winter. We never cooked them unless to throw in u few when boiling smull potatoes or other roots for the hogs,as wethouglit them too watery when boiled, and they seemed to be relished better when given raw. We notice in a bul letin sent out by the Oregon experi ment station, that they tested pump kins for hogs weighing 110 to 200 pounds each, for four periods of 14 days each. The pumpkins were cooked with shorts. For the tirst two weeks it took 15.45 pounds of pumpkins and '-'.12 pounds of shorts to make a pound of gain. The next two weeks it took 14. Ho pounds of pnmpkius and 1.3 pounds of shorts. Iu the third period 14.3.) pounds of the pumpkins ami 1.79 pounds shorts, and for the last two weeks 14.46 pounds of pumpkins and 2.54 pounds of shorts. The average gain for each hog during the whole time was about 11-2 pounds per day, and counting pumpkins at #2.50 a toil, and shorts at sl2, the cost per pound of gain was 2.9 cents. This may have been cheap enough, but we think it could have been made cheaper upon raw pumpkins, and by using a little more shorts, or perhaps a mixture of equal parts of cornmeal and shorts. After a hog weighs 200 pounds alive we are not afraid to. give him as much cornmeal as he will eat until we get him fat enough to kill. They tried to increase the amount of pumpkin and reduce the amount of shorts, but the pigs objected, and, as will be seen above, they had to increase the pro portion of shorts. We never tested pumpkins for sheep feeding, but have no doubt they would work excellently well. We never removed the seeds when feeding them, and never saw that they were doing any injury to either cattle or hogs. Ti'(in«i>liinliiii; nml Priming. I note with pleasure increased at tention to transplanting and pruning trees. That men should think to suc cessfully remove a tree without ex treme care iu preserving the roots has always been a mystery to me,and that all fruit-bearing trees should be traiued with a central upright stem is too manifest to require education. Still there are many trees traiued more like an inverted umbrella than other wise, and every heavy sleet or snow storm makes appalling destruction iu such orchards. That the Ozark region of Missouri should produce fair winter apples accords with what old citizens of that region tell of the ripeuiug of the papaw anil the falling of forest nuts being two weeks later than with us, near Cairo. When we have a cool summer and fall we have apples hang on till frost, but if the season is exceptionally warm yellow bellflowers and baldwins fall from the tree and rot iu August, and winesaps and Rome beauties in Sep te ruber. A difference is always noted in favoi of young trees, but more especially in the first orcharding experiments in a neighborhood, the absence of insect enemies and fungous diseases beiug important factors in the ripening and keeping qualities of fruits. In this connection your previous statement respecting Missouri lands subject to liomesteading is of interest to our people who may be influenced to immigrate. I hope to see iu future numbers of your paper more letter? after the order of the one in your last by Professor T. H. Jones,giving more full information respecting the leading railroads now in existence having the facilities for marketing, etc , with statement in relation to nursery stock? and many matters of interest to those seeking new homes. Here it has been just cold enougl to retard the rapid growth of wheat, which bid fair early in the season tc become too rank—a thing wheat has seldom done in all the forty-live years we have been here.—Jas. H. Grain ir Farm, Field and Fireside. The Strawberry Bed. There are few things that are often more poorly managed than the straw berry bed. Again and again has the writer seen beds that had been started out well, but that had become entire failures through mismanagement. Of ten it is due to the ground being in o condition that makes success impos sible, and at other times it lias been on accouut of an easily-explained de sire to have the plants make a great growth of foliage. This growth ol foliage is all right on individual plants provided the plants are each given suflie'ent room to develop, but when the growth is on a multitude of plants, as it is often, and these plants are crowding one against another, the blossoms are few and the ripe berries are fewer and smaller. The unprepared ground is no place for a strawberry bed, but the tempta tion to use such ground for straw berries is often very great. A case ot this kind came to the utteution of the writer about two years ago. Quite late in the spring a neighbor decided that he would have a tirst-class straw berry bed. So he ordered some hun dreds of plants. But having all of his prepared ground takeu up with other things he merely turned over some sod and set the plants in the newly turned sod. He hoped that by the following year the plants would have secured a guoJ growth and would have so permeated the sod and under soil with their loots that the ground would be loose. He recognized the fact that the ground was utterly de void of manure, save what had come in a natural way through the decay ing grass roots. In the fall after set ting he tried to work between the lows and to fork in a little manure. But the ground was very hard and un responsive, and, though he had four of the best varieties of strawberries, he did not get a pint of berries from them all the second yenr. This failure was due entirely to poorly-prepared soil, and without doubt this is the case with a majority of the failures. The Wilson is a hard berry to grow, but the writer remembers one bed of Wilsons that proved a great success. It was made on well-worked garden soil, and was enriched with a heavy dressing of hog manure. 'l'hiß was thoroughly incorporated with the soil before the plants were put on,and the weeds were kept down. The second year the crop of great red, glossy ber ries was enormous. It was au illus tration of what a properly-prepared soil will do. Farm and Garden Notes. Never allow fowls to drink stagnant water. The laying hen is always the work ing hen. Table scraps should be fed the fowls while fresh. For fattening fowls cooked food is better than raw. Milk in all its forms is valuable food for poultry. Soft-shelled eggs are often the ro suit of overfeeding. Ducks and geese should be well feuthered before killing. A cross of a large lieu with a Hou dan usually produces good broilers. The favorite food in Scotland,where horses are at only moderute work, is cut sheaf oats. Grapes can be pruned any time dur ing winter. If the wood is wanted for propagation, it should be cut just bo fore the severe frosts arrive. By keeping oak trees of a uniform temperature throughout the year, a French experimenter succeeded iu in creasing the production of new leaves before the old ones were shed. Very often it will not pay to doctor fowls suffering with coutagious dis ease. Indeed it is probable that it very rarely pays. One would better kill ut ouce all that coutract such dis ease and bum the carcasses. The English want a cheese with n mild flavor, slightly salty and rich iu butter fat. Foreigners as a rule do not like strong cheese. It must not bo dried hard. Curing rooms iu Scotland are kept at GOto 01 degrees. While oats make a good feed for growing stock and for the laying hens, they do not have the elements that promote animal heat. Somo corn is needed for this purpose, and it should be fed to the flock late iu the even ing. HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES. A Porch Sent. Porcb furnishings are as important as interior decorations, ancl a com fortable and artistic addition can be made by a swiuging seat. This is suspended by heavy chains and made large enough so that it cau hold a good-sized bank of pillows. The seat itself is made of stained wood, of a jolor to harmonize with the stirrouud '"Kß. Nursery Tal>le Cover*. Get a blue and white washable cover for the nursery table; ono a yard and a half square costs a little more thau 1 dollar. They are pretty aud durable* and some things may be spilled upon them without mining them. The blue denim table covers are a little more 3xpensive, particularly when they are embroidered in white, but their wear ing qualities are excellent. —Ladies' Home Journal. A Hint About Jplllm. In the cooling of jellies the cook should never allow them to stand ex posed to the air. When physicians wish to secure minute organisms for investigation they expose gelatine to tho air or in places where they have confined malignant germs as the quickest medium. Always cover with a piece of soft muslin. The average .■!ook is lamentably ignorant of sani tary cause and effect, and the safety af the family lies in the eternal vigi lance of the house mother. Uae for Old Lare«, Now is the time to hunt up all the bits of old lace and utilize them in the :ittle points that turn down over the collars of folded chiffon or silk mas in now in fashion. Larger pieces ;an be worn as collars and if lined with folds of white chiffon the lace will not only be better preserved, but ts creamy tint will be thrown into re ief. Lace sleeves can be fashioned Dut of odds and ends without detraot ng from their smartness and can be worn over chiffon or colorod silks to •orrespoud with the color of the iresa. Wlißt la Good Meat. Poisoning by alimentary substances 's so frequent, and the grave symp toms following the ingestion of tainted food are often so transitory, that their ■auses elude detection. Recently it aas been proposed to make use of the dumping reactions, made familiar by :he Wiilal test, to determine the oacillixinic qualities of meat, audit would seem that the method promises aiuch. It may be wise to recall a few af the characteristics of sound meat, (jood, wholesome meat is neither of a pale piukish) nor of a deep purple :int. It has a marbled appearance, from the ramification of little veins or intercellular fat; the fat of the inter nal organs especially is iirm, hard aud iuety, and is never wet; whereas that jf diseased animals is often soft and watery. Good meat has but little ador, whereas diseased meat smells faint aud cadaverous. Good meat bears cooking without much shrink ing or losing much of its weight, but bail meat shrivels up and boils to pieces, this being due to the larger proportion of watery aud gelatinous naterial and the absence of true mus cular substance. Under the micro scope the fibre should be clear and well defined and free from infusorial auimalculse, while that of diseased .neat is sodden as if it had been soaked iu water; the transverse streaks are indistinct and wide apart, and animal :jul:e abound iu it.—Sanitary Record. Keel per*. Pumpkin Fanchonettes Mix to gether one cupful of dry, steamed rnd sifted pumpkin, half a cupful of •mgar, one of rich milk, two eggs dightly beaten, two tablespoonfuls of molasses, one of ginger,two of melted butter, one teaspoonfful of cinnamon indone-third of a teaspoonful of salt; pour into individual pastry-lined tins iud bake liO minutes. Lemon Butter for Tarts—One pound it powdered sugar, whites of six eggs, the yolks of two eggs. Grated rind af two lemons, the juice of three. Heat the sugar and whites of the egg i little. Put them in the double boiler. When hot pour over tha beaten yolks. Return all to the pan, idd le.nou juice aud riud. Stir over i slow tire '2O minutes. Brunoiae Soup—Cut two carrots iud one yellow turnip into dica, add jne cau peas and let simmer iu water and then drain. Put the vegetables in a saucepan, pour over them three quarts of stock aud cook slowly until the vegetables are thoroughly done. Seasou with salt and pepper and a little celery salt and serve. This soup .liffers from most other vegetable ii>ups in that no onion is used in its preparation. Chicken Salad—Cnt cold boiled chicken aud celery into tiny pieces with a sharp knife and cover with the following dressing: Moisten two even tablespoonfuls of mustard with boil ing water, stir smooth and beat well with three eggs, one-half enp of olive oil or melted butter as preferred, one scant teaspoonful of white pepper, wo of salt, one cup vinegar. Heat the dressing until thick. Spread the chicken and celery on lettuce leaves aud pour on the dresstug. Apple Marmalade—Wash and cut <tlf a peck of tart apples into pieces; place them in a kettle, cover barely with cold water, set the kettle over the fire aud boil till apples are Roft; then rub them through a puree sieve; return the apple pulp to the kettle and boil over slow fire without a cover 20 minutes; then measure; add to each pint one pint of sugar aud two tablespoonfuls lemon juice; stir nnd cook ten minutes. l'ut into glass jai b, close tightly and set in a cool ••lace. You Can Have It Also. The lady whose linens you envy, uses "Bed Cross" and "Hublngcr's Best" laundry starch. It is easy to make your self an object of envy also. Ask your Krocer, he can tell you just how you can get ono large 10c. package of "Bed Cross" starch, one large 10c. package of "Hubluger's Best" starch, with the premiums, two beautiful Shateppeare panels, printed in twelve beautiful aol ors, or one Twentieth Century Girl cal endar, ull for sc. A Itelic of 1824. G.' T. McNeill, of the Salem (Mass.) Times, has in bis poseession a copy of the Essex Register of the date of Octo ber 18, 1824, published at Salem by Warwick Palfiay, Jr. The paper ia brimful of news of the time, and fur nishes an excellent epitome of those early clays. Deouty Is Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body, begin to-day to Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction tnmranterd, 10c, 25c, 50c. English business men in Paris ore being boycotted. What Shall We Have For Desaert! This question arises In the family dally. Let us answer It to-day. Try Joli-O, a delicious nud healthful dessert. Prepared in 2 uoin. No boiling! no baking! Simply add a littlo hot water&settocool. Flavors: Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At grocers. 10c. For every million inhabitants in Russia there are ten newspnpors. VITALITY low,debilitated or exhausted cureJ byl'r. Kline's invigorating Tonic. Funs S trial bottle for 2 wcks'treatment. Br. Kllm Ld., U3l Arch St., Philadelphia. Founded 1871 Over 15,000 people went through Yellow stone Park last seasou. Worthless Stuff! What a lot of trash is sold as cough cures. The hollow drum makes the loudest noise—the biggest advertise ment often covers worthlessness. Sixty years of cures and such testi mony as the follow ing have taught us what Ayer's Cherry Pectoral will do. " I had a most stubborn cough for many years. It deprived me of sleep and made me lose flesh rapidly. 1 was treated by many eminent physicians, but could get no permanent relief. I then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and I be gan to get better at once. I now sleep well, my old flesh is back, and I enjoy myself in every way at the age of seventy-four."—R. N. MANN, Fall Mills, Tenn., Feb. 7, 1899. It's the do-»s-you-would-be done-by cough medicine. Try * 25-cent bottle. KFORTTCESTS! We wish to gain t hid year 200.(X0 ' new customer*, and hener offer ( 1 Pkg. City Garden Beet, Ire ( kg.Earl'st EmeraldCucuraberl6c " La Crosse Market Lettuce, 15c , " Strawberry Melon, 150 " 13 Daj Kaili-ib, lUo 1 * Early Ulpo Cabbage, 10c < " Early Dinner Onion, lUo I " Brilliant Flower Seeds, 160 i urth SI.OO, for 14 ecßts. $1.06 | OTO 10 Pkgs. worth 91.00, we will I il you free, together with our I tat Catalog, telling all about < HUB'S MILLION DOUAB POTATO >n receipt of this notice <k 14c. < mpu. we invite yourtrado, and aw when you once try Salser'a bilb yoa will never do without. ' DO Prizes on Sailer's HM»O- rss- ( ft est earl lost Tomato Giant on earth AC" I X JOU.I A, BALZSft BKBD CO., LA CROSSE, »4*. ( W. L. DOUGLAS S3 & 3.50 SHOES ai'iftj l M\ with other makes. t m yy 11 \lnd«r»ed by over B ikjl » 1,000,000 wearers. Egf Mb C 9 t\ jjlf The aenuine have W. L. )f ■ I IJm Douglas' name and price A li\ l«ti stan, P et * on bottom. JT I lU£ no substitute claimed to be V. A \jH as good. Your dealerA. m a should keep them —, / m , ffl not, we will send a receipt of price and 25c. V extra for carriage. State kind of leather, M iie, and width, plain or cap toe. Cat. free »■ L DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton. Man bsgun bsgun is half done. Bow well voq would rsap wall. Bow Ag&SWJk .?.!&? srtr«ul§ S.S PJfh girw. I'JU) Catalogue free. j. u. caiftoai * HOW, fn-sua—. DR. ARNOLD'S COUBH Cure* Coughs and Colds. I# II I PR Prevent* Conautnptlon. Hll I FN All DnniUtt, in. IMfcfcfcll In the country it is hard to get help for the house hold work. Wives, mothers and daughters who do their own work should have the very best of everything to do it with. Ivory Soap is the best; it cleans quickest and is easiest on the hands. It floats. A WORD OF WARNING—There are many white soaps, each represented to be " just as Rood as the 'lvorythey ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities at the genuine. Ask tor "Ivory " Soap and Insist upon setting it. COPYRIGHT 1888 BY THE PROCTER * GAMBLE CO. PJNCINMAT# Red, Rough Hands^ltching, Palms, and Painful Finger Ends. r j One Night Treatment Soak the hands on retiring in a strong, hot, creamy lather of CUTICURA SOAP. Dry, and anoint freely with CUTICURA, the great skin cure and purest of emollients. Wear, during the night, old, loose kid gloves, with the finger ends cut off and air holes cut in the palms. For red, rough, chapped hands, dry, fissured, itching, feverish palms, with shapeless nails and pair-ful finger ends, this treatment is simply wonderful, and points to a speedy cure of the most distress ing cases when physicians and all else fail. Sore Hands 8 Years Cured. Pain So Intense Would Nearly Twist Fingers From Sockets. Hands Puffed Up Like a Toad. Water Ran Through Bandages to Floor. Had to Walk the Floor Until Would Fall Asleep. Fingers Would Peel Like an Onion. Doctors Could Not Cure. Eight years ago I got sore hands, commeucingwlth a burning reneation on my fingers and 011 top of the hand. Wheu I rubbed them, you could see little white pimples. I felt like twisting my Augers out of their sockets. I had high fever, and cold chills ran over me, and so I kept it going until I was tired out. Nights, I had to walk the floor until I fell asleep. My hands peeled like an onion, the finger nails got loose, and the water ran out, and wherever there was a little pimple there the burniug fire was that happened at least ten tiuie3. 1 am running a blacksmith shop, horse shoeing, aud I would not shut up the shop for anybody, but it wi».B hard. My hands puffed up worse than a toad. When 1 drove horse nails, the water from my hands ran through the bandage, onto tho floor. My cus tomers refused to look at my hand. I had a friend take me to the doctor; he gave a solutiou of something to bathe my hands. I went to another doctor, I think, for a year. I found your advertisement In a Utica news paper, and I got the Cuticcba remedies. As soon as I used them I began to gain, and after using a small quantity of them I was entirely cured. X would not take fifty dollars for a cake of Ccticura Soap if 1 could not get anv more. I would not suffer any more as 1 did, for the whole countrv. , Feb. 22,1898. CASPER DIETSCIILER, Pembroke, Genesee Co., N. Y tfiHinura Complete External and Infernal Treatment for Every Humor, mil titilll MM constating of Cuticuba Poap (25c), to cleanse the ekln of crusts and scales and soften the thickened cuticle, Cuticura Ointment (60c.), »Hay itching, inflammation, and irritation, and soothe and The SOty 81.25 anJ CUTICURA RESOLVENT (60C.), to cool and cleanse the blood. A Siholi Bst is often sufficient to cure the most torturing, disfiguring, and humiliating skin, scalp, and blood humors, with loss of hair, when all else fails. Hold throughout the world. DRUO AND CAS*. CORP., Sole Trope., Boston, U. 8. A, •• All about the Hkin, gcalp, and ilalr," free. Millions of Women Use Cuticura Soap Exclusively for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of fulling hair, for softening, whitening, and toothing red, rough, and sore hands, In the form of baths for annoying Irritations, Inflam mations, and chaflugs, or too free or offensive perspiration. In the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and for nmny sanative antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, aud especially mothers, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. No amount of persuasion can Induce those who have once used it to use any other, especially for preserving and purifying the skin, scalp, and hair of Infants and children. CUTICCBA SOAPcomblnes delicate emollient properties derived from CUTICCRA, the great sklu cure, with the purest of cleansing Ingredients and the most refreshing of flower odors. No other medicated soap ever compounded U to be compared with it for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair, and hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, howevor expensive, Is to be compared with it for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it combines in ONE SOAP at OSR PRICE, viz., TWENTV-FIVE CENTS, the BEST sklu and complexion soap, the BEST toilet and BEST baby soap In the world. "SSSVXH?} Thompson's Eye Wafer I ADVERTISING StEMVT
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