Kenewlng the Lawn- If you wish to renew the lawn this fall use Kentucky blue grass and white clover, as they seem to stajid the dry seasons better than some kindc. If sown in the fall the grass will get a good start and be ready to grow rapidly in spring. Sow in Aug ust amd September. To Secure tiood Cow*. Good cows can only be secured by keeping the good c-alves that axf* from animals which are known to be meritorious, but the farmers who buy their tresh cows and sell their calves when they are but a few days old destroy all opportunities for selection. A good calf, however, is one that is bred for a special purpose, and the farmer, therefore, knows in advance what it should be when matured, and the calf will, if it is from good stock, probably not disappoint him. No Rule for Feeding* There is no rule for feeding, as each individual must be considered sepa rately from the others. It is not an uncommon error to suppose that the animals which eat but little aire the most profitable. So long as an animal is capable of digesting and assimilat ing food the greater the amount of food it should consume, and the more profitable the returns, especially with producers, such as cows. The propor tion of food required to support an animal and supply waste of tissue is less when a large amount of food is eaten than when a smaller quantity is consumed. Hurdpnfnc Off, "Hardenng off" is u. term well un derstood by gardeners, but whether it is properly carried out in prac tice is another consideration. We see so many plants injured or irre trievably lost by hastily pitching them out of the houses and exposing them at onco to the burning sun, that it appears only right to convey a few words of caution to those who adopt this method. It does not pay any one to get his plants burned up or in jured, as the appearance of his flow er beds or even pot plants thus treated would be very unsatisfactory for a long time afterwards. When the plants are removed from the greenhouse, they require to be grad ually exposed to the full influence of the sun. Of course, where there are plenty of cold frames, this can be easily done, but such is not often the ease. A good warm sheltered position should be chosen, under a wall fence of seme kind, when first exposed, and if a covering of tiffany or other light material can be placed over them so much the better, so as to admit of air and to screen them from the sun. This can be removed after a few days, if pr>3sible, choosing dull weather to do so. If tiffany is not procurable, a few branches of ever greens plaod over them will answer the same purpose, or many of the hardier kinds cf plants can be placed under shelter of trees or shrubs until wanted to plant out. The same caution in the matter of hard ening off, applies to such things as dentzias, lilacs azalear. etc.. wtiich, after having done their portion of the decorative work must not be hast 'ly pushed away in corners or out of the way places to be burnt by the sun or parched for the want of water. They will in the near future amply re pay us by giving forth their rich store of color, if properly treated and cared for. —F. H. Sweet, in The Eplt smist. Cauliflower on Sandy Soil. The general impresson Is that cauliflower cannot be successfully grown on sandy soils, and for the best results it should be grown on a lively loam. Experience has proven to the I.ong Island growers most con clusively that it is not. the character of soil, but its condition, that insures sucecss. The cauliflower, in common with all other plants, does not feed upon soil, but upon the elements of plant growth contained in the soil, and these can be furnished by the light as well as by the heavy soils. Then the question arises can it be grown without the aid of commercial fertilizer? Yes, but I should prefer, under some circumstances, its use. For instance the cauliflower has a de cided thirst for salt, an element that can only be furnished by the use of rhemicals. On saline coasts the at mosphere will furnish that to a con siderable extent, but not sufficient for its needs, which on Long Island is furnished by the salts used in the commercial fertilizers. Last season was one of vicissitudes wth this crop, and showed in a few Instances the value of salt. Let me state an instance. One of our best farmers had a field, in which he was to grow cauliflower the past year, completely flooded by a remarkably high tide, the first in the history of the farm. When the time for set ting the plants came they were set ' here the same as in the other fields, which had been given the same pro portion of fertilizer. When the har vest came the flooded field proceed one of the heaviest crops ever known, and It has been stated that profits were more than SI OOO per acre, while most other fields were total failures. If I were to grow a cauliflower on a sandy soil, I should take a piece of ?od and treat It liberally with well rotted manure, which should be put Dn the surface a - id DloweJ imi&r about June 1, then harrowed smooth, ly, and left until about time to set the piants. Then I should cultivate as finely as possible, without dis turbing the sod, and at the same time work in 800 pounds common salt to the acre, and look with confidence for a satisfactory crop.—C. L. Allen, in New England Homestead. Unprofitable Krnit Tree*. In some cases it will be found that old fruit trees, though profitless at present, consist of good salable kinds, and the question is, By what means can such trees be brought into fruit ful or profitable condition? A fruit tree of this kind need not necessarily be unprofitable because it is old, though if it is old and has been neg lected it must be. We find that many of this class of tree are what they are through neglect. The heads have for years been allowed to become a tangled mass of growth. The head wood has become crowded, so that too many fruits set, and in the end do not come to a salable size, neither do they color up as tliey should do. In such cases the remedy is simple. The old, dead growth must be cut out thoroughly. The moss covered boughs must be cleaned. All branches that cross and rub against each other must be regulated by removal, and generally the pruning or thinning out process must be carried out in such a way that when finished the heads of the trees will be open and airy, which will insure a free crop of the best fruits. If any one will look into the mat ters with which we deal they will find that the majority of the profitless fTV(it trees we refer to are planted in grass land. The fact is instructive, and it justifies in the most emphatic manner the denunciations that we launched against the F: stem for years. It is utterly impossible to grow the best apples and pears in grass land —there can be no doubt about that. If we pay a visit in the fruiting season to the fruit trees set in grass we shall be struck with tne small size of the fruits the trees usually bear. There may be plenty of apples or pears, but there will be few good sized fruits to bo seen among them. Tillage is of the utmost im portance to fruit trees, but this im portant operation cannot be carried out when the trees are surrounded with grass. Aeration, so necessary in the production of large sized fruits, becomes impossible, and the fine surface tilth tl.at is so needful under good culture cannot be pro duced unless the land is open and un cropped by grass or any crops grow ing right up to the stems of the trees.—London Globe. Hay and Fertility. A good way to run down the fer tility of a farm is to raise successive crops of hay on the land without any special attention to improve J methods of restoring to the soil the elements which the hay takes from it. In many parts of the country, where haying was formerly very profitable, it is now a pretty poor sort of farming, simply on account of this robbing of the soil. The hay was raised contin uosly, and money was made thereby; but gradually the hay crop proved smaller and less profitable, and in time the land was good for nothing else. There are at present many such run-down farms, and the owners will tell you that there is no money in raising hay, nor in any other kind of farming. It is not that the price of hay is not satisfactory, but the land which formerly yielded such good crops fails now to respond. I believe in raising good hay for market, and do it every year, finding therein as good profit as in any oth er crop. But years ago I came to the conclusion that hay as a market crop would not pay unless it was raised as a part of a good system of crop rotation. Consequently while other farms around me have in many in stances shown unmistakable signs of degeneration through too heavy hay cropping, mine is really in better fer tility than at the beginning. I have always contrived to get back to the land as much if not more than I took from it. The ssoll must be in the right condition to yield a heavy crop of timothy, and timothy takes from it more life and fertility than any other crop. That is one reason why fancy timothy hay always brings the high est price in the market. Yet with forethought and planning a big crop of fancy timothy can be raised almost as easily as any other hay grass. It is all in the rotation and the method. In this rotation clover must al ways play a conspicuous part. Let clover follow wheat to add to the soil all the rich fertility that this plant carries with it. The clover crop must be planted often to make it possible to secure a good catch without difficulty. The trouble often is that clover is used only as a "nst resort. Other crops are planted and harvested until the soil is robbed of nearly all its fertility: then it is ex pected that clover will suddenly re store the land to its normal condi tion. This it would do if the clover could be made to grow luxuriantly, but the fact is the soil is then so poor t'hat the clover fails to make a good catch, and as a result efforts must be made to induce the clover to grow. This is much like the other crops. It does not pay to let the soil run down too much. The time for repairing it is when the degener acy first begins. Each year the re pairs to the soil should be maJe Then we would have no run-down farms and soils that will not produce paying crops.—C. S. Walters, in American Cultivator. Money lakes the man, but man ha» to make the money first. Stains on Knrnitiire, The whit.e stains on polished furni ture caused from the spilling of spirits or too hot plates can be removed by pouring in them a few drops of spirits of camphor, wiped off quickly with a flannel cloth. Follow this treatment immediately by a vigorous rubbing with good furniture polish. Hints on Cake Halting. Light cakes require a rathe/ brisk oven to raise and set them. Cakes raised with baking powder also need a quick oven. Much sugar in a cake will cause it to burn quickly. There fore, the oven must not be so hot for them. Large, rich cakes require long and careful baking. Small sugar cakes need a slow oven. Gingerbread, too, should be gently baked. The oven door should be kept closed until the dough set's, and all the time the cake is baking the door of the oven should be opened as little as possible and the door very gently closed, as slamming the door, even to shut, will make a cake heavy. Pretty Hammock* This Sanson. Hammocks this year come in col ors beautiful enough to tempt even the most economical sumuer woman to purchase one. Some of the pret tiest are in solid colors, the tints be ing vivid scarlet, olivo green and ivory white. Then there are pink and blue hammocks that seem un sulted to anything but comic opera. Hammock cushions have taken on a literary and artistic tone. Only the erudite can understand this year's crop. Gibson pictures are embroid ered on many of them. Scenes from some of the historical novels aro re. produced and quotations from all the poets are there. One odd thing about the age wo live in is that cushions supposed to be purely feminine luxuries are now made up specially for bachelors. For the summer man's hammock cushion there are pictures of poker chips and pipes, gay old monks with upraised steins, yachts in full sail, ballet girls and diving girls all ready to be em broidered by feminine fingers in tended finally to form a resting place for the head of a summer bachelor. —New York Sun. Daintily Serred Meal*. The person who says that food tastes just as good without so much trouble being spent on the prettlnesa of a meal should not be allowed to influence the housewife. It is a fact that the laboring man satisfies his hunger from the meal he carries with him and eats at the way side, but ho looks forward to the en joyment of his Sunday dinner, served on a clean, though perhaps coarse, tablecloth, with well-polished plates, dishes and glasses. To him the meal tastes twice as good as any other in the week, and because he en joys it more it does him far more good. Table influences are great factors in the refinement of human beings. A pleasant, well-prepared and daintily served meal will give a feeling of peace and good will to those who par take of it, while one that is the re verse of this causes a feeling of vexa tion and irritation which by no means tends either to good digestion or to domestic harmony. This being the case, it is the duty of every housewife to see that meals are as well cooked and prettily served as possible and to teach her children the refinements of the table. —Washington Star. /J&A R£C/P£S Farmers' Muffins —For one dozen muffins take one cup cold cooked oat meal (or other breakfast cereal) and beat in one-fourth cup milk until smooth; add a saltspoonful of salt and one cup of flour. Beat two eggs separately until very light, add yolks to batter, beat well, fold in the stiff whites and pour into hot, greased gem irons. Bake in rather hot oven from 20 to 30 minutes. Servo promptly. Carrot Soup—Take half a dozen small French carrots, wash and scrape them, putin a saucepan with boiling water and cook until tender, remove from the fire, mix with milk and press through a sieve. Melt two ounces of butter in a saucepan and rub into it a slightly heaping tea spoonful of flour, add a few grains of cayenne pepper, and stir in a little at a time the carrot puree until smooth like cream, add a few slices of cooked celery root (celerlac) and salt to taste, and pour into the puree. Servo with fried croutons. Dressing for Beets —Four taWe spoonfuls of butter, one tablespoonful of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of dry mustard, one cup of vinegar, one cup of milk, three eggs and a speck of cayenne pepper. Heat the butter, add flour and stir until smooth, but do not brown; add tho milk, stir and boll up once: place saucepan In another pan containing hot water, add beaten eggs, salt and other Ingredients, with the exception of vinegar; allow to boll up, then add vinegar; continue stirring until K thickens. Allow it to coo) before pouring over the chopped vegetables BREACH OF THE CONTRACT, j Bow a Man Got the Hest of a Subscrip tion Book Selieme. A citizen of Buffalo has just won his case from a subscription book con cern. He subscribed for a set of Bal zac's works with the understanding that the edition was to be limited to 1,000 sets. He thought he was to be just one of a thousand out of seventy odd millions In the United States to be envied the possession of the Balzac sets. He learned afterward that there were two other "limited editions" of the same work, that all three editions were printed from the same plates on the same quality of pa per and differed only In the illustrations and the color of the binding. The BufTalo purchaser contended that the publishers had vio lated their contract with him and re fused to complete his payments for the set. Whereupon the publishers brought suit to recover. The case has just been tried in the municipal court In Buffalo and has been won by the de fendant, the court holding that a mere color of the binding did not constitute a new edition, and that the defendant was the victim of a breach of contract. This was good law and a correct re sult. The tricks of the subscription book publishers and their agents are many. When a man finds he has been cheated he should resist. The courts will protect him. —Utica Observer. Shift* of Arctle Seals. Lake Baikal is a remarkable body of water lying In a longitudinal trough on the edge of the central Asiatic pla teau, whose surface Is 1,600 feet above the sea with which it is connected by the Yenisei river after flowing across the northern plains of Siberia for a distance of 2,000 miles. A most curi ous fact, long known to scientific men, is that this lake is occupied by a spe cies of seal almost identical with those found in the Arctic ocean. The same species, with slight variations are also found in the Caspian sea, but not any where else along the 3,000 or 4,000 • miles which separate these bodies of water. The most probable explanation of this fact, and the one usually ac cepted by scientific men is that these species of seal were thus widely dis tributed during a continental subsi dence in which the waters of the Arc tic ocean covered all of northwestern Siberia and extended up to the base of the great Asiatic plateau which we , followed for such a long distance on elevated shore lines of Turkestan, says McClure's Magazine. When this de pressed area emerged from the sea, it left the sea! isolated in the two great bodies of water which still remain on its former margin. So lately has this taken place, that there has not been time for any great change to be effect ed in the specific characteristics ol these animals. A Rural Minister's Mistake. An unsophisticated young minister In rural Pennsylvania, recently or dained, not long ago wrote to a theo logical professor in Philadelphia a 9 follows: "I am a poor speaker and find it hard to utter my thoughts clear ly and forcibly. I have decided, therefore, to take a course of instruc tion in speaking, and, learning from the papers that thero are a great many speak-easles in your city, I would be obliged if you would recommend me to one." The professor broke the news to him as eupemistically as pos sible that a '"speak-easy" is merely an unlicensed drinking place. Itinerary C'anses Odil Statement. A Topeka medicine company has put out a lot of testimonials. The first is from a woman, who says: "Having suffered fifteen years from a fatal dis ease, I am happy to say that I am now entirely cured." A LUXURY WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL! 3 "WhatDo Tli« Nets Contain?" #The net is cast, the net is filled, But what does it contain? The guesses of the men are stilled As at the ropes they strain. The catch is yet uncounted, and The haul is yet unseen; Excitement reigns on every hand— What will the capture mean? 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That space, fifty-five and one-half yards square, will have to suffice for all purposes— agriculture, roads, houses, parks, rail ways and so on. It is estimated that when the globe's population reaches density, which is about 1,000 persons to the mile, the earth will be full. This conclusion is reached by a careful analytis of the growth of population in the nineteenth century, and upon that ba»l3 the population of the earth in tie year 2250 Is computed. Present populations to the square mllo are: Russia, 15; United States, 21; China, 95; Spain, 96; France. 186; Germany, 263; Italy, 289; United King dom, 339; Holland, 411; Belgium. 572. The K*rljr Use of Toffee. About the year 1«00 coffee be*** V be talked of in Christendom as a rare and preclou* medicine. In 1615 it was brought to Venice, and in 1621 Burton spoke of it in his Anatomy of Melan choly as a valuble article which he had heard of but not teen In 1652 Sir Nicholas Crlspe, a Levant mer chant. opened In London the first cof fee house known In England, the beverage being prepared by a Greek girl brought over for the work. Other coffee houses in abundance were soon opened. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES aro fust to gun light, washing and rubbing. Sold by all drug gists. CJreat Britain and Ireland, according to the completed census returns, have a pop ulation of about 42,000,000. One way of giving the professional beg gar a chance to rise in the world is to give him a good blowing up. Ladlrt Can Wear Shoe* One tize »maller after ming Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder for the foet. It make* tight or nf:w shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweat ing, aching fest. ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. At all drug?i«ts and shoe stores, 2Se. Trial package FIIEE by mail. Address Allen S. 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