LIVE STOCK J* AGRICULTURE WASTE J FARMS Where Some of That Missing Money Disappears. TAKING CARE OF THE TOOLS. One of the Easiest Ways to Save Cash. Cry of "Farming Doesn't Pay" Due Largely to Neglect of Simple Matters. Farmers Who Make a Profit. Farmers often ask themselves, "Where has that money gone?" I can tell them a little about it. I am riding over the country and visiting farmers and doing some work on farms almost daily.l speak "by the book" and not from theory or hearsay. Plows cost ing $8 cash and SIU to $lO time nnd mostly bought on time, S3O cultivators, $125 binders and other farm machin ery equally expensive nre in fence corners and where they were last used. That's where a very large part has gone. A few years ago I was selling a cer tain mower, a writer in the Farm Journal says.l drove to the house of a farmer of my acquaintance, spoke to him in regard to buying a new ma chine and told him the kind, when he interrupted me, saying: "If it's as good as the old reaper (naming the one I ■was selling) I will take one. I have one that 1 will cut wheat with this year that I" have used twenty-six years." I went to look at it and It was tight and sound. It has been taken in each season as soon as done using, taken apart, cleaned, oiled, the wood work painted and all the bolts tight ened up, knives ground and fixed ready for work. That man had not lost his share of "that money," you can safely bet. I recently cut x some trees on the SOUTHERN BOYS' CORN CLUB. farm of a gentleman who is known as a good farmer. One part of (he stub ble field showed a very fine stand of ' clover and the balance rather thin. Said I to one of the men: "How's this? Was that ■ a potato patch?" "No," said he. "When we were done sowing clover seed we had some left, and we went back as far as it would go and sowed it over again." That part of the field will pay; the balance won't. I saw wheat cut one season that ran three and a half bushels to the acre, and across the road the same kind of land had fifteen bushels to the acre. One wao sowed on clods and no stand. The other was properly put.in. Both cost the same for fertilizer, seed and drilling, cutting, hauling, etc. Now I suppose the three and a half bushel man wonders "where that mon ey has gone." Does any one else won der where his s! are went? "Frrming doesn't pay," I hear every dry. Well, 1 know that any other business, I don't care what kind, will fail, too, if run on careless, slipshod lines. I do know plenty of farmers who make a profit of 5 per cent on a fair valuation of farms in addition to an excellent living, and a business that does that is pretty good. I.et the farmer raise more diversi fied crops, practice the careful small economies that any large corporation does, put up his goods honestly, keep his fence rows clean, his machinery in good order and under shelter, and his part of "that money" will stay by him. Winter Ration For Sheep. We have found that sheep to be win tered correctly need a legume forage, writes an lowa man who knows the sheep business. In concentrates that legume, beyond a doubt. Is clover. However, alfalfa is coming into favor,' and I doubt not that it will be the leading forage in a very few years. In the west alfalfa is the ideal forage, and in the south cowpeas or some,of the clovers best adapted to that sec tion of the country make excellent for age. Mulching of Vegetables. Any time during the fall the mulch ing of rhubarb, asparagus and all of the vegetable and flowering perennials may he done. Any kind of fine or coarse manure will do. The fall and early winter rains will dissolve out richness of the manure and carry it to the roots of the plants before freez ing. It is best to mulch the lawn some time iu December or January. FEWER ACRES, MORE CORN. Better Than Cultivating Larger Area With Poorer Result*. "I have this yenr listened to the sug gestions of my better judgment nnd broken away from the habit of plow ing and planting every acre I possibly could," says a correspondent of Farm Progress. "This year I planted corn only on the land that I could manure heavily, and though the acreage was smaller by a good deal than usual it did me good to look at the field when ever I got near it. And, what is of more importance, the smaller area re turned a larger crop than I had been getting. "I manured heavily all my corn land with stable manure, broke it deep, har rowed thoroughly and planted in rows just as near together as 1 thought would give room to run the cultivators through. "The rows were something less than three feet apart and drilled in the row, then thinned to about fifteen inches apart. "It is surely an object lesson that is worth having, (letting a big crop from a small acreage JS surely a great deal better than cultivating double the area to get the same quantity of grain and probably not very much more fod der. Itj looks as if the 'little farm well tilled' idea Is the proper thing. "Certainly the experiment is well worth making. Xam confident that if all the corn growers in the big corn states—Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, lowa and Illinois— had reduced their ncreage and prepared and cultivated the land better they would have made as large yields and made more net profit." To this may be added the advice: Get the boy interested in the corn crop. Let him know how important a thiug corn is and how big a part it plays in the feeding, finances and commerce of the nation. If your neigh : borhood has no boys' corn club formed ]to stimulate the youngsters' views abort our great crop, get together with your friends and help to form one like the one in the picture. Offering | prizes for biggest and best ears, for biggest crop grown on a small patch, | etc., helps to arouse the boys' inter est in corn. Keeping Water Warm For Poultry, i Those who have not the regular fountains for keeping the drinking water warm for the poultry may ar-; range a vessel as follows: Take a low j ; candy pail or any like vessel, place an- ! | other smaller vessel for water iu the j center of it and carefully pack hot sawdust, sand or gtit around it. This will not only keep the water from j i chilling for some time, but with the J sand or grit one of the chief requisites to winter egg production will be pres ent at all times for chickens to pick. Also poultry is not so apt to dabble in and befoul the drinking water In I such a device as soon as it would in | an open vessel by itself.—Breeder's Ga zette. Winter Protection of Small Fruits. For strawberries the usual covering of straw is good. In mild locations a layer of straw not less than four inches j thick should be applied. In more se-, vere locations this would be Increased! to six inches, and in the prairie sec- j tions it is desirable to*use eight inches of straw or even more. Protecting Trees From Animals. Trees may be protected from injury by rabbits and mice, says the North Dakota experiment station, by keep ing litter away from them and paint ing the trunk with whitewash to which Paris green has been added. They may also be protected by wire screens. Needed For Good Crops. Much depends upon the vegetable, matter added to the soil. No matte; how much plant food there may be present, the soil will not produce large! crops without humus. To supply hu-l uius vegetable matter must be turned under or barnyard manure applied. To Loosen a Nut. When a wagon wheel nut has be come so set that it does not yield read ily to the wrench, center a stream of hot water on the nut from the spout ><f a teakettle. In a few minutes the uut can be turned off with the fingers. ! READING CHARACTER. Lips and Jaw Tell What Sort of (Par son You Are. We talk of thick lips as indicating sensibility, and of course our reason for doing so, declares Dr. James J. Walsh, professor of nervous diseases and physiological psychology at Ford ham university school of medicine, is that we have come to know by obser vation and experience that usually the sensualist has these features. When there is a combination of a narrow chin and thick lips we very often find not only a tendency to sensual Indulgence of some sort or other or perhaps of several kinds, but also, as a rule, a lack of control that leads to or may lead to these excesses. We must not forget, adds Dr. Walsh, that sometimes there may be behind these appearances a power of will that completely vitiates the conclusions we might draw from them. We used to think that these conditions of physiog l noiny, especially the narrow jaw and ' the full thick lips, were congenital, due to the nature of the individual, and that therefore It was simply a matter jof making the best of them. In recent 1 years, however, we have come to re alize that while ther° are congenital elements in some of these cases most of them represent conditions acquired from the functioning of the mouth and Jaws. j The rolling, full lips occur, we are reminded by I)r. Walsh, particularly in inoutli breathers. The process of breathing through the nose is easy and natural, and it develops that organ so as not to leave It narrow and thin and incompetent to fulfill the function of drawing in all (be air that is needed. Mouth breathing, on the other hand, requires effort and leads to overgrowth of the lips and to their turning out ! ward. I With the discovery of Meyer, the great physician, of the role that ade noid growths in the pharynx and oc clusion of the posterior wires play in 1 the causation of mouth breathing, or, rather. In the prevention of nasal breathing, a great light was thrown on I tlie whole question of changes in the face consequent upon the function of j breathing. This action of respiration ! repeated from fifteen to twenty-live j times a minute all during life can, as will readily be understood, produce [ rather striking effects upon the organs J connected with it.—Current Literature. HARD ON NOBLEMEN. Aristocrat Advertising For Lost Um brella Makes Distinction, Lord Clonmel lias lost his camera, and he announces tlie fact In an ad vertisement According to tlie San Francisco Argonaut, he took it with him on the liohilla, and as this gay lit tle steamer was specially reserved for members of the house of lords who wished to see the naval review at tlie coronation he felt that he might relax the vigilance usually advisable with , regard to portable property. But he was mistaken. Ills camera disappear ! ed. He laid it down and turned away for a moment, and when he looked ! again it was gone. He should have i known better. He knew the steamer was full of aristocrats, and .vet he al lowed himself to be negligent. And now lie inserts an advertisement ask ing the "nobleman or gentleman" who ! Inadvertently annexed his camera to j return it. i There was another aristocrat who ; lost a costly umbrella at a fashionable London club, and he posted a notice | to that effect, asking the "nobleman" , who had purloined it to have the good- I ness to make restitution. Fancy a no ! bleman returning anything! The club ! secretary asked why he addressed his appeal exclusively to noblemen, j "Well," was the reply, "the club is composed exclusively of noblemen and I gentlemen, and certainly no gentleman would steal my umbrella." These are sad Incidents and go far to explain a hostility to the hereditary gov j ernment. Remedies F»r Chicken Ills. Here are a few good remedies for chicken diseases: Canker is a disgust ing ailment, but generally in the start it can Ire checked by several applica tions of fine salt rubbed on the sore spots. Four drops of aconite in a half pint of drinking water given daily for a week or more are effective in cases of catarrh. Chicken pox can be successfully treat ed by anointing the head and wattles with carbolated vaseline after having been bathed well with hot water. A one grain quinine pill should be given each night for a week. A one grain quinine pill given each night for a week will also work won ders in cases of cold. Cases of cos tiveness can also be relieved by add lug ten drops of sulphate of magnesia to each pint of drinking water. Live Glaciers In Greenland. When you were a boy you used to sing "On Greenland's Icy Mountains." Well, the country is simply a vast nest of green mountains covered with snow. Ice and glaciers. These are known as live and dead glaciers. The dead glaciers are a mass of snow ami lee which has accumulated lietween gorges for a million years or more and has become so condensed that you could not penetrate the mass except with a steel drill. The live glaciers are those that break off and fall into the waters and be come floating masses of ice, often in flicting damage to ships. Where the sun can strike a spot the trees, which are of a dense grow*li. but small, wear the most beautiful green.—Engineer ing Magazine. SINGING VENDERS. Only the Really Tuneful Hawkers of Tokyo Prosper. CRY WARES ALL DAY LONG. Streets of the Japanese City Ring With the Quaint Melody of Oichini and "Amai, Amail" Beginning With the Coming of Dawn. Passing and repassing through the streets of Tokyo are venders of every description. Early in the morning one's slumber is disturbed by their | plaintive cries, and should the widow of the house look upon a thorough fare there may be seen through the. sudari a countless procession of hawk- ; ers, but they do not need to be seen to j be recognized, for their characteristic cries echo and re-echo from morning I until night. Take the oichini, for instance, the strolling medicine vender. Often he is a musician with a tuneful accordion. Envious glances may be cast at his red and white epaulets, his uniform and his cap. Many a youth might consid er it the height of ambition to be able togo about the city In just the same manner and win smiles from all the young women in the streets through which he passes. But the oichini has ail lie can do to make his daily bread, and his lot Is often very hard Indeed. The center for the distribution of this medicine Is at the merchant's house, which is situated 011 the little island off Tsukljl, Tsukijima. The ap plicant who wishes to become a trav eling apothecary must pay 5 yen as a guarantee to be faithful to the mas ter. The next day lie is given a cap, a suit of clothes and a pair of shoes. In addition he receives medicine to the value of 7 veil, and his break fast Is supplied every morning. For I his other meals lie must shift for him self and eat them in whatever part of Tokyo he finds himself when he be-1 comes hungry. All the venders must assemble at the master's lurase in the morning and be ready to sfhrt out by 8 o'clock for the SOS streets of Tokyo. The oichini sings a song which has for conclusion the ex pression oichini, or one, two, keeping step to the music of an accordion and walking stately and slowly. Whenever the street gamins hear this song they run after the oichini. just as the rats ran after the mad piper of Ilamelin. says the Japan Advertiser. If he is not a success at singing tlie song lie will be ' of 110 "account as a vender, for these- i cret of his popularity lies in his render ing of the peculiar melody. When you hear the ra-uya. or repairer of bamboo pipes, in the neighborhood it seems as though a miniature loeonio- ' five was letting off steam, for one pe- i euliarity of the ra-uya's trade is a cart i which lias in it a little furnace, a steam vent over which the pipe is placed to clean it thoroughly on the inside and ' also through the roof of the cart a steam whistle. For tlie privilege of pushing his cart through the streets the ra-uya must I | A FEW CURES TO ROUT THE BLUES Settling a Case cf Levity. Diagnosed. Ineligible. Boarder—l have named the coffee "My poor little Fido is dead," sobbed "No," snid the practical politician, November, my dear madam. Mrs. Maydnp, "and only a few hours "we don't want him figuring in the Landlady—lndeed, sir. And why? ago I was petting him, and he seemed campaign." Boarder—Because it is so cold and so well." "But he is exceedingly well inform cloudy. "I suppose you were lettiuK him lick led." Landlady—What a brilliant young your face and all that sort of thing," | "I doubt it. He has putin all his man! I thought of naming it after I replied her heartless spouse. time studying the tariff and finance you. "Yes, 1" | and the United States constitution. lie Boarder—And why? "Ah, painter's colic!"— Philadelphia jdoesn't know anything about politics." Landlady—Because it is so long be- Press. —Washington Star. fore it settles.—Chicago News. ' Explanatory. Dad's Comforting Reflection. Corroboration. Jlttifci. Mabel - Father's so glad you're a "Good morning, llow do you do this I poet, morning?" said the duck, meeting the I Scribbler Ah, like yourself, he "None of your business," replied the Mabel—Oh, no; but, you see, poets hen. "You are no doctor." can t tight. Mj last beau he tried to "Quack!" squawked the duck angri- -"Vl ,lir " w out Avas a football player.— yV. / / il Brooklyn Citizen. "That's what I said," cackled the j] hen—Detroit Free Press. y Taking Something Along. Teaching Manners to Pussy. Little boy cats must not be greedy." | ..j njnde n ru]fl nevpp ter , eave R Foresight In' Matrimony. tlem jokes is new to dat feller. me." "Why did they go east on their wed- Newsboy Johnnie—What yer civ in' ding trip?" us? Don't yer know him? He's de Not So Quiet. "She wanted to. She said it would feller what writes 'em. Mrs. Muggins—Your husband dresses be time enough for her to see the west rather quietly, doesn't he? when she goes to Reno." Detroit j Undoing a Candidate M,s Bugglns—Humph! You ought Free Press. Southern-I've been thinking serious- 1 to ! leHr him Bometimes ,vhen he cant ly of employing a woman bill col- " nd h } a collar button.-Philadelphia Nailing Success. ! lector. j Record. Blobbs—That girl has been remarka- j Nixon—Take my advice and don't. ■ Pursued bly successful. ; Southern Bemuse why? Patience-And did her father follow Slobbs—\es. She used to work in a Nixon -Because, according to the old them whan they eloped? nail factory, and now she's a mani- j adage, "a woman's work is never Patrice—Sure* He's living with them cure.—Philadelphia Itecord. i dun."—Cincinnati Enquirer. ' yet.-Yonkers Statesman. pay 3 yen a year ns tax. It tak 6 a long apprenticeship to know all the tricks of the trade, and no one who Is not accustomed to this kind of mend ing can be a success. The number of ra-uya is steadily on the decrease, per haps because there are fewer and few er old fashioned people now who use this kind of pipe. In the old Yeddo days the trade was a ' brisk oue, and the ra-uya ran through the streets, two baskets slung at the ends of a pole across his shoulders, and his cry was a most familiar one. Now he Is minus the taskets and the cry, but the cart and the steam whistle have taken their place. Then, too, so, many people today smoke cigars and cigarettes that the ra-uya finds his old bamboo pipes few and far between. ; Another personage among the street j [ merchants Is the Amazakeya. His cry, i J ''Amai, amai!" (sweet, sweet), is so sug- | gestive of sweet things that the cry ' : brings the children from every quar- j ' ter. The men who ply this trade are i generally old. They form one of To- I lcyo's picturesque street elements with their two large red lacquered boxes l on either end of a shoulder pole. I An applicant who wishes to enter i this business goes to the merchant with a person who acts as a guarantor | and, borrowing the outfit, which con sists of the aforesaid red boxes, is al most ready to set forth on Ills trav els. Hut he must buy his own clothes. 1 which consist of coolie nether gar- 1 ments and a blue cotton coat with the advertisement of bis trade in white , characters on its lapels and a Chi nese character for Amazake on his j back. | lie must also be fitted out with an iron pot for boiling the sweet liquid, llis red boxes contain the hlbaschi and the heavy pot: also charcoal, draw ers, trays and cups. j It is very hard for an old man to carry two such heavy boxes, and the Amazakeya is often taken with a de sire to rest by the wayside. But'fhis is against tlie law, and ifMhe police man catches sight of liiui he is told to move on in the polite language of 1 "Kora. kora!" Sometimes lie is fined from 20 sen to 1 yen for thus loitering on his way. Fresh Rhubarb During the Winter. Fresh rhubarb can be easily raised during the winter after the season i outdoors is over. All that is required, says an Idaho bulletin, in the way ot room is a warm cellar or basement. As soon as the late fall arrives dig up the roots, allowing as much dirt as possible to adhere, and pile them up ion the north side of some building to prevent alternate freezing and thaw i «"»• | When winter arrives remove tln> j roots to the cellar and plant tlieni j close together in shallow bins or boxes j with a little soil between them. The soil should not be kept wet, but simply moist and mellow in order to allow a | good circulation of air around the roots. j Shoots grown in this manner are re j inarkabl.v tender and of an excellent flavor, in order to obtain a supply »1 over a long period they should be set I out about every two weeks. At the i |ei:d of a month the roots are usually I exhausted. Roots forced in this man : ilier are worthless for planting out : I again in the spring. BOYS ARE BORN INDIANS. So Says Writer Who Believes Normal Youth Should Be Noisy. I firmly believe ttint all American boys, ut any rate those that are nor mal, are born Indians, says U. W. Cal vin in the American Club Woman. This Indianistu is suppressed by sur rounding circumstances in babyhood and early boyhood. But, while it can he kept suppressed for a time, it is hound to break out eventually. The mother should be on the watcli for the time Vhen her Imy shall put on ills war paint and feathers. When she sees the signs she should let the spirit have full play. If the locality of her home allows of it she might let the boy live in the woods while the spell is on him. Let him build his wigwam and make his bed in it. ' Perhaps more important than any thing else is to see that the boy has full opportunity to make all the noise that his lungs and limbs will manu facture. A boy can't develop without noise. The common difficulty with mothers is that they fail to distinguish between what are character faults and what are annoying habits. A noisy boy. one I that can't help slamming the doors, has an annoying habit. But it is not a character fault. It's an indication, that there is something in him. [ Character faults manifest them- I selves negatively in a boy. There is i always something wrong with a boy who does not know how to make trou ! hie. j Children, of course, should be allow j ed to read the kind of stories that they like. Their natural tendencies must bo guided, but never thwarted. No boy will want to read cheap detective stories if his mind has been guided in i the right direction. lie will crave wholesome tales of adventure. As the child lives in a world of its ! own imagination, we should not try to yank it over headlong into our sphere. It is nonsense to ask the child to jump to us. We must get down to him. An Early Street Sweeper. Recently at one o* the luncheons of the City club of Philadelphia there was ; read an extract from the autobiogra i phy of Benjamin Franklin which was said to describe the first instance of ! street cleaning by contract in Phila delphia. The incident is interesting j also, however, as illustrating citizen ■ co-operation in its original simplicity, says the Survey. } "One day," Franklin wrote, "I found a poor industrious man who was wlll , ing to undertake keeping the pavement ; clean by sweeping it twice a week, i carrying off the dirt from before all the neighbors' doors, for the sum of I sixpence per month, to be paid by each house. I then wrote and printed a pa per setting forth the advantages to the neighborhood that might be obtained by this small expense. I sent one of these papers to each house and in a day or two went around to see who would subscribe to an agreement to pay these sixpences. It was unanimously j signed and for a time well executed. This raised a general desire to have all the streets paved and made the people j more willing to subscribe to a tax for | that purpose."
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