Corn and Onts for Work Hornet. One of the Paris omnibus companies which uses a large number of horses concludes that a grain ration consist ing of 0.6 pounds of coru and 12 pounds of oats will prove more satisfactory than any other. Another ration, fed by the same-company, of 11 pounds of oats with 0.0 pounds of corn and all the hay and straw the animals will eat was equally satisfactory. Fodder Crop*. At the experiment station at Still water. Okla.. they tested several differ ent fodder crops to find the yield per acre, and in the winter ascertained the dry matter and the amount diges tible in each one. They found the digest ible dry matter in corn per ncre was fiOOO pounds, Kafiir corn 0110 pounds, black rice corn "018 pounds, Milo maize 10,010 pounds, small sorghum 11.102 pounds, large sorghum 11,359 pounds. The sorghum and Milo maize gave higher yields than the corn and Kaffir, but they were very low in pro tein or growth-making materials, and therefore not so valuable for feeding, especially for growing animals. Water for the Cowi, The Geneva experiment station claims to have ascertained that cows in full milk need four and three-fifths pounds of water for each pound of milk they yield. As records have been made by Holstein cows, or one at least, of over 100 pounds per day, does lhis mean that she took about 00 gal lons of water a day. We can scarcely credit it. although we know that green grass or ensilage contain a large amount of water, but we think not enough to bring her daily allowance up to 00 gallons a day, even though she was fed 011 the most succulent food. If our memory serves us rightly, when we had a dairy herd the cows which gave the most milk were not the ones that drank most heartily at the trough. When the water was very cold, or when there was ice in the trough the ones that drank the most freely were the ones that shrank in their milk, and the dry cows, but those which gave milk continuously were not hearty drinkers in fall or winter. Will they not. see if they cannot revise those fig ures a little or acknowledge excep tions to the rule? Turnipa Following Buckwheat. That buckwheat Is a bad crop to plant immediately, before turnips is an opinion held very generally by farmers, some even declaring that this crop acts as a poison to the turnip and other plnnts also. This opinion was com bated and the following experiment tried to prove the matter. A turnip field was plowed and otherwise pre pared for cropping, divided into two equal plots, one being sown to buck wheat, the other fallowed. After the buckwheat had flowered and was com mencing to ripen it was cut. chopped in a fodder cutter, returned to the soil upon which it grew and turned under. Some of the seed had ripened and fall en and there was soon a volunteer crop of buckwheat, which was turned under when a few inches tall. At the same time the other plot was prepared for turnips. In all respects save ths growth of the buckwheat crop the plots were treated alike. At harvest the salable turnips from the buckwheat plot weighed more than four times as much as the salable ones upon the other plot. They were also more nu merous and smaller upon the bare plot than where the buckwheat had grown. Certainly in this case the poisoning was not very severe.—New England Homestead. Providing I.ute Kail Pasture. Corn undoubtedly takes the first place on account of the large amount of fodder it will yield. Plant late so it will be tender and juicy when fed. We prefer to plant it in drills about three feet apart, dropping one corn every two or three inches in the row, as it will not grow so coarse as if planted in hills. However, as the frost will sometimes injure the corn quite early in the fall, it is advisable to provide for some other kind of green fodder also that can be pastured until quite late. The following method is one of of the best when the necessary fence can be provided: Immediately 1) 'fore the corn is giv en the last cultivation, sow by hand in the corn field two and a half bushels per acre of barley, oats and winter rye. mixing together two parts each of barley and oats to one of rye. If only barley and oats are sown, use at least three bushels per acre. Cultivate liotli ways if possible. The sowing should be delayed as late as possible, so that it will not make too rank a growth until after the corn is cut, which should be done as soon as it is ripe. When dry it should be hauled from the field and put up into oblong stacks, with some coarse hay 011 top to keep off the rain until it can be husked. The barley, etc, will make a vigor ous growth as soon as the corn Is cut, and will be ready to turn the stock upon as soon as the corn can be re moved. It will supply abundant fall pasture until the ground freezes up in the fall. Besides the large amount of pasture it will supply, it has the ad ditional advantage of keeping the corn field free from weeds.—Lewis O. Polio, lu American Agriculturist. Mot* in T*n»tnret. Moss Is liable to assert Itself in all kinds of old grass land, and Is perhaps M.we detrimental to the productive ca pabilities of pasture or meadow than any other weed or circumstance. The presence of moss may be due to vari ous causes, but it is generally safe to conclude that where moss abounds there is some condition conducive to the healthy development of the more valuable plants wanting, or not proper ly represented. Poverty in some form, either of fertility or of good plants, is, of course, a fruitful source of the noxious growth, but often It is trace able to over richness in the priceless humus, and sometimes to solidity of the surface soil, and in some cases even to excessive looseness of the soil. In short, the presence of moss is not regulated so much by the conditions favorable to its development, for it seems capable of thriving under any condition, as by those which tend to promote the healthy growth of the less tenacious grasses and clovers. Accordingly, the best means of pre venting the development of this worth less growth, or of combating it after it has attained a hold, is to encourage the more useful plants by mechanical and chemical means. What the effect ual treatment may consist of can be ascertained only by local experiment. The trials which have been in progress for a couple of seasons at tlie Wye col lege, in Kent, show that for the light, chalky soil obtaining there constant rolling and harrowing, with the tread ing of sheep, are the only means of keeping the moss down. The loosen ing of the soil by means of n fork was actually harmful, though on heavy land this method of aiding ventilation might be useful. I.iine and basic slag, though often beneficial, were unavail ing. Superphosphate was productive of some little effect.—London Tost. Kemedy for tlie Chinch Bug. The Ohio agricultural experiment station has found out a new way to light the chinch bug. which ravages corn, wheat and meadow. This is by utilizing the chinch bug fungus to kill other bugs. With favorable meteoro logical conditions the threadlike branches of the chinch bug fungus take possession of the interior of the bug. When the bug dies, branches are pushed out through the body and pro duce clusters of minute capsules filled with spores. Sometimes these clusters an., so thick on the dead bugs as almost to obscure the body, and only the legs are visible, or 1 lie bugs may be clus tered on a plant, dead and covered with fungus. As these capsules containing the spores burst, tlx y release the spores and these may .still further be diffused by the wind, so that it is easy to see how one diseased bug among a mass of several hundred may affect the whole of them, and if some of the in fected ones, before becoming helpless, stray to a distance, the infection is carried from place to place and in this way diffused from field to field. How ever easily large masses of bugs may be destroyed by this fungus enemy, under favorable conditions, the pros pect of its working is not encouraging if either the bugs are scattered badly or the weather is dry. This fungus is sent out, cultivated artificially, in a mixture of beef broth and corn meal, which saves much time and expense in securing and transport ing the bugs to and fro from the sta tion. The farmers who receive it are instructed to cut the mass contained 111 each box into bits the size of an ordinary pin head and drop these bits among the bugs, where these ure massed in great numbers, preferably on low or damp ground. Sliort nntl Iscfnl Pointer*. Every neglect in poultry raising has its cost. Wash and scald the milk vessels carefully. Make it a practice to wash the udders of the cows. Feeding too frequently will cause animals to glut. A change of pasture is at times bene ficial to the stock. See that the animals have all that they want to drink. It is impossible to make a poorly drained road a good one. The healtlifulness of farm life Is one of its many advantages. The milk utensils should be aired each time they are used. When yon change the food of the stock don't do it suddenly. Every farm should contain an un failing supply of pure water. The fowls are better off when they have to scratch for a living. Plant the crops so that the farm will lose as little fertility as possible. A farmer enn use a lot of brains in trying to regulate his barnyard prop erly. If the cows and stables are clean there will be 110 trouble with tainted milk. If there is such a thing as good luck in farming it is the result of good judg ment. The power of heredity in thorough bled cows is stronger than in scrub stock. The hens that are kept in a damp yard and house are not going to pay a profit. Better have a small farm well worked than a large farm poorly worked. Ascertain what varieties are most successful in your neighborhood and theu plant them. Close study and careful thought bring the farmer about as near to success as anything. When the soil Is in good shape the difference In atmosphere does not have so much effect upon the git wing croo. THE GREAT DESTROYER. SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Drink is Kn(lind'a Curie, Says the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon—Writes that He Had to Get Off the Sidewalks to Glv* the Inperi llooin. Tin Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, who has just returned from England, contributes the following article to the Topeku (Kan.) Daily Capital, which paper he last spring edited for a week as he believed Jesus would have done it: "It may interest Kansas people to learn that t.he.v are living ill paradise, so far as the nurse of the liquor business is con cerned, when they compare their condi tion as a pri.ubitorv State with Scotland and England. From the day of our landing in Liverpool up to the present we have seen the effects of the curse of drink al most without a day's exception, anil in terms of emphatic disgust we are ready to declare our astonishment that English people will endure the sights and results that TO with the drink traffic. "Mrs. Sheldon and I have been insulted in the cars by drunken soldiers, one of whom threatened to do us personal in jury, and not a soul in the train offered any remonstrance, such is the love of the British for their military heroes; we have had to get off the sidewalk and go in the street to give the drunkards room: we have been jostled 011 railway platforms by drunken men and women; we have had intoxicating drink offered us at the houses of English people, with the exception of a few families of Nonconformists in Scot land and Ivondon; we have seen the evils of the public house on almost every cor ner. with barmaids behind the bar and little children crowding every inch of room in every public house in every town and city we have visited, and it is the wonder of bewilderment to us that such conditions can be faced with indifference, for it seems to me that the worst that can be said about intemperance over here is the light and way in which it is all received. "The sights that have made my blood boil in the slums and in view of the big saloons have not caused more than a shrug ot the shoulders from Englishmen who saw them with me. "1 want to say to the people of Kansas, you don't know what you have to be thankful for in your prohibitory law. Stand up for it and believe in it, and bless Rod that your children don't see the things thi t this drunken nation looks upon every day. if England goes to de struction in the next century it will not be because of outside war or dangers from other nations, but because she has drunk herself into destruction. Men and women of Kansas, as you believe in CJod and home and the souls of your children, never let the whisky power have dominion over the State we all love!" I>rinkinc 111 Great Britain. Dr. Cunningham Geikie gives the fol lowing saddening renort of the prevalence of drinking habits in England: "Temperance has done much in the last generation to oppose this had passion, but even in America victory is still far ahead. Here 111 England the woes of in temperance may be judge by its sad com monness, for the consumption of strong drink in the States is not much more than half ner head of that with us. Were our outlay in alcohol no higher than yours, it would save us 110 less than $285,00(1,000 .1 year—and how many woes would that heal ? "Our drink bill for 18SS was nearly $772.- 500,000, which comes to nearly $33 for every living creature old enough to crave such drink. In my parish 1 found many workmen who drank over $7 a week out of a wage of Sill. Workinguien are three fourths of our population, and it is be lieved they spend $.'500,000,000 yearly on worse than useless drink. An American in my congregation told me he hail to close a factory opened by him at Wolver hampton, from his workmen never mak ing a whole week, some coming to work only 011 Wednesday, and even then they would get boys to smuggle beer into the factory. "No wonder we have 120.000 public houses in the United Kingdom, with a capital of Jl.loO.lRlO.OOO!''- Missionary Re view ol the World. Wreckers. (A Recitation for Small 15oy or (JirlV There u ed to be a class of people who lived on the coast of England, called "Wreckers." In the dark, stormy nights many richly laden ships were dashed to pieces upon the rocks, and these wreckers would seize as much of the goods as they could for their own, and, selling them for a large price, they often became quite wealthy. Now. it is u terrible thing to wreck ships and destroy human lives, but it is much more terrible to wreck human souls. Are there any soul wreckers? Yes, an infidel is one. I hope we shall not grow up infidels. A rumseller is another wreck er. By the poison he sells to many a hu man being with brilliant talents he de stroys both body and soul. Can we not coax some of these wreckers to tuke up a better business? Suppose we try what per suasion can do. Liquor Drinking; In France. The extent to whicn the consumption of liquor enters into "the problem of the social life of France may be seen from the statement that a member of the French commission for the study of questions af fecting the working classes declared a short time ago that I if. and his colleagues, in the conscientious discharge of their du ties, took a number of meals at different restaurants in Paris and other cities fre quented by laboring men. and they noted that fully two-thirds of the money paid for meals by the customers of these es tablishments was paid for liq.(or. Paris lias now at least twice as many public houses as before the war of 1870, and prob ably the same proportionate increase holds with reference to other sections of France.—Christian Advocate. Health and Wealth. A gentleman, writing to us. says: "My health has improved ft hundredfold, and my purse, though scanty, has augmented fifty per cent, from the day 1 forsook wine and beer," Does not this show you that the man who does not drink can have both health and weall.l in larger measure than he who is in the habit of using strong drink? An Aatmindtng Assertion. A prominent Rhode Island lawyer said a short time ago that there could be no wholesale conviction oF those rumsellera who are breaking the State liquor laws, because the State institutions are so crowd ed with criminals, insane and paupers whom the rumsellers have sent there, that there is no room for them to follow. Tile CriiMilß in Uriel*. The best way to keep cool is to keep so ber. Uncle Saul will not have tipplers in his employ if he knows it. A letter carrier in Chelsea, Mass., was discharged jrecently for intoxication. One of the most striking things about some of the papers published in Ireland is the number of cases of drunkenness that are reported in them. A drink that is said to be, unfortunate ly, spreading in popularity through Europe is a mixture of etner and slightly diluted alcohol, a concoction highly injurious tc the nervous system. _ - • ■ Ornamental Skyscraper. New York correspondence Pittsburg Post: In an up-tewn side street a tall building is approaching completion and will be the first to exhibit a peculiarity of construction which has often been urged here as Uie best means of miti gating the skyscraper's ugliness. This new building towers above its neigh bors, and under ordinary circum stances yards of unadorned brick would face the spectator. But the owner and architects have adopted the plan imposed by law in Paris and have decorated the sides of the building. This ornamentation, which is simple and tasteful, conforms in style to the principal facades of the building, al though not nearly so elaborate. If all the New York's towering biAldlngs had been treated in the same fashion, ob jection to the skyscraper would be less pronounced than it is today. Aged Scotch Golfer. Mr. Tom Morris, the well-known Scotch golfer, attained his 79th year the other day, and, as usual on his birthday, played a round of the St. Andrews links. The veteran golfer, notwithstanding his advanced age, is hale and liearty, and almost daily en joys his round of the links. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn I Shake Into your shoes Allen's Foot-Kase a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Ingrowing Nails, Itching, Swollen, Hot, Callous, 80m and Sweating Feet. All Druggists and Shoe Stores sell It, 25c. Sample sent FREE. 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