Kyo nit Fond tor I*l tf*. In Germany they tested rye as food for pigs in comparison with barley. In some cases the pigs refused it alto gether. and when given in large amounts it was not eaten readily. As a single ration it should not be con tinued long, and it ought in all cases to be soaked or carefully ground. It gives the best results when fed with other feeding stuff that has a larger percentage of fibre, more protein, and less of the carbo-hydrates, it is not concentrated food for young cattle or hogs. Keep the Home Clean. If the poultry house is kept clean at all times, there need be but little tear of disease or failure. No half way measures will answer. The work must be done at fixed times, every day if possible, certainly at least ev ery other day. The dropping boards must be kept clean, fresh water must be putin the drinking fountain, and lime must be kept scatered on floor and ground. The roosts should be given a good coat of kerosene every two weeks, and nothing must be neglected even for a single day. Have fixed days for each duty, and no matter what hap pens, see that the work is done. It takes but little time when a system is employed, but a few days' forget fulness will cause weeks of worry and perhaps considerable loss.— Home and Farm. Uaing Mineral Fertilizer*. When liberal applications of potash and phosphoric acid are to be used, it is better to put them on as (J.irly in the spring as possible, and work it well into the soil, even two or three weeks before the seed is put in. Upon a heavy clay soil it would probably oe even better to put it on in the fall. By the early application it becomes partially dissolved in the soil and bet ter distributed through it, and there Is no danger of its injuring the ger mination of the seed as it might do If it was put on when the seed was. put in.and they came in contact, When tankage is used for nitrogen this may be put on the same time as the other fertilizers, as in the cold ground it will take some time for it to decay enough to make its nitrogen available. There would be very little If any loss of nitrogen. But In using nitrate of soda wait until the seed Is putin, or even until the plants are up. and scatter it around them, not getting it on them when they are wet j lest it should burn. For a crop tnai j needs the whole season to grow it is iften better to make two light applica 1011s of nitrate of soda, the last when the pi ants"ar«--al)outjj%l£ grQKa.-UiaU one heavy one. Scalding Ifng«t Knnlly. With one and one-half inch boards and galvanized iron make a scalding pan or vat, using for the sides two pieces of board about five feet long and 14 or 16 inches wide. Have the lower corners slightly rounded. Se cure a piece of galvanized iron 28 to •30 inches wide and seven and a half or eight long. Nail the iron to the bottom of the boards, allowing it to extend around each end to the top. To use this, dig a trench in the ground a little narrower than the pan and two or three feet longer and 18 or 20 inches deep. Set the pan over this trench, bank up on the sides and putin about six inches of water, build a fire under end and allow the water to heat. At one side of the vat build a plat form for scraping the hogs. Have a couple of pins near the top cf the pan over which put the ring of two trave chains. Put the hog on the platform. Have one man take hold of both chains on the opposite sides if the vat. Roll the hog into the chain holder, letting it down into the water gradually. Standing astride the par, each taking hold of the ends of one I'liain, two men will easily turn and ecald a heavy hog in about half the time it can be done in the barrel. The water can be kopt at the proper tem perature by adding more fuel or by adding cold water when it is too hot. The trace chains should be close enough together to pass in front of the hind legs and just back of the front legs. When the hog is scalded he can be returned to the platform by replacing the rings of the chaih on the pins and lifting on the free end. —L. P. Hopkins, in Orange-Judd Farmer. A Word for Dwarf Fruit Treea. Some of the best of our fruits are raised from dwarf trees, and In Eu rope, where land is expensive, these rees are used almost exclusively. They have been trained to produce nore fruit and less tree and vine. This .hey do so well that a farmer with a raction of an acre of land can actual y raise fruit enough off it to support lis family. In this country, where and is plentiful, little attention has ieen given to dwarf fruit trees, and heir fruit is hardly known in our narkets. Yet there are some points if excellence in this class of trees vhich should at least command some ttention, especially around the house vhcre good gardens are cultivated, 'or instance, it is possible to raise hese dwarf trees in shaded places, ear buildings where they will re eive ample protection from the cold Inds, so they will produce fruits eeks after nil orchard trees liavj ?ased to yield. I have seen dwarf 'ar trees hold their fruit six weeks 'ter all these orchard treccs of th" n:c variety had shed their fruits and leaves. Dwarf peach trees sand wiched between two houses, or a nook between two wings of a barn, havu yielded peaches during seasons when all other peach trees were killed by 1 the cold weather. j But dwarf peach, apple, pear and plum trees frequently produce fruits and are superior to any raised in the orchard, and one who attempted to raise just this class of fruit might easily supply the best markets with fancy fruits not obtainable elsewhere The fruits incline to grow nearly a third larger on dwarf trees whero proper thinning out is followed, and without losing any of their flavor so common to most large fruits. Dwarf trees are not so unprofitable in the orchard as many imagine, for what they lose in proportion of trunk an 1 limbs they gain in being closer planted together in the rows. Orchards of dwarf trees of both piums and pears are planted with the trees only about a dozen feet apart, and yet they are net crowded even when the trees reach full maturity. This fact makes an acre of dwarf trees appear more favorable than might seem at first thought. Those who cut back their trees continuolly year after year get the best results with their fruits, and the dwarf trees simply represent this system carried to an extreme. It may be possible that the American system of cutting back severely each year is better adapted to our country than raising the extreme dwarf varieties. M. A. Bodwell, in American Cultivator. Tho Horse lluaiiiea* in America* Why did farmers quit raising horses when prices were low, instead of breeding to prepare for the inevitable high prices, as some of our readers did who took our advice and kept up their breeding? They have the horsa laugh now, and get good prices since the tide has changed, anil all get to breeding again. Why do some farm ers object to gray horses, when the city buyers pay a premium on the gi lys, sure to have more quality? T" ese color craze people prefer color to quality, and will breed to any Etal licn, no matter how unsound and in fe jor, just so he is not a gray, and because one farmer does, others do, without knowing any good reason why. This compelled the importers to select the American dark colors in France and les e many of the best stallions, simply because they were grays. We are glad to gee the impor ters bringing so many good grays this year, giving more attention to good quality than to color, and there are now some localities where the gray Pcrcherou is coming again into its own. Where the farmers read, think and act and breed the "old pray mare" to the good gray stallion they will have the houe buyers eargerly hunt ing for the good gray geldings of Quality to top the market. Then the grays will laugh. American farmers are eager to get Into market witii big draught horses and the largest stallions seem to be thj first consideration. The matter of color is solving itself, and the grays are again coming to the front, as the larger selection enables importers to secure more good grays than any oth er color of the breed, and the horse buyers for market pay more money for the handsome grays. Tho eager demand for black stal lions has. however, induced the im porters to bring more big black Per (herons than ever before, although prices are higher than ever before known in the history of American im portations. The Shires, Clydes and Belgians are also coming in iacreasecl numbers, and with larger size and bigger bone than ever before, for the American trade has so impressed the draught horse breeders of Europe thrt they have bred to suit the American trade, and when we get back into our markets again with matured geld ings we will be able to give more at tention to quality with less attention to size and color. We have also learned to look to breeding and pedi gree, indeed, the American farmer has learned much about draught horse breeding, and the more he learns of breed's and breeding the greater val ue and appreciation is given to tho draught horse for the farm as well as for market. —Live Stock Journal. Noted from Ileekeeper*. Keep bees to make your own honey. Begin with a few hives. If honey is overheated both color and transparency are injured. Strong colonies protect themselves against robbers and bee moths. Never leave a newly hived swarm near the place where it clustered. Beea generally require about Sl'| pounds of honey on which to winter. A little pine tar smeared on a board and put next the hive will drive away nnts. Thick, well ripened honey will not granulate so readily as that which !B thin. In cold weather when bees are quiet is when they are doing best; do not disturb them. In making candy to feed to bees be careful not to burn it. Burnt candy will kill bees. In rendering beeswax use a tin, brass or copper vessel. An iron one will darken it. It is a good plan to do what feeding is necessary at night, so as not to excite robbing. There are three personages in the beehive proper—the queen, the work er bee and the drone. Unite week colonies end their stores. They will winter better to gether than separately. Besides losing its beauty and fine appearance, hone; kept in a cellar rets waterv and its flavor lost ws New Effect in Window Hnnpinrr*. Parisians have a new effect In window hanging that has become very popular there, but probably would not do so with our more conservative housewives. This consists ot' a grace fully hung window treatment with a heavy curtain one side and a lace cur tain draped on the other side. Ilow to I)i*tiiicuiKii Tender Reef. Meat, to be wholesome, must come from a healthy animal; to be nutri t'ous, from a well-nourished one. Much-used muscles absorb much food material, making rich, juicy meat. Thia is, however, tougher than that of parts less used, because the connec tive tissue and fibre increase as well as the contents of the muscle-tubes. The lean of good beef is firm, elas tic, and, when first cut, purplish red, the surface becoming bright red and moist after exposure to the air. The tenderer cuts are fine-grained and well-mottled with fat; a thick layer of firm, light straw-colored fat extends over the rib and loin cuts; the kidney suet is white and crumbly. Flabby, dark or coarse beef with yellow fat is poor; if it has little fat, it is from an old or underfed creature.—Ameri can Queen. Overnlnhnratlon In Ilnme I.lfe. In our modern life there seems to be a tendency toward great elabora tion of finish and complexity of de tail in architecture, furniture, dress and entertainments, says a writer in Good Housekeeping, Houses are fin ished and furnished with a variety of complicated arrangements and adorn ments. Dress is a mystery past un raveling without the aid of a profes sional modiste. Entertainments have passed the stage when an invitation to tea meant the partaking of a sim ple repast consisting of scalloped oys ters, cold tongue, biscuit, preserves, sponge cake and tea. Instead of this an elaborate meal, served in courses. Is the fashion, which prevents many a would-be hostess from inviting her friends to her home, because the prep aration of such a repast taxes too greatly the resources of a simple es tablishment. Tl»e Right Way to Puck. Let all heavy articles be placed at the bottom of box, trunk or barrel; ay you pack each receptacle, have a book and pencil by your side. Before you begin to pack, number your recep tacles, and as you proceed make a list of the contents of each in such a way that the things putin last are entered on your list first; then if some spe cial article is wanted it may be known at once which receptacle contains it and just about where it can be found. When packing glass or china, excel sior, straw or hay is necessary. Let the largest and heaviest things be putin first. Pack tightly, but never attempt to pack glass or china which is of value until you have seen it done by someone who knows how. In packing goods for storage, lists con taining the contents of each trunk and box should be placed in an envelope and attached to them in a secure man ner. kscipsS Quick Coffee Cake —One cup of su gar, two eggs, one-half cup of butter, one pint of milk, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, sifted into enough flour to make a batter as stiff as cake batter. Pour into a well-greased bak ing pan, sprinkle melted butter, sugar and cinnamon on the top and bake for half an hour. Serve hot. Chocolate Pudding—Beat one-quar ter of a pound of butter to a cream, and stir in six yolks, one at a time, sweet chocolate grated, a cup of al monds blanched and chopped fine, six tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar, and one tablespoonful of citron cut very fine, beat the six whites of eggs to a stiff froth and stir in at the last. Pour into a mould and boil three-quar ters of an hour and send to the table hot with whipped cream poured around it, or any fine sauce served in a sauceboat. Cream of Sweetbreads —One large sweetbread, one-half can mushrooms, one-quarter can white asparagus tips, one cup of milk, one cup of cream, one tablespoonful flour and one of butter. Make a white sauce by rubbing the tablespoonful of flour into the butter; add the milk and let it boll until the consistency of thick cream. Add to this the sweetbread, which has been previously boiled and broken into small pieces, the mushrooms cut into halves and the asparagus tips. When this has boiled up once add the cream, and serve on rounds of buttered toast. Tapioca and Apple Pudding—Six good, tart cooking apples, three-quar ters of a cup of pearl tapioca, sugar to taste and one quart of water. Soak the tapioca in the water two hours, then putin a double boiler and cook until clear, sweeten to taste. It may be flavored with the rind of lemon cut very thin and removed when the tap ioca is done. Peel and core the ap ples and fill the holes with sugar, ar range them in a pudding dish and pour the tapioca over tnern. bake un til the apples are tender. A few tiny bits of butter on the top will make it brown a little. Serve hot or cold with cream and sugar The Dead Line. The (load-line between liapii.v yenrs and sorrowful, between the days of usefulness and the time of useleKsness, Is difficult to draw with exactness. No one may say that just here the best years begin or just yonder they have ended. Each period of life lias its pleasures peculiar to Itself. Childhood is a lake undisturbed, youth an ocean tossed with storm, manhood a deep flowing stream, old ape a gulf unfath omable and breaking in gentle, lapping accents upon an eternal shore. Child hood is foundation, youth building, manhood ornamentation, old age the cap-sheaf. The ideal years may fie all along the way. The old-time novel closed with the heroine safely married. In new century Action the first pages have a wedding ceremony. The world is learning that life is a long lane and that flowers grow all the way. Old Joe, tlie Night Watchman. (From the Pall Mall Cazette, London.) How often 011 returning home late on a dreary winter's night has our sympathy gone out to the poor old night watchman as he sat huddled up over his cage fire, overlooking the excavations which our City Council in their wisdom, or otherwise, allow the different water companies to make so frequently in our congested streets. In all weathers, and under all cli matic conditions, the poor old night watch man is obliged to keep watch over the companies' property, and to see that the red lights are kept burning. What a life, to be sure; what privations and hardships; they have aches and pains, which nothing but St. Jacobs Oil can alleviate. "Old .Toe" is in the employ of the Lam beth Water Works, and is well and favour bly known. He has been a night watch man for many years, in the course of which he has undergone many expe riences. What with wet and cold, he con tracted rheumatism and sciatica, which fair ly doubled him up, and it began to look a serious matter for old .Toe whether he would much longer be able to perform his luties, on which his good wife and himself depended for a livelihood, but as it hap pened a passer-by, who had for some nights noticed Old Joe's gainful condition, presented him with a Viottle of St. Jacobs Oil, and told him to use it. Old Joe followed the advice given; he crawled home the next morning and bade his wife rub his aching back with the St. Jacobs Oil "a gentleman gave him," and undoubt edly his wife did rub, for when Old .Toe (rent on duty at night he met his friend and benefactor, to whom he remarked: "Them oils you gave me, Guv'nor, did give me a doing; they wuz like pins and needles for a time, but look at me now," and Old Joe began to run and jump about like a young colt. All pain, stiffness and s'jreness had gone; he had been telling fverybody he met what St. Jacobs Oil lad done for him. Old Joe says now he oas but one ambition in life, and that is !<» .always to be able to keep a bottle of >t. Jacobs Oil by him, for he says there is lothi-g like it in the world. St. Jacobs Oil serves the rich and the joor, high and low, the same way. It has sjnquered pain for fifty years, and it will lo the same to the end of time. It has no ?iual. consequently no competitor; it has liany cheap imitations, but simple facts ike the above tell an honest tale with .vhich nothing on earth can compete. Denmark leads ti.e world in per capita i Merest in agriculture. Each inhabitant [ 3.1 son an average a capital of $585 invest- J !<1 in farming. FlTSpermanent ly cured.No fits ornervoys l.-ss after tlrst day 's use of Hr. Kline's Great 4erveHestorer.fc2trial bottle andt'eatise free Jr. 1!. 11. KI.ISE, r.t.1, . IC-ilAn-li !-t. Philn.,Pa. Youth strews flowers before beauty, old j 4;e throws itself. I The Distinctive Value of Syrup of Figs is due to its pleasant form and perfect freedom from every objectionable quality or substance and to the fact that it acts gently and truly as a laxative, without in any way disturbing the natural functions. The requisite knowledge of what a laxative should be and of the best means for its production enable the California Fig Syrup Co. to supply the general demand for a laxative, simple and wholesome in its nature and truly beneficial in its effects; a laxative which acts pleasantly and leaves the internal organs in a naturally health}' condition and which does not weaken them. To assist nature, when nature needs assistance, it is all important that the medicinal agents used should be of the best quality and of known value and Syrup of Figs possesses this great advantage over all other remedies, that it does not weaken the organs on which it acts and therefore it promotes a healthful con nggg! dition of the bowels and assists one in forming regular habits. Among its many k|||J excellent qualities may be mentioned its perfect safety, in all cases requiring a BUI laxative, even for the babe, or its mother, the maiden, or the wife, the invalid, HH: or the robust man. ■i||] Syrup of Figs is well known to be a combination of the laxative principles Epgl of plants, which act most beneficially, with pleasant aromatic liquids and the MRU juice of figs, agreeable and refreshing to the taste and acceptable to the system, Kg?H| when its gentle cleansing is desired. The quality of Syrup of Figs is due not BUI only to the excellence of the combination, but also to the original method of fglß manufacture which ensures perfect purity and uniformity of product and it is K|f|| therefore all important, in buying, in order to get its beneficial effects, to note K||| the full name of the Company —California Fig Syrup Co. —printed on the front K||i of every package. | (&FORNIA[TfiSYRUP({L IMfe San Francisco, Cal. jfMll 112 $ |Bp Louisville, Ky. New York, N. Y. |JI ||j||J|||jjj| ■jpl ; FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS. PRICE FIFTY CENTS PER BOTTLE. >fj|[ fll I|||||||||||J| The skin or the Canadian black bear The city of Washington has tue high brings from sls to SSO. es t monument in tho world. Rev. Marguerite St. Omer Briggs* 35 Mount Calm Street, Detroit, Michigan, Lecturer for the W. C. T. U., recommends Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. " DEAR MRS. PINKHAM : My professional work has for the past twenty years brought me into hundreds of homes of sickness, and I have had plenty of opportunity to witness the sufferings of wives and mothers who from want, ignorance or carelessness, are slowly but surely being dragged to death, principally with female weakness and irregularities of the sex. I believe you will be pleased to know that Lydla E. Phikhuni's Vegetable Compound has cured more women than any other agency that has come under my notice. Hundreds of women owe their life and health to you to-day, and, there fore, I can conscientiously advise sick women to try it."— MARGUERITE ST. OMER BRIGGS. SSOOO FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE LETTER IS NOT GENUINE. When women are troubled with irregular or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhcea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bear mg-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, flatulence, general debility, indigestion, and nervous prostration, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice* She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Dad way's n puis Purely vegetable, mild and reliable. Cans* per fect Digestion, complete absorption and healthful regularity. tor the cure or all disorders of the Htomarh, Liver, Ho wolfs Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases. LOSS OF APPETITE, SICK HEADACHE, INDIGESTION, DIZZY FEELINGS, FEMALE COMPLAINTS, BILIOUSNESS, DYSPEPSIA. PERFECT DIGESTION will be accomplished by (akin? Rad way's Pills. By their ANTI-BILIOUS properties they stimulate the liver in these ret lon of the bile toil I*H dJs •h-itvn thromrh the biliary ducts. these pills in doses from two to four will quickly r<wul *te the action of the liver and ire* 4 the patient trou: these disorders. One or two of Rail way H I ills, taken dally by those subject to bilious pains and torpidity of the liver, will keep the sys tem regular and secure healthy digestion. Price, 25c. per llox. Sold by all Druggists. RADWAY St CO., New York. nDADCV KEW DISCOVERT; il.« U■ V ■ W ■ quick r<*lie'and curve wornt cumjt Book 01 UMtimonia.s and IO tinv»* treatment tree. Dr. 11. fl. OMfcE.NB SONS. BOX B. Atlanta. Oa Capsicum Vaseline Put up in Collapsible Tubes. A Substitute for and Superior to Mustard or any other plaster, and will not blister the most del lea* skin. The pain allaying and curative qualities of t this arti le are wonderful. It will stop the t otha-he i I at once, an i relieve he:uloche and sciatica. We recommend it as the best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for pains in the chest and stomach and all rheumatic, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to be Invaluable in the household. Many people say "It is the best of all your preparations.** Price, 15 cents, at all druggists, or other deal«: 0, or by sending this amount to us in postage s amps we will send you a tube by mail. Mo article should be accepted by the public unless the same carries our label, as otherwise It is not genuine. j CHEESEBROUGH MANUFACTURING CO., 17 Stite Street. New York City. flENSlONwl'.il.niK?^ Jyrs in civil war. IS adjudicating claims, utt.y sine* TfJ CURES Mm ALL ELSEFAILS. M Oest rough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use |g LU in time. Sold by druirgists. m «.*old lTedal at Buffalo Bxssaltlsn, fIIcILHENNY'S TAUASCO ADVERTISING W*
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