Securing; Large Yield* of Wheat.
If 20 bushels of wheat give satisfac
tion to the grower it is no reason why
he should not aim for larger yields. It
requires just as much seed for 20
bushels as for 40, and also as much
plowing, drilling, harvesting and care.
Preventing Attacks from Insects.
A strong odor will sometimes pre
vent attacks from insects. A gill of
turpentine intimately mixed with a
bushel of dry plaster and the plaster
dusted over vines and bushes will cost
but little and will keep for months. It
a tablespoonful of kerosene and the
same of carbolic acid is added it will
be all the better, as the odor only is
required.
Best Foods for Producing Kggs.
The best foods for producing eggs
depend upon the condition in which
the fowls are kept. In summer the
hens get a variety of food, but In win
ter they have no choice of selection.
If the food is largely of grain the best
mode of inducing the hens to lay is to
withhold grain and give lean meat,
about an ounce a day to each hen.
Liver or other cheap forms of animal
food will also answer. Dried ground
blood, animal meat and bone meal are
liKewise excellent additions. When
the hens lay double-yolk eggs or eggs
with soft shells the cause is not due
to lack of lime, as many suppose, but
*.o too much fat on the body of the
hen. the remedy being a nitrogenous
diet (meat) instead of grain. The
extra egg laid will pay for the more
expensive foods and give a profit as
well.
Value of Sliredd.d Fodder.
There are many ways of saving the
fodder crop, and probably all of them
will be resorted to in different com
munities by farmers who find them
selves short of feed. When fodder is
cut at the right time and cured like
hay, it has 5 to 10 times the value of
a field that is left to stand as "winter
pasture," hence the prudent farmer
must devise some plan to save the
crop this year. Hay will command a
good price, while shredded fodder is
a perfect substitute for it in feeding,
even for horses. The farmer who is
supplied with hay can make money
by selling it and feeding his fodder,
and those who have fodder to spare
may find a market for it among their
neighbors. The cash market for shred
ded fodder is growing every year, and
fl will not be many years until its
cash value everywhere is recognized
as nearly equal to hay.—Farm, Field
And Fireside.
C
Old Hen*.
Old hens as a rule are not profitable
—but by old hens we do not mean
those that are one or two years old —
for such may often be the very best
layers during the winter.
The usefulness of a hen to a great
extent, depends on the care she gets.
Wa cannot expect half-fed, neglected
hens to moult early and be in condi
tion to lay during November, and such
must be the case if we expect profita
ble hens.
A great many people seem to think
that the season's work is ended with
the beginning of summer, when, as a
matter of fact, the hardest task has
just begun.
Special food and especial care are re
quired in oruer that the hens may be
kept healthy.
Of course less food will be required,
but we must see that they get what
they neeu regularly.
Pure, fresh water must be given,
and if there is no shade a temporary
shelter must be erected.
Watch the hens carefully now and
they should moult early and begin to
lay before winter sets in.—Home and
Farm.
nißli-l'o«te(l Hiirm,
Every farmer knows that nearly the
largest part of the cost of his farm
buildings is i." the roof. If the ground
floor plan is of the same size it costs
but little more to put the roof on a
building 22 or 24 feet high in the post
than on one 12 to 14 feet high, and
the capacity is about doubled. We say
about but not quite even if the height
of the posts is quite doubled, for with
the greater height comes a tendency to
increase the distance between the
ground floor and that above, and usu
ally in modern buildings to widen
them out, especially in stables and in
the barn floor. Thus the barns of our
grandfathers' day, some of which are
standing yet, that were usually 24x30
feet on the ground, with 12-foot posts,
have given away to those 28x42 with
18 to 24-foot posts even where the
farm is no larger than before. It may
be more productive, and if not the ani
mals have more room, and so do those
who have to care for them and work
about them. The forage for them is
all put under the roof, instead of being
Btacked up outside. There is more
sunlight and more pure air where the
modern abominable barn cellars have
been put in.to fill the space above with
the fumes of decomposing manure, and
the health of animals and the owners
ifl better assured. This alone repays
the cost of building higher, and the
modern hay fork and carrier make it
easier to put fodder over a beam 24
feet from the floor than it used to be
when we were young to throw it with
a fork to 12 feet high. The cost of this
labor saving machinery is small com
pared to the value of the space gained
by the Increased height of building,
or of forage saved by having it all
noused.—American Cultivator.
Cultivating v«. Plowing.
The weather conditions of the pres
ent season have been such as to tele
scope many of our pet plans and hob
bles and cause us, on the whole, I be
lieve, to profit somewhat by such un
expected experience. When in the ear
lier part •of the season continuous
showers were being poured upon us
with a large acreage of spring grair
and hoed crops around us, togethei
with orchards weeping to be cultivated
and sprayed, it seemed to drive homf
the fact that the farmer, above all
others, needs to be the most resource
ful man in the world, and such he has
always proved himself.
The one point I wish to bring ou*.
is that we seeded 2G acres of spring
grain with neither fall nor spring
plowing, and we are harvesting, al)
told, the best grain we have raised in
years, entirely free from rust, and oi
exceptionally good weight. Our plan
was to broadcast direct upon stubble,
corn, cabbage and potato land, but all
perfectly clean last season, and well
Uuched in fall; then we followed with
a large V-shaped cultivator draw by
three large horses, then brushed both
ways with a light smoothing harrow,
and the seeding was done.
The objection will undoubtedly be
advanced by many that this might
work well in a season like this, but not
in a dry one. Let us see. A neighbor
of mine, who is a large potato grower,
adopted this plan some time ago, on
black loam land, and he has produced
the best spring grain in this section;
but understand, these lands were kept
as clean as an old fashioned summer
fallow while in potatoes. He was ena
bled to put his land in splendid tilth
by the use of spring tooth harrows
alone; but ours is a heavier, stony
soil, so we were compelled to resort
to the use of the tool above mentioned.
As for manner of seeding. I would
not suggest it as an iron clad rule to
sow broadcast, but let seasonable con
ditions vary the method somewhat.
1 think where ample time is in sight,
and a dry period quite likely to follow
1 should prefer to seed by the use of
a drill to follow cultivator, as the seed
will be deposited at' a greater depth,
and thus not be liable to suffer from
extreme drouth. This method we are
expecting to make use of in getting
our land seeded after oats ne.xt spring,
as the wheat question is about settled
in these parts by the Hessian fly. In
this way we are enabled to get our grain
in fully one week earlier, as it is these
few days of moisture that determine
the weal or woe of seeding; for the
evaporation of the soil's moisture is
going on at a fearful rate in early
spring, and about the time the land
is in friable condition.
We also expect to sow somewhat less
than is the usual custom, about seven
pecks of oats; this spring, with exist
ing conditions, we used only one and
one-half bushels. If possible, I would
finish the grain and follow immediate
ly with grass seeder and then roll.
But in order not to make this ex
perience appear somewhat misleading
I would say drain your lands as well,
or better, than as if you were seeding
to wheat, that no depressions shall
carry surface water for a single day
after snows have passed off. It is a
principle in agriculture that the bet
ter the lands are drained the more
friable will be their condition, and to
Just that extent will their productivity
he increased. —C. H. Whitcomo of Ni
agara county, N. Y., in The Country
Gentleman.
Note* froin Mnny Source *.
Turkeys shrink about one-third in
dressing.
Cruelty to an animal is always an
expensive business.
Ducks and geese should be kept sep
arate from the other poultry.
Many diseases of the horses' feet
are due to wearing shoes too long.
The profits from raising poultry de
pend on attention to the small things.
Apply lime whitewash to your sta
bles. It will keep them clean and
sweet.
Don't be afraid to plant apple trees.
Ihe foreign demand for this fruit is
increasing year by year.
When training your colt teach him
to have a quick walk. Fast walking
horses always bring extra money in a
sale.
Brood sows require food, rich in the
elements of bone and muscle; corn is
not suitable, as it contains an excess
ol fat.
So many of the diseases of the pigs
are contagious that it is a safe plan to
separate a sick pig out the first time
it is noticed.
Hogs are nearer self sustaining, and
Will do more foraging than any animal
and there is less labor in preparing
food for them.
A permanent pasture, if fed close and
late, ought to have some other fertiliz
er than the droppings of the animals
that feed on it.
The land is exactly like a bank. You
annot draw without depositing. Don't
c-xpeet to draw crops from the land
without depositing fertilizer.
Winter dairying is claimed by some
to be more profitable than summer
dairying, as the farmer has more time
at his disposal to care for his cows.
Your potato crop should be harvest
ed as soon as ripe. Those that are not
wanted immediately should be stored
in a dry, cool and comparatively dark
place.
If you desire to know what to feed
your flock of hens when they are shut
up just watch them when they are
gathering food for themselves and
hc-nieforth you will not deprive them
of green food, gravel, etc. They cau
pick up many bits of coal, broken
oarthen ware, and in fact, a varietv of
everything: lvinsr around loose
iIF
Something New in Table
Silk and linen are woven together
to make the handsomest table damask.
Sometimes the goods is brought out in
mauve, gold and white, and an espe
cially pretty pattern was all in doft
rosy pinks.
Ironing a Tablecloth.
All housekeepers like to have table
cloths ironed with only one fold
through the centre. To keep them af
ter this laundering they are best
rolled on a stick. Each tal has
its own stick, as long as the cloth is
wide when folded lengthwise through
the centre, the sticks being neatly cov
ered with, first, several folds of flan
nel muslin. When the cloth is Ironed
in one fold, one end is evenly pinned
to the stick and the cloth loosely
rolled on it, so that it will not crease.
Afterwards the whole is slipped Into a
long, narrow bag and laid in the linen
closet, or in the long drawer of the
sideboard, if that Is kept for the pur
pose.
A Fresli Air Closet.
A shaded, airy hall or porch is a
good situation for a fresh-air closet in
which to store cooked food trom one
meal to the next, says the Rural New
Yorker. It is only a frame box with
door and sides of wire gauze and
shelves across the Inside. It is best
made fast to the wall at such a height
as to be safe from prowling cats, and
should have further a trusty lock. Put
away food in it in clean earthern dish
es, never in any sort of metal, not
even silver. Slip each dish into a
separate cheesecloth bag. and twist
the bag end tight. If ants, black or
red, discover the closet, paint the
wood box all outside with camphor
once a fortnight. Twice a year take
down the whole contrivance and scald
it outside and in with boiling soda
water. All manner of food keeps beau
tifully in it from one meal to the next.
Things may be putin it while still
warm. If they have togo into a tight,
unventilated place, as a refrigerator,
they must needs be stone cold or they
will get soggy and smelly.
Care of Gilt IMctnre Frames.
When dull, dark effects came to re
present the artistic idea so far as pic
ture frames go, there was one advan
tage that arrived at the same time in
the fact that they were not gilded. A
gilded frame seems to represent lux
ury to flies and to dust and sometimes
it can be cleaned, often it" needs to
be retouched and again it needs re
gilding. If there is nothing really the
matter with a gilded frame except
that its bright hue has appealed too
strongly to files, then all that is need
ed is alcohol applied lightly by means
of a soft brush. The alcohol softens
the spots which can then be rubbed
off with a bit of cloth. It is said that
if one takes the proper precautions
early in the season, there will be none
of these fly specks to wash off and
it. is also said that the proper precau
tion means washing the frames with
water in which many strong onions
have been boiled. This is a radical
measure. Altogether nicer is the idea
of gently brushing over the gilt with
the well-beaten white of an egg, using
a piece of soft cloth in the process.
The dust which the summer has left,
as well as the fly specks, will respond
quickly and the frame will be much
refreshed.—New YorK Sun.
R£€/P£S
Peach Mango—Put them in weak
salt water one day and pight, then
carefully remove the stone and fill
with mustard seed, brown and white,
and celery seed; pour boiling vinegar
ever. To sweeten add one and a half
pounds of sugar to a gallon of vine
gar.
Baked Pears —Cut out the blossom
end of the pear with a sharp pen
knife. Putin a large pudding dish
and pour a cupful of hot water over
them, covering closely. Place in a hot
oven and steam until tender. After
taking from oven pour the juice over
them several times while cooling, then
place on ice until ready for use. Place
carefully in glass dish and serve with
powdered sugar and whipped cream.
Chocolate Cream Cake —Make a bat
ter as for cup cake, using any good
recipe. Put two-thirds on two layer
cake tins, and to the remaining third
add enough melted or grated choco
late to give it a rich golden-brown
color. It takes about an ounce —one
of the little blocks marked off on the
cake of chocolate. Bake, put together
with the cream filling given below,
placing the chocolate layer between
the other two; ice the top and sides
with chocolate caramel frosting, the
recipe for which is also given below.
A delicious cake.
Cinnamon Buns —Cream one table
spoonful of butter, one of lard, and
one-hall' a teaspoonful of salt, add this
tc two cups of flour sifted with two
teaspoons of baking powder and one
of sugar. When thoroughly mixed add
one clip of sweet milk, roll out one
lialf inch thick, spread with melted
butter, sprinkle over this two table
spoonfuls of sugar and one teaspoon
of cinnamon, mixed. Spread over this
one-half cup of dried currants, roll up,
cut in slices one Inch thick and bake
in a buttered tin about 25 minutes.
Wash over when done with white of
egg and sugar.
Montana Now Said to Be Sliding.
Is Mox? tana creeping into Idaho and
Wyoming? There Is some evldente on
the affirmative side of the question,
but not enough to cause alarm in any
of the three States. Still, for soveral
years it has been known that there te
some trouble with Montana's founda
tions, which are slipping, and leaving
evidence of the fact on the Surface of
the ground.
Railway companies have found quite
plain and strange twists in the align
ment of their roads, and civil engin
eers have found "bench marks" chang
ing their elevations in a confusing
manner. Quite recently these reason
ably suspected movements have be
come apparent, and left large crocks
In the earth at several points in the
city of Butte, extending for a number
of feet, and being in extreme cases
twelve inches wide. The effect of this
Is not only to throw railways out of
line, but to cause much more serious
damage to gas pipes and water mains.
Geologists say that nothing serious
is threatened, and that parts of Mon
tana are only doing in a more marked
manner what is going on all over our
restless world.
How to Catch the Volar Bear.
I listened attentively the other night
to a gentleman who gave me a great
deal of valuable Information concern
ing these interesting regions. He
knew I was a tenderfoot and a news
paper reporter, and felt at liberty
therefore to talk freely, so I got a lot
of yarns about polar bears ami Wal
ruses and other creatures, large and
small, which are not related in natural
histories. I believe It was one of the
advisers of Alice in Wonderland who
suggested that the best way to catch
a rabbit is to get behind a stump and
make a noise like a carrot, and I
learned with great satisfaction that
the easiest way to catch a polar bear
is to hide behind an iceberg and make
a noise like the aurora borealis. Polar
bears are very tame, and. like news
paper reporters and some other peo
ple, are gifted with inquiring minds.
When a stranger comes out on the ice
they greet him cordially and show n
Justifiable curiosity as to his business
and Intentions, which causes them to
fall an easy prey to the parlor rug
trust. —Chicago Record-Herald.
Printing Done Here For England.
According to a correspondent, a rep
resentative of a provincial printing
firm called on a London firm which
distributed circulars by the million.
He was asked to quote for a circular
from which the printer's name had
been removed. An estimate was pre
pared on the basis of a small turnover
profit, which, considering that the
works were situated In a rural district
forty miles from London, on a rental
which, in the city, would not pay the
ground rent, was much below what
would he possible for a London house.
Indeed, the representative was confi
dent of obtaining an order, but was
thoroughly nonplussed when told the
price quoted was considerably above
that now paid. The firm's printing
was done in the United States, th_> or
ders being given in such quantities as
to Insure the lowest freight charges,
and after adding the latter, including
delivery to the door, the cost turned
out to be considerably below that of
the lowest estimate yet received from
any British firm. —London News.
Experimenting on Animal Minds.
One of the easiest "obstacle" prob
lems is that of drawing some object
which the animal wishes for through
a set of bars or wires. This is a com
mon difficulty in ihe daily life of cap
tive animals, aud one m which it
would be quite easy to note their re
spective shifts and devices. The clev
erest mode of coping with a difficulty
somewhat of this nature now exhibit
ed by any animal in London is the
way in which the large African ele
plnint at the Zoo restores to his would
be entertainers all the biscuits, whole
or broken, which strike the bars and
fall alike out of his reach and theirs
in the space between the barrier and
his cage. He points his trunk straight
at the biscuits and blows them hard
along the lioor to the feet of the jier
sons who have thrown them. He clear
ly knows what he is doing, because if
the biscuit does not travel well he
gives it a harder blow.—The Spectator.
New Yorkers consume one ton of
frog legs a day.
U'ti'iiclietl Foot and Ankle CurcA by
St. Jacobs Oil.
GENTLEMEN —A short time ago I severely
wrenched my foot ami ankle. The injury
was very painful, and the consequent incon
venience (being obliged to keep to business)
tvas very trying. A friend recommended St.
Jacobs Oil, and 1 take great pleasure in in
forming you that one application was suffi
cient to effect a complete cure. To a busy
man 60 simple and effective a remedy is in
valuable, and I shall lose no opportunity of
BUggesiing the use of St. Jacobs Oil. Yours
truly, Henry J. Doirs, Manager, The Cycles
Co., London, England.
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Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrup for children
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Silk imports yielded in 1900 mare than
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uermany owns 742,000 acres 4n Cen
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