THE H1DDLEBDRGH POST.
GEO. W, WAGEXSELLER,
Editor and Proprietor
MiDDLEBritan, Fa., Feb. 25. 1897.
PausIas,of Sleyon, was the Inventor
of caustic palutlug, a method of burn
ing color Into wood or Ivory.
There were only twenty-five homi
cidea in Connecticut iu 18.
The Warden of the Connecticut
State Prison ears that the work of
tramps during their imprisonment
does not pay for their board.
The average aunuul imports of
wheat are 200,000,000 bushels iu Eng.
land, 20,000,000 iu Germany, the
same in Italy, 12,000,000 iu Spain and
Portugal.
If tho eight-bour-a-day idea could
lie established it would, Kays the Tol
edo (Ohio) Bee, probably help more
to solve tho labor problem thnn all the
acts of legislation that cau bo en
ncteJ.
Says tho Uoston Globe: "Wife
wautvd" is a ftign iu frout of a house
on tho Diddutord Pool road, and at
luxt uccouuts it had not been taken in,
reports tho Kennebec Journal. And
yet tho women have outnumbered tho
men iu Maiuo for 130 yearn.
A restaurant iu New York displays
tho sign "Oysters Cooked Ouo Hun
dred Ways," nud a German in Berlin
Las written a book iu which ho de
scribes 810 ways to cook potatoes.
And yet tho best oyster is tho oyster
that isn't cooked nt all, and the best
potato iu tho potato that is baked.
Mexican paper, commenting upon
n recent football game in tho city of
Mexico, declure that tho game is much
uioio brutul than bull lighting. It
must bo confessed that so far as tho
persons enguged iu theuo amusemcutu
mo concerned, bull fighting disables
fewer men than tho American game.
Since Pennsylvania has beon a State,
she has had thirty-four United States
Senators. Tho ages of these sonutors
ut the tiino of attuning oflice ranged
from thirty-two to sixty-ono years,
while tho averago ago was forty-six
years. The average length of each
senator's pu'!;" ' : vcu'
years. The longest period in which
any senator from PousyJwipja lira oc
cupied a seat in tho npper branch is
twenty years, the occupuut being J.
Donald Cameron.
Hero's a poiuter, furnished by tho
New Orleans Picayune, to young men
who ure ambitious to shiuo ia crime.
Two old hands at tho business cleaned
up 80,000 in three mouths iu North
Dakota, more than they could have
earned at honest labor iu that muiiy
years, but ouo of them bus been dead
a week from heart failure caused by
tho shock from a bullet applied by n
reckless HherilF, nud tho other is iu
custody with it long term iu tho peni
tentiary ahead of him.
Thero will he no Iosh than fivo in
ternational expositions in different
parts of tho globo during 1897. An
international display of engineering
nud electrical improvements will bo
held at Newcastle, England, iu com
memoration of tho sixtieth year of
Qneon Victoria's reign. Two immense
structures, representing a vast outlay
of monoy, aro now iu process of erec
tion, and tho enterprise will bo iu
every respect worthy of tho event
wbioh it celebrates. On January 25th
an international gus exposition was
held in the city of Now York, at which
time a collection of fixtures and appli
ances represeuting tho progress
achieved in this branch of industry
was exhibited. Later on in the year
an engineering exposition will be held
at Stockholm, where a building with
nu area of 100,000 square feet has just
been completed. During tho sum
mer mouths an exhibition of
agricultural and industrial ma
chines will bo held at lliefl'; while tho
lust and most important of all tho
year's exhibits will bo hold at Brussels.
Exponsivo .preparations have been
made for tho Brussels exposition, and
tho nmbition of the management is to
eclipse, if possible, tho world's fair in
1893. In this connection it might not
be inappropriate to mention tho in
dustrial enterprise of Nashville, which
is rapidly takiug shape. Although uot
nu international exposition in tho
broadest sense of tho word it is never
theless n stupendous undertaking and
reflects great credit upon its promoters.
These expositions aro not only signs
of national growth and development,
but indications of the sure process
which the world ia making in science,
art and manufactures.
Jameson's Transformation
' and Anally picked np tho valontine.
AMESON was busy . He looked at the writing again,
opening his morning I "With lovo to papa, from Millie."
Again the wistful face looked at him,
mail ana giving in
structions to bis
clerks with surly
curtness. Presently
he picked up a largo
square envelope and paused, with tho
paper-knife poised, ready to be in
serted nnder the flap. A whiff ot vio
lets had greeted him as ho took tho
letter in his hand.
"Humph!" he snorted, as he looked
at the address nnd tho red seal on the
back, and wondered whom tho unusual
letter could be from. Square envel
opes had no place in business corres
pondence, and business letters aro
moro likely to smell of brimstone than
of violets. After tho first surprise he
inserted the paper knifo and gave a
savuge rip. As the knife passed
through, it brought out the end of a
littlo blue ribbon, and a moment later
the surly lumber merchant had a
valentine in his hand. He felt dazed
as ho looked at the flimsy lace paper
and tho little pink and white Cupids
that smiled out at him. Turning it
over ho saw, written on tho back in a
childish band :
"With lovo to papa, from Millie."
A valentine from his littlo daughter,
the first ho had ever received ! Ho
read tho tiuiple verso that was pi in ted
on it :
If your hoart he purs and frne,
I pray you k'vj your heart to mo.
I with Iovb will give you niino,
Let inu hu your valentine.
As ho handled it gently with his
rough, hard fingers, a glow pervaded
him, ns if something for which he had
been longing all his life had como at
last. Ju?t then ho heard a titter bo
hind him, and, turning quiokly, saw
that tho typewriter girl hud been
watching. With a mattered oath bo
threw the valentine to the back of his
desk, and a feeling almost of nausea
overcame him. The sncoesswith which
ho had been satisfying his pride and
starving his heart became odious to
him in an instant, and the emptiness
of bis life came back with stinging
'orcfl vn jd it mutter tua La Lid
fought his way from the lumber-oamps
J .1 l a . r
in toe DaoKwooaa oi iuaina to the
position of foremost lumber dealer in
New York? He had allowed himself
to be married for his money ; he was
a stranger in his own house ; he was
hardly acquainted with his only daugh
ter, booause, forsooth, his wife kept
them apart for fear the child should
acquire the Scotch burr he inherited
from his parents, and for which he
was freely ridiculed. She must acquiro
a puro English accost, and to this end
had been sent away to a fashionable
boarding-school, alter a preliminary
course of study with an imported gov
erness, l augh I it mado him siok to
think of it. Only work would give
him even a fleeting relief. lie must
bestir himself, instead of dreaming.
She had sent him the Valentino simply
because other girls were sending them,
not because suo meant it I Tho heart
sick, lonely man roused himself from
his unpleasant reverie and resumed
the work of tho day. Ho punished
the tittering typewriter by giving her
enough work to keep her fingers
rattling tho keys until aftor hours.
Then he went into the yard to see how
things wera going on. Everything
was wrong.
"Here I" he growled to his foreman,
"don't you know enough to pile them
planks wi tho hoart sido down ? You're
piling them sap down, an' they'll check
an rot. How many times have I told
you how to do it? Can't I over learn
you to do it right?"
One after another, tho workmen
were seoldod, and they, good men,
credited it all to the "old man's stylish
wife."
"Ho's beon bavin mother row at
home." they said, "an' ia takin' it out
of ns."
"I with love will rIvo vou tnliip,
''Let me be your valentine."
- What if his littlo daughter did love
him? What if she, alone among stran
gers, woro lonely too? Hurapb! What
un old fool ho was. What could he do
about it? He had married a woman
who was abovo his station and below
his wealth, and would have to endure
his mistake. Still that little valentine
with its Cupids and lace paper and silly
littlo rhyme, jammed into a corner of
his dosk, would forco itself npou his
mind. And a sweet faced little girl
wou'd look wistfully at him. Was she
lonely too and heart sick? How he
did long for tho pure child love that
his only daughter should be giving
him! How ho would lavish all his
love on her!" Then ho thought of his
Beotch burr, tho rolling r's that ho
could not softon, and he luughod. His
laugh was not good to hear. Tho
heavy grizzled eyebrows were knotted
into a fioroo frown, and his shaved
npper lip became harder, and squirer,
and sterner over his whiskered ohin.
Still tho little rhyme and tho wistful
face would come back to him.
After . making himself thoroughly
disagreeable to everybody he returned
abruptly to his deck. He made a feint
t ocor.pying himself with his papers .
and fes the repressed love of his heart
welled up a mistiness cime ovor his
eyes. He sprang from his seat and
walked hurriedly out into the street,
with the valentine in his pocket. Per
haps mingling with the crowd would
rid him of his brain-sick fancies. But
it didn't.
"Dngald Jameson," he muttered to
hiru6elf, "ure you acting the part of a
father, or a Christian, in not ruling
your owu household? Have you not
neglected your duty? Where is all
your htreugth of will and tho manliness
that has niudo you succeed in life, if
you will let a woium who neither loves
nor honors you rule over you?" Then
tho cold indifference of .his wifo came
back to him like a blow in tho face ;
tho bitter discovery thut sho merely
endnred his awkward caresses, the
feeling that ho was ropulsive to her,
then the years of well-bred contempt.
It staggered him, but it was love and
not pride that was ruling him now,
and he rose serene over all obstacles.
He forgot tho mother. Only the
daughter, bone of his bone and Uch
of his flesh I How his heart yearned
for her I It was then that Jameson wus
transfigured by a great resolution that
lit his hard fnco with lovo and ouanged
his uneasy gait to that of a strong and
happy man.
Jameson telegraphed to tho superin
tendent of the school to send his
daughter homo by tho next train.
Then ho went homo to make prepara
tions for her reception.
"Set things in order in Millie's
room," he culled oheerily to tho
honsekeoper, when he entered tho
mansion in which ho had hitherto
been a lodger. "She will be homo to
night." "WhaM" exolaimed his astonished
wife, wlB8 was attraeted to the spot
by the h"dl ty tone iu which the order
was given. "What do you mean?"
"I mean that our daughter is coming
home I And she's coming homo to
stay. have telegraphed for het "
Hove yon lost your senses? ,
"Not I have found them I I am
going to be the head of. this family I"
"Who has been putting these fine
notions into your head?"
"Woman," he exclaimed, towering
to his full height and making use of a
Scottioism that at another timo would
have made her smile, "I have neglected
my duty too long. After this my
daughter shall be educated in her own
homo, as a Christian child should bo,
even if I havo to hire the whole school
to cotno horo to teach her !"
"This is outrageous!" said his wife,
angrily. "Is it not enough that I must
endure you and your unoouth ways
that aro a constant sourco of shame to
mo among my friends, without Millio
being brought homo to learn them
from you? I intended that sho should
be a lady." j
It was on the tip of his tongue to
say "and you'd marry hor to a title
as you yourself married money," but
tho lovo that was in him made him
feel kindlier to all tho world, and all
hor sarcasms and storming could not
ailed him. JatnesoL hail covered him
self with the panoply of silenoo that is
tho birthright of evoryouo of Scotch
tlescont, and made no reply. Finally
sho burst into tears and left the room,
lie then took out the valontine and
lookod at it again. To his unedu
cated taste tho little ohromo Cupids
were high art, and the little sentimon
tal rhyme true poetry. It was beauti
ful to look at. It Bhould be framed t
Ho looked about the walls to find a
suitable place to put it, and decided it
should be put in the place of that ab
surd little Meissonier that had oost
such a mint of money. The little
Cupid looked more roguish than ever
as it roalizod what its fate was to be,
and the faeo that r se in the old man's
memory was no longer wistful and
lonely. It was trustful and happy as
a child's should be, and his heart sang
within him.
tar. too, u only a woman who lives
life of self-inflicted aufferintr can lova.
but .the let her affection spend itself in
ambitious plana. Bat tarn never took
the trouble to understand the man with
whom sho had linked herself, and now
he had risen in his might, and she felt
tnat defeat and utter misery were be
fore her. She kissed her child again
and again, and pleading a headache
leit the two together,
What a supper they had, and with
what a dainty air Millie played the
, hostess and poured his tea for him,
'and how 'the rattled on about her
echoolmates and her little troubles.
while he listened with his face beaming
unbounded love! After supper he
. showed her that he had the valentine
' in his pocket, and they pledged them
. selves to be true to one another for a
year and a day. She sat on his knee.
and at last fell asleep while listening
: to stories that he bad heard from his
j mother many hard and long years ago,
'PL.. 1 1 1 . J .1 .
xucu ii a uarrieu uur veuuenj up to
her room and he helped a nurse to put
her into her cot. After tucking her
in he stood looking at her innooent,
beautfnl face buried in curls and rest
ing on ner little tired arm. it was
something he bad never seen before,
and was all so pure and sacred he
feared to stoop and; kiss her "good
night." His reverie was interrupted by the
found of a sob, nnd looking up hastily,
he saw bin wife half-hidden in the
curtains at the other side of the bed.
Her face was haggard and miserable.
Sho had suffered too, but why? Then
tho two souls, that were hitherto blind
and dnmb and yet joined by the bond
of a great love for their child, at last
saw and understood. He tip-toed to
her side, and as be put his arms about
her she did not think him awkward.
She saw tho great good heart that was
under all his uncouthncss, and the
years of misery wero no more.
Tho little valentine was not pnt in
tho frame that held the Meissonier. It
was altogether too sacrod a thing to
be profaned by the eyes of the ouro
loss. P. McArthnr. in Truth.
Largest Bicycle iu tho World.
Beautiful Daisy Bell's bicycle built
for two isn't a circumstance to the bi
cycle built for two thousand to be
seen at the Paris Exposition. This
latter is to bo the very behemoth of
bicycles, tho largest wheel ever built.
It could bo ridden only bv a giant
more than twice as tall as the Colossus
of Rhodes. Bat the monster machine
will never be moved from its place on
the Exposition grounds. It is, in fact,
a carefully constructed edifico of the
best Bessemer steel, and what the Eiffel
Tower was to the last Paris Exposition
the big bicycle is to this. t
This monster wheol is taller than
any of the tall buildings surrounding;
it. Its saddle would just overtop
Weather Prophet Dunn's observation
tower on the roof of Gotham's tallest
office building. AH the other dimem
sione are tn proportion. Bat the big
CLEARING OLD FIXCK CORNERS.
Wherever an old fenoo has stood
the land is pretty sure to grow into a
hedge of bushes and trees that unless
gotten rid of make the fence an offence.
Very often the cost of getting rid of
these encumbrances prevents farmers
from dispensing with the fence alto
gether. Where there are many trees
in the fence their stumps, after the
trees are disposed of, will prevent
plowing the land for years. But
where the fence row is only filled with
bushes, digging them out without
cutting them down is the best method,
With a team of horses to pull on the
top when the root is dug around and
partly loosened, it is not a long job to
snaKe out a large patch of bushes,
iuo lonu wnere these are grown is
generally rich, as the fence has held
the leaves from adjoining fields from
blowing any farther, and it is their de
composition that bus favored tho
growth of bushes. Tho reclaiming of
such fertile land helps to grow crops
to uo maue into manuro and thus en
rich the cultivated fields. By making
the fields larger and dispensing with
tue ienoes, tne cost oi cultivation is
greatly reduced. This is an important
matter in these days of improved farm
implements, most of which do their
beat work when they have plenty of
room. American Cultivator.
OILING THE HARNESS.
It is generally supposed summer is
tho time to oil the harness, but tho
averago farmer to-day is so busy iu the
summer days that if he wero not al
lowed to deviate from tho abovo rule
the harness would stand but a poor
show, of ever receiving the much
needed oiling, and it is not necessary
to say that thero aro few fai ms where
there can not be found, at any timo in
the year, some harness that would bo
greatly improved by receiving a cood
cleaning and oiling.
1 or those farmers who are the happy
owner of a "shop" with an old cook
stove in it, tho harness may be re
paired and oiled in almost any day of
the year.' And by the way, many an
old harness that is discorded on ac
count of its age could be made to take
titf place of new in the hands of a
good n around farmer, with very lit
tie expanse, where the farmer is pro
vided with the kind of a "shop" men
tioned above. r
; A good wj to do the oiling is this:
Put avafei, boiler on the stove with
woff one-half to one gallon of soft
bKivrt:t"oxmfltetBbu
itself, - It has two large entraaoes, I and Leal .to an even heat nntil too hot
one nt the bottom of eaoh of its wheels, to hold your band in; then pass the
out right through the tires. Winding (piece of harness through the mixture
stairways lend from the doors up th f, : d rub it well with a pieoe of cloth,
front and baok of each wheV i -for the oil I consider neat's foot
through the forward and rear stanA ilia best, rith perhaps a littlo castor
urds to the baokbone of the ma- foil added.
chine. Thence spiral steps ascend to I , The drvinannn Via drtnn nn tamnn.
When tho train stooped at the sta
tion the little girl that was carefully
helped off by a prim teacher was
picked up with such an embraced as
she had never folt before. She was
but a little wisp of a thing, and he
carried her in his arras to the carriage
as if she were a child of three instead
of a young lady ot ten, with the irri
tating grown-up manners that children
of these days have. Of course it was
a shock to her, but there is something
conquering iu strength and love, and
she was soon cuddling 'up agaiust his
shoulder, listening to his occasional
broken expressions of affection and
feoling the pressure of his protecting
arm about her. The intuition of chil
dren is quick, and before they roached
home they were iiko old cronies, and
sho oven forgot to wonder why sho
and her father had not been like this
before.
The mother's tearful face was a sur
prise to her,' .but the mother was too
much overcome by the conflict with
her husband in the afternooa to have
anything to say. She loved her daaarb-
the handle bar and saddle.
The baokbone of the big bioyole
contains a gmnd salon scarcely at
many spans in width as it is yards in
length. It is intended principally for
use as a banquet hall. One long table
runs down tho contra through its en
tiro length, at which six hundred per
sons may bo seated comfortably.
Philadelphia Press.
Spiders as Personal Pels.
Thn spider is an obnoxious inscot is
ouo of the popular fiildaaios which
often diminish the real pleasure which
life holds for those who aro capable of
enjoying it. Tho spider is not an ob
noxious insoct at all. In the first plaae
it is not an insect. In tho second
place, so far ia it lrora being hurtful
or oflensive, that it can be made ouo
of the dearest little pets iu the world.
Margaret Wentwortn Leighton, in a
otirrent magazine article, tells how
she colleoted a common or gardou
spider, and kept the sweet lady under
a glass tumbler for three weeks. She
watched her "building her house of
snowy silK" and raising a family, and,
says the writer, "she soon learned to
take flies from my hand and drink
water from a leaf which I gave her
fresh every day." The delicate benuty
and tender-hearted uess of feeding,
presumably, live flies to the dainty
pet, is to bo noted with unbounded
admiration.
This shows how spiders may bo
tamed and made muoh of by any one
who appreciates their loveliness. That
they are useful beasts in relation to
the depletion of flies and mosquitoes
is well known, and a dozen or so pet
spiders in a bed room would do much
for the comfort and peace of mind of
the summer boarder. New York Mail
aud Express.
Business Ibat Scars Perpetual Motion.
"So they have discovered perpetual
motion out in your State, Colonel
Blue," said Major Piekler to the Rep
resentative at-Large from Kansas, at
they took scats in the House restau
rant for an oyster feast.
"They have discovered all tho other
crankisins out there, so I am prepared
for any new allegations. Elucidate 1"
replied the Colouol.senteutiously.
"Why, a man from Kansas has jusl
been telling mo that a firm composed
of moneyed men has bought a lot of
land in Kansas, and will stock it with
1000 black cats and 5000 rats. It is
estimated that the cats will inereaseto
15,000 in a year or two, and black cat
skim aro worth $1. The rats, he says,
will multiply five times as fast as the
cats. The rata will boused to feed the
cats, and the Bkinned cats to feed the
rtts, and if that isn't mighty near per
Detun.1 motion, I don't know what u. "
ary racks placed near the stove
Farm, Field and Fireside.
EFFECTS OF FEED ON MILE.
A bulletin of the Iowa Experiment
Station gives results of certain experi
ments in feeding dairy cows with a
view to determining the effect of cer
tain feeds on the quantity and quality
of milk, butler aud cheese. In addi
tion to the usual foundation feed of
hay, corn fuddor, bran, gluten meal
and oil meal, the dairy herd were fed
turnips nnd beets for seventy-seven
days and then the roots wero left out'
of the ratiou for forty six days, and
then tho grain and hay were with
drawn and tho herd run on pasture for
sixty-six days, part of tho timo with
brau and purt of the time without.
The foed was all chopped, mixed and
moistened twelve hours beloro feed
ing, as this aided mastioation and di
gestion. The herd contained Hol
steins, Shorthorns and Jerseys, nnd
tho effects of the various rations on
these breeds were separately noted.
The butter resulting from these
various rations was scored by experts
who knew nothing ot the feeding ex
periment.
It was found that turnips injured
the flavor ot both milk aud butter.
This injury is due to volatile aoids
which cau be driven off by heating the
milk to 200 degrees for a short time.
Beets increased the milk and butter
product, and caused all the cows, even
Jerseys, to lay on fat quite rapidly.
When the roots were discontinued,
butter fat decreased, aud the cows
ceased to gain weight, and it took
more pounds of feeds (calculated to dry
matter) to produco a pound of butter.
When turned on pasture there waa an
immediate increase of milk, butter
and live weight. Feeding bran during
part of the grazing period produced
sufficient gain to yield a small profit.
The cost of a pound of butter was
13 cents from the Holstoins, 12 cents
from tho Shorthorns and 10 cents
from the Jerseys. The Holsteins used
twenty-four pounds of food (dry mat
ter) to produce a pound of butter ; tho
Shorthorn, 23 pounds, and the
Jerseys, 20 pounds. In proportion
to weight, the Jerseys were the largest
eaters, but they converted their food
into milk and butter rather than flesh.
For each 1000 pounds of weight the
Holstoins ate 21 pounds ot food, the
Shorthorns twenty pounds and the
Jerreys twenty-seven pounds.
The butter from pasture scored
highest iu quality, that from beets
stood aeoond, ahd that Irom the turnips
scored lowest.
CORING MEATS.
Probably one reason why so muoh
(lured meat is purchased by farmers it
am lauuu oi toe aome earinir h
properly done. Bat this need D
so. In the first place tha f.. 1
proposes to cure his own rneS J
specially feed the animal. .. S
star.t with a really euperior tt ' , '
curing. The work of curing a" 11
difficult nor hard to learn. It
needs a little careful attent
IaiIo. juii) nnwliAra in l,f
- .no are
ouiva vumiuuii wuuuui tills tttn I
In the first Diane, it mn.t i.. N
... . . : ' uo
icn ! j
!
bered that meat is not fit fot
nntil it ia entirfllv fra t M
j num it.
heat, and yet it should not be fir1
or penetration by tho salt will be
vented. For pork cover the bob?
of the barrel with salt to the dec k
y . - me strip.
r - nciDif!
staves, uni wun a aeposit of 8;i J
tervening. Put a layer of salt bet,J
illinrao linn. linn. na.L. 1 ...
yum, ua.ug mi mat mo w,itcr r"
take up. In other words, make it
is called "a saturated solution," Br
the brine to a boil.skim it and fc01
is cold pour it over the pnrk. iJ:
barrel, and the pork should be tw J
VV IkU IUO UUUU)
Trim the ham and ahonlJm J
rub them with salt to extract b
blood. Pttok as beforo, and pat M
picklo consisting of a pound and.
of salt to a pound of brown mm i
eiicu gaiion oi water, witn nncnusj
saltpeter to iuu pounds of
pour it over when cold. Hums shatul
remain in the pickle from four to cl
weeks. Care should bo taken nt A
let Iho hams press against each olle,
as "bone spoil" is then likely to soj
beforo the hams nro tiiorou;ijj
salted. Thoso who euro carefullyn-
move tno unins irom one barrel to is.l
other as often as twico a week -sal
the curing is v-.'.l toward completia I
This prevents tho taiut at the bom I
Tho valuo of hams, aliouMen tcil
bacon largely depends upon the smot-
ing. bait-cured hams unl tlWiieti
thould be make perfectly clean
sprinkled with fine black pepper,
with equal parts of black and red pee
per, wnicu is preicrroa uy (on I
Loops for hanging should be icciidl
in eaoh piece. The emokebon?e shuti I
be so arranged as to guard againsl
fires, and should have a brick or
earthen floor. ' Modem'. iiaantiliee of
barrel.' The fire shoo', oa eUrted'
with Ary stuff and then s i.utucreijvjti
green, nrd wood oliips, prefeiiUr (
hickory. Sometimes the chipi are tt
dry and they should then be wet Tti
point to be sought for is a citrldj
regulated fire that will not gotokest
nor make a blaze, and yet tiLitt
smoking all the time. A vert ooll
practice is to use bard wood 1
and fire it in a large iron kettle, Tul
is safe : tho sawdust never mt'm u;
blaze, and always makes a gooltift
of smoke. Wet corncobs are ti eil?
many with success, but after ail th
is nothing like hickory chips. VA
that gives off a disagreeable &4
be especially avoided. Slot ssuHt
is preferable to quick, and saAt?
intervals of, say, half a d-rt.t
week is preferable to MtiMtw
smoking. Tho longer the nnoi.:i
carried on, the better will lotted
and tho better tho protect.
tho bacou bug. In eni"km: m
smokehouse tho meat i-liosld l
changed, that nearest thf nrinow
toward the wall, and that nearest the
wall bronffht toward the centre m of
tier to secure uniformity. 1" 'Jj
spring the hams can, if necessary, to
sewed up in coarso cloth, wbiteW
aud packed awav in clean kT
straw. Tho Indicator.
FARM AKD GARDES XOTM.
Koirlpntincr to salt tho COWS reiialu'f
is often a cause of the butter rwl
t rt rr
Millr tn nhnrn onsilv and nuke?00'
bntter should not be over tbirtj
hours old.
Dogs continuo to make the
industry very unprofitable inp1"""-
of Oregon.
ti 11 1 i... n,it. been
Jl lUtl DOUU UITU una ...
lected it should bo doue at the car"
finnnrtnnitv.
The early pullets should bejn T
ing now and should be given the
i iw.u mat "w
ui cure nun jeeu, iuuk uvj
It is a good plan to seed ail Mrs
potato land to rye if not inten-le '
wneat. Xjana loses ien; .
a. 1 .1 .. thn winter.
Did you ever think of it, thit
l- l. S:-0? At W
ratn tviOi nriatk nnltivntion aDil t
f the crop, 1
will pay eight per cent. ""'4IJ
tnat amount year alter ji"1
f Aa aAnif lAnti
r..-- "j, .1 r!f able"
uuenevcr you nnti "-
them with your Hook, if J'
protection from abe-'P,tl"'?-;Hfl,(e
Tue dog bas a great uou .-
for a billy goat and sho w 31
him a wide berth. . j
t ... v, maiO WIT
in treeless secnou-. m --
naa been toseoure tree BrJ" !(;
without muoh regard to acU
but no time should be lost in . "J.
trees of greater value, that
ally supersede the box eldrft
bugs, ana tne suon-i"" ,
poplar.
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