roultry anil Tnb«i-culo«l».
The common barnyard fowl is said to
be susceptible to tuberculosis, and the
washings from barnyards carry the
germs into adjoining wells and brooks,
thus communicating the disease to
man and animals. When roup or oth
er diseases appear in the flocks of
fowls, the best remedy is total destruc
tion of the birds, disinfection and
other fowls procured from healthy
Btock.
Inexpensive Way to Tool Milk.
To run all milk in a thin sheet over
a series of pipes filled with ice water
is all that is needed to aerate and cool
it; at the sams time it is perhaps the
easiest and least expensive method of
instiling long keeping. Such a series
of pipes can be prepared at small cost,
and with a strainer at the bottom or
place where milk passes out, there will
be but small chance of injurious bac
teria increasing and multiplying there
so rapidly as to insure an early ac
cession of the rancid flavor, and sev
eral others of the many bad flavors.
Application of J-abor on Farm*.
I-abor is the farmer's capital. It will
give better results on ten acres than
on a hundred, proportionately, because
of concentration of effort on small
areas. The kinds of crop to grow
should be regulated by distance from
market, soil and demand. Farms that
are within easy reach of large markets
may be devoted exclusively to fruit,
but perishable articles cannot be
grown to advantage on farms that
are far from market and which are
not conveniently located near rail
roads. A farm of ten acres will not
support a family if the owner attempt
to make a specialty of wheat or corn
but such a farm may be made to give
a profit if devoted to vegetables or
fruit. It is the intelligent application
of labor that enables the farmer to
realize on the capital invested in that
form. As with any other business,
skill and industry give success. The
farmer who does not aim to produce
the best articles in demand does not
take advantage of his opportunities.
Do lleiis IMck B|> Folnon?
It must be a careless poultry man
or farmer who leaves deadly poison
lying around where the fowls can get
at it, but it seems there are some
persons that do so. One of the
sources of loss in poultry when they
are allowed free range over the farm
is death from poisoning. We do not
mean the slow poisoning that results
from drinking impure puddles around
the vaults and manure heaps, and the |
picking of material that is rotten or
decaying, and thus has become un
wholesome. There is danger in this,
but we refer to the swallowing of that
which is known to be an active poison,
and yet is carelessly left where the
fowl can get at it.
Pails which have had paris green in
them are set down, perhaps with
enough of the solution in them to
tempt the hens to drink from them,
or with a paste adhering that she must
poke her very inquisitive bill into. Or
it may be the paint pot with its white
lead that does its deadly work. Or
it may be only insects that have been
killed by some poison; though the
hen will seldom eat enough of them
to do her serious injury, the chickens
not infrequently do so when they have
a free range.
Particles of unslaked lime may be
picked up, which are but little less
dangerous than poison, and there are
others by which chickens and older
fowls are lost, and if the entire flock
dies as a result, we hear that chick
en cholera destroyed them all. These
things should be carefully guarded
against, but it is much easier to pro
tect poultry when they are limited to
their own share of the farm than when
they roam all over it.—Farm, Field
and Fireside.
Adapting < rop« to Soil.
When a man owns a farm of very
sandy land he makes a mistake to
attempt to raise crops which do best
on heavy fertile soils, for in so doing
he is fiandic-apped from the start and
will undoubtedly fail to realize his
expectations. In farming the very first
step is to try to adapt the crops to
the soil. In this we merely follow na
ture's example. There are crops
which will do well on nearly every
kind of soil found in the country. Only
a few barren soils refuse to produce
any kind of crops. If there is a proper
amount of moisture even the poorest
sandy soil can be made to yield some
paying crop.
Our corn requires rich, heavy soil,
and so do most of our o'-her heavy
crops, and such cereals should be
raised only on that kind of land. It
requires only a little study and ex
periment to find out pretty definitely
what crops best succeed on our farm.
Farms that have been declared run
down and too sandy to yield any crop
profitably have been made paying in
vestments by producing crops of
strawberries, asparagus and onions.
All that was required was the right
sort of man to discover the crop adapt
ed to the soil.
The question of enriching the soil
should not of course be neglected,
tven though a certain crop has been
ound to thrive on it. This is too often
i short-sighted mistake which sooner
ir later manifests itself in an unpleas
mt way. If it is a sandy soil there
B something in it that supplies the
itr'awberries, asparagus or other crop
nth nourishment. What is it that
tie plants find in the soil to make
hem grow? This can be found out
iy ascertaining the special needs of
the particular crop. If it is nitrogen,
potash or phosphates a systematio
feeding of the soil and crops with this
particular form of fertilizer should be
made. In this way the soil will not
be robbed. A great many sandy and
loose, porous soils permit nearly all
fertility to leach through, and if this
leak were stopped in some way there
would be better results obtained with
the crops. Such soil may require com
mercial fertilizers in which the min
eral elements predominate, but at the
same time they need coarse plant food
or barnyard manure in order to im
prove the mechanical conditions of the
soil. Sometimes a liberal scattering
of foi'est leaves over the land, and
plowing under in the fall, will do more
good than anything else. These leaves
will close up many of the holes, and
at the same time add some plant
food to the soil. Coarse straw and
barn yard litter performs the same ser.
vice.—C. T. White, in American Cul
tivator.
The Tillage of Potatoes.
Every farmer is interested in in
creasing his potato crop, and th e vari
ous methods of growing potatoes al
ways receive consideration. Recent
experiments made at Cornel! univer
sity, under the supervision of J. L.
Stone, demonstrate to farmers the
applicability to their soils and condi
tions of methods in potato culture that
have given excellent results. The
farmers who have been requested to
do so have also conducted experi
ments on their farms, and thus as
sisted in arriving at conclusions re
garding the proper course to pursue
in growing potatoes. The experiments
extended over a period of five years,
and all kinds of weather —favorable
and unfavorable —prevailed. To show
that much depends upon proper culti
vation it may be mentioned that in
1895 the average yield of potatoes for
New York state was 122 bushels, yet
the maximum yield at the station was
415 bushels, while in 1897, when the
average for the state was only 62
bushels per acre, the maximum yield
on the station grounds was 322 bush
els. In 1599 eleven plots averaged
at the rate of 195 bushels per acre,
ranging from 144 to 233 bushels, al
though the average for th e state was
only 88 bushels. During that year
drought prevailed, and as the land was
then becoming deficient in organic
matter the condition made the crops
more liable to injury from drought
than formerly, but the thorough prep
aration and tillage given the plots pro
duced strong and vigorous plants, de
spite the severe drought of the sum
mer, though an early frost killed the
tops before sufficient late rains had
fallen to enable the plants to pro
duce the usually large yield, which,
however, seemed assured up to the
time of the unfortunate event.
The large yields obtained were secured
by thorough preparation of the land
before planting, thereby developing
in the soil an abundant supply of
readily available plant food and secur
ing the storage of a lirge amount of
water, accompanied by deep planting,
followed by frequent and prolonged
tillage of the crop, thereby preventing
waste of moisture by evaporation from
the surface of the soil or by transpira
tion from the leaves of weeds, and at
the same time bringing more plant
food into available condition. Also,
and an important matter, by main
taining healthy and vigorous foliage
on the plants during the entire season
by spraying with Bordeaux mixture
and paris green. A comparison of
the mimimum and maximum yields of
potatoes shows clearly that the large
crops are secured by proper cultiva
tion. The best results at the station
were obtained by combining the twice
plowing system (autumn and early
spring) with deep planting, in thor
oughly fitted soil, and giving pro
longed frequent, level tillage, and
using insecticides. Farmers who made
experiments got the best yields from
autumn and spring plowing only,
while deep planting and level tillage
showed a marked increase in yields
compared with shallow planting and
hilling. These results were obtained
on various farms, and are valuable to
those who make the potato crop a
specialty.
Many farmers are satisfied to culti
vate their crop only when necessity
requires. They do not neglect the
crops, keeping down the weeds and
grass, but the experiments made at
the station and by the farmers who
assisted show that cultivation does
more; in fact, that the more the land
is cultivated the larger the crop. One
farmer got 14 bushels more of pota
toes from land that had been culti
vated five times than from land cul
tivated twice. Another plot that gave
IST bushels per acre was exceeded by
an adjoining plot that had been culti
vated seven times, which yielded 194
bushels per acre. It is plain, there
fore, that frequent cultivation is bene,
flcial. While deep planting gives bet
ter results than shallow, yet deep
planting should not follow shallow
plowing—that is, the furrows opened
to receive the seed should not goto
the bottom of the soil that was stirred
by the plow. If It is desired to plant
six inches deep the land should be
plowed eight inches deep. If land has
never been plowed deep then the plow
should go down only on inch more
: each year, plowing in the fall of the
year. It is well to understand also
that better tillage and larger crops
cause the removal of more plant food
from the soil; hence the use of manure
and fertilizers, or the growing of cover
or sod crops to be plowed under should
not be overlooked. If the farmer wilt
give as much labor to th e potato crop
as it really demands he will suffer but
little loss from drought, and his
j yields will be such as to pay all ex
penses and return a profit.—Philadel
phia Record.
Ethic, or the Road.
The moral ethics of tlie road vary
very much In our minds according to
o\ir method of locomotion, says the
Westminster Gazette. It may be quit*
true that the sky and not the soul is
changed to those who ross the sea,
but this does not apply to the differ
entyconditions of being 011 wheels or OD
foot. Tlie same man who when walk
ing regards with burning indignation
the coachman or the cabman or the
vandemon or the cyclist who nearly
runs him down in his moments of ab
straction will when lie in turn is rid
ing, use scathing winged words" to
ward the blundering wayfarer whe
blindly steps into the roadway at the
wrong moment. And by a peculiar
process of thought the narrower the
escape of the pedestrian the more furi
ous is the anger of the other. The only
solution is for each to consider the
other a little more. But in spite of
the argument used specially by cy
clists that they themselves run the
greater risk when they run into any
body, tlie fcot passenger may justly
be regarded as the weaker vessel, and
he fairly claims the greater need of
protection from the flying terrcro of
the road.
r.oo l Place to Carry Collar*.
A haberdasher was talking the other
day cf how young men who dance in
hot weather lay in an extra supply cf
collars, and when OUP wilts exchange
it for a fresh one. He told of two
young fellows who were bound for a
dance at one of the surburban inns,
and had neglected to supply them
selves with extra collars when they
left heme, so they stopped to buy them
of him. One was tall and thin, ai .1
the other was short and fat.
The thin fellow selected his collar,
r.rd instead of having it wrapped up
he placed it inside the band of his
hat. "One Isn't enough for me; it
wouldn't last two dances," said the fat
fellow. "I guess I'll take three." "llow
are you going to carry them??" asked
his friend. "I'll show you," replied tlie
stout young man. lie asked permis
sion to retire behind the counter for a
minute, and, rolling up his trousers,
actually fastened the extra collars
around his leg, as though they had
been garters.—Philadelphia Record.
Tenements in London.
During the past fifty years London
municipalities have constructed dwell
ings containing some 0132 rooms,
while organized private action has, in
the same period, provided buildings
containing 50,402 rooms. This total
is by no meads exhaustive, since it
does not take into account certain
eemi-surburban dwellings, and could
not take note at all of all the work of
private associations. In an examina
tion of the cost of tenements Dr.
S.vkes has stated that the cost of con
struction varies from S2O to S2OO per
room, for cost of goods, site and sew
ers, while the cost of building varies
from per room in the country to
iu London County Council tene
ments. There has been an enormous
increase in the cost of building in Lon
don of recent years, and wages iu six
years have risen from twenty-five to
thirty-five per cent., while the hours
of labor have fallen ten to twelve per
cent. —Public Health.
Fooled by a Woman.
Conductors don't always triumph.
The other day a sweet-faced little unu
tron on a Castro street car looked np
at the knight of the punch with a be
wildering smile and said:
"I haven't a cent with me, 6ut my
husband is to get. on at Powell street,
and he will pay you. That will be ai)
right, wont it?"
"Certainly," said the conductor,
ringing up a fare —and he looked hap
py for several blocks.
When the car reached Powell street
she was the first off, and was on the
sidewalk before the conductor had re
covered from bis surprise.
"The nerve of her," he said. "It's
n wonder she didn't ask for a trans
fer."—San Francisco News Letter.
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The new Metropolitan Railway of Paris
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Tlie American quail has been success
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Many a man gets a pointer from the
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Wants Ills Hone Weekly.
The head of a large Market street
wholesale business house, a man now
advanced Iu years, has heen a regular
subscriber to one of the Bucks County
papers for fifty years. "He wouldn't
give it up for anything," said this
man's son. "He gets more real en
joyment from it than from anything
he reads. A daily edition has been
started within the last ten years, but
he doesn't want that. He only gets
the weekly edition, which prints gos
sip of a personal nature from the vari
ous towns throughout the county. He
will pore over this by the hour, and his
comments on the various items of
news are often amusing. Scarcely a
name Is mentioned that he doesn't say,
'Why, I used togo to school with his
father,' or 'I once licked his Uncle ,11m
for tying my clothes up when we used
togo swimming in the Neshaminy.'"
—Philadelphia Record.
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