Tlie Value of Knowledge. The farmer who seeks more knowl edge 's sure to learn how to decrease expenses and increase the profit. He understands the kinds of foods re quired by uis live stock. He should understand that the feeding of the va rious plants must also be done with judgment and according to the kind of crop. Each particular plant has its preference and will make the great est yield only when well and properly supplied with the food it prefers. Morning fili»rie» for the Windows. Nothing can surpass Japanese morn ing glories for a sunny window. Last year from a small paper of seeds cost ing 10 cenrfs the vines grew luxuriant ly and produced large, lovely flowers which were a delight until frost. The >s?oms were very abundant and of mniotli size, white, red. royal pur blue. brick red in solid color, red and purple edged with white, etc. were given the same care as ■"ommon varieties but surpassed wonderfully in growth of vines jeauty and size of bloom. The •?s were trained on strings to the ip of the window casings and then kept clipped and not allowed to grow higher.—The Epitomist. flood Thine:* for Fowl*. Turpentine is good for bruises, In flammations. worms and broken limbs. Tincture of iron is good for ehick enpox, sore head and ulcers of all kinds. Chlorate of potash is good for any throat trouble. Bicarbonate of soda is good for in digestion. Camphor is good for gapes in young chicks. Carbolic acid is good for disinfect ing. The above things are all useful in the poultry house, and while healthy fowls need no medicine, still accidents may happen at any time, and it is well to have remedies at hand. Common sense treatment will do more to keep the fowls healthy than all the physic in the world. —Home and Farm. Work ATier Hul'V.'St. At the close of the fruiting season thoroughly cultivate the ground be tween the rows of strawberries with a small-toothed cultivator. In the rows and about the hills the hoe and spading fork must be used to stir the ground and destroy weeds and grass. The plants should be thinned so ay lo stand at least six inches apart, if the soil needs fertilizing this should be applied broadcast before the cul tivator is started. Blackberries and raspberries should r.ave the stalks which produced fruit put out and th'e new stalks thinned to the proper number in the hill. If the terminal was not pinched out of the growing stalks earlier in the sea son the top should be cut back to about 30 inches high. Gather all the nrush where it can be piled and burned, which will destroy many in sects and fungi. Currants and gooseberries close Iheir fruiting season a little later than the strawberry, blackberry or rasp berry. At the close of their fruiting season all wood that has borne two Dr three crops should be cut out and the young stalks thinned to five or six. If the plants are crowded too c»iose, three to five stalks will be enough to insure a good crop. The cultivator should be started to give a thorough stirring of the surface, following with hoe and fork between the hills, and continuing the cultivating up to the middle or last of August. If the sea son is dry the cultivator may be kept going at intervals of six or eight days. Currants and gooseberries delight in a loamy, rich soil with a damp, but not wet. subsoil. There is no bettor means of securing this than by apply ing a liberal dressing of stable manner at the commencement of winter. This Is applicable to all small fruits. —S. H. Lurton, in New England Home stead. Growinu I'otntoos Under «tra\r. T prepare tlie ground as for ordinary cultivation. Let the soil get well warm«.d before planting, say from the middle of May to June 1. Plant in drills, 2-1 inches between rows, drop pieces 12 inches apart and cover with two inches of soil. Apply the straw as the potatoes are coming through the p.-ouncl, if sotne stre two or three inches high they will all find the sur face. Cover six to eigh't inches deep with straw, which will settle to three or four inches with the first rain. Too much straw is ruinous most seasons, the ground is kept too wet and cold and the potatoes come up weaklings. Just enough straw should be used to retain moisture and smother weeds. One rain after the straw is applied is sufficient to secure a good crop. Be careful to select a well drained, rather light, soil if possible. A wet heavy soil is not desirable. Most tubers will form at the sur face, none deeper than two inches be low surface of ground. In digging throw straw off two rows at a time and scoop out each hill with a single stroke witli a potato or common flve uned manure fork. One man last year dug and crated 50 bushels a day. jric-ftles seldom attack potatoes under ttraw very seriously. I have crown po tatoes under straw every year for nearly 25 years and only record two or three failures. Last season the yield war. <luO bushels per acre of fine smooth tubers. A single vine produced 17 tubers, 15 of which were marketable and weigned 7.25 pounds. Two vines produced 12.25 pounds. Potatoes weighing 1.5 to 2 pounds were quite common. Potatoes grown this way never take the second growth, which is always deleterious to the eating quality, and unless a very wet season are of excellent quality, both in ap pearance and lor the table.—J. B. Kel ler, in American Agriculturist. Hay anil Pasture Grass. Hav is perhaps the most important article of l'ood for live stock on the farm, and grass is said to be the "foundation of farming." The grass crop may not be as valuable as corn, but it is an article of food for which no substitute can be found, as it gives bulk and quality to the rations, both in the green condition and when cured as hay. There are many excel lent and nutritious grasses known, and which can be used by the farmer, but he confines himself to but two or (hree. Clover and timothy are the grasses mostly used for hay (clover not really belonging to the grass fam ily), and with all that may be said in its favor there are many grasses superior to timothy. Custom, however has given timothy a prominent place on the larm, and which it will hold for a long time. But although tirn otny and clover are grown on the same land, as a mixed crop, yet they do not ripen together, and are conse quently not suitable for each other and for producing mixed hay of the highest quality, for if the clover be comes too ripe it will contain a large proportion of woody fibre, while if the clover is cut before the timothy is vipe the latter will not be as nu tritious as when fully matured. Or chard grass, which is disliked by many because it "stools," comes into blossom at the same time as clover, and will grow on light or heavy soil. It will also stand drought better than timothy and will give successive cut tings. Timothy is also low in nutri tious matter compared with some grasses, and its place can be filled by some other grasses without risk of loss. Pasture grass should be for pas ture only, and not for mowing for hay. If a pasture can supply the stock in summer it should not be re quired to do more. Another reason why the hay crop should be separate from the pasture product is that the pasture should contain as many va rieties of grass as possible, some of the best kinds not being profitable if mowed, as they do not grow to suffi cient height for being cured as hay. Pasture grass should We short, be cause the animals will prefer it so. as they can then better select the kinds prepared. The young and tender grass, that is but a few inches high, is always more highly relished than any other, and if a pasture is to be occu pied by the stock they will keep the grass down. No farmer, therefore, should expect a crop of hay from his rasture land. The meadow is also de pended upon for producing the hay crop, but the meadow is also given up to the animals at times. The point is not to take advantage of the meadow, but to make it better, by in creasing the variety of grasses. A va riety having some fault should not be condemned if it also has merit. Orchard grass comes early in spring, it will remain for several years, and it thrives where ••ome grasses should not exist. Herd's grass is excellent on meadow land that is somewhat moist, its running roots soon forming a thick and permanent sod. Blue grass can be made to thrive on a great many soils, but prefers lime stone land, and it is a grass that gives the best late pasturage, but it should not be grazed too closely early in the season. Adapt the grasses to the soil if possible. There are a great many kinds of hay crons that need not be mixed in the fields, as they can be mixed in the feed box when cutting the feed for stock in winter. Clover is the main hay crop, but such a crop as Hunga rian grass, which grows in the sum mer, and in a short time, will add largely to the supply of hay, and ex periments made show that cow peas and oats, cut when not too ripe, will give good yields of hay that may per haps be better than clover in some respects. One of the most valuable crops, in proportion to cost, is cow peas and corn. Plant the corn in rows and plant the cow peas in the same rows, but between the corn hills, the corn being one foot apart in the roows. Cultivate one way, and allow the pea vines to grow upon the corn. It may be mentioned that it is not too late now to grow such a mixed crop, as it may be harvested at any time. It adds variety of ensilage and the ensilage will be more nutritious and also more highly relished by stock in winter than if the ensilage is made ex clusively of corn. But the farmer should study grasses and hay crops, for there are kinds thai thrive on rich soils only, while others will grow on sandy soils, damp soils, medium soils, etc., and if they cannot be grown to gether they can be grown on different fields. The greater the variety the less the liability of loss during dry seasons, as some hay crops will give good results when others fail under the same conditions. —Philadelphia Record. Tlie Rorktnc fliair Fan* tlie XfWMt. The latest fan is the rocking chair fan. It is attached to the chair and works itself while you rock. A man uptown, who has patented the device, hopes to reap a fortune from it if the summer only stays hot enough. It isn't a big fan and the spring and cords that work it are not elaborate, but the inventor can talk for an hour on the ease that comes to tired wom en on hotel piazzas from its use.—New York Sun. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Nature and wisdom always say th« lame. —Juvenile. Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. —Euripides. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.—Franklin. Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense. —Sidney Smith. Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little. —Fuller. Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.—Jeremy Collier. The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command. —O. Dewey. A crowd always thinks with its sympathy—never with its reason—W. R. Alger. There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melan choly.—Hood. Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.— Aubrey De Vere. The innocence of the intention abates nothing oi the mischief of the example.—Robert Hall. A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources vir tually has them. —Livy. STRIDES IN MATCH-MAKING. Great Part Played by Machinery Cuba V ti eon q tier able. The consolidation of two large match companies recently effected in London attarcts attention to the great growth of the business abroad, and, curiously, its apparent inability to se cure a foothold in Cuba. The union of the Diamond Match company with the Bryant & May concern makes un doubtedly the largest incorporation ot its T.ind in the world. An idea of the total output of matches is to be had by figures furnished by the Atlantic Match company, one of the strongest competitors. Five hundred million matches are said to be mcde daily in Europe, and these figures may be doubled lor the United States. One factory in Ohio alone is cred ited with turning out 100,000,000 fin ished matches in 24 hours. Fifty mil lion feet of lumber are used in the United States in the manufacture of matches, and some $20,000,000 invest ed. What an important part modern machinery plays in tnis industry may be imagined when it is said that only about 15,000 people are employed. "There are but a few statistics to give," said a match representative recently, "to convince one of ,'he strides in the business. American matches have been able to secure a foothold in Europe because of the su periority of American machinery over tools that were in use 25 years ago. In Cuba, however, machinery is al most unknown. Matches are hand made. and yet we do not seem to get in. Some attribute this lack of suc cess to the popularity of the small wax match made in Havana, which boys peddle on the street lor almost nothing. There are about nine of these factories in Havana alone, and it would be a strange Havana, in deed, without the ragged little match boy. Cubans will not use any other kind of a match." —New York Post. remnnnel or llie Navy. The semi-annual edition of the naval register, bearing date of July 1, but which has been delayed in publication through the failure oi the board of rear admirals to report the names of the two lieutenants whom they have se lected for retirement, shows that there have been 2G resignations, 23 retire ments and 30 deaths in the navy and marine corps since Jan. 1. One naval cadet was dismissed, but subsequently pardoned. There are 21 rear admirals, of whom three are "extra members," promoted for war services, whose re tirements will not create vacancies; 70 regular and three extra captains, 112 regulars and three extra command ers, 170 regular and two extra lieuten ant commanders, 300 regular and four extra lieutenants, and 101 junior lieu tenants. The register shows that there is a serious shortage in the number of en signs. The law authorizes 245, but the list contains only 12ii. There has been much complaint over the lack of watch and division officers for warships, but although beeretary Long has frequent ly urged on congress the necessity of authorizing an increase in number of naval cadets and shortening the course of instruction in order to provide enough junior officers, his efforts have been unavailng. The fact that 119 vacancies exist among the ensigns at a time when there are more vessels in commission than ever before ex cept in war times, will be brought to the attention of congress as an argu ment in favor of increasing the number of naval cadets. News from "'»i*tj»n da Citulin. An interesting account of Tristan da Cunha that soii.ary island in the mid dle of the Atlantic, between America and South Africa, is given in "Annales HydiV'tjraphiques," by a German cap tain >vho recently visited it. There are sixty-three inhabitants on the island, he says, and their lime is spent in fishing and breeding cattle. They have between five hundred and six hundred cows, and as many sheen, and they also have an abundance of butter, milk, eggs and vegetables. On the other hand, they are often in need of flour, tea, coffee and tobacco; though, as there are only five smokers on Tristan da Cunha, the occasional dearth of tobacco cannot bo regarded as a national calamity. The German captain found the is landers very sociable. They provided him and his men with a supply of fresh meat, and in return received tome articles of clothing, which were much needed. American Emigration to Canada. r The recent census of Canada will a population of about 0,000.000, or a gain of at least twenty per cent. In a decade. In the encouragement of immigration Canada is now remarka bly successful. About 50,000 home seekers enter the country annually from abroad. Fully seventy-five per cent, of these seek the unlimited free lands of the Northwest, and are of a desirable type of agriculturists. An interesting feature of this movement is the fact that the United States is furnishing a larger number of these immigrants than any other country. Over 12,000 American citizens crossed the line tithe north last year and adopted Canada as their home. It is estimated that at least 20,000 will do the same this year. The Canadian Government is spend ing about $250,000 a year in the en couragement of immigration. The re sults of the educational work done In the United States have been so satis factory that increased effort Is now being made in that direction. Cana dian agents travel and advertise in every State, and last year twenty-nine :>f The American commonwealths con tributed to Canada's increase of popu lation. The largest number are se cured in Dakota, Nebraska, Michigan and other northerly farming States. Sir Wilfrid Laurier expresses the be lief that Canada being the only coun fry in the temperate zone now offering free land to home seekers, lias fallen heir to the great tide of agricultural immigration which once flowed into the United States.—J. D. Whelpley, in the Atlantic. A Crow Story. A few months ago the gardener on John T. Telford's place at I'eru, up the short line, accidentally wounde'd a crow while shooting at another bird, and he made a prisoner of the bird. After its wings were clipped it be came quite tame, and was placed in the gardcu, which is surroundfed by a fen.ee elgln feet high. It thrived on worms and bugs, and became as docile as a chicken. When the warm weather set in otliens crows began to gather about the garden at early dawn, and for hours at a time kept up a continual cawing. The crippled crdw in the garden answered each eajw, and mo*uiug > after morning the size of the visitiiTg party increased, unjil fulfy two dozen perched them selves on'the fence. On Sunday morning Mr. Telfo«l heard a commotion in the garden. He went to Investigate, and found foui or live crows hovering around the crippled one. Presently he saw three of the visitors piace their beaks undei the cripple, lif* It np and attempt to fly itway. They murvaged to get tlie cripple over the high fence, then ft ,was dropped The liberated bird hopped two hundred or three hundred yards, when all but two of the othei crows flew away. The icmaining fwo swooped down ."n fhe crippled bird and seemed to be caressing it, when a" boy captured the cripple and returned ft to the garden.—LouisvilU Ooifrier-Journul. Consolation From Hit* Honor. A certain Judge who once presidec over a Criminal court was famous as one of the most compassionate men who ever sat upon the bench. His softness' of heart, however, did not prevent him from doing his duty as a Judge. A man who had been convicted "112 stealing a small amount was brought into court for sentence. He looked very sad and hopeless, and the Cou- t was much maved by his contrite ap pearance. "Have you ever been sentenced to imprisonment?" the Judge asked. "Never! Never!" exclaimed the pris oner bursting into tears. "Don't cry, don't cry," said the Judge consolingly, "you're going to be now!"-Stray Stories. Telephone's l'rogreis Abroad. Although the use of the telephont has increased rapidly here there are countries in Europe in which tele phones are in far more general use than here. In Stockholm, Sweden, one person in every fourteen has a telephone, there being more than 20,- 000 telephones in a population of 271,- 000. Every tobacconists' store is a public call office and the rates are very low. England is far behind in the matter of telephones, there being only one to every 030 of the population. In little Switzerland there is one to every 172 persons, but far more business is done over the telephone in England than in Switzerland.—New York Sun. 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