Marking Temporarily. To mark sheep temporarily, as at breediug or lambing time, it is desir able to do it in such a way as not to injure the fleece. A very good paint is mado of common red ocher, or the brown oxide of iron will raw linseed oil. Marl: on the forehead vlth a small paint brush. A ring, triangle, cross on the forehead, ear, or even leg, will suf fice. How to Munuro the Soil. The following is a summary of a bul letin from the Oklahoma station on manuring soil: Without going into detail as to the various considerations that may affect the results of manuring, at the present stage of our agricultural practice, the ' chief points to bo observed arej First —To manure the soil. Use all the manure produced, prevent losses by washing away, \it burning straw, haul the manure c .o the fields some where, sometime, somehow. Second —Manure the highest and poorest spots, give a good application at one time—from 15 to 20 two-horse loads—and manure another place next time. Third —Manure with reference to the time of rainfall, to the next crop which is to be grown, and to me other work which must be done. Late fall and ) winter, when other work is not press ' ing, is a good time. Light top-dress ings may be applied to wheat in the Fourth. —Growing crops lor green manuring alone is not the most profit able method. Pasture them and plow under the remainder when about ma ture. This applies chiefly to cowpeas. If sorghum is to be plowed under, it should he while the stalks are green, and juicy, so that they will decay quickly. Substitutes tor Grilln. Owing to the high prices of grain, which make large inroads into the re ceipts of poultry keepers who are obliged to buy a large proportion of the feed, we have been asked if something could not be used in place of so much grain. The hen has a small crop and cannot make use of a great amount of coarse, bulky foods as can cows and other ruminants. The grain ration can be advantageously cut down one-fourth or more by the liberal use of clover and vegetables, but where this is done a large proportion of the wheat bran, which is also bulky food, shorn- be left out. Very finely cut clover or alfalfa, or clover meal can be steamed and mixed with the mash, or the noon ration may consist of steamed clover, to .which is added some wheat middlings,bnd corn meal. Vegetables can be fed either green or boiled and mixed with the mash. Corn silage makes an occa sional relish, and is very cheap. Whole grain should be fed at least once a day. At present prices of grain, barley is one of the most economical feeds to buy and is very good fed cither ground or whole. Meat scraps or green cut bone are cheap, considering the matter .vhich they contain. An old sheep, °ow or horse can be turned to good irofit in this way. It is also the most profitable use to which many uogs ould be put.—American Agriculturist. The Culture of CHbbnc<*. Cabbage, 1 have found, do the best in a rich clay loam. Sew the seed in lot beds by Feb. 15 or March 1, and keep the bed at a temperature of 50 or CO degrees; transplant into cold rarnes; this will harden the plants and nake them stocky. Make sure that the oil is rich and plant out as soon as the ground can be got ready, in rows 30 nches apart each way. Cultivate fre luently, se> as to keep down all weeds nd make the surface meliow. Such s the way. generally speaking, to grow arly cabnages. For iate ones, I would ow the seed about the last of April >r first of May. in drills eight or ten nches apart, and cover them fully one nch deep. When the plants have ome up, they will naturally be oubled more or less with the cabbage ia, unless something is done to pre >nt it: tnerefore, I would recommend owing over the bed air-slacked lime. .L will do no harm to the plants, and wo applications will suffice. I prefer o plant out the latter part of June or irst of July, 30 by 30 inches; it is al vays essential to keep the soil well ultivated, that it may be loose and ree from weeds. I think it the best ime to plant out after a rain; if done hen the weather is dry, the roots ust be puddled and the plants .atered at night. Even with late cab age it is better to transplant before itial setting out; they will then de elop plenty of fibrous roots and be ome stocky, requisities which are uich required.—Fred O. Sibley, in the nitomist. rinciples Under! vin~ Crop flotation. A rotation of crops on the same soil irCvents the exhaustion of plant food irimarily because different crops draw n different proportions on the plant xid elements of the soil. If, for in tance, wheat were grown year after ear, even though the stubble was lowed under, it is probable that the hosphorie acid of the soil would he me exhausted, and the test of a soil's jility to produce crops is the amount id availability of all its principal ele ents of fertility. In other words, ii >tafch and nitrogen were abundant in flicient quantity to produce a crop of ';cat. and phosphoric acid were lack 's. the wheat would suffer. The pro ictivlty of the soil would in this case' measured by the amo.'.nt and avail- ability of tha phosphoric acid which it contains. When a rotation is followed, the pot ash may 1)2 drawn heavily on one year, the phosphoric acid another, and the nitrogen another, and so a balance is maintained, but this is not all, because a rotation not only implies this, but implies that in that rotation a plant ia included which adds consideiably to the humus content of the soil. To this end clover or some other leguminous plant is always, or should always be, a part of the rotation, and the reason that clover is used is that it returns to lue soil more than it takes out. This a(l litional substance is collected from VV atmosphere through co-operation ci bacteria which reside in the nodules o.Sthe roots of the clover. —The Coun try Gentleman. Working Butter. Butter, when properly made m tnt, granular form, needs no working other than that done in the churn. This saves more than half the labor and makes first-class butter. Salt should be even ly distributed through the butter and the butter freed from the buttermilk and surplus moisture. Why churn the butter into a mass and fasten the but termilk : n? Stir the cream well to gether wl. 'n more cream is added until enough is gathered to churn. Churn the cream at ti2 degrees in a revolving churn w jiout inside machinery until the butter comes in granules about bird-shot size. If so done, the butter will be strictly one thing and the but termilk another, and the buttermilk will run out if you give it an oppor tunity. Rinse tha butter twice? with pure water, with salt added. The last rins ing will come nearly clear of butter milk. Drain the butter a few minutes, add about two ounces of good dairy salt to the pound of butter, the butter still being in the churn, revolve the churn a few times and the salt will in termingle evenly with the butter. It is well to allow a few minutes for the salt to dissolve, and then give it a good banging in the churn, which will give the butter nearly all the needed work ing. Nov/ pack the butter solidly in tub or crock or work into rolls with the butter ladle. About three-fourths of the large amount cf salt in the but ter will come out in tne brine in work ing or banging the butter into a solid body. I have practised this method over 50 years, and can certify to its value for farm dairy use, or, say, up to 30 pounds of butter at a churning.—F. C. Curtis, in Farmer's Voice. Milk Prod notion in Winter. The successful dairyman knows pretty accurately just the ratio of milk production of his herd for each month of the year, and he will furthermore ascertain the relative amount of milk and cream given by each individual cow. It is absolutely necessary that the record should be kept, and then intelligent methods can be adopted for diminishing the falling off of milk in fall and winter. Unquestionably the food problem is at the bottom of this tailing off, but we have found out that by artificial methods of feeding we can to a large extent correct this. The cow thfet has a good winter's supply of ensilage, roots, hay and grain is not apt to fall off much in the quality or quantity of its milk. Cut the question of feeding the winter cows with good milk-producing food is also one of ex pense. No dairyman could fail to pre pare a winter diet that would keep the supply almost up to the standard of the summer it he chose liberally of all the foods in the market. But the most costly foods are generally those which give the best results. Consequently we are hampered in finding the best re sults for the least cost. The silo has in recent years simpli fied winter ■'airying, and no man can well do without it who expects to make his cows do well in winter. This is the best substitute for the summer food yet devised. It supplies the necessary amount of moist, succulent food which the cows demand to make good milk. But the ensilage must be good, sweet and nourishing. The failure to obtain good susilage one year is no good rea son to abandon it next. With good ensilage, plenty of root crops and fine hay and some grain, the dairyman can make his profits double in winter. Roots are too little raised. They may not supp'y nourishment for lat and muscle, but they are essential tor a good milk supply. F-d with hay and grain they almost take the place of ensilage. But with roots, hay, grain and ensilage- we havo ehnrst a com plete substitute for the best June grass. Properly planned and raised these four component parts of the winter feeding need not be so expensive that the mar gin of profits is narrowed. Indeed, they can be raised and fed in winter at less actual cost than the ordinary feed of hay and grain, which some dairymen bold as their stock winter feed. By having the ensilage and roots, the grain food can be reduced more than one-half without causing any failing eft in the quantity or quality of the winter milk.—C. T. Lawson. in Amer ican Cultivator. (iprniHii Football In former days "der Englander ' was considered mad by the average l Ger man for standing out all day in the burning sun at cricket, lawn tennis and such like out-of door games. Times have now changed, and in order to out-rival the insular English the Germans have gone one point highe', for not only do they play tennis with utmost zeal and skill, but they actual !> play football in summer. Fancy football with the thermometer at twenty degrees Reaumur in the shade. Recently the Bonn football club play ed at Berlin against the "Preussen" and "Britannia" clubs and was beaten by both. —London Telegraj.li. Effective Window Draperies. Colored madras, or one of the effec tive Japanese canvas weaves, are among the most favored thin, colored window draperies of artistic decora tors, yet they, too, are only used un der protest, as a white or cream is so much preferable. Colored silk, velour or tapestry hangings used over thin white or cream window draperies ar<» quite comme il i'aut, but used alone next a window are not tirst choice by any means. Oiling the Sewing Machine. WiieD a -sewing machine is heavy to work talta out the cotton and thor ouglily oil every part of the machine with parafline. Work it briskly for a few minutes that the oil may pene trate thoroughly, and extract all dirt and grit, and then wipe every part of the machine carefully with a soft old duster. Wben the parafline has removed, oil the machine again with the proper lubricating oil. Parafline should never be allowed to remain on the machine, for it heats the bearings and causes thera to wear out. A Perfumed Uancer. For dresses the sachets are arranged In the form of pads for the waist and skirt hangers of steel wire. Silk of any desired shade may be used, well wadded with cotton in the layers of which is placed the scented powders, according to the Philadelphia Inquir er. The hangers hold the waist and skirt in good shape and the perfume permeates the gown, giving off an evanescent, impalpable fragrance which is fascinating and individual. The long, fiat sachets for the bureau drawers are made of silk or linen, and three or four may be used in each drawer, being placed between layers of underwear. Smaller ones of fancy or plain 'silks, exquisitely embroid ered, may be fashioned for the giove and handkerchief ease, though in many instances these boxes are wad ded with cotton and sachet powder and are lined with silk to match the dresser scarf. The Unsightly Storm Door. Our climate with its extremes ot heat and cold and varying degrees of huu -lity, is a hard one on front doors, write*,, an architect in Good House keeping The veneered door stands better (warps and twists, shrinks and swells less) than the solid, except the latter be of such a wood as white pine. If a door i's to show a natural finish of hardwood, the veneered may be made lighter than the solid, and there fore easier to swing and less likely to sag on its hinges. Elaborately pan eled doors are less likely to stand well than simply paneled, but very wife panels are more likely to warp or split llian narrow ones. The more exposed the front door, the greater the weight that should be given to these consid eiations in its design. We must have a good door before we can hope for a beautiful. And here let me enter a protest agr.inst that ugly, obtrusive, makeshift box, hardly lit for a hen house, if nothing meaner, commonly called the storm door, planted at so many front entrances and left there for five months out of the 12. If a proper vestibule is impossible and an exposed situation demands the protection, put your storm door for the winter where the screen door hangs during the summer, but don't in sult your neighbors and demean your self by putting up the ordinary storm door contrivance. RSCfPZS Cracker Gruel —Roll some crackers until very fine and measure two table sponfuls and add one saltspoonful of salt and one teaspoonful of sugar. Four over one cupful of boiling water and simmer for a few minutes. Then add one cupful of milk and serve with out straining. Cranberry Shortcake —Make a crust of one quart of flour, one-fourth cup of butter and two tablespoonfuls of baking powder; bake in cakes. Split open with a hot knife and butter as soon as they are taken from the oven. Kill with well-sweetened cooked cran berries, and serve with cream and sugar or sauce. Potatoes and Chicken —Take three cupfuls of seasonel mashed potatoes, one tablcspoonl'ul of butter, one-haif cupful of bread crumbs, one teaspoon ful of finely minced onion and the well-beaten yolks of two eggs. Mix thoroughly together, roll into small cakes, cover rather thickly with minced cooked chicken to cover with another layer of the potato mixture. Fry a light brown in boiling lard. Cauliflower. Parisian Style—Boil a good-sized cauliflower until tender, chop it coarsely and press it hard in a mould or bowl, so that it will keep its form when turned out; put the . hape thus made upon a dish that will stand the heat and pour over it a to mato sauce. Make this by cooking to gether a tablespoonful of butter and Hour in a saucepan and pouring upon them a pint of strained tomato juice, in which half an onion has been stewed; stir until smooth and thicken still more by the addition of three or lour tablespoonfuls of cracker dust; salt to taste, turn the sauce over the moulded cauliflower; set in the oven "or about 10 minutes, and serve In the llsh in which it is cooked Beat For tlia Bowels. No matter whut alls you, headache to a can cer, you will never get well until your bowels ore put right. CAHCABETB help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce eusy natural movements, cost you just 10cents to start getting your health back. CAHCAUKTS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped ou it. lie ware of imitations. A farmer near Lenox, S. D., shot a peli can that measured eight feet and lour inches from tip to tip of its wings. Brooklyn, N.Y.,Feb.2O. —The aotl vity at the laboratory of the Garfield Tea Co. is further evidence of the popularity of their prepara tions: over Three Million Families used Gar lleld ltemedtes last year! This vast public approval speaks well for the remedies. They are: Oarlield Tea, Uarileld Headache l'ow ders.Garileld-Tea Syrup,Garfield Relief Pias ters, Garfield Belladonna Blasters, Garileld Digestive Tablets and Garfield Cold Cure. British America is about 300.000 square miles greater than the United States. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nervoßestorer.4'2 trial bottle and treatisefree Dr. It. H. KI.I.NE, Ltd., 'J3I Arch St., Phila., Ba. A new fad in London is to decorate the staircase with flowers in bloom arranged on the ledges outside the banisters. Mrs. Wlnsiow's Soothing Hyrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma tion,allays pain.cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. One way for a girl to dampen a young man's ardor is to throw him overboard. J; Delicately formed and g-ently reared, women will 112 r find, in all the seasons of their lives, as nmids or wives / or mothers, that the one simple, wholesome remedy / , V*- - '/) w hieh acts gently and pleasantly and naturally, and Ia « v i w Wch may be used with truly beneficial effects, under Wm ':if . '* ' any conditions,when the system needs a laxative—is— *•' Syrup of Figs. It is well known to be a simple com- \.Jos£dfr V'vV'T'; biuation of the laxative and carminative principles of f WSIk &v'- 112 - plants with pleasant, aromatic liquids, which arc VV^'S ■\ Jjjl agreeable and refreshing to the taste and acceptable ?^Ov©.,-, to tho system when its gentle cleansing is desired. Many of the ills from which women suffer are of M S&S&V AuKf** 1 ' a transient nature and do not come from any organic |fc \wKEg' trouble and it is pleasant to know that they yield so l|\ NT "A promptly to the beneficial effects of Syrup of Figs, 111. S Wm jf iVi 4 but when anything more than a laxative is needed it \ \N M is best to consult the family physician and to avoid the old-time cathartics and loudly advertised nos- Imvw r&'' ;4?pfe trums of the present day. When one needs only to ' jfwrvwi remove the strain, the torpor, the congestion, or similar ills, which attend upon a constipated condi- J' |*s| 1/ tiou of the system, use the true and gentle remedy— [^Or~N Syrup of Figs—and enjoy freedom from the depres j:'ta>-5N sion, the aches and pains, colds and headaches, which Wa&SSKS&BI. are due to inactivity of the bowels. Only those who buy the genuine Syrup of Figs IBWmBMBA-. ? can liope to get its beneficial effects and as a guar jii M anteeof the excellence of the remedy the full name « iiyftf of tae company—California Fig Syrup Co.—is wJ&T', printed on the front of every package and without M&V it any preparation offered as Syrup of Figs is fraud- '\SjKjji3| ulent and should lie declined. To those who know the m-\ quality of this excellent laxative, the offer of any WmlMflKfr jj' m substitute, when Syrup of Figs is called for, is always resented by a transfer of patronage to some fjr-i.. first-class drug establishment, where they do not recommend, nor sell false brands, nor imitation If remedies. The genuine article may be bought of all - , reliable druggists everywhere at 50 cents per bottle. A LUXURY WITHIN THE REACH OP ALL. "LION HEADS." .A Lion Heads, Lion Heads vßflVl W i| They are all the rage at present. X&fiwFilSilli'jr Lion Heads, Lion Heads, Nft jmClipping them is task that's pleasant. Cut from LION COFFEE WRAPPERS, kZrrlfy They of woman's heart are trappers, \JB) Also tempt a host of papas, They are being clippe J incessant I li i \ I-ion Heads, Lion Heads— -111 What a value they are meaning! Un M'Cy^Lion Heads, Lion Heads Yv'» ov.'wf? ///\vx / Women have to them a leaning. 1 MON COFFEE is excelling ✓i\ fJlr' 112 # y J Every other kind now selling. 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It stops falling of the hair, too, and al ways restores color to gray hair. Sl-Ot t battle. All druggists. If your drnpjqist cannot supply you, send us one dollar and we will express you a bottle. Be sure and give the nam* of your nearest express ofuce. Address, J. C. AYEH CO., Lowell, Muss. It is a fact that Salzer's vegetable and flower aeeda are foun\ the production of our choice seeds 1 n sw> order to Induce you to try them we the following uuprec- BLmm ■ r~ edented offer: ■T "TVI For '® Cenfi RomtpaUM[M WU \I I 80 kladi tf r»r«it l»a Wm9 ■ Oat and Hromus and Speltz, onion Eft n i seed at «uc. a pound, etc., all only for 16c. in stamps. Write to-day. tun I \Xnh ' OHN *• 4 * LZER SEE » co.. «■ lU 111 ifjjjl La Crossa, Wis. memo i w.itioMßis. IjClldll/ll Waataliigtou, U.cl gj'Successfully Prosecutes Claims. VH LatePrTncFpal SxtmfDsr U 3. Pension Bureau. BJ.V'iinelvll war. ISadjudicatiugclaiUH.atty sinca jSold Medal at Buffalo Exposition. 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