TUB SHEKtLS AND THE CUP.
THAmo!Yixa t.txtg.
Our (rrawful song in rapture rlw,
For blessing from propitious skis;
For golden harvests gathered hnra,
Where j.!-ntyV purple tanner tie
t"ncha!!engod through tbe circling year.
Vr I rend the toiler ned not lack.
If at the tilow he look not back,
An l winnowi from tbe seed the tares
He'll find the shekel In hi sack,
A Jacob's anxious ton founj theirs.
Ijirje i the loaf the harvest tiring,
F'nt for a continent of king.
Are c not sovereign lift I up?
hir fist ion' la the youngest born)
Like IVn inniin' filled urk tf corn.
Contain '.lie shekels and the rupt
Summer on rapid win? ha fled,
!.ra Hint w.-re green are turning rel.
The cheerful swallows southward soar;
lint He who gwan u daily bread
!!n. fil!d cur laxket and our tore.
I'roin terming field bronzed labor tilhst
t'ur vnultri ami Mm nnd barn nre filled.
And we have learned to toil and trunk
The rain, in plcnWu showers distilled,
fe.l ou the jutt and the unjust.
Uforgt H. Hun gay.
A TIIANMiIVIN(J PKJ.
nv isaui-x ik-i.mks MAm.
LIVE Mood
nt th
getting
dinner
kitchen
table
Thanksgiving
under way, while Lolly
handed her tiling frotn
1 he closet, humming
' meanwhile in an un
dertone: "Four-nml
twenty blackbirds bak
in in a pip."
Tin; ming pell-mell overhead might
Lave sounded like roltn let loose hut for
girli-h shouts and laughter.
loudness, what a noise!" Olive said,
a Lolly handed her the box of summer
savory. ''Van will be torn to piece
unless he turn upon them."
"He imid the letter I brought hiin
was from hi best girl and they're tryin'
to tet it awny frotn him," explained
Lolly.
tilive ms preparing her stuffing with
kren housewifely icMim-t ns to relative
o,uai.titi s of seasons'' required. The
r'.iluic to lie Mulled Mood on all foul
mi a tnlie. Not ii I'omnionphice turkey
but n pick '-nosed little pig was to grace
the i.uri.Mon of her nephew Dan's uucx
u it ii n tmn home after "sailing the seas
over'' eeveu vtiirs without a word to his
relatives.
Won't piggy roast a lovely brown!"
Loiiy said, as she watched the stalling
disappear.
"Yes, Dan will hiive a Thanksgiving
fenst thin yeur," assented Olive.
The rackit overhead increased. "If
they could alwnvt keep heart-whole,"
(live thought with a little High. But
w v get our growth through suffering,
suppose."
A concealed regret, which had a fashion
of working to the surface on festive
occasions, was uppermost just now. But
-.c whs a Withe, cheery little woman
itn a tulent for battling off dull
'-thoughts, and so she laughed and said
jightly; "Thofe girls niuke tue think I
am young again, Lolly."
As she spoke her eye wandered across
Mir brown meadow to the, Ellenwood
lwmrstcud and then beyond it to the
white house ou the hill among the'
Cmvlirs, where Squire Ashton lived, whom
hrr friends wondered she did uot marry.:
Wl.nt was she waiting for? 8he wasi
hiity six now, fair and comely iu coin
j'tarhou with tome of the faded married
women itio'iud her who had been
hrr h hoolmates, but it would not always
Ve so tine to live alone on the old home
stti.d lis she hud done since her father'
liutL. otTrrs of marriage would not
:me. to her door always. Her own view
-if the ii. utter had begun to coincide with
.'hat i'f her friends. Sijuire Ashtou was
a widower of fifty, of kindly, uoblo
nutuio, wh.im she liked cordially. He
had wooed her two years, uatil now she
was losing patience with her own in-drcii-iou.
Why was she hesitating? To
be sure his presence never quickened her
even pulses, but why should she expect
the tumultuous expression of an earlier
loveC
he had been on the border of saying
"us" to Lis pleudiug at the very mo-
ment nan's vigorous summons with the
ilil-fashioned knocker ou the front door
?i;ei brought her out from the parlor in
a hurry, to 'c caught iu the arm of her
loving nephew in a regular sailor "hug."
Wait uutil TLauksgiving," she had,
said to Squire Ashton, removing her de
cision n week ahead.
Meant une, the six girls were chasing
!).,: round under the brown cobweb-
hung lultiij, he holding the letter
nloft.
"t'niih him! Head him ofl there!
thev sliniltetl.
Presently Uan, big, brown and full of
true milor jollity, changed from de
fensive to aggressive tactics. He set
Hes on top of the spider-legged bureau
in a bed of dust, tied Clarii by the waist
to a tall, four-posted bedstead with his
handkerchief ami seized a pair of old
milting frames to defend himself against
S.c and Kate. His free motions with
the "In laying pins'' brought a swinging
shelf of books to the floor, and 'Kobm
ton Crusoe," "Gulliver' Travels,'
Paradise Lost" and other tlusiit
kiirawled mnid a heap of dog-eurcd
feclmolbouks iu the dust.
"I see a letter slipping out from llobiu
sen Crusoe!" Hess cried from her perch,
Sue picked it up iiud turned it over
"Why, if addressed to Miss Olive
Jllossoiu and it's uever been opened !" alio
-exclaimed. "It look awful old ttui yel
low."
l)an ewunined it, then compared tho
handwritini' with that ou hi ow n let
ter.
The same, or I'm a landlubber," he
muttered.
"Likely it' on old love letter," Clan
suc'istcd from her bedpost
And she never got it, just as hapnons
iu story-books, added Ivute. "Let
tut it under her dinner plate."
"neiia's tour love
"No! no!" was Sue's fctn. "Give it
to me. I have an idea. uitk. She's
coining up."
"Oh, it was the bookcase. I thought
some one was hurt," said Olive, entering
as Sue dashed out past her. "Poor
father! how he used to pnre, over these
books," she continued as she stooped to
pick them up. "Ho had 'Paradise Lout
ami "Robinson Crusou' by heart, I be
lieve." Iid he ever use them for letter
boxes!" Pen called from the top of tbe
blli-ef.ll.
"Hush!" said Kate wnrningly.
"Whut do you mean?" asked Olive.
"Nothing,"' said lie a Sue came buck
with an unconscious face. She had bien
down in the kitchen prospecting mound
the pink-nosed pig still on the table with
Mulling incomplete, wiiiM Lolly, out of
silit in the baek porch, knpl humming
Font' and twenty lilacUbirds
Iinliin' in a pie.
"I must hurry down," said Olive.
"Piek up the book", wont you, girls,
rid don't loou'ii the rifters?" she called
hack from the stairs with u wholesome
recollect ion of her own romping day.
What did you do wit'i the lultci ?''
;hrf queried of Sue.
"Thai's my business.
"Ton might tell me," coaxed Dan.
"You after leadiug us such a chase
after vour letter."
I "There's nothing In it," said Dan,
' tossing it toward her.
She pulled the letter out of the envel
ope and read :
Yours Rt unn 1. Thank for Information.
Fliall Me you later. !'.
"No 'best girl' wrote that," said Bess.
"Its from a nr.'.n.
"Not a duck nor a darling in it,"
uddeil Sue in disgust; "but I'll tell you
now what I did with tho other letter
ju-t the same," aud sho whispered in his
ear.
After freeing the captives Dan went
down stairs, three at a time, to the kitchen,
the girls trooping after him as their law
ful prey.
There was a steam concert on tho
jkifchen stove. Pudding, chicken, hquash
mnd cranberries, steaming, stewing, bub
jbling, "gurgling" with a harmony of
isound truly inspiring. Lolly was heap
Ins a glass dish with red and russet apples,
Olivo beating eggs aud butter to a froth.
! "How is tbe pig?" inquired Bess.
"Ueady for a basting," letured Olive.
"Let me do it." Sue. spoon in hand,
had opened the oven door.
"Oh, oh! how nice ho is browning!
they all exclaimed.
He looks lit for a marriage feast.
Dan commented, with a sidelong glance
at Olive.
"Do you want to furnish a bride?" in
quired Olive.
"No a bridegroom, rcjoinwl uan,
concisely.
"Squire Ashton is only waiting," Sue
spoke up pertly.
"Hush," said Olive. "Sue, stint tno
oven door ami let tuc pig sizzie io iu
heart's content."
"I could furnish a better bridegroom
than Squire Ashton," Dan said, mean
ingly, with his weather eye ou Olive
face.
"I wish you could head him oil in
some way," said Bess, inelegantly. "He
wants to carry Aunt Olive to the House on
the hill, and then good-byo to our fun."
I in not in the white house ou tuc
hill yet," said Olive bhortly.
"I ll bet you never will be, declared
Dan. boldly.
"Here the summer savory all turned
out on tho table," said Olive, unheeding
his remark, as she sat down her bowl of
froth. "Lolly, what havo you done with
tho box?"
"Never touched it," snid Lolly.
Dau was regarding Olive with a mix
ture of admiration and alTection.
"I tell you what, girls. Aunt Olive 1
prettier than any of you," ho said.
"Squire Asuton tliuiKs stio is tuepiuK
of perfection," spoke up Sue.
"Bother Suture Ashton'.'' Uun tooK a
step toward Olive and kissed her check.
"lou were always my ooy, wcrcu i
you, uani ' uuvo sum louuiy.
"Always I iou stoou uy me in many
a scrape," returned Dan. 41 Aunt Olive,"
he continued, '-'if a chum, a particular
friend of mine, bhould happen along
about diuuer time would you give him a
weleouio and a seat ut tho table?"
"Certainly I should," sho returned.
"Your friend would be my friend, of
course"
Dun gave her a queer, searching look.
"Oh, that' it. Tho letter said, 'I'll
aco you later,' " commeuted Clara.
"I thought your letter was from your
best girl," queried "Olivo.
"From my best friend, "JJan corrected.
'" I want you to like him. He's big
hearted fellow. Pulled mo through a
Jiard place when he was an utter stran
ger to me. We got to bo chums after
wards." "Thou he is welcome on hi own ac
count," said Olive.
"I hope so," returned Dan.
"Baste I It's time to baste 1" cried Suo
as the oven door swung open again.
The girl were detailed to look after
parlor and dining-room fires and to
set tho table. Tiiey'sot up a lively chat-
ter, gottiug in each other's way coatin-
uunjj uui wuai wuuuj uauiiT wj
lkitbr, ac.tt outi."
wortn without a pleasant hubbub all
round!
You should have :een the table about
3 o'clock, broad and inviting, dinner
dishes with green turbancd group under
blue palm trees spread over the damask
cloth, and blood-red beets, cranberry
snuco and apples, making dishes of color
all over it. Potatoes, changed from pink
to brown, stood on the platter, garnished
crisp and toothsome.
Dan's coining friend did not appear,
though pi tec was set for him. But
everything was done to a turn and it was
voted they should sit dowa.
I)an attacked the four-footed daint;
with carving tools, plates were passed
round nnd tilled ami dinner went ou
swimmingly.
Olive felt uneasy. The moment of
decision was drawing near. Her word
once passed to Squire Ashton, there could
be no backing out. She wished she
might remove the day still further. And
vet if she was going to marry him, why
delay?
"A young porker is better than a turkey
any day," said Dan unctuously.
"Aunt Olive n iu love, sunt Sue, as
she passed her plate down to Dan to be
refilled. "She isn't eating a mouthful.
Den; scoop out some stuffing thi it nice
ami hot, please."
"What in thunder is wedged in hero?"
exclaimed Dan, as he proceeded" to
"scoop," and a small tin box fell from
she porker upon tho platter with a jin
gle. "The summer savory box, "said Olive.
"Whose trick was that? I might have
known "
"Please send the box up on my plate,"
iutcrrupted Sue.
Four and twenty boxes)
baking in a pig,
Bess chanted mcrrilv.
Sho wrenched the cover from the box j
and took out the letter she had hidden
there. "Here your love letter, Aunt
Olive," he said, passing it up to the
head of the table.
Four and twenty love, lattar
It ro wo lug In a porker,
cried Clara.
"We found it in Robinson Crusoe'
clutches." explained Sue.
With a puzzled face Jtile i'.ipi hrr
knife through tbe browned envelop
and took out the letter. They saw hor
face change, a she glanced over it.
This was the message that came to her
from the past :
Dear Ouvb Must ths unkind wor Is ot
last erenini? be our last onenf I am hot
tempered and you are proud, hut if I could
sen you once again Delore l sail you migns
reverse your decision. If I may coma this
evening bane your red shawl frotn your
ehamlier window a a signal. If I caunot
part from you as a lover 1 shall uever com
hack agaiu. Philip.
The look In Olive' face as she read the
message hushed the voluble tongues of
the girls etleetually.
"A letter," she said to Dan with tho
ghost of a smile, "that I should have
received ten years ago."
"Perhaps, it reached you in tho nick
of time nfteWkll," ho suggested cheerily.
Olive shook her her negatively. This
was the word ahe had longed for aftei
her quarrel with Philip Ellenwood long
ago. Sho had been anxious to reverse
her decision, but she was too proud to
make the first venture. She had thought
bitterly ho did not care, and now here
was his letter giving the lie to her doubt.
She recalled the long, lonely tramp
sho had taken to battle down her feeling
the day before hp sailed.. A nicsspngoj
must have brought the note' in her" ab
sence, aud her father had slipped it be
tween the pages of "Kobinsou Crusoe"
and forgotten it. What a mockery it
was now.
Iu proportion a Oliye became grave
Dan grew hilarious, and with his eye on
her face told sea. yarn in. such happy
style that the girls giggled uutil theii
sides ached.
Tho November evening closed in with
a snow storm, and a lamp wai brought
before they got through with the nuU
and raisins.
"I wonder what keeps " Dan was be
ginning wheu the knocker souudeiL
"Thore he is now," he finished.
"No, it i Squire Ashton' knock,"
said lies with couviction, us she rose to
epen the door and show tho Squire into
the parlor.
Ilis arrival was a shock to Olive. The
past had claimed her. The reading of
the letter had made her heartsick. Dan
watched her unquiet faeo with much
satisfaction as she aroso from the table
lie followed her to the parlor door.
"Dou't you promise to marry Squire
Ashton," be whispered tuBtinctiveiy.
"Mind, now, or you will be orry."
Sho looked puzzled.
"Go on," aid Dan, opening the par
lor door for her. "I can trust you."
Tho Squire stood before the open fire,
holding but hit hands io the blaze."" lie
came toward ber.
"You will give me 'Yes' at lost," he
suid persuasively.
She could not meet his eloquent, ex
pectant eye. A great pity for him and
for herself came over ier. Tbe old Love
was vet alive. And yet why should she
not hide in the shelter of this noble heartt
Philip was far away dead perhaps. The
j 0,t overpowering loneliueaa was sweep
ing over ner.
'If you will accept respect and ei
teera for love "she began In t troinbling
voice.
The knocker sounded a double rap,
quick and imperative. Dan had opened
tnu door. His voice, and another sounded
in tho hallway. Through tho half open
door he could see Dan helping remove
snowy overcoat. Hi friend had come.
Had Lolly kept tho dinner hotf
But the hospitable thought took sudden
flight as ahe saw who it was that Dun
was ushering in. Philip was before her,
brown, matured, with the same imperi
ous manner as of old, the same clear,
flashing eyes.
"Miss Blossom, my chum, Mr. Ellen
wood," said Dan in high good humor.
Their hands met; their eyes read each
other's hearts, as they stood in the fire
light glow.
Squire Ashton extended his hand.
"So you have come back to u, Philip,"
he said, with a bravo smile covering the
pain in his heart. He had seen in Olive's
face the reason why he had failed to win
her.
"Yes, homesickness got the upper
hand if mo at last," returned Philip,
chccrilv.
Olive followod the Squire into the
hallway.
"I am very sorry," she began.
"And I am glad for you," he said
hastily. "I hope you will be very hap
py," and he gave her a brave, warm
liond grasp.
You may guess how thef all gathered
round the tablo again whilo Philip ato
his dinner. The finding of the letter
was recounted, and Dan confessed that
he and Philip had talked the matter all
over before, ' and that he had been
"prospccting''and reporting accordingly.
DEATH BY ELECTBICITT.
The Case of the Condemned Japanese
Argued Before the U. 8. Supreme
Court.
Washington, November 22. The case of
IhcJupanese, Shlbuya Jugiro, who Is con
fined in Sing Sing prison, New York, under
sentence of death by means of electricity,
was argued before the United States
supremo court yesterday. The cis
comes hero on appeal from decis
ion of tho l'nited States circuit court for the
southern district of New York, declin
ing to grant the writ of habeas corpus,
which counsel for Jugiro had sought
to obtain, to compel Warden Brush to re
lease the prisoner. The question at issue is
the validity of the New York electrocution
law, and the case is a sequel to the Kemmler
execution.
lioger M. Sherman, who wa counsel for
Kemmler and who now represents Jugiro,
bases his application for a wirt of habeas
corpus on the ground that tho execution of
Kemmler demonstrated that electricity was
not an instantaneous and painless method
of death. It is asserted that New York law
violates the provision of the federal constitu
tion forblding cruel and unusucJ punish
ment, and is for that reason tiiicr-nstitu-tional
and void. Attorney General Tabor
represented the state aud Mr. Eherman the
prisoner.
JCJtYSTONX STATE CULLINOS.
Twenty-nine widows, made so by the Dun
bar mine disaster, are suing tho Dunbar
Furnace Company for damages, and ono
suit will be tried as a test case in order to set
tle the whole matter.
Kdward Meyers who was on trial all last
week at Pittsburgh, for the killing of his
aunt, Miss Margaret Douglas, near .McKees-
strt ha leen found guilty of murder in the
act-olid degree.
Typhoid fever Is raging in Kdinhoro. The
facts have been kept secret as long as nm-
sible, on account of the normal school,
which is located there, but it has lieen dis-
overcd that si x of the cas-s arc students,
ml us a result the school is bu lly broken
up,
There is great alarm also in the sur
rounding little towns.
Dr. II. A. Thompson, chair, nan of the
Stute Prohibition campaign committee bus
urranged for a grand rally of the fori ej next
summer preparatory to the opening of the
State eumpaigii. lie has secured for thii
purpose tho grounds of Lakeside, a weld
k. low ii resort in Krie county, from July I
,o lit inclusive. The grounds include
acres, a line hotel and 1H) collages. He pro-
looses to huve as speaker such men as liuine,
St. John, Dickie, lsmurd, Miss Wi lard,
Helen Yougur, Henrietta Mooro and others.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
TioiMiXA sausage is on the free list.
Iceland's great goysor is playing out.
A riHBWOHK trust has been organized.
Vermomt has rufuiwd to help tho World'
Fair.
I'ortuoai. will imnos) a hizh duty on
flour.
Thciie are sonio fears of an Indian out
break.
A rusL famine is threatened at South
Dakota.
Tnsisj robbers are doing big work in
Georgia.
Tot7M8T travel to Florida has set in un
usually early.
Dkmttutios; is reportod amonz the farm
ers in Nebraska.
There are forty-seven Indoor baseball
teams in Chicago.
There Is a deBciene v of $73,000,000 In this
year's pension appropriation.
The United Hocioty of Christian Endeavor
has a membership of 48omk
A bio herd of camels has been ssen on
thsjlains near Carrisburg, Cal.
Kitrhia has prohibited tbe sale of English
oloomargarino within ber territory.
The Indian cotton crop of 1H8V-00 is the
largest ever Known in tbal country.
Sixty-three American and ln English
cititst now own their own lighting plants.
Two more lnsuranoe ooinpanie in New
York have docided to retire from busiuus
owing to fierce competition and the small
protlu.
A La rob number of convicts have been or
dered from the Kuwian prisons to ataint in
labor on tbe line of the proposed Kiberian
railway.
Interest throughout Europe In Professor
Professor htoch's new curative lymph is daily
growing greater; consumptives are flocking
to Berlin.
A cmious scene occurred a; liisexecuCon
of tbe murderer, bchustor, at Uarmenstein,
Fjist Prussia. Ha begged as a special act of
grace to be allowed to sing a couplet before
the sword fell. Permission was readily so
corded to him and be corainenoed t'j sing
aid continued kinging until the sword
severed his bead from his body.
AGRICULTURAL
lOriCSOK INTKnESf TtELATIVE
to FAim and oauuk::. .
MARKS OP A GOOD HEX.
A good hen should have a small head,
bright eyes, a tapering neck, full breast,
Straight back, full, ovoidal-shapcd body,
medium length of gray-colored legs,
broad rump and red co:nb. Color of
feathers is of but lilt!o matter, but yel
low legs and skin look richer and soli
better than clay -colored. A fat hen has
plump breast and rump, and fat under
tho wings. American AgrUullurUt.
FEED Foil FATTfcSINO) AJ OLD COW.
It is not wise to keep a cow too long
unless sho is of extra value for milking
or butter, nnd then consequently for ber
calves, when it will hardly pay to feed
her for beef. When on ordinary cow is
desired to bo fattened this should be done
nt the ngc of eight years. Tho feeding
for fntteuing should bo of tho best; tho
best tiny, with us much comment as tho
animal will cat, given four times a day;
two or three quarts being giveu at each
feed us it may bo digested. Hay i given
twice daily. A small ration of roots or
cabbages or apples, or even cold boiled
potatoes, will help considerably in the
fattening. The feeding should not be
delayed, as more flesh and fat will be
made this side of tho nen year than after
It. .V York Timrt.
MAKING LEAN PORIt.
According to Professor O. W. Atwatcr
there are two things for the pork maker
to do first, to make leaner pork, and
then to get better access to foreign mnr
kcts. Leaner pork can be obtained, ha
says, by the uso of nitrogenous foods,
skim milk, bran, shorts, cotton seed mcul
if it can be advantageously utilized
beans, peas, clover, alfalfa and other le
guminous plants. It is, however, im
practicable for many pork producers to
change their system of fcoding at once.
The bulk of tho pork in the country is,
and for some time must be, manufactured
from corn, but where nitrogenous food
re available they should be used, and
where they are not available tho attempt
should be mado to introduce them. Hero
is a strong reason for experiments with
leguminous forage plants; besideholping
to make leaner pork, they have tho ad
vantage that with them poor hay, straw
and cornstalks can bo utilized, and that
they make rich manure. York Wit-
tiCM.
GRASSES AND WEEDS VOIl FOWLS.
Domestic fowls of all kinds will eat a
large quantity of young grass and tender
weeds if they have access to such food.
But they do not like old and tough herb
age any more than humans like old and
tough vegetables. Whenever it is neces
sary to-shut any fowl in tbe yard, they
should always be supplied with a generous
amount of green and tender herbage.
(Sometimes pull a few sucker from the
growing com in the garden, and cut the
leaves and tendor atoms into small bit
about ono fourth of an inch long, or
gather a few stoma ot the irrepressiblo
garden pursluno (which is very succu
lent), and tender clover, or pig weeds,
and cut tbcro up fine. Fowls will devour
such food ravenously when the pieces are
of suitable sizo to be swal'owed.
A pair of sheep shear may be kept
near tho door, so that no time is lost
searching for some instrument to cut up
coarse food. Leaves of cubbago and
other vegetables arc all cut into bits not
larger than kernels of Indian corn. As
fowls have no teeth, they cannot bito off
pieces of tough food. But if they can
get hnrd and tough pieces into the giz
zard, that miniature mill, with the gravel
stones in it, will soon rcduco food to u
Hue pulp. When crop-plant in the gar
den havo attained a sizo so larae that
fowls will not injuro thoin by stepping
on them or by nipping off tho tender
tops, tho cntiro flock may bo allowed to
run ad libitum in tho garden, for one or
two hours only, each day. They will
pick up many insects, collect a new sup
ply of gravel stones, nnd till their crops
witn tendor Herbage. American Ajneul
luritt. WINTEIUKO UMOK3.
Tho novice never, and tho expert sel
dom, makes much money by holding per
ishablo products for spring salo. Shrink
ago and los by frost and decay is usually
much greater thau covered by tho ad
vaucu in prices. If prices in tho full aro
at all acceptable, soil without delay; but
market tho prizutaker onions, anyway.
Htill, there are exceptions to all rules,
and in certain localities or under certain
circumstances it may pay well to store
and hold for spring sale such varieties
as Danvers Yellow and perhaps Wethers
field Hod aud White Globe, etc. There
is a party over in Canada, not very far
from here, who grows iiuito a number of
acres of onions every year, aud be invari
ably holds them until spring, and makes
money by so doing. Of course I was
nnxious to learn how he winters such big
crops, and mado inquiry. He write mo
as follows: "For tho purposo ot keep
ing onions during winter, wo have erect
ed two largo rooms in the end of our
barn, abovo ground. Theso rooms aro
almost frost-proof in the coldest weath
er; are provided with double windows at
each end, and doublo doors at entrance
from driveway on barn floor. All tho
walls havo a dead air space. Building
paper is tacked on tbe inside of each
boarding that forma tho hollow space.
OnloDS are not put into theso rooms iu
bulk, but in thousands ot slattod bushel
boxes. The windows are kept constant
ly open, except in very cold weather.
Tbe idea is to put in dry, well-cured
stock, and place it in such a way that it
may always bo airing at suitable times,
and yet be secure against low degrees of
temperature. "At York Oiuroer,
TALL AMU WI5TEB FEKDIKO.
"An auimal well summered Is halt
wiutered," is an old but true adage. It
is far easier to run down any animal by
neglect than to bring it u with care,
and it la far less expensive to keriTjt
constantly in good condition. "What
is once lost can never be regained " is
true in the feeding of cattle. The ani
mal may be restored, it is true, but at a
large loss of food, which otherwise might
havo been made into flesh, fat, milk or
wool. Bhcep are especially subject to
the adverse Influences of neglect in t"aif
res poet. Once a flock is permitted to
run down in the fall or early winter the
chances are all against recovery, and tna
sheep are apt to perish, or to' lose their '
lambs, or bring weak and unprofitable
progeny in the spring, after much palni
and expecse in coddling and nuraia
them th rough the latter part of tho winter
This is also true of all tho young i
which are more hurt in this way thtath
older ones. It is a common practice to
put awny tho best of tho fodder for tho
spring in the belief that the stock will
need it the most then. No doubt in maar
cases they do need it then in the wont
wny. But this is working at tho wrong
end. To permit any animal to run doss
while there is a store of good fooj kept
back for tho purpose of bringing it up
again is very bad policy and a aiiat
business. It is a wasto and frequently
insures a poor condition all through tit I
summer. If the meadows are eaten dovi If
too close at this season, and the stock I t
must be stinted of good fool, the fing )f
is certainly overstocked, and overstock'
results in loss. j
The true principle is to apportion to
stock to the food and not to rcdure tb I
rations in tho desire to carry more stock I
thnn can bo well fed. It may m m 1
many case io purcnaso so:n nutrition
foods to help out the coarso fo lder now
while theso are cheap, but a liberal pro!
vision should bo secure I for full feeding
of all the animals from this time until
tho spring. A great many animalum
fed in tho fall on the wastes of tliefira
the stubbles, the picking! of the cars'
fields, tho rough weeds of the iwamm
. . i - -,
nni marsoy gruuuu. i mi it unwiae.
would be better to leave all this itufl
tho ground to servo as manure thin
leeu lb. it is iuii ui uuw uoiesome 2fTn
1 I. T 1- r
mm npi. iv cuuuuimu mu prcvnicai an
. . i . i
cases oi tuc season y which ms;i
animals perish, feo farmer cia
to keep a swamp on his farm. lVhn
drained, it will bo the most valua'tltpv
of the land, but, when used svt u
pasture to carry the stock on to the
winter, it is a sourco of disease and will
only result, at the best, in lowering the
condition of the animals to a most un
profitable point. A drained swamp will
mako the very best grass land and will
return interest easily on $100 pericre
Besides this, a pestiferous nuisance will
havo been abuted. American Ajricul-
tun:.
FARM AND GARDES NOTES.
Tut a roof on the corn crib.
Blight frosts do not injure turnip.
Keep seed corn from gutting damp
Vi.i tou help make your fair s uc
cess?
Oo slowly and feel your way in frui
planting.
If vou have Jiuash.tUay shouli
taken care of to help out.
Ripe weeds will make better uaaure i.
burned. Do you sec tho point!
Bhado in the pasturo for stock if
modern idea, but it is a good one
Don t put off till spriug any worcu
the garden that can bo done tins nil
It Ls better to grow into s ipeciti
branch of farming thau to go into il
Washing shcop is a practice more hon
ored in thu bicach thau iu tho own
ancc.
Have you opened and tnoroug!)
clcanod, aired una wuitewwaca p
stables)
a
It will not pay you to stop your m
Winter is wheu you havo tho uio 14
to road.
Thousands of farmers are yet uoij;
ciative of the value of dniu.ijc to col
and heavy soil.
Turner raspberry must bo kept t
suckcring, or it is a total failure,
also like cool soil.
Do vou keen a hook in which to
tho things to bo doue, uud when to I
them I It save time.
Prevention i better than cure tJ
i especially true of tho diseases that "j
liublt, to attack fowls.
The cost of fences ii one of tbs ha;
est taxes on tho farm. When will -
relic of somi-civilizatiou h? diipl
with?
New varieties of fruit grown ua
hk'h state of cultivation arc ui7
innji
n.pq
prove disappointing to those
them.
During tho mnulun? Siion
should be warmly housed and ubiisisj
sunnlied with streUL'theuiu.' fw 1
1 I ' o
drink.
Ti'oon ilnnr. nil rrrnwth lirolTji 'A
trunks of tree. Suckcra -'row reel
and take tho nourishment thai"
elven to the tree. All undi raWf
on trees should bo pinched oil a H
tbey appear.
Ttneta for annrnr should
Ar..iim Ant- sn unr il f 111 Aj H
depends on tho toil, manure
it u.. ...... i. t-iiuf (Pa
ll..r the results nf uUilliTOU'
ment would bo valuable by -,U
to produce rnoro sugar. t
i. i. i,.u.. -.ft" nil fr'
from young tree than to allo J
gia io ouar via eariy hi " ji
like the animal, should first a'Q
i ,, ti.i iiii'l. l
ture production result, iu pre1',
Jf if
the gnu, shrub and orciuri- J
will enjoy tae eiercuo am
ir.t 'n , iriiiiruilK t0
t-UtSjV Ut V " J i i f-
It Is essential that a cw"m ,,,
.... . T'
t.uo kind of suai'p, g1'-"'
ipplied poultry iu wiii:e.,
iiosaibla for tho heus to
lood in the crops wituoui wy
and It is equally impossible
procura grit in win'.cr unai-1 ,